Here's how people die on the Pacific Crest Trail... 

I've been hiking around the Alaska range my entire life. My dad taught us, "stupid hurts for a reason. It teaches you what not to do. Unless you are terminally stupid." He would always glance at my younger brother when he said this. Usually because he wasn't paying attention and dad was sure if one of us were to be inflicted with terminal stupidity, it would be Bobby. Surprisingly, Bob's still with us. A little worse for wear, buuuut. . . . .up right and sucking air.

The only cougar worth keeping an eye on is Kyle’s mom

My parents did this for their honeymoon and 9/11 happened while they were on the trail.

You forgot raging torrents in the Sierra due to snowmelt, snow bridges falling out as you cross, tree wells, and avalanche. This year is looking like another record snow year in the Sierra so hikers should be warned and carry/learn how to use an ice axe for self-arrest.

While doing a training mission in some Georgian desert I had my water break and walked for 4 hours in full gear with zero water. I literally felt death creeping in with every step.

You should do a video on average costs to go on these bigger hikes. I'm from AZ and am curious about hiking pct

We old people call those trees 'widow-makers'

In Australia we call those tree's widow maker's

U forgot the missing 411 abductions

My niece and her SO did it 4 years ago. She got sick in the southern section and spent two weeks recovering. No stopping her and her SO. They went on and got wr done. You rock Jess and Jared!

Free Tip: When hiking in bear country always travel with a group of people. You don’t have to run faster than the bear. You just have to run faster than the slowest person in your group. You’re welcome

You're starting to look like Mr. Ballen. 👍

Staying on my sofa! I'd be an absolute liability! Everyone on the PCT is safer with me on my sofa!

I used to hike when i was young. Now i go to 4 star hotels

Hypothermia? Snow storms in the summer in the Sierras aren't all that uncommon. There'll be a lot of snow in the Sierras this year. I've been snowed in for ten days. I walked out to Grumpy Bears to see what's going on.

That narrow section was enough to say hell no to that trail!

I spent 6 years of my life right next to Joshua tree I worked outside and we all worked hard and after work Id spend hours hunting rabbits in the middle of nowhere hiking 5-6 miles a night. All summer all Winter I also spent three months in a dirt hole cause I was basically homeless while I was still active duty. My advice is always be proactive better to drink water and relax early than heat case. You must do everything thinking of what your output is and your required intakes are if not you'll learn a lesson that can be fatal when alone. Stay safe y'all.

My friend fell and punctured his abdomen had to get airlifted out, stay safe out there guys

You missed drowning in river crossings which has taken several lives on the PCT, more than wild animals

Mr Kyle ur my new favorite "Cognoscenti o Constitutionals", 2 questions, is a jockstrap a viable choice of underwear for basic n mountain hiking? Also, is it a crazy idea 💡 to set some Discussion parameters For the travel ? Like things not to be brought up or touched on ... Follower Fan of ur channel chum!

A trail with so many deadly hazards, I am surprised it still has Pacific in its name. I have the same problem with the Pacific Ocean.

Congratulations on crossing the 100k subs Kyle. Keep the content coming!

Life is one big death trap my friend, we’re not getting out of it alive. Act accordingly

Pretty important while hiking the Sierra (especially if summiting Whitney) to go slowly as to not bring on Altitude Sickness. From the Crest to top of Whitney is 2.5 miles and you gain almost a thousand feet of elevation. It can be brutal.

