That pile of rocks with the lumber is a mining claim marker.

Always wear thick leather hiking boots in the desert, a wide brimmed hat for shade and never black anything- it absorbs heat and makes you sweat more when walking and you use up your water faster. Carry a small drone to send up on recon to avoid climbing up only to find a cliff on the other side. Cool adventure. 😎 Stay safe out there.

@buzz5969

5 ай бұрын

I go in shorts and flip flops.

@Cooperfelts

5 ай бұрын

I just know your old but trail runners and gators are better

@mountainbound1315

5 ай бұрын

@@Cooperfelts 1. I am not old. 2. Trail runners come in thick leather should one prefer that type of shoe. 3. Gaiters are not desert hiking gear unless they are snake gaiters. 4. A good broken in pair of cowboy boots are best for going off trail in the desert.. no wimpy gaiters are going to save your legs from barrel and cholla cactus or possible snake bites. You sound like you've never been to a desert.

@mountainbound1315

5 ай бұрын

@@Cooperfelts BTW the contraction for you are is spelled "you're". It's okay though, rookie mistake. 😁

Great video. Thank you! I always enjoy. Just before the 49 minute mark you get quite the meteor shower in the morning. If you missed it, take a look. Super cool. Thanks again!

The rocks with the wooden post is most likely a marker for part of a mining claim

When I heard where you were, I got very uncomfortable......but you made the best of it. I prefer the hikes you take that have trees and water. Looking forward to the next time!

Great adventure. A bit unsafe being alone. Tougher shoes and gloves to avoid cactus thorns and stinging insects. Give you a lot of credit for undertaking this terrain on your own. The desert is in itself a splendid beauty

I'm from Mississippi and my older brother lives in Yuma. I've visited him back in the 90s it was a total shock to the mind from someone from Mississippi! Nice place to visit but I'll keep my butt in Southeast region lol!

@sintax77

5 ай бұрын

Nice! I'm looking forward to doing some hike in the Mississippi region in the future as well :) Any suggestions?

@bdmenne

2 ай бұрын

You me both brother. I’m Kentuckiana born n raised. Keep it moist n keep in green.

Great video, just a heads up though you may already be aware but those water bottles are not strong enough to resist a sharp rock when you put your pack on the floor and the first thing you will notice is when you go to grab a drink and it's all gone. I've seen it happen. Keep up the good work love those views.

What a adventure bud, outstanding filming!

Great video. I really like that you're not on a particular trail. Just sort of finding your own route. Sounds fun.

Enjoy. That’s an amazing area to hike around. Some areas suck. I have completed San Diego to Cooks monument NM following the US border in 2019. I was on the Great Western Loop Trail. I followed the Roosevelt Easement most of the way. It Was amazing hike. Stay safe! Live Your Adventure!

@sintax77

5 ай бұрын

That sounds pretty awesome. I'll have to look that up. Thanks!

@bdmenne

2 ай бұрын

6,800 miles total. Holy!! How many miles was your segment?

@Jemazzy

27 күн бұрын

@@bdmenne The lower rocker of the great western loop is about 820 miles. This is from Grants NM down the CDT to Cooks and then follow the Border alll the way to Campo or San Diego Ca. I started in Feb 2019 in Grants NM. I had no issues on this hike. It was amazing. Border Patrol was great. (The Goverment carried a lot of water for me) Thanks again Border Patrol! I had permission and a guide for the Tohono O'odham Nation Reservation Section. I cant wait to get back down into this region and hike ome more.

Falling star at 48:48- caught a bunch of them - cool

@shaunsprogress

5 ай бұрын

It was sped up, they were satellites.

Thanks Shawn! Always great to hear from you my friend 👊🏻👍🏻Appreciate you 🙏🏻

The whole time i'm watching this i'm thinking of Comarc McCarthy "All the Pretty Horses" or the whole Boarder Trilogy --May be it is about the time for me to listen to the audio book again. Specially now that i can watch this rugged rock/ and gnarled terrain while i listen to the story.

This was great to watch. Thanks for posting your adventure. I learn from watching others and wish I could be trying it

Love this desert hike!

