Solo Hiking 50 Miles on Alta Via 2 Dolomites Italy

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right now and i'm editing this video this is going to be the guide section so hopefully i'll go over from start to finish how i did this trip this hike and as well as some behind the scenes of the filmmaking and the video editing of this video project and hopefully it gives you some confidence and information to go and complete this hike yourself it's very doable italy's italy so it's going to be a little expensive especially if you go hut to hut which a lot of european trails requires you to do there's no wild camping of course you could camp in the valleys down below um but the food and the huts is just kind of part of the alps is i think so this trip and today's video was made possible by nordvpn i use it all the time on both my home pc and my macbook air when i'm traveling it is super easy to access any of their thousands of servers in 60 plus countries i auto connect to the us but then switch it up whenever i need to access something differently down time in hotels to watch rick 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very packed and very busy um but yeah it was a a beautiful place i got some dinner stayed at a nice hotel from the venice airport i booked a one-way bus ride to cortina it was about a three hour drive up north on the bus and i think it cost thirty dollars us which was not bad once in cortina i just asked around and found a 15 dollar one hour bus that went all the way to the trailhead town of corvara and checked into my hotel where i met a representative of the travel agency that actually booked this trip with this was the first trip hiking video trip that i've ever done where i paid a company to like book all of the huts and give me the itinerary and the route it was interesting i think they had some good advice like i didn't really know this area they knew it more than me but even after telling them that i'm a quick hiker uh that i do this for a living i'm trying to shoot a video i don't think they quite understood you know the special things that i need as far as views or just wanting to just always walk an extra mile into town or not they booked a bunch of taxis for me they gave me pretty easy days so i did this whole 50 mile hike in five days i think they originally wanted to make it like a seven or eight day trip for to do those 50 miles and even after making them like give me a harder hike to do it was still quite easy like i don't think they understand that i'm by myself i'm shooting a video i'm not here to like relax and dilly dally uh from sun up to sunset i want to be hiking i want to be sweating and i just want to be doing at least 20 miles a day if possible obviously it depends on the terrain and the number of times you stop and the elevation gain and descent but still this was pretty easy for me i don't know just so many questions all i know is that the next any trip going forward i am absolutely going to just take an extra hour or two do the research and just plan everything myself absolutely this is the pdf that the company sent me and this is basically the itinerary and the route in word form so telling me the names of the trail sections the distances like where i turn and different points which is just so silly to me it's very funny you know i'm sure this was helpful in a sense but you need to be looking at a map this is is what i made from that itinerary and all trails broken down by color for the five different days and i it was more helpful for me to go over this with the representative and to ask like is this the recommended route um there were just so many questions like i i wish they knew that i was like a youtuber looking for views because so for example on the third day this blue i'm i'm hiking hiking hiking and then i go down the mountain but just up the mountain a bit is this beautiful refugio with a view and then you come up here and you can take the cable car it's just there are so many different little things that i wish they knew uh would be interesting to me but it's a disconnect it's okay we made it work but yes if you want to download this map i have it available in the description down below it should be helpful i think there were a couple things that i did differently like for example that little refugio but this is this is a pretty good guide to go on and you can see that they don't connect like this is where they had me do taxi connections and it's just silly like they made me do a taxi all the way down here but i very well could have just walked i don't know so let's switch into 3d mode so we can take a look at the day by day the route i went and this is a good way of showing you what i was up to day one this is corvara this is where i started and they had me take a taxi up this road to start the hike right here which was silly i took the taxi in the morning but then i realized like there's a beautiful little by the river path coming over here so i actually it's not in the video i don't know why i didn't show it whatever i was just busy i walked all the way back i think i forgot like one piece of gear anyway so it was fine i think it was a quick hour round trip walked all the way back and then started at this church it's a really beautiful church it's a good spot to start the hike and just up up up up up through the trees and then once you get to this refugio it's kind of starting to break out of the trees but it's a nice place for a lunch and of course good views