Flipping Through a US National Park Book ASMR 🏕 soft spoken, rambling, page turning

hi guys I'm back it has been a minute I do apologize that it's been a minute I've been so busy so busy this last week or two but I'm back has something a little different I'm not in my car today um I can't guarantee how many videos I'll be able to film at home just because I live with other people who keep similar hours so it's kind of hard to find time when it's quiet and even now the air conditioner's on and I'm hoping it's kind of lowii but I guess we'll see you might watch this back and be like I'm not posting that but I hope it's okay hope the audio is okay I don't have a mic like I said I've just been using my phone which does have pretty decent audio quality but I'm a little farther away from my phone than usual to get this set up here and I know it's kind of a weird angle the little tripod I have is like the legs are like six inches long it's not very tall and it's not very sturdy so I put my phone in this little tripod and uh it just wants to top over and the it's it's not great it want to tilt every once in a while just doing its own thing but and anyway let's get on with it I do have some water I do not like um chewing noises or drinking noises I like mouth sounds to a degree like a clicky kind of noise um or if someone's like sucking on a cough drop or something like that fine but on myself I don't like really don't like eating sounds or things like that so I hope um I don't annoy anyone else with drinking noises but I am a water Fiend I can drink probably at a gallon plus a day just cuz I I I love water I don't like flavored drinks I don't like sodas and things like I don't like sugary drinks so like water that's my jam anyway let's get on with what we've got today this is uh secrets of the national parks by National Geographic um I am a huge fan of the national parks I want to work for them one day um so I have a ton of these books books about the national parks things to do in them their history stuff like that and this is the one that I take with me typically when I go to National Parks um I'm of course like I said I'm in the South so I typically stick to those um but you'll see which pages are bookmarked and which ones are not um but one day I do hope to visit all of them oh what is it 49 I think it's 49 um I do want to visit all of them like I said I want to work work in them I want that to be my job but so here we have secrets of the national parks the experts guide to the best experiences Beyond The Tourist Trail that's the kind of thing I'm interested in down here we have 350 tips from local experts best places to see wildlife undiscovered Scenic spots easy trails and looks and if you're like me you can can tell this is a hard cover this does have a jacket um I love taking the jacket all books of hard cover books to see what the cover looks like this one's kind of disappointing it's just the same it's exactly the same they didn't National Geographic did not get the memo that they need to make it unique but that's okay um on the inside panel I have some stuff stocked away here I do have a little pointer it's actually a hair pin um but I think it's pretty good for pointing um I can't really adjust this very well but I will read the stuff down here for you all there you can kind of see them featured parks in the East we have Acadia Shan andoa Great Smoky Mountains biscan and the Everglades in East I mean yeah it's East but I would say very south but okay Southwest and the Rockies we have Big Bend Petrified Forest Grand Canyon Bryce Canyon Zion Capitol Reef Mesa Verde Canyon lands arches Rocky Mountain Wind Cave Badlands theore Roosevelt Yellowstone Grand Teton and Glacier and the Pacific Rim we have Mount rineer Olympic Crater Lake Redwood yede seoa Death Valley Joshua Tree Channel Islands Hawaii volcanoes and I not sure how to pronounce that if anybody does know Hawaiian please tell me Halala Halala maybe uh and this was this book I do believe was published before what was it 2019 2020 2021 somewhere in there we did get another National Park but this isn't all of them this is not all of the national parks there are others um but these ones are like the featured like the 32 featured ones um that like are the most popular because there are plenty up in um Alaska that um they're just so far off the beaten path that people just can't get to them unless you're like really dedicated tucked in their cover here I have like I said I took this book with me when I go on ations so here we have the Cades Cove tour book it is25 I do remember when this used to just be a dollar the book really has not changed but I do remember when this used to be just a dollar and you donate that and then you take one the front entrance of kad's Cove if you've ever been to kad's Cove please let me know I love Kate's Cove I could I could live there if they let people live there I would live there it's just I don't know something about the appalachin mountains just has my whole heart and really I don't have