Groovy! Loved it!

That was a good 1. Love the desert.

Love your vids, watchin this hunkered down in Michigan! Cheers!

Great trip, beautiful southwest desert. 👍🇺🇸

Cool adventure. Looks like a grave where the cross has broken with time.

@icepick6270

5 ай бұрын

Definitely a grave

Wow!! One of your most extreme hikes! Glad you were representing those PA Tuxedo colors!

@sintax77

5 ай бұрын

All day!

That's some crazy terrain out there, looks like another world.

Great videos! Keep it up.

Nali was so happy to see you.

At least we got to see Sarah. Happy hiking Stntax77!

Really love all your videos. I used a lot of them just to prepare myself for my own backpacking adventures. -Kevin

@sintax77

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, Kevin. I'm happy to hear you've been enjoying the vids. :)

I live in Yuma. Those jumping cactus are no joke, lol

I’m glad you had a different experience here in Az. Thank you for the awesome videos. What cracked me up was when you said something about the dogs and beans being smoky. “A little fancy” 😆 I hope you had an enjoyable experience here in Az. Have a safe trip.

@sintax77

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, Static. It seems to be an acquired taste for some, but I've always really enjoyed the desert hiking and camping vibes. Arizona is an awesome state.

Trailslippa wouldn't have stood a chance in that dessert terrain. 😂 I winced with you went you pulled that thorn out of your toe!

Whole new world out in the dessert, Interesting views and hike. A lot of geography out there and history for sure , Maybe that hole was from a badger loved the video always a joy to watch what your up to next.. ( marker or burial where the stick and stones were on the hill? Interesting water hole as well/ Love your videos always interested to know where you will explore next. Watching from Ontario Canada.

Nice! This will be a good one. Going to watch it at the local Rail Splitter diner with my friend coffee & BB-Pan (blueberry pancake). Getting some nice snow out here in the Heartland.

That country is so inhospitable that, for the first time ever, I was glad when the video was over!

@linh8997

5 ай бұрын

... Because it meant you were still alive!

Pretty safe and clear about 70 ish miles from the border. Been out in the Kofa game range many times growing up out in the desert southwest. Lots of mining was done out there in the past along with bombing range on the other side of the 95. Typically its very desolate and quiet out there. You got out there just in time before all the winter visitors/campers and off roaders over flowing from Quartzsite get out there. Its our prime camping season until april, temps down into the 30s at night right now in January. Pretty cool you made it out here. 👍

6 L is super impressive. I’d want that much water just for one day lol.

41:58 - Head on over to Saguaro National Park, you'll see loads of 'em. When you make a loop like this in the future, take a day hike in with a gallon of water and stash it for yourself. You can hike straight into your loop to stash it.

Highlights of the video. 00:47 and 1:08:06 ;) Cool video . I always wanted to get to the desert . Still waiting to get a horse with no name LOL

I began my hiking career in the White Mountains of New Hampshire which is how I found this channel and for the past 6 years I've been hiking in Arizona. Off trail in the desert rules

@PMurray2694

5 ай бұрын

P.s. that thermometer is trash, temps got no where near what it was reading around the holidays lol

Hopefully while you were in the Yuma area, you explored the Kofa Wilderness area, north of Yuma, headed towards Quartzsite. Its a beautiful mtn range.