and then up up up up up into this kind of rocky desert it's like obviously above the tree line there's not too much going on especially in this crevice it was like a little slot kind of with no views until you got all the way to the top and even then it's like just kind of peaks in the distance nothing too crazy making your way back down to this refugio the thing is these places were open in the summer and they were packed but they churned through the food and the drinks pretty quickly so the weights there's really no weight and some of them took cards but always make sure to have cash because more than half were cash only obviously the more remote ones uh there's no roads leading up to this or this one i believe so uh yeah make sure you have euros i walked around and then this spot was really beautiful because you can see the trail zigzagging on both sides here and then just sitting on the edge here you have a view of this like sloping up to the side and then straight down uh this this view was pretty gorgeous and then i think the trail like the itinerary that the agency told me was to follow this all the way back down just into corvara so i think that would have been a very quick and easy day just coming straight back down and then it's kind of boring once you reach this area so i um changed the route a little bit myself they told me not to but whatever um following all the way up here to this peak and this is where i had that like walking on the edge of the world type shot which is really beautiful and then obviously if you've seen anything about the dolomites this is a really famous view especially this looking this way it's just gorgeous and being up here you know that's obviously a good view especially when it's kind of starting to get to sunset and the sun is over here giving you some backlight on this mountain the views were gorgeous and they got even better as you come down into this little area um you know past here here and here uh i think this was i think uh no this was the the jesus uh statue i'm not used to seeing so many crosses and jesus uh crucifixion things it's an italy hiking thing i guess uh but hey yeah we had to pass him and once you get into this area it doesn't really show it here with the 3d map but it's very spiky and just gorgeous and once again i had that backlight and this beautiful view in the background so i really liked this area right here coming down and then once you get into the tree line it's kind of just grass and fields and i made my way i had i think i had a quick drink at the jimmy i didn't record that just because i was tired and busy and then made my way down to this refugio and i had actually met up with a subscriber at some point along i can't remember i think it was at the refugia for lunch he said hi and once we reached down here we linked back up and he offered me to drive down with his family back down into corvara which was very nice thank you so much um but yeah it i was really looking forward to taking the jimmy um it was a got little little mini gondola back down into town but i just missed the cutoff i think by like maybe 30 minutes or something so that that wasn't possible and walking to here and then having to walk all the way back down to korvara would have been a nightmare so thank you so much for the the little ride in your car down to town and that was the end of day one once again they picked the itinerary and they had me staying at this three star la tombra hotel twice it's so weird for me to be one staying in hotels two staying at the same place twice you know that's a bit silly to me if it were up to me i would have kept going into the mountains and tried to stay at a refugio up here obviously maybe they were booked maybe they thought that would be too much i don't know i would have at least tried to stay at this hotel sir uh over here instead of going back down to where i started like it's for the video they just didn't understand that every evening every morning i want to be at like a different location for the video it's kind of weird and confusing for me to have footage morning evening morning evening whatever at the same town the same hotel so oh well woke up bright and early and i finally was able to like walk to the trailhead so i just took a nice little stroll through town sleepy in the morning uh past campsites past people walking their dog and started climbing up into this crazy crazy beautiful mountain area once again this 3d map is like really butchering the landscape but you can get a sense of how much this climb was in the morning uh had plenty of shade wasn't too hot the first day was just so much sun i i definitely got a sun burnt a little bit um and yeah hanging her right here beautiful drone shot of walking and then just climb climb climb all the way up to this refugio where i had lunch i think i'd like pasta and beer and and pie strudel i had strudel probably like three or four times this trip so much droodle it's very good um but this is when it started to get a little overcast so i'm like okay they they said that it's supposed to thunder that evening so i was getting a little more worried about uh the weather as i was climbing up to the highest point of the entire hike obviously it had to start hailing so i didn't shoot too much of this i thought it was a little redundant but yeah definitely hitting a lot of snow and then once i reached over this pass it started to just blanket with fog and clouds and there was almost zero visibility as i was coming