This is one video I missed. Glad I found it. When I lived in Maui I invited my daughter to visit us twice. I told her we'd be sightseeing and hiking. Each trip she packed three suitcases with one of them filled with spiked heels. She opened just one of the suitcases the entire week to access shorts and tee shirts. She wore her tennis shoes all week. She could have come over with a backpack with all she needed and saved me the pain of loading and unloading her 40 to 50 pound luggage. When I travel I wear a backpack and carry a 40 liter duffle bag containing everything I would need for a two weeks stay; laundering would have sustained me forever.
I agree with ALSN OVERLAND. Lucy will so get into this overland life. Not sure when or what age but I know that if you grow up with it then you'll return to it at some point. Great vlog as usual my good man. We are so lucky as humans to appreciate the simpler things in life. I must say I don't know how some folk prefer high rise buildings to forests and hills (baffles me) but each to their own. As I've mentioned before please keep persuading your children to take part as much as possible to make them aware that the magic in life is just a short drive from your home not playstation or any other craze that keeps us stuck indoors. Wish more parents did what you do. Wholesome good fun...
10:17 I'm dying ahahahahah ! Very sweet adventure as usual ! I'm always amazed by the landscapes ... So beautiful ! Your daughter is very lucky to grow up in a place like this and to live adventures like this with her father. Maybe she's not fully engaged now but she will remember this her whole life ! Keep up the good work and the good videos !
Haha, yes, at the moment she's more interested in the exposure on RUclips than the actual wilderness adventure, but hopefully she'll develop an appreciation for getting out into nature. She's three years from being able to get her drivers license but has already expressed an interest in some kind of 4x4. Not a Subaru like her father (of course) but she likes the Jeep Wrangler (HA! We'll see if that happens!)
Thank you. We are indeed fortunate, especially in the western half of the U.S. to have large amounts of public lands wilderness at our disposal. Thanks for watching!
I have a 2012 Forester Subaru with 140,000 miles on it, no problems with it done general maintenance on it. I have seen videos on the forester they raised the car a little and put on some off road tires and put on a brush guard with light on front of the vehicle and they did all right in the back woods traveling on dirt roads.
This one was top notch Donald! Thanks for bringing us along! Incredibly gorgeous country. I want to join you up there sometime. So fun to see Lucie again. I’m glad she’s enjoying these trips with you. You’re building such great memories! I loved the bits at the end! Our world needs a bit more silliness in it. I’m afraid we’re surrounded by too many grownups. Keep up the great work, I sure appreciate all that you do.
Thank you Dan! Heh, we definitely allowed ourselves a little silliness on this one. Such a nice day and such a pretty area, it's hard not to be in a good mood. 8^) Hit me up if you're ever going to be over on this side. Nothing over here quite compares to the Cascades and central Oregon but there are few cool spots to hit.
Yep, You are Surely know what you are doing that Enjoyed both with your daughter and the outing. What could a Father ask for more ?? You are a great guy and a great Daddy....😂💟👍
Excellent video, I really enjoyed it! The vlog/adventure format is an awesome combination. I really enjoy seeing parts of Cascadia that I haven’t seen before.
To be honest, my daughter had zero interest until she discovered I had created a RUclips channel, then suddenly she began actively advocating for excursions. 8^D I'm hoping an appreciation for the beauty and solitude of the wilderness will eventually become enough of a draw for her regardless of appearing on social media or not. 8^D Thanks for watching!
Thank you for sharing your moments with your daughter with the world. I hope to take one of my daughters out and enjoy time with them sharing my hobby as well. Hopefully, it will go as well as this! :D
I think my daughter is more motivated by the allure of appearing in a RUclips video than driving dirt roads with her dad, though I do believe she may be slowing acquiring a taste for it. But I'll take it, we certainly have fun working on these together. Thanks for watching!