Sorry I was a few days late catching this one. I am subscribed to your channel but I don't seem to get notices when you have a new video. I find myself checking often, but missed this one until now. I must say you are a brave soul, being that near the border, alone, in the dessert. That is one place I don't think I would care to visit. Too brown for this Tennessee girl, and I am constantly sipping water, but thank you for visiting it for me. Our country is so vast from "sea to shining sea," and when I visited Colorado I felt like I was I a foreign country LOL! England is actually more like Tennessee than is our West. Your looking for the "road," reminded me of my hike in the English moors, a few years back. I as in Haworth, Bronte Country, and was hiking to the deserted farmhouse, Top Witness, that was the inspiration for Withering Heights, I started out by the city cemetery, following a path which got more and more narrow. I was alone, except for the sheep, and and that time I had no cell phone; just a video camera. Just as I was beginning to get frightened , as I could to longer see the path, I zoomed up that old video camera, and saw an old pick up truck next to a stone house. I also saw the sign leading to the place to which I was traveling. I played the video for my High School English students later, when I got home, and they kept saying "Mrs Robbins, you should have turned back." I was proud of myself, though, and I felt like I actually got the real Heathcliff experience! We live and learn, and next time you hike in the dessert, thick leather boots should should be a must. I was thankful for my English Spirit tennis shoes out there on the moors, thinking "no wonder Emily Bronte caught pneumonia and died, from her last visit out here. Take care out there, and stay safe . I always look forward to your new videos.

Thank you for sharing. Great video. You need to watch those bees in the southwest; they could be of the killer type. The desert has no place for lightweight clothing or shoes. Easy way to get pricked and punctured by pointy objects and infection before you know it. All the best and safe travels to you and the wife.

Omg what a trip for me to see Yuma again! My ex was stationed there for a few years early 2000s and it was definitely an interesting place to live 😁 I don’t miss living there but would love to see it again someday. I forgot about the blimp! And is that castle dome in the background by the blimp? We used to hike in the foothills. I imagine it’s all built up now. The boom you heard is from the Yuma proving grounds

I’ve done some desert hiking out in New Mexico and West Texas. It’s a different ballgame than east of the Mississippi. Good Stuff!

I was on a trail ride in AZ and my horse got one of those stickers on his nose. When the guide combed it out he rared up, it was kinda cool lol

@bdmenne

2 ай бұрын

“Cool”?

I'm glad you understand Rule #1 - Keep the Wife and Dog happy if they are your only ride out of the desert.

Awesome, those klymit pads are resilient, i have 2 big agnes pads that leak like a whistling old man

@sintax77

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, my Big Agnes sleeping pad failed as well, unfortunately. It was the inflation nozzle that developed a leak, so it wasn't anything that a patch could fix wither. Bummer. The inflation port on the Klymit seems pretty solid so far, though. 👍

$250 in 1941 = $5,262.35 in 2023. Just a wee bit more for that souvenir than you thought lol Its nice to see you in my neck of the woods! You'd probably enjoy Northern AZ a lot more. I'd always bring a mini leatherman with me for all those cactus barbs when I'd hike.

Interesting adventure. Next time you can't make coffee, consider taking chocolate covered espresso beans. (You might have to order some, as it's hard to find them in stores.) 45:13 Zappa fan? I have also said "great googly moogly" in response to a hiking hardship, lol.

@sintax77

5 ай бұрын

Good call with the espresso beans! That sounds pretty good.

Alone among the stickers. Thank you.

holy crap!

This one had a bit of everything excitement extremes expectations dare I say entitlements .. a cheeseburger .. wow this is tough country. Thanks for an off the road style vlog in a reasonably inhospitable area. If the ride hadn't eventuated you could have done a vid on divorce procedures .. lol. Bushyboy Oz.

That one is too gnarly Sintax. Glad you are unharmed.

I kept waiting for you to stumble upon Walter and Jesse’s meth camper in the same way you pinpointed eery off-trail sesna crashes in the past. I climbed Rainier and Denali with jars of peanut butter on my back, so your choice of dense caloric efficiency is spot on. But - Choosey mothers choose Jif. It was heartwarming to see Sarah and Denali at the drop off. Countless fans are cheering you on, especially me. And the meteor sightings lift our eyes to the heavenly. My guess is your base weight does not include the personal protection required for this area . . . Thank you 🙏 for another unique adventure!!

@sintax77

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, man. Yeah, peanut butter and coyote repellent weren't included in my official base weight ;)

That is a mine claim monument. Put your hand into the stack of rocks and you would likely find a Prince Albert tobacco can with a claim on paper for the area.

@dmc2087

5 ай бұрын

totally true

Love me a good Sintax77 video! It’s been awhile, but maybe I’ve been asleep at the switch?