down it started to legit rain uh so that's when i put the camera away back into the waterproof hyperlite bag and busted out the trusty umbrella i am team umbrella i love it it's the best and made it over here i wasn't expecting this refugio but this is like a really nice it looks newish i don't know if it's new or just refurbished but it was very designed well and stylish but definitely open i could have gotten food there i just got like a quick coffee and waited uh for it to stop hailing and just like peered out the window every so often and at one point it cleared up i could see a little bit of blue sky which is kind of crazy i wasn't expecting that and it stopped raining stopped hailing so i set off and probably made it up to yeah i made it i made it to about halfway up to the peak when it started hailing and thunder like right on top of me so loud so dangerous so then i actually ran all the way back down to the refugio i did not show this in the video but the thunder was just right above me and i wasn't i didn't think i could push all the way in time so i got scared waited a bit more for it to clear and then started back up and once again probably a lit just right before the top it's i heard the thunder in the distance it started raining right here inhaling eventually as i made it to the top here and i was not expecting this to be open or as cool as it was but it was like a little mini hut very cool a dog just people hanging out drinking beer it would have been really fun even though it's such a small crack cramped place there's not too much to do honestly especially when it's hailing but it would have been cool to sleep up there like it would have been yeah that would have been way too crazy to do the other day but regardless um yeah the next trip i'm definitely going to plan and make it perfect so i had a beer pet a dog and then tried to wait for the hail to stop and it kind of let off so i started off just because it was starting to become like what four o'clock five o'clock and the night i was spending the night at this refugio all the way over here so i knew i had to descend what maybe two two two and a half miles down so i didn't want to get stuck up here so i set off i'm like i can handle rain i can handle hail a little bit it's just the thunder that worries me so i pretty much trail ran all the way down and this is when my camera was actually starting to the lens was breaking so i haven't really talked about this but the last trip i went on we had an accident dropped the camera the connection between like the lens and the camera like bent a little bit so i'm fixing my lens with these tweezers this is like the sharpest thing i have and it's actually working perfectly i tried like all these different knives i haven't tried a business card but it's finally working i'm gonna fix it oh god and it doesn't sit perfectly flush on the camera but what was happening was these screws on the lens were coming undone so that was messing with the lens it was like kind of almost gonna fall off and obviously the focus was messing up because it was tilting away from the where it should be so that's that was happening a ton at that moment so i couldn't when it was raining it was hailing it was getting darker and my lens was like not working with the camera so i actually didn't film pretty much anything on the way down and about halfway the thunder came back it was right on top of me i tried to hide and just like just cower underneath the largest rock just to stay dry i know there's like there's all these diagrams about what you're supposed to do when it's thundering but i'm like whatever i just want to let this pass and then i'll keep going but i do have iphone footage of me underneath there and it was pretty miserable at that point i shared that on instagram people were like are you okay do you like hiking is this is this fun for you and this section right here holy crap it was pouring so this is a steep area down they have metal rope to assist you on a good day ah this was a bad day because it was dark hailing and this was basically a river flowing down oh boy oh boy ah did that out there it's like a waterfall miserable time got some iphone footage of that for you finally got around this and flew my drone there was a beautiful rainbow right here which was kind of interesting because it kind of stopped raining for a hot second and just pretty much trail ran all the way to hopefully dry out and eat some food and relax at this refugio costner this was a beautiful place i knew they had a dog um a fat golden retriever i forget your name i'm sorry very sassy but that dog was adorable this place had a great view um and settled down for the night this next day in blue was going to be one of the biggest probably one of the most beautiful in my opinion and started off following along this gigantic mountain with views of the glacier marmalada in the background as far as the end and this ridge separating the two of us i knew that i'd have to come down along this side of the ridge and then down to this lake with the dam it was gonna be a beautiful day and it wasn't raining it wasn't hailing it was just perfect i'm so grateful i had good weather on this day because wow amazing amazing amazing amazing so i had breakfast giant coffee they just whip out this bowl full full of coffee i was pretty happy about that and just started out early feeling really good and it was a little tedious coming along this 3d map is again butchered by this elevation but it's