Donald I have ordered new rims today to convert my Forester into a offroad build to take my daughter camping too. thanks for the inspiration. All the way from AUS safe travels mate
Great video Donald! I wathced it when if was first released but I had to get ready for my Arizona trip and never got around to leaving a comment. That cell phone camera trick was very clever, I'm going to have to copy that trick sometime :P I love the 3 minutes of extra footage at the end, haha!
Thanks! There are a lot of roads winding around this hill and all the nearby hills, but they often interconnect, or dead end, so it feels difficult to get too lost... I'm loving using Gaia with satellite pics of my exploration area pre-downloaded - really helps a lot in determining which way to turn at the many (mostly unmarked) intersections. Thanks for watching!
Is there a road name or google map with the road / direction highlighted here? I am going to be driving to the coast all the way from Wisconsin, and this might be a great day drive for my wife and I
Can't wait for my son to be old enough (he's 2 😂) to play the role of 2nd cameraman 😆 get those panning/tracking shots you can't do when you're alone! 😎 Love your videos man! Keep it up!
Awesome, get him started early! Both my kids not only make great camera operators, but they end up contributing shot ideas and other creative input I wouldn't have thought of myself. They definitely enhance the end product even when they're entirely behind-the-scenes (well, if Lucie is involved, it's just about impossible to keep her from getting in front of the camera, LOL). Thanks for watching and enjoy that little one. I'm sure you've heard it a million times before, but man, they really do grow up fast.
Your channel is so appropriately named. So far all the vids I've watched are all the "off-roading" I ever really want to do. Will probably trade my FJ in on something a little less "rock crawler" and something I can tweak like your Subie. Looks like a fun time with your daughter. My son's off in college and missed daily. You live in beautiful country out there. Not a lot of BLM trails in WV...at least near me.
We are definitely lucky to be surrounded by so much BLM and National Forest lands we can explore at will. If you haven't already, check out bruceyyyyy's channel, I think he's in West Virginia and he gets out on some pretty fun looking trails in his Subaru Outback: ruclips.net/user/bruceyyyyy
Good thing you didn't encounter any fallen trees. As always, great video Donald! Hoping to take my future kids out of the city every now and then like you. Not only are you an awesome subie owner and videographer, but father as well. :) Thanks for sharing! Its definitely nice to see all the family getting out there with you and enjoying the adventures!
Oh no, I was so disappointed there were no fallen trees! Brought my chain saw along for nothing! 8^D Thanks for watching, and for the kind words. Looking forward to watching your new video!
@@therootedprogress The chain saw was a gift so I don't have a link, but it's the DeWalt 20-volt brushless motor with 12" bar. Been using it around the house too, has come in handy for cleaning up my storm damaged trees. I might break it out at Thanksgiving to carve the turkey as well. 8^D
@@robbrent They are Douglas Fir. Despite the name, it is technically not in the fir tree family but is actually its own genus, Pseudotsuga (false hemlock). Douglas Fir is essentially a crop in western Oregon, harvested and replanted in ~30 to 50 year cycles. They can get pretty massive over the course of hundreds of years, but there's very little "old growth" forest left in Oregon, nearly everything we see is has been logged at some point and the trees are second- or third-growth.
If I was near your area I would love to tag along. I have a 2016 Chevy Colorado 4x4 with a 2.8 mini duramax diesel. It has a g80 auto rear locker and bfg k02 tires. In not looking to do hardcore off road but light exploring back country. It had a stupid plastic air damn at the front that hung down a few inches but I cut it off with a sawzall and it gives it higher approach angles now. I do love the truck diesel is great it has good power and mpg for long distances
Un bon moment complice passé avec ta fille! J'ai bien rigolé à 10:15, quand elle t'as regardé genre "Hein? Quoi"? 😂 En tout cas, les paysages sont magnifiques! Type montagne, comme je les aime! 👍
Merci! Avec la plupart des montagnes près de moi complètement recouvert de forêts, celle-là est un bijou...en plus avec des routes jusqu'au sommet, ce qui est assez rare aussi. Merci d'avoir regardé et aussi pour l'occasion de me servir de mon français! 8^)
Love these family oriented vids. Having 3 children now my wife and I had to trade in our Tacoma TRD Off-Road 4x4 for an AWD Nissan Rogue. Need the practicality of the CUV and didn’t want to lose the adventuring abilities entirely. Maybe one day we’ll film some of our adventures when we relocate up to Washington this year. Cheers 🍻
Hahaha this was a funny one dude! 😂👍🏼 I waited to watch it until I finished up my version of the area and you did a wonderful job capturing its beauty! Great work!
