 Good morning. It has warmed up to a brisk zero degrees. We had a little bit of a flash freeze last night It wasn't supposed to get too cold, but it got really cold like 10 below got the fire going Danielle is working on the crossword We've been working done. Yeah, we're trying to get it done before the trip ends we've been working on this Mega crossword and it's pretty funny because like you think that you're hung up or stuck and then you put it down and come back to it And it's amazing. You can get a bunch more Every every day or every after you put it down for a little while. We're looking for a clue. It says Five letters type of trout that Danielle catches that are giant begins with a B and ends in a K Brick we're thinking brick trout Fires going I let it burn out last night and I got up around like five this morning To get it going again because everything froze solid in here like all the water jugs water on the pot What are in the mugs water in the percolator? It was it might have been more than 10 below But things are thawing now worth on now and we're looking forward to having a really good day We're gonna drive some breakfast right into us first. Maybe some hot coffee. Got that perk in right now Turn that down a bit and then we're gonna make a plan of what we're gonna do for the day It's gonna be a fun day. I know that no matter what They had a pile of But you know who's got chickens now is Sarah and she's got them all named Have you seen that oh, it's great. I love it And then like another one jumped in like took over the interview No, I didn't see that one. Oh my god. I got a classic like this is so this one personality Oh my I gotta see that then she's such a sweet Sled running That sounds awesome every year. He puts on and they like maintain it. I he has all he has old Snow plowers that go on the back of the That horses like draft horse. Whoa, it's like a big rolling pin. Oh, that sounds awesome Is it in our area? Do you know her hogback mountain is in like Freedom No, good like that area. I Like this Yeah, I was at the library and somehow Came across this video. I was like this looks interesting like anything that's called like now We're cooking and it's like a main homemade documentary. I'm like watching this but then when I was working in freedom I would hike the hogback mountain and I realized oh, this is That they do the racing on them like I came across the course and saw the big Wheel Is the mountain decent like what is it compared to like ragged? Oh Small But the trails are gorgeous Or is it hogback or fry mountain? They're in the same area. Oh, there is a fry mountain in freedom That's the one. Maybe it's on Or No fries, maybe the one that I used to hike a lot, but I think that the race is on hogback, but anyway Have you been to the the Camden like Toboggan races. Have you seen that toboggan champion? Yeah, I have a long time ago But this is what happened this year That's when that cold snap happened. Oh was it Like the whole thing usually it's on I think it's usually on Friday Saturday and Sunday, so they had to do all the races on just the one day on Sunday That's bad luck the only cold day of the year I've awoken the beast behind the scenes with Joe Holland fishing I'm cooking breakfast and look the man is back in bed And these poles are so short Yeah Is it pretty sweet all right Tubby zone Oh, you got that on video. Hey Is it all right? Great one Probably better in the woods, too. Yeah, this is gonna be great. Do you think you might go up this trail? Do you think that which way do you think I should go left or right? You know I'm the most indecisive person in the world Probably left. I was gonna say right. Well, I always say right, but I don't know how these trees are gonna treat you Probably right. Go right. Yeah, go right. Right looks better to me in my head I was gonna drop you off right here so you could go that way anyway like go and then Yep, so you'll it's just navigating the end of this It's not too much further past what you could see the end of this road. I slept there one night Just as I'm feeling like that way Yeah, that kind of looks more extreme I'm pretty sure you got some steepness. It really doesn't matter. Yeah, you'll probably hit less snow if you get into that green growth But I don't know Yeah, I know I'm doing like going up here and then just cutting once you hit the green I'm pumped for you. I don't know of any streams or anything. But yeah, if it is it's just minor you want another No, no, that's good. Perfect Yeah Oh Well, I'm gonna have a cup of coffee No, you want another nope, I'm gonna Okay guys Danielle is gonna climb this awesome mountain I call sour Bungie She's got a work cut out for as you can see there's blowdowns everywhere There's been a tornado