Thanks for sharing! Now I can mark this off my list of future hikes. No water, things that want to stab you to death, yea no thanks.

We have property north of Saint John's AZ ... it's more sand and above 6300 ft... Temps can swing 60 to 70 degrees...AZ is beautiful but she can bite... dehydration will sneek up on you.

Watch out for the Teddy Bear Cholla cactus aka Mexican Jumping Cactus!

Yikes, glad you had fun but that doesn't look even remotely like a good time to me. I'll stick with my east coast, Appalachian mountains 😂

I wanted to commend you for pronouncing the name of the "saguaro" cactus correctly. Few people from outside the southwest US can do that. 😜 I'm going to guess that some folks at the RV park probably helped you with that one. Thanks for the video !

@sintax77

5 ай бұрын

Oh, I'm certain I used to mispronounce it as well, no doubt. I think I figured it out back on our Superstition Wilderness trip video a while back. That's a place I'd love to revisit as well :D

Love the videos but I would die with no food because that's not enough food for me LOL

Not the type of terrain I’d expect to see you in! Miss your legendary white mountain trips

@sintax77

5 ай бұрын

Definitely looking forward to getting back onto some NH trails as well!

I know it's not but id love to think that the first marker you found is edward abbeys grave. Awesome trip. Your a tough guy doing this with 6L

Is it me or you way more happier then usual to see your wife at the end there ?

Go East a bit in to California and take a look at Painted Gorge. Just north of there is the Ansa Borrego bad lands. There's some really interesting mud caves. There's also some great fossils near the mouth of Painted Gorge. You can climb up onto of this massive slap of them with a great view looking over the old military bombing range. From where you are in this video, you can drive there less than two hours. Let me know if you want coordinates. I spent 40 years of my life wondering around that area.

@sintax77

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the heads up! We're headed out in that general direction, so I'm going to look that up.

awesome hike! while you are close...have you thought about Superstition Mountain?

@sintax77

5 ай бұрын

Superstitions are definitely on the list! We did a backpacking trip there like 5+ years ago and really enjoyed it. I've always wanted to go back and explore more of it :)

That looked difficult and hot. A little too desolate for me. I'll take the woods. But an adventure nonetheless. The prickly thorn that went thru your shoe sounded painful. Probably heavier shoes for desert hiking. Interesting tho. Take care.

Very entertaining. I'm suprised you didn't come across any six or eight legge critters. Other than the bee try to share your lunch.

Those Cholla thorns were the worst part of my desert hiking experience. I spent hours trying to get all of them out of my boots. Nice awaiting for Sara to drive up sequence.

@3smoke

5 ай бұрын

Cholla "Jumping Cactus " are your worst nightmare. The barbs pull flesh out with them. You need pliers to pull them out too. Get them once and you'll avoid them at all costs.

Whew ! I got worn out just watching you. Gotta go lie down.

Nice desert adventure down south. 👍 I liked how you filmed the ending waiting for Sara to pick you up. 😂 Question? Where did you find a post hike cheeseburger? 😀

@sintax77

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, Uptrail. There was a McDonald's on the way back to our spot in Ehrenberg, AZ, but we skipped that in favor of making our burgers back at the RV. Cheap and effective :)

@uptrail7169

5 ай бұрын

@@sintax77 Nothing better than homemade cheeseburgers. 👍😀

Never been to Arizona. Thanks for sharing the video with us! An interesting adventure for sure. But where did you find your cheese burger at?

@sintax77

5 ай бұрын

We got some ground beef and buns from the local grocer and made our own smash burgers back at the RV. 🍔😎

It was Christmas and you didn’t pack calorie dense fruitcake? That’s my favorite hiking snack anytime of year ! After seeing this, I begin to love Rhodo and catbrier again

@sintax77

5 ай бұрын

Haha, you may have found the perfect backpacking food there - calorie dense and lasts forever! :)

Kid you not, I had strong Sintax vibes the last couple of days. But, the Mexican borderland? What if the Salamancas decided to show up? High marks for your diversity of destinations.

