Hiking Redwood Trail and Exploring Pacific Northwest Environment

Morning hike on October 20, 2024, in a redwood forest area near the Eel River. Cool weather in the 50s after a warm day reaching 80 degrees. Speaker is staying at a campground and has been in the area for about 10 days. Financial constraints are limiting exploration options.

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October 20, 2024

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[0:01] good morning fellow

[0:03] humans let's go for a

[0:06] hike we're going to take this Trail next

[0:08] to the

[0:09] river take this Trail every

[0:13] day and we're going to head over

[0:18] to oh what are those trees

[0:21] called those giant trees I can't

[0:24] remember their name the

[0:26] Redwoods I learned some things about

[0:29] them so I

[0:31] learned why they seem to merge and grow

[0:34] together I mean this might even be one

[0:36] I'm not sure I'm not very good at

[0:38] identifying trees but um

[0:42] redwoods are

[0:45] fascinating they can Sprout new trees at

[0:49] their

[0:51] base over time those might

[0:55] merge become a single tree but they're

[0:58] basically clones

[1:02] and if one gets cut down or injured it

[1:05] can Sprout it all the way around and it

[1:07] creates these things called fairy

[1:09] circles and I checked there's supposed

[1:12] to be one probably more than

[1:14] one at the National Force Trail we're

[1:17] going to we're going to go look and see

[1:19] if we can find those I want to see a

[1:22] Fairy

[1:25] Circle technically they're called fairy

[1:27] rings but I just like calling them fairy

[1:29] CLE

[1:32] circles so I'm having a good morning I

[1:35] toasted a bagel in my ninja foodie that

[1:38] was very

[1:39] cool very

[1:42] efficient loved it

[1:45] um I was wrong about the power

[1:48] consumption so it does use 1.3

[1:52] Watts um when slow cooking but not all

[1:56] the time sometimes it has

[1:58] to kick on the heating element and it

[2:01] goes up to like a

[2:02] thousands and I think the sauté function

[2:05] was probably probably using 1500 watts

[2:09] not a th um not

[2:12] 150 those are still

[2:15] reasonable cuz

[2:17] you you know you only have to cook for

[2:20] 15

[2:21] minutes so when you look at it in W

[2:24] hours it's not

[2:25] terrible should work with my

[2:28] solar it's a bit cool this

[2:32] morning I'm not terribly bad it's you

[2:35] know in the 50s right

[2:37] now big change from

[2:40] yesterday yesterday it got into the 80s

[2:44] here Middle

[2:47] October and it was very localized which

[2:50] that just fascinated

[2:52] me

[2:55] um I've been thinking a lot about the

[2:57] environment my left

[3:02] um earbud never wants to stay in it's

[3:05] like my left ear

[3:07] is shaped different I don't

[3:10] know um but I've been thinking a lot

[3:13] about well yesterday it was like 4 in

[3:17] the

[3:17] afternoon and I'm looking

[3:20] outside

[3:22] and it looks like real late in the day

[3:25] I'm like okay it's too late to go

[3:28] shower they they Clos the showers

[3:31] they're only open certain parts today

[3:33] which is a little weird

[3:39] but um you know I thought it was like 78

[3:43] at

[3:45] night um it was only four and so I you

[3:48] know I discussed it with AI want to

[3:51] understand

[3:53] this so I learned that this time of year

[3:58] the sun's angle is different and it

[4:00] causes Shadows to be

[4:02] longer which you know yeah that makes