that's come through and we got quite a bit of snow. It's way steep So she's got her snowshoes. She's got her poles. She's got pretty heavy pack And she's water. She got water. I got snacks. I got extra layers We got a really late start. You know headlamp. Yeah, I have my emergency Rescue beacon. I have first aid kit. I have an extra light. I Have a knife fire starters a lighter Toilet paper It is one o'clock now So it's kind of a rush trip because we're gonna meet at 430 right back here I'm gonna go shed hunting. They're just exploring on the snowmobile So that makes me feel really good and this makes her feel really good. So we're splitting ways We're both gonna get energized so we don't kill each other tonight. No And I don't know if she's got enough time to make it up there or not But she's an animal and I have no fear with her because she just spent three years hiking across and a continent Doing this same thing but even bigger the continent This is probably not the biggest mountain she's ever climbed No, but this is the hill challenge because it's no trail. Yeah, and um In the in really deep snow and you're bushwhacking bushwhacking so Yeah, it might take me a lot longer than I'm might suspect but And you have a you have a phone. I mean a time device. Yes, I have my watch might Beautiful. All right, we're good to go. Okay Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, feel great. Okay, you look great here one more Shot of liquid courage liquid courage That's coffee coffee I'm gonna watch you go for a little while. Yeah, you're gonna send the drone. I don't know if I brought it I think I left in the truck, but I can run back here. Okay, but it'd be hard to fly with this wind I don't know where this wind came from guys. It was not supposed to rain or get blowing straight sideways today So we're gonna we're gonna get back to camp at dark. We're hoping it's still standing But you know what if it's not standing we'll make it back up. It's not a big deal We'll fix it no matter what that's true And then we're gonna fish the plan is to fish tomorrow Most of the day tear down camp try to get out of here by tomorrow night because then there is rain coming tomorrow night So it's never fun in the rain But she's there's a pretty good chance. She runs into a herd of moose Up on the south basin bank So she might actually run into like dozens of moose up there, which would be so cool Put your arms up and make yourself look big if you see a moose. Okay. Okay. They won't bother. This is exciting I'm pretty excited for you my first snow shoe of the season All right. So the plan is I'm gonna pick her up in three and a half hours right here if the helmet's gone And or I see her tracks before that she's made her way back to the truck We're in like five to seven miles from the truck already. So it's a hike back out. Yeah. Yeah So with darkness lumen. All right. Have fun. All right, break the leg Have fun. All right, thanks Thank you Is it hard going? Is it hard going or okay? You want my snow shoes? No, no, you don't. No, okay Yeah Oh, yeah, whoa Nice Yeah, nice Yeah, have fun All right She is an absolute beast Very very impressed that she One has the courage to do that. We're up in the wilderness and two has the ability to do it too. So Hope it ends. Well, hope it works out for I know it will I'm gonna do some snowmobile ride and check out some new areas On the snowmobile to me some old areas where I used to trap And uh, maybe I'll find an antler. I doubt it. It's we've got another foot on top of the snow Since I was here last and it crusted up too. So anything that had fallen previously I don't even think I'll feel it if I run it over, but you never know they drop them late I saw some antlers on some heads the other day. So maybe they'll drop them now, but we're gonna have fun no matter what Come along Oh, boys It It looks like we got an antler ahead of us. Let's get up there Yeah, boys, we got an antler. Ha ha never gets old. This one's super weird. I haven't touched it yet But it looks like There's no moose tracks in sight There's some old ones over there That have been snowed on no looks like several times Some more in the woods over there But there's coyote tracks all around here So I don't know Before I grab it. I want you guys to see it Yeah, so I don't know if if the coyote actually dragged it over here I mean, it's chewed all the heck And it's missing a big time. I don't know if the moose broke that off or The coyote chewed it off But there it is Yeah, that looks like it's chewed off chewed on the time there Every one of those times is chewed But that one looks like it's chewed and swallowed so I don't know kind of looks like the coyote dragged it out here Was chewing on it And he dropped it so I could pick it