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Hells Gate Camping May 2021
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Feb 5, 2025
This video is packed with incredible Snake River valley scenery, epic encounters with wildlife and taking a plunge in way too cold water! Hells Gate State Park and all the area around Lewiston, ID is an incredible place for a sunny dry adventure. You cannot go wrong with some late spring, summer of fall plans to this amazing part of the great PNW! Here's a complete rundown of what's in this video: Showing the camping area around Hells Gate State Park Wildlife encounters with Skunk, deer and an amazing battle between a hawk and a snake! Tips and keys to campfire cooking Wine tasting around Lewiston Clearwater river valley scenery Visiting the Grand Ronde river Hiking one of the many trails in the area Taking a cold plunge into the river Definitely want to watch from start to finish to get all of it, please like and subscribe!
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we recently got back from camping
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near lewiston idaho hellsgate state park
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we saw some amazing wildlife like
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our dog and this red-tailed hawk which
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was trying to kill a snake
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and try to finish it off in the tree and
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this guy
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yeah we took some amazing drive saw some
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beautiful scenery and uh we saw some
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beautiful country on the
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way as well we recently got our camp set
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up here
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hellsgate state park in lewiston idaho
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and we're here to do some hiking just
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some chillings and hanging out
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taking in the beauty of uh snake river
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and snake river valley
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maybe shoot up to hell's hells canyon
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i recently left my corporate job at it
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spend more time with my family and spend
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more time
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outdoors harvesting my own food and
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experiencing
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everything pacific northwest has to
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offer i'm kyle
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and i'm living the pnw best life
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we're camped at the uh the aspen loop
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over here in hell's gate which is uh
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which is pretty cool pretty cool
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campsite
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um see how like i'm on like the edge of
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the campsite right here
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it's pretty pretty significant pretty
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big we're at site 11
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which has got like a lot of room
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there's a little uh yurt over there oh
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nobody's occupying it right now now
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we've got
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this pretty awesome walking trail
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um that goes for looks like for miles
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but
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how much spacing is between the sites
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here in the month of may and we're just
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trying to you know get a little bit of
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dry
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better weather supposed to be in the 80s
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uh by the
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mid part of the week here so that's
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exciting just got back from
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uh fishing cq for several days and doing
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the whole ling cod
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bass um sea bass thing over there
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and uh now we're over kind of in a drier
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part of the pacific northwest uh
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just kind of kind of doing our thing
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here relaxing
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so i was just chilling in my chair
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having quiet reflective time
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this guy shows up
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right over here it's where i saw the
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skunk this morning
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oh look it there's deer right there look
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at that
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check out that oh yeah
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right there that's pretty cool
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i don't know if she sees me let's see if
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i can get any
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she's got her ears
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[Applause]
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all right so i've seen a deer and
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i've seen a skunk yeah lots of birds
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over here it's pretty cool
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skunk was right came right out of here
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this little spot
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he was poking around over here he went
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underneath that deck of that ears
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so we're leaving the park on one of our
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many adventures and we see this bird's
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big red-tailed hawk
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flying off with a snake and
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we have to stop we have to check it out
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right soon
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oh wow
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[Music]
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that's amazing
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a big part of camping is the campfire
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and cooking on the campfire is a big
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deal
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how to cook on a campfire though is
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something that i can take for granted
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that
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everyone knows how to do
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check it out
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[Music]
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it'd be really tempting to drop that
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grill grate
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on this right here and start cooking but
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you know what's wrong with this picture
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it is not uh
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it is too lively of fire i need i need
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coals i need to burn down a little bit
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further because a lot of
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campfire cooking is all about fire
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control
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and i can't control this fire it's a
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little too hot a little too
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lively so i'm gonna wait until i got
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something a little bit closer to kohl's
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to cook my corn on the cob on one of the
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things that's super helpful
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and campfire cooking is once you've got
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kind of like the coals a little bit more
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subdued fire
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is just to have some pieces
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a little bit smaller pieces here
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that are kind of staged uh ready to go
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kind of add add to the fire to keep it
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going you don't want to add a big piece
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uh because that will get the fire maybe
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a little bit too out of control you want
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some little pieces here and there
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kind of keep it going keep the fire
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under control
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burning at a nice consistent temperature
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until your food's done
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we spent some time driving around north
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of lewiston clarkston and
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up high you can see the whole valley
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which is pretty cool
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it's a really beautiful scenery variety
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from what we're used to in western
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washington definitely
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definitely got to do the wine tasting in
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and around lewiston
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that is something and especially
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clearwater creek
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cellars was a real blast a
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great great wine there and
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nice atmosphere kind of a couple tables
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you could sit in
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and talk to the winemaker she's like
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right there like serving you wine and
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talking about
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the wine so that was really cool
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one day we also decided to drive east
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along the clearwater river and that was
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pretty cool because the scenery changed
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quite a bit as we got up
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closer to the mountains and the