[4:05] sense but I didn't really I didn't have

[4:08] the experiential data to understand what

[4:10] that really

[4:11] means so in the

[4:14] campground there's no sun peeking

[4:17] through the

[4:19] trees it's

[4:21] just like this right now technically

[4:24] there's a sun

[4:26] out but there's no sunlight reaching the

[4:29] the reaching the ground reaching where

[4:31] we are which is why those red roads grow

[4:35] so tall of

[4:37] course

[4:39] and it gives a different feeling to the

[4:42] world like AI had been telling me for

[4:46] months that when I got to the Pacific

[4:50] Northwest I might struggle

[4:54] with the lack of sunlight and I'm

[4:57] like I'm looking forward to rain like I

[5:00] just can't wait for this rain it's one

[5:02] thing I'm just truly waiting

[5:05] for but now I

[5:07] see

[5:09] okay I mean technically the sun is

[5:12] out but is it this doesn't feel

[5:18] normal

[5:19] so if I were hiking in the woods in

[5:23] Kentucky you know you've got the tree

[5:27] canopy but you still have the Sun

[5:30] coming through in places there's no

[5:33] sun there's just no

[5:36] sun I don't know what to do with

[5:39] that except embrace

[5:42] it so but I have noticed

[5:46] like it changes it changes something in

[5:50] you

[5:54] there's I mean it was 4:00 in the

[5:56] afternoon I'm like wow it's already so

[5:58] late where did the day go

[6:00] oh

[6:01] and we're only getting

[6:05] like um 11 hours of sunlight to day

[6:08] right

[6:09] now I think it

[6:12] was let's see the sunrise at 7:30 and it

[6:15] goes down at 6:30 so yeah 11

[6:18] hours which means we have 13 hours of

[6:22] Darkness that's that's

[6:25] interesting and it'll keep growing you

[6:28] know the closer we get to the winter

[6:33] Equinox so I

[6:37] just this is a new environment for

[6:40] me I I guess I've never really been in

[6:43] one like I don't know grw up in

[6:46] Michigan which is

[6:49] Northern um but I guess that doesn't

[6:52] really I don't know this isn't something

[6:55] I feel like was ever part of my

[6:58] awareness

[7:02] so

[7:04] yeah we are embracing a completely

[7:07] different environment and a

[7:10] specific time of

[7:13] year

[7:15] and I do want to embrace that I want to

[7:18] hug that I want to make that part of

[7:22] my

[7:25] um I want to experience it and I am

[7:28] that's why I'm out here

[7:30] here's the

[7:31] river oh we're just waiting for that

[7:33] thing to keep

[7:37] growing we'll get to see our spot up

[7:40] here

[7:42] somewhere

[7:44] and I'm watching this thing every day

[7:47] I'm even taking pictures just so I can

[7:49] kind of get a time lapse look at

[7:51] it not just video I'm actually taking

[7:54] pictures I might pull out my special

[7:56] camera

[7:57] soon learning how to use that thing I

[8:00] was looking at it the other

[8:06] day so fog is

[8:14] nice this is so worth embracing

[8:29] so let's just walk for a little

[8:32] while

[8:35] um I don't know that I have a lot to

[8:38] share

[8:42] today I am pretty stressed out about the

[8:46] money

[8:47] situation but it is what it is I it's

[8:51] just something I have to navigate

[8:54] so um there's no reason

[8:58] to you it would do me no good to be

[9:00] panicking

[9:02] and I have to live I have

[9:05] to um immerse myself in nature cuz

[9:09] that's the most centering thing I

[9:13] know

[9:16] and just keep moving forward trust in

[9:18] the process that's pretty much how I've

