I literally cried watching this. I have such a hard time making friends and I dearly miss my outdoor friends from camp in Brazil. This is beautiful to watch and reminds me of how happy I can be.
Hiking with strangers has changed my life. I joined a Facebook group for outdoorsy women during the summer of 2021, and since then I've gone on day hikes, camping trips, backpacking trips, and even a weeks-long international road trip - all with girls I'd only ever previously talked to online. I've met dozens of women just as passionate for the outdoors as I am - some I hiked with for only few hours, others I've camped with for a night or two. One group of girls I'd only ever met in person with for 15 minutes before we'd boarded a float plane to a remote island where we spent the next 4 days backpacking 45 miles. Currently, that same group of girls and I are now planning our third trip together. Once strangers, now friends. Hiking with strangers was once the most nerve-wracking thing I'd ever done. Over two years later, I now consider it the best thing I've ever done.
This reminded me so much of being at summer camp and meeting strangers and just being open I feel like sometimes the older you get the more closed off you become and less people you meet. I love this! Also, love your videos they’re super inspiring.😊
This brought tears to my eyes after listening to all the little interviews that tell so much truth about being a woman in the outdoors. It was also so heartwarming to see everyone come together to do something amazing!🥰
Seeing the apprehension and nervousness is so refreshing. I’m so use to watching creators who are men (example yes theory) find strangers who are nearly all men go on random adventures. They never show nervousness or fear, so hearing women say yes I want to adventure w strangers and I’m scared is so grounding and humanizing Thank you for this !
Summer of 1991 I did a month in the mountains of Colorado with a bunch of strangers. This video reminds me of that month and them. And I’ve forwarded it to the two who continue to be good friends. Thanks for doing both the hike and video, Courtney! A great idea well executed.
There is a hiking guide (woman) who does hiking trips with strangers all throughout Europe, some even gonfor 10 days. I really really really want to go. That experience must be the most fun to ever happen. You can meet so many open minded nature loving people, you can have deep talks and get to know someone really really well. It's way better than any bumble bff of whatever could ever work!
what is te name of the group? woul be really interesting to join. i love to hike but i dont have any friends who like to hike. and hiking alone is a bit to scary. and i miss those days when i remember who i am trully are when i hike.
THIS MADE MY DAY 🤎💚💙 I was crying happy joyful tears watching it thinking what a masterpiece, how you truly bring together such awesome adventures and make such blissful content that makes me wanna get my trail runners on right now and get out there! The concept of women hiking together as strangers is truly phenomenonal. It shows the powerful comradery and bonded support that we band together when endeavouring on adventures facing these challenges together. Looks like y'all had an amazing time! I could totally relate to my experiences on trail as a woman, where my parents that aren't into it had their concerns, the shear vulnerability you carry with going solo, the limited physical strength and motivation, finding private nooks to squat using our Kula clothes, embracing the flow in your messy well winded hair and the wave of emotions that you carry along the way 💃💁♀️💅 Outstanding work Courntey and Jack 🌻 Truly inspirational 🎒
What a sweet little movie. After watching the movie "Wild" with Reese Witherspoon I also made a conscious effort to explore my backyard. The highest mountain I managed this year was 1700m, which was quite a lot for my standards since I started completely untrained. I also did my paragliding license, which fits perfectly as a complement to hiking. All the best from Austria!
Subscribed with your PCT hike, and feel the need to comment so you know ( I don’t do this very much). I have enjoyed every single video since, the quality of the content has improved each and every time with fresh ideas, filming styles, and I truly look forward to the next video each time as I know it is going to be genuine and unique. Keep it up and safe hiking!
Beautiful video!!! How fun! This is how I met my friends that I backpack with. A friend invited me to hike with a bunch of strangers I had never met and now we are all inseparable 😍 so much fun!
Courtney this is an amazing video and such a great idea it reminds me of a version of the social experiments I watch and love on youtube but mixed with the great outdoors!
