Van Life Week 6 l Northern California

The van is 95 degrees it feels like. All right here we are Lassen Volcanic National Park. We're walking to some of the thermal pools called Bumpus Hell where some dude uh fell in named Bumpus and burned his leg. That's Lassen Volcano right there. I think I'm hiking tomorrow. Yeah it's really pretty out here though the volcanic rock. There's all four types of volcanoes in this park. It's pretty wild and um yeah also these are my new driving sunglasses that are being featured in this current video. So pretty exciting. All right day two in Lassen Volcanic National Park. We are hiking up Lassen Volcano. Making our way up there. You can see that big thing's called Vulcan's Eye. It's pretty cool. Just like two and a half miles up. Two thousand feet of elevation gain and just a cool little summit to be at the top of this national park. As we head up, we're at the top of Lassen Volcano. That's the crater where all these glaciers came out of. Top of the park. Here we are going into the crater of Lassen Volcano. Not really like a defined trail or path over here but kind of finding our way through this volcanic core. All right it's 5 30 a.m. Getting ready to go into the Castle Crags cosmic wall. Getting our first view as we're hiking through the forest of the rock in Castle Crags State Park. Like that rock right there. Looks far away but that's where we're climbing. So we'll be staying on top of that, you know, later in the afternoon. This is reporting live on my birthday. On the hike up towards the cosmic wall. You can see Mount Shasta back there. There's a lot of fire smoke. That's the dome. Castle Dome. Our climb I think is that because of the trees right there. We'll get a better view in a sec but pretty awesome views. Pretty steep hike. This is tough. And that's the objective. Center of the screen. We're going right up that face up there. Castle Crags. That's Castle Dome. And that in the light cosmic wall. It's steep. That's for sure. Here's the objective. A lot of bushwhacking to get to this guy. Three manzanita bushes. Trying not to rip my new pants just at the old ones. Big spider web right in my face. Made it to the base. Here's the start of the climb. It is probably 90 degrees and very humid. All right this is looking down from the top of pitch four. Heading up cosmic wall on Mount Hubris. There's Mount Shasta and that's the Castle Dome. Anyway we're heading up. You can see I'm choosing one of these two ramps to head up and then over there beyond that's the ridge to the summit. So it's good stuff up here. Having fun. Doing some nice uh five six r climbing. Feeling the runouts. All right here we are at the top of the fifth pitch. Got my anchor set up. Slung horn and a cam. You can see Kristen's all the way down there. About to start climbing. Got some pretty epic views on Shasta. Pretty wild. So last we got the summit ridge. Can't really see it from here but just pretty exposed. A ret all the way to the top and uh good time so. Yeah I had really fun. Yeah I did. It looked kind of weird from away. It looked like the left side was just like good flakes but so is this. Last move to the summit of Mount Hubris. The cosmic wall. You can see I just exposed the one on that exposed ridge line. There's pretty much a couple thousand feet of air on either side. It's pretty wild. It's behind us. You can see a lot of smoke in the air from the fires. Mount Shasta. You know pretty far down. I get to clip the actual anchor but just enjoying the exposure and uh what's up out here. Good place to be. My 27th birthday. Out here in northern California. Some fun exposed alpine climbing. Six pitches. All right Jordan stop here for a second just to uh let her feel the exposure for a minute. So just make the last moves to the summit chains. Eat some lunch. Nice little one of the highline bolts. Oh nice. I'll take it. Nice. Just like that we're back and ready for cold water. Oh man it's hot. After our climb today up on Castle Crag State Park um we are in the cute town of Dunsmuir, California which as you can see here is the home of the best water on earth. Obviously they have just public uh drinking fountains and we're about to drink some so here we go. There's a nice bug right in the fountain. It's beautiful. It's ice cold. I can report it's pretty good. I don't know if it's the best I've ever had but it's good stuff. Um quick update. Quick update to our uh stuff in the video. Uh the fire that you saw in all of our climbing videos today uh is actually a lightning caused lava fire. All right we're out here in northern California just outside the Mount Shasta wilderness. We're gonna do some sport climbing on that limestone butte over there which is single pitch routes. It's pretty fun. You can see there's a ton of smoke in the air which is kind of crazy from that lava fire um on Mount Justina. So doing some climbing then we're gonna get out of here later today and go to the coast. Hopefully get rid of some of the smoke in here. All right here we are at the base of uh 45 wall up in the limestone lover's leap. About to do some sport climbing which we haven't done in a long time uh single pitch. So Kristen's flaking the rope right now. Pretty good views. Still a lot of smoke but uh a good time. At least we're in the shade. We're in a redwood forest of northern California. You can see it was pretty hot and sunny and desert yesterday and then the second we got here it's just fog and mist and dense forests of green everything. So pretty awesome to see the climate change in just like an hour's drive. We're in the canyon where they filmed the original Jurassic Park movies. Fern Canyon here in Redwoods at the bay in northern California. We just ordered a and we're waiting until we can eat. So we're out here. Very redwood coast vibe. It's been foggy all day. We're not feeling very good. I realized that you know we eat pretty healthy generally and haven't had fried food in a really long time. It really wrecked us. So Talk to me. Ready? Three, two, one.