Thanks Shawn. We certainly had a fun afternoon out shooting this. SO glad you found this spot...I probably never would have re-explored the area otherwise and what a gem I would have missed out on!
It’s been a few years but the last time I was at the dispersed campsite on top of Prairie Peak someone scattered nails all over. Not cool. But the views are spectacular!
Yikes, not cool indeed. I filmed part of my 270º awning review video up there in August 2023, I think that was my last visit. What a nightmare it would be to end up with multiple flat tires up at the top!
Just found your channel. Awesome!! Do you have mod list posted somewhere? What year/model is your forester? mileage? Which CB is that? sorry for all the questions!
I actually did a walkthrough video a couple of months ago which covers pretty much all of the details: ruclips.net/video/jHM54xIxdkw/видео.html I don't talk about mileage in that video however because I've never tracked it that closely, but I think I'm generally in the 20-25 mpg area. MPGs drop significantly with 75mph freeway trips and with city driving, and is at its best during relatively flat 60 mph highway road trips. My mileage decreased when I put the heavy KO2s on; mileage improved a little when I got rid of my roof basket and moved to my current roof setup.
To be honest, I haven't tracked my mileage. I don't really want to know. I just keep reminding myself, I'd be burning more fuel in a Jeep or other larger 4x4. 8^) The tires probably made the biggest impact though...the KO2s are really heavy and I can feel how much harder the car works moving forward from a standstill. It's very very reasonable on highway trips though (i.e. 60 mph rural highways, not 75 mph freeways) and it seems like the mileage improved when I changed up the roof configuration and got rid of the basket. Thanks for watching!
This is one video I missed. Glad I found it. When I lived in Maui I invited my daughter to visit us twice. I told her we'd be sightseeing and hiking. Each trip she packed three suitcases with one of them filled with spiked heels. She opened just one of the suitcases the entire week to access shorts and tee shirts. She wore her tennis shoes all week. She could have come over with a backpack with all she needed and saved me the pain of loading and unloading her 40 to 50 pound luggage. When I travel I wear a backpack and carry a 40 liter duffle bag containing everything I would need for a two weeks stay; laundering would have sustained me forever.
6:10...Lucie FTW!!!
This is so awesome to see man Forester are great adventures car. I need to do some trips like these soon.
Very sweet and funny. Lovely landscape
I agree with ALSN OVERLAND. Lucy will so get into this overland life. Not sure when or what age but I know that if you grow up with it then you'll return to it at some point. Great vlog as usual my good man. We are so lucky as humans to appreciate the simpler things in life. I must say I don't know how some folk prefer high rise buildings to forests and hills (baffles me) but each to their own. As I've mentioned before please keep persuading your children to take part as much as possible to make them aware that the magic in life is just a short drive from your home not playstation or any other craze that keeps us stuck indoors. Wish more parents did what you do. Wholesome good fun...
You’re a fun dad! Haha
7:00 Great FILMING Lucie!
Thank you for being the most wholesome car channel on RUclips, and also being my inspiration to take my fxt out off the road!
Great video, have enjoyed your adventures throughout Oregon thanks for sharing. Great touch adding your family and she will cherish the memories.
10:17 I'm dying ahahahahah !
Very sweet adventure as usual ! I'm always amazed by the landscapes ... So beautiful !
Your daughter is very lucky to grow up in a place like this and to live adventures like this with her father. Maybe she's not fully engaged now but she will remember this her whole life !
Keep up the good work and the good videos !
