During this trip I unfortunately broke the fancy new camera lens I had bought to better document this hike and those I take in the future. For those interested I have made paintings to help replace it! All of these are original, and it all goes back to making these videos better. Thanks for checking out my artwork! jupiterhikes.com/product-category/arizona-trail/

@amyarcher8017

3 жыл бұрын

For those of us that want to contribute, but can't afford one of your amazing paintings, where/how could we do that?

@DamonBowe

3 жыл бұрын

@@amyarcher8017 patreon

Nice half a second pause in the intro after "left me" was a good one lmao

@bkbland1626

3 жыл бұрын

Silence can say more than words.

🔥❤️🔥

@SophisticatedDogCat

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Darwin.

I love the cool calm philosophy that drives you. It shows it’s beauty in every touch you make. Music choice, image calibration, views, walking beat, endurance... Basically you make everything nice. It’s soothing to the soul... thank you...😊

"My girlfriend has just left me... by the trailhead." I hate it when they dump you while you are in the middle of no where and just drive off.

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

In this instance I was very thankful that she dropped me in the middle of nowhere hah

Ah dude this was so good such a nice flow to it all and the cuts and transitions are so on point. I’d definitely say this is your best work to date. The trail looks absolutely stunning as well, love all the flora you captured, really gives a sense of it being a unique environment. Can’t wait to see what you’ve got for us next time ✌️ Ben.

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ben! The trail really lends itself to being photographed in a way. I like when I don't have to think too hard about it and things just kinda fall into place. Story or scenery wise

@nicholasrokitka380

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking! Good job Jupiter

Oh this is bringing back so many memories: my first thru hike was the AZT and I turned 61 the day after the 100 mile mark, which was my first 20 mile day. You are doing such a good job filming and have an agreeable yet interesting voice. Can’t wait to see the next episode! The wildlife in AZ is so different from other places I’ve lived. I hope you get to see them, especially the squirrels with the tufted ears💓

@oldtobyii7740

3 жыл бұрын

What other thru hikes have you done?!

@vannemocilac274

3 жыл бұрын

@@oldtobyii7740 Black Forest trail in PA twice and I’m chipping away at the CDT in Montana/Idaho. 440 miles done and that much to go. Will test the waters on an overnight this weekend between Chief Joseph Pass and Big Hole Pass. Maybe I should say test the knees!

@oldtobyii7740

3 жыл бұрын

@@vannemocilac274 Awesome stuff! Happy trails to you (and your knees)!

@elliottjames671

11 ай бұрын

Ur crazy too

Speaking as a Yorkshire man, my first reaction to that heat would be: "K'in 'ell it's 'ot! Were's t'pub!?" Then I'd go for a hike... to the next pub! Great video, epic scenery- trying to hide my jealousy;)

Loose-fitting light-colored shirt, broad-brim light-colored sun hat-- great to see a hiker who knows how to dress in the hot sun.

@ericpmoss

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed! I see so many road cycling videos where some goofballs wear black in the summer desert and wonder why they nearly die. Mad dogs and Englishmen...

@SophisticatedDogCat

3 жыл бұрын

@@ericpmoss Or women who rock the sports bra and tiny shorts. Like, it’s sexy but your skin’s getting scorched.

@Rkolb2798

3 ай бұрын

@@ericpmossI’m English so it’s in my DNA 😂

Great view♥️

Another great video of another great journey! Thanks for sharing it with us.

Beautiful job Jupiter! thx so much

💛 the paintings!!

Awesome video man. Enjoyed watching! I can’t wait to see the rest of this series.

I just love your vibe, great content, and down to earth attitude!

Great video! Excited to see the rest of it.

Can't wait to watch after work!!

You're inspiring Jupiter! Thanks for helping me leave vicariously through your hikes.

This channel is my happy place thank you

So sick! I'm so appreciative of all your effort to hike and share with us. Awesome videos!

Loved it Jupiter!

Dude you always have the best music. Love it. Thank you.

Beautiful work! Arizona is a beautiful beautiful state. Thanks for sharing your adventures with us. 🙂

Love your videos: great photography and music, laid back commentary, learning from your hiking style.

Great way to see and experience the desert. No doubt about it!

Great to see you again so inspirational, really good video capturing the scenery. Greetings from Scandinavia 👍🏻

Love your videos! I find them inspiring and very relaxing as well. Thank you :-)

Great video. !! Love the music also 🔥🔥🔥

Good work Jupiter! Really liked this.

Yess! Nice intro and really great episode, epic scenenary!

I love your storytelling, thank you for sharing your journey!

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

So happy to see these videos coming out! You are one of my favourite KZreadrs.

thanks for the details (like the yellow bag)

I love hiking Arizona - lived there for many years. I've hiked many places there, including the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim. Thanks for sharing this experience.

I really like the way this video is edited, nice to see how you're improving your production over time :)

Great video, I love Arizona and hopefully someday in my near future I too want to hike the AZT. Looking forward to following your journey.

Thanks for the great first episode, love the music/sound editing you chose. It looks like you got to see a few ocotillo in bloom, hopefully you were able to see more cacti blooms, they look otherworldly in the glow of the desert evening.

