Canyon Vista Trail ~ Worlds End State Park, PA

greetings from world's end state park here once again up here in pennsylvania northeastern pennsylvania sullivan county area so this is day three of our trip up here oh this is friday july 9th wednesday was pretty fun because we had some other places too yesterday got wet we did get two hikes in but the rest day was pretty wet shall we say but today is a new day here's to hoping that we don't get showers this morning so don't have any service so i can't really check my phone to see what the weather's gonna be like but there's a vista up there we're doing the canyon the canyon vista like loop trail this morning so i'm hoping uh the fog clears up a little bit we'll get a cool view of the vista we did see the vista on wednesday it's pretty awesome up there anyway this is a four mile four mile trail so let's get going i got plenty of sleep last night went to bed early because of the rain so let's just let's quit yapping and just get going and before i forget i do have channel sticker number 23 then go place out here on the trail i got a pretty good idea of where to all right so we're just gonna leave naomi here at the campsite because there are several there are several ways to get to the canyon vista trail from my campsite so i'm just gonna hike out from here i think head down to the river first yes if you come out to the area of the campground where you have to walk in tent sites there's a little there's a trail that heads out this way away from the campground it'll take you to the canyon vista trail which is a blue blazed trail [Applause] travel you'll hear the river down there it's all the rain it should be flowing pretty good [Applause] yep and just like that here we are the blue blazes of course you could go that way but we're gonna we're gonna head down the plan is to come back that way that's a steep hike up that way i hiked up that way yesterday to get to the cold run trail so i think we'll come down that way this will take you down to the it's a road down to the river it looks like someone else is hiking the canyon vista trail too got mr slug we'll probably get done before he does though and the main parking for the trail is up this way the parking lot up there but we're not going that way yep down here's the river the chipmunks it looks like the sun's coming out too yeah just absolutely beautiful yeah just beautiful blue skies this morning too quite a change from yesterday so we're now headed away from the river and uphill yes this will be the first of two uphill sections i gotta go up i think at the top of this section here is something called warren's window looks pretty cool i've seen it on other people's videos and pretty sure that's we're gonna leave the channel sticker too so let's make your way to the top up up up and up following those blue [Applause] blazes yeah we got a trail junction of course we came from down that way family campground loyal sock trail goes up that way but we gotta keep going that way of course the loyal sock trail goes that way too that if that's we continued down that way that would take us to where we were yesterday when we did the uh cottonwood falls along that creek we hiked a little bit along the loyal sock trail down to the double run nature area and we get a brief little respite from the uh the uphill trek i just love hiking uphill on humid warm days and i'm also not very good at lying either so yeah all right [Applause] but it is beautiful out here a bit muggy a bit buggy but that's what you gotta deal with sometimes to see the beauty of the outdoors just it is what it is it looks like we're going to get our first view of the morning out here oh this is warren's window okay oh well a window too wow okay that's beautiful yeah so this this is amazing right here just kind of sitting here taking a break cool breeze blowing up here perfect little spot out that uphill hike of course i gotta find place to stash that channel sticker up here too [Music] and as promised i do have channel sticker number 23 for warren's window warren's window world's end state park so there's there's our view there's the beautiful rock to sit on there's the sign orange window of course the trail loops around here there's a tree right here right there's a rock yeah obviously there's a rock and a cool little mushroom down there but right behind here is we're gonna place the channel sticker i'm just gonna pull this rock back and no there's no snakes back here put the channel sticker back there place the rock back that's where she'd be yeah so i could just stay at this view forever i think warren's window anyway i guess i do have two other pictures to share with you uh channel sticker number 19 was found i think last time i talked about i mentioned that it hadn't been found yet but let's wait until the weekend and sure enough somebody went down there on saturday and got it um actually they're actually so my patreon supporters hot for the hills they found it down there i was a little worried about that one that was that's the one i placed furthest from where my kind of home area is down there west virginia high point spruce knob but they found it so i'll go ahead and put their picture up here share that with you and then number 20 has been found too the one i placed down at fort foot i placed it under that one huge civil war cannon down there i forget what your name is offhand i was going to check before i left to come up here on wednesday morning but i forgot so i but i will share their picture they're the first ones to get it i'm not sure if anybody else went looking for it or not but they they got to it so i'll share their picture next and the same goes for this one if you could send me