Haha, yes, at the moment she's more interested in the exposure on RUclips than the actual wilderness adventure, but hopefully she'll develop an appreciation for getting out into nature. She's three years from being able to get her drivers license but has already expressed an interest in some kind of 4x4. Not a Subaru like her father (of course) but she likes the Jeep Wrangler (HA! We'll see if that happens!)
4:20 WOW, great editing ...
Very nice video !! You have a wonderful country !!
Thank you. We are indeed fortunate, especially in the western half of the U.S. to have large amounts of public lands wilderness at our disposal. Thanks for watching!
I have a 2012 Forester Subaru with 140,000 miles on it, no problems with it done general maintenance on it. I have seen videos on the forester they raised the car a little and put on some off road tires and put on a brush guard with light on front of the vehicle and they did all right in the back woods traveling on dirt roads.
Yep, keeping up with the maintenance, I think these can be long-lasting capable and reliable adventure rigs. Thanks for watching!
This one was top notch Donald! Thanks for bringing us along! Incredibly gorgeous country. I want to join you up there sometime. So fun to see Lucie again. I’m glad she’s enjoying these trips with you. You’re building such great memories! I loved the bits at the end! Our world needs a bit more silliness in it. I’m afraid we’re surrounded by too many grownups. Keep up the great work, I sure appreciate all that you do.
Thank you Dan! Heh, we definitely allowed ourselves a little silliness on this one. Such a nice day and such a pretty area, it's hard not to be in a good mood. 8^) Hit me up if you're ever going to be over on this side. Nothing over here quite compares to the Cascades and central Oregon but there are few cool spots to hit.
Thankyou. One of your best! Beautiful Oregon
Hove your back and forth banter with your daughter too
Elle est très chouette ta vidéo et les moments passés avec ta fille sont très complices !
Merci Vincent !
Yep, You are Surely know what you are doing that Enjoyed both with your daughter and the outing. What could a Father ask for more ?? You are a great guy and a great Daddy....😂💟👍
There is definitely a generation gap :). I wish to take my kids on such trips soon.
Based on this video I took the day to come explore prairie peak and I'm posting from the summit! So beautiful up here! Thanks for the video!
Nice!! Bummer it's cloudy today! 8^(
softroadingthewest it's clearing up in spots and I'm getting little pockets of clear views
@@1cdelay Oh good! Might just be down in the valley where we're socked in. Enjoy!!
Excellent video, I really enjoyed it! The vlog/adventure format is an awesome combination. I really enjoy seeing parts of Cascadia that I haven’t seen before.
Hahaha. I love it when my kids tell me to shut up. Good job, dad!
Haha thanks Todd :-)
Superb! Those high resolution mountain shots are incredible. Hilarious interactions, so much fun to watch. Great job!
Thank you! We certainly had some fun making this one!
Another’s great trip! I am pretty jealous. I hope my daughter will grow up wanting to go on similar adventures
To be honest, my daughter had zero interest until she discovered I had created a RUclips channel, then suddenly she began actively advocating for excursions. 8^D I'm hoping an appreciation for the beauty and solitude of the wilderness will eventually become enough of a draw for her regardless of appearing on social media or not. 8^D Thanks for watching!
Thank you for sharing your moments with your daughter with the world.
I hope to take one of my daughters out and enjoy time with them sharing my hobby as well. Hopefully, it will go as well as this! :D
I think my daughter is more motivated by the allure of appearing in a RUclips video than driving dirt roads with her dad, though I do believe she may be slowing acquiring a taste for it. But I'll take it, we certainly have fun working on these together. Thanks for watching!
Great video. Thanks for sharing your day. Some great views up there for sure. George.
Thanks George!
Donald I have ordered new rims today to convert my Forester into a offroad build to take my daughter camping too. thanks for the inspiration. All the way from AUS safe travels mate
I'm excited to head up there soon!
Lol! The bonus footage was gold!
@@matthewnasholm It's really a fun little drive. And, yeah, extra fun if you have a clown of a daughter along for the ride! 8^D
Lovely trip!!!
