This Trip Has Been A Lot More Exciting Than I Thought It Would Be

[@jimmyjenkins9240]

The best for hikers…yes. But, not only hikers. Dixie is for everyone with a sense of adventure, for everyone with a desire to learn about and witness nature. I think that’s why she is so appreciated…everyone feels so connected to her as she shares her journey.

[@HomemadeWanderlust]

Thank you so much ♥️

[@reneemccammon1935]

One thing I have always loved about your style of hiking is you stop and share space with the small things on a trail. Like bugs and flowers etc.

[@coolgrandma4952]

I find that most people don’t seem to notice so many unique and beautiful things. I’m always lagging behind others because I have the need to check everything out.

[@28105wsking]

I think what DIxie exhibits is respect and a kind of joyous interest in whatever life shows up.

[@joeows6537]

In certain Native American cultures, 3 sisters are reference to corn, beans and squash grown on the same mound. The corn provides the stock for the bean, the squash provides damp ground cover and the roots each one contains provides nourishment to the others. It's harmony at its antithesis.

[@patrickjones8255]

The beans fix nitrogen from the soil. So it's like self generating miracle gro.

[@patrickjones8255]

Also antithesis means ones exact opposite. I think you meant apotheosis

[@BX138]

Or maybe symbiosis?

[@GoneFeralWithSquidly]

Farming those three together is called a milpa. Combined with a little meat protein, it’s a nearly perfect diet.

[@joeows6537]

@@patrickjones8255 in contrast or opposite. I was referencing what people see as opposed to what their truly is...

[@billyshears921]

Thank you - PCT April '22

[@28105wsking]

At 6:54 where you say "those mountains look crazy", I'm guessing those are not mountains, but old cinder cones. Old volcanoes. There are a lot of them in Mammoth Lakes Valley near and south of Lone Pine and Death Valley, but not that big! That black stuff is obsidian. Geology 101 is a fun class if you are in college out west! The field trips are a blast! UC Boulder even has classes now for lifelong learners so retired people can go and learn stuff. Fun! Sometimes Community Colleges do too. All those big universities out west have summer digs you can sign up for for geology, archeology, and dinosaurs! I did that in Ohio one summer digging up and saving an old Maumee Indian burial site from an encroaching river bend. Learned so much!

[@LionessHiker]

I am so happy you recovered this footage! I prayed it would be recovered. I really enjoyed getting to see it. Thank you for going through the trouble!

[@donaldgerig9515]

Thanks Dixie for reminding me what I have right in my backyard. Have lived in Oregon for 72 of my 76 years. Even lived on a ranch between Bend and Sisters as a teenager. Have been backpacking with a brother (now that I am "old") in the central Oregon cascades for several years a few days each summer (camping & fishing). It is great to see what all I have missed so far. Your footage is awesome. Thanks for sharing. Don from Eugene....

[@tomgip]

So glad you were able to recover the lost footage!!!! Even if it was expensive, I agree - it was worth it!!!

[@Swimdeep]

Nice to see more of this hike. I appreciate your willingness to cover every step.

[@Mitchel614]

I hiked the Oregon section the year you filled in the fire closures. So much unexpected beauty there! Thank you for the videos!

[@geauxherd762]

I've been to the D. Wright Observatory! Fascinating views and construction style

[@leapyear9460]

You make amazing videos. Thx for showing the obsidian!!!

[@madisonlee6752]

So glad you were able to recover this footage. As always, thanks for sharing

[@PNWwonder]

Home sweet home! Really enjoying the recovered videos

[@fallin2high]

So heartbreaking to see the burning but all the little trees and plants fighting thru brought a tear to my eye 🥺 love your videos and all the big views and the little inquisitive ones ☺️ thanks for sharing, esp for those that do not the means or ability to get out there. ❤

[@robinmichel9048]

I've hiked that section of the PCT twice. I plan to backpack the Three Sisters Loop this summer. Such a gorgeous area.

[@melchurch3019]

I haven't hiked there but remember the observation tower when I rode my bicycle through there on a cross country ride. Thanks for the close up view of the stark beauty of the trail.

[@russelljackman1413]

Great "That was then, this is now" footage! Beautiful mountains and crazy-cool volcanic rock! Thanks for sharing another wonderful video with us, Jessica! ❤

[@theslowwalker]

Thank you for taking us on the hike with you. I've never been on that trail, but the lava stone makes it kind of feel like home. Thank you.

