1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:02,136 --> 00:00:04,772 [bright music] 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:11,312 --> 00:00:16,350 [dramatic music] [footsteps crunching] 5 00:00:17,218 --> 00:00:18,686 [Gary] It was easier for me to say no 6 00:00:18,819 --> 00:00:21,089 because it was more familiar for me to say no 7 00:00:21,222 --> 00:00:23,491 than it was for me to take a chance. 8 00:00:23,624 --> 00:00:28,629 [dramatic music] [footsteps crunching] 9 00:00:29,330 --> 00:00:30,398 [water splashing] 10 00:00:30,531 --> 00:00:32,166 So it kind of started as a joke. 11 00:00:33,601 --> 00:00:35,169 Well, what if we hiked from Mexico to Canada? 12 00:00:35,303 --> 00:00:36,104 [Gary grunting] 13 00:00:36,237 --> 00:00:37,971 [Mary squealing] 14 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:41,875 [Gary] I don't know, I thought about it and I watched videos 15 00:00:42,009 --> 00:00:43,043 and it looked fun. 16 00:00:44,778 --> 00:00:46,013 And so I said, "Let's do it." 17 00:00:46,147 --> 00:00:48,916 [dramatic music] 18 00:00:56,690 --> 00:00:57,891 [man on video] ...what I'll be carrying 19 00:00:58,025 --> 00:01:00,261 for my new hike of the Pacific Crest Trail. 20 00:01:00,394 --> 00:01:03,231 Now I did a series of videos called Gear for the PCT 21 00:01:03,364 --> 00:01:04,865 where I broke down the individual... 22 00:01:04,998 --> 00:01:09,903 [Gary] In LA, I'm just a dude trying to make it as a writer, 23 00:01:10,070 --> 00:01:12,740 write for TV, write some movies. 24 00:01:12,873 --> 00:01:14,775 [soft music] 25 00:01:14,908 --> 00:01:16,009 [dog barks] 26 00:01:16,144 --> 00:01:19,213 The thought of choosing to just be outside 27 00:01:19,347 --> 00:01:20,614 and like rough it, 28 00:01:21,415 --> 00:01:22,750 I was curious about it, 29 00:01:22,883 --> 00:01:25,253 but like, I was never going to do it. 30 00:01:25,386 --> 00:01:28,589 Like, I like being clean. [laughs] 31 00:01:29,089 --> 00:01:32,293 [gentle music] 32 00:01:32,426 --> 00:01:35,929 The PCT is a trail that starts at the Mexican border, 33 00:01:36,063 --> 00:01:38,866 goes through California, Oregon, Washington, 34 00:01:38,999 --> 00:01:40,968 and ends at the Canadian border. 35 00:01:41,101 --> 00:01:43,771 It's about 2,600 miles long 36 00:01:43,904 --> 00:01:46,274 and takes about five to six months to complete. 37 00:01:47,308 --> 00:01:51,145 About a thousand or so people start 38 00:01:51,279 --> 00:01:54,148 and only a couple hundred people finish. 39 00:01:57,218 --> 00:02:00,321 My mom raised me and my sister on her own. 40 00:02:01,555 --> 00:02:03,157 I'm very much like her, 41 00:02:04,292 --> 00:02:07,795 in that we're both kind of quiet and reserved 42 00:02:07,928 --> 00:02:10,998 and open up to the people close to us, 43 00:02:11,131 --> 00:02:14,602 but like, around new people, it feels tough to open up. 44 00:02:18,939 --> 00:02:20,974 Her biggest thing was that I was leaving a job, 45 00:02:21,108 --> 00:02:25,379 like leaving stable income to have no stable income, 46 00:02:25,513 --> 00:02:28,148 to just like figure out what I wanted to do with life. 47 00:02:29,617 --> 00:02:31,652 It scares her whenever I like, do those things 48 00:02:31,785 --> 00:02:33,687 that push me out of my comfort zone. 49 00:02:34,955 --> 00:02:38,326 My grandma, growing up in the Jim Crow South, 50 00:02:39,293 --> 00:02:41,629 I was like, it's a life or death situation at that point, 51 00:02:41,962 --> 00:02:43,864 like being in the outdoors. 52 00:02:43,997 --> 00:02:45,333 I think that gets passed down. 53 00:02:45,466 --> 00:02:47,668 Like, I never thought of it that deeply before, 54 00:02:47,801 --> 00:02:51,305 but like that is why I don't explore the outdoors, 55 00:02:51,439 --> 00:02:52,640 because my mom didn't 56 00:02:52,773 --> 00:02:54,475 and she didn't because my grandma didn't 57 00:02:54,708 --> 00:02:56,810 and she didn't because of racism 58 00:02:56,944 --> 00:03:00,281 of like real shit, like real stakes, 59 00:03:01,282 --> 00:03:03,517 and I don't know. 60 00:03:03,651 --> 00:03:07,154 I just hated the fact that I had a fear in me 61 00:03:07,288 --> 00:03:08,822 that wasn't mine. 62 00:03:12,192 --> 00:03:13,494 I leave for the trail in four days. 63 00:03:19,166 --> 00:03:21,134 [woman] So can you explain what this is you're buying? 64 00:03:22,202 --> 00:03:23,537 A poop trowel. 65 00:03:23,671 --> 00:03:25,172 Be serious. This is serious. 66 00:03:25,306 --> 00:03:27,341 'Cause this is good for the environment. 67 00:03:27,475 --> 00:03:30,278 A poop trowel is a tool that you use 68 00:03:30,411 --> 00:03:32,880 to dig a hole, six inches deep, 69 00:03:33,681 --> 00:03:38,719 so that you can relieve your bowels into a hole in the woods 70 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,089 [laughing] and cover it back up. 71 00:03:42,956 --> 00:03:44,458 Leave no trace as they say, 72 00:03:45,759 --> 00:03:49,029 as I've heard. [laughs] 73 00:03:50,498 --> 00:03:51,765 I have a insight. 74 00:03:52,766 --> 00:03:54,535 - [woman] What? - [Gary] I realize, 75 00:03:54,668 --> 00:03:57,104 I realize what my favorite part of the outdoors is. 76 00:03:57,237 --> 00:03:58,706 - [woman] What? - Shopping. 77 00:03:58,839 --> 00:04:00,474 [pair laughing] 78 00:04:00,908 --> 00:04:02,710 [upbeat music] 79 00:04:02,843 --> 00:04:05,646 [Gary] The idea to hike the Pacific Crest Trail came 80 00:04:05,779 --> 00:04:07,948 from watching my friend, Mary, 81 00:04:08,081 --> 00:04:09,182 hike the Appalachian Trail. 82 00:04:09,317 --> 00:04:11,251 I feel supported, [indistinct] 83 00:04:11,385 --> 00:04:13,287 but then it's kind of nice... 84 00:04:14,922 --> 00:04:17,057 Mary grew up doing a lot of adventurous stuff, 85 00:04:17,558 --> 00:04:18,759 like her parents used 86 00:04:18,892 --> 00:04:21,829 to take her paddle boarding and camping. 87 00:04:22,095 --> 00:04:25,466 She hiked the Appalachian Trail all by herself. 88 00:04:27,100 --> 00:04:31,004 I've known Mary for about 13 years. 89 00:04:31,204 --> 00:04:35,376 We met all the way back in community college. 90 00:04:35,509 --> 00:04:37,378 We both took circus class. 91 00:04:39,780 --> 00:04:42,082 After a while, we became skating partners, 92 00:04:42,215 --> 00:04:45,319 so we were able to team up 93 00:04:45,453 --> 00:04:49,390 and do something weird and crazy and unexpected. 94 00:04:49,757 --> 00:04:52,125 Anytime I look back at the interesting, weird, 95 00:04:52,259 --> 00:04:55,496 crazy things I've done, Mary was a part of it. 96 00:04:55,629 --> 00:04:57,965 [upbeat music] 97 00:04:58,366 --> 00:05:00,000 [Mary laughing] 98 00:05:00,133 --> 00:05:01,469 [Gary] It is the moment. 99 00:05:01,969 --> 00:05:04,605 [Mary] I think we look good. [laughs] 100 00:05:04,738 --> 00:05:05,939 [Gary] Mary's bringing a camera 101 00:05:06,073 --> 00:05:08,342 to document our experience on the trail. 102 00:05:09,209 --> 00:05:11,345 [upbeat music] 103 00:05:14,448 --> 00:05:17,150 Oh, I got my poop shovel. [laughs] 104 00:05:19,853 --> 00:05:22,423 I was thinking more like a gardening spade, you know? 105 00:05:22,556 --> 00:05:24,458 - [Gary] Yeah. - Just like a full blown, 106 00:05:24,592 --> 00:05:26,694 - like, shovel. - [Gary] Yeah. 107 00:05:26,827 --> 00:05:28,128 There was one that was like plastic 108 00:05:28,261 --> 00:05:29,497 - which makes me-- - But I guess this makes, 109 00:05:29,630 --> 00:05:30,931 it's like, 110 00:05:31,064 --> 00:05:31,999 - doesn't take up space and like - [Gary] But that's, yeah, 111 00:05:32,132 --> 00:05:33,667 it's a lighter version. 112 00:05:33,934 --> 00:05:35,068 I'll touch it now 113 00:05:35,202 --> 00:05:36,604 but I will not be touching it when you get back. 114 00:05:36,737 --> 00:05:39,807 [Gary] Oh well, guess who said we could share a poop trowel? 115 00:05:40,841 --> 00:05:42,543 - Gross! - She was like, 116 00:05:42,676 --> 00:05:44,177 you could get that, 'cause it was like 20 bucks. 117 00:05:44,311 --> 00:05:45,679 - I was like-- - [laughing] 118 00:05:46,013 --> 00:05:47,448 ...she was like, well we could just share it. 119 00:05:47,581 --> 00:05:49,983 Do you want to though? Should you share it? 120 00:05:50,117 --> 00:05:51,318 [Mary] It was a joke. 121 00:05:51,452 --> 00:05:52,853 - [laughing] - I dunno, it sounded, 122 00:05:52,986 --> 00:05:55,856 it sounded, I felt like it sounded like a joke? 123 00:05:55,989 --> 00:05:58,692 [funky music] 124 00:05:58,826 --> 00:05:59,760 [Gary] All right. 125 00:06:01,429 --> 00:06:03,464 My goal today 126 00:06:03,731 --> 00:06:07,735 is to make it to that point right up there. 127 00:06:11,972 --> 00:06:14,374 This is, let's see, 128 00:06:15,843 --> 00:06:19,580 preparation hike for the PCT. 129 00:06:19,980 --> 00:06:22,683 [wind whistling] 130 00:06:24,284 --> 00:06:26,654 That was intense, 131 00:06:27,555 --> 00:06:28,722 but I made it, 132 00:06:29,523 --> 00:06:32,259 intense, but I made it, intense. 133 00:06:34,361 --> 00:06:36,797 It's tough to actually say 134 00:06:36,930 --> 00:06:40,968 I feel like I'm prepared just through these practice hikes. 135 00:06:41,101 --> 00:06:42,703 I feel like nothing's gonna prepare me 136 00:06:42,836 --> 00:06:45,639 for when I'm actually living out there, 137 00:06:45,773 --> 00:06:49,610 but I've been hiking with weights in my backpack. 138 00:06:50,077 --> 00:06:53,681 I've been hiking during the hottest parts of the day 139 00:06:54,047 --> 00:06:55,449 to try to mimic the desert, 140 00:06:55,583 --> 00:06:56,684 to see how hot it's gonna be 141 00:06:56,817 --> 00:06:58,118 or how it's gonna feel. 142 00:06:59,219 --> 00:07:01,522 [wind whistling] 143 00:07:01,655 --> 00:07:03,423 This is so fucking beautiful. 144 00:07:04,057 --> 00:07:05,593 It's right there. 145 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:12,232 It's so crazy how close the city is to nature. 146 00:07:14,067 --> 00:07:16,169 I don't know. I guess it's just getting real. 147 00:07:16,303 --> 00:07:18,271 [gentle music] 148 00:07:18,405 --> 00:07:21,475 I've been hiking with my friend, Adrienne, 149 00:07:21,609 --> 00:07:22,910 who's been helping me out, 150 00:07:23,443 --> 00:07:26,780 which is with motivation and just having a buddy there 151 00:07:26,914 --> 00:07:31,952 to take my mind off the actual hiking part of it. 152 00:07:32,319 --> 00:07:33,286 I'm so proud of you. 153 00:07:33,420 --> 00:07:34,988 [Gary laughing] 154 00:07:35,388 --> 00:07:37,390 I can't believe you're gone in three days. 155 00:07:37,525 --> 00:07:38,291 I know. 156 00:07:38,425 --> 00:07:39,292 Yeah. 157 00:07:40,227 --> 00:07:41,495 Still feel like... 158 00:07:41,629 --> 00:07:45,132 When I first decided to do it, I was super excited. 159 00:07:45,265 --> 00:07:49,603 I was like, oh, I get to like leave society 160 00:07:49,737 --> 00:07:53,206 and be out in the woods and like rough it. 161 00:07:53,340 --> 00:07:56,577 It's gonna be fun with my friend, Mary, 162 00:07:56,710 --> 00:07:59,780 like, doing some cool shit. 163 00:08:01,348 --> 00:08:04,284 Be honest, it's actually making me nervous. 164 00:08:04,885 --> 00:08:06,520 I'm really nervous. 165 00:08:06,654 --> 00:08:10,624 [soft music] [wind whispering] 166 00:08:10,958 --> 00:08:12,159 [Mary] So why are you doing it? 167 00:08:12,726 --> 00:08:14,695 What's the reasoning for cutting your hair? 168 00:08:15,596 --> 00:08:16,797 It's a lot. 169 00:08:16,930 --> 00:08:18,532 It's like I've grown a relationship with my hair, 170 00:08:19,499 --> 00:08:21,001 and now I'm like getting rid of it. 171 00:08:21,134 --> 00:08:22,670 So it just feels like another part of me 172 00:08:22,803 --> 00:08:25,005 that I'm letting go to do the trail. 173 00:08:26,039 --> 00:08:27,207 [Al] How you feeling? 174 00:08:28,308 --> 00:08:29,710 [Gary sighs] Especially this week, 175 00:08:29,843 --> 00:08:31,779 it just feels like so much letting go 176 00:08:32,646 --> 00:08:33,747 and like even this, 177 00:08:33,881 --> 00:08:35,348 like this is the last time I'm seeing you, 178 00:08:35,482 --> 00:08:37,017 but then also like I'm letting go of my hair. 179 00:08:37,150 --> 00:08:39,219 It's just like, how much... 180 00:08:39,352 --> 00:08:40,721 'Cause like, even though I signed up for it, 181 00:08:40,854 --> 00:08:42,790 it's like, damn, how much... 182 00:08:42,923 --> 00:08:44,692 do I gotta keep giving up just to do-- 183 00:08:44,825 --> 00:08:46,994 like keep sacrificing just doing this thing? 184 00:08:47,327 --> 00:08:48,862 You have to sacrifice some things 185 00:08:48,996 --> 00:08:50,497 to become that new person. 186 00:08:50,631 --> 00:08:51,599 [Al] To become that new person 187 00:08:51,732 --> 00:08:53,066 and you gotta let some people go. 188 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:54,434 And you gotta let people go. 189 00:08:54,568 --> 00:08:56,503 [Al] Yeah, make sure he don't come back because... 190 00:08:56,637 --> 00:08:59,072 [dramatic music] [indistinct chattering] 191 00:08:59,773 --> 00:09:01,508 [Gary] I'm hiking the trail for freedom. 192 00:09:01,842 --> 00:09:02,843 [Gary laughing] 193 00:09:02,976 --> 00:09:04,912 Freedom from my comfort zone, 194 00:09:05,045 --> 00:09:07,480 freedom from generational fears passed down, 195 00:09:07,615 --> 00:09:10,951 freedom from the expression, "Black people don't do that." 196 00:09:11,084 --> 00:09:14,087 [dramatic music] [razor buzzing] 197 00:09:14,221 --> 00:09:15,522 Really, dude, everybody. 198 00:09:15,656 --> 00:09:16,757 It's like, well, why? 199 00:09:16,890 --> 00:09:20,527 They all scrunch up they face and say, "Why?" 200 00:09:20,861 --> 00:09:23,731 Well, a lot of people are definitely fearful. 201 00:09:23,864 --> 00:09:24,865 [Gary] Yeah. Yeah. 202 00:09:24,998 --> 00:09:26,199 - [Al] I mean, you know? - It's real. 203 00:09:26,333 --> 00:09:28,101 [Al] Black people out there on the trail. 204 00:09:28,235 --> 00:09:30,370 We ain't never been out there on no trails like that. 205 00:09:30,503 --> 00:09:32,572 You know? Historically. 206 00:09:33,073 --> 00:09:34,507 [Gary] Growing up Black, 207 00:09:34,642 --> 00:09:36,877 a lot of times I felt like I was always being watched. 208 00:09:37,010 --> 00:09:38,278 Whenever I went into a store, 209 00:09:38,411 --> 00:09:40,881 I would automatically try to be the good one. 210 00:09:41,348 --> 00:09:43,116 - It was instinctual. - [siren blaring] 211 00:09:43,250 --> 00:09:45,218 I was less conscious of it then. 212 00:09:45,352 --> 00:09:48,388 But as I grew older, I could feel my body code switch 213 00:09:48,521 --> 00:09:51,925 on its own in the moment and that's what I wanna be free of. 214 00:09:52,059 --> 00:09:54,227 [dramatic music] 215 00:09:54,361 --> 00:09:57,064 [woman laughing] 216 00:09:57,197 --> 00:09:58,431 [Gary chuckles] 217 00:10:00,433 --> 00:10:01,301 Okay. 218 00:10:03,303 --> 00:10:05,072 Dang. This is a hefty setup. 