any connection to the app flasher mountains I just enjoy them but this is actually from um the Great Smoky Mountains association with the National Park Service and as you can see there the copyright dates it's a little little outdated I guess not even outdated there's just not much to update they don't make many discoveries at Gates Cove they probably just update the statistics about bears and things um because the Kate's Co has not changed in all the years that it has been around we'll move that to the side underneath and I have a Geology book this is like a free pamphlet or like a dollar or something um that you could get at like one of the Smoky Mountain Visitor centers um I love geology I actually in college for Geology I'm getting my geology degree right now and I love it I is absolutely fascinating to me I probably will do some study with me videos um where I do like taking notes like in the background um where I do my geology notes for the class because I do the notes after the class um this is just a really cool I don't know if I can unfold it yeah see I don't think I can unfold it because it is a huge um f out but uh one thing I can tell you about the um Smoky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains is that in case you didn't know they are older than life there's a reason why there's not a lot of coal left in those mountains compared to slightly newer Mountain formations like the Rockies or um the other one that Name Escapes me right now um they are um the Appalachian Mountains are so old that they used to be taller than the tallest mountains that we have now um but they've been eroded away from hundreds of millions possibly billions of years but at least hundreds of millions of years and they've eroded away and what is unique in case you don't know uh even says it right here as mountain valleys were carved tremendous quantities of eroded siment were transported towards the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico by rivers and streams some of these sediments formed are Gulf of Mexico beaches so if you ever go to um Florida or if you okay let me say this if you go to the Gulf of Mexico and you go to Florida because you know it's like the G of Mexico's like this you have Florida over here uh and then over in this you got like you know Mississippi and Louisiana and then you have Texas um the gulf part of Texas and then it fades into um Mexico and Central America um in the Gulf if you go to the beaches on the Florida Panhandle and all the way down and around it to Key West those beaches look like my mother always said sugar they are white sandy beaches that's what people think about I think when they think of beaches at least if you live here in the eastern half of the United States like I do um but if you go further west like to that corner that Gulf um Bend of Texas and Louisiana and Mississippi you're going to get darker sand if you go all the way west to California to the um Pacific Ocean um to Washington and Oregon in California they're also dark beaches they're dark sediment um like playground sand like what you like what most people I think think about um for sand that have the kids draw it like orangey or dark tan or brown that is because those speeches are made up of pieces of microscopic or very very very tiny pieces of shell Stones detrus Fishbones things like that things that have been tumbled and broken apart and they're just teeny tiny so when you look at them under a microscope some of them are teeny tiny shells and others are fragments of shells or dirt and rocks and things and that's not to say that those don't exist too in the Florida Panhandle beaches and on the Eastern side of the Gulf of Mexico beaches but it's mostly going to be this very glittery white sand and that is because the Appalachian Mountains are mostly quartz like the crystal quartz it's the second most abundant uh mineral on our planet is quartz um and as it as the mountains eroded away it all came South and eventually it became our beaches in Florida and in um Mississippi and there's powdered sugar white sandy beaches and one thing I learned growing up because we always went to Florida a lot growing up um you have to put even if you wear swim trogs or shorts if you're going to walk on the beach during the day you have to put sunscreen all the way up the back of your legs all the way up under your swimsuit even because if you're walking around all day that sand will reflect the sun back up at you that's CU things that are lighter and color like snow or white sand have higher albo is what it's called um which means they reflect the vast majority of the sun rise the higher the albo the more sun rise it reflects back into outer space whereas if you go to California where they have the dark sandy beaches or the um gulf side of Texas where it's dark sand that's made up of all kinds of things and not just quartz uh it's you won't get a sunburn on your butt if you walk around all day charts and don't put on sunscreen it's just going to be from the top down