GOING TO THE HIGHEST POINT IN NORTH DAKOTA - White Butte, ND

In this video, we go to our 30th(!!) US State highpoint, the highest point in the state of North Dakota. This video was recorded on December 23, 2018
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[@fargotourist5382]

I live in Fargo, ND. I assure you it does exist.

[@davidkleen2494]

Great video! Great views!!! I think the drone footage is amazing and that your videos get better and better. Glad you didn’t encounter any hostile wild animals. FYI, You proved that North Dakota exists, however, do people actually live there?! 🤔 Take care.

[@grtshw]

Thanks so much! Glad to hear it ^^ And, I'm glad too, haha. Ahhh, a very good question! Maybe all the cars were autonomous with mannequins in the driver's seat! The plot thickens!! Same to you, haha.

[@moosefactory133]

Fargo does exist. I ate at a McDonald's there one time but I was just passing through going on up into Manitoba Canada.

[@daveboyerKMS]

You were fortunate with the conditions of the trail. I did this one back in 2014 on a rainy day and the slopes of the butte were incredibly slippery with mud. I made it up, but it was tougher than the trail likely is normally. Great work - keep it up!

[@Hikari24186]

Great video! Very cool place. But the question remains about if Fargo exists... what was that story?

[@andyjay729]

Well, obviously the states west of there are gonna be quite a bit tougher. As for the eastern states you haven't done yet, I've heard Mt. Katahdin in Maine is pretty hard. Good luck!

[@grtshw]

Yeah, no question about it. Looking forward to the challenge though! Katahdin is included in that group, should definitely be fun step out of the 'ol comfort zone.

[@stevehayes776]

Katahdin is a real challenge, but you'll be blown away by how beautiful it is. Mount Washington, Marcy and Mansfield are incredible too, if you have yet to do those. Just stumbled on your channel and I'm hooked. Only at 16 myself, but living vicariously through your hikes @@grtshw

[@IanNafziger]

AMAZING!

[@charlieberry2067]

nice video Its an awesome idea to highpoint all 50 states but my question is well i have 2 hardest climb you have done so far and when you plan to attempt denali

[@grtshw]

The way we have structured our highpointing is to start with the easiest, and slowly work our way up to the hardest, as a way of getting used to the difficulty but also forcing ourselves to get in shape for the hikes. For that reason, though we've done 30 highpoints, the "hardest" were Texas and South Dakota, though those really weren't particularly bad at all. We've got a few difficult ones planned soon, so that should change before long. As for Denali, it's hard to say for sure, but we want to try and get it done sooner rather than later, so as not to just keep pushing it down the road forever.

[@Alaskanative371]

Great Video!

[@grtshw]

Thank you!

[@Alaskanative371]

Did you get to go to Mount Rushmore and the Badlands National Park when you were in South Dakota? I am an National Parks

[@grtshw]

We didn't make it to the park, though the part of North Dakota we were in is technically also designated as badlands. We did make it to the monument right as it was closing, and with nobody else there it was very nice.

[@thepretzel2]

Awesome video, as always. I look forward to next weeks video. Also, why did it take so long to upload this one? Is it normal to take this long to upload?

[@grtshw]

Thanks so much, much appreciated! Yup, I've been staggering them and uploading every friday for the last 4 or 5 weeks, even though I finished all the videos pretty much right after the highpoints were done. So exactly a week between them is what I'm going for. I figure that, because I am unable to get many done during the school year, it is best to make the most of the content I have and spread it out to close the massive gap in uploads as much as possible. Unfortuantely, next week's video will be the last one for a little while since school just started back up, but hopefully it will feel like no time before our next planned trip comes along ^^

[@joshuastorsved4155]

I can name people from North Dakota, maybe because I live there

[@andyjay729]

Are you sure those were wolves you saw and not coyotes?

[@grtshw]

After a quick google search of what each of them look like, I'm pretty confident. We were able to get quite close before they ran off, shame I couldn't get any video. Anyhow, I'm far from an expert so I could totally be wrong, haha.

[@nickmaloney5928]

Awesome seeing you pull out my good friend Mike Fairmans picture on Everest. Mike is climbing for an important cause. Raising awareness of PTSD and Suicide among our military vets. please check out www.summitforsoldiers.org I will be out there in July climbing White Butte as well as Black Elk Peak. Im currently at 18 state high points myself. Great channel guys! Keep climbing!

[@janthonyht93]

Sixth

[@UnknownUnknown-ev1yi]

Its a coyote . You should just stay in the city .