a picture of yourself finding it whoever you're with i would appreciate it or just letting me know that you found it and sending a picture that way i enjoy sharing them in future videos people finding them so and also when you if you let me know it also likes to be i could put a comment on the video letting people know that the sticker was found yeah beautiful place for a sticker so yeah so i've decided i'm just gonna stay here i'm not gonna go home today i'm just gonna build a build a cabin behind me in the woods i'm sure the state park will never notice that i'm living up here oh yeah beautiful spot but we do got to get going here a bit all right well farewell to warren's window definitely hope to get back here again someday this spot is just beautiful already pull ourselves away all right so we gotta continue on just check the map too looks like the trails be nice and flat for a while then we'll have one more uphill section to the main vista which we did see on wednesday afternoon but it was pretty hazy today's a lot more clear so you should be a little bit better so here's to a nice easy flat walk for a while and i'll have to admit too that wasn't what i was thinking when it came to warren's window for some reason i had an image in my mind of like a rock wall type area with like a squarish hole in it like a window up here somewhere maybe that is elsewhere up here or maybe i'm thinking of somewhere else but i thought saw it in someone's video just might be somewhere else at the trail maybe somewhere else all together but we'll see but hey i'm not complaining that was absolutely beautiful spot all right yeah this section someone even took the time to lay like paving stones down you know not store-bought paving stones natural ones but someone took a lot of time to come up here and do this and i have my bear shirt on today so maybe we'll come across a bear out here on the trail oh yeah i just love walking through sections of sections of trail like this through the piney woods the birds singing got another kind of a view over here not quite as good as we had earlier but we'll take it interesting rock right there oh this is beautiful too got the stream flowing off kind of the plateau here tumbling down down into the canyon they're kind of hiking right along the edge here the rim of the canyon reminds me of being at the pennsylvania grand canyon over in tioga county where you're walking along it's called the west rim trail because that's a bit a higher elevation though and hidden down in the greenery we've got some beautiful beautiful bright orange mushrooms showing off their color down there and we got a next trail junction here's where we go uphill again on the vista trail our last uphill hike to the very top of the canyon after that it's all flat or downhill but there's another trail here too it just has these little yellow x-blazes this is just uh what they call link trail just links several other trails together it doesn't have an official name all right but we're not going downhill we're going up get back there's where he came from and warren's window is down their ways all right let's get this last uphill out of the way up up up up up and up at least we're kind of going up on an angle you can see how steep the sides are i'm glad we're not going like straight up that way they make it a little bit easier on you kind of go up on an angle i notice a little side trail it's something called ticklish rock okay i do see i'm not gonna go all the way down to the rock by seeing interesting rock formation down here yeah i guess that's it down there let me zoom in for you i believe it's right in the middle of the screen there i don't know i guess it's pretty thin to bottom so like i said if you is that you tickle it it might fall over i don't know kind of cool though all right let me get to the top a lot of breath you can see we're up and i think yeah get a little breathy here yeah cause i see up here's the road i was up here wednesday afternoon we drove up to this vista just to check it out now we're doing it the hard way hiking up this view up here is really amazing and i'm hungry i have second breakfast up here but yeah beautiful yeah i can see them through the trees there let's see if we have a place to ourself this morning yet yeah i don't see any cars up there parking lot so there's no one down here for now oh yeah i think i mentioned when i was here wednesday this is a handicap accessible vista there's a pave there's a you can hike right down to it from the parking lot the parking lot is like right there but there's also a paved path so you can get down to the view a little bit of a hill to it but oh yeah oh the breeze coming off of here feels amazing oh yeah check out that looks awesome that's an awesome shot let me get a picture of that right there there is our view phew wow that was just here two days ago but yeah a lot clearer today wednesday afternoon was pretty hazy absolutely beautiful yeah absolutely beautiful place to have a snack have a break yeah a cliff eating a cliff next to a cliff that's what's happening right here yeah so definitely probably one of the best views in pennsylvania one of the best there's quite a few all right but we gotta pull ourselves away from this one too the trail is inviting us onward so we walk along here a flat section for a while right along the rim and it's downhill yeah so after that vista i thought the trail just stayed along the canyon edge but it kind of crosses the road and goes up kind of does a little loopy thing up that way a little bit i'm not sure why it doesn't just stay along the canyon but anyway i didn't design the trail they're like that sometimes anyway here we are back along the canyon edge