This was so good, the music and scenery really mixed well. Jupiter the scorpion king! Stay safe out there man.

I really enjoyed watching this video. You captured the start of the trail fantastic. I really enjoyed your editing and the awesome transitions as well. 😀

I have been waiting on this for so long. I am so pumped. Thanks Jupiter

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

You and me both! Been a process but really wanted to do the AZT right

Great video Jupiter! Of course the scenery is stunning but the way you captured it was phenomenal! Keep on keeping on! Can’t wait for the next one.

Great filming and edit!!! Love it!!! Good to see you back on trail!!!😀❤ Thank you for sharing.

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! More to come soon

Montezuma Pass and Parker Canyon Lake are my old stomping grounds from when I was a teen. I did a lot of volunteer trail maintenance and some cave tours in the Park. Fun video and thanks for sharing!

Great video!

Well done. (As always) Love the artwork too.

Thank for the video and sharing your thru hike. Definitely looking forward to the next episode. Well done on the vid and really like the music and scenery. You have a calming voice that brings everything together and makes for a pleasant viewing experience.

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed it. I'll keep them coming, and keep in mind the chillness of this one when composing more

Beautiful video, Jupiter! Like your style!!

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

Nice to see you out on the trail again. Really beautiful video work. The sunsets are spectacular! Thanks for sharing the hike with us.

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

beautiful video! cant wait to see more

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! More to come, working hard at it now

You are so mellow. "I put my hand down on a rock and a Scorpion stung me". Hope you're over it and there's no more unpleasant surprises.

Great vid! Thanks.

Thanks for the video,,,I seen those cactus with the red. Bloom in Tucson about 2 weeks ago,,,,,, it was my first time in Arizona

Beautiful video!!! Had me laughing from the start!! That pause after “left me” and the advice on the hogs-OMG too funny! Florida Trail and hogs, gators, snakes, along with all our other critters, all your other trail critters on all your other hikes, cowboy camping-pretty sure you’re experienced....and then you just casually mention at the end about the scorpion...🦂😬🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️. Hope it feels better! Amazing camera work! Loving it! Safe hiking!!!

I like Jupiter's style. Style is everything. Rock on, bro.

Great series. 2nd time watching

@JupiterHikes

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! It's one of my favorite series I've done, glad you enjoy it too

Man, the way you captured the beauty of the "golden hour" there was done so well. Love it.

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! It was for sure the best time of day to be out hiking given the heat, but also the way the sun illuminated everything it was quite beautiful each morning and evening

@WALKITOFFDavidSmith

3 жыл бұрын

@@JupiterHikes as a fellow photographer I chase light too and really appreciated your artistry. Keep 'em comin' please & happy hiking!

You make it look so easy!

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

Like muscle memory after so long! Not easy but my body knows what to do. Still so many lessons along the way. Some I have to relearn every time

Your video editing is top notch, and those views were absolutely spectacular! 🔥 Well done

Yo Jupiter! It was a pleasure to meet you on trail (around Pine). Great footage and story for this first AZT episode, I’m definitely looking forward to more. Its awesome to get to re-live the experience again but through your lens.

Yes!!!!!…..A Jupiter thru hike to follow again🥾🥾🥾🥾😎😎😎😎

Congratulations on passing the 100 mile marker. Your a trooper for getting through a Scorpion bite. I did the same thing on the Art Loeb trail, NC . I put my hand on a true and was stung by a bee. I completely on the beer thing and having an ice cold drink is important in the heat. Keep up the hard work.

Great video! Seems like a great trail!

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

It is an awesome trail!

Just hikes Passage 34 in Flagstaff! So beautiful, the meadows alongside the mountain in the San Francisco’s section are gorgeous!

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite parts!! Loved seeing the aspen, all the pine forests, and more mild weather of course

Thank you. That was almost like being back on a trail again.

Good work mate....will be in Arizona in November so might have a look at the trail...cheers

Fantastic editing dude

I think the quality is fine! it's about your story man, it's a good one...and you're technique is worth the watch!

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

Lot of open spaces. I never followed anybody on a Thur hike in the AZT. Interested in seeing what it looks like. Congrats on your 100 miles👍👍

Good to see you out there! I just sat down to check out the fire situation for OR PCT because I just planned out the northern 150 miles. Last year I had to hop off the trail because of my son's health problems and I want to finish it up. I can't help wonder if thru-hiking the PCT will become a thing of the past because of the fires. You are an inspiration to me. Stay true to you and have fun!

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

I think because it has been designated as this "elite" accomplishment to tackle the triple crown, people may never be truly deterred. In time maybe folks will start their hikes earlier and earlier though, and things will be ever more uncertain. Really though who knows! I hope it is always there

Yay! I’ve been waiting for this. Those PUDs always suck. So. Much. Ocotillo.

Cool vid man

Much respect doing those survivor man shots and having to go back to get the camera.

Be careful and safe @jupiterhikes ✅ 👍🏽

Hey Jupiter. The miles your making is making the pace of the video enjoyable. If that makes sense. 👍👍✌️

I'll take a look, love your artwork - I had forgotten about all the fences and cattle guards... I thought I saw your shirts on Garage Grown Gear or somewhere as well. The water is....lovely....

