187) Day 1 of Our Yo-Yo Thru-hike of The Texas Lone Star Hiking Trail

Check out this epic mini-adventure!
315 kilometres (or 196 miles)
2 friends
12 days
1 yo-yo thru-hike of the
Texas Lone Star Hiking Trail
(the longest hiking trail in Texas!)
In this episode…
Day 01
Sunday, December 25th, 2023.
(Westbound toward Eastern Terminus)
Mile 45.1 to Mile 28.9
LSHT Four Notch Trail head Parking Lot 8 to
West Huntsville designated primitive camp spot
9 AM departure
4 PM arrival
Miles today: 16.2 (26kms)
Miles total: 16.2 (26kms)
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  • @WanderingEyeOutdoorAdventures
    @WanderingEyeOutdoorAdventures5 ай бұрын

    Wow what a great adventure Christina! Love the fungi! Dam those heel spurs. Thanks for sharing. Cheers

  • @lindaraysamazingadventures
    @lindaraysamazingadventures5 ай бұрын

    We enjoyed your 1st day on the trail video and trust your heal feels better by now. We're looking forward to the rest of your hike!

  • @lindaandrews1892
    @lindaandrews18925 ай бұрын

    Great video and adventure. Hope your early night healed your pain. Looking forward to the rest of the hike.

  • @rogergiddy2634
    @rogergiddy26345 ай бұрын

    Good video, hope your heel got better, thanks for sharing

  • @garagebrewer
    @garagebrewer5 ай бұрын

    Neat! Lots of good stuff here. Cool fungi shots and good job catching that blue heron. ... and it's only day 1.

  • @20657parks
    @20657parks5 ай бұрын

    Very cool. I’m surprised how much road and residential area there was. Enjoyed!!! ❤

  • @jayburne6825
    @jayburne68255 ай бұрын

    Great video as always...😊

  • @vs123
    @vs1235 ай бұрын

    I like forest wonderful

  • @mechcavandy986
    @mechcavandy9865 ай бұрын

    Miss Donna and I are enjoying these videos. ♥️🤠

  • @Womaninthewoods13

    @Womaninthewoods13

    5 ай бұрын

    I’m thrilled to hear it! Probably because of my amazing costar, haha! 🥰✌🏼

  • @phillipseaton7163
    @phillipseaton71635 ай бұрын

    Day one down gotta watch them miles they sneak up on you more than kilometers do you two take care and stay safe

  • @ansona705
    @ansona7055 ай бұрын

    Awesome! 👏🏻

  • @shannonm2689
    @shannonm26895 ай бұрын

    Been waiting for your videos

  • @Moe-ge6vv
    @Moe-ge6vv5 ай бұрын

    Great job you two. Looking forward to following your adventures!

  • @Womaninthewoods13

    @Womaninthewoods13

    5 ай бұрын

    Yay! Thanks for coming along! 🥰

  • @DorHBoomer
    @DorHBoomer5 ай бұрын

    Great job on hiking over 16 miles for day one! Phew. So cool to hear the coyotes. Thanks for filming :)

  • @Womaninthewoods13

    @Womaninthewoods13

    5 ай бұрын

    My pleasure, BTW! Thanks for watching! Saw your email, will respond soon! 🥰✌🏼

  • @DorHBoomer

    @DorHBoomer

    4 ай бұрын

    @@Womaninthewoods13 No worries on responding - take your time :)

  • @dan393
    @dan3935 ай бұрын

    Hi Miss Christina! Beautiful first day on the TLSHT! Hope your heel gets better. Thanks for sharing this series. Take care and god bless

  • @JasonSnailer
    @JasonSnailer5 ай бұрын

    I’m planning to hike this same trail towards the end of Feb or early March this year. It looks nice.

  • @Womaninthewoods13

    @Womaninthewoods13

    5 ай бұрын

    It IS nice! We loved it. I hope you will, too! Will you be hiking the whole 96.4 miles?

  • @cathymurphy2781
    @cathymurphy27815 ай бұрын

    The 400` marker on the Huntsville Section (@ 17.54) once marked the trail highpoint but improved technology lead to the correct highpoint on the Phelps Section: 445 ft (@ 8.37).

  • @20657parks
    @20657parks5 ай бұрын

    Finally!!!!

  • @ervinslens
    @ervinslens5 ай бұрын

    As always diverse, enjoyable and masterfully narrated! Your content is always refreshing, love it! 👏👏👏

  • @campfire52
    @campfire525 ай бұрын

    Well, your off to a great hiking adventure here and what I am certain will be a very nice video series. It is too bad about your foot problem because feet are kind of important on trail. I wish you the best for dealing with that for 12 days. Thanks for sharing your time with us Christina, looking forward to the future videos.

