ODT Day 42: Owyhee Canyonlands VIII - Leslie Gulch (Oregon Desert Trail Thru Hike 2022)
Day 42 thru hiking the Oregon Desert Trail. Today's hike was an EPIC one through Leslie Gulch, Juniper Gulch & Three Finger Gulch. The landscape here is absurd. You can't even dream up the beautiful and intriguing worlds that lurk in these canyons. We hike Willow Creek to Lake Owyhee. Here we walk the shoreline of the Owyhee River, which is now becoming a Lake due to the dam downstream. We hike to Leslie Gulch, and begin the most scenic road walk of our lives. There are spires and hoodoos, jagged ridgeline and towering rock formations of every shape and variety. They are tall, pointy and downright cool looking. Next we turn up Juniper Gulch, another outstanding canyon hike. One of the best of the ODT. It's in the mid 90s today and it's HOT. We crest the ridge, enter the Honeycombs Wilderness Study Area, and drop down into another otherworldly canyon. This one has no name, but surely it's worthy of one. We collect muddy water from the nastiest water source I encountered on the ODT, and drank it. It was so muddy that it took 2 hours to filter 5 liters of water! We finish the evening with a stunning hike through Three Finger Gulch. We make camp here on our final backcountry night on the ODT.
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726 Miles, 43 Days
Dates Hiked: May 12 - June 23rd
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Most miles in a day: 33
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Пікірлер: 33
Spectacular. That area is worthy of national monument status, but the locals probably wouldn’t want it.
I love to see another desert person on the trail. This is beautiful to me, too! So many do not appreciate the beauty of the desert.
@SeekingLost
Жыл бұрын
Desert rats unite 🤘
Correction: 36 miles left in this hike. I ..will be finishing in 3 days lol
Absolutely stunning-thanks for your hard work bringing us along. Donnie's got the squatch gait down! 🤣
Thats some of the most stunning scenery I’ve seen. Worth all the sage Kansas trodding!
@SeekingLost
Жыл бұрын
Worth those miles of sage Kansas, for sure! This was one of my favorite days on trail
Great video! Such beautiful country, and you film it well.
@SeekingLost
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Robin :)
That water was def a good candidate for prefiltering. Oh welz. Stunning landscape. I can’t wait to get back out there!
@SeekingLost
Жыл бұрын
Yep it sure would have been the perfect candidate. I lost my pre filter a few weeks earlier on this trip.
Rewarding views as you near the end of the ODT. Fascinating topography.
@SeekingLost
Жыл бұрын
What a good feeling to be here and have these incredible canyon landscapes to hike and end this hike on a high note!
@taurial67
Жыл бұрын
@@SeekingLost We definitely appreciate the videos and keeping up with your current livelihoods.
Epic scenery! It just doesn't look like Oregon. Hard to believe we are near the end!
@SeekingLost
Жыл бұрын
This was one of, if the best day, for scenery on the ODT for me. All those canyons and gulches, man what a landscape!
Beautiful scenery. Reminds me of E Central Nevada, between Caliente and Pioche. Cathedral Gorge area. Really enjoyed the videos. Great job.
@SeekingLost
Жыл бұрын
I haven't been out that way yet, but if it looks like this, then maybe I'll check it out sooner!
@angeloangelojoseph1494
Жыл бұрын
@@SeekingLostSame jagged rocks, but less Greener. And much hotter!
Why aren't you pre filtering your water before using the Sawyer?
@SeekingLost
Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately I lost my pre filter a few weeks earlier on the trail. Water was pretty good on this trail overall, never bothered to replace it until I got home.
Can you show how you carry large water amounts
@SeekingLost
Жыл бұрын
I've been meaning to do a video on this. I've never seen anyone do anything like this this, but I paid an upholstery shop to modify the side pockets on my backpack so I could fit 3 1L smart water bottles on each side, plus trekking poles. for all my desert hikes, and the big water carries.
@thuggoe
Жыл бұрын
@@SeekingLost that is a big modification , would love to see a video. I noticed you filter some and take some to filter later. I was wondering how u had the flexibility
@SeekingLost
Жыл бұрын
@@thuggoe If I'm going to filter water later, I'll just carry some dirty water in my 2L platypus bladder, to filter at camp or wherever
@thuggoe
Жыл бұрын
@@SeekingLost so you keep the 2l in your pack?
They say you can hike west to east or east to west. While true if you started with those views ending in the flat arid badlands just seems to me as a let down.
@SeekingLost
Жыл бұрын
No kidding! Ending at Tumulus Trailhead in the west would be rather uninspiring. Kind of like hiking the CDT southbound... bared wire fence at the Mexico border, or Waterton Lakes in Glacier National Park in Canada... hmm, tough choice.
Your link to your Patreon shows a "404" error. Link not working.
@SeekingLost
Жыл бұрын
Hmm, I checked the link in the video description and it's working on my end. Patreon has been doing some work on their platform recentlly, I wonder if you just hit the link while they were doing some site maintenance. Thanks for the heads up, let me know if it persists on your end!
Do you realize that you are walking through the deposits of super volcanic eruptions?
13:10 - I don't think it's possible for the west coast to ever feel like Florida. Florida is disgusting. No one lives in Florida besides those who have to work outside, everyone else there lives inside with the A/C on. If it felt like Florida, neither you nor your cloths would be so dry. You'd be drenched.
@SeekingLost
Жыл бұрын
I know, Florida is a different level of humid hellscape. I remember sweating so much there that when it rained, you barely felt any wetter. This day was just a struggle with the heat