AT Prep-Hike on Eagle Rock Loop (Ouachita National Forest)

[Music] we are at little missouri fall straw head and eagle rock loop the weather's beautiful the river is way down the water crossings are still going to be cold but at least they're not going to be up to our waste getting ourselves ready robbie is taking liquid courage uh-huh [Applause] hey first row ready ready freddy [Music] [Applause] we are at a little mystery falls and we recognized that we didn't realize that we had already been here before when we first originally came to shady lake we had lunch over here in this area where we're standing right now and it's kind of cool water is like so blue and clear and crispy it's beautiful [Music] so [Music] so we are in our official first river crossing what are you about to do baby a rock hop we're gonna wet [Music] she made it i made it again just made it look so easy and i it's my long legs my long legs exactly and then i with my 4 foot 11 frame has a hard time with it she made it look harder than it looks no it's hard for a short person [Music] all right we are at second river crossing and it looks like this one we are going to have to get our feet wet bobby might be able to hop but um so robbie found a spot that he thinks he's gonna be a rock hop i'm gonna have to get wet that's the only option in this matter hey at least you made it across yay okay it's my time to cross i took my socks off and my gators off so i have just my shoe [Music] you're almost through the deepest part come on i cannot believe you made me do that like the whole way through i was i was not like i don't even know how my legs were moving because my feet were getting so numb i didn't know what to do but to keep [Music] going [Music] all right all right we're our next water crossing you're just gonna cross it i'm not even gonna take my shoes my socks off nothing too but to do it oh my gosh oh it feels awesome it feels so off feet physically hurt right now oh god oh get me across all right i'm done i'm done oh god not only the socks with your shoes how's the meal baby pretty good it is tuscan style grilled chicken alfredo pretty delicious it looks like that are probably about half a mile of the campsite we want to stay at we had to backtrack because why baby tell them why sorry i took us off a little bit so follow gut hooks if you're not in the red line you are not in the thrill [Music] [Music] [Music] all right we are inside our tent it's about six o'clock we hiked about eight miles from little missouri falls trailhead definitely like our quilt so far um we're enjoying that hopefully tonight it keeps me warm because i'm the one that's a cold sleeper i think she won't have a problem we're gonna go to sleep we're tired yeah so good night we'll see you guys tomorrow so making some breakfast right now the quilts are amazing i was perfectly fine and i'm the cold sleeper and i slept like a baby it's really hard to get out of bed when you're so warm inside here all right we're gonna leave in our campsite it's probably like what eight 8 15. 8 15 in the morning we're gonna start walking get our day started [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] i guess my nice little dry feet just lasted less than a mile so let's get to it oh my goodness this whole area through here is really slick oh god what do dang think you did a pretty good job you did a pretty good job all right look at that look at that one down couple more to go [Music] [Applause] so we are at our millionth cross our fifth fifth water process water crossings a little bit deeper and a little bit longer than what we're used to oh my god babe i cannot like why why i'm seriously considering bringing some water crossing shoes like this is this is not cool like this i'm grumpy already we're gonna eat some lunch we'll have some pepperoni wraps some pepperoni wraps and some chips and then we're gonna get back on trail we're heading to our hopefully last water crossing of the day i'm embracing the suck okay embrace the sag my baby says this one's not too bad let's get to it oh it's so cold not as cold as the other one though it's still cold there's nothing compared to another one another successful watercolor another one how's your cooler cloth work baby it's actually pretty pretty good this is like a waterproof so none of this is wet the inside is was wet so and then you're [Laughter] [Music] good [Music] so we're about a mile away from where we're gonna have dinner so far we've done seven miles after dinner we got about another mile and a half before we hit our camp spot for the night right now we're about to get on the athens big fork trail and head up to eagle eagle rock vista oh wow baby what you got there so this is some rice and shredded pork that is delicious babe all i right that pork and rice some beans in it taco bell diablo sauce diablo sauce on the back side we are at our campsite for the night all right so we're all set up this is my vegetable we got some uh some storage over here we got our quilts with our pads underneath we have some storage over here in the back and then there's actually some storage on the side here both sides the best should go on the other side which my baby has all zipped up awesome tomorrow's going to be a tough day we got probably i think it's three mountains we have to class water crop plus water crossings yes we've been trying this thing where we are having dinner before we get to campsites it's been working out so i think we're gonna we're gonna do that for now and and see what happens on the at but right now it's it's working out good to eat first then hike and then because once we get to camp then we're just setting up and we're just worrying about getting ourselves back in into the tent and then to our sleeping bag we'll catch you guys tomorrow good night it's about six o'clock she's all bundled up i'm gonna go get the food it's hopefully still up in this tree right there and then i tie it to an adjacent tree with no critters bears coyotes birds get to it in our tent there you go all right so babe is making breakfast right now strawberries bananas or strawberry and bananas strawberry and bananas that sounds [Music] [Applause] delicious [Music] so [Music] i was thinking if we if we make it back to the car tonight we're just gonna drive home yeah it makes me that makes me climb this mountain climbing this mountain a lot and more more manageable and bundt cake oh a nothing fun cake have y'all ever had a nothing bundt cake so leave a leave a comment if so leave a comment but if you have not you need to find one you're missing out because it is delicious [Music] [Music] [Music] we're at the summit of mckinley mckinley mckinley mountain it was nice going up definitely not easy but not as hard as i thought we're gonna come down off down off mckinley mountain and then go up over hurricane knob we got about two miles until we're done with the athens big fork and then uh yeah then about four four to five miles back to the car all right we are at the top of this mountain hurricane knob this was a toffee this one was a taffy for sure it was pretty much like almost straight up plus the rocks that's the thing like there was just a ton of rocks that you had to like maneuver over and popping it off with what happened to your feet babe no let's not talk about that he couldn't do a rock hop so and i got both feet wet up to my like up to my shins on the mountain the squishy feet we thought we were gonna have our feet dry the whole day and i do but i'm so scared i have lunch and we'll get back to you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we are at the little missouri trailhead we just got done crossing our probably easiest water crossing it was a bridge the whole trail but it crossed the water so and we walked over it so is the water crossing her feet stayed dry the whole day good for her i'm so excited yay

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Length: 18min 33sec (1113 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 24 2021