Gettin' High Above the Clouds - Volcan Baru (Sailing Curiosity, Boquete Panama)

I can guess. We're good. It's midnight. We are just about to start a hike. Actually it's 12.30am. About to start a hike, Volcan Baru. And we are parked on the side of the road because we can't make it up any further in the car. Hoping to make it by sunrise. It's going to be worth it. I swear. Let's go hiking. We finally made it to the entrance in the ranger station and we're already winded. It's going to be a long night. We're a mile up and we got our first lookout. Almost. That's Boquete from the car. You can turn off your light. But it's lighting up. Do you think we provisioned really well? We'll find out. Calzone. Some empanadas. Some desserts. And most importantly, cider. Cider and beer. If it said KM2, we'd hit cider number one. Saving your booze for later. Prove itself. By the way, 53 minutes in, 1.5 miles. From the car. That's good. Nice. Thank you. What a breakfast company. Let's see. Third of the way. Yay! We got Smokey Mouth. Yeah. Nice. Chilly-er. Temperature is a-dropping. I need energy. Calzone at the top. Danish at the bottom. But I like my seat. I just got comfortable. Deal on the burn, for sure. What'd you say, Dale? That I really hope there's a dot between the two and a five and it's not 25 kilometers to go. I'm out if it's 25. We can do it. Come on, guys. I don't know if we'll be good at sunrise if it's 25. Sunrise tomorrow? Okay, I'll continue on. We have paved rocky path. We must be getting close. I like saying must be. There's the lights for the buildings that we assume are at the top. Getting there. Almost. I think we're pretty much there. Getting real close. There's a nice view of what I assume is Pacific side. Got about 45 minutes to sunrise. It's just right there. We made it. Look at that. It's going to be amazing. What does this do? Time-lapse. Time-lapse as high as I can get. Need some assistance to get down? Parachute landing. That was an exciting flight. The highest altitude I've ever flown. And, of course, you can see the towers behind me. I was getting crazy interference with that. Yeah. One tad to the bucket list. Fly drone in a really sketchy place. On top of a mountain. Where the battery is so cold. It's also giving me warnings that the battery is so cold. Anyway. Let's hike down to warmer temperatures. Get off this mountain. I'm shivering. You can't tell. Obviously, because it was dark. We couldn't show you anything on the way up. As far as what we did. This first little bit is pretty intense. Which was the last little bit on the way up. When you're exhausted. We're all going to see it together for the first time. We don't know what the trail really looks like either. One thing I forgot to mention on top. We hiked ascension. Total ascent. 5,500 feet of elevation gain. We hiked for 5 hours. What was the other note? How many miles did we do? 10.5 miles. That's what it is. We hiked 1,000 feet up per hour. We hiked about 2 miles per hour. That's a lot of math for the morning. We've also been up for 24 hours. Yeah, we've been up for 24 hours. We're totally above the clouds. Which means it's probably going to rain on us. On the way down. Are you guys tired yet? No way, it's amazing. Isn't that weird to not be so tired and be up for that long? It's so refreshing up here though. I swear once we get down we're just going to crash. One more thing. It's the highest peak in Panama. The whole cool thing about Valcamburu is the fact that when you're up there you can see the Pacific side and the Caribbean side. Full on view. It's spectacular. And we so lucked out with the weather. I feel like such a lucky dog because of that. It is rainy season so we are very lucky. Yeah, it's not typical so we seriously lucked out. Okay, I'm going to stop walking backwards now. Safety first. And this is our trail. It's getting hot. Already. We're 30 minutes down. No rain yet. That was a buddy. Apparently. It was excellent. I don't know if I mentioned it yet but this trail is definitely challenging. Definitely challenging. And notice we're going uphill. Even on our downhill. On our descent. We're going up. Feel the burn. You gotta go up the mountain. Go up the mountain and you gotta go up the mountain to go down the mountain. Yep. Uh oh. That's clouds. Which means rain. You can't see the mountain. Barely. Jason keeps yelling at me because I keep stopping for photos and video. But I can't help myself. Everything is so beautiful. And the fog rolling in. It helps. Old man. Can't hang. See it. I see it. We made it. Thank goodness. Five dollars for that hike. It's cheaper than a gym membership. Definitely feeling it. I'm ready to roll down the hill. I feel it here from carrying a backpack. I feel it in my knees from all the downhill. I feel it in my boobs. From all the uphill. So yeah. Boobs. Let's go sleep. Okay well since we rated the three waterfall hike we figured we should do the same with this. And we decided it was around an eight. For difficulty level. Because of distance. And elevation gain right? And having to leave at night. And time. If you could take an entire day to do that hike it wouldn't be that difficult. Well and camp overnight and hike down the next day it would be a lot better for sure. And all the least big rocks on the road really are hard. Hard on the body for sure. And uh. That's the car. We're here. Difficulty level was an eight. But I personally would vote for a ten on enjoyment level because it's beautiful on the way down and yeah. And the top was stunning. Where else can you see two oceans at once? On top of a mountain. On top of a volcano. The sunrise was phenomenal. It's worth going overnight. Alright. And now we're all pooped and delirious and overly exhausted. So that's going to be the end of this video. We can't do any more. We're toast. But thank you very much for watching. If you liked it make sure and give us a thumbs up. And leave us a comment down below. And subscribe. He's always got one back there. Good job. Who wants to go? Log the blue bubble trail. Hitting stop. Okay. So that's our patrons. That's how they follow us. I hope you enjoyed it. And I have a very interesting little bit of information here. Alright. Saving. My watch is going to tell me all the details. And it'll give us a recovery time which is going to be hilarious. Training effect. 4.2 aerobic. 5.0 anaerobic. Whatever that means. Recovery. 4 days. We can't do anything else for 4 days. 12 hours, 6 minutes, 55 seconds. Almost 20 miles. 1.6 miles per hour average. 3484 C. Whatever that means. And that's it. That's it. Shoot. 20 miles. 4 days recovery. Good job everyone. Really bye this time. Bye.