Whatever your setup is for recording and mixing and uploading these vids ….. keep it up !!! 👍👍 the images were very nice and clean ( on my phone screen at least) . Incredible hike ! Views were spectacular! Thanks for sharing this one !
Great job on the videography. Especially appreciating the SLOOOOOOW pans of the views. Really lets us take it in. Your appreciation and respect for the maintenance work speaks well of you as a backpacker. I loved seeing places I've been and following along on my Harrison map to try to figure out your route.
Thanks so much for taking the time to watch, I’m glad you enjoyed it!! A friend recommended on one of my early videos that slow down on my panning shots, and I have to agree it was great advice. My next Yosemite trip is coming up in April, hopefully I get something good to share!
Don't know what I was expecting after seeing you as 'rugged individualists', Sturgis bikers, etc., shortly after those opening beautiful iconic shots. (But that's me in my flawed smallness, a limitation for sure.) I had a smile of warmth and recognition with the hike up to Little Yosemite valley, then got caught up in your journey and all the new scenes (for me) to Clouds Rest - really loved the down to earth approach, the lingering, even reflective, scenes of staggering beauty, the "Hey buddy, howzit going?", your gratefulness to the maintenance crew, the sharing of hardships encountered, and of course, the pizza! All truly admirable! And again some iconic scenes, the airplane ride home, and more scenes - a religious experience. Thank you, mucho, mucho. Much happiness to you and yours.
People from all walks of life are humbled by magnificent places like this, I’m just fortunate to be counted among them. Thank you so much for the kind words, I’m glad you enjoyed my attempt at reliving this amazing experience.
Beautiful videography. I haven't done this hiking since high school but I will again soon because of your inspiring video. Keep on doing what you love and may god bless you for sharing your great adventures with the world.
You have to slow down & pay attention in some places; often there will be stones outlining the direction of the trail or you’ll see a clearly worn foot path on the granite surface. There’s a lot of man-made stone work out there as well, so you can look for that also. Overall I found it pretty easy to follow, but occasionally we’d have to stop & look around to see exactly where the trail was going. Around 10:17 in the video, if you look on the lower right, you’ll see a line of stones that’s typical for those sections of trail.
Last time I was out there, we hiked up the JMT to Little Yosemite, instead of Mist, which was tremendously easier. We almost made it to Merced Lake that day. Coming up by the waterfalls in the spring was an experience though, I’m glad we did it that way at least once.
It’s kind of all over the place in Yosemite. Early season permits aren’t too hard to get, but the snow limits where you can go. Peak season can be pretty competitive, but still attainable with some flexibility. Each trailhead has a different camp boundary, usually about 4 miles in. Beyond that you can camp almost anywhere you like, as long as it’s a few miles from roads, not right on trail or blocking a water source. Most paper maps have the “no camp” boundaries marked, you can also find it on the NPS website, and the backcountry rangers when you pick up a permit are usually very helpful if you have specific questions.