so i think we have a nice little flat section along the edge and then we'll start going downhill after a while back to the campsite where we will have to start packing up and going yeah i mean today today makes it all worthwhile beautiful day i mean wednesday was nice too but the third uh thursday was a bit of a washout with the rain and stuff got a little frustrating but you know it worked out my tent was waterproof so that's cool i could just hang out in there i have a little light which i showed in a previous video so i did some reading in there worked on my computer a little bit in there you know doing stuff with the my video files and stuff so it wasn't all lost well gotta find a way around this looks looks recent probably just from the storms we had on wednesday all right yeah lots of beautiful little mini waterfalls probably because all the rain we had yesterday cool and our slug down here probably not the one we saw at the beginning of this hike but if it is that is one super slug but he's not all right little buddy and i do need to make a correction about this section of the trail i said it looks pretty flat on the map it does but uh in reality it's not quite so flat i mean some sections like what i'm on right now is nice and flat there's times where it kind of just dips down and candy a little bit comes back up again and like down where those little waterfalls were just were so it looks flat on the map but in real life it's not quite so flat it's flatish we'll call it and i believe we're going to get another view out here yeah well this is called prospect rock see a sign here for it right there this was not on the map or maybe it was i just didn't notice but yeah got the river down there you can always hear the river from up here prospect rock i mean this reminds reminds me to a lot of the pennsylvania grand canyon where you look down over the edge you can see the you can see what's there is pine creek because this is the loyal saw creek but the grand canyon you see pine creek and you can hear it about the top of the canyon edge it's that same sound better view but same sound awesome so we're entering a section with some rock formations i'm still kind of looking for that i thought that one rock window i was looking for like i'm not sure if that's actually on this trail i don't think it's something else but we'll find out before the end but oh yeah there's more rocks up there so maybe it's this way we shall see i don't know maybe i was imagining things well there's kind of like a there's kind of like a window except that part kind of er but back up it'll be a nice little window so maybe that could be it we'll see it's a cool picture though another one of these like rock maze areas these are always cool oh yeah i'm gonna go right up through here looks like oh now we go this way i thought maybe we're gonna go through there all right we'll go this way so yeah this is this section is really neat too walking along this rock wall all kinds of rock formations and this section just goes on and on little caves yeah well you end up here is the junction of the cold run trail this is where it was yesterday morning wow that's awesome place yeah because right here is that ledge where i took a break under there it was raining i got to the top this is a steep hike coming up this way this is where we go downhill now i hiked up here to hike the cold run trail i got to the top i was whoops and it started to rain so i kind of hit under there for a while tucked away in there that's an awesome trail too the cold run trail it kind of loops out that way and rejoins the vista trail down further so all right from here on out we go down and we'll join up with that trailer take this to my campground now that's that's a big mushroom i saw him yesterday on the trail because we're hiked up here to get to the cold run trail but he was not open yet all the way now he is and then here's the other junction with the cold run trail yeah it's great going downhill can be a little hard on the knees sometimes but i'll take it whoops not too much further down there's the road so we're almost at the bottom once you join up with my what's called the campground trail i'll give you a little synopsis final thoughts all right yep so the canyon vista goes down that way that's the way we started and here's our campground trail yeah awesome hike i'm beat it was worth it i think the way i went it's just my opinion but i think it's the best way because you know you split the uphill part into two sections you have to after you're done the first uphill you get a little break at warren's window it's a nice place to take a break and nice little teaser to what's to come up ahead of the main vest and then you to the main vista and then you go the second uphill part to the main vista and then uh you have that flatish section and then you just have then we come down hills all one downhill and you can do the other way go uphill all at once but i did that yesterday and that is that's a that's not the easiest hike up that way i mean you can do it obviously but if you like going the other way breaks up a little nicer just my thoughts all right but i'm gonna get to my campsite i don't know what time it is i don't have to leave till three so it might be noonish but yeah beautiful day might hang out around just a little bit go back down to the river again we'll see anyway that's it for this video awesome trail definitely recommend hiking it as always thanks for coming along thanks to my patreon supporters allow me to do things like this and uh i'll see you around you

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Length: 27min 50sec (1670 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 30 2021