Finding a Back Door into Yellowstone
A horse packing adventure into the North Absaroka Wilderness and Yellowstone Park. A group of 4 men, 2 outfitters and a cook from Alaska traveled up the North Fork of the Shoshone River over the pass into Lamar River drainage. Exploring the back country by horse back, we then rode over Mist Creek Pass into Pelican Basin just east of Yellowstone Lake. Our goal was to find a back door into Yellowstone, we did do just that. Along our journey we traveled in three river drainages, saw unbelievable mountain country, did some fishing and learned some history. We set out to just enjoy the back county by horse back and we did.
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The three kids leading the riders are Hunter, Clayton and Etta. They work for Carl and are a real pleasure to know. Thank you Roger for documenting your your adventure. Getting to see and experance the backcountry is a gift not many will enjoy.
@rogercain5837
2 жыл бұрын
You got it. They were great to be around
Love watching....Wish I was there!!!!❤
@cowdogflicks
6 ай бұрын
glad you enjoyed it
Wow. I clicked this only intending to watch a few minutes, but ended up watching the whole thing. You are a great storyteller. I liked how you incorporated some of the history of the locations. Looks like an amazing trip!
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
I am glad to hear that watch my latest video and let me know how you like that
Beautiful video and well-narrated. Thank you for taking me along.
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! Our Pleasure
I love seeing Etta’s adventure! Kodiak Alaska girl living her dream. 🥰❤️🤠
Wow this is good. Each video you do the stories get better. I am impressed with this. Keep them coming. We enjoy them
Wow thank you for taking me on your amazing trip it looks like you guys had amazing time. Now that would be an awesome ride
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
thanks
thank you for showing me a beautyful piece of country
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
i am glad you enjoyed it check out some of the other videos on my channel
Excellent - Thanks. - Eamonn/ Ireland/ Galway
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it Watch my serious on finding the head waters of the Yellowstone river I think you will enjoy that also stay warm in Ireland this winter
As someone who hikes & backpacks this area a fair bit, it’s really awesome to see it from this perspective!
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
Thanks keep exploring
Awesomeness. I love the smile and attitude of the lady cook. ❤
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
She was great check out lastest video
Man I enjoyed this video. Love packing w horses and mules. You could sure tell who the customers were and who the wranglers were.
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
in this trip yes you could
I just love it .I was with you all every step on the way. Dam amazing.
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching watch the latest video you will enjoy it
Wow, Awesome adventure and scenery! Thanks for sharing it. We enjoy the narration, too; it adds a lot to the video!
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! watch my video on the journey to the headwaters of the Yellowstone river 1, 2 & 3 you will enjoy it
wow!
What a beautiful adventure. Brings back trips to Colorado San Juan Mountains with our horses. It just don't get no better than spending 10 day's in the mountains on horseback. The sound of horse shoe's with borium walking through the rocky streams, amazing. They would not allow our horse drink from streams. They had a foot and mouth virus going on in the area. Luck on our side, they lifted the quarantine the day we were leaving. We had to get vet to check horses before we left Colorado. Thanks for sharing.
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! maybe a ride in the future together in the mountains
I can only imagine how fulfilling a ride like this would be all of the beautiful scenery kind of like what the old west was way back when. Thank you for sharing a wonderful adventure
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
this trip was great i did enjoy it a lot
hello i introduce myself didier i am french and i live in france i love nature and i love what you do this total spirit at mother nature i subscribed to your channel my greetings from france Didier
@cowdogflicks
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching and subscribing. Hope you’re bringing more trails on horseback soon. Enjoyed hearing from you from France
@didiertrekkeur
2 жыл бұрын
@@cowdogflicks thank you for your answer so subscribed I don't miss anything every time your videos come out I will watch with pleasure passion has no borders the proof I come from France and I love your country and customs and what you do see you soon Didier
Absolutely love your vlogs. Your still shots especially catch my attention as I think of what a great 500 piece jigsaw puzzle any one them would make. You, Sir, are a genius!
@cowdogflicks
6 күн бұрын
I am glad you enjoyed it
If this had been twice as long, it would have been too short. Thanks.