I literally almost “bought it” a couple of weeks ago. A.k.a. almost died. A friend was taking my husband and myself up for a short hike up a little tiny, hill/mountain where she grew up. It was supposed to be 900 feet and basically take us 15 minutes to get to the top. We park the car in walk in 400 yards and all of a sudden I’m looking at a two-story Rock wall… mind you I’m 63, out of shape… had no water. I looked at my friend like she had five heads because she told me she used to run up and down this little mountain . Handover hand we scaled, our first two-story Rockwall. We got another couple hundred yards in -and there’s another one at this point. I look at my friend like- what the hell’s going on. ??? she’s looking at me saying “I don’t recognize any of this”. It never occurred to me we weren’t where we were supposed to be.-because she grew up here so of course she knows this particular mountain well cause she went up and down at all as a kid 40 years before. After the second two-story Rockwall, we go a couple hundred more yards and gosh darn there’s another 2-3 story boulder wall and this one’s got a really nice cliff 😳😅… I’m starting to get a little bit labored -my husband notes that, but I said I’m honey. My hearts totally fine don’t worry about it. I’ll be fine. Bottom line is what was supposed to be a 15 minute -ascent turned into an hour and a half climbing over and scrambling these boulder walls and cliffs.😳 they’re probably was I think five or six of them going up. Mind you none of us have any water because it was supposed to be a EASYYYY 15 minute hike up in 15 down. BY THE TIME WE GOT TO THE TOP… I was really not doing well and I just didn’t understand what was happening. First off why was I feeling like hell? And secondly how did this supposed 15 minute hike? Turn into an hour and a half ones through hell??? We saw somebody else up top, and explained the ridiculous path we had just taken, so we really needed an easy one to get back down. I wasn’t feeling good, and I was just starting to realize I was dehydrated… so my friend, my husband talk to whoever and they recommended -“the easy descent down”… Trying to go down was even worse than the crap we scaled coming up… mind you -I’ve had seven surgeries over the last year and a half including my left knee replaced, which unfortunately is only at 90° now and I haven’t got it bent to 120 yet. So that makes climbing up rock walls and boulders challenging because I can’t bend my knee that well. As we started to go down, we were like where the hell did this woman send us? It was the most gnarly dissent I’d ever encountered. Mind you I used to hike a lot but I am now 63 and having broken my back at age 40 and then doubled in size… trust me I was in no shape to be on that mountain. As we started to go down, I felt sicker and sicker so that I could only go 100 yards at a time, and then the cramps set in… my inductors we’re on fire, having like major Charley horses, to which I never experienced in my life. Here I am in the middle of a forest/mountains screaming the big F word as my inductors were spazzing out-where I couldn’t even straighten my leg. I knew I was in trouble because getting those kinds of muscle cramps is serious shit. We were halfway down when I started violently throwing up -right in the middle of the trail. It came on so fast that I couldn’t even direct it off to the side which I felt really bad for, but I had no control. It was gut wrenching, and after throwing up a bunch, I ended up with the dry heaves. At the time I heard voices and I said to my husband -do I hear people over there he responded yes …I said go get them now. My husband looked at me like I had five heads and said why??? and I growled at him to get them immediately. With me doubled over dry, heaving, two men arrive, standing in front of me. I looked up and with whatever energy I had left, I told them…. Sorry to bother you… I’m the asshole they walk over on Mount Everest. I have no water and I’m in really bad shape. With that, the guy closest to me, handed over his water to me and said -here drink as much as you need… I think him and just took a couple little sips because I’ve been throwing up so much. I figured if I drank a lot I would start throwing up again. I told him I was embarrassed to be caught in this predicament & that I really appreciate his sharing his water. He offered me more and I said no I’ll be fine. Thank you so much-go ahead and finish your hike. Thank you. As we continue to descend through this gnarly, broken rocks streams coming down the side of the mountain because it had rained like cats and dogs the night before… I could only make it now like 50 yards at a time. 10 minutes later the two guys who had been standing in front of me, reappeared with that lead guy who gave me his water, saying I couldn’t continue on… I had to come back. I am a doctor.😳 The look on his face let me know that I was in deep Doodoo. While he inspected me, I inspected him and realized he was in perfect shape, and probably did this hike routinely. With that he said take my water I’ll be fine. Just get yourself back down off this mountain and get hydrated. Mind you I had actually said to my husband at one point when we are coming down I might have to get airlifted off this mountain because I am totally effed. I was so sick and in so much pain from the spasms, and then of course thoroughly dehydrated because I had also thrown up so much-that I could actually picture the helicopter hovering over above and lowering the basket for me to climb into to the tune of like $12,000 of what we don’t have. So I was bound, and determined to find a way off that mountain, even though I could barely walk. Thankfully, the Doctor left me with his water-and that was the only way I could get off that mountain. I literally would take one or two sips and walk 50 yards before I would have to take a rest another step.. Here’s the bottom line it took 1 1/2 hours to get up that mountain. It took 5 1/2 hours to get down because I was so sick and the terrain was so challenging.😩 We got back to my friends cabin I went straight into the shower kept drinking water, drinking water, drinking water, hopped into bed and told my husband and my friend do not wake me for dinner. I don’t feel good. Don’t wake me for any reason but please feel free to check me out and see if I’m still breathing😅 After my shower, I climbed into bed all the while drinking water pounding the water as a matter fact, and fell into a deep sleep, an hour and a half later I woke up, came downstairs to have my husband and my friend laughing pointing out a map. I didn’t understand what they were doing and at that point my friend apologized profusely and repeatedly telling me she felt so bad for what I’ve been through that day. Come to find out, we didn’t climb the little mountain that she did as a child… that’s why she didn’t recognize anything… We climbed what is known as one of the 25 most terrifying mountains. 🫣… and lived to tell everybody about it! 😂😂😂 Here’s the moral of the story… no matter if you think you’re going on a five minute hike always bring water with you. And no matter who you’re with, we are all responsible for our own lives. Never leave it up to anybody else to lead you anywhere. Everyone should always double check exactly where they’re going. I didn’t. I trusted my friend and unfortunately, since it has been 40 years since she had hate this trail, we actually obviously didn’t end up on the trail that she thought we were at.. We ended up climbing one of the 25 most terrifying climbs, and lived to talk about it -thank God. To this day, I keep laughing at the fact that when things started to get tough on that mountain, I kept repeating “why the hell are we climbing Kilimanjaro???!!” And even though it wasn’t actually Kilimanjaro-it might as well as been considering the entire time when we first started off I kept thinking I was going to be like Julie Andrews in the sound of music twirling around in a meadow on some mountain top! On the bright side… even though that whole experience sucked. I now know I can do stuff that I didn’t think I could. Next time I’ll just be smarter. 😉

River crossings

altitude sickness suuuucks. It feels like a hangover. drove from sea level to Butte Mt. in a day and felt awful for like 5 days.