up Thank you coyote. I will not trap you for your fur this year Oh boy I think we got another one I think that's one down there Once again, I'm following these coyote tracks and anytime they deviate from the middle of the road or From the road I go over and check it out and here's uh, here's a hole dug And it looks like there's a bone in there Yep, that sure does look like an ant there Yep Oh boy Oh boy, how big is it? Oh boy Oh boy, I'm getting excited. Do I need the shovel? I don't know. I don't know if I need the shovel or not But I think I'm gonna get the shovel anyway So I could dig around This area after but Well, we got a point. Oh god little guy Might be a match to that one we just found No, he's he's a lot bigger Way bigger Let's get the shovel Second one of the day That's awesome. All right No idea If there's anything else around We got deep snow All right Second one of the day That's a nice one right there Probably the other ones around here somewhere But There's just so much snow and I don't have the nose of a coyote So if he didn't find it Then We'll have to be in the spring There's a little lump up ahead. I'll go hit with the snowmobile And see if it's an antler Let's go check her out Oh, that's the cool thing about coyotes I found more antlers from coyotes showing me where they are Back at it guys. This is awesome I made it back to the rendezvous point. I'm a little early, but it looks like it was perfect timing because I see Danielle treading down the hill So I'm gonna drive a couple pieces of pepperoni And cheese into me That was good time. Yeah, that was good timing You did you made it to the top? Holy crap. How was it? Oh, I fought for 40 to get down to wow Yeah, it's deep up there, dude It is? Deep? Whoa Yeah And it's like Oh, man, that was hard Easy Have you got a challenge? Yeah, it was not hard like I mean it was not easy It might be the last time I felt she For like real was when I was at skips And we got We got 48 inches of snow Overnight and it was powder So I knew it And they had asked us to go It was I think a mile down the road to the Login company. Yeah, and no one was there. So they were like after seven days No one could get in there like can you guys go check and make sure our generators run until the pipes don't freeze? And we couldn't snow the others just too much on the sleds. Yeah, so we did it together and you would Like I had big ones. He had big ones and he's your size He would still go every step down to here. It was freaking I was in shape then. Yeah. Yeah But it was brutal. We would do like literally 10 steps and switch And like when we switch you would just fall But you'd still be like this because the snow is holding you up and you'd be like come on And it's so it's kind of better to like did you just like stop drop and roll like all right. I'll get the new path Yeah Roll or like but it was like I remember it was as high as you could possibly lift and you had to keep your toe off And you actually had to go backwards forwards pack We were only packing like once Yeah I think it was Four or five hours to get there and like a half hour to get back Once we beat the trail and it's like It's like also just like really like hard on your mind. All right Shall we? Shall. All right guys, we made it out Super super successful for both of us. We had a great time both accomplished our goal. Danielle made it to the top Got around up there. She said it was pretty brutal with the snow. How deep it was it was It was like thigh high And here's the two sheds I found Super stoked about those that one's a beauty right there Um doubt it's a matching set Let's put them together. See what you guys think I'm thinking no But they were they were super close together So yeah, so pretty fun awesome finding those antlers. We're gonna load back up and head back to camp It got crazy windy when we were out there So hopefully camp still set up since I wasn't able to screw it down to the ice and just screw down to the peg boards But we're gonna find out when we get there and if it's a mess, you know what we'll clean it up How was your hike successful? Tiring and a lot more snow than I expected But it was fun All right guys, we made it back to the parking area. We got about a six seven mile sled ride in To the camp and the crazy thing is we had this place Hold to ourselves all week plenty of parking and I got back and there was nowhere to park The place was full just from us leaving for this afternoon. So three three different groups came in and uh, I'm able to find a There's a couple there couple there but I was able to find a parking spot by Pretty much running her up on the snow bank pretty hard. So hope we don't get stuck. I don't think we will We'll shovel her out if we have to But that's us right