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it it was a great trip
What a great trip - I would have loved to join you guys! Thank you for the historical information that makes the video even better. I also liked the pictures that looked like a painting. How did you do that? Happy trails - Gerry
@cowdogflicks
2 жыл бұрын
Good to hear from you. We are putting another trip together for next summer let me know. Horsecamp27@gmail.com
Great video - enjoyed every minute. Sure would like to do that some day - i've always ran around the back country on my feet. At 67, that looks like a better way now! haha I'd better get it done I'd say. The history was a nice addition to the video. All in all, very well done and thanks much for sharin!
@cowdogflicks
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your comments I have enjoyed your utube also
Awesome trip. I enjoyed the scenery.
@cowdogflicks
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it it was a great trip
Love these videos. The cou try ... The views ... The horses ... The camping ... And all of you.
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
Thanks 👍 glad you enjoyed
I have seen that country from the road on the seat of a motorcycle, now I know what it looks from a saddle. Thanks, "I will fight no more forever."
Beautiful visuals!
Found you by accident, sure glad I did! Exceptional video and great story telling!!
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
thanks
Amazing 👍
This looks like a great time 😁
@cowdogflicks
6 ай бұрын
it was fun
Beautiful Journey 🤠
@cowdogflicks
3 ай бұрын
It really is! glad you enjoyed it
That’s a great video ..beautiful country …what a camp ..lots of work to pack all that stuff
@cowdogflicks
2 жыл бұрын
It was a great pack trip. Big country up there. It was nice to have all that gear. A lot less gear when I go by myself. Keep riding
"Gonna be an Advil night." I can SO relate to that, hahahaha.
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
i agree with you again
I really enjoy all your videos! You do such a good job.
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
Enjoyed your video, Got to do a backcountry elk hunt with Carl, Etta was in camp that week. That lady is a tough cowgirl , enjoyed the stories she told in camp about trips she had been on in Alaska. It was my dream hunt, absolutely gorgeous country and it far exceeded my expectations. Your trip reminds of my hunt, thank you. I’m planning on going back, lords willing
@cowdogflicks
6 күн бұрын
i am glad you enjoyed your trip we did Etta is a great gal
FANTASTIC!
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
Good to hear watch latest vedio you will enjoy
Love watching your journey, thank you for taking us❤️
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
anytime checkout latest videos on my channel
Wonderful! Always such a great way to end my day. Makes for sweet dreams. Thank you ☺
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
Our pleasure!
what a majestic landscape!
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
it is watch a jouney into the headwaters of the Yellowstone River its better
Amazing memories ❤️
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
yes
Best one yet Roger that camera is amazing again great job
That's how life should always be, awesome love it.
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
I do agree
Great trail and a beautiful landscape, super filmed
@cowdogflicks
2 жыл бұрын
Good to hear from you folks. It looks like you’ve been doing some riding to on your channel to. Enjoy the mountains
What a great team you have! Thanks for sharing.
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching! Look on channel for the Journey to the head waters of the Yellowstone you will enjoy it
so great God bless
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
Just found your videos. Awesome. Thanks for posting..
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
Welcome! glad you like them watch my latest one a joinery to the head waters of the Yellowstone River
Lamar River Valley; stunningly gorgeous! Thanks for taking us along!
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
Our pleasure!
Great video - gods gifts are awesome. Thanks for sharing.
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
thanks for comments
Love love love your channel and videos!! I did a similar trip in Montana. I have horses and ride in SW Ohio but the majesty of the west is breathtaking! Thank you!!!
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
That is awesome! Thanks for watching and commenting
been down those trails many times, we raise pack mules and mountain horses, mustang/Draught crosses, it's getting damn hard to find pack trails that ATV's and Bicycles haven't ruined the wilderness on. It seems every ranch in Colorado is a Dude ranch now and that's just crazy to ride around those people
BEEN AROUND TRAIL RIDES ALL MY LIFE, FIRST TIME I EVER SAW THE MULES PEE IN UNISON 😂🤣😂 y’all do have em trained!!
