Sometimes corn is completely ground up into silage for feed slightly green so it can ferment. Put into big bunkers on the ground for storage during the winter and used throughout winter. If left to completely dry out can harvest just the kernels for feed. Stalks are being baled after harvest for feedstock too. The missing kernels you saw were perhaps deer or racoons. They love the stuff.
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Have you pondered how rested, hydrated, and well-fed most of your viewers are while watching your videos in the early morning? Thank you for your service and struggles.
For those that have never hiked for days in the same sweat soaked clothes. Here's what can happen. Your clothes act like a filter capturing the salt building up into a white stain that can be very irritating. But that's not the worst part. As the sweat dries your clothes become crusty and start to act like sandpaper. As you can imagine the constant rubbing of this sandpaper like material on sensitive body parts can become very painful. Matt I think you mentioned Taters luckily doesn't sweat as much as you. Hopefully you make it to the next resupply before your clothes rip 😎✌
It has been a brutally hot summer. You two have amazing determination and endurance to continue through it. I imagine this is practice for getting through Utah and Nevada. Happy trails.
Nice PD! Pity about the lack of sleep and constant wind. Spent 4 years in Kansas and remember the persistent wind! Doing great and finding water in the most interesting ways. Hike on! Tortoise
I live just forty minutes north of Great Bend and I sure feel your pain, if it were me, I maybe wouldve bussed through Kansas altogether West of Salina, UGH.
Glad you made it to Pawnee Rock. The church that got torn down that I talked about in previous video is north of there perhaps 4 miles. You may have just missed the spot. (Bergtal Mennonite Church).
16:18 I had lunch at that Taco Bell back in the first week in June. I camped out at Camp Pawnee west of town in my RV. They have a nice little Santa Fe Trail museum and Fort Larned was also nice. Pawnee Rock was a little side trip I took after lunch.
enjoy tracking your adventures! This has to be the most masochistic one of all though. I am not hiking if it hits 80F or higher lol. 60F I found is about ideal, but I am good down to 38F, in shorts and short sleeves. Looking forward to seeing you get some altitude temperatures relief and mountain scenery in CO!
Baboquivari! I can see that peak out my classroom window right now. I just went back to teaching on the Tohono O'odham Reservation this year. (Don't worry, the students aren't watching this, only me on my lunch break.)
That would be awesome. With the current state of public land discourse in the US I don’t have a lot of faith in something like that outside of rail banking. But here’s hoping!
Another WOW but in capital letters obviously. You both are amazing! I just hope your bodies can withstand the stress you are putting them through. I can understand your determination and dedication to hiking. Seriously I’d love to trade places with you. I’m almost 67 and though I’ve hike many mountains and trails I’ve never completed a thru hike. I will have meniscus surgery at the end of year and hope I will be able to hike the AT next year. My last thru hike was stopped due my pinch nerve from my taekwondo days. My long winded point is you both are still young so embrace the suck because the invincible body will eventually start give out sadly. Forever onward youngsters 😂👍🥾⛰️
Since Great Bend you have been following along the Arkansas river basin. Reason it's so sandy. Many sand pits just west of Great Bend. In Kansas the Arkansas river is pronounced Ar Kansas and not Arkansaw river. Maybe you've heard that already.
Prior to bridges over the Missouri, pioneers would traverse in winter after the rivers had frozen over. On a good day they could make 4 miles by covered wagon considering they had to thaw out their boots every morning and crow bar wagon wheels stuck in frozen mud.
Corn smut is eaten in several countries. A delicacy. My wife tried it in a fancy restaurant in Mexico and thought it tasted a little like mushrooms. The wind in Kansas drove some settlers mentally crazy. Then of course there was the constant wind of the Dust Bowl.
Do you see others hikers hiking the same trail other than Lewis and Clark..(lol)..make up a story about seeing their ghost, warning you about Indians and the difficulty of the rockies
I could never do this trail. Not because it’s so long, flat, road walking or stuff like that. I’d rather die of thirst than knock on a stranger’s door… 🫣
Sometimes corn is completely ground up into silage for feed slightly green so it can ferment. Put into big bunkers on the ground for storage during the winter and used throughout winter. If left to completely dry out can harvest just the kernels for feed. Stalks are being baled after harvest for feedstock too. The missing kernels you saw were perhaps deer or racoons. They love the stuff.
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Have you pondered how rested, hydrated, and well-fed most of your viewers are while watching your videos in the early morning? Thank you for your service and struggles.
It's the first thing I watch in the morning and I'm usually none of those things. I do like bassets, though.
@@WhackaWhacka They're the best, but not too good on long hikes. Thanks.
@@TXMEDRGR Yep, grew up with one. We would take him around the big front yard in a little wagon. 🛒
For those that have never hiked for days in the same sweat soaked clothes. Here's what can happen. Your clothes act like a filter capturing the salt building up into a white stain that can be very irritating. But that's not the worst part. As the sweat dries your clothes become crusty and start to act like sandpaper. As you can imagine the constant rubbing of this sandpaper like material on sensitive body parts can become very painful. Matt I think you mentioned Taters luckily doesn't sweat as much as you. Hopefully you make it to the next resupply before your clothes rip 😎✌
There are different levels of toughness. This is one of them. Tolerating this for days can and will drive anyone crazy.
All true. And the more "girthy" you are the worse it is. I know! lol Jen is slender, thus she doesn't suffer like the big folks.