basically along the cliffside this whole time there were a couple uh really rocky loose sandy spots that were difficult i got off trail a tiny bit every so often here just because there's probably so much avalanche and just soil rock fall every winter every spring so this trail is probably maintained uh probably the least out of the entire trip to be honest and then eventually i saw this what is it sasso por do i a cable car here and i saw people everyone zigging z zig hiking up to this refugia so i'm like hey why not if i have to go down this way i can take the cable car if i go up you know it's a little extra work to have a nice little cable car down i think that's fair i don't have to hike everything i can do whatever i want plus the views up here were really cool so zigzagged up looked like a a fool shooting mike with my camera my tripod alone uh with so many people around this place was packed the thing about italy is that in just the alps europe there's just so many cable cars just shuttling buses of people up to the top of these mountains one thing i will say about the us is that it's a bit you know it depends on where you are but i just feel like it's more isolated it's more protected um the people you see at the peaks are the people who did the work and got there and yeah i'm i'm all for everyone being able to appreciate these places but still there's just something about getting to the top and sweating and then just people getting off of a cable car and being like we did it too and i didn't uh i just rushed through here i didn't eat anything i actually had good views of the peak that i summoned um the night before the evening before because it was a clear day so it was interesting being able to like see what it would have looked like and then made my way up took the cable car down [Music] and uh yeah started the best section of the hike in my opinion this ridge with marmolada marmolada yeah marmalade glacier in the distance with these grass hills oh my god but it was packed a lot of cyclists coming through here a lot of families a lot of people taking cable cars i think there was a road leading up here so people eating pizza and hanging out but man this trail just right on the edge it's i guess it's a ridge ridge line trail just with the grass coming down and the flowers and just the birds swooping in and out here i stayed on this trail all the way along but i think there are yeah you can see the trails right on the top of the the ridge line here it probably would have been cool to like detour up here for a little bit but i just stuck along this grass and just had a blast it was very beautiful um with views you know approaching this lago [Music] um headed down and yeah it was a long day just because i had this extra little section but i'm surprised that the travel agency didn't have me book a taxi to go from here to here like that seems like something they would do but no it's like a nice pleasant little flat walk like i don't mind walking an extra mile a mile and a half um yeah i just want to be self-supported as much as possible and just do the work myself i don't want to have these little transfers but the reflections off this lake were gorgeous and the dam itself is very interesting and there's plenty to eat i think i stayed yeah i stayed at this refugia right here and there were chickens running around everyone loves chickens i had the first wi-fi of the day right here so i called and texted mika showed her some photos of all the beautiful things that i was seeing and of course this glacier you know this is a massive glacier a lot of water coming down from this beautiful beautiful beautiful day and then ended at this lake what i describe as a truck stop refugio uh nothing pretty about this uh this place i don't recommend staying here but i got a shower which is not needed but nice um man it would have been i don't know if it would have been more expensive or if they were booked but like staying here or here would have been 10 times better than staying right here this is right along the road nothing to see nothing that interesting but yeah i was able to [Music] meet some meet some more subscribers uh they just saw me drinking a beer alone like a weirdo out on the patio and they came over and said hi so thank you for doing that it's very nice to have a drinking buddy every so often and to hear what you're up to and what you're hiking it's very fascinating next day was an early am taxi ride down to how do you say this malga kipella i guess i could have easily just walked down here and i think the actual like legit alta via 2 has you coming up somewhere and i think the altavia 2 has you coming up over this pass which would be intense i don't know what is going on with this hole if that's an actual glitch or the actual hole but um this was quite intense i probably would have needed more gear and it was icy up there so it's fine i don't mind coming down here and coming up this easier route uh still a lot of elevation gain on this day you know this was a shorter distance but a lot of just endless gaining through the woods here not very pretty the lighting was weird the drone footage from this area whole area was kind of weird not too eventful skipped pretty much all of this i could have eaten like once again there's a campsite down here would have been so fun to finish this day by walking all the way down and then camping here like i i just i didn't realize there were so many campsites so i booked only huts and hotels through the