 What do you say we go in the Colorado Trail? Morning. It is a lot colder today. I think it's because we're at about almost 10,000 feet You see my breath a little bit And now it's time for the frozen Nutella peanut butter tortilla wrap breakfast extravaganza Good morning, Henry. How'd you sleep buddy? Yeah, it's a little cold. That's all right. How long to take all you goofballs to pack up in the morning? Usually kind of a long time. We're not very efficient, but Can't get out of the tent. There's still somebody in the tent. Oh, man. Come on. Wake up, buddy Wake up There's biking to be done. All right, it looks like I have everything packed onto the bike You always want to double check make sure you're not leaving anything in the field Thank you ground There's the goofballs, let's go say goodbye. Well, it's fun camping with you guys. You guys have a good one Best of luck down the road. Yep. Same goes for you. You're gonna have a great time. It's so good to meet you, brother Have fun out there. Thank you. Yeah. Bye. Bye. Adios nos vemos Here we go another day in beautiful Colorado Paradise Today I will head back on to the Colorado Trail In about seven miles be done with this wilderness detour and I'm excited about that You know as much as you can crank out miles on these detours. I came here for the single track Really enjoyed meeting those young guys, you know, it's inspirational I never did anything that big when I was in high school and they're out here on their own their first bike packing trip They've barely been mountain biking in their lives and they're just figuring it out as they go, you know And I like that I'm very impressed The sky is a little bit hazy. I'm thinking there's some forest fire smoke in the air Whenever these sunrises and sunsets are a little bit too beautiful. It's usually because of forest fire smoke So today I'm gonna try to get to Silverthorn, which is a little bit off-route but It's very on-route For my life because that's where my brother lives and his wife and his cute little kids And I'm gonna try to make it there There's gonna be two big mountain passes in the way first Kenosha in Georgia pass And I should be able to make it It's about 50 miles away and guess what it's time for a little bit of no crashies no flatties no whammies It's gonna be a beautiful Sunday. I Can feel it. You know when you wake up and you just feel like It's gonna be a good day That's how I feel right now. That's how I feel most of the time, but especially when I'm on a bike trip The days out here are just So spectacular in every way This is when I feel most alive when I'm on my bike all day and sleeping under the stars and just Loving life to the max Well lucky here we're back on the rad ale It only took 70 miles to get back to this point and I'm excited to be back on this beautiful single track Oh baby Feels so good to be back But I found it's my lucky sage And it smells really really fresh. It's got a powerful smell Gonna keep this with me. It's my good luck sage Nice little downhill to get it started But now it's up And you can tell by how hard I'm breathing whoo, there's not as much oxygen in the air up here Even though I'm from Boulder. This is about twice the altitude of Boulder So I'm feeling it and the sign back there said six miles To Kenosha path so on these long steep technical uphills I get into a bit of a meditative mode. I just kind of put my head down and crank Whereas when I'm on like a dirt road that's just flat I can just ride and daydream But this is a little steep But when I'm doing stuff like this, I really need to pay attention To what I'm doing and really crank hard Because it's difficult so less daydreaming time More hammer time And I like the mix, you know So here I am riding along and I see a cute dog Henry bring me the stick bring me the stick buddy Yeah, give me that stick Yeah, well It's coming down right there you go, buddy What a cute dog And what's your name Karen Karen and you're doing a little hiking with the dog What's it like to hike with a dog? He's such a great companion. I can talk to him the whole time. The thing I say most often is Henry wait wait Henry Henry wait Because he gets too excited because he's so far ahead of me and I don't want him to run into a bear Yeah, that must make you feel more comfortable at night time, huh? Yeah, they're bringing a stick a little closer. There you go, buddy You're just like my friend Mira. You want to play with Mira someday? Oh, okay. Let it go Let it go. Oh, you're exactly like Mira There you go. Let it go. Let it go. Okay. You ready? You ready? Oh This feels so good. I love playing with dogs Well, I wish you all the best on the trail. Yeah, all right by Henry. Are you coming with me? Bye That was fun good for the soul to play with a little doggie trail dog looks like he's coming with me You coming with me Henry Rocky Mountains Do is smile Smile out of pure joy. This is incredible The dangerous thing I do today is probably crossing this road with Sunday camper traffic Gosh, what a zoo. There's a lot of people here. All I need to do is get there Hurry All right. I might have an opening Okay, it's close. Okay I did it All right So here I am daydreaming amongst the aspen that I run into this group But I'm like on your left and I go by they're like Ryan van dozer. How you doing? Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. So you actually watched the videos, huh? Oh, yeah, all of them. Tell me your tell me your story a little bit. Well, I I was in desperate need of some weight loss and I Have a lot of COVID. Yeah. Well, we were home I'd had a bariatric surgery to lose weight and I'd lost all but about 40 pounds Great yet to go and I said, I just discovered you accidentally on YouTube next thing You know, I was on my bike every day lost the final 40 pounds lost a total of 115 pounds and And we're now vacationing in Colorado Doing hiking. Yeah, I love that used to be on the couch That's so cool. You got out there. You did it. Yeah, and where are you from? Independence, Missouri. Oh, really? Yeah, no way. So we still watch you. Oh, I appreciate it It means the world to me. Yeah, and what do you love most about this newfound life of being outdoors and stuff? It's a mood lifter. Yeah, that's exactly what it