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Appreciate it :) and thanks for taking the time to watch. Cheers!

It was a warm one today! Glad you got to visit and thanks for taking the time to watch our video. Cheers :)

You are certainly entitled to respond how ever you wish. That clipped was filmed after the hiker was found, after Silas went to find a way up to the trail to notify her party, after another raft was flagged down that happen to have a nurse on board and confirmed the hiker was deceased, after climbing around on rocks and poison oak for about an hour to search for a second potentially injured hiker because two backpacks were found near the site (it just so happened that another hiker had fallen at the exact location just 10 days prior and was airlifted out but his backpack was left behind). After all of that occured, and I had a moment to just be still and breathe, that's when the tear finally flooded. Before that, I was running on adrenaline. I filmed a clip to document the moment because it felt important to not pretend like it didn't happen. I did not film the victim's body or my help carrying her body, along with her husband and a river guide, through very rugged, rocky terrain to get her to a raft. In fact, I did not film any of the six hours we spent in total helping to assist in her evacuation. If you think I'm disgusting for sharing my story in the way that I did, that's okay. I will respectfully disagree with you.

@@HeartCompassAdventures Right I get it, adrenaline is going you have to overcome the shock of the situation as well as act and still function. You explained that you helped a lot and did six hours of rescue work, which makes it all the more strange to me that when you finally had your moment to "be still and breathe" your brain goes let me pull out my camera, press record, and vlog this moment. That doesn't come across as being so drained both physically and emotionally from dealing with the situation that you sit and breathe and breakdown and finally get to process the present moment that just happened! Instead it really comes across as this will be great for the video and for views I can see the thumbnail now and all the attention I will get for this moment! I have also had my share of being the first responder on fatal incidents and let me tell you not for a single moment does recording the incident to "document it" or having a little therapy session into a video camera ever go through the mind. I see right through it especially when you had other people in your family there to talk to about the situation with. It's not like it happened to you alone and you were using the camera as an entity to speak your emotions to. It's so bizarre and completely comes across as you knowingly making content for the river video you were already making and you thought this will get views and comments! Hashtag Ego Hero for the Gram!!

@@driftymcsceeeert2230 I'm sorry to hear that you have also had the unfortunate experience of being a first responder. I'm sorry you feel the need to attach me. It is possible for both a tragic event to exist and be in the midst of filming a vlog. I tried, perhaps failed, to document a river trip while also being respectful to the family and friends of the victim. I gather from your comments that you view me as a disgusting, ego hungry individual, so by all means, keep commenting....it helps my algorithm. Have a nice day.

@@42wolves Thanks for taking the time to watch our video. We literally missed our fork by about thirty feet. We usually always have a paper topo map on hand but we forgot it at the car 🤦. The bugs were surprisingly minimal. A small camp fire in the evening and morning time was enough to keep them away. I always bring two sleeping pads. I use an inflatable Nemo tensor on top of my foam pad.

@@robertholcomb6200 😂😂😂. Thanks for watching. Glad we're not the only ones that's happened to ✌️.

It has become very popular over the years with more boaters. Glad you got a chance to experience it. Cheers!

Thanks so much! We really appreciate you taking the time to watch :)

The problem this time was it wouldn’t stay lit unless you held down the knob which bypass the thermo couple. I knew it had something to do with the thermocouple circuit. The thermocouple produces a tiny electrical current when a flame heats it. It then holds in an magnetic gas valve and keeps burning as long as the thermocouple has flame on it. Our problem was where the thermocouple couple wire was grounded clipped on the brass valve. It had a tiny bit of oxidation that was preventing a good ground contact. Once I cleaned the contact of the ground clip with a green kitchen scrubby it fired right and stayed lit. I bet this happens all the time with these stoves….

@@greg.jacobs Hey thanks for tuning in. Glad to hear you enjoyed the video. Definitely more to come ....

Thank you so much for that compliment and thanks for taking the time to watch our video :) Silas installed the bump outs so we could have our bed widthwise so he can sleep comfortably. The van was owned by a Sprinter mechanic before we bought it and he took excellent care of it. There has been some minor rust but nothing a little rustoleum can't gloss over ;)

@@Scrambler85 Thanks for checking us out ✌️

@@illianamai7209 It was really nice meeting you and your dad. We were so blessed to witness such a spectacular moon rise. Hope to meet again ✌️

@@leilawitherspoon503 Yes it does! We have several videos on our channel that feature some of Oregon's hot springs.

It sure is!

Thanks for watching and the nice words!

Glad you enjoyed the video…We did two hikes below Birch Creek as we took at Leslie Gulch. I think you mean the last hike with the crystals that the whole group did…That was on river left pretty close to where the river flow met the slack water of the reservoir. There was a camp there that actually had a dirt road to it. We made it there because we couldn’t find anything else up river and were getting driven by rain, wind and hail and came to that spot. We got a shelter up, a fire going and had dinner then it cleared up a bit and we got to go on that hike which was pretty awesome. Have an awesome trip and Good luck finding it. Cheers!

@@HeartCompassAdventures Thanks! we are taking out at Birch creek, bummer that we will miss it.

@@MichaelRuff-il8se you probably know the road to Birch creek is horrible. There is quite a bit of interesting areas below Birch creek too. The hot springs on the reservoir are worth stoping at.

It was an intense scene to witness. Thanks for taking the time to watch.

Nature is the supreme artist! That's cool you're able to get out and run the rivers :)

We pinned a comment regarding this... Two locals were swimming in the water shortly after we arrived. We asked about why there were "no swimming" signs and one the men said everyone always use to swim there but then several years ago a tourist jumped for the top and was sadly killed. That's when the "no swimming" signs went up. He said he visits that waterfall regularly and always swims there. In general we do follow rules but given the situation and the history of the place we decided it was absolutely safe for us to swim there.

Hey, thanks so much for watching! Glad you enjoyed it. We can't wait to go back and explore the rest of the country. Try frying up a banana as a quick snack ;)

@@HeartCompassAdventures oh silly silly. I’ve been frying plantains for years. I don’t do them the way you guys were though I do them more like smashed chips. In a deep fryer. We went to Costa Rica in 2016. We pretty much went everywhere you did, but in reverse order. Nicoya peninsula is where I fell in love with Costa Rica though. San Francisco day coyote. Kind of in the middle of nowhere. We were considering moving there though so we were looking for possible real estate. I really loved it.

Good to know. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks so much for watching and glad you enjoyed it. We actually joked about smuggling some of the plants home to add to our house plant collection ;P and pretty much everywhere we went we saw monkeys. Costa Rica is full of wildlife!

We passed by a small field of hydrangea and eucalyptus.

Thanks so much :)

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Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed the nature scenes. It's a beautiful country.

Thank you so much :) It was absolutely a fun trip!

Awesome. Last year was a nice extended season for it with the water levels. Hope you can make it back there. Cheers!

Thanks for watching! Maybe someday we will be so blessed to visit the Altai mountains. Cheers!

It's a good year for them. Happy hunting!

It was invigorating!

Why would you say this?? Your tiny

Thats a hard one to answer. The depth is always changing. Its deeper in the pools and gets shallow before the riffles. We dont know the John Day well enough to know what the lowest level a raft can get through on.

Thanks Ronda! Hope to make many more in the future.

Oregon as so many amazing gems. Still so much of the state to explore.

Hi there! I haven't seen you at market in awhile. Hope you're doing alright. Elevation at top of South Sister is 10,358. This was my second time climbing it and definitely prefer the Green Lakes Route because there are fewer hikers going up that way although there is also less of a trail and more just a general direction of navigating.