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
it takes training or they just stoped walking at peer at the same time good observation
Excellent! I spent my entire childhood on a farm in Kentucky on horseback and fishing in our lakes. I thought I would be a cowgirl when I grew up but it didn’t work out. I’m having a shoulder replacement surgery then putting everything in storage and going to spend a long time in the West mountain biking, a little hiking and as much trail riding as possible. Love 💓your videos. More please. 👍☮️🌞🏔🏕🪵🔥🐎
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
glad to hear
You cancome in the trailhead south of Big Timber and follow the trails into the headwater of Hell roraing creek. The best mostly unkowon trail into Yellowstone is that tiny slive of the park that is a part of Idaho. There are several ways into the park from the A-B.
@cowdogflicks
6 ай бұрын
i will look that up on some maps
Wonderful thanks...
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
Our pleasure!
Great video be safe god bless.
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, you too!
I live just across the border from Det. Mich. in SOUTHERN ONTARIO and I remember having clear water also whnI was a whole lot younger than I am now. Just wishing I could have experieced what YOU FOLKS are doing. THANK YOU for the video.
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
thanks for your comments
wow great vid thank you guys va mt man out
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
Interesantes estos videos del tipo "viejo oeste" muy sana una vida asi, todo naturaleza! Nada contaminacion.
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
thanks for your comment
Very nice...thanks for sharing. Some of you your pictures have filter(s) applied (or something), how are you doing that? Looks great!
Love this!!
@cowdogflicks
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
Ya need to get down to Idaho for some Tiger Trout. Truly unique fish in the Rockies
Great video amazing journey just wish you would show on a map where you started and where you are at different points along the way keep on keeping on
@cowdogflicks
6 ай бұрын
Noted! i will work on that
I am in awe of the beautiful country. I'm 77 and never done anything like this but I could and would if I had the opportunity. I ran into the last cattle drive in Wyoming. It started in Fort Worth and going to Miles City Montana,and I offered to trade my Honda Civic,worth about $8 thousand for a drovers horse,of course he wouldn't and didn't blame him. Some day
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
good story i like it thanks for your comment
Greetings from the BIG SKY. I sure do remember weighing packs and the reasons why.
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
remember the mountains always call you
When I was a kid my parents belong to a riding club and we always went on trail rides but nothing like this. We only went for the weekend. It was great. Me and my parents. Those were the days
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
good memoirs
Weren't the Yellowstone fires in 1988? Great video. Thanks for sharing
@rogercain5837
6 ай бұрын
Yes it was.
amazig content.catch you later, )
Roger that was fantastic! Your film stories / movies are getting better and better each time. Did the outfitter supply the riding stock as well as the pack stock or did some of you bring your own riding horses? Also what camera are you using to film? How many batteries and memory cards do you have to pack for it and how long do the batteries last?
@cowdogflicks
2 жыл бұрын
Good to hear from you. Thanks for your comments. Outfitter supplied all the stock. Some of the guys could not bring animals. I use a GoPro 9 and a special camera to do the still phots.
Love the video was that one paint horse a medicine hat ??
I, too, was very saddened by that 1986 fire. Hobbling those mules is a good idea.
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
we agree with you
Top👍🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴💖🤠🤠🤠
hobble the lead horsies is always a sign of knowing what to do good Job
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
yep
Awesome thanks
Are all the horses and mules provided by the outfitter or are the horses you rode your own? The outfitter costs per trip must be pretty expensive? Liked this video… Bob
Ride up Fish Hawk, from the North Fork, drop in to Ron Dubes camp, follow the trail out, Has been in operation for years, Bill Jordan hunted Bighorn with Ron 30 yrs ago
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
sounds like you have had some good times also
Absolutely brilliant! Do you find the presence of horses etc encourages predators?
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
No that many animals make a lot of nose. Wild life tend to get out of our way
Still don't know how you keep the camera steady while on horseback. Not to mention ultra clarity video. Nice job.
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
thanks for commenting I use a Gopro 10 to film this
Wonderful trip, but I’m wondering about all the broken trees
@cowdogflicks
5 ай бұрын
Bugs, Fire and wind are taking a toll on the moutains
At 7.33 there is lot of wrecked forest. Is this logging land? or has the forest been degraded some other way like beetles. Beautiful places and rides, just curious why these areas look like they do.
