I'm here Pete!!!

Incredible scenery; really feeling the sense of adventure and the building anticipation for the rest of the journey!! 👍🏻

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks SP! It just keeps getting better!

Now you have me standing up and saluting! You guys are my heroes. I AM IMPRESSED !! I thot the bushes on the trailless upper drainage would shread you. I bet you cursed ever time those high paddles snaged an overhanging limb. I scrambled UP crawling UNDER thick bushes and without pack on the steep south slope NE of Calloway. I was going up, you were coming down..but with 55# packs..good Gawd !! The boulder garden between BRP AND 221 ought to be a park in itself, it is so beautiful. Few hikers go there. It would be my JOY to put in a scramblers trail between the two roads. Yall did such a GREAT job of filming it. This is the part of the series i came here to watch.

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Robert!! I always look forward to your comments as I know the wealth of knowledge and experience you have and often share. Thanks for watching and it is an honor to have it meet with your approval!

This series is great!

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks wjennin1!

Great effort, Your planning and prep has served you well. The video is wonderful! It shows most of us places we will never see.

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tim!

It was very cool watching the river grow from that little dribble at the start. A truly majestic view..

@RiverKingsKayak

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Hans!!

Great video !

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Daniel!

It amazes me that you can film something this strenuous ,and make it look great.

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bill! I live for this kind of stuff! And sometimes it isn't Fun. But the challenge is what we signed up for. The harder it gets the better I like it!

@robertunderwood1011

5 жыл бұрын

@@RiverKingsKayak i live for it too..(or did until i got weaker.)

@robertunderwood1011

5 жыл бұрын

Usually when the going gets rough and the cameraman needs to use both hands, we get a long digression on what they had for lunch..as if you couldnt video lunch in your backyard. THIS cameraman holds on to the scene and it is much appreciated. Dont know how he found time for it!

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Robert! I try! I feel like the hard parts are what will characterize the experience...I try to keep it all in there and the camera rolling!

I missed the video but was able to go back this morning. I just spent the past few days up on Johns River at a camp with the kids. I love this area of the mountains.

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Right on!

I'll be tuned in on Sunday

Excellent! Some of that terrain probably hasn’t been seen by a human eyes in a long time.

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Nathan! It was an amazing area!!

@robertunderwood1011

5 жыл бұрын

There are a few who are experts in that area and find caves and have secret camps among those boulders. But they dont make vids. And you are right..few do it.

Great hike. beautiful area. looking forward to the next video.

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mark!

I can’t believe I never saw this series before, but it’s amazing. I do this sort of thing on google earth all the time, but so cool to see it done with boots on the ground.

@RiverKingsKayak

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah! It is a blast!

"Do something people say you shouldn't do..." I like it! That hike looked brutal. You could definitely see it on the faces. Can't wait for more!

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks MM TBH!

Chapter 2, lets go! Can't wait to watch, Pete.

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Right on Gatewood!

I enjoy the authenticity, of your narration. You highlight the real feelings throughout. Even though you all are having a blast. The body wears down, and you don't always feel chipper. Can't for the paddle section, you guys have earned this float.

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks jogger! I try to convey everything going on. Glad it is coming thru!

You always have a great time and the places you go are absolutely awesome I love your videos there great

@RiverKingsKayak

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Dean! We try!!

Gosh I’m ready to back in the woods now! Phenomenal job capturing the adventure on video! Bushwhacking is no joke. Who needs TV when you got River Kings! Onward!

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Right on Brent!! Thanks!

I can only imagine the challenges of bushwacking through that area for miles but the creek rewards with some one of a kind views! Kudos to the drone pilot...absolutely stunning shots!

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks STA! Gatewood and Chris both brought drones. Between the two of them, we were blessed with an abundance of amazing shots!

Awesome trip with the River Kings. I was following your hike on Google maps. Very interesting and adventurous .

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Right on Michael! It was a fun one!

This feels like something that should be on discovery Channel

@RiverKingsKayak

3 жыл бұрын

thanks Lance!!

I'll be waiting for it, Sunday.

Another awesome video Pete! I love the idea of bushwacking. It is so inspiring and fulfilling to know you have laid eyes upon the beauty that only a few or no other humans have probably ever seen. The ability to pop up a hammock and fix a meal where no one has ever camped before is the best kind of camping. I can't wait for the next chapter. Kudos you guys, that was some rough miles!

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jeff!

It looks so much like Kentucky it is absolutely beautiful there no you're having a great time have a blast I know you will there ain't no other way to go with you and I would love to go at least one time with you

@RiverKingsKayak

3 жыл бұрын

Yes and Kentucky is awesome. Where do you live Dean?

Your editing skill have become amazing. So much better then the early days.

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks R Rob!

I got about it a week and a half and I'll get my old town sportsman that I've been waiting three and a half months for can't wait to get it

@RiverKingsKayak

3 жыл бұрын

right on!

10 hours in some very unforgiving terrain... Tough day for sure, but you guys handled it like pros. Looking forward to seeing you hit the river!

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jeff!

That’s one nice adventure… awesome! Where’s the t shirt “ do something people think you shouldn’t do”… I’ll take a large in grey please!

@RiverKingsKayak

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Troy!

Great video, as someone who's bushwhacked in steep terrain, fist pump to you fella's, I bet that first hot shower whenever ya got it felt damn good lol.. Tip of the hat gents.. 😎👍

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Canadian! and I'll take that fist bump!

Wow, that was some tough terrain. Cold beer , sandwiches, a hot tub, and fresh change of clothes lay just over the hill around the next bend. Lol

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks James!!

I've been busy lately and haven't had the time to finish watching until just now. This trip looks like a truckload of fun. Not sure if my knees could handle that long of a trip on that terrain, (Lord knows I would try!), but glad you are taking us along on this epic adventure, Pete. Great job guys! One other thing, who in the world could give this video a thumbs down??? Are you serious???

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tracy! LOL and I have a thumbs down guy that thumbs-down every video for me! LOL

#WWPBD

I’m still watching but at the under 3 minute mark the “you just have to live the story statement” I’m gonna send you a link of one of my vids I think you will get a kick out of “surviving a hardcore storm” on a paddleboard lol

@RiverKingsKayak

3 жыл бұрын

Right on!!

Was this recently? I’m loving to cool weather!

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

Yes sir...

@Treasuremonk

5 жыл бұрын

River Kings thought so .. good stuff buddy!!

Surprised yall didnt cut some walking sticks

@RiverKingsKayak

2 жыл бұрын

for me, they are just something else to carry...I have never done the hiking stick thing.

Any idea when that plane crashed?

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

1978

Dude....my spare time for 4 days has been RK vids. Diggin it. Do you live in NC? I’m in rock hill, sc

@RiverKingsKayak

3 жыл бұрын

Thats what Im talking about!!! Thanks FHC! I live near Burlington NC. (Central NC)

How many miles on that second day?

@RiverKingsKayak

5 жыл бұрын

12 or 13 or so by track, but really only 8 by map