Great video Donald! I wathced it when if was first released but I had to get ready for my Arizona trip and never got around to leaving a comment. That cell phone camera trick was very clever, I'm going to have to copy that trick sometime :P I love the 3 minutes of extra footage at the end, haha!
Thanks Jon! And I'm sure Lucie would LOVE to see someone copy that phone trick! 8^D
You two are pretty amusing. Loving the camping in the Forester! I might start doing that with mine... Happy Travels!
It's better than a tent! Thanks for watching!
Great video adventure. Looks like a tricky place to navigate.
Thanks! There are a lot of roads winding around this hill and all the nearby hills, but they often interconnect, or dead end, so it feels difficult to get too lost... I'm loving using Gaia with satellite pics of my exploration area pre-downloaded - really helps a lot in determining which way to turn at the many (mostly unmarked) intersections. Thanks for watching!
nice intro.
Thanks! Opening shot of the lake was captured by Lucie, always nice having another camera operator along! Thanks for watching!
Is there a road name or google map with the road / direction highlighted here? I am going to be driving to the coast all the way from Wisconsin, and this might be a great day drive for my wife and I
Can't wait for my son to be old enough (he's 2 😂) to play the role of 2nd cameraman 😆 get those panning/tracking shots you can't do when you're alone! 😎 Love your videos man! Keep it up!
Awesome, get him started early! Both my kids not only make great camera operators, but they end up contributing shot ideas and other creative input I wouldn't have thought of myself. They definitely enhance the end product even when they're entirely behind-the-scenes (well, if Lucie is involved, it's just about impossible to keep her from getting in front of the camera, LOL). Thanks for watching and enjoy that little one. I'm sure you've heard it a million times before, but man, they really do grow up fast.
Your channel is so appropriately named. So far all the vids I've watched are all the "off-roading" I ever really want to do. Will probably trade my FJ in on something a little less "rock crawler" and something I can tweak like your Subie. Looks like a fun time with your daughter. My son's off in college and missed daily. You live in beautiful country out there. Not a lot of BLM trails in WV...at least near me.
We are definitely lucky to be surrounded by so much BLM and National Forest lands we can explore at will. If you haven't already, check out bruceyyyyy's channel, I think he's in West Virginia and he gets out on some pretty fun looking trails in his Subaru Outback:
ruclips.net/user/bruceyyyyy
@@softroadingthewest Thanks! I subbed you both.
Good thing you didn't encounter any fallen trees. As always, great video Donald! Hoping to take my future kids out of the city every now and then like you. Not only are you an awesome subie owner and videographer, but father as well. :) Thanks for sharing! Its definitely nice to see all the family getting out there with you and enjoying the adventures!
Oh no, I was so disappointed there were no fallen trees! Brought my chain saw along for nothing! 8^D Thanks for watching, and for the kind words. Looking forward to watching your new video!
@@softroadingthewest do u have a link to that chainsaw u use? I prolly won't need it as much.. But who knows right? Haha and of course no problem 👌
@@therootedprogress The chain saw was a gift so I don't have a link, but it's the DeWalt 20-volt brushless motor with 12" bar. Been using it around the house too, has come in handy for cleaning up my storm damaged trees. I might break it out at Thanksgiving to carve the turkey as well. 8^D
Enjoyed this, thanks, what type of trees are those very upright planted trees? Curious 🇿🇦
@@robbrent They are Douglas Fir. Despite the name, it is technically not in the fir tree family but is actually its own genus, Pseudotsuga (false hemlock). Douglas Fir is essentially a crop in western Oregon, harvested and replanted in ~30 to 50 year cycles. They can get pretty massive over the course of hundreds of years, but there's very little "old growth" forest left in Oregon, nearly everything we see is has been logged at some point and the trees are second- or third-growth.
Enjoy your time with her. Soon she will be off to college.
