Yes, I have been working my way thru the video "catalog"....but this scenery is the most dramatic and beautiful I have yet seen. Holy you-know-what...I could die happy after seeing that lake view an min.11:10
Thank you so much! This was a really fun trip. maybe a once in a lifetime trip, that just kind of came together at the last minute for me. Hopefully I can get back in there again!
@@mountainwanderer it was impressive. Titcomb is equally as impressive. It was too bad you had the weather. Lots of interesting routes to try to go see it again! Follow the green river up and Go over knapsack col and into the basin. That’s a challenge but worth it!
Too much to comment on for me. Me and my wife went to Island Lake for 3 nights. Day hikes up Titcombe Basin 2X. Too many people and privacy was a big problem. They need an outhouse there! But the view from our campsite on 2 and 3rd night was the best ever. Next trip we went to Cook Lakes, and it was hot and dry and Cook Lakes showed no fish. It snowed on our last night on the way out at Sweeney Lakes and a large grizzly walked thru our campsite and bathroom ignoring the food bag and my wife doing a morning #1. I am disappointed you did not see Titcombe in all her glory. I hate seeing people, but Titcombe was worth it. Mistake Lake may be Mistaya if I remember correctly. Your narrating in post-editing reminds me of the narrator for Disney Movies like Charles the Lonesome Cougar. Always good music. Good.Entertainment and info in your videos. Thanks for the work involved in getting the videos uploaded.
They absolutely need a backcountry restroom at Island Lake! Probably a few of them! It's nearly impossible to find a spot where you're not in view of someone else's camp. And it's definitely a place where .... you don't lift up random rocks. There's probably a surprise waiting for you! Not sure what time of year you were at Cooks Lake, but we were catching fish there. It was my favorite spot on this trip. It was a bummer that Titcomb was socked in when I was up there, but I hope to pass through there again. The Winds have many great routes! Thanks for checking it!
@@mountainwanderer It was either 2016 or 2017 in mid August. I was told it was a hot dry summer for the Winds. No fry seen around the edges, no rising fish and two days of fishing and nothing. a large group on horseback did not get a bite either. Now I do hear that goldens are much better at ice off, and I regret not fishing the stream coming out of Cook Lake 10170. But I always take a spinning rod to the Winds, and would prefer a fly rod. Anyway I rarely stop and fish before I get to a campsite, so I always end up at a lake. We did the loop in the opposite direction as you did. We had crossed Pole Creek and was on the Highline trail. Missed the turnoff for Cook lakes and ended up at a lake before climbing up Lester Pass. The next day we went back and saw a obscure trail with a broken sign in the brush "Cook Lakes Trail" WE followed that to the largest lake and turned right and went to the end of the lake for a great campsite with a view of the lake.
It was my first time in there and I thought that it was incredible! I'm glad I got the most popular area out of the way first. Looking forward to getting to some of the more remote stuff.
@@ChristianPaulPhotography I wasn't on the trip, but our group hit Raft Lake a few years. It's on our Sonnicant Lake video. Not sure where we'll go next, but we will definitely go in there again!
It snowed on my at Wall Lake last August. It was a slippery sketch hike to Cook Lakes. Should have back tracked over the pass to Island. I struggle with Island lake these days just wayyyy too many people!
Wow that was a long entrance hike to camp.... I hope your dogs do well with increased elevation changes as well. Hope you enjoyed your first trip there. Lots of walking 😩😎👍 I'm pooped 😝 The trip with you was absolutely beautiful as always ❤
Great video. Your group did some serious miles and elevation. My heart is in the Winds too. I can’t wait to get back next summer. Try the east side via Lander and the reservation for fewer people. Excellent videography
Because of this video I am quitting RUclips's . I can't compete with this. There is not one bad shot. Best video you have ever put out. Thank for making me retire and feel unworthy. 🙏 I have just 2 questions. why was it called Island Lake? and secondly... How can I get ahold of Joey?
Travis, you did a great job videoing and editing this fabulous loop! Except for the side trips to Wall Lake, Nelson Lake and Mistake Lake, this is the first Mountain Wanderer video that I've hiked all the trails in the video. Based on the weather it appears that you were hiking out on day 6 as I was starting a 6 day trip from Big Sandy. Since the snow clouds follow you around, I now know who to blame the nasty weather on.:) Great video!
