Now it is a Throne of Victory!

This is at Carter Preserve in Charlestown.

Oof, not the way I'd want to finally see one but I guess I'd take it!

@@RhodySeth Yes agreed, I'm on the fence with how I feel about it. We stayed at the most popular campground in the Catskills, it's gorgeous with about 220 sites. At no point was I nervous as the bears there are unfortunately very accustomed to people and their food. The staff makes this very clear. We had a lake front site and the bear had to walk through dozens of sites to get to ours. It made no issue and did not even sniff our tent, it just walked through to the water. I heard the neighbor chase it away and talked with him about it in the morning. I also realize that at anytime the bear could have pawed our tent and it could have been an issue. Doesn't change anything for me whatsoever and I loved the experience even of just hearing him out there but it will definitely make me be sure to adhere to all proper bear guidelines which I always do anyway. I've seen them a number of times mostly in New Jersey believe it or not. This was my first Catskills bear out of 50 trips. Saw a couple in the Whites before. In New Jersey we've seen some big ones and within 50 yards but they always ran from us. Check out my channel page and the pictures I posted if you like Seth, that campground is incredible. Cheers bud! LONG WALL OF TEXT! LOL

Yeah, those black ones are a little seedy. Huckleberries makes sense.

It also helps hide from the deer flies!

Thanks, you as well!

Thankya!

Can I tell you something? NO DIP! That’s with any natural body of water! Fish poop is in the ocean. There’s an island of trash in the ocean the size of Texas. I swim at lakes all the time, lakes are super dirty but idc. You can get sick from ANY natural body of water. It’s just common sense.

"If" and "might" aren't keeping me out of that river!

@@RhodySeth exactly!

Castin' fireballs and kickin' ass!

Sad the trees are gone but can't complain about the blueberry influx!

A dissenting opinion, excellent! Thanks - hadn't considered a raccoon but that seems like a likely candidate.

I knew we had some poop-ologists around here!

Hmm - the search continues!

@@RhodySeth Love your channel. I'm on r/WMNF with you. Keep Trucking sir!

@@newplanet7 thanks I appreciate it!

We saw the raspberry version along the Sawyer River Trail years back. Right after my daughter noticed something large and dark moving around in the bushes.

That was the GoPro Hero 11 - yeah, the stabilization on the more recent action cameras is stellar. It's gotten to the point where I take it for granted. I remember only a few years ago I was running with a GoPro attached to a massive gimbal to get footage not even as good.

Don't worry Shirley, that place is pretty much just berries now that the trees are going. Plenty left for all the creatures!

I've been a bit more cautious since the knee injury so no diggers recently but still when it comes to trail running, it's only a matter of time...

I could probably make it two days before my lack of food would make me tap. 😁 I'd be one hungry boy trying to live off of foraging, haha.

Three full rounds done. There are a few peaks I've hiked as many as 6 times and my recent trip to the Kinsmans brought me up to 16 for Round 5. But it's interesting trying to continue to check off peaks as certain months fill up.

Yep pretty good. But a recent backpacking trip left the other one aching. It's always something!

Yes, it was a good one thanks!

Thanks, I appreciate it!

You people and your cave drawing analogies. Get out of here with that shit. 😂

It’s human nature to be a shitty graffiti artist?

Haha, I got a bunch of flies in it on this run. 🤮

Not quite 100% but pretty close. Knee felt good on the trip but it wasn’t so happy after a six hour drive home. Those shots were actually from my Hover X1 drone. You hand launch and it follows you! kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXTLYZmGedWZqc0si=5YQugaKqJMAIE10I

Ha, I got one! But I couldn’t be bothered to set it up for this hike.

The Nalgene holds up fine. Just need to retighten that lid after a few.

Not too brave, since I knew, I was heading down after Eisenhower. Actually I was surprised how many people I saw proceeding towards Monroe into the soup when I had gotten there.

Most of them received their names in the 1800's. Eisenhower is a relatively new one. It was previously known as Mt. Pleasant until New Hampshire legislature changed it to honor President Eisenhower in 1970.

@@RhodySeth very interesting 👍 thanks Seth 🙏🏼

He lives to give.

Oh I couldn’t leave that! Nope nope.

Knee felt fine! Handled the descents very well. I’m giving all the credit to my hot power yoga regimen.

@@RhodySeth awesome!

Thank you!

What is with you people comparing this graffiti to ancient cave drawings? You think that shit is going to to last a decade, let alone thousands of years?

​@@RhodySethDo you reckon past cultures did petroglyphs with the intent of it lasting into the future?

@@ArtJanicek I don’t know. What’s your point?

​@@RhodySethMy point. People crawl everywhere on this planet at this point. And people do people things. People like to leave their mark. Do you live in a dwelling? You've modified the surface of this planet as well. You've left your mark. Once we're gone, and it may not be too long now, the Earth will reclaim itself and wipe away all the ways in which we've changed it. It is a shame that your place in the wild was modified in such a fashion by another human that was projecting a piece of themselves, or a piece of their culture onto it. Perhaps the intent of the artist was to degrade the experience of other hikers in the area. Perhaps the intent of the artist was to generate views on KZbin shorts? Whose to know. I'm hopeful that your post discourages people from practicing their art form in such places but I'm skeptical it will. I think we'll see more of this sort of thing in the future and it's just in human nature. Cheers!

​@RhodySeth his point is your a loser and your trying to stop people from.communicating with future generations by way of painting on rocks. Just like our ancestors did

Our government is in rough shape these days. Don't look to them for guidance. But luckily this kind of bullshit is the exception and not the rule around here. Most people seem to respect our natural landscape.

I was thinking that too. Glad you confirmed.

@@RhodySeth Word on the street is it was used to redo the rock-lined paths. It was teeny tiny back in February. Enormous at probably 7 feet tall prior. I suppose Hale has the largest summit cairn these days.