agency but it would have been fun to do some tent camping i would not have minded that at all and all of the huts and the hotels like when you book it they give you full board or whatever they give you breakfast and dinner and you don't get to pick what you eat so lunch was always a blast because i could like pick all these different things the pasta feel the strudel beer whatever um but like yeah breakfast and lunch was always picked for me and i don't like that as much i would like to have more control over my hike so once again definitely going to plan my own hikes in the future so the ascending over this first i guess pass it's like a false pass this ledge this was all very boring and i think they're we're like constructing a road here so half of this was on like gravel very ugly until you you come out of this wood into this meadow area there's an adorable little farm here with a woman i think she's by herself no she's not she's with a large fluffy cat i wanted to get footage of the cat but it was like weird lighting and she didn't speak english so i she would have had like hold up the cat to show me but i just got a quick clip of the cat in the in the window but yeah i wanted to i wanted to get to know this cat i wanted to know more and a little bit of a ridge hike over to this refugia this place was lovely wonderful views uh definitely more isolated than most uh the food was great and they had a goat just doing goat things you know trying to eat things and not cooperating with taurus trying to take its photo tried to eat my hat at one point yeah goats everyone loves goats so zigzagged up up up up up over this pass got pretty sandy and rocky right here very beautiful um you know not too many people up here and i couldn't you couldn't really see glacier but i knew that the glacier was like right on the other side of this ledge and this met this rock ledge was very drastic very beautiful um but once again like just the angle of the sun just the shadows the clouds the footage from this section just didn't turn out so well honestly but it's okay that's whatever i'm just pretty just trail ran down down down down down passing people left and right up and down slantways all the way down into this grassy area started to get views of this valley um i think there's a road to this there must be a road to this refugio because they had like tractors and stuff but this was kind of isolated it felt isolated very beautiful um oh there's a big town right there okay yeah there must be a road going up um yeah i hadn't had uh a dorm stay i had a lot of time to kill because this was a short day once again i like hiking until the sunset once again it's like sunrise i want to get up early because the sunrise is beautiful very dramatic lighting and it's good for filming it's the middle of the day when it's like the worst filming conditions so i like hiking until sunset and then just setting up my tent right at the last second because it's beautiful to be hiking with sunset colors uh but you never really get that when you make these bookings in advance and you have such short easy days that end in the valleys that's the other thing it's very tricky to know to read the typography to know on the trail where there's going to be like amazing views at different points of the day but whenever you're in a valley it's usually in shade for sunset um obviously you can't be camp camping on the passes but there are certain places that just have better views for video for setting up camp so all in all it's all good and the last day purple this was kind of a throwaway day it was a weird one to end on kind of a whimper at the end for sure i'll explain more but started out early up up up up up up i i go up i go down what else is there to say uh it's very isolated i probably saw like maybe three or four people through this whole section here uh there were lots of other trails i was looking at this trail this looked kind of beautiful and interesting but where would that have sent me i don't know uh but yeah this was where i was going it got pretty cloudy at the top here uh coming up over this pass it wasn't raining but it was just very overcast and foggy uh rolling up over um once again very sandy very rocky this was a crazy zigzag and you'll notice that this trail says like what 40 something miles and yeah it's because this is a map and not the actual distance like i can tell you with my phone much more accurately the distance that i did for this hike because you can see this is a straight line going down but you actually go zigzag which is a longer distance than this as the crow flies uh line right here i saw some mountain goats or mountain sheep rams i don't know what you call them they were they were creatures and then you come down into uh the grassy area and there were hella flowers down here this field leading down to the refugio uh was gorgeous just the flowers were amazing and nice little river there's a road leading up here with horses and carriages lots of families this was a very very busy area refugio fusiad fusadi fucia i don't know italian i kept accidentally saying spanish things like gracias and uh you know quanto um just because i'm so used to peru and whatnot so it was hard for me to like switch my brain to italian grazie um uh was it i can't remember i'm so bad with italian but the food here oh man the bread the wine the beer the espressos if anyone gives me grief for putting milk in the espresso i don't care i was making a little mini cortado or a mini tiny