219 00:10:08,942 --> 00:10:10,811 Empty mesh bag in the back there. 220 00:10:11,645 --> 00:10:13,213 Strap me in, dude. 221 00:10:14,848 --> 00:10:16,616 - Look at you. - You look like a camper. 222 00:10:16,750 --> 00:10:17,818 [Gary laughing] 223 00:10:18,585 --> 00:10:21,989 I mean, pack is gonna take a minute to get used to it. 224 00:10:22,122 --> 00:10:23,090 Yeah. 225 00:10:23,223 --> 00:10:28,095 But it doesn't feel like heavy. 226 00:10:28,228 --> 00:10:30,163 It didn't feel as heavy as like when I was just lifting it. 227 00:10:30,297 --> 00:10:31,098 Like, that was like heavy, 228 00:10:31,231 --> 00:10:32,632 but this feels like okay. 229 00:10:33,033 --> 00:10:34,802 [Mary laughing] 230 00:10:35,135 --> 00:10:37,771 Getting the camera taken by mom. 231 00:10:38,939 --> 00:10:41,374 [woman] All right. Do a funny one. 232 00:10:42,242 --> 00:10:43,643 [Gary laughing] 233 00:10:44,311 --> 00:10:47,014 [man] Be excited. At least act like you're excited. 234 00:10:47,147 --> 00:10:49,750 Yay. I'm leaving soon! [cheers] 235 00:10:49,883 --> 00:10:51,852 [woman] Definitely not nervous at all. 236 00:10:51,985 --> 00:10:53,553 Not nervous at all. 237 00:10:53,687 --> 00:10:56,556 [woman] Definitely not regretting anything whatsoever. 238 00:10:56,690 --> 00:10:57,725 What is fear? 239 00:11:12,272 --> 00:11:14,975 [Mary] I'm so happy I'm doing this with you. 240 00:11:15,108 --> 00:11:17,711 [Gary] Doing something that like absolutely scares me 241 00:11:17,845 --> 00:11:21,181 and knowing that like my life is gonna be different 242 00:11:21,314 --> 00:11:22,182 on the other end 243 00:11:22,983 --> 00:11:25,318 and that I don't know what part 244 00:11:25,452 --> 00:11:29,056 of now changes or disappears at the end of it, 245 00:11:29,990 --> 00:11:32,425 and it's like all of that. 246 00:11:33,260 --> 00:11:34,661 So it's like scared 247 00:11:34,795 --> 00:11:39,032 but also like excited to see what I become on the other end 248 00:11:39,166 --> 00:11:42,135 but unsure if I even change or how I change. 249 00:11:42,269 --> 00:11:43,570 [Mary] Yeah. 250 00:11:43,703 --> 00:11:46,239 [solemn music] 251 00:11:46,373 --> 00:11:48,608 [Gary] One of my biggest fears is 252 00:11:48,742 --> 00:11:51,845 that the depression I had worked so hard 253 00:11:51,979 --> 00:11:56,616 to try to like get comfortable with, 254 00:11:58,051 --> 00:11:59,019 the fear was that, 255 00:11:59,853 --> 00:12:01,454 when I start hiking the trail, 256 00:12:03,056 --> 00:12:07,727 is that depression just gonna like rise to the top? 257 00:12:10,330 --> 00:12:11,731 - That easy. - [woman] Easy. 258 00:12:11,865 --> 00:12:13,233 You just gotta do this for like five months. 259 00:12:13,366 --> 00:12:14,201 [woman] Yeah, something like it. 260 00:12:14,334 --> 00:12:15,268 - [Gary] Hey, you got it? - Yeah. 261 00:12:15,402 --> 00:12:16,569 [Gary] That's the first step. 262 00:12:17,237 --> 00:12:20,607 [birds chirping] [slow music] 263 00:12:23,977 --> 00:12:25,913 [insects chirping] 264 00:12:26,446 --> 00:12:28,348 [Mary] Look at him. 265 00:12:33,253 --> 00:12:35,422 - Ready to go? - [Mary] Mm-hmm. 266 00:12:36,523 --> 00:12:37,757 Have a great trip, man. 267 00:12:37,891 --> 00:12:40,994 I look forward to hearing all about it and seeing it. 268 00:12:43,496 --> 00:12:46,233 - See you in a bit? - See you in a bit. 269 00:12:46,366 --> 00:12:48,902 [solemn music] 270 00:12:49,970 --> 00:12:52,305 [Gary] Just have to establish you as the driver. 271 00:12:53,073 --> 00:12:54,241 It's an establishing shot. 272 00:12:54,374 --> 00:12:59,412 I am the official PCT driver delivery girl. 273 00:13:00,180 --> 00:13:03,250 [solemn music] 274 00:13:07,387 --> 00:13:11,258 [hikers humming and laughing] 275 00:13:14,761 --> 00:13:18,565 [Shaniqua speaking indistinctly] 276 00:13:18,932 --> 00:13:21,268 [Gary laughing] 277 00:13:24,204 --> 00:13:27,407 Well, I just wanted to see your face one last time, 278 00:13:27,540 --> 00:13:30,543 sending you all my love and prayer and support. 279 00:13:30,677 --> 00:13:31,979 I'm so excited for you. 280 00:13:32,112 --> 00:13:34,982 I'm so happy for you and I'm so proud of you. 281 00:13:35,748 --> 00:13:36,683 I'm gonna cry. 282 00:13:37,017 --> 00:13:39,953 - [Gary] Stop. - [woman] Don't make me, I'm... 283 00:13:40,453 --> 00:13:42,122 [Gary] I love you, I love you, I love you. 284 00:13:42,255 --> 00:13:43,823 - Thank you. Thank you. - Have fun. 285 00:13:43,957 --> 00:13:47,060 And I can't wait to see you when this is all over. 286 00:13:47,560 --> 00:13:49,696 You too, sis. [laughs] 287 00:13:50,030 --> 00:13:51,364 All right. Love you. 288 00:13:51,798 --> 00:13:53,033 [Shaniqua] Love you too. 289 00:13:53,166 --> 00:13:55,468 [contemplative music] 290 00:13:59,839 --> 00:14:01,374 [Marc] PCT turn left here. 291 00:14:01,508 --> 00:14:04,711 [contemplative music] 292 00:14:12,953 --> 00:14:14,754 [crying softly] 293 00:14:16,056 --> 00:14:17,690 [laughing] 294 00:14:22,495 --> 00:14:24,564 Oh, we're starting it, Gar. 295 00:14:24,697 --> 00:14:26,166 [Gary] Yeah, we are. 296 00:14:26,366 --> 00:14:27,467 Gah! [Gary chuckles] 297 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:29,669 [woman] You know it's, yeah, they made it. 298 00:14:29,802 --> 00:14:31,171 Say adventure. 299 00:14:31,304 --> 00:14:33,273 [both] Adventure! 300 00:14:33,673 --> 00:14:36,109 [soft music] 301 00:14:38,311 --> 00:14:40,013 [Legend] Welcome to our version 302 00:14:40,147 --> 00:14:43,016 of the first official trail magic on the PCT. 303 00:14:46,987 --> 00:14:48,155 [Mary] First steps. [laughs] 304 00:14:48,288 --> 00:14:49,957 First steps. 305 00:14:50,723 --> 00:14:54,227 Remember, you are loved and you love everybody. 306 00:14:54,361 --> 00:14:56,496 Second one is remember to care for everybody 307 00:14:56,629 --> 00:14:57,965 and everybody cares for you. 308 00:14:58,098 --> 00:14:59,199 And that's the magic of the trail. 309 00:14:59,332 --> 00:15:01,935 The sodas, the food and everything else, 310 00:15:02,069 --> 00:15:03,603 that's gonna occur, but it only happens 311 00:15:03,736 --> 00:15:05,973 because we all believe every day that it's gonna happen. 312 00:15:06,106 --> 00:15:09,342 [inspirational music] 313 00:15:11,211 --> 00:15:14,547 [wind whispering] 314 00:15:14,681 --> 00:15:18,218 [Gary] The desert section is pretty tough. 315 00:15:18,351 --> 00:15:21,521 The terrain is pretty rough as far as just being dry 316 00:15:21,654 --> 00:15:23,423 and a lot of your stuff 317 00:15:23,556 --> 00:15:26,226 and gear gets really dusty and dirty. 318 00:15:26,359 --> 00:15:29,796 So it's a really volatile environment to start off in. 319 00:15:30,964 --> 00:15:34,834 [Gary] * I can go anywhere ♪ 320 00:15:34,968 --> 00:15:36,303 [Mary] * Anywhere ♪ 321 00:15:36,436 --> 00:15:39,139 [wind whipping] 322 00:15:40,307 --> 00:15:43,110 [metal clinking] 323 00:15:44,944 --> 00:15:46,980 [breath blowing] 324 00:15:52,685 --> 00:15:53,987 [Mary] What you making? 325 00:15:54,121 --> 00:15:56,189 Mac and cheese is for dinner tonight. 326 00:15:57,557 --> 00:15:59,726 [Mary] And we've made a new friend today. 327 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:02,629 [Gary] Honestly, it tastes like that, 328 00:16:02,762 --> 00:16:04,464 the cheese you would get in like, 329 00:16:07,867 --> 00:16:09,502 like a Lunchable. 330 00:16:09,636 --> 00:16:11,271 - [Mary] A Lunchable? - [Gary] Yeah. 331 00:16:13,906 --> 00:16:17,210 It's not as good as it would taste on the stove, but... 332 00:16:20,247 --> 00:16:21,814 - it's dinner. - [Mary chuckles] 333 00:16:23,016 --> 00:16:24,984 [bird chirping] 334 00:16:25,185 --> 00:16:28,655 [sleeping bag crinkling] 335 00:16:31,358 --> 00:16:33,593 Look like I was slobbing all night. 336 00:16:34,627 --> 00:16:35,395 [Mary] New day. 337 00:16:35,995 --> 00:16:38,065 New day. Made it through the first day. 338 00:16:38,265 --> 00:16:39,399 [Mary] Mm-hmm. 339 00:16:40,367 --> 00:16:41,301 All right. 340 00:16:42,902 --> 00:16:44,471 Just five more months. 341 00:16:44,604 --> 00:16:47,307 [Gary laughing] 342 00:16:49,776 --> 00:16:51,311 Five more months to go. 343 00:16:51,444 --> 00:16:52,945 I was like laying down, 344 00:16:54,114 --> 00:16:55,782 and like it sounded like something was walking behind me 345 00:16:55,915 --> 00:16:57,450 and then it stopped, and then all of a sudden, 346 00:16:57,584 --> 00:16:59,819 something just like ran across my head 347 00:16:59,952 --> 00:17:01,788 and I like freaked out. 348 00:17:01,921 --> 00:17:03,156 And I was like, what was that? 349 00:17:03,290 --> 00:17:05,225 And then maybe like 15 minutes later 350 00:17:05,358 --> 00:17:06,993 - I saw you like jump up-- - I heard some noise like, 351 00:17:07,127 --> 00:17:08,495 [Lena hissing] 352 00:17:08,628 --> 00:17:09,829 like over here. 353 00:17:09,962 --> 00:17:11,798 And at first I was like, I'm just gonna ignore that. 354 00:17:11,931 --> 00:17:13,633 I don't know what it is, some animal. 355 00:17:13,766 --> 00:17:16,536 And then all of a sudden, something comes like, zuh-zuh! 356 00:17:16,669 --> 00:17:18,738 [insect buzzing] 357 00:17:18,871 --> 00:17:20,107 [Mary] What are you asking about? 358 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:22,675 I'm asking about how to poop in the woods. 359 00:17:24,311 --> 00:17:26,079 - I got my trowel. - [mischievous music] 360 00:17:26,213 --> 00:17:28,014 I got my wet wipes. 361 00:17:28,148 --> 00:17:29,516 I have a... 362 00:17:29,649 --> 00:17:31,718 - [Mary] Kale? - ...bag to dispose 363 00:17:31,851 --> 00:17:36,589 of... cleaning tools. 364 00:17:36,789 --> 00:17:38,024 [Mary] How do you feel? 365 00:17:38,525 --> 00:17:41,961 Like I gotta poop. [laughing] 366 00:17:42,095 --> 00:17:43,130 [Mary] All right. 367 00:17:44,697 --> 00:17:45,765 I did it! 368 00:17:45,898 --> 00:17:49,001 - [Mary] How was it? - I'm outdoorsy. [laughs] 369 00:17:49,502 --> 00:17:51,771 [mischievous music] [birds chirping] 370 00:17:51,904 --> 00:17:53,306 [Gary] Is that the water? 371 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:56,876 [mischievous music] 372 00:17:57,009 --> 00:17:58,611 [Mary] Yep. That's the water. 373 00:18:00,980 --> 00:18:02,949 It looks appetizing, right? 374 00:18:03,082 --> 00:18:04,016 That's gross. 375 00:18:05,352 --> 00:18:06,586 I'm gonna do it 376 00:18:06,719 --> 00:18:08,020 'cause apparently people are drinking it and it's fine. 377 00:18:08,155 --> 00:18:09,489 And I got this, 378 00:18:09,622 --> 00:18:12,625 but I just want it for the record, gross. 379 00:18:12,925 --> 00:18:16,095 Poison oak literally surrounding the whole thing. 380 00:18:17,830 --> 00:18:19,599 And this beautiful water, 381 00:18:19,732 --> 00:18:23,102 clearly not a sign that we shouldn't be drinking 382 00:18:23,236 --> 00:18:24,471 this sitting water but, 383 00:18:24,604 --> 00:18:25,738 [Mary] Pure poison. 384 00:18:25,872 --> 00:18:26,806 [Gary] Here we are. 385 00:18:26,939 --> 00:18:30,210 [water bubbling] [birds chirping] 386 00:18:34,314 --> 00:18:36,616 [insect buzzing] [water dripping] 387 00:18:36,749 --> 00:18:37,517 [grunts] 388 00:18:44,924 --> 00:18:46,726 - [Gary] * I need you ♪ - [Mary] * I need you ♪ 389 00:18:46,859 --> 00:18:48,961 [Gary] ♪ More than anything, darling ♪ 390 00:18:50,197 --> 00:18:53,966 [Mary] * You know that I have from the start ♪ 391 00:18:55,602 --> 00:18:57,370 ♪ So fill me up ♪ 392 00:18:57,504 --> 00:19:01,674 So far, I am happy with... 393 00:19:03,075 --> 00:19:04,844 with the pace we're going, 394 00:19:05,144 --> 00:19:08,315 what we're doing and why we're doing it. 395 00:19:09,416 --> 00:19:11,150 I just can't believe I was scared. 396 00:19:12,084 --> 00:19:13,753 [group laughing] 397 00:19:13,886 --> 00:19:16,556 ♪ Hallelujah ♪ 398 00:19:16,689 --> 00:19:18,124 [man] Oh, this is my jam. 399 00:19:18,258 --> 00:19:21,861 [group] * Hallelujah ♪ 400 00:19:22,962 --> 00:19:26,499 ♪ Hallelujah ♪ 401 00:19:27,534 --> 00:19:33,973 ♪ Hallelujah ♪ 402 00:19:34,106 --> 00:19:35,308 [hiker laughing] 403 00:19:38,010 --> 00:19:39,212 [Mary] Ah yeah. 404 00:19:39,346 --> 00:19:41,848 See? Using rocks as tools, we're going full caveman. 405 00:19:41,981 --> 00:19:45,151 Ooh, using Mother Nature to help you out. 406 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:49,222 Using what I just learned. 407 00:19:49,689 --> 00:19:51,324 It's like when you learn something at school, 408 00:19:51,458 --> 00:19:52,959 and you're like, this is stupid and you go home 409 00:19:53,092 --> 00:19:57,564 and you like immediately are able to use it. [laughs] 410 00:19:59,266 --> 00:20:01,501 [breath blowing] 411 00:20:02,302 --> 00:20:04,837 [air sputtering] 412 00:20:06,005 --> 00:20:08,207 [Gary laughing] 413 00:20:08,341 --> 00:20:10,510 It just kept coming out. 414 00:20:10,643 --> 00:20:11,511 All right. 415 00:20:15,582 --> 00:20:18,385 [dramatic music] 416 00:20:23,122 --> 00:20:24,757 [wind whipping] 417 00:20:24,891 --> 00:20:26,058 [Mary] How you feel? 418 00:20:27,527 --> 00:20:29,262 Sore and tired. 419 00:20:30,363 --> 00:20:32,432 How many more miles we got? 420 00:20:32,565 --> 00:20:33,900 Two more. 421 00:20:34,033 --> 00:20:35,101 [Mary] All right, we got this. 422 00:20:35,234 --> 00:20:37,003 - We got it. - It's two more. 423 00:20:37,136 --> 00:20:40,172 And it'll be your first, what? 18-mile day? [laughs] 424 00:20:40,307 --> 00:20:41,741 [Gary] Jesus. Yes. 425 00:20:42,041 --> 00:20:43,776 [Mary snickers] Here we go. 426 00:20:43,910 --> 00:20:45,912 [slow music] 427 00:21:01,761 --> 00:21:04,297 - [Mary] What's going on? - [Velcro crackling] 428 00:21:04,431 --> 00:21:09,402 Got a hot spot on my big toe. 429 00:21:11,504 --> 00:21:12,739 So I'm gonna tape it up 430 00:21:12,872 --> 00:21:16,208 so it stops rubbing up against my shoe. 431 00:21:19,045 --> 00:21:20,380 [Mary] It's a long day. 432 00:21:20,513 --> 00:21:23,783 Feels like I've been doing this for like a month already 433 00:21:23,916 --> 00:21:25,918 and we haven't even hit a week. 434 00:21:26,052 --> 00:21:30,256 [birds chirping] [slow music] 435 00:21:35,227 --> 00:21:36,463 [Mary] How you doing? 436 00:21:36,596 --> 00:21:37,930 Fucking, 437 00:21:38,064 --> 00:21:40,266 I say fucking a lot. 438 00:21:40,833 --> 00:21:42,569 Trying to get to a shady spot. 439 00:21:44,203 --> 00:21:46,138 [Mary] When was the last shade we saw? 440 00:21:46,272 --> 00:21:47,340 I don't even know. 441 00:21:48,941 --> 00:21:50,810 I don't know. I'm just hot and tired. 