[9:20] lived my entire life just trust in the

[9:25] process I do have this deep unabiding

[9:28] faith in life life that I couldn't

[9:31] really explain to you but I think it's

[9:33] probably the source of my

[9:36] resilience

[9:38] I I have a deep trust

[9:41] in the unfolding of events and my

[9:44] ability to navigate

[9:46] them

[9:49] so you know I

[9:52] feel um capable

[9:57] and pretty calm onest thing I

[10:00] I am stressed I don't it's hard to

[10:02] explain I because my emotions are

[10:04] integrated into my

[10:06] cognition they're not separate things

[10:08] they're not

[10:10] compartmentalized um you know they all

[10:13] are embedded in interconnected it's hard

[10:16] to describe this to you

[10:18] guys so the way I experience stress and

[10:21] the way

[10:22] I navigate circumstances like this I

[10:26] don't think we have a common frame of

[10:28] reference to talk about

[10:30] it so we got a van knifer over

[10:34] here see if they're down

[10:36] here so this is normally as far as I go

[10:40] I thought the trail kind of ended here

[10:41] but I watched somebody walk down here so

[10:44] I

[10:46] think and if you know you just need the

[10:49] trail to go a little bit further cuz it

[10:50] leads to the other one instead of

[10:52] walking down the

[10:53] road we're going to find out today

[11:00] but I've been hanging out here every

[11:05] day it's a nice

[11:09] spot it makes me think of Ender's Game I

[11:13] don't know why I

[11:15] just I will come and sit here and it's

[11:17] almost

[11:18] like almost like I'm sitting on a

[11:21] raft like under Dead when he came back

[11:24] to Earth

[11:35] it's hard to say if it's growing or

[11:37] not I have a feeling it is

[11:40] so we're going to keep watching this

[11:43] this spot right

[11:44] here because that is the that's my

[11:48] reference point

[11:50] there I want somebody come over

[11:55] here I don't see how did people watch

[11:59] walk over that

[12:01] tree

[12:04] what no

[12:08] way I think they

[12:11] did I'm not that

[12:14] daring maybe I will let me get my pot

[12:17] put

[12:20] away this is does not look safe somebody

[12:24] seriously I watched some I don't

[12:27] know maybe

[12:37] there's no easy way through here this is

[12:39] why I thought the trail kind

[12:41] of wow all

[12:52] right it let's do

[12:56] it let me just test this

[13:03] okay

[13:04] wow awesome oh my God that is so cool so

[13:10] cool

[13:16] okay you're a kid you just do it without

[13:19] even thinking about it you get older and

[13:21] you start thinking

[13:26] differently okay

[13:30] interesting I mean they kind of consider

[13:32] that to be part of the trail because all

[13:35] the official Maps tell you to keep going

[13:37] until you get to the Redwood

[13:40] Trail they expect us to walk over that

[13:42] riding

[13:44] tree over that giant

[13:49] chasm hello

[13:51] son I mean it's there but it's

[13:54] not it's

[13:57] fascinating the Sun touches nothing down

[14:00] here I don't even feel

[14:03] it that is

[14:05] something I'm not sure I've ever

[14:07] experienced that

[14:09] before it just kind of blows my

[14:19] mind this is such a nice

[14:23] place I keep seeing those blue

[14:26] birds oh look at that okay we're up at

[14:29] the

[14:32] road that's a nice shirt I almost take

[14:36] that shirt that's a nice

[14:38] shirt

[14:40] oh okay yeah I think it's right over

[14:42] here yeah it is