but I've rambled enough let's get going and I hear the air conditioner kick back on I hope it's not too loud so we have over 262 pages in here and we are um separated here by the East Southwest and the Rockies the Pacific Rim and then more State Park Secrets this features U probably about the rest of the national parks but these are the main 32 that like I said people can get to out of the uh 49 and I actually think when this one was made I think that was the point I was going to make um yeah I think this book was made and I don't have the updated copy I think I bought it before um in 2019 2020 2021 something like that um before the most recent National Park um I can remember what it's called something River Gorge I cannot remember but it's in um West Virginia and I've actually been there um to The Gorge before it was like a few years before it was National Park so there we have an introduction this is Manzanita Lake Lon Volcano National Park it's pretty rainbow over the lake here is a map of the United States and all the national parks in it as you can see there's not a lot going on in the East not a lot going on here we do our best out here on the eastern half um but a lot of it's out out west because there's some crazy geology out there um crazy formations um but that's because this half of the United States is newer and so a lot of these things are relatively new compared to this part of the United States I'm just going to flip through here when I'm start with the East which there's aadia shanoa Great Smoky Mountains bisane and Everglade national parks so here is Acadia features a really pretty picture from aadia sailing from Bar Harbor off of Mount desert interesting take another drink I have not been to M yet but it's definitely on the list and of course it's in at the Northeast so I want to go in the fall that looks like a pirate ship or like a Spaniards like Spanish in physician kind um this talks about the eastern Park Bar Island Park l Road um they apparently have a year round Visitor Center so you can come any time of the year and then they have two seasonal visitor centers should probably be cled during peak season of aadia it is um Island National Park it's very it's just beautiful and then we have a white tailed deer which is the most common deer in the United States our third point out here is Jordan pond have more pictures here bass Harbor dock Mount desert island has a buch of boobies on it interesting um the fourth place they point out is Cadillac Mountain that sounds very interesting I'd like to go to that it is 1,530 ft tall which is very dull but is so short compared to some of the mountains at West Carriage roads interesting wi un pain P on which Motor Vehicles are banned and Walkers bicyclist horseback Riders skiers and yes that would be neat to do I'd like to do that take a carriage through in the fall or in the winter they might not the win Parkman Mountain amp Loop and now we move on to the quiet side local intelligence different sort of wildlife can be found along the rocky shore of Mount desert island a type that many visitors overlook Granite I love Granite Granite is an ous Rock sucks about low tide oh low tide spots on the island oh that's cool you can find all kinds of stuff in tide PS that would be very neat here's a quote from an interpreter at aadia because of acadia's location it's one of the few places along the east coast where you can actually see the Milky Way and other nighttime sites that are being lost to light pollution in other spots she's right I live out in the middle of nowhere and I still cannot see the Milky Way fully I still cannot see every star in the sky and it's really disappointing because I love that stuff so on the quiet side they point out bass Harbor um Echo Lake here the beach cliff trails and the perpendicular Trail interesting pretty picture morning fog above an Autumn Forest that's that's what I think of when I think of fall but I do not live in the Northeast area so I don't get to see that where I live and West Ledge Trail I aot ah probably this shic peninsula interesting name that's really pretty surf pounded Boulders and shuck point and now we're on to Shannon DOA so shannona is definitely on the bucket list I don't live terribly far from it but it would still you know if I went to visit it I would I'd have to go spend a week or two like you can't just drivethru and see everything you can't appreciate a national park like that maybe I'm wrong but oh I'm not wrong I'm just I'm not wrong as the closest National Park to Washington DC shann andoa is an oasis traveling 300 square miles of Southern appalachin Ridge line for Metro residents and other visitors you know it's really easily accessible for a lot of people so it is a very popular one but I just love the appalachin mountains so anywhere in the appalachin region I just want to visit North District Skyline Drive from Front Royal to bird Visitor Center interesting we've only got two seasonal visitor centers which does make sense because lost my train the a sorry