442 00:21:50,943 --> 00:21:52,345 I wanna sit down. 443 00:21:53,212 --> 00:21:54,814 I just want to be done. 444 00:21:56,483 --> 00:21:58,084 - [Mary] For the day or total? - For the day. 445 00:21:58,217 --> 00:21:59,886 [Mary laughs] [Gary cheers] 446 00:22:00,019 --> 00:22:02,555 [wind whipping] [Mary laughing] 447 00:22:02,689 --> 00:22:03,890 Holy balls. 448 00:22:08,260 --> 00:22:11,197 [Gary cheers and laughs] [wind whipping] 449 00:22:15,001 --> 00:22:15,968 Oh, way better. 450 00:22:16,102 --> 00:22:17,804 [Gary] Nice. 451 00:22:17,937 --> 00:22:19,806 So much warmer. 452 00:22:19,939 --> 00:22:22,642 [Gary] The windy pants challenge complete. 453 00:22:25,344 --> 00:22:26,646 [Mary] What is this? 454 00:22:26,779 --> 00:22:28,314 ♪ On beat ♪ 455 00:22:28,448 --> 00:22:30,316 ♪ 50 miles ♪ 456 00:22:30,950 --> 00:22:32,184 [Mary] How you feel, Gary? 457 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:35,555 - Like we hit a milestone. - [Mary laughs] 458 00:22:35,788 --> 00:22:37,189 [Gary groans] 459 00:22:37,323 --> 00:22:38,658 [Mary] Do you want me to pull it out? 460 00:22:38,791 --> 00:22:40,527 - [Gary] Yeah. Fuck. - [Mary] Okay. 461 00:22:40,660 --> 00:22:42,294 [Gary] But don't go too hard. 462 00:22:42,429 --> 00:22:44,363 [Mary] Okay. All right, hang on. 463 00:22:44,731 --> 00:22:45,465 [Gary winces] 464 00:22:45,598 --> 00:22:46,999 Oh gosh. 465 00:22:49,168 --> 00:22:51,838 Ooh. Ow, ow, ow. 466 00:22:53,339 --> 00:22:54,907 [Mary] Oh, that was deep. 467 00:22:55,041 --> 00:22:55,875 Yeah, I'm bleeding. 468 00:22:56,743 --> 00:22:57,744 [Mary] Are you okay? 469 00:22:57,877 --> 00:22:58,678 No. 470 00:22:58,811 --> 00:23:00,212 [Mary] You wanna go home? 471 00:23:00,346 --> 00:23:02,682 I wanna go home. I'm not having fun anymore. 472 00:23:02,815 --> 00:23:04,417 [Mary laughing] 473 00:23:04,551 --> 00:23:07,219 [wind whipping] 474 00:23:10,557 --> 00:23:12,391 [Mary] We go into town tomorrow, 475 00:23:13,392 --> 00:23:15,261 after six full days on the trail. 476 00:23:16,463 --> 00:23:17,464 Not too bad. 477 00:23:17,597 --> 00:23:20,967 It's not bad. I feel like I'm adapting. 478 00:23:21,868 --> 00:23:25,371 So when we go into town, it's called a town day. 479 00:23:25,505 --> 00:23:28,340 And that's basically just to resupply 480 00:23:28,475 --> 00:23:32,545 because you can't carry six months worth of food in one go. 481 00:23:33,379 --> 00:23:34,981 [Gary groans] 482 00:23:36,348 --> 00:23:37,550 [Mary] Lots of shade. 483 00:23:41,588 --> 00:23:44,256 It's like popping open your belt 484 00:23:44,390 --> 00:23:47,460 on Thanksgiving after big meal. 485 00:23:47,927 --> 00:23:49,428 That feels good. 486 00:23:54,767 --> 00:23:56,068 [engine revving] 487 00:23:56,302 --> 00:23:57,269 [Gary laughing] 488 00:23:57,403 --> 00:23:58,404 [Mary] Do you guys got trail names yet? 489 00:23:58,538 --> 00:24:00,840 - Not yet, unfortunately. - No. 490 00:24:00,973 --> 00:24:06,012 [Gary] Trail names have something to do with you. 491 00:24:06,278 --> 00:24:07,647 - All right, what is it? - [Mary] So I'm Soleil. 492 00:24:07,780 --> 00:24:08,748 - Oh, okay. - Oh yeah, that's right. 493 00:24:08,881 --> 00:24:09,849 Thought Soleil was your real name. 494 00:24:09,982 --> 00:24:10,950 [Mary] No, no, my real name's Mary. 495 00:24:11,083 --> 00:24:11,851 - Okay. - [Mary] It actually would've 496 00:24:11,984 --> 00:24:12,719 been easier to remember 497 00:24:12,852 --> 00:24:14,186 'cause we're Mary and Gary. 498 00:24:15,254 --> 00:24:16,455 [Gary] Leaving your life behind, 499 00:24:16,589 --> 00:24:18,390 you kind of want to adopt a new persona. 500 00:24:18,525 --> 00:24:22,428 You kind of wanna leave the old you behind. 501 00:24:22,995 --> 00:24:26,398 My name's Oke which is short for Garyoke, 502 00:24:26,533 --> 00:24:28,635 because I like to sing a lot on the trail. 503 00:24:29,702 --> 00:24:31,137 [siren blaring] 504 00:24:31,303 --> 00:24:32,605 [cop] You guys get out. 505 00:24:32,739 --> 00:24:33,472 [Mary] Okay. 506 00:24:33,606 --> 00:24:34,674 [radio beeping and buzzing] 507 00:24:34,807 --> 00:24:36,008 [cop] On that side. 508 00:24:38,444 --> 00:24:41,047 [cars passing] 509 00:24:44,784 --> 00:24:46,352 [cop] Starting with you, where are you from? 510 00:24:46,485 --> 00:24:47,820 - [Gary] From Los Angeles. - [cop] Okay. 511 00:24:47,954 --> 00:24:49,856 So you know you can't ride in the bed of a pickup, right? 512 00:24:49,989 --> 00:24:51,057 I did not know that. 513 00:24:51,190 --> 00:24:52,424 - [cop] If you're-- - [Mary] I didn't know. 514 00:24:52,559 --> 00:24:54,326 [cop] If you're audio taping or videoing right now, 515 00:24:54,460 --> 00:24:56,763 I'm gonna write five more tickets. 516 00:24:56,896 --> 00:24:59,666 All right, my thing about video is 517 00:24:59,799 --> 00:25:02,301 everybody has the right to video everything. 518 00:25:02,902 --> 00:25:04,971 Here's my trail angel buddies. 519 00:25:06,272 --> 00:25:07,974 - [man] We can help you guys out. - [man 2] I, yeah, 520 00:25:08,107 --> 00:25:09,709 you guys could ride with me. 521 00:25:09,842 --> 00:25:11,077 [cop] Well, just on the, 522 00:25:11,210 --> 00:25:12,344 - you were on the back. - [Mary] Yeah. 523 00:25:12,478 --> 00:25:13,880 [man] Yeah, you can't, I guess you can't do that 524 00:25:14,013 --> 00:25:15,682 - in California. - [cop] Well, whatcha gonna do? 525 00:25:15,815 --> 00:25:17,216 [man] This is like the coolest sheriff 526 00:25:17,349 --> 00:25:19,986 that I heard about him before I even got here. 527 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,321 So you can't get any finer than this. 528 00:25:22,454 --> 00:25:23,790 - [man] Thank you. - [man 2] Yep. 529 00:25:23,923 --> 00:25:25,391 - He's gonna be getting out-- - The film she's been rolling 530 00:25:25,524 --> 00:25:26,893 - on your experience. - [man 2] All right. 531 00:25:27,026 --> 00:25:28,895 [Mary] Oh, he threatened us when I had it rolling. 532 00:25:29,028 --> 00:25:29,896 [Gary] Said we couldn't do that. 533 00:25:30,029 --> 00:25:31,397 [man] Oh, I bet. I bet. 534 00:25:31,530 --> 00:25:33,365 [Mary] He told me he'd give all of us a ticket 535 00:25:33,499 --> 00:25:34,667 if I didn't stop rolling. 536 00:25:34,801 --> 00:25:37,403 [man] Mr. Ray here, he, I know him 537 00:25:37,536 --> 00:25:39,639 and he is a super awesome cop, 538 00:25:39,772 --> 00:25:41,941 but he's gotta do his job. You know? 539 00:25:42,074 --> 00:25:43,643 [man 2] Yeah, he's got, I didn't see him. 540 00:25:43,776 --> 00:25:45,344 He was in my blind spot, dude. 541 00:25:45,477 --> 00:25:47,914 [engine revving] [seatbelt clicking] 542 00:25:49,548 --> 00:25:50,650 [Mary sighs] 543 00:26:08,267 --> 00:26:11,403 [footsteps thudding] 544 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:22,281 [Mary] How is it? 545 00:26:24,617 --> 00:26:27,687 [Gary sighs and laughs] 546 00:26:27,820 --> 00:26:30,056 It feels so good. 547 00:26:30,189 --> 00:26:31,357 I didn't know, 548 00:26:31,490 --> 00:26:33,592 even if the whole trail was just so you like, 549 00:26:33,726 --> 00:26:35,561 appreciate showers more. 550 00:26:35,695 --> 00:26:37,396 Like I feel like I've already won. 551 00:26:38,097 --> 00:26:38,965 [Gary] Whatcha doing? 552 00:26:40,733 --> 00:26:42,168 - Laundry. - [Gary laughs] 553 00:26:42,301 --> 00:26:43,502 [Mary] There are no laundry services here. 554 00:26:43,636 --> 00:26:46,072 So you wanna know how dirty it is? 555 00:26:46,205 --> 00:26:48,841 [Gary] Oh my God. 556 00:26:49,241 --> 00:26:51,077 - [Mary] Yeah. It's gross. - [Gary] Wow. 557 00:26:51,210 --> 00:26:54,246 [water spraying] [Gary laughing] 558 00:26:54,380 --> 00:26:57,249 [water splashing] 559 00:26:58,617 --> 00:27:03,656 [soft music] 560 00:27:11,263 --> 00:27:14,901 [wind whipping] 561 00:27:15,768 --> 00:27:18,905 [snake rattling] 562 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:25,344 - You wanna walk up to it? - [Mary laughing] 563 00:27:25,477 --> 00:27:27,446 [Mary] That sucker's curled up. He's angry. 564 00:27:27,579 --> 00:27:29,982 Gonna go at it. 565 00:27:30,950 --> 00:27:32,518 - [Mary] Huh? - He's pissed. 566 00:27:32,651 --> 00:27:35,354 He is pissed. He's leaving now. 567 00:27:35,487 --> 00:27:36,222 [Mary] Is he? 568 00:27:36,355 --> 00:27:39,625 [snake rattling] 569 00:27:39,759 --> 00:27:41,460 [Mary] He doesn't like when I turn towards him. 570 00:27:41,593 --> 00:27:44,363 [snake rattling] 571 00:27:51,637 --> 00:27:52,638 Got a cave. 572 00:27:55,808 --> 00:27:57,376 [Gary grunts] Oh shh. 573 00:27:58,144 --> 00:27:59,011 Hello? 574 00:28:00,379 --> 00:28:01,580 [Mary] He's in a cave. 575 00:28:01,714 --> 00:28:02,648 I'm in a cave. 576 00:28:02,782 --> 00:28:04,183 You can't do this in LA. 577 00:28:07,253 --> 00:28:08,287 [Mary] He emerges. 578 00:28:09,155 --> 00:28:11,357 And on the third day, 579 00:28:11,490 --> 00:28:13,225 he arose. 580 00:28:14,493 --> 00:28:16,328 I am gonna be 33 this year. 581 00:28:16,796 --> 00:28:19,498 [wind whipping] 582 00:28:22,935 --> 00:28:25,371 The wind was keeping us up 583 00:28:25,504 --> 00:28:29,641 and my tent pole fell down twice and I just gave up. 584 00:28:30,276 --> 00:28:31,911 I just gave up, Mary. 585 00:28:34,413 --> 00:28:36,749 - [Mary] I'm sorry. - [Gary laughing] 586 00:28:37,149 --> 00:28:39,251 No, it's okay. 'Cause then I just slept 587 00:28:39,385 --> 00:28:42,588 holding the bottom of the right side of the tent 588 00:28:42,721 --> 00:28:45,024 as I lay. [laughs] 589 00:28:45,825 --> 00:28:47,226 So that's why I'm like this. 590 00:28:47,359 --> 00:28:50,062 I just haven't slept all night, 591 00:28:52,164 --> 00:28:54,033 and I'm just slap happy. 592 00:28:54,166 --> 00:28:57,603 But that'll wear off in like an hour and a half. 593 00:28:58,004 --> 00:28:58,737 [Mary] And you'll be miserable. 594 00:28:58,871 --> 00:29:00,406 And then I'll be miserable. 595 00:29:02,174 --> 00:29:03,742 You have to laugh to keep from crying, 596 00:29:03,876 --> 00:29:04,777 so they say. 597 00:29:08,314 --> 00:29:11,617 I also feel like I like aged 20 years in my sleep. 598 00:29:12,518 --> 00:29:13,752 Well, in my non-sleep. 599 00:29:15,721 --> 00:29:18,657 [wind whipping] 600 00:29:20,592 --> 00:29:22,028 [Gary cheering] 601 00:29:22,161 --> 00:29:23,729 [Mary] What? 602 00:29:23,863 --> 00:29:25,364 A hundred miles. 603 00:29:25,497 --> 00:29:28,000 [Mary cheers] 604 00:29:29,869 --> 00:29:31,370 - Wow. - [Gary] So good. 605 00:29:31,503 --> 00:29:32,571 [Mary] How does it feel, Gary? 606 00:29:32,704 --> 00:29:33,973 [Gary laughing] 607 00:29:34,106 --> 00:29:36,542 As I'm like tired, I don't know. 608 00:29:37,643 --> 00:29:41,981 Like started getting like, I don't know, aggro, 609 00:29:42,114 --> 00:29:44,316 super tired, got no sleep last night. 610 00:29:45,717 --> 00:29:47,219 No, it feels good. 611 00:29:47,653 --> 00:29:48,921 After hiking a hundred miles, 612 00:29:49,055 --> 00:29:50,823 I was starting to notice a pattern. 613 00:29:51,790 --> 00:29:54,927 For every frustratingly difficult day on the trail, 614 00:29:55,061 --> 00:29:58,230 there would be another full of trail magic and surprises. 615 00:29:58,364 --> 00:29:59,498 [water trickling] 616 00:29:59,631 --> 00:30:01,533 The trail provides, as they say. 617 00:30:01,667 --> 00:30:02,601 Would either of you want 618 00:30:02,734 --> 00:30:04,436 to jump up on him and get a picture? 619 00:30:04,570 --> 00:30:05,437 [Mary gasps] 620 00:30:05,571 --> 00:30:06,572 - [Gary] Yeah. - [Mary] Could we? 621 00:30:06,705 --> 00:30:07,907 - Let's do it. - Nothing would make me 622 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:09,141 - happier in my life right now, - [Mary] Oh my God. 623 00:30:09,641 --> 00:30:10,642 I'm Chris, by the way. 624 00:30:10,776 --> 00:30:11,810 - I'm Gary. - Nice to meet you, Gary. 625 00:30:11,944 --> 00:30:12,879 Oh, it's Oke on the trail. 626 00:30:13,012 --> 00:30:13,980 Well, Oke? 627 00:30:14,113 --> 00:30:16,148 - It's my trail name is Oke. - Okay. 628 00:30:16,282 --> 00:30:18,450 [Mary] For karaoke 'cause he won't stop singing. 629 00:30:18,584 --> 00:30:20,286 Hey, that's awesome. 630 00:30:20,419 --> 00:30:21,453 - [Mary] Wow. - Yeah, come around this way 631 00:30:21,587 --> 00:30:23,555 and jump up on him and get a picture. 632 00:30:23,689 --> 00:30:24,790 You ever been on a horse before? 633 00:30:24,924 --> 00:30:26,658 - [Gary] Never in my life. - [Chris] Never? Wow. 634 00:30:27,793 --> 00:30:30,429 [gentle music] 635 00:30:32,398 --> 00:30:34,266 [Mary] That is the first time you've ridden a horse? 636 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:35,234 First time. 637 00:30:35,367 --> 00:30:37,069 [Mary] Wow. What an experience. 638 00:30:37,569 --> 00:30:39,738 [gentle music] 639 00:30:43,442 --> 00:30:44,944 [Mary laughing] 640 00:30:45,444 --> 00:30:47,279 Can we climb this? 641 00:30:47,413 --> 00:30:49,281 [Mary] Oh fuck yeah, we're gonna climb it. 642 00:30:49,415 --> 00:30:51,984 [gentle music] 643 00:30:52,985 --> 00:30:55,221 [Gary] Oh, I guess it is a rock. 644 00:30:55,354 --> 00:30:58,190 [birds chirping] [gentle music] 645 00:31:11,037 --> 00:31:12,371 [Gary] Right before I left LA, 646 00:31:12,638 --> 00:31:14,006 my friend, Adrienne, handed me a letter 647 00:31:14,140 --> 00:31:15,541 to read on the trail. 648 00:31:19,611 --> 00:31:21,580 [paper rustling] 649 00:31:21,713 --> 00:31:22,781 Wow. 650 00:31:23,082 --> 00:31:25,051 She says, this trail may test you 651 00:31:25,184 --> 00:31:27,486 and push you beyond your current imagination, 652 00:31:27,619 --> 00:31:29,021 but it will never break you 653 00:31:30,756 --> 00:31:31,890 if you don't allow it. 654 00:31:34,660 --> 00:31:35,361 And I just thought that. 655 00:31:35,494 --> 00:31:36,262 Like I hit that point, 656 00:31:36,395 --> 00:31:37,396 and I was like, oh. 657 00:31:38,697 --> 00:31:39,865 I was just singing that song 658 00:31:39,999 --> 00:31:41,900 about like sticks and stones. 659 00:31:42,468 --> 00:31:43,535 I don't know, something as silly 660 00:31:43,669 --> 00:31:46,038 as just like singing a song all day long. 661 00:31:46,172 --> 00:31:48,274 I got a pocket full of sunshine, 662 00:31:48,407 --> 00:31:50,409 and then like reading a note that I was like supposed 663 00:31:50,542 --> 00:31:51,810 to read the first day 664 00:31:51,944 --> 00:31:54,080 and it's almost like I was supposed to read it today 665 00:31:54,213 --> 00:31:55,547 'cause if I would've read it the first day, 666 00:31:55,681 --> 00:31:56,615 I still would've felt something. 