Courtney, I’m only 7min in and this is such a beautiful video! Thank you so much for organising this adventure, I feel validated as a person to meet so many like minded women, it was so exciting! ❤🎉
There is such a warm, sweet emotion, feeling in this film... Awesome film, thank you for sharing your stories with us! Also, I am always amazed by the color grading in your videos. It's so soft and calm. P.S. Now I'm wondering why you're Dad Jokes.
Wooooaaawww 😮 What a superb group of hikers !! Your video is just incredible, people who don't know each other are yet…. Great adventure between girls😊 Nicetoo see you Philippe from France 😉🎄🏕️🏔️🇫🇷
There’s a phenomenon called “being in the zone” where your mind is in the present and you’re in total zen with what you’re doing. Once someone is aware of zone concept they learn to recognize when they’re in it. A group hike organizer mentioned once to not engage in deep personal worries or problems when you first meet fellow hikers. When you’re distracted walking and talking it numbs the strenuous feel of the physicality. Hiking is my favorite pass time. I’d rather not hike by myself. Hikers are known to be a friendly bunch. 😊
If you ever do this again, can you do a pack loadout too? It would be interesting to see what people bring and what they consider as their luxury items or if their backs were hurting/they regret bringing something. :’)
Great video - I enjoy seeing people getting out into the wilderness with nothing but their backpacks doing what our ancestors did for thousands of years! Nothing better than overnight hiking imo for the soul.
We would love to see this Adventure. All the Best! The Great Divide Mountain Bike Route (GDMBR) is the most recognized and important off-pavement cycling route in the United States, if not the world. The route crisscrosses the Continental Divide from north to south starting in Banff, Alberta, Canada and finishing at the US/Mexico border in Antelope Wells, New Mexico
I just stumbled upon your channel, but this sounds so much fun! Also loving the editing rig. I think it's more rare for someone to have a windows PC with a beefy card as appose to a Mac. Do you just prefer windows over Apple?
This is who Im longing to be. Just being myself with friends in the simplicity of nature without all the pressure from society. I just don't know how to get there. Where do I start when I don't know anyone who's into outdoor activities? And I live in a very small town. I feel stuck :(
i love this channel so so so much. ever since the pct video i was in awe, such a beautiful video and the story telling its so incredible!!!!!!! but this video !!!! oh my god!!!! i could feel the good energy from the other side of the screen. i couldn't stop smiling along side all of you while i watched this. im so happy you guys had such an incredible time. thank you for sharing these moments with us !!!!!!!!
I literally cried watching this. I have such a hard time making friends and I dearly miss my outdoor friends from camp in Brazil. This is beautiful to watch and reminds me of how happy I can be.
Hiking with strangers has changed my life.
I joined a Facebook group for outdoorsy women during the summer of 2021, and since then I've gone on day hikes, camping trips, backpacking trips, and even a weeks-long international road trip - all with girls I'd only ever previously talked to online.
I've met dozens of women just as passionate for the outdoors as I am - some I hiked with for only few hours, others I've camped with for a night or two. One group of girls I'd only ever met in person with for 15 minutes before we'd boarded a float plane to a remote island where we spent the next 4 days backpacking 45 miles. Currently, that same group of girls and I are now planning our third trip together. Once strangers, now friends.
Hiking with strangers was once the most nerve-wracking thing I'd ever done. Over two years later, I now consider it the best thing I've ever done.
Oh my gosh this is amazing! These are the kind of stories I love to hear and the reason I love women!!
This reminded me so much of being at summer camp and meeting strangers and just being open I feel like sometimes the older you get the more closed off you become and less people you meet. I love this! Also, love your videos they’re super inspiring.😊
I hope you keep putting yourself out there! So many adventures to be had 💛💛
This brought tears to my eyes after listening to all the little interviews that tell so much truth about being a woman in the outdoors. It was also so heartwarming to see everyone come together to do something amazing!🥰
Seeing the apprehension and nervousness is so refreshing. I’m so use to watching creators who are men (example yes theory) find strangers who are nearly all men go on random adventures. They never show nervousness or fear, so hearing women say yes I want to adventure w strangers and I’m scared is so grounding and humanizing
Thank you for this !