Kansan here. You'll find the wind in western Kansas constant. It never stops. We get half our state's power from wind turbines.
It has been a brutally hot summer. You two have amazing determination and endurance to continue through it. I imagine this is practice for getting through Utah and Nevada. Happy trails.
i do not think it has been brutally hot, this is Kansas this is normal.
Having said that, it is verry dry.
OMG so funny how all those cows were just looking at you - like "Psst! Bessie what is that!" "Shhh! don't move and they won't hurt you!"
Nice PD! Pity about the lack of sleep and constant wind. Spent 4 years in Kansas and remember the persistent wind! Doing great and finding water in the most interesting ways. Hike on! Tortoise
thank you for sharing! Still enjoying the endless hot plains of Kansas :D. Happy to see you are getting more patrons :)
I live just forty minutes north of Great Bend and I sure feel your pain, if it were me, I maybe wouldve bussed through Kansas altogether West of Salina, UGH.
The word Kansas comes from the native American Kanza tribe. From their language, it means People of the South Wind. Which is very appropriate.
Glad you made it to Pawnee Rock. The church that got torn down that I talked about in previous video is north of there perhaps 4 miles. You may have just missed the spot. (Bergtal Mennonite Church).
Yea, I wasn’t sure what church you were referring to
Love it. The cows are judging her for eating their food. EAT US NOT OUR FOOD!
Neat! I live in Great Bend.
16:18 I had lunch at that Taco Bell back in the first week in June. I camped out at Camp Pawnee west of town in my RV. They have a nice little Santa Fe Trail museum and Fort Larned was also nice. Pawnee Rock was a little side trip I took after lunch.
enjoy tracking your adventures! This has to be the most masochistic one of all though. I am not hiking if it hits 80F or higher lol. 60F I found is about ideal, but I am good down to 38F, in shorts and short sleeves. Looking forward to seeing you get some altitude temperatures relief and mountain scenery in CO!
The wind, the wind... It can drive one mad out there...
Baboquivari! I can see that peak out my classroom window right now. I just went back to teaching on the Tohono O'odham Reservation this year. (Don't worry, the students aren't watching this, only me on my lunch break.)
Rt 56 follows the old Santa Fe Trail.
Larned is really a beautiful town with a bluff overlooking the road. State mental hospital north of town. Fort Larned historical site also.
Hey Y'all. I reckon you picked a appropriate name for your channel.
I can imagine if Jen is sooo looking forward to getting back to school.
Y’all are kicking ass!
Love your videos!!
Incredible stamina you two! Peace.
We are the most ok ish thru hikers after all
I hope some day that a dedicated trail will be established so you don’t need to zigzag across Kansas!
That would be awesome. With the current state of public land discourse in the US I don’t have a lot of faith in something like that outside of rail banking. But here’s hoping!
Another WOW but in capital letters obviously. You both are amazing! I just hope your bodies can withstand the stress you are putting them through. I can understand your determination and dedication to hiking. Seriously I’d love to trade places with you. I’m almost 67 and though I’ve hike many mountains and trails I’ve never completed a thru hike. I will have meniscus surgery at the end of year and hope I will be able to hike the AT next year. My last thru hike was stopped due my pinch nerve from my taekwondo days. My long winded point is you both are still young so embrace the suck because the invincible body will eventually start give out sadly. Forever onward youngsters 😂👍🥾⛰️
Most if not all corn in western Kansas is grown for cattle feed .
Regarding even less sleep, Brooklyn is the other way…
Since Great Bend you have been following along the Arkansas river basin. Reason it's so sandy. Many sand pits just west of Great Bend. In Kansas the Arkansas river is pronounced Ar Kansas and not Arkansaw river. Maybe you've heard that already.
On my defense the extreme heat hasn’t helped my already shall we say challenges ability to pronounce things
Again makes you wonder how on Earth the pioneers did it?
Prior to bridges over the Missouri, pioneers would traverse in winter after the rivers had frozen over. On a good day they could make 4 miles by covered wagon considering they had to thaw out their boots every morning and crow bar wagon wheels stuck in frozen mud.
Yes! The fungus is supposedly very tasty.
Wow! we call that fungus "Corn Smut" never knew it was edible (eww)
Corn smut is eaten in several countries. A delicacy. My wife tried it in a fancy restaurant in Mexico and thought it tasted a little like mushrooms. The wind in Kansas drove some settlers mentally crazy. Then of course there was the constant wind of the Dust Bowl.
Day 114 watch. Love Jen’s “factoids” while on the trail. Matt’s comprehension underwear bursting…hmmmm.
Can you lueko tape the chaffing spots before they get raw?
I haven’t had a lot of luck getting tape to stick due to the amount I sweat
Old Army proverb - "Sleep's a crutch"
The army was rarely correct
thru hiking Monsanto’s laboratory
Jen would call it the meat eater enablement zone
🤣
I Larned you nothing and you know it yet!
Do you see others hikers hiking the same trail other than Lewis and Clark..(lol)..make up a story about seeing their ghost, warning you about Indians and the difficulty of the rockies
Thus confusing everyone since L & C followed the Missouri river northwest and didn't cross Kansas. ;-)
@@nicotti Yeah, but it would make such a good "story".
Definitely in the Coronado expedition neighborhood, though. So a lot older and more interesting imo.
I could never do this trail. Not because it’s so long, flat, road walking or stuff like that. I’d rather die of thirst than knock on a stranger’s door… 🫣
You just need your own blondie to do it for ya!