667 00:31:56,748 --> 00:31:58,384 But I don't know. 668 00:31:58,517 --> 00:31:59,685 It's that kind of like I'm supposed 669 00:31:59,818 --> 00:32:01,753 to be here right now doing this thing. 670 00:32:03,189 --> 00:32:06,092 300 miles. [groans] 671 00:32:07,759 --> 00:32:08,660 This is cool. 672 00:32:08,827 --> 00:32:10,762 [Mary] 300 is a huge mile marker. 673 00:32:10,896 --> 00:32:11,863 That's a lot. 674 00:32:11,998 --> 00:32:14,000 To like see it? It's, 300's a lot. 675 00:32:14,733 --> 00:32:16,302 [Mary] 200 is a couple hundred. 676 00:32:16,435 --> 00:32:18,104 300 is several hundred. 677 00:32:18,237 --> 00:32:19,571 That's several hundred. 678 00:32:19,705 --> 00:32:22,074 I can now say I've walked several hundred miles. 679 00:32:22,208 --> 00:32:24,977 [wind whipping] 680 00:32:25,111 --> 00:32:27,146 [Mary] Oh, here comes our first one. 681 00:32:27,279 --> 00:32:29,715 So you stick out your thumb and you look happy. 682 00:32:29,848 --> 00:32:30,716 [Gary laughing] 683 00:32:30,983 --> 00:32:33,619 I'm warning you, that's my first ever one. 684 00:32:33,752 --> 00:32:34,920 [Mary] You've got this, yeah, yeah. 685 00:32:35,054 --> 00:32:35,754 I'm getting it. It's flowing. 686 00:32:35,887 --> 00:32:37,323 [Mary] How does it feel? 687 00:32:37,456 --> 00:32:38,324 Weird. 688 00:32:39,691 --> 00:32:41,327 It's the thing that like, 689 00:32:41,460 --> 00:32:43,329 I've been told all my life not to do. 690 00:32:43,462 --> 00:32:45,097 So it's like kind of like an internal thing, 691 00:32:45,231 --> 00:32:48,334 when you like... internal mechanism 692 00:32:48,467 --> 00:32:49,768 that you don't ever pay attention to 693 00:32:49,901 --> 00:32:51,570 and like now I'm like being told 694 00:32:51,703 --> 00:32:54,573 to go against what my brain's telling me to do. 695 00:32:54,706 --> 00:32:57,176 [Mary snickers] I'm sorry. 696 00:32:57,309 --> 00:33:00,446 No, I mean it's broadening my horizons. 697 00:33:00,579 --> 00:33:02,148 That's how you evolve, right? 698 00:33:02,281 --> 00:33:03,815 [Mary] Oh, here comes our next one. 699 00:33:04,916 --> 00:33:07,519 [Gary] Sometimes we have to hitchhike into town 700 00:33:07,653 --> 00:33:11,123 from the trail because the trail head is just too far 701 00:33:11,257 --> 00:33:13,292 to walk to get into town. 702 00:33:13,459 --> 00:33:15,794 So you'll hitchhike into town, 703 00:33:15,927 --> 00:33:18,997 and then when you're ready to get back to the trail, 704 00:33:19,131 --> 00:33:21,533 you'll hitchhike to get back to that same spot 705 00:33:21,667 --> 00:33:23,802 and then you'll just start hiking from there. 706 00:33:23,935 --> 00:33:26,538 [steady music] 707 00:33:28,807 --> 00:33:30,509 [horn honking] 708 00:33:30,642 --> 00:33:33,412 [engine revving] 709 00:33:35,914 --> 00:33:37,883 Oh my gosh, thank you so much. 710 00:33:39,918 --> 00:33:41,987 Nice to meet you guys. I'm Gary in the real world. 711 00:33:42,121 --> 00:33:43,021 [woman] Gary? 712 00:33:43,155 --> 00:33:44,290 [Mary] I'm Mary in the real world 713 00:33:44,423 --> 00:33:46,858 - but Soleil on the trail. - Oh, cute. It rhymes. 714 00:33:46,992 --> 00:33:47,959 - Yeah. - [Mary] You've got our 715 00:33:48,094 --> 00:33:49,261 real names, our government names. 716 00:33:49,395 --> 00:33:51,997 Yeah. I'm Oke on the trail. 717 00:33:54,533 --> 00:33:56,468 I love why you're doing it. 718 00:33:56,602 --> 00:33:59,071 I just, that just makes my whole day. 719 00:33:59,205 --> 00:34:01,540 I'll be thinking on, instead of the rotisserie chicken, 720 00:34:01,673 --> 00:34:03,075 now that I'm full, I'll be thinking on that 721 00:34:03,209 --> 00:34:04,643 for the rest of the day. 722 00:34:04,776 --> 00:34:06,078 [Gary] Breaking generational curses. 723 00:34:06,212 --> 00:34:07,146 [Soul Sister] Exactly. Damn right. 724 00:34:07,279 --> 00:34:09,081 - Yeah. - [Soul Sister] Damn right. 725 00:34:09,381 --> 00:34:10,416 Yeah. 726 00:34:10,549 --> 00:34:12,050 Like, who but the current generation? 727 00:34:12,184 --> 00:34:14,086 It's like our job to kind of break, 728 00:34:14,220 --> 00:34:15,587 - that's how I see it now. - [Soul Sister] Yeah. 729 00:34:15,721 --> 00:34:16,722 'Cause it's like, 730 00:34:16,855 --> 00:34:18,224 I can be mad at my parents for like, 731 00:34:18,357 --> 00:34:19,558 why didn't you take us camping? 732 00:34:19,691 --> 00:34:21,127 Why didn't we do this more when we were younger? 733 00:34:21,260 --> 00:34:22,361 - [Soul Sister] Yeah. - It was like, 734 00:34:22,494 --> 00:34:25,397 no, I can decide to do it for myself now. 735 00:34:25,531 --> 00:34:27,199 - [Soul Sister] Exactly. - And it's so powerful 736 00:34:27,333 --> 00:34:29,601 to like realize that you don't need 737 00:34:29,735 --> 00:34:31,670 other people's permission to go do something. 738 00:34:31,803 --> 00:34:32,671 [Soul Sister] Isn't that amazing? 739 00:34:32,804 --> 00:34:34,005 It's life changing. 740 00:34:34,906 --> 00:34:37,709 [birds chirping] 741 00:34:39,211 --> 00:34:40,312 This is the only time 742 00:34:40,446 --> 00:34:42,414 I'm not getting a steady check every week. 743 00:34:42,548 --> 00:34:44,783 And the club was basically shut down. 744 00:34:44,916 --> 00:34:46,752 They're only doing parking lot shows. 745 00:34:46,885 --> 00:34:48,019 - [Gary] Yeah. - So I'm like, 746 00:34:48,154 --> 00:34:49,421 this is the opportunity to go do something. 747 00:34:49,555 --> 00:34:50,956 You know? What can I do? 748 00:34:51,089 --> 00:34:53,792 And I had just watched Wild. 749 00:34:54,193 --> 00:34:55,261 - [Gary] Right. - And so, 750 00:34:55,394 --> 00:34:57,095 Reese Witherspoon really... 751 00:34:57,829 --> 00:34:59,298 - [hiker] She got you. - [Gary] You saw yourself in her. 752 00:34:59,431 --> 00:35:00,599 I think so, yeah. 753 00:35:00,732 --> 00:35:02,234 [Mary] What'd your family say when you said that? 754 00:35:02,368 --> 00:35:03,969 I mean, is your family outdoorsy at all? 755 00:35:04,102 --> 00:35:06,738 - Or were you outdoorsy before? - No. Nope. 756 00:35:06,872 --> 00:35:09,441 They were all just like, what? Why? 757 00:35:09,575 --> 00:35:10,609 Do you have money for that? 758 00:35:10,742 --> 00:35:12,244 I think that was like the third question, 759 00:35:12,378 --> 00:35:13,412 like how you gonna pay for that? 760 00:35:13,545 --> 00:35:15,447 - [indistinct] - I'm like, saving, 761 00:35:15,581 --> 00:35:17,082 and I'm also gonna ask you for stuff later. 762 00:35:17,216 --> 00:35:18,617 [group laughing] 763 00:35:18,750 --> 00:35:19,751 [hiker] You guys. 764 00:35:22,388 --> 00:35:23,422 Just kidding. 765 00:35:23,555 --> 00:35:24,990 [Gary] My mom thought about money too. 766 00:35:25,123 --> 00:35:26,758 She's just like, how are you? How are you gonna pay for that? 767 00:35:26,892 --> 00:35:27,993 Like what about your apartment? 768 00:35:28,126 --> 00:35:29,461 - [Hoops] Yeah. - Like money? 769 00:35:29,595 --> 00:35:31,297 - A job. Don't you need a job? - [Hoops] Yeah, it's like-- 770 00:35:31,430 --> 00:35:32,831 You doing one of these things again? 771 00:35:32,964 --> 00:35:35,634 What about happiness? Have you ever heard of that? 772 00:35:35,767 --> 00:35:38,470 [wind whipping] 773 00:35:39,405 --> 00:35:40,839 [Mary] What's happening? 774 00:35:40,972 --> 00:35:42,674 Got a little chafe action going. 775 00:35:43,575 --> 00:35:44,676 I was just like climbing. 776 00:35:44,810 --> 00:35:45,977 I was like crushing it. 777 00:35:46,111 --> 00:35:48,146 I was like, oh, I'm in the zone, in the zone. 778 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,282 I just felt like a burning feeling 779 00:35:50,416 --> 00:35:52,818 every like step after that, like, 780 00:35:52,951 --> 00:35:55,921 oh fuck, my thighs are chafed. 781 00:35:56,054 --> 00:35:57,356 So we're sharing Body Glide. 782 00:35:57,489 --> 00:35:59,090 We're gonna share Body Glide. 783 00:36:08,967 --> 00:36:09,768 I'm good now. 784 00:36:09,901 --> 00:36:11,203 [Mary] How's it feel? 785 00:36:11,337 --> 00:36:13,472 Better, not burning anymore. [laughs] 786 00:36:14,706 --> 00:36:16,542 [Mary] Yeah. [sniffles] 787 00:36:16,675 --> 00:36:19,778 Oh, that's why I like wear underwear. 788 00:36:19,911 --> 00:36:21,980 Yeah, yeah. That's why you wear underwear. 789 00:36:22,113 --> 00:36:23,215 [Mary] Were you--oh. 790 00:36:23,349 --> 00:36:24,516 - Okay. - I haven't worn underwear 791 00:36:24,650 --> 00:36:26,718 the last like two days? 792 00:36:26,852 --> 00:36:28,186 It's really freeing though. 793 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,322 It is. The feeling is great. 794 00:36:30,456 --> 00:36:31,857 And now I'm seeing like the repercussions of it. 795 00:36:31,990 --> 00:36:33,058 - Yeah. - But the feeling's amazing. 796 00:36:33,191 --> 00:36:34,393 I haven't worn underwear this whole time. 797 00:36:34,526 --> 00:36:35,527 - Really? - Yeah. 798 00:36:36,862 --> 00:36:37,996 Have you been chafing? 799 00:36:38,129 --> 00:36:40,198 Maybe, a little bit. But you know? 800 00:36:41,066 --> 00:36:42,133 Just a little bit of chafe. 801 00:36:42,268 --> 00:36:43,702 You got the Body Glide though. 802 00:36:44,503 --> 00:36:46,204 Just gotta lube myself up every morning. 803 00:36:46,338 --> 00:36:48,507 [Gary laughing] 804 00:36:49,140 --> 00:36:50,208 [Gary] Along the trail, 805 00:36:50,342 --> 00:36:52,844 you meet really, really weird people, 806 00:36:52,978 --> 00:36:55,447 but some of those weird people become your friends. 807 00:36:56,315 --> 00:36:57,182 My full real name? 808 00:36:57,316 --> 00:36:58,417 - Okay. - [Mary] Yeah, I know. 809 00:36:58,550 --> 00:37:01,152 - [Gary] Government. - Thomas Jefferson Corman. 810 00:37:01,287 --> 00:37:03,054 [Mary] Is it really? 811 00:37:03,188 --> 00:37:04,590 I guess that makes TJ. 812 00:37:04,723 --> 00:37:06,358 Yeah, Thomas Jefferson Corman. 813 00:37:06,492 --> 00:37:07,593 - [Gary] Thomas Jefferson. - Yes. 814 00:37:07,726 --> 00:37:08,994 [Gary] I'm hiking with a Thomas Jefferson. 815 00:37:09,127 --> 00:37:10,429 [King of the North] I know, with a racist ass president. 816 00:37:10,562 --> 00:37:13,899 [Gary sighs] [Mary laughs] 817 00:37:14,032 --> 00:37:14,800 [Gary] Wow. 818 00:37:21,039 --> 00:37:23,041 [Gary] I would say that 20 percent of the trail 819 00:37:23,174 --> 00:37:24,510 is physical 820 00:37:25,010 --> 00:37:28,414 and like 80 percent of it is mental. 821 00:37:30,316 --> 00:37:31,583 [Mary] Well, how you guys feel? 822 00:37:31,717 --> 00:37:34,786 About to cross the true desert tomorrow. 823 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:36,722 - Yeah. - [Gary] It helps to have 824 00:37:36,855 --> 00:37:38,089 support around you, 825 00:37:38,223 --> 00:37:40,726 and it helps to also have people around you 826 00:37:40,859 --> 00:37:42,394 who are also going through the same thing 827 00:37:42,528 --> 00:37:44,463 and also having the same thoughts, 828 00:37:46,765 --> 00:37:48,467 so you're not alone. 829 00:37:52,804 --> 00:37:57,676 So Gary and I both drink out of these lovely tube things 830 00:37:57,809 --> 00:38:01,947 and I was wondering what was clogging up my tube 831 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:03,982 this morning as I was getting over here. 832 00:38:04,115 --> 00:38:05,584 And so I looked at it, 833 00:38:05,717 --> 00:38:08,487 and I was like, what's that dark thing inside? 834 00:38:08,620 --> 00:38:09,688 And it's ants. 835 00:38:09,821 --> 00:38:11,557 And not only that, 836 00:38:11,923 --> 00:38:15,694 there's like 30 ants in here. 837 00:38:15,827 --> 00:38:19,130 Fucking so many fucking ants. 838 00:38:19,264 --> 00:38:20,432 [Gary] Jeez. 839 00:38:20,666 --> 00:38:23,502 And I've been wondering why I've been feeling sick. 840 00:38:23,635 --> 00:38:24,670 You wanna see that? 841 00:38:24,803 --> 00:38:25,837 [Gary groans] 842 00:38:28,907 --> 00:38:30,342 [Mary groans] 843 00:38:30,942 --> 00:38:32,077 [Gary] Did it taste lemony? 844 00:38:32,210 --> 00:38:33,412 [hiker] Yeah. I was about to ask that. 845 00:38:33,545 --> 00:38:35,313 - [Gary] laughs] - Did it taste like lemons? 846 00:38:35,447 --> 00:38:37,015 I don't know. There was so much flavor in here. 847 00:38:37,148 --> 00:38:38,350 I was--been chugging it all morning and going, 848 00:38:38,484 --> 00:38:39,951 mm, tastes so good. 849 00:38:40,085 --> 00:38:41,553 Ew, it's like boba tea or something. 850 00:38:41,687 --> 00:38:43,088 - I know. - [Gary] Ooh. 851 00:38:43,221 --> 00:38:44,255 - Nature boba tea. - Hiker boba. 852 00:38:44,390 --> 00:38:45,791 [hiker] All right. That's it. 853 00:38:46,792 --> 00:38:48,059 [group laughing] 854 00:38:48,193 --> 00:38:49,495 [hiker 2] We should have started the opposite direction. 855 00:38:49,628 --> 00:38:50,662 [Gary] Oh, what? 856 00:38:50,796 --> 00:38:52,130 I said, golf ball. It's real. 857 00:38:52,263 --> 00:38:53,432 - Is that real? - That's his whole, yeah. 858 00:38:53,565 --> 00:38:55,033 - Oh my gosh. - What the fuck? 859 00:38:55,166 --> 00:38:57,302 He wouldn't pop it and we finally convinced him 860 00:38:57,436 --> 00:38:58,737 that it's time to drain it 861 00:38:58,870 --> 00:39:00,338 - and dress it. - It's time to pop that one. 862 00:39:00,472 --> 00:39:01,873 It started with a tiny blister 863 00:39:02,007 --> 00:39:04,876 but he just kept waiting for it to like get better. 864 00:39:05,010 --> 00:39:06,745 Do you see that? The skin down there. 865 00:39:06,878 --> 00:39:07,879 [Poppy] Oh my God. 866 00:39:08,013 --> 00:39:09,047 [Mary] What are they calling him? 867 00:39:09,214 --> 00:39:12,017 They were calling this guy, his name is Ned, 868 00:39:12,150 --> 00:39:12,984 his trail name is Ned 869 00:39:13,118 --> 00:39:14,653 but they were calling him 870 00:39:14,786 --> 00:39:16,755 - James and the Giant Peach. - Man, Google it. 871 00:39:22,594 --> 00:39:25,296 [wind whipping] 872 00:39:30,436 --> 00:39:32,303 [Gary] Is it E-I-L or I-E-L? 873 00:39:32,438 --> 00:39:34,540 [Mary] E-I-L. 874 00:39:39,678 --> 00:39:41,346 [Mary] Steep. 875 00:39:44,550 --> 00:39:45,250 What? 876 00:39:45,383 --> 00:39:46,251 Oh. 877 00:39:47,819 --> 00:39:49,555 Oh, look at the timing. 878 00:39:50,889 --> 00:39:51,790 [Mary] What? 879 00:39:51,923 --> 00:39:53,892 700. 880 00:39:54,092 --> 00:39:55,393 [Mary] Holy shit. 881 00:39:55,527 --> 00:39:56,394 Damn. 882 00:39:58,363 --> 00:39:59,565 It's like, seven's the worst, 883 00:39:59,698 --> 00:40:02,801 the first like real number. 884 00:40:03,168 --> 00:40:04,202 [both chuckle] 885 00:40:04,470 --> 00:40:05,671 Seven's like not playing games. 886 00:40:05,804 --> 00:40:09,074 Like one, two, three, kids. Those are kid games. 887 00:40:09,207 --> 00:40:10,375 Six, you're getting closer. 