Wow, we were really kicking the same rocks this year... or at least close to the same rocks. The temperature swings were something else! It was really hot the first few days... but then cooled way down.. It was a hell of a first experience in the Winds!
The temperatures can vary a lot and rain, snow and hail is not uncommon. One August trip the low was 19. I should have mentioned that the animated map with the map moving is really cool. Also tell your fishing friends that in 2015 I stopped by the A Frame information center at Elkhart Park and was told that the week before a world record golden trout was pulled out of Island Lake: 18 pounds!
I didn't realize it until I released this video, but Timber was on a KSL Outdoors show. We ran into that crew as we were leaving Cook Lakes. They are the ones who told us to stop at Lake Nelson and that they were catching Golden Trout out of there... WRONG!
Absolutely loved this video! Stunning!! Congrats on making it to the Winds. Even in the stormy conditions you encountered, the video demonstrates how the Winds are a visual overload. Was for me. Regret the socked in conditions in the Titcomb basin area for you but gorgeous nevertheless. That was similiar to my experience in the Winds this August too. Looks like we were in the same neighborhood at about the same time. Drove through the Elkhart Park trailhead parking lot after my 10-day Green River Lakes "expedition" and the TH parking lot was way more crowded, for whatever reasons, than GRLs. For me: Backpacking/hiking? ✔ Fly fishing? ✔ Rain/storms? ✔✔✔ Snow? 🚫 Crowds? 👌 Smoke?✔✔. Elevation? ✔✔✔. Scenery?✔✔✔✔. Really curious about how you did the animated map. Curious...where did you have the post-hike burger? Thanks for letting me enjoy some of the Winds I didn't get a chance to see this summer. Next year for sure.
You're right, it is an amazing place! Watching so many videos on it, I knew that is was already, but being there is different! I felt that the trails were all graded so well, it was very hiker friendly. Obviously graded for pack stock. That would've been incredible to run into you out there! We were in there at the same time as Brian Delay too (another you tuber I watch). I am really looking forward to going back and visiting some of the more remote areas. For my map animation, I use Apple Motion. Post hike burger was at the Brewery in Pinedale. Damn good!
@@mountainwanderer Bryan and I shared a campsite one evening as he was arriving at GRLs and I was leaving so got a chance to see him in person. Thanks for the Apple Motion information and yes the Brewery is a great place for a pre or post hike burger 🍔 and beer 🍺, or 3. Hope to return their next summer.
@@mountainwanderer Good to know! Seriously, great video, Travis. I really enjoy your productions. Last year I spent 5 days just north of Dubois, WY backpacking and and camping that area of the Winds. Stunning. The Grizz in the area were a little frisky for my liking but that's just part of it, I reckon.
We didn't see any sign at all when we were there. Most likely due to the amount of people passing through though one group said they saw a young black bear.
@@mountainwanderer I have a trip planned for the last two weeks in August this year. Glad to see the bugs weren’t super bad even though the people were. Ha.
@@mountainwanderer thank you 😊 That sounds bout right for the size !! My boy is smallish,,, just at the top of the knee's. And seems ok on what I give him which sounds very identical to your amount 🌝 Although I have to bribe him sometimes with chopped up bits of beef jerky a little bit of warm water for sauce. And any dinner scraps. Maybe I worry too much about his calorie intake. But he gets excited outside, loves the trail life much like ur dog....he's 5ish. He's Malamute, Staffordshire Bull terrier, Australian cattle dog and Chow Chow mix. He's very friendly towards people and most animals, but I have to watch him around big game he's been known to bring down a full size bull by himself. Which could spell trouble for us. I generally keep him on a spring-loaded retractable leash while hiking just in case we run into elk bear or something else. A friendly skunk would be my worst fear LOL !! Anyway really enjoy your videos short sweet to the point and show a lot of area that I'm just dying to see. We live here in the Southwest, very very different !!!
My dog Timber also gets jerky while on the trail. Our rule is, if I have jerky, we both have jerky... and he holds me to it. I'm pretty lucky that he sticks to the trail when we're hiking. I hold him off of the trail when we pass people, mostly because I don't want him scaring people just based on his appearance and size. He loves people though. Happy hiking with your pup, if he's got any kind of malamute fur, the southwest has to be pretty hot him for them.
