Surviving My First Calgary Stampede! 🇨🇦

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Calgary Stampede - Last year (2023), I was able to experience my first Calgary Stampede up in Alberta, Canada, and it did not disappoint.
Some call it “COWchella” while others refer to it as “the greatest outdoor show on earth.” Either way, it’s something you gotta add to your bucket list.
This year’s Calgary Stampede is July 5-14, and it’ll include all the Western wonder a wannabe cowboy can handle. Rodeos, rides, indigenous culture, food stalls (with Ketchup Ice Cream), and a full-on line up of incredible musical guests.
I wish I knew about the Calgary Stampede when I was 22! This place is insane!
If you like Western culture, music festivals, and/or wild food options, add the Calgary Stampede to your travel plans this summer - trust me. 🙌
For Calgary Stampede 2024 schedule, events, and music guests, you can visit www.calgarystampede.com
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00:00 Calgary Stampede Teaser
00:17 Calgary Stampede Introduction
01:26 Stampede Pancake Breakfast
3:04 Custom Cowboy Hats at Smithbilt Hats
4:58 Cowboy Boots
7:48 Calgary Stampede Rodeo
9:48 First Nations Elbow River Camp
11:34 Calgary Stampede Midway Food Tour
14:22 Nashville North Party
16:17 Shaq Concert
18:00 Mini Donuts Outro
19:08 Bloopers

[@GarethLeonard]

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[@XNDUIWOfficial]

I'm one of the locals of Calgary, and attended it for well over a decade.

[@TheKeafun]

This year 2024 Stampede is going to be one of the best and finest in the entire history of Stampede! you do not want to miss this expanded and the most special Calgary Exhibition & Stampede in the entire world! I know becuase I live here and host soo many amazing guests!!!

[@DarcySchewalje]

Please explain what will be so different from other years?

[@jasonbrophy7921]

Minus any water usage to wash anything down after all the drunks puke everywhere

[@muddyotterspottery569]

Life long Calgarian here. You done us proud!

[@nodrogytsirk]

Family reunion - Canada, Scotland and Australia - and we are going to the 2024 Stampede! Can’t wait to go with my family! First time for all of us.

[@the_clueless_traveller]

The girl in the boot store understood the assignment!

[@norquay626]

I've been following you for a long time and love watching your content and your journey. I'm from Calgary and live very close to the Market Mall. There is so much happening here during the Stampede. The Stampede is amazing and I hope you were able to get to a night at the rodeo. I have always believe the heart of the Stampede though is the community events that go on continuously all over the city during the whole time. It pulls this city together through the good times and the bad and pulls alot of the rest of Alberta into it as well. I hope you have more content coming soon. Keep it up Gareth and love the hat!

[@ColleenBeattie-wt9iu]

I’m in Calgary too! Right by Chinook Mall!

[@aaronthedj12]

Welcome to my home. I've been a DJ in Calgary for over 25 years. Too many Stampede events to count. Lol Happy you enjoyed the Greatest Outdoor show on Earth! Yahoo

[@poshshredz]

Forgot to mention all the music festival tents off the grounds around downtown

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Great stuff Gareth, looks like a super fun time and amazing editing.

[@joyhowes999]

Thank you for representing my community #indigenous

[@user-ff5jc4le8m]

What an experience!! So good!! Thank you for sharing

[@mitchfancey3356]

16:20 Gareth sounds like he has had some wobbly pops ! welcome to the stampede !

[@norcalrob2002]

Excellent. I am glad I was able to virtually tag along!

[@ed_leonardi]

Great episode, Gareth, the quality of the content and production is off the charts!!

[@davey_gravy]

So happy I got to meet you this trip! This video is so awesome, come back for the next stampede!!!!

[@amberbigplume4863]

Great video! Thank you for joining us at the Elbow River Camp!

[@yellowgreen2378]

This is so well made! I really struggle with long videos cuz i get distracted/bored but i went through all of this is just one sitting!❤

[@lurategh]

The boots and hats genuinely look amazing. I'd love to own high quality and well-crafted items such as those even though I'm so far from being a cowgirl lol. Can't wait for the cowboy episode!

[@Evasiblings]

It’s awesome

[@karenrn5607]

Great job!! ❤

[@donbrown14]

Now that was fun.

[@Abdullasaqer02]

Nice. Alot of fun

[@annafree1004]

Welcome to calgary!!! It really is the best time

[@Smucko1]

Love your videos, they’ve helped me make numerous decisions on my European travels! Used to live in Calgary and happy you got to experience the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth!! 😃

[@HotelSeptember]

Hat looks dope!