@cowdogflicks
3 ай бұрын
glad you enjoyed it yes beetles have done a lot of damage to the mountains then fires come in
In this video, you speak several times about the devastation in the wake of the various back-country wildfires, and how some areas are growing back well and others much more slowly. As folks who love wilderness (and it's preservation), I think it's extremely important to remind your viewers and help educate the general public that periodic wildfires are a very natural, normal, and necessary part of any wilderness area's growth and evolution. We all must try hard to remember that wildfires burned thru these forests for millions of years completely unchecked and that those millions of years of periodic fires are what contributed to building the soils and biomass our current forests depend so heavily upon. There are many plant species, especially among the conifers, that do not release their seeds unless exposed to the high temperatures a wildfire exposes them to, so allowing fires to burn themselves out is a very, very big part of wise forest management practice. Humans who choose to live in forest areas need to take the necessary steps to protect their investments, of course, and fire suppression should focus on that, but where there are no human financial assets to protect, fires should be allowed to burn and the burned areas to regain their natural life without intervention, in my opinion. Yeah, burn areas are an eyesore for our human eyes hungry for the lush beauty of a climax forest, but if any of us think beyond the eye-candy beauty of the forest, even burn areas are rich with life within a month or two of the fires going out, and watching life return to burn areas can be just as enriching of an experience, just as spiritual, just as life-reinforcing, as time spent in a thriving forest.
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
the other two men are forest rangers we had deep conversations of this topic we all agree with you
What camera do you use and how do you keep it charged? We are going out with Lee Livingston in July. Thx Dave
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for your comment I think Lee told me about your trip I would like to talk with you about it please email me Horsecamp27@gmail.com I use a gopro with extra batterys and a battery bank
You can hear a woodpecker in the background @ the first camp
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
I am glad you picked that out Thanks for watching
What carried the cook stove and coolers and cameras ??
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
al those pack horses
How did the coolers get there.? 😳
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
on a pack horse one on each side of horse
Are the bells on the horses meant to help keep predators away?
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
yes and no I sleep better if I hear the bells at nite
@journeyhawk1728
Жыл бұрын
@@cowdogflicks thank you for your reply. Much appreciated!
@Dorfhiker
Жыл бұрын
@@cowdogflicks Not me. Spent a mostlysleepless first night on a backpacking trip along the north Buffalo about 12 miles in from Turpin Meadows back in 10’. Unbeknownst to us, there was an outfitters camp about a quarter mile up the meadow and the horses came down to us, clanking away, for much of the night lol. At the time it was annoying but all was forgiven the next morning when theexceptionally cute wranglerette in a purple shirt apologized after she asked where we were camped. Nice video. I love the GYE area…washakie, Teton, NA. So wild…
Learn to throw the one-man-diamond and you can ditch the lash cinch
@cowdogflicks
6 ай бұрын
i personally use the single diamond when i am useing my own stock i do agree
You ain't trout fished til you are standing in the Lamar in the middle of a pale dun hatch, The trout will eat anything small and white and it is like standing upside down in a snow storm as the duns rise and fly up stream
Have you ever have an encounter with bears?
@cowdogflicks
6 күн бұрын
no they run away when they hear us coming I am glad you enjoyed it
Will not be a "secret" very long.
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
its hard to travel that will keep numbers down
At hidden lake why are all the trees dead anyone?
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
the fire of 1986 burned the whole area nothing survived there it is trying to grow back but will be years
You can always spot a dude a mile off. They be leaning back all over the cantle, soring their horse's kidneys.
Anyone bring firearms for bears? Be damn good idea!
@cowdogflicks
Жыл бұрын
yes we did check out Alex right hip no one misses with Alex
Do ever take a woman with you unless her name is Sacajawea.
The photos on the second day with the horses and mule in the river, it doesn’t look like a photo, looks like a painting. Amazing what did you do to get that effect?
@cowdogflicks
6 күн бұрын
I am glad you enjoyed it