Never heard of Farm to Summit but will definitely check them out, though my favorite backpacking meal of all time is the one featured in the video so it will have to be preeeeetty good to beat that :D
Great question! The past 6-7 years in Colorado and the western United States has seen a surge in a population of native mountain pine and spruce beetles that eat the tree from the inside out, suffocated and dehydrated by tiny beetles, the trees have been dead for years. In an area with fewer beetles and healthier trees, trees can actually push the beetles out with sap. But nature is out of sync right now and the current beetle infestations in the western US are made worse by drought and warmer temperatures. Longer summers allow local beetles to complete two reproductive cycles each year instead of just one and winter temperatures haven’t been cold enough to kill the beetles when the burrow into the trees' bark. On top of that, drought provides less water to the trees so they can’t pitch out the beetles. Here is a link if you would like to read more about this! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetle_kill_in_Colorado
Thanks for sharing fella… I’m going up there in the next few weeks so seeing that it’s still pretty buggy is great info… I did sub … us little guys gotta stick together 😂 ATB Dave Mc
The mosquitos as soon are you cross grassy pass going north became unreasonable. I seriously considered not camping and just hiking out it was so bad... Don't be like me, bring all of your mosquito repellant.
@@RGriffer … good advice i might even bring the portable butane thermocell unit for around camp… probably worth the extra weight 😄 again thanks for advice and nice work on the video .. 👍👍
Beautiful video of Peaceful Wilderness, Southing music and Awesome Nature !! 🙂 Adventures await to fill the soul of a young man, with great memories !! 🙂
