Trying to Wilderness Camp with an Electric Truck!
Trying to Wilderness Camp with an Electric Truck!
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- We have a problem. I'm not sure how I'm going to top this for...
- close. Yo, friend. Good morning. I'm sick of the rain, the gr...
- It's starting to snow. I want to head down to warmer weather...
- back. I am so pumped to get going. All yesterday, I was prepa...
- because GMC challenged me to take one of their state-of-the-a...
- pinching myself that I get to go play with this thing. And ye...
- It's so much fun just getting a getting a rig ready for an ad...
- go up. That's the first objective, a mountain with a road tha...
- And we're heading from Canada all the way down to California...
- incredible wild places to camp, some friends I want to see. I...
- I've driven this route since I was 5 years old
- And there's something about these really long drives for me t...
- flying by and watching the terrain change and listening to mu...
- I find I can actually reflect and then dream and make goals f...
- road. It's so meaningful to me. There's something about being...
- experienced to what I what I imagine meditation must feel lik...
- It doesn't happen immediately. But let me just say I am very...
- Okay. Uh we have a problem and that is we're barely into the...
- As I'm driving, there keeps being these roads I want to go do...
- up to local mountains, up to these spots that I want to go ex...
- want to eventually meet up with. And I also want to do some w...
- there's a lookout at the top of this road, but maps is showin...
- And we're taking one of them right now
- And it's saying the road's closed. Map's telling me there's s...
- We don't actually know if the road's closed. It might just be...
- But the only way to find out is to head down the road. Having...
- It looks pretty good. This is a fresh build. Um, I've been ex...
- So, that is one of the roads that was closed. Makes sense. It...
- fantastic. Map said it was closed. It is not in fact actually...
- on the drive to the airport
- In my car, we were drowning
- in the clock on the dashboard. the alarm it was sounding
- We said the goodbye
- This is the craziest mountain road I have ever driven up. Lik...
- But I wouldn't be who I am if it weren't for you. And our lif...
- I just
- want you to know sometimes you've got to let go
- It's blinding
- Cuz once it's gone, then you know lighting
- We live, we fade. to love what remains
- after all
- I don't know. Like this is what I look for when I go out on r...
- I want out of the experience is to find roads that take me up...
- right here is the fire lookout. This is the reason why the ro...
- hike into or the people who actually work at them if they're...
- But uh this one's historical so it's just kind of up here and...
- And so on this trip specifically, I've got some internal thin...
- yikes. Uh, didn't it was months before my daughter was born a...
- looking forward to becoming a dad. And also on that trip is t...
- his dad myopa uh my grandfather got the the news that he had...
- nighttime and uh that fall was uh what began the end for him....
- better believe on a trip like this I'm going to be thinking a...
- It's good to be up here
- On this trip, I've packed with me one of my Opus old jackets,...
- into a vest I could actually wear. And he'd probably think it...
- But it does. And and it does because it it reminds me to thin...
- life's better when you make stuff. And that is something I sa...
- It's something that I try to bring into my life to live into...
- that's a big thing I'm trying to figure out for me right now....
- importantly uh than the what is how
- I'm quite nervous about the next location because my friend w...
- So, it's remote enough that it's a good spot to fly a plane t...
- Sometimes I walk
- This is really exciting. Let me tell you what's going on. For...
- heading out of cell service to a wilderness camp spot down th...
- Let's uh let's get driving
- I pull my headphones out and I just exist
- This is incredible where there's no like washed out sections....
- And this is us. And this is the river that we've been followi...
- along here. So somewhere right around here is our destination...
- nice meadow that comes right up next to the river
- I am I'm absolutely loving this. So great to get off the main...
- me
- Me. Okay, I think this is officially very
- very high in the running for my favorite drive up campsites o...
- This is unreal. Truck, river, no cell service. Fish in the ri...
- uh I am I'm just pumped to set up camp and hang out here. Thi...
- And while I'm setting up camp, I wanted to share with you som...
- Sierra EV Elevation, and so far it's been proving an incredib...
- things that are standing out to me. One of the most defining...
- fast this vehicle could charge. I was completely unaware. I t...
- expected. When I let the battery drain down to 10 to 20%, I'd...
- now's a good time to hit up a charging station." With the sup...
- in roughly 30 to 35 minutes. That was that was incredibly I I...
- wanting to take personal breaks more frequently than the truc...
- which so far has been enabling me to explore in exactly the w...
- trip and this truck has been an incredibly professional and c...
- this trip. So, we haven't we're not done testing this truck,...
- vehicles in their lineup, hit up the description for a link....
- The thing about changes is this foreign language
- Out of my body, out of my mind. Trying to get back home in time
- The thing about growing
- the days aren't slowing down. A heart gets harder. Friends dr...
- And you're never growing young. But no matter where I go
- there is peace here on the road. When we're walking hand in hand