[@jasonbrophy7921]

BYOW 💦💧thanks for cutting pipe inspections during your run Nenshi

[@brandonmoore2237]

Awesome episode, man! Not gonna lie, the Calgary Stampede isn't something that was on my radar but it looks like a lot of fun! I loved seeing the Indigenous representation there and seeing you get your hat and boots. And how awesome is it that the man Shaquille O'Neal was there?! So cool! Love this episode. Beautifully shot and so informative!

[@subspace666]

sounds like a nice weekend and a place i would go looks like great fun but i am french Canadian so i would probably get shot. :P

[@pattiphillips7082]

@subspace666 Calgary and Quebec City are sister cities. Bonhomme is even in the parade most years. All are welcome at the Stampede. Come, it is a blast

[@beverlycompertore7428]

Great video Gareth! 46 years ago we were at the stampede for our honeymoon. Things have changed a bit!

[@tacoutdoors5085]

Dude you were lit by then end. Thanks for the video and coming to Canada.

[@tssnaidu]

Great information great video

[@tamathacookphr-cashrm-cp9907]

Omg. You are so cute your positivity is infectious.

[@ColleenBeattie-wt9iu]

This is where I live!

[@laurencekevingarcia772]

😂😂😂 Great Editing on Dancing

[@darlawittmier1793]

How much fun. I want to go

[@catherinewardwell2117]

Omg I’m going this July for the first time, and I’ve lived 3 hours away for 18 years!! No excuse. Taking my 13 year old and stoked for this review:)

[@corvoattano5313]

I loved seeing my Indigenous family represented!! Thank you!

[@Emperor_Shao_Kahn]

yeah i like how also 9/10 of the homeless drug addicts are also that same race, represent!

[@LakeConstan]

Gareth, that was just wonderful. An intelligent, entertaining video, beautifully shot and edited. I don't know whether you know this, but a lot of people in the big cities of central Canada absolutely despise Alberta and Albertans. This video shows just how wrong they are. Clearly, Calgary rocks and you'd have to be a loser NOT to enjoy yourself at the Stampede.

[@patrickcoreilly]

They do rthis in San Antonio Texas in February. Pretty much the same thing for Rodeo week.

[@pattiphillips7082]

Do 300,000 people line the parade route? . Calgary Stampede had 1,384,632 people pass through the gates over 10 days in 2023. It truly is the greatest outdoor show on earth.

[@DBistrov]

Great job on promoting Great North, Calgary Alberta. As Calgarian myself, all this “greatest show on earth “ is about single people who have deep pockets. We , many as I am, mostly leave town to avoid all this crowd and expensive visit to the Stampede grounds. Yahoo

[@c.curmudgeon2834]

You beat me too this comment, I try and spend as little time as possible in Calgary during the stampede. It was fun as I first moved to Calgary, now it's an over priced night out where you're spending time around drunks. The parking is horrible if you're unfortunate to live nearby the grounds as everyone wants free parking, everyone pretends to be a cowboy as they have no clue about what's involved, and most of all it's insanely expensive with you getting less and less each year. I call it Western Halloween

[@RSVD84]

If you want to see a lot of people gather with powwows go to Albuquerque, NM to gatherings of nations. This year the dates are April 25-27.

[@hughmann1908]

Gotta love Canadian women!

[@tsho08]

How did I end up getting this video in my feed and I see the lovely Jay Mcdonald on my screen. Looking good fine sir!

[@terriweaver6981]

💖💘💖

[@stargazer5073]

Land of my people, you're surrounded by my relatives.

[@MickAngelhere]

Wow that is one epic rodeo, I’ve been to rodeo’s here in Australia but nothing on a scale like that. I used to ride horses when I was kid and have had my own rodeo’s, when some horses decided to try and buck me off. Never got thrown off , just hung and enjoyed the ride and afterwards they get tired of trying to get rid of me and then start behaving.👍

[@georgioantoine4194]

what G master lens is that at 19:41?

[@deborahgodley6980]

Ha Ha! This is NOTHING like Coachella.You should go,Gareth,and do a video from there.❤

[@fropen3401]

I went to Coachella in 2007, 2010 and 2019. First 2 times were awesome, the last time was a completely different atmosphere. It went from music fans and hippies to way too many social media influencers and instagram models that were more interested in the perfect costume and getting photos for clout and wouldn’t even stay for the music. It was bizarre to me and the whole thing felt pretentious. I still had fun but it’s lost the original spirit

[@tgrover96]

So happy to see you showing acknowledgment to the indigenous communities !