Summer of 1991 I did a month in the mountains of Colorado with a bunch of strangers. This video reminds me of that month and them. And I’ve forwarded it to the two who continue to be good friends.
Thanks for doing both the hike and video, Courtney! A great idea well executed.
Oh wow what an epic story!!! Glad we could jog your memory a little ☺️
Very inspirational video. I hike with strangers often as I run a online backpacking group in the Colorado rockies and always enjoy meeting new people.
I love the role you took in this. Getting them together - then stepping back and allowing it all to happen. You are an excellent filmmaker.
Wow such high praise, thank you! This was a lot of fun to make and has definitely opened my eyes to different types of film making ☺️☺️
Great content and ideas! You got one more subscriber! Keep creating,
So happy I stumbled across this channel - love seeing Kosciuszko and the Aussie wilderness represented, and of course the power of female friendships
You are too good!!! What an amazing trip and this film is everything 🥹🥹🥹 you should be so proud of yourself girlie 🫶🫶
Helps when I have such amazing talent ☺️💛
There is a hiking guide (woman) who does hiking trips with strangers all throughout Europe, some even gonfor 10 days. I really really really want to go. That experience must be the most fun to ever happen. You can meet so many open minded nature loving people, you can have deep talks and get to know someone really really well. It's way better than any bumble bff of whatever could ever work!
You should! That sounds amazing, definitely the perfect way to make proper connections. Though I don’t know that I’d totally discount bumble bff 😂😂
what is te name of the group? woul be really interesting to join. i love to hike but i dont have any friends who like to hike. and hiking alone is a bit to scary. and i miss those days when i remember who i am trully are when i hike.
YOU MAKE ME SO HAPPY I realize I don’t have to limit myself to what I can do what trail I can take or how many FRENDS I MEET
THIS MADE MY DAY 🤎💚💙
I was crying happy joyful tears watching it thinking what a masterpiece, how you truly bring together such awesome adventures and make such blissful content that makes me wanna get my trail runners on right now and get out there!
The concept of women hiking together as strangers is truly phenomenonal. It shows the powerful comradery and bonded support that we band together when endeavouring on adventures facing these challenges together. Looks like y'all had an amazing time!
I could totally relate to my experiences on trail as a woman, where my parents that aren't into it had their concerns, the shear vulnerability you carry with going solo, the limited physical strength and motivation, finding private nooks to squat using our Kula clothes, embracing the flow in your messy well winded hair and the wave of emotions that you carry along the way 💃💁♀️💅
Outstanding work Courntey and Jack 🌻 Truly inspirational 🎒
Thanks so so much Lauren! We’ll have to have you on the next one 💛💛
This deserves an infinite amount of hype -so well produced and executed. Maybe I shed a few tears :)
this was so great! Outdoor people are the best and this film really shows that. Loved all of it ❤
Yes they are! Thank you so much x
Awesome humanity video. Very calming
What a sweet little movie.
After watching the movie "Wild" with Reese Witherspoon I also made a conscious effort to explore my backyard. The highest mountain I managed this year was 1700m, which was quite a lot for my standards since I started completely untrained. I also did my paragliding license, which fits perfectly as a complement to hiking. All the best from Austria!
That’s amazing! The power of film hey? I’m so glad you’re getting out and adventuring ☺️☺️
this is so powerful, thank you for doing this
That was an awesome watch. Well done.
Absolutely stunning scenery my friend, great shots.
Glad you enjoyed it 💛
This was a beautiful video full of fun snd smiles! ❤. Shows people can be kind snd love each other without agrbda regardless of where you are from.
Thank you for watching x
More people should do this! Amazing!