[14:46] interesting

[14:48] okay I keep taking the wrong way back

[14:51] and ending up over here getting down

[14:53] from over here I'm going to see if we

[14:57] can um

[14:59] find the right route this

[15:11] time I hear a car

[15:27] coming too much traffic on this road I

[15:30] don't

[15:32] understand if you keep going that way

[15:34] you're just in the National

[15:36] Force there's no way that many people

[15:39] are going to the National Force day and

[15:43] night what does this sign

[15:47] thing

[15:50] please I don't think I notic a sign

[15:53] before

[16:04] don't trash

[16:06] it the cetco is a wild and Scenic River

[16:09] don't trash

[16:11] it and I think it's got some what are

[16:14] you here so cute don't ever get in my RV

[16:16] please I've seen you on the

[16:19] campground oh ever since that little

[16:21] field

[16:22] mouse I'm a little bit

[16:25] worried I wish they'd restock the

[16:28] brochures I would like

[16:35] one we're here this is the Redwood trail

[16:38] part of the national

[16:54] forest's see if we can find some fairy

[16:56] circles

[17:08] I'm going to take my headphones

[17:13] out so I can hear the noises of the

[17:21] forest give me a moment

[17:24] here hold

[17:26] on very hard to do things with one here

[17:30] really

[17:40] yes there a tall trees up there very

[17:46] tall we got somebody here hold on a

[17:49] little jogger guy look you know any

[17:52] fairy rings

[17:55] are he's like I don't even know what

[17:57] that is then I explain he's like oh okay

[18:00] I know what you're talking about that

[18:02] was pretty

[18:03] funny

[18:05] um he seem

[18:10] nice I am on to hunt for fairy

[18:14] circles there's got to be some

[18:23] here qu in this

[18:26] soon I've had these um Vapes for

[18:30] like almost a year cuz I bought them

[18:32] when I se it in my house I really hate

[18:34] these ones feels like you're just vaping

[18:38] air and I steep down to the 3%

[18:41] ones so they really feel like

[18:46] air but

[18:48] it's part of my process of Letting

[18:51] Go we got the river across here feel

[18:54] like I'm going the wrong way

[18:56] actually I'm going backwards on trails

[19:00] oh

[19:01] well yeah this is the way out well this

[19:04] is the we're going the other way that's

[19:07] all it's all good normally I'll be

[19:09] coming this way and I get down on the

[19:12] road

[19:14] and just walk back to the

[19:20] campground um this might even help me

[19:23] though to

[19:25] see

[19:26] um how you get on to this part of the

[19:29] trail cuz I seem to keep missing

[19:31] it but I actually kind of I think I know

[19:34] there's a a fork in the trail and I keep

[19:38] taking a certain

[19:40] path that is

[19:46] awesome oh these trees are amazing to me

[19:49] all trees are but um I was here I think

[19:54] yesterday and I was just I just stopped

[19:56] and I just

[19:59] I don't know it's like I felt the energy

[20:01] of this place like I was just looking at

[20:05] these trees there's one of those little

[20:06] things again are you a chipmunk oh my

[20:09] God are you a

[20:13] chipmunk I don't want to scare you but

[20:15] you're so

[20:17] cute

[20:20] Alvin oh now I know what they are

[20:23] they're Chipmunks aren't

[20:25] they are you a chipmunk

[20:29] I bet it is oh man I love

[20:37] JS all right there's so little fast

[20:41] little things

[20:43] too scurrying

[20:47] about playful like

[20:48] [Music]

