BOULDER to the HEAD Near Death Experience | Carnarvon Lake Alberta | Full Documentary

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Carnarvon Lake, nestled within Kananaskis Country in Alberta, Canada, is a picturesque alpine destination that offers an enchanting hiking and camping experience. This 22-kilometer trail provides adventurers with breathtaking vistas of the Canadian Rockies while also posing certain challenges and dangers.
The hike to Carnarvon Lake begins at the Cat Creek trailhead, where you'll be immediately greeted by lush forests and the melodic sounds of babbling creeks. As you ascend, the trail opens up to vast meadows adorned with wildflowers during the summer months. It's a moderately difficult hike, yet hikers should be prepared for the serious chain climb to ascend up to the lake.
All drone shots were done legally with the proper licenses/permits from legal take off and landing locations.
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[@sheripacori2097]

Awesome! Thank you for taking us with you. Love Alberta and B. C. Bless you for cleaning up and keeping the area pristine.

[@Morale_Booster]

I live in AB and I love hiking all over our mountains, but I'd never heard of carnarvon! Too challenging for my skill level, but looking at your beautiful shots of that lake, it's mother nature's reward for only the bravest and strongest. Well done!

[@IdRatherBeHiking]

thats how i was thinking about it too!

[@StrongBengal]

This was incredible, youtube front page worthy

[@JohnnyPilooeu]

Thank you for risking your life to bring us this footage.

[@nolacoolsim384]

Fantastic video. The views are stunning and your shots are so beautiful. I’m glad you made it back safely. Way too scary for me!

[@Morale_Booster]

Thank you for cleaning up the litter and respecting the environment 💙 disappointing to see people mistreating that sacred space

[@lighthealerastrid1465]

David, your photography is impossibly beautiful. Glad that boulder missed you (or you missed it). I am loving this channel! 🙏 so much.

[@IdRatherBeHiking]

cheers, ya im glad it missed me too hah

[@nancyneyedly4587]

Oh my! 😨 My hands were sweating just watching you do that!! Good for you, hoo boy, that was certainly a challenge. Thanks for sharing the beautiful images⛰

[@IdRatherBeHiking]

Haha my hands were sweating doing that lol

[@TWYYC]

Your drone shots always blow me away… thanks for taking me back to carnarvon. 😊

[@IdRatherBeHiking]

My pleasure, I'm not sure I"ll go back haha I'll have to look back in a couple years and enjoy the experience again through my own video. That chain section is something else.

[@armaansk]

Great effort, great hike! Thanks for sharing your experience with visuals. It gave me great insight on what to expect. Thnx!!!

[@andaroocomedy]

Incredible hike and drone shots. Thank you for risking your life and for bringing us along with you

[@IdRatherBeHiking]

I guess there is a reason I'm the first person ever to film this place professionally, first ever drone shots up there too. My gift to all of you haha.

[@therockymountaintrails]

Hey David! Don't feel too bad about stopping when your gut told you to. It is disappointing to not make the summit but better to err on the side of caution. I had to stop about 250 meters from the top of Caldron Peak in Banff a few years ago as I was out of gas and had to retrace the route back over a crazy traverse that I was dreading. Like you, I probably could have summited but I wanted something left in the tank for the traverse because one slip and it would be game over. Good vids!

[@IdRatherBeHiking]

Cheers buddy, I think it was the chain descent pushing my stress levels. If it were a simple hike out I probably would have taken 15 minutes to chill then crawled up to the diagonal line you can see in the drone shots which would have gotten me up. Better to live another day, enjoy another day

[@therockymountaintrails]

@@IdRatherBeHiking You got it! Better a live donkey than a dead lion as Ernest Shackleton said after turning 93 km from the South Pole in 1909. Hit me up if you want when you're in the Calgary area...I'll climb with ya! Thoroughly enjoying your other channel as well...the Moose is Loose alright...keep on hammering those knuckleheads! 👍

[@IdRatherBeHiking]

@@therockymountaintrailshaha Cheers buddy

[@ervinslens]

Omg, stunning work my friend! This looks spectacular, absolutely spectacular!

[@IdRatherBeHiking]

Cheers dude!

[@TC-le8ov]

A little piece of heaven. Beautiful scenery with beautiful music. I absolutely love your channel. Thank you!

[@Scottsudz84]

Gotta wesr a helmet for that sorta thing dog. Maybe it wouldn't save you with the size of boulder you described though. Can never trust who is above you . Great video

[@durehko]

Dude. That is nuts.

[@IdRatherBeHiking]

it really was, it was harder than pharaoh peak but was able to get it done. Pharaoh i folded like a house of cards.

[@mightycats4098]

Your adventures are incredible. Spectacular scenery.

[@amycole8974]

I was on the edge of my seat.