@dustyc324

5 ай бұрын

same. just when I think KZread may have stopped showing me his uploads, here comes another fresh episode. cheese burger time!

@sintax77

5 ай бұрын

Pollo Loco! *Edit: Darn it, it was "Pollos Hermanos". Sure looked like a Pollo Loco though 😅

She dropped you off at the border! She didn't expect your return!!

Mexican cheeseburger time 👍👍😁

I miss the northeast terrain in your vids!

Did you consider the pile of rock and two pieces of wood to mark an old grave?

@dustyc324

5 ай бұрын

it looked like there was another one behind him in one shot. interesting nonetheless

@garywheeler2055

5 ай бұрын

Can’t stop thinking of snakes in those rocks 😬. Love snakes, hate being surprised by them when they are poisonous

@icepick6270

5 ай бұрын

Definitely a grave of some sort

Hi, what app do you use for making a track? Does it work in Sweden? Thank you so much for your great videos!

I'd need 4l a day. And that pile of rocks with the wood in it looks like a Cairn.

What are the weird metal thingys ? I watched this video, now I know I have zero desire to hike this. Looked like hell :)

@Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, the desert is a hate it or love place that's for sure. I'm still on the hate side, and I know I always will be, however after visiting a few times now, I can at least appreciate it for what it is.... but it's still what it is lol.

Water: There may be ways to obtain water in the desert that few think about. In Chilli they use large screens (Mesh) to extract water from the cool night time air. A few years back there was a NOVA episode on that very technology. They extract a few liters per square meter of mesh. Much of the fruit from Chili is grown in their desert using that method. I wonder if you can get drinking water the same way? Shoes: Leather shoes would be far better protection than those mesh ones! Gloves: Gloves would permit using all 4 limbs to climb down or up! No cook Food: Ryan Van Duzer (Cyclist Vloger) eats Burritos that should be cheaper there, he gets wrap shells and squeezes refried bean, out of a toothpaste like tube which doesn't need heat Destinations are a fake, the adventure is everything! Jorg Schlagheck (Cyclist Vlogger)

High level cirrus clouds will not lock in the heat, it takes low level cumulus clouds to do that. You experienced a major temperature change from day to night. Your reasoning escapes me.

I live my adventures thru Sintax 77 …

What is the edit or glitch next to peanut jar just in front of tent at 21:29? It also happened right after you sat down.

Did you visit Nick PapaGeorgio from Yuma?…lol That is a movie from the Vacation series

I'd be concerned about scorpions. Lots of them in and around Yuma.

Having watched pretty much all your videos, and as always I appreciate your efforts in doing the hikes and the videography.....this was not exactly a "wowzer" in scenery...or interest. It did get me through 300 calories on the exercise bike, but barely..... At least it wasn't the muddy Dolly Sods woods and such that you do often.

@sintax77 what tent are you using??

Wear boots brother! This ain’t the AT!

@sintax77

5 ай бұрын

Note taken! The trail runners really met their match on this one...

The pile of rocks with the stick might of been an old mining claim.

Tell nick pappageoggio I said hi.😂

Definitely a mining claim marker on that hill.

Was that a shift of the matrix at 20:56 ? The ground by the peanut butter shifted. Or did you blur something out?

your videos are good may i ask which camera you are using?

@sintax77

5 ай бұрын

Nothing too fancy - Just a stock GoPro 11.

Strong Breaking Bad vibes with this vid.

Just not a desert fan for hiking. Makes sense with limited hiking options this season but meh, I'd rather fly somewhere with more mountains/water/etc.

Did you see any "coyotes" while out there? I bet the night sky was really dark with nothing out there to light pollute the air.

@sintax77

5 ай бұрын

Nope, didn't see or hear a thing. The silence out there in the middle of the night was crazy. No bugs, no planes, no footsteps. Just absolute silence. I think thw crinkling of my own jacket startled me several times, lol.

Hi sintax77. What tent are you using?

I had an epiphany backpacking in the desert. Why carry dehydrated food AND the water to rehydrate it. Just carry regular food and skip dehydrated and stove in the desert.