latte and uh i drank three other espressos there no three total so two other espressos without milk so don't even give me any crap i just i guarantee someone's gonna make a comment in the in the comments make a comment in the comments craigs2021 um and then came down here passing these little huts and the view looking back this way was gorgeous so this is so dolomites this is why you come and hike in this area these gray white rocky peaks just with this it's almost like a a grass line alpine is the trees but i guess i don't know what you would call this but the grass is so beautiful uh in italy it's very different than other places through these trees this is uneventful this is pretty much a road just passing people i stopped at this little hotel which is cute with a little pond with the was it tadpoles and then had views of my last summit or pass so i could have summoned uh was it margarita would have been kind of cool up there but it started to rain and get overcast and it was just a weird last section like this didn't have to happen i think it would have been better for the video and for the hike for me to end right here because i was taking roads west anyway to this town so this honestly would have been even quicker to get to my hotel after the hike than coming all the way over there but anyway um i said f it i'm gonna finish the hike i can do it it's raining but i don't care so i just walked in the rain all the way up and then i realized oh yeah this is a ski resort and part of the hike just follows the ski slope which is never fun that's boring it's not pretty it's not fun and i reached the top of the slope here had some kind of view a little bit um this was actually the hardest part of the trail to stay on i think i just gave up at some point and just walked in a straight line to like this point or something a lot of other people getting lost with dogs up here they were asking for directions and italian i'm like i don't know i'm sorry and this was a road for most of the way all the way down and some nice peaks like this is the start of the national park and this looked gorgeous this was kind of boring um yeah this whole last section was definitely a whimper but i made it to this pass and it started hailing dolomites baby of course but i was i was glad that it didn't hail while i was coming down this miserable road anyway um but yeah i had views of these peaks this is the start of the national park i'm like why can't i go into the national park this looks really cool over here and i think the travel agency legit ended the hike right here because i asked them i'm like can i do a dolomites alta via ii hike and they gave me this 50 mile hike that didn't start at the start of like the official i think most people start the alta via 2 here and they walk up blah blah blah and they come through here but they had me start here which was silly would have been easier to start in this town because i just took the train in from innsbruck and then start the hike and then probably just take a bus or a train right back here so i don't have to like transfer luggage anywho i can i'm planning my own hikes on my own in the future so i made it to this pass and i think the travel agency legit stopped it because this is the start of the national park and i'm not sure if you need like a permit or a license to act as a guide for the national park but it seemed a little fishy to me um anywho this looked pretty i'll just have to come back and uh do the second part of the alta via two and i took a taxi back to moana where i stayed in the craziest hotel i would have never picked this place in my life but hey whatever the the theme was creepy dolls and uh angels and just no just no early the next morning i booked a taxi a very expensive i think like 120 dollar taxi a ride to uh bulonzo bozen uh zigzag right through the mountains and then hopped on a train and the train wasn't that bad i think it was like only maybe three or four hours all the way past in innsbruck which had an airport but munich flights were very cheap very direct to new york so i just kept going and hey you know i've never been in germany before so i wanted to check out munich so i booked a hotel and then i just toured around the city drank coffee ate some like bavarian food met up with one amazing subscriber had a great conversation had a drink just walked around had a blast and then the next morning just took my time getting out to the airport and flew back home so if i were to review this hike in this trip um i guess you could call it hiking half of the altavia ii there is an altavia one which i've heard is more crowded and easier i don't know maybe i should do that next but maybe i'm doing it in the wrong order anyway this was good it was very expensive probably the most expensive hike i've ever done even the tour de mont blanc which was similar days uh and twice more than twi double the distance i spent way less on the tour de mont blanc just because i was roughing it and sleeping with my tent and just you know pain as i went expensive but great views it's the alps it's beautiful people have been coming and hiking and living and traveling to this area for ever so much longer than the us and it shows the us definitely feels more rustic and back water and more naturey to be honest like there are trails and and a lot of cyclists here in europe and all of the trams kind of diminish uh the hiking um but the peaks the glaciers the trees the slopes the grass like i said very beautiful it's