there We're into it Daniel. We're into it pretty good All right, that's gonna do it for today guys. Awesome. Awesome day for Daniel and I. We both nailed our goals She Tried to climb a mountain with a ton of snow and I tried to find antlers when there was a lot of snow cover and I can't believe it, but we were able to do both things. So Pretty crazy. So don't you know, don't uh Always stay positive, you know, like There's a foot of snow on top of three foot of snow on top of other antlers and Somebody already driven over this one antler. I'm sure of but the coyotes had dug it out So the coyotes had led me to the first antler chewed a tip off of it and set it in the trail And then the second one They they dug it and I found it from like a hole in the snow So it was really cool for me and just stay observant And you know, it's not that great. It's not the best time to go antler hunting, but it worked out for me today was Really fun. I love finding antlers. It's like it can be super addictive and then Daniel's climb was crazy today A lot more snow than I anticipated I thought there was gonna be less snow the higher I went, but I'm I was proven Otherwise, I don't even think I told the folks how high was that snow's thigh Yeah, I was sink. Yeah thigh high Every step every step even with my snow shoes. I was sinking down and then so I just was able to practice patience and Trying new techniques. I found new techniques to Do like two little steps And then a big step in order to make the going easier So yeah, never give up and stay positive like Joe said, but I accepted that it wasn't gonna be it wasn't the hair kind of day. It was the tortoise kind of day Slow and steady and practicing patience. And you told me The time it took what was the time again? Yeah, it took me two hours and 10 minutes to get to the summit Jesus And then it took about 40 minutes to get back down to our meeting spot Nice and the funny thing was we we met up within three minutes We just showed up at a random time We met up within like three minutes of each other, which was pretty neat too. So then The bad part was the weather came in today and it rained of all things It was like freezing rain when Daniel hit the summit when I was looking for those antlers and then The wind turned and it's blowing pretty hard out of the south So we tied off this wall just to make sure because I couldn't anchor down to the ice We tied it to a bait bucket full of water So it shouldn't blow in on us or blow into the wood stove So we took that precaution and then we had one Major malfunction today with the tote sled being empty I backed up and it like got caught up and it just snapped that otter hitch off Just like a twig that it's brand new. It's like two days old or three days old And I think the welds were bad. So we were going to go to a log yard and see if we can get it welded and luckily Jay at the Allegesh Wilderness Waterway had an extra hitch that they're going to let me borrow To get all the stuff out of here when we leave and then if we hopefully we remember to drop it off Danielle's going to do her best to remind me Otherwise we've got to turn all the way home back You have to turn Awesome. Well, thanks again guys for tuning in. We're having a blast. We got uh one Maybe half day left tomorrow. We're thinking about setting for some brookies tomorrow And just having a great day and trying to get out of here before the big rain comes in Which rain is no fun when you're winter ice camping. What do you think Danielle you want to sign out? Ah couldn't be better Nice Got back to the camp To see the tent still Intact yes No leakage either because it had been raining on and off all day. So we're worried it might be a little wet in here or it might have One side might have blown down or who knows so we were able to get right in and Get the wood in the stove Warm up and all of our stuff is pretty much dry already I forgot to show the folks at home. Yeah Everything hanging out. I've turned the I've turned the whole tent into my closet Yep, my stuff is hanging various places too, but we got all sorts of stuff hanging and tucked in That's the cool thing about the about these eskimos or they have room for everything in them And even these these side pouches are pretty awesome too. So And then the wood stove is just about heating us out It's pretty perfect And after that flash freeze last night daniel's Beautiful trout froze. So we didn't get a chance to fillet it today, but we're throwing it out So that way tomorrow midday we can thought we'll either eat some of it or half We might eat half of it tomorrow If you if you feel up to it or we could just fillet and bring it home and she could cook it up at home But yeah, that's gonna do it guys. Thanks again for tuning in