Widowmakers and chicots are an underrated threat everywhere you go 🙄^🙄^ was always taught to check the canopy!

Easy bear rules: Is it black fight back Is it brown, lie down Is it white, good night.

Stay away from dead trees on windy days. I've pushed some over that were near a tree stand I used.

The whole entire center strip of California is a heat stroke death trap from June to October. Death Valley can hit the 130s, but the rest is often in the 120s. A little family died on a day hike in Yosemite in August, temp was 109.

Along with bears, mountain lions, etc are : DM, BF and the horror gets worse. Please be careful and don’t ignore intuition.

I've thought about this hike in my head today and now it parked up on my for you page.

Inexperience is deadly

Legit knew someone whose daughter went on a school trip out there, went hiking with group, and fell to her death. Really sad for their family, she was 15

Just spent an hour doing the 1 miler at the conservation pond with my very pokey senior puppy, so I'm feeling ya, these long distance hikes are awesome but danger lurks at every corner (hey, i could have fallen in the pond...)! 😂😂😂 lol jk ofc, great content, keep it coming!

Man I could never.

A little bit Cliffy??? Oh, hahahaha, gosh

Thank you 😭😭 my gf told me we have 2 years to “train” bc Ig she wants to hike this whole trail

Kyle do you carry bear spray and are you with weapons on the trail? I would be. I’ve never done anything close to what you do. My extent is weekend backpacking and hiking but here in Alaska fire arms and bear spray are a must

Woaaah yeah dead tress is scary.. i already experienced that once.. thankfully our team pretty aware of the sound before the tree falls, so we can run ahead.. but still, it's so scary more than i was imagining before..

Same with the Appalachian trail over here on the east coast. Part of that trail is about 6 miles from me. I ride my motorcycle there all the time or I'll drive over and take my dog with me to walk a few miles then go home. Gotta be careful with strange people too. Never know who's good and who's a criminal

Rattlesnakes and oh god, the venemous newts.

You passed 100k subs and the silence is deafening wtf man?

What about falling rocks, like you and Flossy experienced?

Bring plenty of antihistamine or an epi-pen if you can get one. I was solo day hiking when I got stung by a hornet four miles from the trailhead. I’m not even allergic, but my throat started tightening where I could barely breathe. If I had been one or two more down the trail, I wouldn’t have made it out.

Mt. Whitney!!

Oh really "hot in desert" ... brilliant analysis.

Be sure to take a break and walk up iron mountain is across the highway 20. You'll be in a high desert section after crossing from belknap Crater. Strongly suggest carrying at least two days of water if you do it in the summer

I really want to thru hike any of the big trails, and id like to hit the at eventually, but the pct is really my dream and so is the one I'm planning on doing first. God it is dangerous though lol

I backpacked NYC with a 120 liter backpack by myself

You are Fun 🤩 Personality!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

A quarter of that is solved by a gun

Amazing ❤

Thanks for the altitude sickness coming from Mi its fairly hilly here but we don't have mountains so ill be on the look out for that

I WANNA ADD NORO VIRUS, GETTING SICK ON TRAIL IS A DIFFERENT BALL GAME FROM REGULAR SICKNESS.

Animals never have caused a (known) fatality among PCT hikers. While you forgot drowning (2), hypothermia (1), and run over by car (2).

Thank you for service of hiking these terrible trails so we don't have to.

Wow. Looks seriously difficult

My vertigo and that trail would be the end of me. I'm sure I'll save the camera and water on the way down though. 😅

Hug, Kyle, Bear Hug Kyle ...

All those trees are widow makers

How high does the trail go in the Sierras?? Altitude sickness. WTF. That’s like 10’000 ft right??🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️😱

Serial killers are lurking too - an estimated 100 serial killers are active in the US at any given time, and last I heard the number is rising. All the people that go missing have a percentage that go missing due to nefarious events! CARRY A WEAPON because the two legged critters are more dangerous than the 4 legged ones! 👌

It was a breeze. Did it in 2016. Doing it again next year. Maybe.

And don't worry about the Pacific and don't worry about the rumors of the serial killer on that trail neither I think they got him a few years back

I’m glad I’m not caucasian so I don’t have to do this

Critters and unknown cryptids will get you

Ignorance and stupidity can put your life in jeopardy. If you are not prepared for all things while trekking in the wilderness do not go.

And #1 sassyquatch

Honestly more likely to run into some weirdos on the trail than a cougar, although it can happen. lots of odd people along the trail

So do you carry ??

Congratulations 🎉🥾🏕️🎒

Crush

Carry a firearm... I can't believe people hike in cat country without a firearm.

Snipers?

Do hikers ever carry guns?

Subtle photography

Bears aren't real.

Mountain flu is real bro!

Wow sounds fun NOT 😮

I used to wear all black long sleeve in California summer you guys are just too weak

No thanks

Fear monger. Get bent

Stay strapped or get clapped friend of mine took ur advice and died to a mountain lion

RATTLESNAKES

and Being Abducted by Horridly Aggressive DEmons -[Missing\411]

The seirras aren't tall enough mountains for Altitude sickness , that's just hikers with poor health