[@betweenwaypoints]

I am sure losing film footage of your memories was hard, but recovering it enough to relive it again was probably more than worth all the trouble it took to recover it. Thanks for sharing it!

[@glendacrouch1877]

Dixie, I truly admire you actually finishing every step. Seeing that section was amazing, it did look like what I would think some other planet would look like! Totally Amazing! I have watch all of your video’s. Ok so I am a Dixie adventure addict. LoL I have honestly watch your AT several times. That is my last goal in life today. I had it planned in 2019 to do it in 2021. Right after my planned retirement date at 62. Well ....life happened. I tore my knee and after a long awaited surgery, then even longer recovery. I am not in near the shape that I was in and even less savings. Boy being down and not working for 6 months, sure ate my AT money! Now I am back to square one....the debate...the concern of blowing out another’s part! Ugg The self challenge is real! You do keep inspiring me to get out there and hike again. I thought I would never be able to. Then fought the ever not loving rona! Ugg! Life! Oh well I haven’t quit hiking, it is just a matter of buying my At gear now. After saving and trying for years for my retirement party for ne on the AT. I am not so sure now if it is even a shadow of a possibility for me. 😭 keep those videos coming. Blessings from Oklahoma? Oh by the way, how is Perk? Do you know? Thankful for everything you do. Ly

[@ivansnegireff2868]

☦️🇱🇷🌎♓🎶💯🫂 live Hubbard Oregon

[@glendacrouch1877]

@@ivansnegireff2868 Enjoying Coffee?

[@jerrygarcia4390]

What beautiful footage! Thanks for sharing ❤️

[@johneason6540]

Thanks for posting these rehired section, very nice 👌 👍 😊

[@davidgreen2]

Absolutely Beautiful. Thank you.

[@dswartley100]

The Wallowas in eastern Oregon are beautiful as well...I highly recommend the gondola ride

[@28105wsking]

I just love this video! Im so glad you were able to rescue it! Thanks!

[@mikehamilton3833]

Beautiful volcanic mountain and new trees growing back after the fire. Your treks are so enjoyable. Thanks Dixie.

[@JillianCampsArizona]

Gotta love this! So glad you recovered all this footage! That video of the beetles fighting looks like something straight out of an Earth documentary. Can’t wait to see what next weeks episode will bring! 😊

[@livesoutdoors1708]

I so love that section. Obsidian Falls is incredible. And the lakes are really gorgeous. I called that barren section “Mordor”.😆

[@kristymoore7052]

Mordor! Love it.

[@Dan__S]

I miss that part of Oregon. Not the mosqitos, but the rest of it near highway 58. Look forward to going back there some day thanks for the video.

[@wesleykremer3916]

I’m so happy you were able to get it back! How fast time flies by!

[@allanfifield8256]

That may be the most scenic and pretty portion of the PCT.

[@christinewhack8860]

Glad you got back there and it is great to see the restoration in the land over a few years.

[@rockytopwrangler2069]

... Awesome piece of trail ,,thanks for shsring Dixie .... Love your interest in the small inhabitants of the lands ..

[@Mtnsunshine]

This was so cool! So, so glad you were able to recover that footage. Blessed be! And the editing here is once again, superb. 👍👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼. Seeing the views in 2017 and 2019 back to back is amazing. I agree with you, Dixie. How could anything burn in that volcanic area? Poor little trees and wildlife. It is already a tough environment, but to have fire once again visit the area is just not nice. Thank you for these videos. 🙏🥰

[@memathews]

You video of the Three Sisters section is perfect. You make me want to return there this summer even though I hiked that almost every summer in the 1970s and 80s. The Three Sisters is every bit as beautiful as you show and I am extremely happy you were able to recover the video. I hope you were able to recover the Mt Jefferson video, too, because it burned again in September 2020 and remained closed through 2021, and probably again this summer. My first backpacking there was in 1965, when we went a week hiking all over the area and only saw two other people.

[@TXMEDRGR]

Fantastic nature photography. Thanks for sharing.

[@zhukov43]

Thanks for the video, always love your content.

[@chrishanssen1980]

I really enjoy these style of videos way more than the gear ones. I know I am probably in the minority but I find learning about these things really enlivening. For someone from outside of America (UK) its really nice to have a slice of the real America that we dont often hear about.

[@HomemadeWanderlust]

I enjoy making these better than the gear ones :) I do have a life outside of the trail, though, and I have to be home sometime!