um the mountains do get kind of even though even though they're smaller mountains they do still get quite Rogan in the winter uh so on the North District side we have Fox Hol Trail is one of the recommendations and there is our map such a unique place it's just so unique so this is the top part and then here's the bottom part of shannond it's just a really long strip and there's that Skyline Drive they were talking about that goes all the way up through the park and all the way up here the very tippy top is Fox Holo Trail or I guess the more Northern point I should there is an Eastern tiger swallow Central dist District Thorton Gap to Swift run Gap Stony man to spiter null overlooks interesting that looks very pretty the big Meadow here we have Jones runs Jones run Falls that would definitely be a sight to see local intelligence says experience the park like a local by choosing the trails Less Traveled that goes for everybody choose the trails Less Traveled especially in a place like the appalachin mountains in the National Park really you just can't go wrong Lewis mountain in Campground the campground is the Park's smallest making it a quiet somewhat secret Retreat see that's what I'm interested in but I am just so afraid to tent camp anywhere there are bears especially in the appalachin mountains because those black bears they're crafty they'll steal all of your stuff and you would not even know it South District Rockfish Gap and North now we're on to the Great Smokey Mountains as you can see this one I tapped because I took it for my Smokey Mountains trip earlier this year um this is the view from clingan's dome which is the the tallest point in the park it's also I think the tallest point on the appalachin trail and it if you've never been I highly recommend it but clayman's Dome is quite literally a like lookout tower you climb up you hike up part of the mountain kind of too um and it's it's a tosty turny road so if you have motion sickness I highly recommend if you're in the Smokies take some Dramamine but not enough that you're unconscious by the time you reach the top because you're going to want to do kingman's Dome on clear day or early in the morning uh where you can see the fog in the mountains which is where we get the name the Smoky Mountains so this talks about Cade's Cove which I talked about earlier and honestly it's just like I said it's my favorite place I've been going there since I was a baby so over two and a half decades ago um but it's just a paved oneway 11 Mile Loop through Kate's Cove um it's just a valley portion within the park uh that runs on donations um but you can see bears and deer and elk and turkeys and snakes and birds and all kinds of stuff and it is breathtaking and beautiful there are old cabins there but so many people go so unless you go on the off seon it's just not worth it there's just so many people it's really not that fun when there's a bear jam and it's miles long because the people at front stop to see the bear and they don't continue on they don't let other people also experience it they don't pull off they just stop and some people are so rude too they take motorcycles and I'm sure CAD Cove with a motorcycle or a Jeep would be like with or Bronco with the doors all off I think it would be breathtaking it would be so cool I would just I wouldn't be able to drive I'd have to be the one hanging my head out the moon roof the whole time but so many of these people want to blast their music or motorcyclists rev their engines and like scare the wildlife and they think it's funny and it's just really disappointing so as much as I love Kate's Cove I just think until they start like charging for it like a good amount that'll keep people out I think I just it breaks my heart but from there if you do get to do it I do recommend Rich Mountain loop trail um or rather Rich Mountain Road if you have a four-wheel drive or an off-roading vehicle because you can take those into Gates Cove um I do recommend doing Rich Mountain Road Rich Mountain loop trail is um a I think that's like an actual Trail but um you can take four-wheel drive vehicles and take rich Mountain Road um and that'll actually let you out on the other side of Gatlinburg I think I think it's gurg so here's our map of the Great Smoky Mountains it does um get it is partially bisected um by the Tennesse North Carolina state lines um you can see pretty much half of it there there's kingman's Dome Road clingman right there yeah it's the highest spot in the Park 6,643 Ft um which is quite tall um but I highly recommend it there's CAD Cove over here and it's just a loop loop around Rich Mountain road that takes you over to Townsend that's what is the other side of Townsend Ken Brook's over here here but if you can go in the winter but be do be aware they do have to close some roads during the winter but you can go in the winter or early spring or late fall best times to go because there's not that many people and that's when you can go to kad's Cove and see Mama bears and baby bears