 Congratulations guys. Thank you. Thank you, you too. Wheeler Peak 13,161 feet, the highest point in New Mexico. Killing it! This is amazing! Let's do it! Today is a pretty exciting day for trekking pals because we are going to climb the highest peak of New Mexico. We've been already hiking for about one hour. There are different routes to do this trail but we chose the Williams Lake Trail. I think we are at about 11,000 feet. We woke up pretty early 4am. We came here the night before and then we just got to the trailhead. We got changed, made some breakfast and I think we hit the trail a little bit before 6am. So right now as we speak it's 6.58am. There aren't so many people on the trail. I think there was probably a group, two groups, three groups that passed us earlier but we're feeling pretty good. After one hour of hiking we got to this junction right here where you can either continue to Wheeler Peak or you can take a side trail and get to Williams Lake Trail which towards the end of the day if we feel like we have enough energy we will probably go to the lake but for right now we're just gonna continue up. It's amazing how camping here the night before is making a huge difference just by way of camping here. We feel like we are adjusted better to the altitude. We found this first camping free in Carson National Forest. I'm going to leave the name of the campground here. It's by the water which was pretty neat. It's also by the road but honestly we were not even able to hear any cars passing by or anything because we were tired and then the noise from the water running there was pretty strong. The trail is pretty well marked so far. I'm using my old trail map just to double check from time to time but it's very straightforward. We're doing this hike towards the end of June so there isn't really snow on the trail but we are seeing a couple of snow patches in the sides of the trail. I also like the fact that there are plenty of paint signs on the trail. These blue signs they are useful especially during winter time when most of the trail is buried under snow and you're snowshoeing. They can be super helpful during winter. I'm helping myself out with the 30 minutes timers where I would just set a timer and then just walk no stopping, slow pace. When the timer is up I can you know just take a water break or snack break for a minute or two but feeling pretty good actually. I was expecting to start getting some headaches by 11 000 feet or so but no headaches at all which is pretty awesome makes it a lot easier. Just climbed all the way where Alex is and Alex is dead. I don't know if you can see the trail we still have to go all the way there. So I took my first break here because I was saying I had a rock that stuck in my shoe and it was bugging me but I had my liners and my socks like how is it possible that a rock can go inside? It turned out I had a piece of hair wrapped around my toe and it was cutting circulation it's crazy. Do you see it right here? Oh my goodness. It looked like you were hurting a little bit here but I think now that you're kind of letting a mare out and that it's gone they'll go back to normal pretty quick. Crazy things that happen on the trail. Oh the sun is coming out I have to power through get all the way there and figure out what's next. Oh my goodness that's the trail we came from. You can see two people there it's always amazing to stand up high and just think to yourself oh my god did I climb all that? Really nice views. So pretty look at all of the snow and trees and mountains it's this exceeded my expectations of wheeler peaks to be honest. Break time I'm gonna be trying some new snacks today. I got these bars from Patagonia Provisions the only snack I had from Patagonia Provisions was a can of mussels in lemon and they were so good so today I'm gonna be trying this one apricot and almond and then this one is incaberry with almond and then the last one is mango almond as well really excited to see if they're going to be tasty. It's actually pretty good. We're definitely hitting some sections of the trail where we're walking on snow nothing that would require snow spikes or anything as such but we are walking on snow there is some snow on the trail. But right now we are at about 12,500 feet so we're up there we have a couple of crazy switchbacks and then we will get to the ridge and then from there the summit I think it's around probably a mile that we have left but even if it's a mile at high altitude one mile is a lot of hard work. I pumped two Advil earlier just in case and I'm feeling very good. These switchbacks are kicking my butt but we were told that this is the hard part it gets a little bit easier once we finish the switchbacks. You think I believe them? I never believe a hiker especially if they say almost there it's gonna get easier nope it does not. I was doing some stories on Instagram just trying to come up with ways to distract myself from from the pain but Adik was just telling me that we are at about 12,600 feet which is the elevation of Humphrey Peak the the high speak in Arizona that we climbed the other day so it's pretty neat to see that we're feeling all right with the the elevation and headache and everything all together so no more graceful hiking I feel like a beer up dog quite literally. I've been here in Marmots all over the place but I can't really figure out where the noise is coming from they're pretty echoey their noise is strong but plenty of wildlife especially after 11,000 feet we saw a couple of rodents and I saw a couple of birds when we were still below the tree level but really nice I was also told that there are usually big horn sheep hanging