Backpacking the Thorofare 

Just started watching your videos, really enjoy them. 😊

A very nice backpacking video. Yellowstone is so wild and wonderful. Keep exploring and making videos!!

I’d cry too how freaking incredible this is! I cannot believe how you do this solo!!! That is amazing to me!

haven’t been to Yellowstone since i was 17 and did my NOLS course…loved watching this!

At minute mark 27:54ish, it looks as if an angel or spirit flies out of the mountain range. It's such a beautiful place I spent some time out there over the summer.

Amazing channel have binge watched and liked your vids Thank you

Great trip! Excellent video work. I liked your music, not overbearing but just enough. Making it to the Thorofare Ranger Station...that was amazing.

Enjoyed the adventure.

It's been almost 20 years since I've been out there, I did virtually the exact trip that you did in this video. That is some deep in the middle of nowhere country when you are all alone, it definitely gets your senses on edge. You've really brought back some memories. Thanks for the great video!

IMHO, this is one of if not the best hikes in all of Yellowstone. Solitude makes the trip for me. What a great video bro!!! The moment you had at the Thorofare Ranger Station... I had the same moment there two years ago in mid October. Something about that place, it just draws it out of you. You're 100% right, we're lucky to still have that place. We need to protect it as best we can. When I stayed at 3 mile bend a few years ago there were bear tacks, grizzly mostly, through every open area of that campsite. The dirt around the fire and the clear spot going toward the beach had tracks 8-10" wide, so a monster had been there recently. They were about as fresh as I'd ever seen. Just insane. It made for a 'sleep with one eye open' kind of night. I also stayed at Plateau Creek, but it started snowing on me around 6 PM and didn't stop really until the next day around noon. The morning I woke up at Plateau Creek and got out of my tent finally, there was a literal herd of deer moving through. Probably 30 of them. I've never seen a herd that big up there. I hate to admit it, but I also rucked out a GIANT glass whiskey bottler form there as well. Some people... I am jealous of your weather! That's awesome to see Amber at the end. SUPER proud of you!!! It's a mental game out there. I've been freaked out a few times over the years as well. That bear, WOW! They love to jump scare ya! Again, IMHO this is one of the best hikes someone can do in all of Yellowstone. I HIGHLY suggest it to anyone who is OK being by themselves in their own headspace for a week at least. Thank you for sharing!

Also i love that you don’t use music

Awesome video. Thanks for sharing

Great video! Respect!

I made it all the way through the video this morning lol it’s what I woke up too! Happy Birthday to Amber! I’m out! 🌲 thanks for such a cool wake up video!!!

I left a comment a few weeks back when this premiered, but I gotta be honest… I clicked as soon as it hit but it was after work and I fell asleep after about 15 minutes. I only got around to finishing it up now. Man, I gotta say… you stepped up your game some levels on this one! I know I’ve chatted with you before, and I know you’re an experienced backpacker, but this is some Joey Coconato level shit. The Thorofare is no joke. Soloing it?? That’s a whole different animal. If you know you know. I’ve got a few years under my belt now in Grizzly country, as I know you do as well. And I’ve modeled a lot of trips after some of the select few channels that are legit. As in “people know what they’re doing out there… how to do it… and put their money where their mouth is” kind of channels. Imo, your channel was one of them before this video. Now… I have even more mad respect brother. You deserve a SHIT TON more subs. If this video doesn’t get you there, I don’t know what the hell will. I guess you’d have to post 29 sleeping pad reviews to every night out in the “backyard” to get there (as it seems a lot of our fellow corporate shill channels resort to). Unfortunately though… this is the kind of content that belongs in people sub lists and playlists. Not that crap! I know it’s a long comment, but I just wanted you to know (as a fellow creator who does it for the right reasons, and for the people who search for and find the important content) that your hard work and adventurous spirit is appreciated. This is what honest and true wilderness content shout be. Thanks for putting it out there. As a side note, I also saw about 4 CDT hikers on the way into Heart Lake. They’re the only people I saw. For me, our channel was created so that people could see that. So they could understand that a few miles into the backcountry can turn a million visitor park into your own personal playground if you take a leap of faith, step off of the boardwalks, and search for the adventure. I wish more people took that leap. Keep creating content, and you’ll change people lives. Because that’s how it started for us. East Coasters with no backcountry experience who took that leap because of a 7 day backcountry RU-vid video in Glacier that put a fire in our souls. Now we’re 5 years, 10+ Parks, and about 12 different states into our journey. All because of that one dude’s video. And I didn’t make that Coconato comparison lightly. He was the one who did that for us. This video reminded me of that one. Nicely done man

Nice trip report . I solo backpacked for a number of years and have been in and out of the Thorofare 5 different times. Weather can be a crap shoot after Labor Day but looked like you made out pretty good. 6Y6 at Three mile Bend was always a favorite campsite for me. Had a sow black with a cub cross the river and start up towards the camp one morning but they turned around and departed down river as soon as I made my presence known. Nice shot there of Hawks Rest that you got. Thanks for your report on my favorite place!

Nice work on this video! That Bull liked you lol! 🫎🌲 love love love this!

Had a permit for this hike one year, but found out from the rangers just a few days prior to our arrival that the Yellowstone river was still uncrossable. Would’ve been real disappointing to have walked the difficult south boundary trail and have to turn around and hike over the mountains again. Our start point was at the snake river trailhead.Looks like you had an excellent trip!! And beautiful weather too !

Great trip! Nice footage! Brings back memories of that country when I worked down there. I was the Thorofare Ranger for a few years and the Heart Lake Ranger for 8 years

Awesome as always!

Great video man, I did thorofare last late summer first time. Incredible place, want to go back. Watching videos like yours lets me relive it again. Also, I brought some cigars for every night along with some scotch. What were you smoking and having for whiskey?

Super good video! Thanks for sharing. I would like to start at 9 mile TH and end at South Entrance one of these years. Was it difficult to find a camping spot in the Teton Wilderness for that one night?

Where is that campsite along Harebell on day seven? Above or below the pond you photographed the next morning? How far? Thanks. Great video.

How did you get your permits for a 9 day hike? How far ahead did you get them? I have not camped within Yellowstone for a few years because it seems to be getting more crowded and the permit system seems kind of difficult.

What vidoe camera are you using? DJI or GoPro?