fattening up for the winter and things like that yeah here it is Rich Mountain Road that's what I'm talking about we rented a Jeep end of it um but the uh this past spring my partner and I we took his Bronco uh and we went uh and drove it or I drove it rather and I had a great time I didn't tell him how what we were getting into so he did not have too great of a time I'm kidding he he definitely he was more entertained I think with how entertained I was um but he has motion sickness so being on this very twisty turny oneway Mountain uh Mountain Ridge Road that is just gravel I did not warn him about it so that's on me so even though we were going very slow the poor guy was this motion sickness was not letting him have fun I had a great time though I don't have motion sickness um roaring for motor nature trail that's a fun one too I just don't usually see many animals on there I used to but it is literally right in gburg and I just think there's just too many people now for the animals to be hidden away in this little Oasis but there is some historic stuff there I think it says historic log cabins and I and of course it is this the Great Smoky Mountains are all the growth of forest which is just beautiful you found Gap Road um that's a pretty important Road you'll be on it if you go and visit the park clingan's Dome there's talking about klingman's Dome uh and kingman's Dome actually is a part on the appalachin trail I think I mentioned um I don't think it's the it might be the tallest point on the appalachin trail actually yeah here's a clear Day from a top clingan's Dome I have been up there in the winter I've been up there in the spring in the summer in the fall I've been up there um during the rain I've been up there during the snow been up there during beautiful cloudless summer days Where You Can See For Miles you can just see the Apper mountains just you know overlapping one another for as far as the eye can see and I have been up there even more recently when you cannot even see your own hand in front of your face because it is so cloudy and you are in the clouds but I still I I do recommend that it is a bit of a high to get to the top but it is it's definitely worth it we went up late at night one time during a full Super Moon beautiful highly recommended so we got to see the sunet and then the moon rise biscane up in the biscan apparently they have boat tours to Sangle I think my video cut me off hopefully I can stitch the two bisc we've got bours that sounds amazing Park concession operates paid boat tours to both the northern most of the Florida Keys Co reefs Beyond those islands that' be neat it looks beautiful looks gorgeous I'm surprised I haven't been there beautiful picture of cores flamingos over here sorry spoon Bells thought they were pink and I said oh flamingos not they're they spoon bills Rosie spoon bills and mangroves mangroves are so cool and it leads us to the Everglades so the everglaze is a huge National Park in Southern Florida um there's so much going on there it's huge it's amazing um but there are some invasive species problems from people releasing different animals that are not native to the area there but those animals have thrived unfortunately G Coast that's beautiful aerial view of the 10,000 Islands gosh that looks beautiful South West and the Rockies big bent not I've not been far very far west the Eastern Park West of East River R clarent cup Cactus that's cute I think if I went there I'd have to bring one of those home with me that's a felony just take Plants and Things From a national park don't do that got the Petrified Forest I have seen petrified wood before but out in Yellowstone actually but Petrified Forest is just you know the mecca of it I just think it would be I think it'd be just breathtaking to see this is very squared off as you can see has a lot of territories that West are stations on Blue Mesa that's beautiful there we are petrified wood cut and Polished that's just that's just fascinating isn't it and then petrified logs along the long logs Trail what a name wonder what they have on that trail and the Grand Canyon probably one of the most well-known national parks in the world one of the few absolutely insane things that I just don't think even when I get there even when I get to visit I just don't think I will I'll completely wrap my head around it I see pictures and it's like okay that's crazy and I just think if I saw it in person I think I couldn't do anything I would just stare at it I don't think I'd be able to do anything I would just be so a struck I wouldn't be able to to understand what I was looking at it's milk it's got fuzzy handers there's a picture pausing along KYB Trail on a hike into the Grand Canyon s Maria spring Grand Canyon Lodge at Sunset that's beautiful I I would want to witness sunrise and sunset there every day I would not be able to I wouldn't be able to leave oh Autumn Aspens on the North R Rim gosh I love Aspens so amazing price cany here is covered in some snow which looks insane