888 00:40:10,509 --> 00:40:13,044 Seven's like the first adult number. You know? 889 00:40:13,178 --> 00:40:14,880 [Mary] That, and like 700's been like put 890 00:40:15,013 --> 00:40:16,047 in our minds from the beginning. 891 00:40:16,181 --> 00:40:17,583 Desert is 700 miles. 892 00:40:17,716 --> 00:40:18,784 Yeah. 893 00:40:18,917 --> 00:40:21,319 You're in the Sierras when you hit 700. 894 00:40:23,021 --> 00:40:24,856 Finally done with the desert. 895 00:40:26,692 --> 00:40:27,793 - [Mary] Oh. - It is nice to, though, 896 00:40:27,926 --> 00:40:30,228 like close a chapter. 897 00:40:31,096 --> 00:40:34,232 Like, desert's, done with the desert. 898 00:40:34,365 --> 00:40:36,602 Desert's all we know, all we've like really known 899 00:40:36,735 --> 00:40:37,836 up until this point. 900 00:40:37,969 --> 00:40:38,870 [Mary] Yeah. 901 00:40:39,004 --> 00:40:41,006 So it's kind of cool in that way. 902 00:40:41,139 --> 00:40:42,841 [Mary] Yeah. What's coming ahead? 903 00:40:42,974 --> 00:40:43,975 [both laugh] 904 00:40:44,109 --> 00:40:45,811 Water! 905 00:40:45,944 --> 00:40:47,646 [Mary] So much water! 906 00:40:47,779 --> 00:40:50,015 So much water everywhere. 907 00:40:50,315 --> 00:40:52,017 - [gentle music] - [Gary] I'll hold your... 908 00:40:52,150 --> 00:40:54,920 [Mary] Ooh, it feels so good. Oh my God. 909 00:40:55,053 --> 00:40:56,087 Wow. 910 00:40:56,221 --> 00:40:57,789 [hiker] Oh my God. I love being cold. 911 00:40:57,923 --> 00:40:59,658 - This is great. - No, it's colder. 912 00:40:59,791 --> 00:41:00,826 [woman] Go! 913 00:41:02,393 --> 00:41:03,595 [water splashing] 914 00:41:03,729 --> 00:41:04,496 She did it. 915 00:41:04,630 --> 00:41:07,432 [cheering] 916 00:41:09,434 --> 00:41:12,638 [water splashing] [gentle music] 917 00:41:12,771 --> 00:41:15,473 [Gary cheering] 918 00:41:16,542 --> 00:41:17,308 Holy shit. 919 00:41:18,343 --> 00:41:19,477 Ah, it's so cold! 920 00:41:19,745 --> 00:41:21,212 [Mary] Water is back! 921 00:41:21,346 --> 00:41:23,348 [gentle music] 922 00:41:26,752 --> 00:41:27,619 [Mary sniffles] 923 00:41:28,353 --> 00:41:29,287 Wow. 924 00:41:29,420 --> 00:41:30,822 [Mary] How does 13,000 feet feel? 925 00:41:30,956 --> 00:41:32,023 Whose idea was this? 926 00:41:32,157 --> 00:41:33,859 [Mary scoffing] [hiker laughing] 927 00:41:33,992 --> 00:41:35,927 That's what I was thinking. 928 00:41:37,362 --> 00:41:38,597 How y'all holding up? 929 00:41:40,031 --> 00:41:41,466 [hiker] Okay. 930 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:46,171 - [group laughing] - [hiker] We're at 13,000? 931 00:41:46,304 --> 00:41:47,973 [Gary farting] [Mary laughs] 932 00:41:48,106 --> 00:41:49,541 Gary! 933 00:41:49,675 --> 00:41:52,477 [group laughing] 934 00:41:54,345 --> 00:41:55,714 - [hiker] It's the altitude. - [hiker 2] Wow. 935 00:41:55,847 --> 00:41:57,348 [Gary] It's the altitude! 936 00:41:57,482 --> 00:41:58,717 Yeah. 937 00:41:58,850 --> 00:42:00,786 [Mary] How you doing? 938 00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,556 [Gary] Today is a particularly interesting day 939 00:42:05,390 --> 00:42:09,494 'cause the depression shit kicked in 940 00:42:09,628 --> 00:42:12,063 which I knew, at some point, it would. 941 00:42:13,599 --> 00:42:16,802 At some point, all those like feelings of, I don't know, 942 00:42:16,935 --> 00:42:18,570 not feeling like, good enough. 943 00:42:18,704 --> 00:42:21,840 I guess I knew all of the components it would take 944 00:42:21,973 --> 00:42:23,041 to do the trail, 945 00:42:24,242 --> 00:42:26,377 but in my mind, I just thought like, 946 00:42:26,511 --> 00:42:30,281 oh, gonna go out on a trail and just be out in nature 947 00:42:30,415 --> 00:42:34,720 and absorb nature for five months. 948 00:42:34,853 --> 00:42:39,858 But it's like a sport. [laughs] 949 00:42:39,991 --> 00:42:41,026 [Mary] How you doing? 950 00:42:41,159 --> 00:42:42,027 Like shit. 951 00:42:43,261 --> 00:42:44,896 [Mary] Yeah, those two people just came up 952 00:42:45,030 --> 00:42:46,965 and said you were feeling dizzy. 953 00:42:47,098 --> 00:42:48,399 Yeah. I like feel fine. 954 00:42:48,533 --> 00:42:50,135 I just need to sit down. I'm gonna be okay. 955 00:42:50,268 --> 00:42:53,404 It's just the last 30 minutes was just, 956 00:42:54,806 --> 00:42:55,941 we went up a thousand feet. 957 00:42:56,074 --> 00:42:58,777 I felt gone, like we were going up [indistinct]. 958 00:43:00,746 --> 00:43:01,947 - Hey, Oke. - Yeah? 959 00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:03,148 Did you ever, in your wildest dreams, 960 00:43:03,281 --> 00:43:05,050 imagine you'd be sitting on the top 961 00:43:05,183 --> 00:43:07,285 of Mount Whitney on June fourth 962 00:43:07,418 --> 00:43:11,422 at 5:30 in the morning watching the sunrise? 963 00:43:11,556 --> 00:43:12,824 No. 964 00:43:12,958 --> 00:43:14,726 - So you just fell down? - Never in my wildest dreams 965 00:43:14,860 --> 00:43:17,696 or nightmare did I imagine I would climb 966 00:43:17,829 --> 00:43:19,497 that mountain and be up here right now. 967 00:43:19,631 --> 00:43:23,134 It's not uncommon to meet people 968 00:43:24,435 --> 00:43:26,271 that you really get along with. 969 00:43:26,404 --> 00:43:28,573 And so you just link up with those people 970 00:43:28,707 --> 00:43:30,275 and you start to hike together. 971 00:43:32,711 --> 00:43:34,746 You become like a traveling family. 972 00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:36,815 A lot of people will call that a tramily. 973 00:43:37,248 --> 00:43:40,652 And so on those days that you feel like you want to quit, 974 00:43:42,888 --> 00:43:47,759 they are this outside force that can help motivate you 975 00:43:47,893 --> 00:43:49,795 and give you a reason to keep hiking. 976 00:43:49,928 --> 00:43:53,164 [soft music] 977 00:43:57,068 --> 00:43:58,069 I really did decide yesterday, 978 00:43:58,203 --> 00:44:00,605 I was like, stop trying to keep up, 979 00:44:00,739 --> 00:44:02,507 just like find like the rhythm, 980 00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:05,944 pace of my specific body and just stick with that. 981 00:44:06,077 --> 00:44:09,080 And I just like started today doing that 982 00:44:09,214 --> 00:44:11,482 and I'm like, oh, like I'm not already tired. 983 00:44:11,616 --> 00:44:13,384 I don't feel like I'm like, 984 00:44:13,518 --> 00:44:15,987 yesterday I felt like I just like was going, going, going. 985 00:44:16,121 --> 00:44:17,989 And then like halfway through the day, like, 986 00:44:18,123 --> 00:44:20,792 my body starts hurting and it just like takes longer 987 00:44:20,926 --> 00:44:22,260 to get where I'm going, 988 00:44:22,393 --> 00:44:24,830 where I feel like, if I can keep a consistent like speed 989 00:44:24,963 --> 00:44:26,564 that's like my speed, 990 00:44:26,698 --> 00:44:28,566 like, oh, I can like make it there 991 00:44:28,700 --> 00:44:31,369 and not be like dog tired. 992 00:44:31,502 --> 00:44:35,974 Yeah. So it's tough but I'm finding my pace. 993 00:44:37,108 --> 00:44:38,643 The Sierras is when we really started 994 00:44:38,777 --> 00:44:41,947 hitting actual mountain climbs. 995 00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:46,985 Every day, you're pretty much going over at least one peak, 996 00:44:47,118 --> 00:44:49,988 which means you're climbing up a mountain, 997 00:44:50,121 --> 00:44:51,522 reaching to the top 998 00:44:51,790 --> 00:44:53,691 and then having to hike all the way back down 999 00:44:53,825 --> 00:44:55,026 just to get to camp. 1000 00:44:56,728 --> 00:44:59,364 [water rushing] 1001 00:45:00,365 --> 00:45:02,333 [hiker] Why did the Oke cross the river? 1002 00:45:03,101 --> 00:45:04,002 [Gary] Why? 1003 00:45:04,135 --> 00:45:05,871 [hiker] To get to the other side. 1004 00:45:08,807 --> 00:45:10,341 Lots of comedians on the trail. 1005 00:45:10,475 --> 00:45:11,509 [Mary laughing] 1006 00:45:13,411 --> 00:45:14,512 - [Mary] Where's Oke? - [hiker] I don't want 1007 00:45:14,645 --> 00:45:15,713 to do it in the morning. 1008 00:45:15,847 --> 00:45:17,849 He's got, he's behind me. 1009 00:45:17,983 --> 00:45:19,550 - [Mary] Okay. - Altitude's just bugging him. 1010 00:45:19,684 --> 00:45:20,685 [Mary] Mm. [hiker] Yeah. 1011 00:45:20,819 --> 00:45:22,453 - Yeah. - [Mary] How far behind was he? 1012 00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:24,455 Yeah, he's a ways behind, 1013 00:45:24,589 --> 00:45:25,556 but he'll get here. 1014 00:45:25,690 --> 00:45:26,557 [Mary] Yeah. 1015 00:45:27,558 --> 00:45:29,727 [pack crinkling] 1016 00:45:29,861 --> 00:45:34,299 [Mary] Yeah, I got in at like 6:30 or six o'clock 1017 00:45:34,432 --> 00:45:36,001 and you, this is like, what? 1018 00:45:36,134 --> 00:45:37,068 - Nine now? - Yeah. 1019 00:45:37,202 --> 00:45:38,169 It's about to be like, 1020 00:45:38,303 --> 00:45:40,405 it was like 8:40 when I like walked up. 1021 00:45:40,538 --> 00:45:42,073 [Mary] Oh my God. 1022 00:45:42,207 --> 00:45:44,042 You poor thing. 1023 00:45:44,175 --> 00:45:45,710 That's so late. 1024 00:45:45,844 --> 00:45:47,846 And as I was like walking, I was like, oh, it'd be funny 1025 00:45:47,979 --> 00:45:49,948 if I like have to like pull out my head lamp, 1026 00:45:50,081 --> 00:45:51,917 and it started getting dark and I was like, oh, what? 1027 00:45:52,050 --> 00:45:55,186 Maybe I should be pulling out this head lamp. [laughs] 1028 00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:56,221 [Mary] Oh. 1029 00:45:56,354 --> 00:45:57,188 [Gary] Ah. 1030 00:45:57,322 --> 00:45:58,123 [whispering] Oh my gosh. 1031 00:45:58,256 --> 00:45:59,190 Oh my gosh. 1032 00:45:59,324 --> 00:46:00,258 Oh my gosh. 1033 00:46:01,026 --> 00:46:02,928 [Mary] Have you ever been this close to a chipmunk? 1034 00:46:03,061 --> 00:46:05,964 No. Is this how I die? 1035 00:46:07,598 --> 00:46:10,301 [wind blowing] [indistinct chattering] 1036 00:46:14,572 --> 00:46:16,074 [Mary] Look what you climbed in 30 minutes. 1037 00:46:16,207 --> 00:46:18,409 [Gary laughing] 1038 00:46:18,543 --> 00:46:19,510 I'm proud of myself. 1039 00:46:19,644 --> 00:46:21,512 Proud of you. Proud of all of us. 1040 00:46:21,646 --> 00:46:23,214 None of us do this for a living. 1041 00:46:23,348 --> 00:46:25,383 - We can climb mountains? - [Mary] Mm-mm. 1042 00:46:25,516 --> 00:46:26,751 You know, we're doing it. 1043 00:46:26,885 --> 00:46:28,419 [Mary] We out here. 1044 00:46:28,553 --> 00:46:30,121 Now let's get through it. [laughs] 1045 00:46:35,626 --> 00:46:38,329 [wind whipping] 1046 00:46:40,431 --> 00:46:41,833 [Mary] It's kind of going to be dark soon. 1047 00:46:41,967 --> 00:46:44,302 This is not supposed to be after dark. 1048 00:46:44,970 --> 00:46:47,172 Feel like the sun's about to set. 1049 00:46:47,305 --> 00:46:50,108 [dramatic music] 1050 00:46:54,679 --> 00:46:57,815 It's about to be seven o'clock in the morning, 1051 00:46:57,949 --> 00:46:58,884 which isn't late. 1052 00:46:59,985 --> 00:47:01,486 But I just woke up. 1053 00:47:01,619 --> 00:47:04,822 I'm behind the group, slept alone. 1054 00:47:06,424 --> 00:47:08,493 [plastic crinkling] 1055 00:47:08,626 --> 00:47:09,827 [Mary] You okay, Gar? 1056 00:47:10,929 --> 00:47:11,796 Yeah. 1057 00:47:13,164 --> 00:47:15,266 I just, I do legitimately feel bad. 1058 00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:16,634 I'm like, I hate being, 1059 00:47:16,767 --> 00:47:18,703 like legitimately hate being a holdup. 1060 00:47:19,604 --> 00:47:20,305 I don't know. 1061 00:47:20,438 --> 00:47:21,406 Like, I'm trying but I-- 1062 00:47:21,539 --> 00:47:22,540 [Mary] You are. You're doing great. 1063 00:47:22,673 --> 00:47:25,210 [tense music] 1064 00:47:33,318 --> 00:47:35,486 [Gary] I dunno, I feel like for the first visceral moment, 1065 00:47:35,620 --> 00:47:36,554 I feel like I like, 1066 00:47:37,788 --> 00:47:39,124 I feel like I just don't want to voice, 1067 00:47:39,257 --> 00:47:40,458 I don't voice enough stuff. 1068 00:47:40,591 --> 00:47:42,327 Like I get anxious about like how it's gonna turn out 1069 00:47:42,460 --> 00:47:47,498 and I feel like, me being on camera, like it is hard. 1070 00:47:47,999 --> 00:47:49,567 Like, it's not easy for me. 1071 00:47:51,269 --> 00:47:52,470 And it sounds like, 1072 00:47:54,505 --> 00:47:56,774 sometimes it feels useless to say like, 1073 00:47:56,908 --> 00:47:58,009 oh, it's tough being on camera, 1074 00:47:58,143 --> 00:48:00,745 but like it is, 1075 00:48:00,878 --> 00:48:02,347 and I feel bad that you're like, you're waiting, 1076 00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:05,951 you're in spots and you're like waiting to film me. 1077 00:48:06,084 --> 00:48:07,185 I'm trying to like, 1078 00:48:08,453 --> 00:48:10,621 I want to be faster but I'm like not. 1079 00:48:10,755 --> 00:48:12,223 I'm just not there. 1080 00:48:12,357 --> 00:48:13,324 Like, I can't. 1081 00:48:13,992 --> 00:48:18,896 [contemplative music] [wind whipping] 1082 00:48:24,535 --> 00:48:26,371 [Mary] So fucking cold. 1083 00:48:28,906 --> 00:48:32,910 [contemplative music] [wind whipping] 1084 00:48:43,288 --> 00:48:47,158 [Gary sniffling and wheezing] 1085 00:48:48,893 --> 00:48:50,428 I can't do this. 1086 00:48:51,429 --> 00:48:55,133 [Gary sniffling and crying] 1087 00:48:57,868 --> 00:48:59,237 So hard. 1088 00:49:01,306 --> 00:49:04,142 [Mary] I know. I know it's hard. 1089 00:49:07,878 --> 00:49:09,614 I just want to be done. 1090 00:49:09,747 --> 00:49:12,350 [solemn music] 1091 00:49:14,285 --> 00:49:16,121 [Mary] Come on, let's go down to camp. 1092 00:49:16,254 --> 00:49:18,356 Let's get you warm. Okay? 1093 00:49:20,158 --> 00:49:21,459 Let's keep going 1094 00:49:21,592 --> 00:49:24,095 because there's definitely a storm rolling in. 1095 00:49:26,231 --> 00:49:28,666 I love you, Gary. You got this. 1096 00:49:28,799 --> 00:49:31,102 It's gonna be better once you're warm in your tent. 1097 00:49:31,236 --> 00:49:34,272 [solemn music] 1098 00:49:34,972 --> 00:49:36,774 [Gary] I gotta say, I'm grateful to have Mary 1099 00:49:37,608 --> 00:49:38,909 with me on the trail. 1100 00:49:40,345 --> 00:49:44,215 She's so freaking positive, like really positive. 1101 00:49:45,283 --> 00:49:48,053 She's positive in that way that like it's encouraging. 1102 00:49:49,287 --> 00:49:52,157 I'd be like almost to the top of the hill, 1103 00:49:52,290 --> 00:49:53,791 and then I just like look up, 1104 00:49:53,924 --> 00:49:56,461 and it's like the sun and then Mary. 1105 00:49:56,594 --> 00:50:01,632 [solemn music] 1106 00:50:03,501 --> 00:50:05,503 [Mary whispering] Sun is setting. 1107 00:50:07,272 --> 00:50:09,374 And we have miles to go. 1108 00:50:10,741 --> 00:50:11,809 How are you feeling? 