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clearwater river is
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just legendary for a big summer run
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steelhead that go all the way
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up the columbia river up the snake and
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then up through the clear water just
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incredible country
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i can't wait to get back and wet a fly
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or lure or something on the clear water
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because it is just flat legendary uh for
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the the size of their b run steelhead
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there
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and this just had me itching to get back
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and thinking about fishing
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although i didn't do any fishing on this
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trip
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probably my favorite drive we did in the
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trip we took was to the grand
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ronde river which is back on the
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washington side and
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just the the the canyon the scenery the
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valley here as we're driving through is
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just
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i mean it's absolutely incredible grand
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ronde's another
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uh not quite as legendary as the
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clearwater but um
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amongst my uh angling friends definitely
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is a destination
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for steelhead in late fall
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and not so much the size but the numbers
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of steelhead
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are just fantastic and i've been hearing
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about the grand ronde for a while and i
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can't
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i can't wait to get back there now that
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there's just too much to do in october
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like what
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what i need like three of me to do all
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the hunting and fishing and
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all the opportunities but uh this one's
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got to be up on the list and
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come back and check this out so
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oh my goodness check it out
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grand ronde river holy cow this is a
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beautiful place
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wow look at that
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this is so awesome look at this drift
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oh my goodness this gonna hold some
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steelhead
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in the right season oh my gosh look at
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that valley
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down below those hills and
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just the contrast there between the
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green and the brown
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oh oh this is so cool
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i am definitely gonna have to come back
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here
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and fish this uh oh my goodness i've
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always heard about the grand ronde
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never been here um until today
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and uh i got a friend here who comes and
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catches uh catches a lot of steelhead
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and uh this is just some
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epic scenic uh place to tangle with the
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steelhead
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i mean the grand ronde is a tributary of
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the snake river
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so these fish that come up here they
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start out in pacific ocean got to go
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up the columbia river i don't know four
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four dams i think in the columbia and
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then
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several dams in the snake river just to
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get back
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the grand run river and uh wow
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this is a beautiful drive over here it's
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a beautiful country
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um just incredible uh
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the one of the things i love about
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pacific northwest
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and you know we're here in washington
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state still
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is uh just uh the variety
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uh the variety of climate zones
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of of the terrain i mean you know if
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you're on the western side
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of the state west of the cascades you
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you know you've got all this
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moisture and wetness and all this stuff
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and you come over here
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on the east side and it's like check
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that out
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you know i lived in arizona for a little
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bit for a little bit of time and this is
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kind of stuff you'd see there i mean
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just
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absolutely gorgeous um
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so can't wait to come back catch some
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fish here
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shoot a video up here maybe tangling
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with the steelhead but uh
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wow just just take that in
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what a beautiful beautiful place
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oh this is a cool trail
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pretty awesome pretty awesome set of
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trails
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over here this is the power line trail
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takes you up i think to uh
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a little high place called charlie's
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peak up here
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but there's a bunch of other lower trail
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systems
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all right where you can see snake river
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valley
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it's pretty cool
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i get a good little workout here
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i'm gonna do this trail here
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and then jump into the snake river which
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is still very cool by the way
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but
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gotta cool off it's about 75 degrees
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a western washington boy needed to be
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68 degrees partly cloudy thank you very
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much
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i'm melting over here
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look at that
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very cool
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oh nice breeze up here a little cooler
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check it out over here at the peak
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apparently it's called warren's ridge
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you can see
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all over see the snake river valley
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going out that way and uh
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the salmon river comes in over there
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from the from the east
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and the grand ronde from the washington
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side where we were earlier
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and then uh you've uh looked north
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over here and you can see the clearwater
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river clearwater valley coming in from
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the east and joining the snake
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right over there nice little workout
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though getting up here warren's red
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dude what are we doing this is
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ridiculous
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oh my gosh this is cold holy cow
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snake river in may it's not exactly warm
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it's like it's like melted ice cubes
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oh my gosh oh
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oh no no
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it's so cold i just can't even
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oh my gosh oh it's like ice cubes in
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here
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oh pacific northwest
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best life here we go
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thanks for watching this video if you're
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looking for a dry place to camp
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you can do a lot worse than louis
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denying the hotel skate state park in
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fact
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you can't do a whole lot better it's
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pretty awesome
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you
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