[@allanhijeherrera]

See you here in July?? || I am proud permanent resident here in Calgary Alberta 🇨🇦 From the Philippines 🇵🇭

[@MiikesCollectables]

The Calgary Scampede 😂

[@Ryan2bsu]

Shaq Diesel!!!

[@jasonszeto7790]

Wow shaq was there .

[@seap9570]

The cowgirls are killer hot

[@ronaldmiller2740]

GARETH,, WOW!!! WHAT A GREAT VIDEO,,,WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND FOOD !!!! YOU MAKE A SEXY ,COW BOY!! HA!! ,, I HAVE BEEN PRAYING FOR YOU TO FEEL MUCH BETTER,, YES !! LIVE UP A GREAT LIFE ... AMEN,, G d BLESS...

[@JonatanBarrientosHernandez]

Gotta wear jeans that go over your boots!!!

[@NATURE-1M.]

🌎🌍🌏🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱

[@c.curmudgeon2834]

Isn't the stampede in July, we're in April and this was uploaded 10 days ago. Maybe he can show us his time machine too.

[@Smucko1]

He mentions on the video it was from 2023. You weren’t listening. Lol

[@c.curmudgeon2834]

​@@Smucko1The video title didn't and it was posted a few days ago, back to the tine machine comment.

[@VodkaSoda]

15:20👀

[@Rhdlm-yo1tv]

Wrap it up…plenty of STI around 😂

[@senorgato70]

So this is a year ago?

[@GarethLeonard]

Yes, this was from 2023!

[@viengkhaidaraseng8608]

Shaq 😂

[@Fake2JZ]

Kinda like CNE

[@smokeylovesfire1589]

Been to this several times and there is not a real cowboy in sight. Just wanna be boys playing cowboy.

[@tomxander7086]

Your blind as a BAT!! Lots of real Cowboys around Stampede time.. I live here, I know. This is where the real Ranchers converge ounce a year.. (Not just Joe Public) You see them around the track and pubs and all over town... DUH!!!

[@jmaraboli1394]

Not even close to coachella lmao 😂

[@trollwarlord4556]

many hot chix 🔥😍

[@juliopaez4516]

Great video as always but damn, the ratio of beautiful women was insane

[@justkevinthings8052]

No , it’s nothing like cochella haha

[@FM-db3ft]

Looks like you couldn’t wear the boots for too long.

[@Satisfyingtoday]

$100 hot dog. Yeah nah

[@michaeljacobs8458]

The only way your going to survive Is moving to Alberta

[@skinnflint]

Gross

[@Ama40401]

Rodeos- a place where grown adults play dress up and watch animals being abused for entertainment… if you disagree, imagine a human in their place of the animal and tell me if it’s humane.. just a couple years ago a calf had its neck broke in the middle of a rodeo in Canada, even after the snap, the ass hole continued to wrangle the poor baby..

[@MyghtyMykey]

Why is he pronouncing it KELgary? its an "A" not an "E"

[@yannickvilleneuve3834]

Canada's coachella ? Didnt know Coachella was a country festival ?

[@MyghtyMykey]

There's more than just country music at the Stampede.

[@evanlloyd2870]

bro posted this hella late

[@trevor437]

Used to be fun until torontonians moved to Calgary during covid and ruined the city. Now the only way to get a real western experience in calgary is by leaving it. Pray to God that torontonians don't start buying there.

[@archiec8391]

Make sure you get your tetanus shot, and load up on penicillin before you come. It’s not like it used to be sadly….

[@mrowniii]

Stampede is overrated. This is how boring people party.

[@XXLbeanz]

Shut up

[@XXLbeanz]

Shut up

[@EPiche09]

This is some straight up American cultural appropriation.

[@MyghtyMykey]

News flash, ranching culture exists all over the world.

[@suddenlysolo2170]

I lived in Calgary in the 80's and went to the Stampede one year - and left after about an hour. Not an experience I ever want to repeat.

[@jamesfowler1955]

This should be called the greatest Outdoor rip-off Show on Earth, the Calgary Stampede makes too much money to have their prices as high as they are

[@tristangross199]

That's how it should be. Imagine how jam-packed it would be if you had 2 dollar hotdogs and beers. Plus, it honestly keeps bum's.

[@YYC403NOYP]

Just ignore it and live in peace.

[@newfie-dean5803]

Everything in Canada is a rip off…

[@sassafrass241]

Same with K-Days. It’s sick what used to be a family fun event is now out of reach for so many people.