Subscribed with your PCT hike, and feel the need to comment so you know ( I don’t do this very much). I have enjoyed every single video since, the quality of the content has improved each and every time with fresh ideas, filming styles, and I truly look forward to the next video each time as I know it is going to be genuine and unique. Keep it up and safe hiking!
Oh my gosh this is so lovely, trying my best to make better and better content, I'm glad you think it's paying off :)
Beautifully shot and put together 👏🏻 epic film
Thanks Sam!! x
Glad I found this channel. Such a great concept. So well executed.
Just stumbled upon this video, I absolutely Love the initiative!!! Solid filmwork aswell 🎬 Keep rockin
Beautiful video!!! How fun! This is how I met my friends that I backpack with. A friend invited me to hike with a bunch of strangers I had never met and now we are all inseparable 😍 so much fun!
That’s so amazing to hear! It’s definitely worth the short term discomfort or fear ☺️
What a wonderful and uplifting video!
What a beautiful video! I would love for this to be a regular series
Thank you lovely!! What an idea 🤔
Courtney this is an amazing video and such a great idea it reminds me of a version of the social experiments I watch and love on youtube but mixed with the great outdoors!
You did a great thing for yourself and all those who participated!
Yes something I'll remember forever :)
Such an inspiration, this is probably My favorite chanel in the entire RUclips.
Saludos desde México 👋
Wow, thank you! 💛
I went on holiday to Italy for a week last September with 3 strangers and it was the most amazing and magical experience!!!
What a joyful video, thanks for creating it and inspiring others to get out into the world.
Thank you for watching ☺️
Hiking with strangers and recording the happiness was so cool; I really enjoyed it
Thank you so much!
Great job getting more people outdoors
What a beautiful idea! Watched this with a smile on my face the whole time✨
yay! that's so nice to hear, thank you for watching x
i really love your pct doc and just saw this one aswell also super cool little hiking movie great work
Thank you for taking the time to watch them both!
Just goes to show that all adults are actually children at heart.
Courtney, I’m only 7min in and this is such a beautiful video! Thank you so much for organising this adventure, I feel validated as a person to meet so many like minded women, it was so exciting! ❤🎉
Thank you so much for coming!!
There is such a warm, sweet emotion, feeling in this film... Awesome film, thank you for sharing your stories with us! Also, I am always amazed by the color grading in your videos. It's so soft and calm.
P.S. Now I'm wondering why you're Dad Jokes.
Thank you so much, the girls spoke so beautifully that it was easy to capture! Still learning to grade so this is a lovely compliment to receive 💛💛
Great video and deff a pretty awesome adventure!
Thanks a ton!
Wooooaaawww 😮 What a superb group of hikers !! Your video is just incredible, people who don't know each other are yet…. Great adventure between girls😊 Nicetoo see you Philippe from France 😉🎄🏕️🏔️🇫🇷
Thanks so much Phillipe from across the pond!
Yo. This is amazing. Editing and shots were awesome. Hopefully I’m brave enough to do this and find some strangers to go backpacking with!
Beautiful, thank you for sharing!
So epic! Chase more short stoires with a cool message you smashed it!
Another great story. Thank you!
Yo this idea is super sick. May have to steal it! Such a cool, spontaneous adventure. LOVE TO SEE IT
So much love for this!
This was so beautiful🤍
This is a wonderful idea, and an amazing video 💜
Thank you so much!
so nice to watch! love, thousand trousers 🙂
what an inspiring video!! so much fun watching it :D
Thank you! ☺️
Great idea . It looks fun. 😊
Just came across this channel I love this idea .Cannot wait to binge watch your vlogs .Safe travels.
Welcome aboard! Thank you for watching x
What a fun idea that you turned in an amazing video!
Thank you so much!
There’s a phenomenon called “being in the zone” where your mind is in the present and you’re in total zen with what you’re doing. Once someone is aware of zone concept they learn to recognize when they’re in it. A group hike organizer mentioned once to not engage in deep personal worries or problems when you first meet fellow hikers. When you’re distracted walking and talking it numbs the strenuous feel of the physicality. Hiking is my favorite pass time. I’d rather not hike by myself. Hikers are known to be a friendly bunch. 😊
Yes hikers are the best! It's crazy how different the connection is when its made over a journey :)
What an experience! Amazing work 👏🏻
This is amazing!!