Yep I feel the same way..... Enjoy while it lasted....
nice video
If I was near your area I would love to tag along. I have a 2016 Chevy Colorado 4x4 with a 2.8 mini duramax diesel. It has a g80 auto rear locker and bfg k02 tires. In not looking to do hardcore off road but light exploring back country. It had a stupid plastic air damn at the front that hung down a few inches but I cut it off with a sawzall and it gives it higher approach angles now.
I do love the truck diesel is great it has good power and mpg for long distances
Классное, душевное видео👍
Спасибо !
Un bon moment complice passé avec ta fille! J'ai bien rigolé à 10:15, quand elle t'as regardé genre "Hein? Quoi"? 😂
En tout cas, les paysages sont magnifiques! Type montagne, comme je les aime! 👍
Merci! Avec la plupart des montagnes près de moi complètement recouvert de forêts, celle-là est un bijou...en plus avec des routes jusqu'au sommet, ce qui est assez rare aussi. Merci d'avoir regardé et aussi pour l'occasion de me servir de mon français! 8^)
Pas de soucis, perso, en écoutant tes vidéos, ça me fait travailler mon anglais, un bon échange comme ça! 👍
Love these family oriented vids. Having 3 children now my wife and I had to trade in our Tacoma TRD Off-Road 4x4 for an AWD Nissan Rogue. Need the practicality of the CUV and didn’t want to lose the adventuring abilities entirely.
Maybe one day we’ll film some of our adventures when we relocate up to Washington this year.
Cheers 🍻
I hope you do, there's some unbelievably gorgeous country up there. I hope to start venturing up into Washington one day!
Hahaha this was a funny one dude! 😂👍🏼 I waited to watch it until I finished up my version of the area and you did a wonderful job capturing its beauty! Great work!
Thanks Shawn. We certainly had a fun afternoon out shooting this. SO glad you found this spot...I probably never would have re-explored the area otherwise and what a gem I would have missed out on!
It’s been a few years but the last time I was at the dispersed campsite on top of Prairie Peak someone scattered nails all over. Not cool. But the views are spectacular!
Yikes, not cool indeed. I filmed part of my 270º awning review video up there in August 2023, I think that was my last visit. What a nightmare it would be to end up with multiple flat tires up at the top!
Jump and The Final Countdown are the only songs I can remember how to play on the keyboard, haha 🤘
Haha, 80s FTW! I wish I wasn't old enough to remember those songs being new. :-)
@@softroadingthewest You and me both 😅
Flex game strong lol
Just found your channel. Awesome!! Do you have mod list posted somewhere? What year/model is your forester? mileage? Which CB is that? sorry for all the questions!
I actually did a walkthrough video a couple of months ago which covers pretty much all of the details:
ruclips.net/video/jHM54xIxdkw/видео.html
I don't talk about mileage in that video however because I've never tracked it that closely, but I think I'm generally in the 20-25 mpg area. MPGs drop significantly with 75mph freeway trips and with city driving, and is at its best during relatively flat 60 mph highway road trips. My mileage decreased when I put the heavy KO2s on; mileage improved a little when I got rid of my roof basket and moved to my current roof setup.
Great video. Curious what sort of MPG you get in day to day driving with the lift and tires
To be honest, I haven't tracked my mileage. I don't really want to know. I just keep reminding myself, I'd be burning more fuel in a Jeep or other larger 4x4. 8^) The tires probably made the biggest impact though...the KO2s are really heavy and I can feel how much harder the car works moving forward from a standstill. It's very very reasonable on highway trips though (i.e. 60 mph rural highways, not 75 mph freeways) and it seems like the mileage improved when I changed up the roof configuration and got rid of the basket. Thanks for watching!
What tires are you running?
BF Goodrich T/A KO2 in 215/75R15. They're heavy and slow my car down a bit, but they are fantastic on the trail.
Is your engine a fb25?
Yes indeed
Engage Lucie by getting her to drive. She’s old enough it looks like.
She's a few years shy of driving age but something along those lines may or may not have happened during this trip. ;^)
softroadingthewest Good for you.
oh, I’d rather win the green card and go to America