When Finding Water Becomes The Most Important Part Of Your Trip!

who wants to educate us on the rock do you know geology i don't know [Laughter] this this is not only a rock it's a wooden rock believe it or not it's a hardwood actually yeah it burns a long time maybe wow makes great furniture [Music] what is going on everybody back out on the trail this time in the escalante area gonna be down to the escalante river later today but i'm on the trail with uh some great guys good company dan becker and uh tayson from outdoor vitals and then derek and brigham from outdoor vitals as well so good time walking through silver falls creek right now no water but we'll see some in a little bit this place is just so beautiful [Music] this is my first time down in this particular canyon and just blown away it is so beautiful got big tall walls around us it's not super narrow right now but the walking is really easy just got a nice like riverbed that we're walking in not a bunch of boulders or anything it's really simple walking which is nice having a great time it's a bit warmer than expected it to be but makes it uh easy to go light in your pack and everything which is a good thing but yeah it's almost like i'm walking on concrete this is really really nice he's having a great time seriously you done are you done yet getting all your pretty shots of this amazing place [Music] got ourselves all cameled up with some cool water out of the spring just continuing our way down the canyon our water was like boiling hot for being in the sun so that was nice and i dipped my shirt in the water so cooled off that way how you doing dan i'm doing good i'm doing great ice cold water i just can't get over how beautiful this canyon is we're getting lower and lower and a lot more water has shown up in the bottom which is nice kind of cools things off and starting to get more narrow through this section but yeah i didn't have like high expectations for what silver falls was going to be like but this is is incredible way way better than i expected it to be oh yeah baby shut up that is a sight for sore eyes oh man dan's first time seeing the escalante river which means we are at the end of silver falls and i cannot wait to get my feet into this water oh my gosh that is so refreshing happy feet happy happy feet yeah what do you think boys it's awesome feels so good so good phenomenal brigham's over there putting let's put the crocs on told him don't even bother like a true boy scout now a bright blue pack i've been working on his hair net in and his crocs on hey have you ever worn shorts in your life you look cute dwight sometimes [Music] camp is all set up and everybody's down by the river getting their food all cooked for the evening i like to get camp all like totally set up and taken care of before i jump down into my meals plus it's like still pretty hot so customer gear the one dan with his fancy carbon scout and then i don't know if i'm supposed to show it but i'm going to show it i have to wear bottles with a new uh prototype trekking pole tent so i'm gonna spare you my dinner routine and uh we'll pick you up in a little bit good morning good morning dan this place where we're at we're not in wisconsin anymore i got caught up in conversation and uh sleeping last night but did not finish last night's uh video so here we are day two got a little chilly last night it's 45 degrees out here right now it's a big temperature swing from 90 that it hit yesterday so water's gonna be cold this morning but time to eat breakfast camp packed up it's the on trail here we go back on the trail time to get your feet wet so we got about five miles of river walking today before we get to the confluence with chop rock canyon and then we're gonna head up top rock so i'm pretty stoked about that to make a loop out of this it had this uh particular route on the list to do for quite a long time and excited to finally be doing it so slowly and surely i'm uh ticking off all of the various drainages of the escalante river and it's kind of become a goal of mine to be able to take all those off but having a great time with everybody and it's a beautiful morning absolutely stunning how's the escalante dan it's a little chilly this morning but it's awesome nothing's that's awesome [Music] well we're about to leave the escalante river we just had lunch and we're at the confluence with chop rock canyon i think we have another five or so miles depending on how long it takes us to find water as well to where we plan to camp tonight so total mileage for this trip is going to be about 25 miles which is pretty pretty good we're opting to not go see golden cathedral that'll add another six miles and uh just not really interested in that today but it's a beautiful day it's starting to get a little bit warm but it's more narrow and chop rock so we won't have as much sun exposure a little more shade which is nice but it's like to finally walk all the way through chop rock and have a good time [Music] oh this is so neat [Music] wow [Music] look at this [Music] this is wicked [Music] this is so freaking cool [Music] narrow a section of chop rock canyon here pretty amazing [Music] wow [Music] so we are currently walking up what's known as like the north fork of chop rock or the poison ivy fork there is a bunch of poison ivy around me right now but uh trying to find water and i'm going based off of info that i got from uh the backcountry ranger for grand staircase i said there is water up up here so hoping that that happens sooner than later because it's like 90 degrees out here it's pretty warm there's a nice cool breeze coming down through the canyon right now so i'm seeing wet [Music] but no puddles [Music] but a little bit more promising hopefully we don't have to walk too much further to find water that'd be a pain in the butt so here's where we're at no water was found but about a half mile back down the canyon we passed water now we're kind of kicking ourselves wishing that we would have just stopped and filled up water at that point would have saved us a bunch of time and effort and all that so now we walk back down the canyon to go find water easy easy this is what it looks like filling up water at least we found water right so this will be the last water that we see for the rest of the trip which is pretty crazy that this little puddle that we're filling out of a little bit of ground water is the saving grace for enough water to get us through back to the car it's pretty crazy if you think about it but i got four liters of water and we have you can do it derrick i believe there will be a way there will be a way we have something like uh eight miles back to the car uh we'll probably do another three two or three miles today but [Music] stay at the next one for x amount of time and essentially it's like i think what a day it has been my goodness beautiful campsite not really a campsite we just posted up wherever we could find anything flat because further up the canyon here it starts to get a little bit more narrow but chop rock chop rock canyon is where we're at and this this finger of the canyon is stunning just absolutely beautiful but i'm going to show you uh my camps my setup here real quick and uh kind of go