Thank you so much
This was great!
If you ever do this again, can you do a pack loadout too? It would be interesting to see what people bring and what they consider as their luxury items or if their backs were hurting/they regret bringing something. :’)
as a hiking enthusiast from Greece, incredible video....
So good!
Ahhhh women!! Genuine joy watching this ✨️
Great video - I enjoy seeing people getting out into the wilderness with nothing but their backpacks doing what our ancestors did for thousands of years! Nothing better than overnight hiking imo for the soul.
We would love to see this Adventure. All the Best!
The Great Divide Mountain Bike Route (GDMBR) is the most recognized and important off-pavement cycling route in the United States, if not the world. The route crisscrosses the Continental Divide from north to south starting in Banff, Alberta, Canada and finishing at the US/Mexico border in Antelope Wells, New Mexico
Courtney, amazing as always ❤️
Thank you so much for coming back ☺️
I just stumbled upon your channel, but this sounds so much fun! Also loving the editing rig. I think it's more rare for someone to have a windows PC with a beefy card as appose to a Mac. Do you just prefer windows over Apple?
always good content. Can I ask where is this in NSW?
Kosciusko National Park ☺️
I love seeing magic created!
Beautiful Courtney! So wonderful to share that incredible experience with you! You captured the weekend perfectly ❤
Thank you so much for coming xxx
What a great idea.
This is really cool
What fun!
this is my lord of the rings
Extra Virgiiiiiiiin!😄
Love it🤩
To be very clear… this was in relation to olive oil 😂😂
This is some quality film-making, did you go to art school?..I'm off to a short hike tomorrow..Thanks for the push
Thank you so much! No, I just watch way too much RUclips haha
Awesome!! 👏 🔥
Thanks :)
This is who Im longing to be. Just being myself with friends in the simplicity of nature without all the pressure from society. I just don't know how to get there. Where do I start when I don't know anyone who's into outdoor activities? And I live in a very small town. I feel stuck :(
Beautiful stuff! Te Araroa next year? ;) ;)
It’s been on the list! Hopefully soon ☺️
hey! i love this! what camera do you use?
cool experiment!
Thanks!
I have big fomo! This looked amazing
Amazing
Thank you!
If you do this again I would 100% join 🥰
Seems like I’d better get planning ☺️💛
Such a bummer I found someone fun and interesting to watch and she is no longer posting.
yall inspire me to get out side
Yes!!! That’s always the goal 💛☺️
Hello from the US. I would love to meet up and go hiking with you. My dad moved to Australia and one day I’m planning on visiting 😊
I hope you're doing well, Court! We miss you
I would go! haha
ALL of the folks I hike with are strangers. Some stranger than others, too. YMMV.
hahaha AMEN!
I've never hiked before or camped without my horse. I'd love to hike with you! Trying to increase my stamina each day ❤
As long as you’re outside I’d say that’s a win!!
so glad to see so many 29 year olds -- something about us late term millennials that love spontaneity
We tried to get a bit of range, I'm glad you feel seen :)
Keep it up pyrings 😀✌️
i love this channel so so so much. ever since the pct video i was in awe, such a beautiful video and the story telling its so incredible!!!!!!! but this video !!!! oh my god!!!! i could feel the good energy from the other side of the screen. i couldn't stop smiling along side all of you while i watched this. im so happy you guys had such an incredible time. thank you for sharing these moments with us !!!!!!!!
Oh wow thank you so much, such kind words! 💛💛
How beautiful this is!🤍
Question is, when’s the reunion??
You have the most radiant smile
Wow👏. Just good group chemistry. Wish I saw more of that around us guys. Difference wiring 🤷♂️
You can make it happen! Can’t hurt to ask ☺️