Filmed on my iPhone 6 @ 240fps 1080P - good stuff! I thought that Fruit y the Foot would make a cool fire starter...so I tried it...why not? It's something I eat on the trail and figured it would be fun to do with the long wax paper it comes bonded to. LoL...the paper burns great. The "Fruit" - not so much!
Tried my hand at some B-Roll in the style of Peter McKinnon and R Cody Wanner that Michael Feyrer Jr. featured on his channel. I went a little overboard on this vid, but did have some fun. I need to figure out how to work in the technique to my normal editing style/format and content.
This was an unusual hike because we had 5 YouTube channels all taking video during the trip. Please visit the other channels collaborating on this hike and see what they thought! I’ll fill in the details of the hike in this section in more detail toward the end of the week!
Also be sure to check out Micah Pexa's channel. We ran across him during the hike and he is an AT Thru Hiker who is raising awareness for the fight against human trafficking: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUe5DnPuJ_yekZaw3CHbOMw
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This ended up being an 18 mile hike to finally finish hiking all the segments of the AT in the Shenandoah National Park that I had missed. I did this in three phases: 1) I parked at McCormick Gap (poor parking) and hiked 6.5 miles round trip down to the South Kiosk and back. There were a couple interesting rock formations, a wimpy spring, and no real views along this section of trail. Once I completed this section, I drove up to Turk Gap and parked there to continue my hike. 2) 3:58 - Turk Gap to Calf Mountain Shelter and back is about 10.2 miles. There are a couple nice views and a ton of tent sites along this section of trail. There is very little water on this section and only one of the tent sites had a stream nearby. The power lines you walk under were very noisy, probably the noisiest ones I’ve ever heard. Saw some bears at 7:31 that were very close to the trail. I did not notice them until I was right on top of them. The tent sites are actually quite nice and there were a lot of through hikers using this as their stop. I was here in the winter and I moved on because things were a bit shabby and I was alone. This time was much better. That being said, the privy gets a D+. It is so over used it leaks a river of excrement juice out the bottom…kinda gross. 3) 11:07 - After hiking back to Turk the next day, I swung around to the dead Howard Johnson's parking lot at Rockfish Gap and hiked the short 0.5 miles to the Kiosk and back. Overall it was a good weekend!!
