Something Easy... Done Very Hard - Utah Van Life Adventures 

Hey everyone! This may be my last episode of 2023. Thanks for joining me for another year of van life adventures! Hope everyone has a great holiday season, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. See you in 2024 with some fresh new adventures!

Hi Foresty Forest! Here's a Christmas gift and a warm thank you for all the joy you have given me over the years. Your adventures inspire me to challenge myself and embrace uncertainty, and to do my very best to stay positive through hardship and toil. In my books, that's a pretty powerful impact for one man and his dog to make in the world! Thanks for so generously sharing your life with us, and I hope you have a wonderful holiday season. 🥰

Loved the bionic man jumping sound as Rocko made that epic leap 😂

OMG, the 6 Million Dollar Man sound effect was GOLD!

You’re part of the good things in life, Mr.Foresty❤️

Coffee and dog treat fund. We love you and appreciate you Simon... Stay safe ❤️🙏❤️

Best channel I watch. You don’t sell me stuff I don’t need, you don’t do most what other channels do to try to drum up interest, you just show yours and Rocko’s life doing stuff that most of us would like to try. Thank you for just being you…

Thanks!

🎄 Thanks Again! and Merry Christmas.

Foresty Forest, he lives in a van! Merry Christmas to you and Rocko

Thank you for the adventures, Seasons greetings to you and Rocco x

Thanks for bringing us along on your wonderful adventures !

You are amazing and so is Rocko! That leap across the water by her and then just strolling up & down that steep wall showed her skills. Thanks for always taking us along & wishing you both safe & peaceful adventures in the coming hear.❤✌️

I admire the way you combine a sense of adventure with a clear, level-headed, safe approach for yourself and Rocko. Thanks for sharing your adventures with us.

Merry Christmas Foresty Forest!! Keep being your awesome self. We all love you🤗🎄🎅🏻😃🎉🛶🏔️🏕️!!

Merry Christmas and thanks for all you do.

Keep up the good work!!!

I love how you spend your spare time!

YESSSSSS the theme song is BACK! Not gonna lie hearing the intro kinda made my day!

Thanks for all the beauty you share and for going beyond your comfort zone with every video. YOU are awesome (and your little dog, too!) Merry Christmas!

Thanks for all the great videos !!!

Thanks for taking us with you on so many great adventures this year. It has been wonderful to be able to see these fabulous wild spots. Really appreciate all the effort and skill you display in producing these amazing videos. Please stay safe.

Didn't know Rocco is bionic now it makes sense 😂 she was even going after the raft.👍

My six-year-old sings your jingle every time we watch you she was thrilled to hear it in this episode. Thank you. you’re awesome and you’re an inspiration. Have a great Christmas.

Lol the bionic dog jump! 🤗✌️

Thanks for sharing

I appreciate you, Simon and all your awesome content! You and Rocko are my favorite channel❣️ 🐾 You guys bring me joy by following your adventures and I treasure your humor! 😁

Dude that theme song is SICK!!!!

Finding moki steps and using them to scale those cliffs sounds like an incredible experience! Foresty, you were truly following and climbing in the footsteps of the ancient inhabitants of those canyons! I wonder if it gave you a mystical sensation to be able to do that! We will miss you if you decide to take a little break over the holidays, but we know that you work really hard to produce these videos, and everyone deserves time off now and then. Of course, if you do get bored and decide to post something, we would love to see it. We can always rewatch all of your fantastic previous Foresty Forest videos while you are on vacation. Congratulations, Foresty, on hitting 385K subscribers!! Happy Birthday to Rocko on her second birthday on December 25!!

Love that you brought the theme song back! Rocko’s life jacket 🥹

Kiitos!

Rocko! The bionic, rock eating, wonder dog!!!💕

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you as well. Utah is such an amazing place and you are bringing me places I will never venture into, even with my adventure van. Take care.

Merry Christmas, Simon! Thank you for another amazing year. Don't change a thing! We love all your content. Safe travels.

LOL, Rocko gives new meaning to the term "rockhounding" - I initially thought she caught a fish! Super bionic dog for super bionic Simon! Those moki steps were an awesome find and probably saved your bacon as well. Thank you for another amazing video!

Those multi steps carved into the cliffs by natives who knows how long ago are so cool and so is the modern bionic dog.