out here they're pretty accustomed to people being on the trail but we haven't seen any so far a lot of rodents that's that's about it oh my goodness last set of switchback it should be a lot easier to get to the summit so we're on the ridge right now and I gotta say it is well manicured compared to a lot of the other ridge walks that we've done we've got a bit more to go but right now we're just taking in our first glimpse on the other side of the ridge and our team is just putting in the work this is amazing the first view over the ridge is just gorgeous oh my goodness it's really incredible I'm just so happy to be doing this it's amazing it's really nice I've been up there the team walk high speaking New Mexico thank you thank you you too wheeler peak 13,161 feet the highest point in New Mexico okay so we're about to start heading down but before we do that I want to show you around here so this is what we've got I'm gonna take you to where I have all my stuff over there there it is we're starting to make our way down uh just probably on the ridge here there's going to be a bit of wind so I'm not sure if you can hear me clearly but yeah same way we came up is the same way we go down I was just thinking to myself that the cherry on top of all of this hike is going to be seeing some bighorn sheep and I think we just spotted some my god this can't get any better I just stood by the edge to take a picture and there was this marmot it was just sneaking sneaking showing his head and I took so many beautiful photos of the marmot up there and then as I continued hiking he just stood up on the peak of that rock and it was amazing it was an amazing size like this can't get any better just right there right there it's crazy there's a little waterway one step at a time so I think we moved into a period of complete cloud cover now and we're just making our way back down to the treeline I don't think we're worried about any lightning or anything but if it does rain it seems like some of the trail could get muddy and uh I don't know we'll see what happens it's still pretty pretty on the easier leg of the journey now more and more cloud cover but still it's just comfy really we've seen a couple of other large rodents whether they're marmots or gophers or groundhogs or whatever still beautiful so pretty how you doing back there baby you enjoying your pictures yes I'm having this amazing so much wildlife snow mountains lake everything everything that you can hope for you're getting a full dose of nature today break time on the mountain the snacks hey Habiba what is in your bag these are all of the snacks I got but to be honest the snacks that I was really excited for like cheese strings and apples I didn't bring them but I tried new things I tried honey stinger energy juice they're really good better than a goo yes oh wow karina huh shout out to our friend karina and then I brought these the rx bar also recommended this either hike with microphoma I don't remember I think hike with mic did but anyway so I had them in the past but I brought two new flavors banana and coconut I didn't have them yet obviously and then I talked earlier about the patagonia provisions these are good and ad bill delicious then we got over there dad some cheetos is that what that is all ready we are still making our way down the mountain it's a lot easier going down than up probably a little bit towards the switchbacks when you start going down from the switchbacks it probably requires more focus but then once we got below the tree line which you can see we are already below the tree line it gets a lot easier our goal was to make sure that we are below the tree line around 12 no later than 1 p.m because there are usually thunderstorms rolling in between 12 and 2 and you really don't want to be that exposed during that time so really nice that we are right here now we're not pressured by time and we probably have a little bit over two miles to get to the trailhead pretty pretty nice it's so quiet just me and birds chirping it's amazing we're back at the junction of the wheeler peak and the lake and I think I'm gonna go check out the lake I thought that it's not supposed to be that far away and my map actually agrees to it so let's check that out this is the same trail that we saw from up top I took some pretty neat photos but I wanted to come down here because I'm sure it's a it's a different type of view really pretty wow look at that and a lot of chipmunks I see a trail that goes over there and then there's a sign so just gonna walk a little bit further it's funny because I told Alex and his dad that I'm not doing the lake because I thought it's probably two miles in or so but then I changed my mind so I'm gonna make it pretty fast so that they're not concerned well as I sat here taking some beautiful photos of this lake it started to rain it was raining right now I guess I should go and make my way back and cover my backpack and cover myself as well but it's raining Alex is gonna get a good laugh at this goofy poncho I realized yesterday that I didn't pack my backpack cover but luckily I found this one in my camping gear I found this poncho I got it probably four years ago when we did the Inca channel I was like yeah that's great it will not only cover my backpack but it will cover me so there we go we made it oh this was an amazing day this is by the way Taos ski resort area I just talked about tourist restaurants but you can see the the ski lifts all the way there and they have a couple of restaurants and I'm assuming that they also have a lodge so if you aren't into skiing this is a great area I love the chairs with the new Mexico Zsui, it's pretty neat