Welcome to Wyoming: Hiking Medicine Bow Peak + exploring Laramie

it looks like a screen saver ridiculous today's gonna be awesome thank ya so who knew that we would try two of the more unique food items we've ever had in Laramie Wyoming of all places [Music] [Music] we drove eight hours from Amarillo Texas up here to Wyoming last night and oh my gosh it is amazing this place is awesome we've only seen it in the daylight for about 30 minutes but we're just already in love it's a nice cool morning we have our jackets on it's just awesome it's so nice to not be high we slept so well last night because we woke up and it was like 40 degrees outside it was fast so we're in this area of Wyoming called the Snowy Range Scenic Byway really strongly to remember that we're at a place called Lake Murray basically just Park and then walk it like a 1 second path to this lake it is gorgeous absolutely gorgeous so this area is really cool because it's a really it's a scenic road that connects two different highways and Wyoming so if you wanna take the scenic route you can go this way but there's hiking awesome views it's just absolutely magical yep and speaking of hiking we're about to go on a hike here a little bit but first breakfast and coffee with a view and now already whoo so this area is the Medicine Bow National Forest and today we're gonna hike up to Medicine Bow Peak and there's three different ways you can get up there and we're going the hardest way which is also the shortest way and that's why we're doing it because it's shorter so it's 3.2 miles it's just the standard Medicine Bow Peak Trail and it starts from Lewis Lake unfortunately our van could not fit in the parking lot so I'm gonna walk a little bit on the road but I can't we can't complain it is gorgeous here a magnificent day we just can't stop smiling it's it's just awesome the mountains so much for sure it's so beautiful out here this is ridiculous today's gonna be awesome thank you [Music] so the trail starts out slipping the trail starts out really flat when you're going around the lake but knowing that this is like a short and steep trail that's always a bad sign cuz you know it's gonna get brutal and we're starting to we're starting to go up we think we see where we're going but I'm not 100% sure but let's just say it's very rocky [Music] alright looks like we found the hard part of the trail we have 0.8 miles left and we heard there was a boulder field to climb and it looks like we got there it's good though it's a good workout for us because we have a big backpacking trip coming up in a couple weeks and this is gonna be great to prep us this is not easy we're like eleven thousand seven hundred feet of elevation right now coming from Austin it's a very large jump so it's pretty hard for that reason but it's an awesome hike loving it we're pretty close I just looked at the map we have like one more one or two more switchbacks and then straight up so we're getting there we did it we made it we're at the top not gonna lie I did not really enjoy the last part of this trail because it was all rock scrambling and some of the rocks are super sturdy than some kind of wobble and jiggle and make a scary noise and you step on them so I just felt a little uneasy at times it was fun it was just it made me a little nervous I guess I enjoyed it it was a fun hike that's kind of my style I like just like powering up if you go too slow you lose your balance yeah like that so I just like trucking up I will say though with hikes like this and cut we said this during Camelback Mountain in Arizona during that war but like when you actually like really focused hard and like where your hands and your feet are going it makes the hike more bearable you're not focusing so much on the elevation I will say that was a good thing but views are killer out of 10 so we caught the sunrise this morning at that farthest lake over there but man it's just like boom boom boom boom boom all these little lakes like really as far as you can see there's some way over there way over there it's just gorgeous peace the country [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and down we go all right we made it back down from the trail the hike was a blast and we highly recommend it it was so much fun and even though I didn't love the top park so it's a little scary I still would would do it again I have no regrets I highly recommend it still even though it freaked me out a little bit I will say you don't have to go all the way up to get awesome views so if you're nervous like me or you're just tired or short on time you can go like halfway up and still see pretty much the whole view just a little bit lower down yeah and a bonus all the people along the trail I don't know if they're from Wyoming or not whatever but they were super nice and there's lots of dogs oh so many dogs half of the Mignola 90% of them ignored us that's okay they were still really cute and now we're off to Laramie [Music] Laramie is the third largest city in Wyoming it's about 45 minutes to an hour away from where we were just hiking but it's probably most famous for being home to the University of Wyoming yeah and we're here just in time it's the first full weekend of college football so everybody's walking around yeah go look them horns everybody's walking around in their yellow shirts but the funny thing is they're playing Missouri or Mizzou and so we don't know who's who's yellow Wow look at all these people in yellow and we realize like half of them have Mizzou stuff on so we don't know but there's a lot of yellow going on in this town today it's a really cute town so far the buildings are super cute there's a lot of murals on the walls so we're gonna walk around grab a bite to eat and just check it out [Music] we are waiting for our table at a restaurant that has a very unique dish that's something we've never tried and it sounded really delicious so we're gonna wait it out and hopefully get to try it from this place called night here in bookstore and coffee house and it's really cool me untied I think it's all used books and the walls are just lined with books and they also serve coffee so we just got some ice Chai's or dirty chai i guess cuz we got espresso in them to hopefully caffeinate us for our long drive once we leave the town I think this is gonna be worth the wait we are at crow bar and grill and we heard they had a unique item on the menu and it is the fat time fries so it's fries with all the ingredients for a pad thai which is like peanuts and the sauce and my green onions and lime and oh it looks so good we just came in just for the fryer but then we were looking at the menu and we saw this burger called the King burger which now that we think about it it's like Elvis style burger so it's a burger with with cheddar bananas peanut butter and bacon [Music] so who knew that we would try to of the more unique food items we've ever had in Laramie Wyoming of all places that's awesome good it's not so we had some rides at the Richmond night market and the Cougar few months ago now it had Pat Thai fried what's next orange chicken fries we're on the hunt for down time to see what the King burger is all about found the menu don't doubt it and I'm really intrigued to see what this is gonna taste like it's really good it's a really good combination of like sweet and savory I'm digging in I like the like kind of militant peanut butter on top with a banana mm-hmm so laramie took us by surprise it was a cool little town didn't hurt that we were here on College GameDay and that's kind of our goal or traveling around is to find these little hidden gems not a lot of people might travel to so yeah so we can't wait to find more little towns across the u.s. that you know whether you're just passing through or you want to actually spend time here like we kind of help you find different places you can go while you're there so this is Laramie is really close to Colorado so if any of you guys live in Colorado you should definitely come up here spend a weekend like camping and hiking coming to town grab some food so we were back on the road and feels like all we've been doing is driving but we had we had thought we'd be on the road a month sooner than we are so we're kind of trying to rush to get to where we really wanted to end up and spend a lot of the summer so hopefully after we eat to this next stop you'll actually kind of settle down for a bit and drive less and actually like stay in one spot for a little bit so that's the hope so we're headed a little bit north to a place you may have heard of Grand Teton Yellowstone yeah maybe can't wait to check out somewhere National Park you [Music]