Love the 'bionic dog' sound effect! Rocco's worth 6 Million!

Rocko is amazing❗️I love the way she knew the agenda was to retrieve the naughty raft❗️😄😅She really is a clever hound and was just made for the lifestyle 👏🏼⭐️

Van fixed, great start. Beautiful colours in that little canyon. Rocky is hilarious breathing bubbles and leaping like a 6 Million Dollar Dog! Yes Simon, this trek was a total Win! That invincible raft blowing back, firewood and carved climbholds. Thankyou for sharing your gift with us. Happy and Holy Christmas Simon. 🎄❤ Love from Queensland Australia. 🐞🇦🇺 T

Danke!

Great to see you up and running again!

The original jingle is back! 🎉

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year❤

Great news about the van and Rocko is as cute as ever 🐶 What an incredible amount of spectacular adventures and footage you've shared with us throughout 2023 it's hard to imagine 2024 could top it but you always exceed our expectations 🦸Don't forget to let the wood stove go out next week so jolly St. Nick can get down your chimney 🎅

First time posting a comment on your channel, but Merry Christmas and happy New Year! Your video's have been nothing but top quality all these years and I don't get tired of watching them.

As a dweller of the UK, i'm so jealous of the scenery and space in the USA .... you jammy buggers

Lake Powell is stunning. I was there around 2005ish…I’m so happy you decided to get a dog. 🤗✌️

Merry Christmas and happy new year Foresty and Rocko 🥰🎄 Thank you for another year of awesome content that we know how hard you worked for. We appreciate your effort and we hope the adventure continues in the following year. Take care buddy 🤗

Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas Forestry and Rocco. I love the way Rocco keeps up with the climbing she has been a very good girl.

Am retired now and my social security is more than enough to pay my bills. My 2000 Ford Econoline Van does the job even with only 2WD but I have the equipment to get unstuck if needed. You are right the number of homeless is getting bigger and this is why I think it's best to stay out of the towns and cities and only do shopping there, but I never camp in parking lots anymore. Have fun, Mike currently in Oregon.

HEY! Hello Foresty and Rocko! Merry Christmas to you !!🎄

Best no summit video! Those steps were really cool. Rocko really helped add perspective to those climbs, easier to visualize the steepness.

The Six million Dollar Man sound effects for Rocko jumping the water, were classic!!!

I love your stuff. Mochi steps are fun to find walking in those ancient footsteps. As for your good fortune (and hard work creating these videos) to do what you do I couldn't think of a better guy that it could happen to. Thank you for your great content.

zee Beatles have nothing to fear as regards your music intro :) Class vid.

Seriously this is my favorite RU-vid channel. Whether it’s hiking, cooking or van enhancements, I’m hooked! Another awesome adventure Simon! Keep putting out the good work!

Thanks for bringing back the foresty song! He lives in a van! Merry christmas

Thanks for the great episodes in 2023! I really enjoy seeing Rocco. She reminds me of our late Jack Russell named Cozmo. There was no quit in that dog either. :)

Foresty Forest he lives in a van!! I miss that, glad to hear it and sad, it's your last episode for 2023 😢. Hope you and Rocco have a great Christmas and a wonderful new year. Well miss y'all ❤ love the beautiful view.

Rocko is part Mountain goat for climbing that wall the way he did at 8:40

Best vlog on the planet, my favorite channel. And that damn dog is the cutest thing ever!!!!

My favorite theme song 🎵 😊🎉

You are such a brave young man! From crossing Lake Powell in a weakened raft to climbing such treacherous cliffs. Thanks for sharing your adventures. You remain my favorite RU-vid person. Enjoy the Christmas break…..Hope you can see some of your family and friends. Stay safe!

Merry Christmas from a Michigan Fan.

Merry Christmas, Foresty!

Beautiful visuals this episode. Nice to see Rocko livin the life😂. Take care.

You are a national treasure. I am so grateful for your videos. Takes me out of my element and is very relaxing.

I'm 60 yrs. old and diabetic. I can't get out there like I used to. I pretty much do my adventuring through your videos. So keep them coming! Oh, one more thing. I really appreciate that your videos aren't just of you grinding coffee beans and making coffee like most of the other videos, that gets pretty old. And good job taking care of your dog so well.

