I subscribed, and have followed your vlogs for a few months. I find your relaxed manner so calming, and your travels are so interesting. Although I'm now an oldtimer Englishman who has travelled extensively throughout the Southwest since 1989, the Arizona Trail/ Hayduke were not in existence then. Your route down Grand Canyon looked like the South Kaibab down ( 8miles) and up the North Kaibab ( 17 miles up from Phantom Ranch) was remarkable. No hiking poles but the key is, you travel so light. Way beyond my capabilities, and I've hiked from both rims down and across the Tonto to join up Bright Angel and South Kaibab. Looking forward to more of the same. What a joy, to be able to do this for extended periods as you do. Many thanks.
You have evolved so much in the time that I have known you and never met you. Bro, jupiter, you are a huge inspiration, TO ME. You inspire ME every time I see your videos. I can only imagine the good your doing for everyone else... I chase your footsteps brother. Keep going
Congrats!!! As a native of NM, I've enjoyed seeing the deserts, mountains, and incredible azure skies. Nothing says the American Southwest more than that.
Good memories. I slowed waaay down at the end. 2 nights at south rim, 2 nights in the canyon. Camping 10 miles away from end. I just didn’t want the magic to end. I didn’t want to go home!
Somebody found a new effect in this video but it didn't hamper with the flow of pictures, in the opposite. This is absolutely on John Z. level. Incredibly well done.
Thank you for all the time and effort. Happy for your successful trip. I really enjoyed the Grand Canyon photos and videos. This give people chances to see sights that they may never see for whatever reasons. Thanks again! 🦋❤
I watched them all and enjoyed them thoroughly. I've hiked all the areas you hiked (Grand Canyon, Humphreys Peak, Superstition Mountains, Saguaro NP, and Huachuca Mountains). Maybe some day I'll be able to put it all together and do the AZT. Thanks for this very enjoyable and educational video. PS, I love Flagstaff.
The AZT is awesome! And super cool to link all those places you mentioned across the state. Sometimes it's those 'in-betweens' that I like the most even if they arent typically considered iconic
Having lived in AZ for 10 years and having hiked small portions of the AZT, it seems best suited for fast, light, experienced thru hikers. Congratulations!
Watching this brings joy to my heart last year I hiked the west rim trail in zion and I really love the terrain thank you for your high quality footage!
Congrats on your hike💪🏼💪🏼..another great Jupiter video😎..We did south rim Kaibab trail to Phantom Ranch and up Bright Angel in a day in mid May..Brutal heat(100 degrees at the ranch when we got there at 11:00am)…Hiked last mile and half up Bright Angel with headlights but we made it…Not bad for a husband and wife in our 60’s..It was amazing how many people who were doing it that were unprepared…No sun protection,no headlights etc….Thanks again for your video…keep em coming😎😎😎😎
it was amazing to see the handful of people totally out of their minds doing what they were doing. On the north rim, just after sunset, I ran into a family who were not looking great, and starting to make their way back to the south rim. I figured even making good time they wouldn't be successful until well after sunrise. I told them they should stop here and get a ride instead but who knows what happened
@@JupiterHikes We rested for 2 hours at the ranch in the shade…The Bright Angel trail bridge was out so we had to go back to black bridge then take river trail to Bright Angel adding 1.5 miles to the hike…Every chance we got at a water source we drenched our shirts and hats…At Indian Gardens there was a large group of hikers resting and like none had headlamps and were not doing good..We knew none of them were gonna make it up before dark…Lots of people resting in the shade…When we got to the top of south rim we both were just baffled and worried what happened to those who were behind us in the dark with 2-3 miles to go 🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️….Next year we are gonna do North to South..Its on the bucket list…You should come up to my home area and do the short Superior Hiking Trail mid-end of September some year…Great 300 mile trail running the north shore of Minnesota and Lake Superior …Check out PCT guy Deep Roots Hikes..his videos are great..
What a great way to spend this 'holiday'. Thanks Jupe. You have done it once again. Made a keeper video that I am sure I will watch oodles of times. Great job. "A+"
Congratulations on completing your thru hike. What an amazing accomplishment. Its really crazy to think about walking from Mexico to Utah, but through mangable goals, anything is possible.
The one time I did encounter a scorpion it was while I was still hiking and accidently placed my hand right next to it on a rock! While sleeping however I never saw anything or noticed anything, I cowboy camped every night but one.
I'm glad you had fun! First video I have seen of your trip. I think it showed up in recommended since I frequently look at people doing CDT. I am in southern AZ, 40 miles from the border. This might be fun some time in the future. Arizona is quite a place, beautiful. Edit: You got quite a following in subscribers. Good luck to you and your channel.
I loved your footage so much! This journey has been wonderful to follow along. When I was 21, I went on a roadtrip out west and saw the Grand Canyon for the first time. Only prepared to day hike, I went a couple miles down the Bright Angel trail before it got too hot. But I saw just enough to get hooked, and ever since I've wanted to go back and do the rim to river to rim and back. It's looking likely I'll be able to next year.
We really enjoyed your videos of the Arizona Trail! You crushed it! For somebody that likes to take more time on their backpacking journeys, which sections would you recommend for a week trip (60-70 miles).
The section from Kearney to Superior would be great! Of course the grand canyon. The mogollon rim trail is really cool, from pine to Payson. Those are the sections that come to mind immediately but the whole trail has so much awesome stuff
Really great and with a sprint to the finish line. It was a nice series of videos you made. Thanks for sharing and I look forward to your next adventures. How many days did this hike actually take? It looks you moved really fast through the state.
I generally do it afterwards, but this year of 2022 I will be doing a combination of both. The better more full videos will come after, while I will have more in the moment stuff posted from the trail.
@@JupiterHikes Thanks for replying. :-) I'll go hiking in Europe this year (from Germany to Portugal probably) and I'd love to film with a camera, transfer the footage to my phone, edit it with an Application and upload it then.But I've never ever used an App for editing videos. ...so I'd be happy for any recommendations :D
A couple videos back I did one on the gear I took on this trail (spoiler: no stove) and another video about the food I was going to eat on this hike. Check those out!
