 Good morning everybody and welcome to one of my favorite cities in the world Antigua, Guatemala and you know what it's time for? It's time for an adventure and look who we have everybody's favorite, Ali. Look at Ali's man, look it's our first adventure of 2019 and we have a special guest, a new star adventurer. This is Robin one of Ali's best friends. Ali tell us something about Robin. Well Robin is a fierce warrior goddess when she hits the trail. She knows more about mezcal than maybe anyone I've ever met. Why are we in Guatemala? Well we are going to run between three active volcanoes, Guatemala's three active volcanoes and we are going to make a virtual reality film about the experience. Ali is making the virtual reality film. These won't be virtual reality. This will be regular boring YouTube videos but we'll show you what it looks like when she's got all her stuff. It's really cool looking camera and stuff like that. So we're gonna go run and it's kind of like you've watched a lot of my videos like bike touring where you carry all of your stuff but instead of bike touring this is fast packing and we don't have bikes so we carry all of our stuff on our backs and little backpacks like that. Everything you see on this couch right now is gonna fit. Oh my god we're at the carry all this? What? This is a horrible idea. The elevation game we're doing is like the height of Everest so we're gonna carry what? Not in one day. We're doing this is a seven-day adventure. Stay tuned. All right we are at volcano number one it's called Paquia. David how's it going bud? Fine. Ready for the run. Ready for the run and so we're gonna run all week long. There's the ladies. We're gonna run for like seven days. Have you ever done anything like this? No not really. First time. Yeah. We're gonna see what happens. All right team. Let's go hands in. What do you think about that view? Oh yeah. What is this? It's got two eyeballs. Yeah it's got two eyeballs. Works just like your eyes so you get a 3D effect when you watch the video. Very cool. Video will come out later I'll link to it but for now enjoy this. Sometimes they get so steep. There's no point running. You just kind of walk fast and call that good. Being back here brings back a lot of memories. I first hiked this volcano in 2002 with my buddy Jeff. The first volcano I ever been up. First active volcano too and wow it was beautiful. It was also my first ever travel video. First ever travel video I ever made. I was a junior in college. We're heading up the trail here to see some lava, some smoke. This is one of the few active volcanoes here in Guatemala so we're gonna head up this trail and see what we find. Is this your first volcano Robin? Yeah. Yeah. How does it feel so far? Warming up. This is my first time ever running with a heavy backpack. This is new to me. Ali and Robin have done this before. They ran down the entire Oregon coast a couple summers ago like 400 miles. It's a lot easier to have a bike carry it for you but here we go. New adventure. There are 37 volcanoes in Guatemala. There are three active ones and Ali has planned a route that takes us up or near all of the active volcanoes. Why? Ali likes playing with fire. What I remember about Pacaia is lots of cute dogs everywhere. Hey. Hi cutie. Do you guys see what's behind me over there? That's a big volcano. That's Volcan Agua. We're gonna do that one next. How's filming going Ali? Oh it's great. This little camera is so much fun. It's my little friend. Remember that cartoon Wally? It looks like Wally with the two eyes. There she goes. She's filming. Awesome. This is insane up here. We're on top kind of. You can't really go to the top of Pacaia anymore because it's dangerous so you can walk around these cool lava fields which is great. Running through these lava fields sounds kind of like running on glass. It's all crunchy, squeaky. It's pretty warm. There's definitely some warmth coming out of these vents which helps motivate you to go faster. Just in case Pacaia decides to erupt. The minerals they're just melted and they form these like colors like shiny colors. Beautiful. We're looking at Pacaia right now the lava fields and you can see some red. There's no way this camera can pick it up. You can see the small little rivers of lava coming down. Pretty cool. David when's the last time this volcano erupted? 2014. And what did it do? It filled up all the greater that we saw back there. I'm really grateful to be here. It's incredible. Okay we've gone up and over Pacaia. Really not that long. Maybe like four or five miles. We're gonna head down, get on a bus, head to the big one over here, Agua. We're in these little dust tunnels. Probably old lava. Lava shoots. We made it. Yeah. Volcano number one. We had to run and catch this bus. Gracias amigo. All right. Love this. This is a serious adventure. It's a good thing we have David because this would have been hard for us to figure out. Is this what fast packing is, Allie? Yep, we're fast packing. This is it right here. By the reaction of all the trucks honking at us, I've been feeling people don't do this very often here in Guatemala. Hey Allie, if my mom knew that you were gonna take us running on highways, I don't know if she'd be so psyched. This is great. This is pure adventure right here. Doing this so we can get to this. Look at that. All right, we're leaving the highway. We're leaving the highway. That's nice. Now we have the smell of burning trash. That was pretty fun ridden on the highway. Have you ever done that before? No, not one. Actually like most of the popular sports here is biking and running. Really? Okay. You always see like people running on the weekends. Okay, good. Like biking so it's like normal. So people always just cheer people on who are running. That's awesome. I love it. And so now where are we going? We're going to Santa Maria de Jesús. That's based on our volcano because we are climbing that volcano tomorrow. Oh yeah. Trash on the side of the road like this unfortunately is something that's very common in Central America. When I lived in Honduras for two years I was just appalled by this. It's crazy and you know you blame it on the people. Why do they throw their trash out the windows? And you can do that easily. But also there's just they don't have a good system for trash pickup. You know you might throw your trash in a trash can and it's gonna end up on the side of the road anyway. So why don't you just put it there in the first place? It's a tricky subject but unfortunate because a lot of this beautiful country looks like that. Here we go with an uphill interview. We like to make it hard here on Doosr TV. Allie, what do you love about fast packing? It gets you into this really clear space. You're just so in touch with the land. You have such an instant bond with your team because you're really working together you know. We're all carrying stuff to make camp. I feel I feel my best when I'm running and honestly it's also just an excuse to run all day. Life is really simple in your fast packing. It's like bike packing right? Everything that you need is on your back and if you don't have something you know the community provides the land provides. You have to find it. I love that simplicity. I love to be doing real human things. Alright we are in Santa Maria and I'm really tired. I didn't eat much today and I'm kind of cranky. But over here we made it. High five Allie. I got your camera in my hand. Camera 5. Camera 5. We just arrived at the place we're gonna stay tonight and check this out. Whoa. This is a fun place like a little jungle. Are you saying Hola? Hola.