against that orange Rock view from sunrise point yeah you can tell that that's a sunrise oh PR dog this one's also very squared off as you can see very straight lines and 90° angles he looks so unhappy are you sad little guy rice landscape in Winter which is here we have mu deer in the woods at Bryce can and the weathered declar formation isn't that just I want to run my hands across it Zion Zion's just amazing this one is the Virgin River flowing through Sandstone walls in Autumn that looks like a painting here are some big horn Jeep sorry if I'm going a little fast I just kind of realize I was taking too long talking about nothing hikers on Angel's Landing I want to do angels Landing so much it's definitely a test of Wills but if you get the chance and your physic able to don't push yourself if you can't definitely do Angel's Landing look it up if you're unfamiliar though it definitely you definitely have to be brave ponderosa pine at the base of checkerboard Misa isn't that crazy my gosh Capital Reef it's beautiful water pocket fold at Panorama Point yeah I wonder why they call it panor Point look at that how reflective that is it's another wonky shape there grand staircase scante which is staircase naal Monument there is sunflowers and be very 100 33 foot Hickman Bridge Natural Arch just so neat in the sun shining through it gosh look at that all day there's another beautiful one Temple of the sun monolith I don't know what I'd do with myself if I saw that in person very okay the Ood Mountain reservation that's neat so this kind of goes into their reservation Spruce Tree House reconstructed Kea Canyon lands as if we don't have enough Canyons cany Canyon walls the Colorado River it's just every square inch of it is just fascinating yeah here it is your jaw just drops at the sudden appearance of the Canyons below like I said like everything at West very sharp flat lines 90 degree angles and look at this guy POS Canyon land's resident lizard Chesler Park in the Needles District interesting look at those lines those are all different eras you have history in those lines it's insane Colorado River near Spanish bottom look it's like glass gosh arches look at that we have Petr Clips at Wolf Ranch it's so fascinating Delicate Arch landscape Arch it's just crazy how some of them formed like an arch and others just formed like be plateaus blooming prickly parus how pretty Tower arch in the Klondike Bluffs section picture from kind of underneath it and wandering at top Devil's Garden I see where they see where they got the name and there's a person that's just so humbling to walk out there and you are you are smaller than the bushes no Rocky Mountain I have been to Rocky Mountain I was brief it was only overnight got to explore it a little bit during the day but we couldn't stay along but that was that definitely captured my heart it's just beautiful I didn't get to experience it in the fall either but yellow belly morm Mormon's crazy they will eat your car they will eat your car anywhere out west you go where there are morms you are told to if you're going to leave your car you have to like drive your car on to a um tarp and then wrap the tarp around your car like from the bottom up because they will morets will eat your wires and your brake lines and your fuel lines and they will eat it they won't like they only take a nibble because they're like curious but they never learn their lesson they would go snapping brake lines on every car just because they wanted a little nibble but once they tasted it they'd be like yeah that's really gross but next time you get in your car you're not even getting to put it in in drive it's hilarious these guys are vious like they look kind of cute but like look at that it's the face of evil look at those eyes he's going to cut your brake LS here is Bear Lake in Autumn the headwaters of the Colorado River kaichi Valley that's so interesting Wind Cave awfully flat open Prairie out here sunset on giant Thundercloud over wind caves o Prairie yeah South Dakota yeah you can tell that is that's out west that's the Midwest is that's that's the area I grew up that's for all that's what all the land look like it was either Prairie or it was cornfield and Wind Cave National Park I did not get to go to even though on the same trip that we went to Rocky Mountain we did come through here and our truck had to go get maintenance done on it so we were in a rental car and we went to kuster State Park and my parents almost left me in Guster State Park on accident I was like 16 and I got out of the car to take a picture and they didn't hear me get out of the car and they started driving away and they were bison right there it was terrifying it was it was really funny looking back at it Custer State Park was right there Wind Cave National Park was right there I mean we were right there but we just didn't we didn't have the time and we were already we stuck there for two three days um while the truck got worked on um and uh and so we already didn't have any plans we were