Cinema, production, editing....................Outstanding.
Thank you so much! I'm glad that you enjoyed it. It was one hell of a trip!
Yes, I have been working my way thru the video "catalog"....but this scenery is the most dramatic and beautiful I have yet seen. Holy you-know-what...I could die happy after seeing that lake view an min.11:10
That view was probably in my top 5 of all time! I still think about it to this day!
Thank you for this video. What a treat, to backpack through such beautiful country!
It was a treat! This is one of the top 5 trips I've done!
Wow!!! Amazing video. Thank you for sharing. I can't wait for your next adventure.
Thanks for checking it out!
I really like the way you put this video together. I love the Winds as well.
Thank you! It's a work in progress. The Winds are amazing! I hoping to take another trip there next year.
You have an awesome voice and my husband and I say every time we watch a video of yours, that you would be a great audio book narrator!
Thank you! I'm still trying to get use to the sound of my own voice😃
@@mountainwanderer I don't think anyone likes the sound of their own voice. 😊
@@katchipw Ha! That might be true!
This is really cool. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Wonderful! What a nice trip - beautiful country, steady pace, great friends! Nice you take the pups! Choice of music is awesome as always! Thank you!
Thank you so much! This was a really fun trip. maybe a once in a lifetime trip, that just kind of came together at the last minute for me. Hopefully I can get back in there again!
Amazing prospective of the area... The best I have ever seen. Very hard to beat.. Thank you!
Thank you! You are too kind!
Great footage and I like your new labeling and the map details. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks! Still trying out new things!
Nice work. Love the winds! I was curious what the cook lake area looked like. Beautiful!
Cook Lake was my favorite of the whole trip! Granted... when I got into Titcomb Basin it was clouded in, but Cook Lake blew me away!
@@mountainwanderer it was impressive. Titcomb is equally as impressive. It was too bad you had the weather. Lots of interesting routes to try to go see it again! Follow the green river up and Go over knapsack col and into the basin. That’s a challenge but worth it!
Too much to comment on for me. Me and my wife went to Island Lake for 3 nights. Day hikes up Titcombe Basin 2X. Too many people and privacy was a big problem. They need an outhouse there! But the view from our campsite on 2 and 3rd night was the best ever. Next trip we went to Cook Lakes, and it was hot and dry and Cook Lakes showed no fish. It snowed on our last night on the way out at Sweeney Lakes and a large grizzly walked thru our campsite and bathroom ignoring the food bag and my wife doing a morning #1.
I am disappointed you did not see Titcombe in all her glory. I hate seeing people, but Titcombe was worth it. Mistake Lake may be Mistaya if I remember correctly.
Your narrating in post-editing reminds me of the narrator for Disney Movies like Charles the Lonesome Cougar. Always good music. Good.Entertainment and info in your videos.
Thanks for the work involved in getting the videos uploaded.
They absolutely need a backcountry restroom at Island Lake! Probably a few of them! It's nearly impossible to find a spot where you're not in view of someone else's camp. And it's definitely a place where .... you don't lift up random rocks. There's probably a surprise waiting for you!
Not sure what time of year you were at Cooks Lake, but we were catching fish there. It was my favorite spot on this trip.
It was a bummer that Titcomb was socked in when I was up there, but I hope to pass through there again. The Winds have many great routes!
Thanks for checking it!
@@mountainwanderer It was either 2016 or 2017 in mid August. I was told it was a hot dry summer for the Winds. No fry seen around the edges, no rising fish and two days of fishing and nothing. a large group on horseback did not get a bite either. Now I do hear that goldens are much better at ice off, and I regret not fishing the stream coming out of Cook Lake 10170. But I always take a spinning rod to the Winds, and would prefer a fly rod. Anyway I rarely stop and fish before I get to a campsite, so I always end up at a lake. We did the loop in the opposite direction as you did. We had crossed Pole Creek and was on the Highline trail. Missed the turnoff for Cook lakes and ended up at a lake before climbing up Lester Pass. The next day we went back and saw a obscure trail with a broken sign in the brush "Cook Lakes Trail" WE followed that to the largest lake and turned right and went to the end of the lake for a great campsite with a view of the lake.