[@chrishanssen1980]

@@HomemadeWanderlust well ok if you must have a home life balance 😉😁 I really enjoyed the grandma gatewood as well. Amazing work. Thank you! 😁

[@HomemadeWanderlust]

@@chrishanssen1980 unfortunately 😭😂 Thank you! I really had fun researching for that and bringing it to life ♥️

[@RiverbendlongbowsOutdoors]

Well thanks for sharing 👍🏻 That was great

[@28105wsking]

What I loved about researching the geology of the areas I've traveled and hiked in is that you can kind of learn to read the land like a book that tells you what happened there many moons ago! The West is really exciting for that.

[@kellyjohnson3617]

Sisters wilderness is pretty diverse and beautiful

[@suzannehedderly1331]

I for sure wouldn't be able to walk more than 50 feet there with all those amazing ROCKS! 😂 Beautiful footage!

[@cielrobinson]

i'm doing a thru of the sheltowee in april to get the experience i need to do a trail like the PCT... finding my way out into those mountains out west is what i'm doing this for. since i saw yellowstone as a kid, i've felt a pull back to the west and the sierras and rockies.

[@mountainmike3242]

It’s a strange magic, that’s for sure

[@cielrobinson]

@@mountainmike3242 getting off the little airplane i remember it took my breath away literally. i didnt know anything could be that huge.

[@thetommantom]

That reminds me of all the dead trees on the side of crater lake so Erie I hiked on down the side at night in the dark after making a wrong turn by fallen trees and a spring camped in an open field like 20 degrees coldest night ever and seeing where I was in the morning was unreal

[@sullivanadventures6454]

😂 It is hilarious that you associated those rocks as cake! I feel like that’s true thru hiker hunger cravings speaking 😂🤣😂!! Beautiful scenery!

[@jenniferbostrom759]

I loved that place when I was a kid! We called it the Mars Castle 🏰

[@carmenhernandez6102]

Excited!!

[@kmannewyork]

Great views very informative. Thank You for taking us along.

[@robopecha]

all those cute little baby trees!

[@rkatrails]

Take two. Fabulous!

[@derek10w]

This is my neck of the woods 😍 come back soooon

[@AtTreehouse]

Fantastic! (Waiting for you to create a video hiking the Sea to Volcano on Maui!

[@bewhiskeredjuarez6851]

You're so rad Dixie! 🙌🙌😁

[@corby6956]

Wow, that place does look like another planet !!

[@randysmith6493]

pretty area , like the glass. Shouldn’t it worry you a little to find it stitting on top of the snow.

[@kcmckillip8115]

I enjoyed this video. At one point, I heard a voice in my head say, Welcome to Dixie's Wild Kingdom.

[@backpacker3421]

My dog is exactly the same about getting in the back. No problem hopping into any seat in the car, but the back is usually not such a happy jump.

[@thomascronin1040]

Great video Dixie. I'm curious what software package you use to compile and produce your videos?

[@bevbarnard4282]

Love to Oregon!

[@EatCarbs]

Thanks for the video

[@bernielamont825]

Hey Dixie, good to see your videos again! all you really needed was a coal shovel for that slide in the snow, lol thanx

[@Dayzofdaisy]

WOW! What an amazing trek! 😃

[@beckyumphrey2626]

Beautiful video.

[@kidsoutwild9215]

Wait wait wait! That cannot be bear poop on the tiny pine trees?!?! We thought it was called “Black Soot Pine Tree Disease”. Are we wrong? Beautiful video, Dixie! We love that section of the PCT too!!!

[@HomemadeWanderlust]

I really have no idea! Haha. He swore it was bear poo, but I’m gonna look up what you’re saying l!

[@kjsgarden]

You’re right, I was coming to the comments to say this. I didn’t know the name, but it’s a fungus, not 💩. 😀

[@kidsoutwild9215]

I remember trying to search it up but not finding any images or matching descriptions on the Google machine. Some fan of Homemade Wanderlust must know the answer tho!!

[@memathews]

Oh, you folks know better! Yes, it's a fungus that grows during the three wet seasons and then looks pretty poopy during the one dry season. lol

[@tacklebill4835]

When you went through Three Sisters area, what time of the year was it? I think you found my section hike of the PCT for me!

[@Henning_Rech]

This was 2nd half of July 2019.

[@Brian-the-navigator]

You saved the best state for last. Oregon is the prettiest state, please ignore the bear doodoo. The park service fined the bear for not burying his doodoo. Most Oregon bears are more courteous.

[@robertrockwell7581]

love it Dixie.