1109 00:50:11,942 --> 00:50:14,379 - [hiker] Yeah. - Oh, cold, tired, 1110 00:50:14,512 --> 00:50:15,613 weirdly emotional. 1111 00:50:15,746 --> 00:50:17,515 - And I seem... - [Mary] I can't see. 1112 00:50:17,648 --> 00:50:19,650 I can't keep up. I don't know. 1113 00:50:19,784 --> 00:50:21,552 I'm tired, cold. [laughs] 1114 00:50:22,187 --> 00:50:23,654 Ready to set up camp. 1115 00:50:24,589 --> 00:50:27,058 Long emotional day unexpectedly. 1116 00:50:27,192 --> 00:50:28,659 - [Mary] Yeah? - Yeah. 1117 00:50:28,793 --> 00:50:31,662 [water rushing] 1118 00:50:43,708 --> 00:50:45,042 [Gary] 800. 1119 00:50:46,344 --> 00:50:49,180 Now I'm just, 'cause no words. 1120 00:50:49,314 --> 00:50:50,848 Just movements. 1121 00:50:50,981 --> 00:50:53,251 [birds chirping] [Mary laughs softly] 1122 00:50:55,220 --> 00:50:57,755 [Gary humming] 1123 00:50:59,357 --> 00:51:01,692 ♪ 800 miles ♪ 1124 00:51:01,826 --> 00:51:03,128 [Mary] I thought you said no words. 1125 00:51:03,261 --> 00:51:05,430 Oh true. Yeah. 1126 00:51:06,631 --> 00:51:09,200 Originally, when we first started hiking, 1127 00:51:09,334 --> 00:51:10,501 it was just me and Mary, 1128 00:51:10,635 --> 00:51:12,770 and I thought, that's all I need. 1129 00:51:13,070 --> 00:51:14,439 [indistinct chattering] 1130 00:51:14,572 --> 00:51:16,674 [Gary] But I think I needed to break the pattern 1131 00:51:16,807 --> 00:51:20,311 of feeling like I could do this life thing all on my own, 1132 00:51:20,445 --> 00:51:22,447 like I don't need other people. 1133 00:51:22,580 --> 00:51:24,582 And I think one of the biggest lessons 1134 00:51:24,715 --> 00:51:28,153 that I've learned is that life is so much better 1135 00:51:28,286 --> 00:51:31,289 when you have people around you that you love. 1136 00:51:32,357 --> 00:51:36,594 Not everybody hikes the trail wanting to form a tramily, 1137 00:51:36,727 --> 00:51:38,596 but I think I needed to have a tramily. 1138 00:51:38,729 --> 00:51:41,566 We'd wait for Oke but we don't know where he is, right? 1139 00:51:41,699 --> 00:51:42,433 - No. - [Mary] Yeah. Yeah. 1140 00:51:42,567 --> 00:51:44,169 I'm not sure when he'll show up. 1141 00:51:44,302 --> 00:51:45,570 - I did see some-- - [hiker] I'll get 1142 00:51:45,703 --> 00:51:47,972 my binoculars out and see if I can see him on the trail. 1143 00:51:48,105 --> 00:51:49,340 - [Mary] That'd be cool. - Have his photo. 1144 00:51:49,474 --> 00:51:50,708 - Yeah, I have binoculars. - First I thought were joking 1145 00:51:50,841 --> 00:51:53,144 - but I know that-- - That's why my name's Peeps. 1146 00:51:53,278 --> 00:51:54,445 - Oh, the birds? - Yeah. 1147 00:51:54,579 --> 00:51:55,446 - Oh I see him! - [hiker] Is that him? Okay. 1148 00:51:55,580 --> 00:51:56,614 Wait, hold on. Let me look. 1149 00:51:56,747 --> 00:51:57,615 Where'd it go? 1150 00:51:58,549 --> 00:51:59,617 No, that's Lobster. 1151 00:52:00,251 --> 00:52:01,986 [hiker] I met Hike for day before. 1152 00:52:02,119 --> 00:52:03,221 [Peeps] Oh. 1153 00:52:03,788 --> 00:52:05,790 [Gary] Getting to the top of a mountain 1154 00:52:05,923 --> 00:52:07,057 and having all of them, 1155 00:52:08,058 --> 00:52:09,093 it feels so good. 1156 00:52:09,227 --> 00:52:11,896 I feel like I have my own 1157 00:52:12,029 --> 00:52:13,664 traveling support group. 1158 00:52:14,465 --> 00:52:17,635 - [hiker] Hey, welcome up, Oke. - [hikers cheering] 1159 00:52:25,676 --> 00:52:27,645 - [hiker] Welcome to the top. - ♪ Who hates hiking? ♪ 1160 00:52:27,778 --> 00:52:31,115 - [group laughing] - ♪ I hate hiking ♪ 1161 00:52:31,249 --> 00:52:34,485 No I'm kidding. It's gorgeous. It's great. It's awesome. 1162 00:52:34,619 --> 00:52:35,620 What up? 1163 00:52:35,753 --> 00:52:38,556 - What you want now? What? - [Mary laughs] 1164 00:52:38,689 --> 00:52:40,491 What do you want from me? 1165 00:52:40,625 --> 00:52:43,461 I just threw my heart and soul on a mountain 1166 00:52:43,594 --> 00:52:44,895 and now you wanna film me. 1167 00:52:45,963 --> 00:52:48,132 I have nothing left to give, Soleil. 1168 00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:51,035 And scene. 1169 00:52:51,168 --> 00:52:52,403 [group laughing] 1170 00:52:52,537 --> 00:52:54,205 [funky music] 1171 00:52:54,339 --> 00:52:56,874 [Gary] Eight people make up our entire tramily. 1172 00:52:57,007 --> 00:53:01,011 The name we gave our tramily was the Slinky 1173 00:53:01,145 --> 00:53:02,580 and that was because, 1174 00:53:02,713 --> 00:53:05,816 no matter how many times we kind of broke apart, 1175 00:53:05,950 --> 00:53:08,419 we would always somehow like come back together. 1176 00:53:08,553 --> 00:53:11,121 [funky music] 1177 00:53:12,823 --> 00:53:17,194 Peeps is sweet, funny, caring. 1178 00:53:17,328 --> 00:53:19,029 Outside of Mary, she's probably the person 1179 00:53:19,163 --> 00:53:22,166 that I like lean on the most emotionally. 1180 00:53:22,300 --> 00:53:24,735 King is, he's the youngest of the group, 1181 00:53:24,869 --> 00:53:26,537 but he's super knowledgeable. 1182 00:53:28,506 --> 00:53:29,707 Snooze and Nugget, 1183 00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:32,577 couple who started on the trail together. 1184 00:53:33,978 --> 00:53:35,846 [Snooze laughing] 1185 00:53:35,980 --> 00:53:38,916 [Gary] Snooze is like the big sister you never had. 1186 00:53:39,817 --> 00:53:44,855 Nugget is so snarky and funny and quiet, 1187 00:53:45,155 --> 00:53:47,292 and he has such a dry wit. 1188 00:53:47,425 --> 00:53:49,927 Lazy Boy is probably the closest 1189 00:53:50,060 --> 00:53:52,563 to being somebody I would already have been friends with. 1190 00:53:52,697 --> 00:53:53,964 Lazy Boy is funny, 1191 00:53:54,098 --> 00:53:57,768 never wants to hike but is sticking this thing out. 1192 00:53:57,902 --> 00:54:00,938 Boom Boom is like the fun uncle of the group. 1193 00:54:01,071 --> 00:54:03,007 He has that energy, 1194 00:54:03,140 --> 00:54:07,244 this fun guy who is doing the trail just to have fun. 1195 00:54:08,245 --> 00:54:10,715 I'm just really, really happy that I got this group 1196 00:54:10,848 --> 00:54:14,218 of weirdos to finish this crazy weird journey with. 1197 00:54:14,485 --> 00:54:16,887 Hi. Hey, Subaru. 1198 00:54:18,756 --> 00:54:20,090 [Mary] Should we get a sign that says like, 1199 00:54:20,224 --> 00:54:21,426 "not murderers"? 1200 00:54:23,628 --> 00:54:25,596 See, we're like the inflatable... 1201 00:54:27,197 --> 00:54:28,733 See? It's the movement! 1202 00:54:28,866 --> 00:54:30,100 Because we did the movement. 1203 00:54:30,234 --> 00:54:32,770 [funky music] 1204 00:54:33,871 --> 00:54:37,074 [water splashing] 1205 00:54:37,342 --> 00:54:40,378 [group laughing] 1206 00:54:40,511 --> 00:54:42,980 [funky music] 1207 00:54:45,616 --> 00:54:46,851 [squealing] 1208 00:54:46,984 --> 00:54:48,152 Yeah, you guys got the waves. 1209 00:54:48,886 --> 00:54:50,388 Oh! Fff... 1210 00:54:54,792 --> 00:54:55,593 [Mary] We did it. 1211 00:54:55,726 --> 00:54:56,661 - [hiker] Cheers. - We did it. 1212 00:54:56,794 --> 00:54:58,262 [Mary] Fucking, we did it. 1213 00:55:13,678 --> 00:55:14,845 [Gary chuckles] 1214 00:55:17,548 --> 00:55:18,449 Good job. 1215 00:55:18,583 --> 00:55:21,251 - Wow. Good job everyone. - Congrats. 1216 00:55:21,386 --> 00:55:22,152 Is that Lazy Boy? 1217 00:55:22,286 --> 00:55:23,854 - Hell yeah. - Sure is. 1218 00:55:23,988 --> 00:55:25,022 [Gary] He brought his [indistinct]. 1219 00:55:25,155 --> 00:55:27,191 - Oh my God. - Yeah. Well done. 1220 00:55:28,225 --> 00:55:29,994 [Mary] 30 miles. Hey. 1221 00:55:30,127 --> 00:55:31,962 - Hey. - [Mary] Yeah. 1222 00:55:34,932 --> 00:55:36,434 [hiker] Whoa. 1223 00:55:36,567 --> 00:55:37,868 - Do it again. - Yeah, I wanna see. 1224 00:55:40,237 --> 00:55:42,039 [hikers cheering] 1225 00:55:42,172 --> 00:55:44,041 I wanna try. Everybody get outta the way. 1226 00:55:45,476 --> 00:55:47,378 [indistinct chattering] 1227 00:55:47,645 --> 00:55:48,746 - There you go. - Nice. Yeah. 1228 00:55:48,879 --> 00:55:52,316 - That was a little better. - [water rushing] 1229 00:55:59,056 --> 00:56:01,859 [hiker laughing] 1230 00:56:07,064 --> 00:56:10,668 Okay. Did you hold onto another side? 1231 00:56:11,301 --> 00:56:15,072 Just kinda slowly make your way over there. 1232 00:56:17,274 --> 00:56:18,375 [hiker cheering] 1233 00:56:18,509 --> 00:56:20,845 Yeah. 1234 00:56:22,647 --> 00:56:26,183 [hikers cheering] 1235 00:56:26,316 --> 00:56:27,351 You did it. 1236 00:56:27,485 --> 00:56:29,086 [group laughing] 1237 00:56:29,219 --> 00:56:31,321 [indistinct chattering] 1238 00:56:31,656 --> 00:56:34,358 [siren blaring] 1239 00:56:40,164 --> 00:56:41,499 Know what it is? 1240 00:56:41,632 --> 00:56:43,400 [Mary] No. Do you know what it is? 1241 00:56:43,534 --> 00:56:44,401 Not a clue. 1242 00:56:47,037 --> 00:56:49,574 It's weird 'cause the first part of it sounded like a clock. 1243 00:56:49,707 --> 00:56:50,708 - [Mary] Yeah. - Didn't sound like, 1244 00:56:50,841 --> 00:56:52,342 it was just like a siren. It's like a-- 1245 00:56:52,477 --> 00:56:54,912 [Mary] It's a siren which worries me out here, 1246 00:56:56,881 --> 00:56:59,750 'cause a lot of times sirens are for fires. 1247 00:56:59,884 --> 00:57:00,751 Yeah. 1248 00:57:02,720 --> 00:57:04,354 [Mary] Let's see those feetsies, Peepsies. 1249 00:57:04,489 --> 00:57:05,756 I'm working on it here. 1250 00:57:07,057 --> 00:57:08,526 - [Gary] So I wanted to-- - You wanna see my peepers? 1251 00:57:08,659 --> 00:57:09,927 - [Mary] Your peepers. - My tootsies? 1252 00:57:10,060 --> 00:57:11,596 [Mary] Yeah. Show me your tootsies, lady. 1253 00:57:11,729 --> 00:57:13,531 Show me, show me your tootsies, Peeps. 1254 00:57:13,664 --> 00:57:15,566 It just sounds dirty in so many ways. 1255 00:57:15,700 --> 00:57:18,135 [laughs] Ooh. Ooh this one's even worse. 1256 00:57:18,268 --> 00:57:19,604 - Look at that. - [group] Wow. 1257 00:57:19,737 --> 00:57:22,306 [Peeps] There's like a quarter inch thick. 1258 00:57:22,439 --> 00:57:23,641 [Gary] Oh my gosh. 1259 00:57:23,774 --> 00:57:25,976 [Peeps] Whoa, this is like a Swiffer commercial. 1260 00:57:26,110 --> 00:57:28,479 I have a feeling it's gonna look a little different. 1261 00:57:28,613 --> 00:57:29,446 - Still. - Oh damn. 1262 00:57:29,580 --> 00:57:31,015 [Gary] Still pretty black. 1263 00:57:31,148 --> 00:57:33,784 [Peeps] Yeah, you got, still pretty black. [laughing] 1264 00:57:33,918 --> 00:57:36,186 Yeah, I think we could make a lot of money 1265 00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:38,956 with like people with dirty foot fetishes. 1266 00:57:39,089 --> 00:57:40,324 You know? 1267 00:57:40,457 --> 00:57:42,960 Specifically like hikers and like the miles we put in. 1268 00:57:43,093 --> 00:57:45,963 [wind whispering] 1269 00:57:53,638 --> 00:57:54,905 [Peeps] Oh my God, I'm so excited. 1270 00:57:56,173 --> 00:57:58,909 [water rushing] 1271 00:57:59,977 --> 00:58:03,648 Ooh. That feels amazing. 1272 00:58:04,014 --> 00:58:06,751 [water rushing] 1273 00:58:12,322 --> 00:58:14,124 [Mary] I just love that pooping is like, 1274 00:58:14,258 --> 00:58:16,994 the number one topic on trail, 1275 00:58:17,127 --> 00:58:19,797 like the number one outside of eating food, 1276 00:58:19,930 --> 00:58:23,300 what happens to the food after it enters your body. 1277 00:58:23,433 --> 00:58:24,535 [group laughs] 1278 00:58:25,102 --> 00:58:26,036 It's true. 1279 00:58:27,504 --> 00:58:29,840 I never used to talk to Nugget about pooping, 1280 00:58:29,974 --> 00:58:31,008 because I knew it made him uncomfortable. 1281 00:58:31,141 --> 00:58:32,442 Now I don't care. 1282 00:58:32,577 --> 00:58:33,377 [Gary laughing] 1283 00:58:33,510 --> 00:58:34,579 Didn't make me uncomfortable. 1284 00:58:34,712 --> 00:58:36,146 [hiker] You guys crossed another bridge 1285 00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:37,214 in your relationship. 1286 00:58:37,347 --> 00:58:38,248 [indistinct chattering] 1287 00:58:38,382 --> 00:58:39,349 - Milestone. - It was like, 1288 00:58:39,483 --> 00:58:40,718 it totally was a silent but deadly. 1289 00:58:40,851 --> 00:58:43,220 Like it came out and I was like, fuck, that stinks. 1290 00:58:43,353 --> 00:58:46,056 And then I literally said, "Sorry," 1291 00:58:46,190 --> 00:58:47,257 because I knew Nuggy was behind me 1292 00:58:47,391 --> 00:58:49,393 and I knew it was going to be like brutal. 1293 00:58:49,526 --> 00:58:51,729 But he was like further back doing something on his phone. 1294 00:58:51,862 --> 00:58:53,030 I was like, oh, you're not even there. 1295 00:58:53,163 --> 00:58:54,264 Okay, whatever. Fine. 1296 00:58:54,398 --> 00:58:55,499 [hums] Walking along. 1297 00:58:55,633 --> 00:58:57,467 And so he's like, "Hey, Asia?" 1298 00:58:57,602 --> 00:58:58,936 I'm like, "Yes." 1299 00:58:59,069 --> 00:59:00,938 And he was like, "Did you fart?" 1300 00:59:01,071 --> 00:59:02,339 And I was like, 1301 00:59:02,973 --> 00:59:04,041 [laughs] what'd I say? 1302 00:59:04,174 --> 00:59:06,176 I was like, "Oh no." [laughs] 1303 00:59:07,177 --> 00:59:08,545 [footsteps crunching] 1304 00:59:08,679 --> 00:59:10,014 - [Mary] See it? - Huh? 1305 00:59:10,147 --> 00:59:11,181 [Mary] You see it? 1306 00:59:12,082 --> 00:59:12,950 See what? 1307 00:59:13,083 --> 00:59:15,519 [contemplative music] 1308 00:59:15,653 --> 00:59:16,587 The lake? 1309 00:59:16,721 --> 00:59:18,388 [Mary] No, look above the lake. 1310 00:59:19,690 --> 00:59:20,925 Oh, fuck, yeah. 1311 00:59:21,491 --> 00:59:23,694 Yeah. That's smoke from a fire. 1312 00:59:23,828 --> 00:59:25,095 [Mary] Oh God. 1313 00:59:25,863 --> 00:59:27,297 I wonder how far away that is. 1314 00:59:27,832 --> 00:59:28,699 Yeah. 1315 00:59:41,111 --> 00:59:43,313 [hiker] And she said yeah, that it's still burning. 1316 00:59:43,447 --> 00:59:44,481 [Mary] What are you guys looking at? 1317 00:59:44,615 --> 00:59:45,716 Crazy. 1318 00:59:45,850 --> 00:59:49,219 This is a like burned out tree root system 1319 00:59:49,353 --> 00:59:51,789 where all the roots burned down through the ground 1320 00:59:51,922 --> 00:59:56,093 and you can see shape of the roots in the dirt. 1321 00:59:56,226 --> 00:59:57,094 It's crazy. 1322 00:59:58,195 --> 01:00:00,597 This was a huge tree also compared to like... 1323 01:00:00,731 --> 01:00:01,766 [Gary] Did they take something out there? 1324 01:00:01,899 --> 01:00:03,267 - [Peeps] No. - [Gary] Or it just like 1325 01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:04,802 - literally burned to this point? - [Peeps] It burned to nothing. 1326 01:00:04,935 --> 01:00:07,872 Like that's all that's left, that in the middle. 