[@JadedBelle]

So happy to have found your channel! You are a brave and beautiful person. I admire your drive to break your chains. ❤

[@IdRatherBeHiking]

cheers

[@danielfegley2735]

That's beyond hiking that's rock climbing 👍

[@IdRatherBeHiking]

I agree with that statement!

[@FiftiesForward]

You filmed everything but somehow didn't capture the rock falling 🤔

[@chrisgreene1715]

Awesome Video David!

[@IdRatherBeHiking]

thanks Chris

[@HoneyandMe]

Oh my gosh, David!!!!!! I shudder to think if you'd been hit by that freaking rock. This video would never have been made! I can imagine your anger! And respect your ability to take it down and not use it to take down the silly women who pushed the rock down. How stupid of them. Kind of an idiot move to push rocks down, or if it was an accident, to not call it to lower climbers. Tragedy averted. After that 'edge of my seat' climb the views were amazing. Thank you for capturing them for us so we don't have to climb up that cliff to see them! Eek! I think you were wise in the choices you made. Like the lottery corp says " Know your limits, stay within it." lol! I'll stick to hikes where I don't need to use a chain to get up a hill! Great video, David! Thanks!

[@IdRatherBeHiking]

Haha ya there would be a only half the footage on my camera laying on the ground at the bottom.

[@HoneyandMe]

@@IdRatherBeHiking 💀📷

[@chrisallen2005]

Pushed the rock down is an inaccurate statement to use in the Alberts Rockies. Most of those mountains are chossy limestone that is always falling down. True, a bit of trail etiquette such as yelling ROCK is approppriate.

[@frugal_flyer]

This was a rather dramatic portrayal. Somehow your camera lens makes this look way steeper and narrower than it is. Did this hike last weekend and 65 year old ladies, kids, and even people with their cats and dogs were doing the hike. Nonetheless for less experienced hikers like ourselves it was definitely a bit nerve wracking. Also why would you be on the chain with someone above you, you're supposed to wait and climb one at a time. Getting debree falling on you from someone above you is your fault.

[@AuTheExplorer1129]

Keep safe

[@IdRatherBeHiking]

thanks!

[@andybiker-hiker4343]

Okay... Now that really looked quite dodgy. Kudos to the dudes and dudettes who dragged that chain all the way up there Good you avoided the rock smash on the head Well done video

[@IdRatherBeHiking]

It would be great if they bolted a couple of anchors to step on something or chistle in a few footsteps which I know people don't like that stuff. Ya the rock was... wow.. ninja reflexes.

[@andybiker-hiker4343]

@@IdRatherBeHiking the things we do for adventure, putting our lives into the hands of ... a length of chain. ;-) ... good on ya, I'd have done the same

[@Miderguy_]

Pretty sweet hike. I'm surprised they let you camp up there.

[@IdRatherBeHiking]

Random wild camping is allowed in Don Getty Wildland Provincial park which is the side between the mountains, at the ridge is BC which is crown land and camping is also allowed.

[@monicamather796]

Stunning! Want to go!

[@IdRatherBeHiking]

Do it!

[@AM-qw3mb]

Newbie hikers can definitely be an issue on these trails. Common sense is not always common

[@Nic_Chy]

Hey dude im just curious how you got permission to use drone on the east side of the lake in don getty?

[@IdRatherBeHiking]

the boundry is right there at the lake, I did have permission though, I provide a metric tons of free toursim videos sometimes that comes back to bless me.

[@Nic_Chy]

@@IdRatherBeHiking Nice dude yea thought so, I made some vids for fun, although wah less subs. I'd been there twice before and wanted to make a vid, just uploaded. Some guys I going after me in the comments. People don't get it

[@Nic_Chy]

@@IdRatherBeHiking whered you ask for permission. If I get more subs maybe I'll have to try my luck with that too one day

[@amyrobinson3119]

Glad you didn’t get hurt.

[@IdRatherBeHiking]

Me too!

[@amyrobinson3119]

Peace be with you.

[@christianvaldez1199]

Can fly drone there?

[@IdRatherBeHiking]

its on the bc border

[@Dodger1999]

Great video but it looks like this hike is becoming too popular. I guess that's the negative effect of KZbin.

[@IdRatherBeHiking]

I don't know if that's really because of my video, its was already on all the sites like all trails. If anything the chain section would probably scare off a lot of people.

[@mikeboston421]

sitting here trying to work and then looking over at the incredible footage you have, INCREDIBLE, thanks again

[@IdRatherBeHiking]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@mikeboston421]

just more awesomeness, story of my life, honk cuz somebody did something brutal in a car ahead then come up beside them all mad and now looking at some beautiful girl, haha, so glad i checked this channel out after your recommendations, just amazing stuff