just we were just going for it I actually think there might have been a forest fire in the area at a time at that time so I don't know if anybody was even allowed in Wind Cave National Park I might be wrong here got a picture of a coyote with it summer goat you seen many of those rolling prairies of Wind Cave it's just so flat and then you get some hills here because you are far enough West that you start getting some some Hill action glaciers glaciers didn't quite hit those areas as hard we got the bad lands which we did drive through the bad lands as well on that same trip and my partner Bronco is actually a badlands Edition and Badlands was it was crazy enough to wrap hard enough to wrap your head around it was insane it's just like rolling grass Prairie of Kansas in Nebraska and then all of a sudden in South Dakota youed get this alien landscape we go through part of it the silhouette of some mu deer and look that storm cloud rolling in WoW Sheep Mountain Table the Roosevelt National Park I've not been there it is in North Dakota I have been into North Dakota but not for not for long more like kind of dipped in and then dipped out you know that's beautiful but the Dakota really pretty so on in the doas here we have Cannonball Con concretions in North units bath land B not capital B bad lands like the national park but this kind of a landscape is referred to as the bad lands and a Yellowstone another one as iconic as the Grand Canyon Yellowstone is as much as I love Appalachia it was the trip to Yellowstone that changed my life that's the same one where we saw the Badlands and Custer SE Park and um rock mountain that was all the same trip um the same road trip Yellowstone was the ultimate destination everything else was kind of extra but this Yellowstone changed my life and I think a lot people it does that's that's when I decided I I want to be I want to work in the National Park Service and I need to know more about why our planet does this it's crazy this is the part of the grand prismatic this is the chromatic Springs um and this is up the near the upper geyser Basin and we have two young bear cubs here playing in the wild flowers I didn't even get to see all of yellow stone we were there for nearly a week and we didn't get to see everything but what I did see has stuck with me for the last 10 years and has absolutely changed my life and that was when I realized oh what I wanted to do and I didn't quite believe that I could do it so I got a little lost but I'm back on track now and 10 years later finally pursuing the dream that this National Park along with the others I got see at the time the Smokies the Rockies the Badlands they encouraged me and they they made me who I am today here is the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone waterfall I have pictures of that on my phone very old pictures now and here is a lone geyser on Yellowstone Lake and that water is just so it looks ins say looks fake it's so bright blue that's bison butting their heads there's so many bison down there and here are some Aspen changing their leaves and Grand ton that was also on it because Grand Teton butts right up against Yellowstone so we also went there and for but the last 10 years my lock screen was a picture of the gr ton mountains specifically the Grand and here's a large of look the Tetons in the background probably my favorite fact about the Grand Tetons is that it was named by some French explorers um Grand meaning big of course and Tetons meaning breast so I don't know what YouTube sensors filler will pick up on so I think it is funny that we continue to call the Grand Tetons when I'm not entirely sure that's that's how they say it in French but you know here is Jackson Lake with Grand Tetons and Mount Moran with the grand ton and Mount Moran in the background Grand ton and Moran Reflections at sunrise at Jenny Lake Jenny Lake is I love it and along the line meow Trail and now we're to Glacier which we wanted to go to but couldn't make happen going to the Sun Road that is a must Glacier is another one that'll change your life I eat Indian reservations right next door and there is remnants of the vanishing granel Glacier it's really sad that it is melting especially as fast as it is now thanks to climate change so I do want to I do want to get up there in the next year or two but it's just so hard to make that work you know here we have stunning Sunset over to Medicine Lake look at that how still and reflective that water is and we have Waterton Lakes in the fall that would just I would just my jaw would be just on the floor the whole time the Pacific Rim starish Rainer is in Washington Mount Rainer is 14,411 ft tall compare that to klingman's dome which is the tallest point in Great Smoky Mountain which was only like 6,600 ft here's Comet Falls and Mount Rainer ands reflection Olympic Olympic is just a picture like this makes it seem so alien water carved sculptured trunk along second Beach here are some petroglyphs along the park pafic Coast the fish Petroglyph I