1327 01:00:08,005 --> 01:00:09,073 Wow. 1328 01:00:09,206 --> 01:00:10,574 Right? This must have been a really hot fire. 1329 01:00:10,708 --> 01:00:11,575 Yeah. 1330 01:00:16,847 --> 01:00:20,584 [Mary] Yet another fire and this one's a lot closer. 1331 01:00:21,251 --> 01:00:23,487 Uh, that's really kind of nerve wracking, right? 1332 01:00:23,620 --> 01:00:25,622 - [Mary] Yeah, I let, I-- - Did you look it up? 1333 01:00:25,756 --> 01:00:27,157 [Mary] Well, I saw where it was coming from 1334 01:00:27,291 --> 01:00:28,292 before it like really 1335 01:00:28,425 --> 01:00:29,559 - hazed over more. - It started blowing. 1336 01:00:29,694 --> 01:00:30,795 - It's over there. - It's coming from behind that 1337 01:00:30,928 --> 01:00:32,096 and we go that way. 1338 01:00:32,229 --> 01:00:33,597 - And down to the river? - So someone who passed 1339 01:00:33,731 --> 01:00:35,365 said it was 16 miles away. 1340 01:00:35,499 --> 01:00:36,200 That's pretty close. 1341 01:00:36,333 --> 01:00:37,267 [Mary] It is close. 1342 01:00:37,401 --> 01:00:38,936 - Yeah. - Yeah. Okay. 1343 01:00:39,436 --> 01:00:41,772 I know, I do too. 1344 01:00:41,906 --> 01:00:43,774 Should we be sticking our thumbs out and trying 1345 01:00:43,908 --> 01:00:45,075 - to hitch from these people? - What's going on? 1346 01:00:45,209 --> 01:00:47,011 [Mary] Actually, it might not be a bad idea. 1347 01:00:47,144 --> 01:00:49,146 - [both laughing] - What you got there? 1348 01:00:49,880 --> 01:00:51,916 Can I have some crack? You can see. 1349 01:00:53,450 --> 01:00:55,152 Come on, I'll sit with your dog. 1350 01:00:55,953 --> 01:00:57,321 [Mary] Mount Shasta! 1351 01:00:57,454 --> 01:00:59,356 - Shasta! - Shasta. 1352 01:00:59,489 --> 01:01:00,991 [Mary] 1,500 miles too, guys. 1353 01:01:01,125 --> 01:01:03,527 - I know. - I know. 1354 01:01:04,161 --> 01:01:04,929 I, it... 1355 01:01:05,062 --> 01:01:06,130 Boy, one. 1356 01:01:06,263 --> 01:01:08,132 They're coming so fast now. 1357 01:01:08,265 --> 01:01:09,566 I know. 1358 01:01:09,700 --> 01:01:12,102 The hundreds are just kind of like ticking by like nothing. 1359 01:01:12,236 --> 01:01:13,938 We're burning through 'em. Yeah. 1360 01:01:14,638 --> 01:01:15,873 [Mary] How big is it? 1361 01:01:16,006 --> 01:01:19,576 - Maybe, is it around-- - 85,000, over 85,000 acres. 1362 01:01:19,710 --> 01:01:20,945 [Mary] Holy shit. 1363 01:01:21,078 --> 01:01:23,981 Yeah. In only six days. Like, that's really crazy. 1364 01:01:24,114 --> 01:01:25,816 [indistinct chattering] 1365 01:01:26,016 --> 01:01:29,053 - That must be the 85,000. - [Gary] Yeah. 1366 01:01:29,186 --> 01:01:31,055 - [hiker] Well, that's how I-- - [Peeps] Damn. 1367 01:01:31,188 --> 01:01:31,956 I mean, we hiked, 1368 01:01:32,089 --> 01:01:34,524 there's the PCT too, right? 1369 01:01:34,658 --> 01:01:35,592 That green line? 1370 01:01:36,794 --> 01:01:37,795 [Gary] Oh, yeah. 1371 01:01:37,928 --> 01:01:39,429 [Peeps] So it's right through there. 1372 01:01:39,563 --> 01:01:40,831 There's a lot of hikers we've encountered 1373 01:01:40,965 --> 01:01:43,233 that are just like really nonchalant about it. 1374 01:01:43,367 --> 01:01:44,101 And they're like, oh, yeah, 1375 01:01:44,234 --> 01:01:45,235 I'll just like get off trail 1376 01:01:45,369 --> 01:01:46,904 - if the fire's there. - [Mary] Yeah. 1377 01:01:47,037 --> 01:01:48,338 Instead of like skipping around 1378 01:01:48,472 --> 01:01:51,341 or like go as close as I can. 1379 01:01:51,475 --> 01:01:52,342 [Mary] Ah. 1380 01:01:52,476 --> 01:01:54,244 And I'm, I just feel like I'm... 1381 01:01:54,378 --> 01:01:56,146 - Yeah. - Yeah. 1382 01:01:56,313 --> 01:01:58,015 [Peeps] Yeah. That's so intense. 1383 01:01:58,148 --> 01:02:00,617 - Yeah. - Anyway, like a really small, 1384 01:02:00,751 --> 01:02:01,919 - tiny fire. - [Peeps] It's the camera act. 1385 01:02:02,052 --> 01:02:03,854 Look at these photos from the trail. 1386 01:02:03,988 --> 01:02:05,189 From the trail? 1387 01:02:05,322 --> 01:02:06,190 [Peeps] Yeah. 1388 01:02:06,323 --> 01:02:08,759 [slow music] 1389 01:02:21,171 --> 01:02:22,306 [Gary] You gotta make a fashion statement. 1390 01:02:22,439 --> 01:02:23,707 [Peeps] Yeah. Hey, you look great. 1391 01:02:23,841 --> 01:02:24,875 [Gary] Thanks. 1392 01:02:25,009 --> 01:02:26,176 [Peeps] It's funny 'cause it just sort 1393 01:02:26,310 --> 01:02:28,612 of looks like your mouth is out away from the hole. 1394 01:02:28,745 --> 01:02:30,014 [group laughing] 1395 01:02:30,147 --> 01:02:31,281 [Mary] It's like he's like a duck mouth. 1396 01:02:31,415 --> 01:02:32,416 Yeah. Yeah. 1397 01:02:32,549 --> 01:02:33,818 Just looks like you have like your, 1398 01:02:33,951 --> 01:02:36,053 like a really strong chin. 1399 01:02:36,186 --> 01:02:38,088 [group laughing] 1400 01:02:38,222 --> 01:02:40,024 [Gary] Really small face. 1401 01:02:40,157 --> 01:02:41,425 [Peeps] Really small. 1402 01:02:42,692 --> 01:02:45,896 [contemplative music] 1403 01:02:46,096 --> 01:02:50,901 I just feel lightheaded and I have a headache. 1404 01:02:51,035 --> 01:02:52,236 I feel like I can't breathe. 1405 01:02:52,402 --> 01:02:55,405 [helicopter whirring] 1406 01:02:55,539 --> 01:02:58,208 Hiking in all this smoke and fire is just, 1407 01:02:58,575 --> 01:02:59,643 it's really tough. 1408 01:03:01,111 --> 01:03:02,446 We wake up every day, 1409 01:03:02,579 --> 01:03:05,315 and we can smell the smoke in the air, 1410 01:03:05,749 --> 01:03:06,951 and we're having to worry 1411 01:03:07,084 --> 01:03:11,922 and wonder if the fire is right near us. 1412 01:03:12,056 --> 01:03:14,091 It's just made the hike scarier 1413 01:03:14,224 --> 01:03:16,593 and the danger like more real 1414 01:03:16,726 --> 01:03:19,329 than I thought it was gonna be. 1415 01:03:20,264 --> 01:03:23,868 It's hella smoky. It's so, it's so smoky out here. 1416 01:03:27,004 --> 01:03:27,972 [Gary sighs] 1417 01:03:28,105 --> 01:03:29,940 I can't keep hiking in this smoke. 1418 01:03:30,474 --> 01:03:33,978 I gotta tell, I don't know. I gotta tell the group I can't. 1419 01:03:34,111 --> 01:03:35,880 I can't keep hiking in this. 1420 01:03:39,249 --> 01:03:40,717 [Mary] So guess what, you guys? 1421 01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:46,023 We are 1,000 miles from the border. 1422 01:03:46,156 --> 01:03:47,124 - Wait, what? - Oh my God. 1423 01:03:47,257 --> 01:03:48,158 - [Mary] Right here. - Right now? 1424 01:03:48,292 --> 01:03:49,693 [Mary] 1,000 miles right now. 1425 01:03:49,826 --> 01:03:51,728 - Right here? - [Peeps cheers] 1426 01:03:52,496 --> 01:03:54,731 [Mary] 999.9 left. 1427 01:03:54,865 --> 01:03:55,832 What? What? 1428 01:03:55,966 --> 01:03:57,868 You really want us to be excited. 1429 01:03:58,002 --> 01:04:00,804 [group shouting] 1430 01:04:03,941 --> 01:04:07,344 999 miles. 1431 01:04:08,012 --> 01:04:09,479 [Gary] Do this. 1432 01:04:10,414 --> 01:04:11,348 - Pass-- - Corn cob. 1433 01:04:11,481 --> 01:04:12,482 We're the Twins. 1434 01:04:12,616 --> 01:04:13,350 - Yeah. - [Mary] You're twins? 1435 01:04:13,483 --> 01:04:14,318 - No. - But we're not. 1436 01:04:14,451 --> 01:04:15,219 - [group laughing] - Oh, I was like, 1437 01:04:15,352 --> 01:04:16,386 wait a second. 1438 01:04:17,854 --> 01:04:19,056 People always assume 1439 01:04:19,189 --> 01:04:20,724 - that we are. - We're twins. 1440 01:04:20,857 --> 01:04:21,992 Are they not looking hard enough? 1441 01:04:22,126 --> 01:04:23,360 - I guess not. - Guess not. 1442 01:04:23,493 --> 01:04:24,361 Yeah. 1443 01:04:24,962 --> 01:04:26,363 [Mary] You guys don't look like twins at all. 1444 01:04:26,496 --> 01:04:27,497 I have gotten confused. 1445 01:04:27,631 --> 01:04:28,899 Some people don't even think we're sisters. 1446 01:04:29,033 --> 01:04:30,100 Yeah. So it's just weird. 1447 01:04:30,234 --> 01:04:31,601 - Which is-- - Because people have come up 1448 01:04:31,735 --> 01:04:33,470 to us on the trail and be like, oh you guys are the Twins. 1449 01:04:33,603 --> 01:04:34,571 And we're like, okay. 1450 01:04:34,704 --> 01:04:35,973 Sure. 1451 01:04:36,106 --> 01:04:37,908 Literally there's like another Black guy on the trail 1452 01:04:38,042 --> 01:04:40,144 and they've been like, hey... 1453 01:04:40,277 --> 01:04:41,545 - Odysseus! - Odysseus. 1454 01:04:41,678 --> 01:04:42,579 They'll be like, "Hey, Odysseus." 1455 01:04:42,712 --> 01:04:44,081 I was like, "Not Odysseus. 1456 01:04:44,214 --> 01:04:45,515 Nice to meet you though." 1457 01:04:46,383 --> 01:04:48,552 [Mary] Ah, what a gorgeous view. 1458 01:04:48,685 --> 01:04:53,223 What a beautiful evening of smoke and smoke. 1459 01:04:55,892 --> 01:04:56,927 [Mary] Ah. 1460 01:04:57,894 --> 01:04:59,429 - Glorious. - [chuckles] 1461 01:04:59,563 --> 01:05:02,432 [slow music] 1462 01:05:03,567 --> 01:05:04,768 - [Boom Boom] Run, Soleil. - [Mary panting] 1463 01:05:05,369 --> 01:05:08,872 [Mary cheering] 1464 01:05:09,006 --> 01:05:10,975 Come on, kid. Put some effort into it. 1465 01:05:11,508 --> 01:05:14,711 - There you go. - [Peeps cheering] 1466 01:05:14,844 --> 01:05:15,645 [Gary grunting] 1467 01:05:15,779 --> 01:05:17,514 [Mary squealing] 1468 01:05:18,215 --> 01:05:23,520 [Gary shouting] [group laughing] 1469 01:05:26,023 --> 01:05:26,823 Yes! 1470 01:05:26,957 --> 01:05:27,891 Cheers? 1471 01:05:28,025 --> 01:05:29,259 - [Gary] Finally. - [Boom Boom] Absolutely. 1472 01:05:29,393 --> 01:05:30,460 - Yeah. - [Gary] Cheers, yeah. 1473 01:05:30,594 --> 01:05:32,662 - Cheers. - Are we whiskey-ing before beer? 1474 01:05:33,197 --> 01:05:34,231 - [Gary] It's a whiskey-- - [Boom Boom] Also-- 1475 01:05:34,364 --> 01:05:36,000 Whiskey tango foxtrot beer. 1476 01:05:36,133 --> 01:05:37,167 [Gary] Yes. 1477 01:05:37,367 --> 01:05:39,003 [Gary] This is your problem. 1478 01:05:39,136 --> 01:05:43,340 [group cheering, laughing] 1479 01:05:44,108 --> 01:05:47,111 - [indistinct chattering] - Ah, I made it. 1480 01:05:47,944 --> 01:05:49,146 Are you about to fart? 1481 01:05:49,279 --> 01:05:50,614 - [Boom Boom farting] - [Gary and Mary] Oh! 1482 01:05:50,747 --> 01:05:53,083 I thought you were gonna be different in Oregon. 1483 01:05:53,217 --> 01:05:54,418 - You were looking at-- - I heard in Oregon 1484 01:05:54,551 --> 01:05:56,020 none of Boom Boom's farts smell. 1485 01:05:56,153 --> 01:05:57,954 - Very Spartan, Oregon. - Oh, that's true. 1486 01:05:58,922 --> 01:06:03,493 [Gary] I just wanna say that this has been 1487 01:06:03,627 --> 01:06:06,796 the single greatest experience I've ever had in my life, 1488 01:06:09,433 --> 01:06:11,501 and I've never been more proud of myself, 1489 01:06:12,402 --> 01:06:16,506 and this isn't the last time I'm gonna push myself. 1490 01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:18,775 I've learned that, when I push myself, 1491 01:06:19,409 --> 01:06:23,580 this whole new person emerges 1492 01:06:23,713 --> 01:06:27,117 and I'm proud to be that person 1493 01:06:27,251 --> 01:06:30,187 and I'm proud to continue to grow 1494 01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:32,822 and get closer to the person that I want to become. 1495 01:06:32,956 --> 01:06:35,592 [gentle music] 1496 01:06:37,127 --> 01:06:41,198 And it all stemmed from stepping outside my comfort zone. 1497 01:06:44,301 --> 01:06:46,836 But here I am. 1498 01:06:48,138 --> 01:06:50,874 [birds chirping] 1499 01:06:51,108 --> 01:06:52,442 Well my favorite question is, 1500 01:06:52,576 --> 01:06:53,977 hey, so when are you gonna be done? 1501 01:06:54,111 --> 01:06:57,047 And I'm like, I don't know. 1502 01:06:57,481 --> 01:06:58,182 Like. [laughs] 1503 01:06:58,315 --> 01:06:59,249 Yeah, my dad, 1504 01:06:59,383 --> 01:07:00,617 literally, every time I call my dad, 1505 01:07:00,750 --> 01:07:02,252 he, almost like at the very beginning of the call, 1506 01:07:02,386 --> 01:07:03,720 he's like, "So when are you gonna be done?" 1507 01:07:03,853 --> 01:07:04,888 I'm like, 1508 01:07:05,021 --> 01:07:06,656 I don't know, before October? 1509 01:07:07,657 --> 01:07:08,692 - Yeah, they're like-- - He's like, what? 1510 01:07:08,825 --> 01:07:10,026 That long? 1511 01:07:10,160 --> 01:07:11,795 - I know, it's like-- - I told you that last time. 1512 01:07:11,928 --> 01:07:16,032 We still have 600 miles to go. Like, really. 1513 01:07:16,166 --> 01:07:18,668 [Gary] All the logs are like moist. 1514 01:07:18,802 --> 01:07:19,536 [Mary] Yeah, everything's moist. 1515 01:07:19,669 --> 01:07:21,705 Everything just feels moist. 1516 01:07:21,838 --> 01:07:23,039 I know people hate the word moist, 1517 01:07:23,173 --> 01:07:24,341 but it feels moist. 1518 01:07:24,474 --> 01:07:25,242 [Mary whispers] Moist. 1519 01:07:25,375 --> 01:07:26,343 [whispers] So moist. 1520 01:07:26,543 --> 01:07:28,378 [Mary] You know, coming from, 1521 01:07:28,978 --> 01:07:32,849 like a week ago when we were like trying to outrun fires 1522 01:07:32,982 --> 01:07:35,752 and smoke, this is a nice change of pace. 1523 01:07:35,885 --> 01:07:37,554 Yeah. Yeah. 1524 01:07:37,687 --> 01:07:39,289 This is so much better. 1525 01:07:41,091 --> 01:07:43,693 I just gotta say, it looks like Kool-Aid. 1526 01:07:43,827 --> 01:07:45,028 My honest opinion. 1527 01:07:45,162 --> 01:07:46,930 I was like, oh, it's like logs floating in Kool-Aid. 1528 01:07:47,063 --> 01:07:48,598 [Mary] What flavor Kool-Aid is that? 1529 01:07:48,732 --> 01:07:50,367 [Gary] Uh, blue. 1530 01:07:50,734 --> 01:07:52,369 - [Mary laughs] - That's just... 1531 01:07:52,502 --> 01:07:53,903 that's probably what we, that's like grape. 1532 01:07:54,037 --> 01:07:55,038 We call it purple. 1533 01:07:56,106 --> 01:07:57,607 Purple Kool-Aid. 1534 01:07:58,041 --> 01:07:59,909 - Wow! - [Mary laughs] 1535 01:08:01,044 --> 01:08:02,779 - Wow. - That's crazy. 1536 01:08:02,912 --> 01:08:04,013 [Mary] Oh shit! 1537 01:08:04,148 --> 01:08:06,049 [water rushing] [gentle music] 1538 01:08:06,183 --> 01:08:07,217 [Mary] Wow. 1539 01:08:07,984 --> 01:08:10,387 Look, you get to walk behind it. 1540 01:08:10,520 --> 01:08:11,921 Oh, this is the one. 1541 01:08:12,689 --> 01:08:16,326 [gentle music] [water rushing] 1542 01:08:17,727 --> 01:08:18,728 [Gary] It's been a great adventure, 1543 01:08:18,862 --> 01:08:20,096 but I'm so done walking. 1544 01:08:20,897 --> 01:08:21,965 I feel like I'm good at walking. 1545 01:08:22,098 --> 01:08:24,234 I can walk now. I'm good. 1546 01:08:24,368 --> 01:08:25,235 I was thinking about that today. 1547 01:08:25,369 --> 01:08:26,470 I was like, 1548 01:08:26,603 --> 01:08:30,674 yeah, I'm like the LeBron James of walking. 