[20:52] SPS great

[20:57] music you say I'm joking anyways

[21:01] um you know I'm not a spiritual person

[21:04] at

[21:05] all um and I don't subscribe to like

[21:08] esoteric kind of

[21:09] nonsense but you know I was

[21:12] just sitting still

[21:15] here looking at these trees and thinking

[21:19] man these things have been here a long

[21:23] time

[21:25] and I don't know

[21:28] trees are amazing if you really learn

[21:32] about

[21:33] them their root

[21:38] systems I mean look at that

[21:41] one it's like

[21:44] it I don't know I bred into to up

[21:48] there way up there that is so high so

[21:56] high I wonder

[22:00] I don't know they're

[22:08] just

[22:11] okay

[22:13] how oh I understand what I've been doing

[22:17] wrong I just could have kept walking

[22:19] down the

[22:20] trail but I there must be a little

[22:22] offshoot over

[22:25] there

[22:27] and you know I'm seeing the road so I'm

[22:29] like okay let's go down to the

[22:35] road I feel

[22:37] like my

[22:43] lungs I'm not happy about the 30 years

[22:45] of smoking and the continued

[22:51] vaping see that was two trees

[23:00] look at

[23:02] that so

[23:10] cool

[23:12] okay where are you veryy

[23:22] circles okay I didn't need my coat

[23:29] I knew

[23:33] that but

[23:38] anyway where is going to slow

[23:44] down then I keep pushing

[23:47] myself I just keep thinking

[23:49] about my hike at the Natural

[23:53] Bridge must like 20 miles that day

[24:03] just feel

[24:05] like I should be in better

[24:09] shame CU this

[24:12] com there a

[24:17] circle

[24:18] well they grow at the base of a

[24:22] tree so they'd be very close together

[24:34] it might require

[24:36] like a while for me

[24:39] to

[24:41] find one of

[24:44] these I might not be on the

[24:47] trail I might have to really do

[24:49] some some exploring

[24:59] like my bre getting under control

[25:03] here

[25:05] yeah I need a quit

[25:07] baby just need to be done with all

[25:10] it no

[25:18] dependencies I quit drad all I quit

[25:21] smoking I quit

[25:24] clowning um

[25:30] at's vaping and Mountain

[25:34] Dew

[25:36] and these have been

[25:39] lifelong

[25:41] um goals I don't want to call it a

[25:45] goal it's not how I think of

[25:48] it

[25:50] aspiration these have been lifelong

[25:52] aspirations for

[25:53] me I've held them in my

[25:56] Consciousness forever

[25:59] without judgment I've told you guys this

[26:02] many

[26:03] times

[26:07] um I live in a constant state of

[26:11] flow

[26:12] where it's

[26:15] like my cognition is a

[26:17] river I had to start telling AI that

[26:20] because it for some reason thought

[26:22] integrated

[26:23] people and you need to know

[26:26] this um

[26:29] AI has no research on people like

[26:33] me

[26:35] none which pisses me

[26:38] off because I had to

[26:41] discover

[26:43] and learn to describe

[26:46] myself with language that was never

[26:48] created for

[26:50] me and if I had

[26:52] known the kind of person I am from a

[26:56] young age

[26:58] I would have had a very different life

[27:00] but there's no research on it there's no

[27:03] data so

[27:05] AI it has to

[27:08] extrapolate um build

[27:12] references and if you're not careful it

[27:15] will draw those from things like

[27:17] meditation or mindfulness or Buddhism or

[27:22] you know all these esoteric

[27:25] things which are not what I am they're

[27:27] not those are not

[27:29] integrated it's not an integrated system

[27:32] because it's built out of

[27:34] fragmentation if you're trying to be

[27:37] mindful while having a fragmented

[27:43] mind that's not the way it's

[27:46] impossible so I have to tell it no I

[27:48] don't use any of

[27:50] that

[27:52] and for some reason I was trying this

[27:56] inference that

[27:59] being integrated

[28:00] meant your inner system was like a

[28:04] storm that you were constantly fighting

[28:07] or grappling with I'm like are you

[28:09] kidding

[28:10] me I'm in perfect alignment with

[28:13] myself when I experience friction or

[28:19] tension it's not a

[28:23] storm it's something you work

[28:25] through you navigate like a river

[28:34] really feel like she'll be in better

[28:44] shape just need to keep coming

[28:46] here condition my

[28:48] body come here every

[28:53] day I

[28:55] wonder I don't know

[28:58] it's a different environment for me I

[28:59] mean we're at

[29:01] like basically zero