Another fine account! I forget how great multi-day backpacking trips can be. That one seemed like an excellent journey.
This one was quite the adventure! Really great area to backpack in!
Excellent video Travis. The Winds are a big leap from Idaho for sure.
The Winds are very different country than I am used to, that is for sure!
@@mountainwanderer ...and a helluva lot different than Alabama where I'm from😉
Love the Bridger Wilderness! Awesome hike!
It was my first time in there and I thought that it was incredible! I'm glad I got the most popular area out of the way first. Looking forward to getting to some of the more remote stuff.
Holy shit! That wilderness is some kinda heaven. Damn!
THE IDAHONIAN LIVES!
We need to do a trip in there!
Sign me up.
I worry about you. I don't want anything to accidentally, through no fault of yours, happen to you..
@@mountainwanderer I’ll bring twinkies 🤙🏻
The Winds are amazing! One of my favorite mountain ranges! Great video! That Golden Trout was amazing!
Thank you! It was my first trip in there and definitely not my last! It was spectacular!
I want to hit the Raft Lake area over on the Lander side. If you go back hit me up! I’d love to do the Winds again!
@@ChristianPaulPhotography I wasn't on the trip, but our group hit Raft Lake a few years. It's on our Sonnicant Lake video. Not sure where we'll go next, but we will definitely go in there again!
It snowed on my at Wall Lake last August. It was a slippery sketch hike to Cook Lakes. Should have back tracked over the pass to Island. I struggle with Island lake these days just wayyyy too many people!
Maybe snowing in August is just a thing in the Winds?! I'm happy that I've been to Island Lake, no reason for me to go back - too many people.
Wow that was a long entrance hike to camp....
I hope your dogs do well with increased elevation changes as well.
Hope you enjoyed your first trip there. Lots of walking 😩😎👍 I'm pooped 😝
The trip with you was absolutely beautiful as always ❤
That was a long hike with 7 days worth of provisions! Dogs seems to handle the elevation alright, at least the black one never stops playing!
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Great video. Your group did some serious miles and elevation. My heart is in the Winds too. I can’t wait to get back next summer. Try the east side via Lander and the reservation for fewer people. Excellent videography
Thank you! These guys have done a trip on the reservation side. They went to Sonnicant Lake. I'm already looking forward to going back!
Because of this video I am quitting RUclips's . I can't compete with this. There is not one bad shot. Best video you have ever put out. Thank for making me retire and feel unworthy. 🙏
I have just 2 questions.
why was it called Island Lake?
and secondly...
How can I get ahold of Joey?
HA! There's no quit in you! It's called Island Lake because of the .... islands. You don't get a hold of Joey. Joey gets a hold of you!
Great! I suppose it depends on which lakes Finis Mitchell stocked.
I wish I knew who that was, but I will take your word for it!
Great video Travis. No fair using the whiskey camels!
With Timber loaded up with 7 days worth of food, I didn't want to put anymore weight on him so I had to pack my own whiskey... tough times!
Travis, you did a great job videoing and editing this fabulous loop! Except for the side trips to Wall Lake, Nelson Lake and Mistake Lake, this is the first Mountain Wanderer video that I've hiked all the trails in the video. Based on the weather it appears that you were hiking out on day 6 as I was starting a 6 day trip from Big Sandy. Since the snow clouds follow you around, I now know who to blame the nasty weather on.:) Great video!
Wow, we were really kicking the same rocks this year... or at least close to the same rocks. The temperature swings were something else! It was really hot the first few days... but then cooled way down.. It was a hell of a first experience in the Winds!
The temperatures can vary a lot and rain, snow and hail is not uncommon. One August trip the low was 19. I should have mentioned that the animated map with the map moving is really cool. Also tell your fishing friends that in 2015 I stopped by the A Frame information center at Elkhart Park and was told that the week before a world record golden trout was pulled out of Island Lake: 18 pounds!
Wow! 18 lbs?! That is a monster!
Timbers friend..one big dog.
Plus some of the best scenery ever!
@@bobparsons77 Can confirm. Awesome video
I didn't realize it until I released this video, but Timber was on a KSL Outdoors show. We ran into that crew as we were leaving Cook Lakes. They are the ones who told us to stop at Lake Nelson and that they were catching Golden Trout out of there... WRONG!
