This is the reason I love Colorado. I’ve been all over the world but Colorado is my home.

@bootmender

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2 July 1972 I road my motorcycle into Granby Colorado for the first rainbow gathering, nothing but sex and drugs. When I woke up I made my way to Alaska. Now I keep a home in Gunnison Colorado.

Being a native of Colorado (but stuck in Kansas since 1974), you got to love RMNP.

The west side by Grand Lake was the East Troublesome fire in 2020. It threw embers over the continental divide and started to burn in towards Estes. At the same time the Cameron peak fire was burning to the north and east. Combined they were most destructive fires in Colorado history as measured by acres burned and natural resources lost. The two fires combined burned over over 400,000 acres.

@OzarkOverlandAdventures

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow!!!!

im the fire chief of 27 yrs of a volunteer dept. and in the past 2 months we have had 4 callouts. 2 were auto and the other 2 were lighting. Here in southern Arkansas

@OzarkOverlandAdventures

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow!!

Great video. We live an hour from Estes and love going up there to poke around for a day. Watched your video and my wife and I said "we should go to Estes tomorrow", lol.

That NPS layer is awesome!!!

I couldn't make it to our yearly CO trip due to health issues. I have been watching these CO videos, to help fill the void in my soul. Love the drone shots big time. For me, it doesn't have to be hard core trails, and flexing the rigs to the max all day long. Just getting away from it all, for a short time, deep into the lands is all that matters. The natural landscape scenery, is what thrills me the most. See you next Friday! 🤟

Falls River Road is a wonderful drive, even in a little Ford Focus. I love RMNP.

Awesome stuff, can’t wait till the next one.

Hey Guy’s another great video,we just missed you in Colorado.keep up the awesome work and hope to see you at rendezvous in the ozarks this year.

Another nice one brother. I just saw the appearance video with TrailRecon and loved that one too. Great job with the drone footage again. Really nice!.

IT MUST ! , funny puppy .

I recognize that route into the Rockies. Was there a year ago in May and it was still completely covered in snow and continuously snowing. Had a blast tho. Wish I could post pictures in these comments cause I have some great ones

I've never seen elk get that close. That was completely amazing. Amazing trip. I can't wait to get started on my adventures with my wife. Inspiring for sure.

Estes and RMNP is our backyard😃. Glad you got to experience it!!

@OzarkOverlandAdventures

Жыл бұрын

You have an awesome back yard.

Don't let the haters be mean about you going to stay in a nice place to sleep. They aren't camping every week!

Another epic video, I love it out west and can’t wait to get back out there. We made an eleven day trip last summer. Spent 5 days in Wyoming then headed north into Montana and back down through the dakotas and home. Not enough time to take in what I would have liked. But it got the kids pumped to wanna go back out. If you are ever around Cody Wyoming, take the chief joseph highway to bear tooth pass ! It will take you to “ the top of the world store” which wasn’t open while we were there because the pass had just opened the day before. But it will drop you right into red lodge Montana and is a really scenic drive ! I really love Colorado too and is on our list of hopefuls nexts list. Keep up what y’all are doing, because i stopped watching television because of great channels like y’all’s 👍👍

@OzarkOverlandAdventures

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!

We visited the park in September 2020 before the big East Troublesome Fire swept across RMNP.

Great video, love the drone shots

I love that you tried to heat your pop tart :)

Very very nice travel. Thankyou. See you soon

Epik awesome beautiful 👍🤘❤❤❤

Great video. I love the wilderness and going to remote places. However, I also love our National Parks. I have been fortunate to have visited 31 of the 63 Parks. Being around the crowds isn’t fun but I’m willing to put up with it to see amazing sights, learn some cool history and talk to the rangers (plus the gift shops are fun!!).

You guys got me hooked on Gaia and the new overlanding layer is a game changer. The NPS layer is indispensable inside national parks especially with the family needing bathroom breaks. I can spend hours working on my maps combining Google maps in my research. Beautiful video once again.

@oscarrios1414

Жыл бұрын

For some reason I cannot find the overland layer. I have all the others mentioned but not that specific one.

@jeffmorris739

Жыл бұрын

@@oscarrios1414 I did too at first. Go to layer and then expand it to more map layers and it should be there. Make sure you are running the latest version of Gaia as well. Good luck.

@oscarrios1414

Жыл бұрын

@@jeffmorris739 managed to get it! I ended up login into the browser version. There I instantly found it. Added it to my layers. Went back to the app and restarted it and boom have it now! Appreciate it tho man!