[@kristymoore7052]

What time of year? I was just in that region and yes, backpacked in winter, but in lower elevation near McKenzie

[@sk-wx1cf]

the stuff on the trees is a fungus that occurs during the winter, not bear doo-doo!

[@livinproof4u]

Hi Dixie! This is the section we were ready to hike this season 2021, but the air quality was too hazardous. We plan to do it 2022. I hate mosquities...so do you think 2nd or 3rd week of June would be early enough?

[@kevinhaynes9091]

Awe inspiring nature. Hello from England...

[@mlhm5]

Overland Track UNESCO wilderness in Tasmania - try there

[@consciouscommunity3897]

When beetles battle beetles in a beetle battle…… Dr. Seuss

[@iviewthetube]

Three Sisters Oregon Volcano Update; Magma is on the Move: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIvRlqF_pbF7mtE

[@mattmatthewmatchuu]

I lived in bend or 2007/8 pretty cool

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

*Great video, Dixie.*

[@garylindenmuth7468]

Love your videos, stay safe

[@trxmpg70]

So did you find that the Garmin mini was just not enough for your needs/wants? Why did you return to the exploere+?

[@JAaronMattox]

This hike was in 2019

[@christineb8148]

Oregon is a trip

[@fallin2high]

Oregonian here 🥰 Oregon is the best state...fight me 💪😆

[@rickchandler2570]

Three Sisters is my nemesis. I love the area but have been on several backpacking trips there and each and every one of them has been a horrible experience. Only place I've not had a great time backpacking.

[@AFTR-FX]

I live 2 hours from Sisters, so beautiful. Passed some day hikers there, and the smell of shampoo was intoxicating... 😄

[@chriskemper9344]

Home Sweet Home.

[@SchneiderC1952]

Dixie, did your microspikes have a detrimental effects on your toes? I wear Altras and am worried about how the soft the front of the shoe is and that the TPE bindings may cause problems for my toes! I appreciate any information about any problems that you had with what spikes you wore on the PCT and the CDT.

[@zacharypalmer5056]

Did you get to climb any of the Three Sisters?

[@soaringbob]

We need more Idyllwild footage! I wanted to see cows jumping off the mountain like the road sign depicted.

[@LitchfieldParkFamily]

Great information, new subscribers here! 💯👍🌄

[@nickp.2432]

Been lots of seismic activity in that region right now..

[@jackiewinchester9597]

I’m 52 female haven’t been real active outside my very active nursing career that I’m now retired from. I’m just started on my new journey becoming a hiker. Just day hiker to start. I’ve been hiking around 10 miles in about 2 1/2 to 3 hours, just enjoying nature. I’m wondering if you could give me your suggestion on a really good day pack that will be good now & in the future as I turn to longer hikes. My goal is to eventually become a section hiker or like hikes lasting a week or so. I’ve just started to acquire some basic gear based on some of your videos. Which I have liked a lot. Please share with me if you can. jackie

[@28105wsking]

Did you hear yesterday, 2/1/22, that there is substantial lava uplift 4 miles deep under the Three Sisters WIlderness? !!!!!!! Exciting! Apparently, our friendly geological satellite is measuring the uplifting of the earth in hotspots around the globe! and Three Sisters in our local one! I guess we've all heard that Yellowstone lifts up and down like breathing all the time! Its alive! ARRRRRGGGGHHHH!

[@thetommantom]

I was there october 2016

[@melburnett]

That's Dragons Glass (Obsidian). It was the year of Fire and Ice. HaHa. It'll help you kill the White Walkers and the Night King. You could be Arya Stark but you'd need Valerian Steel like she did. Or be you and use the Dragon Glass haha.

[@jaygorakht5135]

Allurinnng wish to be there 😔😔✌️💝💝🙏❤️

[@LtJAS]

Just watched a documentary called Root Cause and Dixie came to mind. -specifically, her dental work and auto-immune situation. I'm not saying I believe everything in the documentary, but found it interesting. Best to all!!!

[@thomaswebb248]

Are you from South Carolina? You sound Scarolinian.

[@davidtate166]

Did this I 2017 ? I love to hike this .😍

[@steveh994]

Whatever happened to Perk?

[@28105wsking]

Perk teaches high school! The kids ate him! LOL!

[@steveh994]

@@28105wsking Seriously. Do you know?

[@davidson_oldbull_sectionhiker]

Magnificent.

[@thetommantom]

That's crazy like where does that come from I would love to see a 10 year timelapse of that landscape