Great video, what dates did you complete this trip? I am heading up here next week and can’t wait after videos like this.
This trip was August 14-20, 2021
Absolutely loved this video! Stunning!! Congrats on making it to the Winds. Even in the stormy conditions you encountered, the video demonstrates how the Winds are a visual overload. Was for me. Regret the socked in conditions in the Titcomb basin area for you but gorgeous nevertheless. That was similiar to my experience in the Winds this August too. Looks like we were in the same neighborhood at about the same time. Drove through the Elkhart Park trailhead parking lot after my 10-day Green River Lakes "expedition" and the TH parking lot was way more crowded, for whatever reasons, than GRLs. For me: Backpacking/hiking? ✔ Fly fishing? ✔ Rain/storms? ✔✔✔ Snow? 🚫 Crowds? 👌 Smoke?✔✔. Elevation? ✔✔✔. Scenery?✔✔✔✔. Really curious about how you did the animated map. Curious...where did you have the post-hike burger? Thanks for letting me enjoy some of the Winds I didn't get a chance to see this summer. Next year for sure.
You're right, it is an amazing place! Watching so many videos on it, I knew that is was already, but being there is different! I felt that the trails were all graded so well, it was very hiker friendly. Obviously graded for pack stock. That would've been incredible to run into you out there! We were in there at the same time as Brian Delay too (another you tuber I watch). I am really looking forward to going back and visiting some of the more remote areas. For my map animation, I use Apple Motion. Post hike burger was at the Brewery in Pinedale. Damn good!
@@mountainwanderer Bryan and I shared a campsite one evening as he was arriving at GRLs and I was leaving so got a chance to see him in person. Thanks for the Apple Motion information and yes the Brewery is a great place for a pre or post hike burger 🍔 and beer 🍺, or 3. Hope to return their next summer.
Right on! I'm already looking forward to going back!
Thank you for making HYOH-WU retire....!
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HAHA! It would take a lot for that guy to hang it up!
@@mountainwanderer Good to know!
Seriously, great video, Travis. I really enjoy your productions. Last year I spent 5 days just north of Dubois, WY backpacking and and camping that area of the Winds. Stunning. The Grizz in the area were a little frisky for my liking but that's just part of it, I reckon.
We didn't see any sign at all when we were there. Most likely due to the amount of people passing through though one group said they saw a young black bear.
What month did you go? Assuming you saw a lot of people?
Tons of people. We did this trip in August
@@mountainwanderer I have a trip planned for the last two weeks in August this year. Glad to see the bugs weren’t super bad even though the people were. Ha.
Travis, when you take your furry friend out with you, how much food per day do you need to carry for him ??? Thanks 👍🏽
Peace
His standard amount for these trips is 4 cups a day. I should also add that the cup we measure by is not a standard 'cup' size, but like a coffee cup.
@@mountainwanderer thank you 😊
That sounds bout right for the size !!
My boy is smallish,,, just at the top of the knee's. And seems ok on what I give him which sounds very identical to your amount 🌝
Although I have to bribe him sometimes with chopped up bits of beef jerky a little bit of warm water for sauce.
And any dinner scraps.
Maybe I worry too much about his calorie intake. But he gets excited outside, loves the trail life much like ur dog....he's 5ish.
He's Malamute, Staffordshire Bull terrier, Australian cattle dog and Chow Chow mix. He's very friendly towards people and most animals, but I have to watch him around big game he's been known to bring down a full size bull by himself.
Which could spell trouble for us. I generally keep him on a spring-loaded retractable leash while hiking just in case we run into elk bear or something else.
A friendly skunk would be my worst fear LOL !!
Anyway really enjoy your videos short sweet to the point and show a lot of area that I'm just dying to see.
We live here in the Southwest, very very different !!!
My dog Timber also gets jerky while on the trail. Our rule is, if I have jerky, we both have jerky... and he holds me to it. I'm pretty lucky that he sticks to the trail when we're hiking. I hold him off of the trail when we pass people, mostly because I don't want him scaring people just based on his appearance and size. He loves people though. Happy hiking with your pup, if he's got any kind of malamute fur, the southwest has to be pretty hot him for them.