Merry Christmas! Here’s to another year 🎉

I stop whatever I'm doing and watch! From the opening song, Rocko sharpening her teeth on a rock, the amazing utah landscape, your great smile until the end, it's soo well done Foresty! Merry Christmas and happy new year, see you in 2024😍

Great to hear the return of the opening song ! And nice add with the bionic sound effect. Wishing you and Rocko a very Merry HoHo and a great 2024!

yessss its been so long since the intro music!!

Don't ever feel guilty for living your dreams, whilst others do it tough. You allow us all to escape for a short time and come with you. You pretty much single handedly got me through the covid years. Have a great Xmas.

Did you watch B&B's Darien Gap exploits? So did I (and shared with my husband). The world is a sad place. Those of us who can carve out safe and secure places to be are indeed the fortunate ones. Happy Holidays my friend.

Amazing views! Cannot even imagine those climbs you and Rocco did. Thanks for taking us along. Stay safe. Merry Christmas!

Arizona is a great choice. It has many small and medium mountain ranges place a huge number of great hikes and many with great vistas across the desert. The north is cooler of course as is the east, due to altitude, but central and south have small mountain ranges with nice vistas and wildlife. Thank you for showing nice hikes in Arizona! To help the less fortunate I volunteer at the food bank regularly. We pack food boxes that are distributed in southeast Arizona, and there are people who give food on site. The food is provided by federal money. Although it is a big operation, the vast majority of food for the needy comes from other US Department of Agriculture food programs. Anybody can sign up to volunteer at many food banks, on their web sites. Demand is high. It is very rewarding, the feeling.

AHHHH I'm so glad you mentioned Channel 5 News--the dude's the best reporter out there.

Thanks for the entertainment. Absolutely love your pup 😊 Merry Christmas Forestyforest

Love your adventures!! Rocco is rock hound LOL.

Rocko, the six million dollar JRT! Merry Christmas to you and Rocko! See you next year!

We ❤ you and Rocko, Simon. Looking forward to 2024 with you.

So happy to see you and to hear your theme again! It's been awhile.

Rocko! Turns out the name really suits her.❤

All that beautiful scenery rendered incomprehensible by stop action.

Thank you Simon from NZ!!!!

S.S. Paranoia had me laughing out loud while my wife and daughter wondered what I was doing! Rocko has become quite the miniature mountain goat hasn’t she? Thank you for sharing your adventures with us, have a wonderful holiday and break from TubeYou! PS: Your travels are never failures, you went on an adventure, saw new places, climbed new walls and took us along. How is that ever a fail?

Rocko is such a cool dog...excellent video...😊

"The S. S. Paranoia" lol... I remember when that little raft first showed up. Those were stressful times. I musta watched that video 40 times for therapy. Still grateful. It's funny, just when I had the thought "He's had that little raft for a while now" the very next moment, is when it blew away. I literally 'laughed out loud.' Glad you got her back though. Stay safe out there and cheers!

Still the greatest intro song of any channel on RU-vid. Merry Christmas. Happy new year. Safe and healthy travels.

Nice hike Foresty. Keep up the great travels

There is an ancient Aboriginal saying, It's a Three Dog Night - meaning it's going to be a cold night. I also camp and adventure with a little mix Jack Russell, 11 years now and no matter how cold it gets I've never got a chill with that dog under some good covers:) Three Dog Night is also an awesome rock band.

He put the song back on!! Have a good Christmas my man! Stay safe! (Far from bighorns) :)

Thanks for finishing up the year with the glorious Intro theme music!

Hey the theme song is back! It looks like the cave you slept next to had possible native dwellings at some point. Happy Holidays to you and Rocko!

7:56 Whoa. As ever, Foresty Forest gets triple the points: this climb, with a dog, and filming it from multiple viewpoints. Dang.

The bionic man sound effect was great. At 6 and 7 years old it was my favorite show to watch on sunday nights.

That was a class act to go out on. Well crafted adventure. Like something out a movie. Blow up your xmas boat and head across the water; sleeping under the stars beside a roaring fire. Brilliant!

That was quite a trip!

Thanks Foresty. Your channel is the gift to a lot of us. Merry Christmas to you and Rocko

I'm so glad you have Rocko to go on adventures with you. And I am thankful that you share your adventures with me a Nana from Montana and my Pony 🐈‍⬛