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

I had designed a shirt for both Enlightened Equipment and Garage Grown Gear. Though I still have my own on my website as well!

You are such a fast hiker🤩. I'm sorry you got stung by a scorpion 🦂!

I love your videos. That's all.

We already know you got this man. Lol. Sorry about your lens. AZ has a beauty all it's own. I climbed Bell Rock in Sedona years ago. It was epic 😎 🙌

I enjoyed that, thank you! I look forward to future installments. I think you have a really nice aesthetic sense for videography. As a Tucsonan it's fun to see your traverse through familiar landscapes. I should do some hiking on the AZT, I usually stick to local trails.

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

Around tuscon there were a lot of really awesome places! I loved the Rincon mountains, Saguaro NP, Mt Lemmon of course. I think the next video will highlight a lot more areas close to home for you :)

@stacyegan5719

3 жыл бұрын

@@JupiterHikes I look forward to it! Yes, those are really great areas. I used to rock climb--did it for 10 years--mostly on Mt. Lemmon but other places southeast of Tucson as well. During the summer months we would drive to towards the top of the mountain, then in the winter months climb at the base of the mountain. I live near Saguaro West so I don't often drive across town to the Rincon district, but when I have, I really enjoy its beauty.

I am so proud to be on the support team , thank you , may your camera lens see clear and often.

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Phil!!! The paintings will ship out in the next couple days. Can't tell you how much I appreciate it, and hope you enjoy

@philmanglicmot2528

3 жыл бұрын

@@JupiterHikes Miss out on painting from San Jacinto, not this time from The Arizona Trail . San Jacinto painting available count me in.

Nice to see Jupiter back in his natural habitat 👍🏻 And the AZT! OmG 🙌 He went north in the Spring - perhaps he'll head south in the Fall? I want ALL THE AZT CONTENT

Man that scorpion incident is enough for me to say I’d def bring one of my Borah or Yama bivy’s to jump into at night .. wouldn’t get any sleep if I didn’t.. lol. Grt video as always looking forward to all the rest of the episodes

@orion7741

3 жыл бұрын

meh, scorpions are not anything to worry about. they are fairly harmless unless you sit there and mess with them and agrivate them. they offer no danger in just regular circumstances.

That looks like a special hike. And all by yourself. Although I am not a hiker, I would love to experience it. Arizona seems to be quite beautiful and rough. Sorry about your new camara.

Into the thick of it!

great vid man :) keep it up

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it!

Looks very hot and dry there. Wow, I feel for ya

Really beautiful, man! Beautiful photography, great commentary. Some of the skies made me want to cry, lol, (I NEED to find a way to make more miles so that I can do some of these trails)! Watched the latest Q&A w/Darwin (loved) and not that you asked, but a shoe recommendation for really wide feet (mine!) are topo's. Not sure if you've tried, but the MTN Racers from last year are amazeballs (imo). Thanks for getting my mind off of everyday life ish and out on the trail! Happy hiking!

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the shoe recommendation! Always looking to try something new in the hunt for the perfect one.

@fomo6789

3 жыл бұрын

@@JupiterHikes Good Luck! 😊

Nice.

Yeah boyyyyyy

I've a problem. I think I like all your vids...

He hikes like he is trying to get away from his own shadow!

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes I am chasing my shadow! Though I never catch it

👌🏻👌🏻

👍❤👍

Awesome jupe. I wonder if it’s common to hike 6-10am, pause for heat, then go again 6-10pm. Two a days, like football practice before school starts in August.

I always threw in a few beers when replacing water used from a cache.

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

Many many people appreciate it greatly! Just not much of a drinker here, and I think the heat doubled that desire to not partake

@Galiuros

3 жыл бұрын

@@JupiterHikes That's completely understandable.

The map 😆

Ur crazy bro

Thanks for closing the gates behind you. I don’t especially enjoy cow pies on my trail, but the ranchers have a right to be there too, and wandering cattle are a headache for them.

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

Sure are a lot of ranchers! Given the hikers rely on them currently for so much water I wouldn't want to anger them. Sharing the space as best we can

Thanks again for sharing the trip and great video content and quality. I'm learning and hope to be at your level one day. I have a Panasonic G85 and wondered how you liked the 14-42 lens for vloggoing on trail? Hope this wasn't the lens that broke. I'm trying to reduce camera size and a lens like this would be nice reduction from my kit zoom. I'm wondering if the power zoom is worth the extra and if an comparable Olympus or other non-power I'll like better on trail. Thanks

@JupiterHikes

3 жыл бұрын

I really did like the 14-42 but you definitely don't want to drop it on it's face :/ For the price and incredibly low weight it is very nice. The quality is good as you can see in these videos. The only thing I didn't so much care for was the power zoom and power focus technology. Having the manual rings on other lenses to turn to pull focus is nice, and I think more accurate. These weren't quite as accurate. Still, for the weight and the price it really is hard to beat and you have to ask yourself, how heavy of a lens do you really want/need to be carrying. What is your overall goal. As others have said, story is what matters

I think this one will really test your mettle.