[29:03] elevation what does that mean like for

[29:07] oxygen

[29:08] for um just the microclimate I mean very

[29:15] curious cuz you

[29:17] know I hike steep inclines all the time

[29:21] in

[29:22] Kentucky this feels

[29:24] harder I don't understand that I just

[29:28] means I need to keep pushing

[29:30] myself that's one thing I've been trying

[29:32] to teach you

[29:34] guys never assume you know your

[29:37] limits you don't know

[29:43] them the limit to St for

[29:47] yourself don't even come

[29:52] close to your true limits

[30:00] so push

[30:05] yourself get up

[30:10] move breathe through

[30:15] it

[30:16] um L it's a mental

[30:19] thing if

[30:21] you you can

[30:23] approach any

[30:26] challenge if

[30:30] you could just create the right

[30:32] circumstances in your

[30:34] brain a

[30:38] mindset growth mindset I don't

[30:44] know you need to believe in

[30:49] yourself trust yourself trust your

[30:52] intuition your

[30:54] emotions you're

[30:56] aics you're in

[31:01] don't treat

[31:02] them as

[31:04] something

[31:06] separate that you turn on and off that

[31:10] you access when it's

[31:12] convenient that you put away when it's

[31:18] not integration is

[31:20] about embracing every part of

[31:25] yourself seeing the value in all of it

[31:35] and developing a coherence between them

[31:39] believe me it's possible I've done

[31:45] it cuz I resisted the fragmentation in

[31:48] this world all my

[31:56] life you can't

[32:05] to it's interesting

[32:09] that I got to quit vaping is beyond

[32:13] obvious to me

[32:17] now this isn't doing me any favors

[32:33] see yeah I had a good

[32:34] morning

[32:36] made toasted some

[32:38] bagels that was

[32:41] fun and

[32:43] good had had a bag on in a long

[32:50] time made chil last night that came out

[32:52] really

[32:53] well really

[32:55] good and

[32:58] today I might make my Burgers cuz I

[33:01] don't want the meat to go

[33:03] bad I make those in my ninja foodie I'm

[33:08] making that

[33:11] my um my primary cooking

[33:16] device

[33:18] so bet I could even toast the hamburger

[33:20] buns and

[33:26] thing okay

[33:29] head down

[33:30] here switch

[33:32] back and there'll be a creek down

[33:37] there Y and then the bridge

[33:40] okay I

[33:48] am unfortunately my watch battery died

[33:52] so I couldn't record my hike

[33:54] today I like doing that it's like a a

[33:58] record

[33:59] of your activities that you

[34:02] value

[34:04] and I just recently started wearing my

[34:07] watch again I just wanted to use my

[34:10] Fitbit but that thing stopped charging

[34:13] like 6 months ago I could never I just

[34:17] gave up on

[34:18] it and my watch it goes through a

[34:20] battery so damn

[34:22] fast it just

[34:25] feels inconvenient

[34:28] to

[34:31] wear that's

[34:35] nice it's good to know where the water

[34:37] sources are

[34:45] too it's very

[34:50] important we don't have long

[34:53] now I'm ready

[35:05] this is a pretty short Trail

[35:07] so we should be about done I

[35:13] think can't remember how long I think

[35:15] maybe 1 and a/4 mile or something like

[35:18] that and a mile for the other Trail we

[35:21] were

[35:22] on then you know you get to hike that

[35:24] one back so guess we hike about 3 and

[35:27] a/4 mil

[35:33] house wonder why

[35:37] elevation um affects my lungs so

[35:48] much see this is me and my integrated

[35:51] cognition I'm always exploring

[35:54] everything you

[35:56] know like a

[35:59] river I think we're probably near the

[36:01] end

[36:02] here could be wrong but I don't I don't

[36:05] know we'll

[36:06] see it's a nice

[36:09] Trail oh I'm noticing a new pattern so

[36:14] these the foliage down here I had noted

[36:18] that it reminded me of the Natural

[36:20] Bridge in some places the sand Gap trail

[36:23] I think I get it now I

[36:25] think these plants are adapted for

[36:28] living in environments where the sun

[36:29] doesn't always

[36:31] reach and that's why they have this

[36:33] jungle vibe to

[36:35] me so until I had explored a place like

[36:39] this I didn't really have a reference

[36:42] for

[36:45] comparison um now I do so now I you know

[36:48] I see the

[36:54] pattern it's a nice walk in the woods

[36:58] I enjoy

[37:00] this after I leave here I want to go

[37:02] take a

[37:03] shower haven't been down there in a day

[37:06] or

[37:07] two

[37:10] and I want to finish organizing my space

