Solo Hiking & Car Camping in Northern California | 24 Hours in Tahoe 

Great video. I live in Southern California and did a lot of backpacking in the Sierra's in the 70's and early 80's. I suffered from altitude sickness on my early trips. What worked for me was to train harder than normal when I knew I was going on a backpacking trip. I also tried to get to the trailhead the afternoon before and sleep in my car to try and acclimate to altitude for at least one night. If I went from sea level where I live to 10,000 feet by the end of the first day's hike I would often have problems. I'd also have high quality sunglasses. Squinting invariably gave me a headache. For me, most important thing was to stay hydrated. When you're hiking, especially if it's cold, you have a tendency to not drink as often as your should. I would drink a lot before I started out on the hike and as much as possible during the hike. That was a huge factor for me. And of course I always had plenty of extra strength Tylenol for the inevitable headache I would get. Sometimes I'd be out backpacking for 2 weeks at a time so it was important for me to control any altitude sickness as best as I could. After the second day of my backpacking trip I was well acclimated. Any headache was gone and I was fine. Again, staying well hydrated was the key for me. Good luck and safe travels.

I love car VanLife because you can stealth camp by the beaches.

Hi Kate! I’m so glad I came across your channel. Your videos are beautifully put together and motivate me to get out and adventure more 😊 loved watching this and looking forward to future videos!

Hi Kate, i really enjoyed ur video. Thank u for showing beautiful landscape. I will look forward to next video. Take care~~^^

Great quality videos, greetings from Scandinavia. I studied in San Diego for some years and visited Lake Tahoe with some friends at winter during that period, great to see LT during summer. All the best!

Happy Belated Birthday! Definitely got motivated, might try out my first solo camping next weekend

I passed by Lake Tahoe yesterday and it was abosolutely stunning! Looking forward to your next adventure :)

Subscribed. Enjoyed all your videos. Hope you start posting more frequently.

California gets a bad rep but nature-wise it's a top 3 state.

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Altitude changes air pressure and so does the weather (high/low pressure systems) - isobars. Phone may have pressure info, 1000 hPa (Hectopascal) also known as Barometric pressure. Some people get bone aches when the air pressure drops, so they know bad weather is on its way. Unfortunately the phone needs network to get the info so not so useful when out of range.

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Outstanding solo adventure, this looks and feels amazing! Absolutely amazing!

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4:43 LMAO 14:52 ohmygoodness that's hecking beautiful 16:54 that spot and the water look incredible... thanks for the upload and taking us along :)

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$6 per gallon. wish it was that cheap here! nice video

Nice video! I’m with my Mazda 3 as well but hatchback. But I’m 6 foot tall and I can’t do the same way as yours 😢

Farmers let their cows graze in the national forest and they have bells on them and the bears and mountain lions follow the bells so they might think you're a cow and follow you having bells on.

Hello, I also love camping and hiking I live in the Bay Area Let me know if you want to meet up sometime we can hike together