East troublesome fire...actually jumped the continental divide and threatened Estes Park.

Hey boo boo 🐻

Great trip. Are you going to do a more detailed segment on the new Gaia overland overlay?

@OzarkOverlandAdventures

Жыл бұрын

Yes I am very soon.

The southwest side of the park burned in 2020. Was sad :(

Hi Matt, Cara and Goose, first Prayers to James's mom. I hope she'll be okay 🙏. I really liked the video. It was sad about the fire and initially lack of scenery. The Elk looked majestic, just so beautiful 🤩. The scenery at the end looked amazing. Thank you for the content, on Gaia etc. Goose doeat the camera. 😆

@jameschaisson2569

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. It was a brief illness.

@ahmednesbitte4906

Жыл бұрын

@@jameschaisson2569 I’m glad she’s ok 🙏🏽

Matt, Love your channel. Been watching for about two years. Just saw you traveling with Brad from TR. I saw a slide out tray/rack in back of your Jeep. Looks like it is multiple levels. Where did you get that? Thanks.

@OzarkOverlandAdventures

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! It's from Global Road Outdoors. Same company that makes my tent.

Yep you're right about the pine cones.... They actually figured it out on accident.... They almost had that type of tree go extinct I think.... And just by chance... by accident... The fire happened and then they finally learned how those trees germinate.... I forgot what type of tree it is... It's legit though... We talked about it in my 400 level biogeography class. It was sort of an example of over conservation...

Just curious while watching your videos, how to get some Gaia swag? I don't seem to find any through their website. Thanks

@OzarkOverlandAdventures

Жыл бұрын

I got mine by contacting them through their support email.

I noticed your friends have a Gazelle tent. How do they like it? Any leaks or anything? Thanks

@OzarkOverlandAdventures

Жыл бұрын

They love it. It works well for them.

How do you secure your gear when you stay at a hotel?

@OzarkOverlandAdventures

Жыл бұрын

When the Jeep is locked they can’t get anything out of the bed. The only thing anyone could take are my traction boards, Rotopax and propane bottle. I never worry about it.

Curious.. How is it that you choose to record your radio-conversations?

@OzarkOverlandAdventures

Жыл бұрын

It's a handheld radio from ION that is able to record all radio chatter.

@trailtothevoid

Жыл бұрын

@@OzarkOverlandAdventures might have to look into that... thank you for the answer. Much appreciated!

Im first yey

@markymark903

Жыл бұрын

Congrats ! Matt...Tell Ben what he has won !

You mean I got to wait a week to see more. 😧

Van Lifers, RVers... Many are no different than us... but there is in Colorado a phrase I have heard to describe that point... I personally am not fond of it as it comes across as elitist... but the locals there would seem to call it "The Subaru line"... That point where the guys in the Subarus can no longer "off road". But the rock crawlers could look at us with the same disdain. When they have 40+ inches of tire and enough articulation to put their front tire on the hood of a stock Rubicon they can in turn go places out overland Jeeps and Toyotas cannot. In the end, Van Lifers are not that different from the origins of overlanding. RVers... Well some are retirees... some are just boondockers doing much the same as us, but in a format that many consider easier for the family... My mother often told me of our camping in the mountains of Arkansas with our popup behind our old station wagon when I was a preschooler in the early to mid 70s (my only memories are of me trying to help get ready for camping, somehow knocking the wheel chock out and getting my arm caught between the camper and car trying to "fix it" (I was scared, but not injured, though it took 2 doctors, detailed explanation of my x-ray, and a nurse to convince me it was not broken) or many camping trips in grade school), waking up in a cloud one morning (mom was afraid I would wander into the fog and fall off a nearby cliff... me waking up one morning with a row of spider bites the full length of my arm and side where I had pinned the spider as I slept... Even if they stayed in a campground we always went to the full primitive sites (no water or electricity)... Where my folks that different from the overlanding we do now??? Where they deserving of the disdain because they could not afford 2 cars plus a 4x4 with tents to get us further into the woods? Was my dad's friend better because he owned a IH Scout 2 (o.k. I AM a li'l jealous of him for that SUV) that he took "boondocking" (to him a catch all term for off roading, and camping remotely) and would put the family in a cabin tent with army surplus cots and pool float type air mattresses at the same camp sites as us while we had a pop up camper (that he could not afford because he had the IH)

Dude just move here

Colorado weather, if you don't like it, give it 10 minutes...