1549 01:08:30,874 --> 01:08:35,779 [gentle music] 1550 01:08:36,613 --> 01:08:37,847 Oof. You know? 1551 01:08:37,981 --> 01:08:40,484 That's--that really encapsulates the whole experience. 1552 01:08:41,785 --> 01:08:42,952 [Mary] Here we are. 1553 01:08:43,086 --> 01:08:45,422 [Gary] Bridge of the Gods. 1554 01:08:45,555 --> 01:08:48,425 Leaving Oregon, going into Washington. 1555 01:08:49,393 --> 01:08:51,127 This is just, it's just beautiful. 1556 01:08:52,229 --> 01:08:53,297 It's like a beautiful spot 1557 01:08:53,430 --> 01:08:55,098 to be crossing to get to a new state. 1558 01:08:55,232 --> 01:08:56,099 [Mary] Yeah. 1559 01:08:58,802 --> 01:08:59,936 [Gary] It's goats. 1560 01:09:00,204 --> 01:09:01,838 [Mary] Mountain goats. 1561 01:09:01,971 --> 01:09:03,006 That's crazy. 1562 01:09:05,342 --> 01:09:07,110 Probably their poop I kept seeing. 1563 01:09:08,678 --> 01:09:10,113 [water rushing] 1564 01:09:10,247 --> 01:09:11,481 Also your teeth are like, 1565 01:09:11,615 --> 01:09:12,316 mine might be too. 1566 01:09:12,449 --> 01:09:13,350 Yours are like blue, 1567 01:09:15,485 --> 01:09:17,086 from all the huckleberries. 1568 01:09:17,421 --> 01:09:18,422 [Gary laughing] 1569 01:09:18,555 --> 01:09:19,656 [hiker] Can you get a shot of this? 1570 01:09:19,789 --> 01:09:20,957 [Gary] Yeah. Who ate all the huckleberries? 1571 01:09:21,090 --> 01:09:23,860 - Not me. - [Gary laughs] 1572 01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:25,362 Is it that bad? 1573 01:09:25,495 --> 01:09:26,596 [Gary] Yeah. It's pretty bad. 1574 01:09:26,730 --> 01:09:29,533 How come--how is no one else's mouth blue? 1575 01:09:29,666 --> 01:09:30,834 [Gary] I don't know. 1576 01:09:30,967 --> 01:09:33,370 Instead of chewing each blueberry individually, 1577 01:09:33,503 --> 01:09:36,240 you load up like 15 blueberries at once 1578 01:09:36,373 --> 01:09:38,542 and then you can chew it all at the same time. 1579 01:09:39,175 --> 01:09:41,177 Code name, chipmunking. 1580 01:09:41,611 --> 01:09:43,813 [laughing] 1581 01:09:43,947 --> 01:09:45,682 [Mary] If I have to perform the Heimlich maneuver, 1582 01:09:45,815 --> 01:09:47,016 I'm not gonna be happy. 1583 01:09:47,150 --> 01:09:48,785 Yeah, don't make him laugh right now. 1584 01:09:48,918 --> 01:09:50,019 It's a very... 1585 01:09:50,153 --> 01:09:51,221 All right, one. 1586 01:09:51,355 --> 01:09:52,222 [Nugget] ...precarious situation. 1587 01:09:52,356 --> 01:09:54,424 - Sorry. - 33. 1588 01:09:54,558 --> 01:09:55,592 [Nugget] Yeah. 1589 01:09:56,192 --> 01:09:57,227 Ooh. 1590 01:09:58,995 --> 01:09:59,796 That's a good one. 1591 01:09:59,929 --> 01:10:01,064 [Nugget] That's the way to do it. 1592 01:10:01,197 --> 01:10:02,732 It just all went, oh my God. 1593 01:10:05,201 --> 01:10:07,036 [Mary] How you doing? 1594 01:10:07,170 --> 01:10:09,138 I'm doing good. 1595 01:10:09,273 --> 01:10:13,610 Just chilling. Enjoying town day. 1596 01:10:14,844 --> 01:10:16,179 - [hiker] Spot on. - [Gary laughs] 1597 01:10:16,313 --> 01:10:17,747 - Holy cow. - Really? 1598 01:10:17,881 --> 01:10:19,983 I mean, yes. I'm feeling really good physically. 1599 01:10:20,116 --> 01:10:22,452 I think we all probably are at this point, 1600 01:10:22,586 --> 01:10:25,221 just feeling like, whoa, look at my muscles. 1601 01:10:25,355 --> 01:10:26,423 Whoa, look at me go. 1602 01:10:26,556 --> 01:10:27,357 [Gary] Yeah. 1603 01:10:27,757 --> 01:10:28,958 When I go back home, 1604 01:10:29,092 --> 01:10:32,596 like what does that, LA is just such like a city 1605 01:10:32,729 --> 01:10:35,265 and the trail is not the city. 1606 01:10:35,399 --> 01:10:37,601 - [Snooze] Totally. - Like how do I like, 1607 01:10:37,734 --> 01:10:39,703 take the happiness I have here, 1608 01:10:39,836 --> 01:10:41,705 like still have it there? 1609 01:10:42,306 --> 01:10:45,542 I'm kind of scared because the trail is ending. 1610 01:10:45,675 --> 01:10:47,644 Like now it feels like things are speeding up. 1611 01:10:47,777 --> 01:10:49,178 - [Snooze] Yeah. - Like we could be done 1612 01:10:49,313 --> 01:10:50,380 or changed out here. 1613 01:10:50,514 --> 01:10:51,781 And I never thought that this would be, 1614 01:10:51,915 --> 01:10:54,250 I was like, this is gonna feel foreign for five months. 1615 01:10:54,384 --> 01:10:55,619 - [Snooze] Right. - I'm gonna get through it 1616 01:10:55,752 --> 01:10:57,421 'cause I said I was gonna get through something hard. 1617 01:10:57,554 --> 01:10:58,422 - [Snooze] Yeah. - And I didn't expect 1618 01:10:58,555 --> 01:10:59,956 to like it and like love it 1619 01:11:00,089 --> 01:11:03,393 and find cool people that I like enjoy being around. 1620 01:11:03,527 --> 01:11:05,061 So many of us put pressure on ourselves 1621 01:11:05,194 --> 01:11:08,298 to be a certain thing, you know? 1622 01:11:09,098 --> 01:11:13,570 Yeah. I think being an imperfect person is hard to accept. 1623 01:11:13,703 --> 01:11:15,038 Yeah. 1624 01:11:15,171 --> 01:11:18,975 I've been trying to like focus and pay attention on, 1625 01:11:19,108 --> 01:11:20,377 what ways have I changed? 1626 01:11:20,510 --> 01:11:22,412 How have I become a different person? 1627 01:11:24,448 --> 01:11:27,484 And I haven't become a different person. 1628 01:11:28,284 --> 01:11:33,323 I've kind of just let my freak flag fly. 1629 01:11:33,823 --> 01:11:34,758 I've like, 1630 01:11:36,626 --> 01:11:39,396 I've let something that was inside of me come out 1631 01:11:39,529 --> 01:11:41,230 and I feel more comfortable letting it come out. 1632 01:11:41,365 --> 01:11:43,633 I feel more comfortable being myself. 1633 01:11:43,767 --> 01:11:45,402 I feel more comfortable being in my skin, 1634 01:11:45,535 --> 01:11:50,574 and I have never felt that before. [laughs] 1635 01:11:50,840 --> 01:11:54,177 It's this feeling that I've always had this stuff within me. 1636 01:11:54,310 --> 01:11:57,113 It's just, now, I'm letting it out. 1637 01:12:00,249 --> 01:12:03,520 I feel like this whole trip has been 1638 01:12:03,653 --> 01:12:08,057 about getting comfortable with the uncomfortable. 1639 01:12:10,794 --> 01:12:15,832 [group] ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ 1640 01:12:16,332 --> 01:12:21,371 ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ 1641 01:12:21,771 --> 01:12:27,310 ♪ Happy birthday dear Oke, Garyoke ♪ 1642 01:12:30,780 --> 01:12:32,281 [hiker cheering] 1643 01:12:32,416 --> 01:12:33,282 Mine's already nipped. 1644 01:12:33,417 --> 01:12:34,884 [group laughing] 1645 01:12:35,018 --> 01:12:37,687 [Mary] * And many more ♪ 1646 01:12:37,821 --> 01:12:38,788 [hikers cheering] 1647 01:12:38,922 --> 01:12:41,190 There's exactly 33 pieces of cake. 1648 01:12:41,324 --> 01:12:42,726 [Gary laughing] 1649 01:12:42,859 --> 01:12:44,694 [Gary] I feel like I have become comfortable 1650 01:12:44,828 --> 01:12:45,862 with the uncomfortable, 1651 01:12:45,995 --> 01:12:47,464 now I'm ready to go home 1652 01:12:48,632 --> 01:12:50,133 to kind of start the next phase, 1653 01:12:50,266 --> 01:12:53,336 the how can I be comfortable 1654 01:12:53,470 --> 01:12:55,539 in the uncomfortable in my normal life? 1655 01:12:55,672 --> 01:12:58,408 [rain trickling] 1656 01:12:59,008 --> 01:13:00,243 And that's when I realized like, oh, 1657 01:13:00,376 --> 01:13:05,114 this whole trip has reached a conclusion, 1658 01:13:06,716 --> 01:13:08,618 and I feel comfortable hiking. 1659 01:13:08,752 --> 01:13:10,687 I feel comfortable walking every day. 1660 01:13:12,155 --> 01:13:13,389 And if I can do this, 1661 01:13:14,724 --> 01:13:18,061 baby, I can do anything. [laughs] 1662 01:13:18,895 --> 01:13:20,730 [Gary] So I see you're brushing your teeth. 1663 01:13:22,466 --> 01:13:23,633 What are you brushing your teeth for? 1664 01:13:23,767 --> 01:13:25,101 What would you wanna brush your teeth for 1665 01:13:25,234 --> 01:13:27,437 in the last mile to being done? 1666 01:13:27,571 --> 01:13:29,873 [magical music] 1667 01:13:30,006 --> 01:13:31,274 You know. 1668 01:13:31,407 --> 01:13:34,544 Well, it's almost like your fiancé's picking us up 1669 01:13:35,912 --> 01:13:37,380 and you want to kiss him a lot? 1670 01:13:37,514 --> 01:13:39,115 [Mary speaking indistinctly] 1671 01:13:39,248 --> 01:13:40,984 I don't know. All signs are pointing to that. 1672 01:13:41,117 --> 01:13:42,886 Like what else would you be using your... 1673 01:13:43,019 --> 01:13:45,722 [Gary laughing] 1674 01:13:49,092 --> 01:13:50,393 [Mary gasps] 1675 01:13:52,028 --> 01:13:54,731 [Gary grunting] 1676 01:13:58,201 --> 01:13:59,636 [Mary] Oh shit. 1677 01:14:03,272 --> 01:14:04,708 Oh my gosh. 1678 01:14:04,841 --> 01:14:07,243 [group cheering] 1679 01:14:10,279 --> 01:14:11,748 Dang. 1680 01:14:11,881 --> 01:14:13,650 You guys are here. 1681 01:14:13,783 --> 01:14:14,584 Hi. 1682 01:14:14,718 --> 01:14:15,985 - Hello. - [Mary] Wow. 1683 01:14:16,219 --> 01:14:18,822 [indistinct chattering] 1684 01:14:19,756 --> 01:14:21,591 - We did it. - We did it. 1685 01:14:21,725 --> 01:14:22,726 [Gary laughing] 1686 01:14:22,859 --> 01:14:25,461 [Peeps] Ooohhh. 1687 01:14:27,597 --> 01:14:28,565 Good job. 1688 01:14:28,698 --> 01:14:31,868 Good job to you too. Good job, Soleil. 1689 01:14:32,001 --> 01:14:33,069 - [Mary] Thanks. - [hiker] Love you, babe. 1690 01:14:33,202 --> 01:14:34,604 - Yeah. - [Gary] I'm feeling something. 1691 01:14:34,738 --> 01:14:36,940 - Mary? - [Mary laughs] 1692 01:14:37,807 --> 01:14:41,144 [indistinct chattering] 1693 01:14:41,277 --> 01:14:42,512 [hiker] Damn it. 1694 01:14:42,646 --> 01:14:43,980 [hiker 2] Now it's time to go back to... 1695 01:14:44,113 --> 01:14:47,483 [group cheering] 1696 01:14:47,617 --> 01:14:50,386 [group laughing] 1697 01:14:53,623 --> 01:14:56,793 [Peeps] I was trying to think about like how to end a journey 1698 01:14:56,926 --> 01:14:58,027 with people that you love 1699 01:14:58,161 --> 01:15:00,063 and like what this thing has been 1700 01:15:00,196 --> 01:15:03,299 and how to express my gratitude. 1701 01:15:03,432 --> 01:15:05,301 And so I wrote a poem 1702 01:15:05,434 --> 01:15:06,770 and I wanna read it to you all. 1703 01:15:08,137 --> 01:15:09,472 Here's to the birds 1704 01:15:09,606 --> 01:15:10,907 and to the trees, 1705 01:15:11,040 --> 01:15:12,909 the waterfalls, ants, snakes 1706 01:15:13,042 --> 01:15:14,343 [Peeps and Gary] ...and bees. 1707 01:15:14,477 --> 01:15:16,012 To the sun and the shade 1708 01:15:16,145 --> 01:15:17,781 and the sweat on my face, 1709 01:15:18,314 --> 01:15:20,684 to the laughter and tears 1710 01:15:21,050 --> 01:15:22,552 [Gary] ...and endless trail food, 1711 01:15:22,686 --> 01:15:24,187 to the morning dance parties... 1712 01:15:24,320 --> 01:15:25,188 [group laughing] 1713 01:15:25,321 --> 01:15:26,055 [Gary] ...to carrying the weight 1714 01:15:26,189 --> 01:15:28,057 of everything I brought with me, 1715 01:15:28,357 --> 01:15:29,458 [Mary screaming] 1716 01:15:29,593 --> 01:15:30,994 [Gary] To letting some of it go along the way, 1717 01:15:32,295 --> 01:15:34,030 to watching all of your expectations 1718 01:15:34,163 --> 01:15:35,832 of the trail shatter in the face 1719 01:15:35,965 --> 01:15:39,703 of what the experience actually is and being surprised 1720 01:15:39,836 --> 01:15:41,170 again and again... 1721 01:15:41,304 --> 01:15:42,471 [Mary] Whoa! 1722 01:15:42,606 --> 01:15:44,273 [Gary] ...by moments of meaning and sublimity 1723 01:15:44,407 --> 01:15:45,742 and incredible clarity 1724 01:15:46,843 --> 01:15:49,846 which you walk into and out of like patches of sunlight 1725 01:15:49,979 --> 01:15:51,114 on the forest floor. 1726 01:15:53,950 --> 01:15:56,853 To love growing in unexpected places, 1727 01:15:56,986 --> 01:15:58,855 to the elastic bonds of friendship 1728 01:15:59,689 --> 01:16:02,592 and the slow, strong intimacy of shared adventure. 1729 01:16:02,726 --> 01:16:04,060 - That I feels so good. - No, don't do it. 1730 01:16:04,193 --> 01:16:06,495 [Gary] May we all spring back together 1731 01:16:06,630 --> 01:16:07,563 when we least expect it. 1732 01:16:07,697 --> 01:16:09,532 [group shouting] 1733 01:16:09,666 --> 01:16:12,068 [Gary] To the simple eloquence of shared laughter 1734 01:16:12,201 --> 01:16:13,569 and a meal with friends. 1735 01:16:14,838 --> 01:16:15,972 To the revelation 1736 01:16:16,105 --> 01:16:18,207 that this trail is like everything else in life, 1737 01:16:19,743 --> 01:16:21,444 moving through moments of clarity 1738 01:16:21,811 --> 01:16:23,212 and moments of confusion, 1739 01:16:25,414 --> 01:16:26,850 moments of profundity 1740 01:16:27,416 --> 01:16:29,853 and moments of profound ordinariness. 1741 01:16:31,054 --> 01:16:32,889 Things begin and end, 1742 01:16:33,022 --> 01:16:35,591 change you and are themselves changed. 1743 01:16:37,226 --> 01:16:38,728 And you just walk through it, 1744 01:16:39,262 --> 01:16:41,931 breathing in the moment like the scent of warm pine 1745 01:16:42,065 --> 01:16:43,967 and dusty air on a mountainside 1746 01:16:44,868 --> 01:16:47,436 and then move on towards the mysterious future. 1747 01:16:50,106 --> 01:16:51,240 I love you all. 1748 01:16:51,374 --> 01:16:53,943 - [fingers snapping] - Oh, we love you too. 1749 01:16:55,244 --> 01:16:56,479 That's it. 1750 01:16:56,612 --> 01:16:59,983 [indistinct chattering] 1751 01:17:00,116 --> 01:17:01,517 [Gary] Get in here, Soleil. 1752 01:17:01,651 --> 01:17:04,287 [gentle music] 1753 01:17:07,490 --> 01:17:09,058 [Gary] This film is about freedom. 1754 01:17:11,027 --> 01:17:13,529 I truly believe 1755 01:17:13,663 --> 01:17:18,702 that trauma gets passed down, like generationally, 1756 01:17:19,669 --> 01:17:24,207 and that it takes somebody within that generational line 1757 01:17:24,340 --> 01:17:25,709 to change it. 1758 01:17:26,342 --> 01:17:29,612 [contemplative music] 1759 01:17:29,746 --> 01:17:32,515 [crying softly] 1760 01:17:38,755 --> 01:17:40,156 [seatbelt clicking] 1761 01:17:43,492 --> 01:17:44,493 Uh. 1762 01:17:45,361 --> 01:17:46,395 Thank you so much. 1763 01:17:46,529 --> 01:17:48,097 [both laughing] 1764 01:18:00,076 --> 01:18:01,010 I love you. 1765 01:18:01,144 --> 01:18:02,411 Love you too. 1766 01:18:03,279 --> 01:18:05,882 And you've been so good. You've learned so much. 1767 01:18:06,015 --> 01:18:09,152 I'm so excited that we got to do this together. 1768 01:18:10,186 --> 01:18:11,054 Good. 1769 01:18:13,356 --> 01:18:15,992 Couldn't have done it with anybody else. [laughs] 1770 01:18:16,125 --> 01:18:18,194 I didn't think you'd ever do anything 1771 01:18:18,327 --> 01:18:19,028 - like this. - I didn't think 1772 01:18:19,162 --> 01:18:20,129 I'd ever do it. 1773 01:18:22,465 --> 01:18:26,970 [contemplative music] 1774 01:18:52,195 --> 01:18:56,199 [music continues]