from there so i'm running the gossamer gear the one this is a new tent that i wanted to try out to save a bunch of weight so then in here inside the tent i got my uber light and my hyperion 32 degree from therm-a-rest and my evolve pack stuffed over there got my food over here to the side but one of the things that i want to do is show you guys a little preview real quick of a new prototype tent that should be available at some point from outdoor vitals but i'm going to show you this uh a little one person you got a sneak peek of the two person yesterday but uh we'll give you an idea what this looks like so this is a prototype and things could always change with these but you've got kind of like a cool offset pull system so the door end is taller than the other side which is cool nice big vestibule on that side for you to store your gear as well as in the front there and then yeah i think tayson was saying that this is running at about 26 ounces with all the steaks and everything so it's probably like a 15 denier fabric on the out and maybe a 20 or 30 denier for the floor but pretty cool little design i'm not going to show the inside because i don't want to invite invade taste in space but it's been a great time hanging out with derrick and brigham and tayson from outdoor vitals and just really have enjoyed their company and really like the products and what they're doing it's cool to have like kind of an insider look on all that i'm gonna give tayson a chance to uh say anything that he wants to say about what it's like to be on a trip together put him on the spot heck yeah no it's been good if you guys want to go on a really good trip put devon in charge and it's just glass after that yeah i haven't i just show up and this is where i ended up so it turned out good yeah it's been awesome we're like in the middle of nowhere haven't seen anyone in days i haven't even seen like footprints but it's been it's been phenomenal so give me a quick uh 30 second rundown of this new pack yeah you guys are releasing yeah so this is the shadowlight pack it's kind of in pre-sale stage right now but essentially with this pack what we wanted to do is bring in an ultra light pack that was just more approachable to a little bit bigger audience there's some of the packs out there they're pretty extreme and um they kind of can turn people off and so we want to make something that anyone could pick up and just use so things that we did that were maybe a little bit different as you've just got a little bit more pocketing you've got like a main zipper you can get into that internal pocket and just and just yeah like you've got bigger hip pockets just things to to organize a little bit cleaner the fabric wise we're i'm super stoked about the fabric we did a custom fabric it's aerobic mixed with a spectra yarn which is something like a dyneema yarn which which allows us to get really light on the fabrics and have incredible durability and then it's just going to ride extremely nice so i've got my feet on the back panel right here right now but that's typically right here but you can see how these straps are going up it's a very tall frame and so like today for instance i was carrying six liters of water um because we're in the middle of nowhere like i said and plus my gear and so it gets it can get kind of heavy but the pack's gonna just ride amazing and it pulls that um that weight off your shoulders and transfers it to your hip so yeah that's kind of a quick and dirty on it but it's it's been an awesome pack like i said we've got it in pre-sale right now and uh it's been it's been doing really really well so i'm stoked for it which i can't take the credit for this um our team's been killing it on it and bring him over here he's the guy so yeah brigham i mean he's been sewing up prototypes and working on this for a while and we're stoked about it so cool well there you go that's uh the quick and dirty from some new stuff that's coming from outdoor vitals pretty stoked about that and uh yeah it's just been a great time hanging out with tayson and brigham and derek and dan i guess dan just kidding dad i love you but i love you buddy i love you too uh we're gonna call it a night it's starting to get dark and uh i'll see you guys in the morning [Music] dan it's your last day in utah yeah yeah that's the thing is like i usually yes very sad i wish i was staying this place is epic i can't believe i actually woke up here like to open my tent and see this is wild it's pretty awesome well it's been a good time with you yeah you too man it was awesome so it's the morning and uh it's the last day we're gonna head out got about six six and a half miles i feel like to get back to the car it's gonna be kind of an adventure because there is no trail and uh just gotta figure it out as it goes [Music] so [Music] i seriously cannot get over how beautiful this canyon is keeps widening up and everything but man big tall walls sun hasn't uh come up yet so it's nice and cool got a wood breeze coming down what a perfect morning to be hiking back to the car this has been fantastic i wasn't sure what was going to come out of this route silver falls was amazing chop rock my goodness what a beautiful beautiful canyon pretty psyched to be here and sad that the trip was coming to an end but it's always another one more stuff to explore so close your eyes navigation time going off trail making our way around silver falls bench or chop rock bench can't remember exactly which one to get back to the truck so we've left the wash walking away from choprock and walking them back around to silver falls and a little cross country dan looks so majestic up there [Laughter] hold [Music] here we go end of the trip we see tire tracks walking back to the car ah it's been excellent that is a route that i am so psyched to have done to check off the list of things to do and fantastic to do it with dan really glad that uh he and i were able to get out on a trip again together thanks for coming to utah dan oh dude buy me a plane ticket i'm here he's not he's only half joking [Laughter] yeah there's no place it's unreal this place is epic yeah and it's not that far for me so obviously here on the channel you'll see plenty more of it but appreciate you guys following along checking out this this trip a little bit different and uh hope to get tyson and bring him and derek on here to give a salud as well but you guys are awesome thanks for being here thanks for subscribing and uh you're probably already subscribed to dan's channel but check out dan's channel if you're not familiar he's a good man and uh we'll catch you on the next one see you guys [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Backcountry Exposure

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Keywords: backpacking, silver falls canyon utah, silver falls, chop rock canyon, choprock canyon utah, escalante, coyote gulch, hiking, backpacking gear, Escalante river, outdoors, gossamer gear the one, outdoor vitals, outdoor vitals shadowlite, shadow light backpack, outdoor vitals backpack, outdoor vitals tent, dan becker

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Length: 24min 21sec (1461 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 21 2020