always a balance you know the price the beauty uh the number of people the popularity uh it's always a balance and i kind of like places like peru that are a bit tougher maybe not as well they do have crazy high mountains even compared to the alps um but yeah just not as much infrastructure not as good if you're trying to relax yeah it's a balance so expensive hike beautiful views pretty easy not very challenging um and then obviously just planning it myself would have been so much better yeah i recommend you to do this if you can do the full hundred miles i think that might be really cool and if you can try to camp and have a tent i would recommend that as well but you have to stay in some huts staying in the huts and the refugees is definitely half of what makes this hike really fun the dogs the food the people the culture yeah these places have been here for like hundreds of years so it's crazy all of the gear that i used to shoot this video will be linked in the description down below as well as craigadams.com just has my current gear kit shot this video on this camera and this lens a sony a7s mark iii with a 16 to 35 f4 with this rode shotgun on top for good audio i still stand by this camera this setup this is the smallest kit that i can get the quality that i like and i don't really do any color correction or grading so i just shoot standard out of the camera and my thing is you know walk walk away and for this video walk towards the camera which is something new that i've started doing on a tripod so you know a very lightweight carbon fiber setup set up the tripod walk away come back it's a bit extra i haven't really calculated like what percentage it adds to my hike uh it definitely adds sometimes it can be frustrating to be really tired and to set up a camera walk up up up up and then come down and then walk back up up up up uh so yeah let's let's roll that clip craig what that's hot it's like tatooine getting hungry this is rebecca black people italy beautiful wow this is beautiful i got my camera day two it's an okay shot i am hungry where is my pasta sun is touch and go love oh let's dry out summit hot before the rain and the thunder hits it is slippery up here that's a hill day three oh wait big sneeze ice it's an okay shot marmalade it's a gondola dude this is beautiful it's like halo it's pretty damn this isn't a trail this is a road this trail kind of sucks well i made it it's busted time for the last big passes i have pretty [Applause] more pasta it's a day four no day five oh jeez i i'm busting out the sticks let's spin it around got some goats over there almost pasta pasta look at these flowers flowers beautiful okay one final push took a few days when i got back to new york city but i did all of the editing for this video on this macbook air with final cut 10. all of the music in this hiking film was licensed with musicbed.com y'all have heard me talk about them they have been a long time supporter of the channel and just everything that i do love them dearly i would be lost without their sight i go through ambien cinematic classical uh sort by reason and i am just always amazed at how many new songs are there they're just like whole albums that just pop out of nowhere perfect for hiking films like this whole album by adam i basically used a ton of his stuff in this video it was perfect very ambient very moody but then every so often i had some like upbeat pace stuff it's just perfect so thank you for helping me score everything that i do musicbed visit the link in the description and use code craig uh yeah just it's the best place for music check them out i had a plan to separate this video out as like maybe a drone video the silent tripod video the guide as a separate video but i don't know i'm always trying to figure out the best way to organize the footage that i shoot i ended up just making this one big video uh but it's fine i mainly post on three different places this youtube channel as well as my instagram which has instagram stories posts little mini videos so if you want to follow me there that's probably one of the best places to get in touch with me with dms i have a podcast that publishes on spotify and normal podcast places but the main of it is like a video uh youtube channel so the craig adams podcast streams i always stream my podcast recording so that's why it's called streams but i am due for an update and i'll probably talk about this video also thinking about doing a q a so that might be over there so make sure to subscribe there if you're looking for that type of content thank you so much it's nice to uh do this for a living and uh the next hike i think is going to be in iceland we booked the flight it's gonna be an anniversary trip uh as well as i'm gonna try to shoot a hiking video uh it'll be nice to go back to iceland we plan on going back to horns trend deer to that really famous moment the spot that i hiked one of my first hiking videos uh so it'll be really cool to share that with mika my girlfriend and to see it again i'm curious if it'll be blue skies or overcast rainy uh it's a beautiful spot but iceland yeah i'm excited thank you so much for subscribing and following this was a long video i know but it's kind of like three videos put together so thanks for keeping up and uh yeah just supporting me thank you so much take care

Channel: Kraig Adams

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Length: 88min 43sec (5323 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 07 2021