love that that's so cute and we have temperate home rainforest that looks fake looks like a painting that's so crazy the so Falls little person all the way up there and some St fish Crater Lake thriving summer fir weed isn't that gorgeous we don't have anything like that out here I don't think wizard Island free of its snowy Veil and pomus desert pomas is a volcanic Stone it's very porous Redwood a tagged Northern spotted owl among the Redwoods I love owls probably my favorite bird is the owls is our owls my my favorite bird is are one of my favorite Birds is owls I don't know how that sentence was trying to come out have hiking in Fern Canyon there's a person once again humbling and eity which butts up against Redwood the Milky Way from Olstead Point once again humbling if I saw that with my own two eyes I think I'd be a changed person here we have a brown bear climbing a tree looks like in the fall there it is half doome if I'm not mistaken half doome is actually the inside of a long cooled long gone volcano like this was the magma in it and it cooled and the volcano part eroded around it and this is what remains because cooled magma and cooled lava rocks ous rocks are much denser than sedimentary or metamorphic rocks maybe I'll do a video on the rock cycle really Hammer at home in my brain too if I teach you guys the rock cycle a deer in a wild flower field I think if I took a picture of that I'd have to make that my back my phone background because I would that would be my that would be like the highest point in my life not graduating high school not getting my first degree not getting my second degree no no no that picture if I took that Vernal fall here some dogwood flowers and this breathtaking image of Fall Foliage Illuminating the Merced River SOA maybe that's something I think think maybe I'm thinking of seoa and King's Canyon I think Redwood and I don't know don't take my word on that look up the Lo look up the locations of these Parks yourself don't trust on I'm saying Mountaineers um hiking up Mount Whitney and Death Valley so alien full moon rising over the brisky point down here we have aerial view of UPI crater gosh that's insane like I said alien looks like the moon and Joshua Tree if you ever heard the band YouTu if you've ever listened to YouTube Joshua Tree one of their best albums hands down I got to see them perform it in concert for the anniversary of it highly recommend yeah Barker Dam looks like it's Sunset that's beautiful all the hot pinks we have wild flowers in the Live Oak area and the Joya cactus garden Channel Islands Santa Cruz Island I love how these I love how they circled it on the map thank you there is an endangered island fox how cute is that face Hidden Cove near the East Point of Santa Rosa Island and now we're into Hawaii it's definitely on The Bucket List as a geologist in training lava flowing from pool [Music] I'm going look up these indigenous pronunciations because the indigenous Hawaiian and Indigenous American languages are just fascinating and I knew some of them but I like the East Coast ones not like the West Coast ones is an aerial shot of the parks Coast line once again I just want to run my fingers over it it looks so beautiful and here's the Milky Way over Halala crater at Hal aala National Park please tell me if I'm pronouncing that wrong if you know how to pronounce it a boardwalk through a bamboo forest that's crazy Ohio G or the seven sacred pools now that would be breathtaking and some more Park Secrets Conger try Tortugas that one's definitely interesting Orin Islands Mammoth Cave I do I love caves so much and Mammoth Cave is quite literally the biggest cave in the world the longest cave in the world and they've actually discovered more than 390 I think we're at 410 miles now as of 2024 when I post this video if I'm not mistaken Koka Valley I Royale I Royale is crazy look up some of the history on that if you haven't already voyagers hot springs in Arkansas that has some history too um with gangsters and things like that like Al Capone and stuff like that crazy Guadalupe Mountains Carl's Bad Caverns siguero or Saguaro I think it's Saguaro Great Sand Dunes Black Canyon of the Gunnison Great Basin King's Canyon Lassen Volcanic the Devil's Kitchen oh man what a name North Cascades Glacier Bay Wrangle St Elias also got some interesting history there keenai FS catm that's where we have the fat bear contest every year if you follow catm Lake Clark Denali Gates of the Arctic it's a dream kobuk Valley National Park of American Samoa oh my gosh look at that picture there in Solomon Bay Virgin Islands gosh I'm not even that much of a beach enjoyer is a guide to the national park in Canada but I've already talked to you ear for about an hour so I think I'm going to end it there and if you want maybe I'll do the national parks of Canada as well in a different video thank you for sticking around it's late I have school tomorrow gotta go get that geology degree I hope to see you all again soon and I hope you enjoyed bye for now