is. It's like if I'm indoors. Yeah, I'm depressed I have to get outside. It's a desperate need to get out You know, I didn't have that before for a decade or so in my life And you're proof that it makes a huge difference in your life. Yeah. Oh, that's so awesome I think the kids are happy. Yeah. Yeah, these are the kids. Yeah, these are the kids. Hi. Nice to meet you. Welcome to Colorado You love it here? Cool. And look at these smiles. Those are genuine smiles from being in the outdoor time Yeah, that's so cool. It was so wonderful to meet you. You just made my heart happy Thanks for being patron supporters Yeah, I love it We talked about going to Boulder to actually try to run into you Yeah, and and because you get a we get a cup of coffee or something, right? Totally. It's on your thing or something. That's right Yeah, absolutely. This is better. No, not coffee a burrito It was a burrito. A burrito, yeah Yeah, yeah, well, this is your patron reward I came here today because I knew you'd be here and I wanted to say hi What kind kind people so glad I ran into them and was able to wish them well on their Colorado vacation drove out here all the way from Missouri Got all the kids with them Love it, you know, I don't want to sound like I'm bragging but it's just it's cool to know that people watch my videos all Over the place and that it really impacts them in a positive way That's always been the goal is to make the world a better place you know and inspire people to get outside and When I meet people in real life who tell me that it just hits home. I call that the emotional paycheck You know because YouTube doesn't pay big bucks But when I have an encounter like that, that's worth 10 million dollars Beautiful I am in heaven It's gonna take me forever to finish this trail as much as I stop and talk to people and film flowers But I don't care. This is absolutely Stunning Oh, man, I was like, why did I do that? I Was really close to falling off that it would have been catastrophic So I figure this is my lucky creek and I'm gonna fill up Cold mountain water. I don't think I've ever seen so many columbines In one place in my life whoa Way to go Colorado The flowers are awesome. I like to see this trail magic and it's gonna be a surprise. It doesn't say what the magic is All right, I found the trail magic people Hello How's it going? Very good. You're lucky. You're like the number two person for the day. Oh really? Yeah, and what do you have here? What's the magical? We got hot dogs. We got quesadilla. Are you kidding? We got What else we have we're gonna do pancakes if people wanted them. That's amazing. Whatever you want. What's your name? I'm Luke, but my friends call me bus. What's up, boss? Nice to meet you. What's your name? So great to meet you. This is amazing. This is amazing. I love it. It's a whole setup So I make these sticker designs. They're all based on my own through hikes I'm on the PCT and AT and yeah, these are my silhouette ones. And what inspired you two to be out here today? Luke and I connected over social media and Luke you tell the story. I Don't know. I feel like we just became friends because we both Hike and do things that are fun. So you did this last year you said? Yeah I did it last year. It was a good time. Now. I'm just trying to give a little back and Yeah, this is what we're doing. So you hiked all of this in here. We did this morning Yeah, that's impressive and we hiked it in yesterday morning and we'll hike it out We have to hike it in and out every day. Wow. Yeah, it's impressive And so what are you gonna make now? Quesadilla for you, man. Quesadilla. Oh, oh man That looks good. I'm gonna go. Look at this cute little monster. Oh Yeah, just lay down there, buddy Feels good, doesn't it? Oh Yeah Luke, thank you so much for this quesadilla. You're the man. Yeah. Oh, it's so nice to have some hot food Have a good one. Keep on spreading the love Thank you. Well today has been a great day so far. I haven't gotten very far, but that's okay Having the time of my life Sometimes you got to go slow and take it all in and now I'm on my way up Georgia pass Which looks very steep. So it's a good thing. I got that quesadilla So these cameras never give you a real good idea of how steep things are, but let me assure you This is very steep I'm gonna be going up to 12,000 feet. I think I'm at about just under 10 right now So I've got a ways to go Helps to grunt Get sipping over the big stuff Oh Says the grade is 8% here That's pretty good And sometimes you just have to stop and walk so I've been riding full blast for like 30 minutes and I've barely made any progress on my altimeter But poco a poco keep going forward you get there Water Here we go. We're pedaling We're going. I'm getting above tree line now Getting higher This has been a long slog uphill It's hard to ride a bike with one hand When you're going uphill technical train Excuse me. I'll get back to you shortly. That wasn't so bad Top of Georgia pass almost 12,000 feet And it is beautiful up here. There's really like not any clouds in the sky My favorite part This is so fun So fun I'm loving this can't go through that on a busy highway And my brother is nice enough to come and pick me up I'm five miles outside of where he lives and felt silverthorn and then tomorrow. I will start right back There I've been dreaming about this meal all day. Do you know that Carter? So I'm here at my brother's house at the van dozer restaurant Carter is the chef of the day This made us in a great meal. This is my brother. He was too shy last time to be on camera for the great divide videos That's my wonderful brother. He really doesn't like to be on camera So I'm just gonna hold the camera here and make him awkward And this is his wonderful wife Haley. Hi. Thanks for having a stinky biker over Yeah, so these are the sauteed mushrooms a la Carter Thank you all so much. This is really special This means a lot to me. Thanks for coming over. Yeah. Thank you guys It is time for our special summer tradition making Sticky Perfectly smored so Brinley you're gonna give me your bed for the night. Yeah, you're very nice. I promise not to pee in it No, seriously, thank you very much. It's been good hanging out with you too and tickle your feet. Good night