  • @user-yy1jj8yu1i
    @user-yy1jj8yu1i5 ай бұрын

    Looking good.....trail looked amazing,and weather looked great,especially when here in Calgary it's been in the minus 32 to minus 35 with wind chil factors making it around minus 47.CONGRATES TO YOUBOTH.'Waching the video made me feel warm,and enjoyed watching you two on the hike.

  • @Womaninthewoods13

    @Womaninthewoods13

    5 ай бұрын

    Daddy! Hi! Yay! Makes me so happy when you watch my videos! Love you so much! 🥰

  • @bigcat880
    @bigcat8805 ай бұрын

    Cool first day!

  • @Womaninthewoods13

    @Womaninthewoods13

    5 ай бұрын

    Merci, Monsieur Grand Chat! 🥰🙏🏼✌🏼

  • @julieibbott3239
    @julieibbott32395 ай бұрын

    Great start to your adventure! Heel spurs aren’t fun. Mine was healed with custom orthotics. Hope you got some relief.

  • @Womaninthewoods13

    @Womaninthewoods13

    5 ай бұрын

    Healed? What do you mean? Or do you mean you just stopped feeling pain? My heel spur first began hurting me at the end of the summer in 2019 and was diagnosed in autumn of the same year. The doctor prescribed, yes, all kinds of orthotics and special shoes, etc. I wasn’t having any of it. I went to the local Walmart and bought gel heel pads for $10 and voilà the heel spur never bothered me in the least again. The only reason it was bothering me at the time of this video is because I foolishly began running on a treadmill again this past autumn. Treadmills are horrible, horrible inventions for the joints, the bones, etc. I had been 100% pain-free for so long that I kind of forgot about my heel spur. Anyhoo, I certainly was reminded! Stay tuned for the progress of this maladie as this series continues, ha ha. Spoiler alert, it DOESN’T get worse! 😁

  • @julieibbott3239

    @julieibbott3239

    5 ай бұрын

    @@Womaninthewoods13 yes the custom orthotics corrected the plantar fasciitis and the heel spur vanished! It was brutal pain - training for and then running a marathon. That was about 15 years ago. I always need to wear shoes with good arch supports otherwise the plantar fasciitis would return

  • @cathymurphy2781
    @cathymurphy27815 ай бұрын

    Nice bunch of oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus( @ 14.35. You could have gathered and added them to your dinner!

  • @Womaninthewoods13

    @Womaninthewoods13

    Ай бұрын

    I have done a couple of workshops on identifying edible mushrooms here in Canada and the big take-away for me was that for every edible mushroom there is, there is an identical twin poisonous one. I just don’t feel confident in my skills to know that I am choosing the safe one and not the one that will kill me, ha ha. Maybe it’s different in the USA (fewer poisonous twins); I know that it’s different in France. Anyhoo, for the moment, I will not be foraging my food. 😁✌🏼🫶🏻

  • @misterbuckets
    @misterbuckets5 ай бұрын

    I was just at this trailhead a few days ago and that tent is still there. It freaked me out at first.

  • @Womaninthewoods13

    @Womaninthewoods13

    5 ай бұрын

    Maybe someone should peak their head in to make sure that it’s empty! 😬

  • @misterbuckets

    @misterbuckets

    4 ай бұрын

    @@Womaninthewoods13 I did. It’s just an air mattress and an empty box of cigarettes.

  • @JD03ish
    @JD03ish5 ай бұрын

    Lone Star earrings, huh?

  • @Womaninthewoods13

    @Womaninthewoods13

    5 ай бұрын

    I actually wear these star earrings all the time. You’ll see them in almost all of my videos. But I did laugh and comment while on the trail that they were never more appropriate then here on the Lone Star Hiking Trail, ha ha. 😂⭐️🥰🥾🥾✌🏼

  • @vereddar6420
    @vereddar64205 ай бұрын

    I had to do a double take @16:24. Those are Egyptian Nile geese! Originally from Egypt! WTH? I can just here the locals going "go back from where you came from"!

  • @Womaninthewoods13

    @Womaninthewoods13

    Ай бұрын

    I am in awe that you could discern their breed from that clip! And, it’s very cool that our past cross such a foreign and the rare breed. Thank you for sharing that information. Sorry for my late reply and have a wonderful weekend! 🥰🙏🏼✌🏼

  • @semsem8290
    @semsem82903 ай бұрын

    The demons in this turned me off.

  • @Womaninthewoods13

    @Womaninthewoods13

    3 ай бұрын

    The demons? What do you mean?