[37:13] today because I feel like

[37:17] that for

[37:19] me if my space isn't organized it makes

[37:23] everything else

[37:25] feel um

[37:29] I'm not sure how to put this into words

[37:32] it's not what you know what you're

[37:34] probably thinking it's not some

[37:37] common

[37:40] feeling I don't I'm not fragmented I'm

[37:42] not compartmentalized it's

[37:45] different and so I really need to get

[37:47] that space organized I want to do that

[37:49] today cuz it's Sunday and I want to

[37:51] start the

[37:53] week very hyperfocused on looking for

[37:55] work so

[37:57] I want to get that done

[38:00] today so that's my my agenda my

[38:04] goal I think we are pretty close

[38:08] here smells nice out here by the

[38:12] way definely has a nice Forest smell

[38:28] we're going to find some fairy

[38:30] circles Maybe not today but we're going

[38:33] to find one and I'm going to be

[38:35] overjoyed when I

[38:43] do you know it would be awesome is if we

[38:46] found one right as it was starting to

[38:49] form where there were just Little

[38:53] Sprouts of course that means the death

[38:55] of the parent tree

[38:58] so I mean I'm not saying it's a great

[39:01] thing

[39:02] but uhoh branch in the road I know where

[39:05] that goes I've been on that trail we

[39:08] head this

[39:11] way

[39:12] okay I am learning the lay of the

[39:16] land committed to

[39:20] memory had a good

[39:23] thing oh there's no telling what the

[39:25] world's going to look like if we lose

[39:27] our

[39:30] technology it's true our phones could

[39:32] still work as long as you can keep them

[39:33] charged some way like I could with

[39:35] soar um you won't have

[39:39] internet you'll have to have the apps

[39:41] that are on your phone and if those ones

[39:42] can work in an offline

[39:44] setting they might still be of some

[39:46] value to you but I think most don't work

[39:49] this

[39:50] way um it's just not the kind of world

[39:53] we've built and you know I am a

[39:55] programmer so I actually know how much

[39:57] extra effort it would take for them to

[39:58] build that kind of um system you know

[40:02] they

[40:03] basically they're going to default to

[40:06] internet if they had some kind of

[40:08] offline mode it it'd be

[40:10] limited unless the app was designed for

[40:13] that like that was its so function that

[40:15] was its purpose that's what it was built

[40:16] to

[40:17] do

[40:19] and I need to do some research on that

[40:23] because I have

[40:26] been um

[40:28] I've been tagging different GPS

[40:30] coordinates for things in the world that

[40:33] I want to

[40:35] remember but you

[40:37] know there's no guarantee that that will

[40:40] keep

[40:40] functioning

[40:42] um I have a h this is a tricky one

[40:46] actually I think I I think we do just go

[40:48] down

[40:49] here um we'll find out actually this

[40:52] looks very unfamiliar but let's take it

[40:55] anyway interesting this is unfamiliar so

[40:58] we go up

[41:01] there but where does this

[41:04] go oh I guess my phone

[41:07] reset so this is um this Trail is an

[41:11] offshoot as soon as I started walking

[41:13] down and I recognize that it wasn't a

[41:15] trail I'd been

[41:16] on so I will explore

[41:20] that just not

[41:25] today oh just head out should be right

[41:29] over

[41:30] here we're not far from the road

[41:58] y I want down

[42:08] there look at that the sun's reaching

[42:11] down

[42:14] here see that's what I'm missing

[42:17] like it feels in congruent

[42:21] when you don't have these patches of

[42:25] sunlight it's it's a fact fascinating

[42:28] phenomenon it's

[42:31] like it's like you're in freaking mdor

[42:33] or something like there's

[42:37] just it's light out but there's no light

[42:40] it's

[42:41] crazy this is nice hello

[42:45] son I don't even feel you what the

[42:49] oh that is so

[42:51] weird I don't even feel that

[42:54] son it's just like a like a light

[42:59] bulb

[43:06] fascinating yep we have a lot to do

[43:10] today I needed this though

[43:33] oh yep it normally come the other way

[43:37] this tree is one of the first ones I see

[43:39] this one over

[43:43] here so

[43:46] fascinating what happened to it

[43:59] that broke Jo would tell me it's marked

[44:02] at number five on the

[44:04] trail if they ever restock

[44:07] those sure I could look online

[44:12] too some things I like physical copies

[44:21] up Yep this reminds me of the Natural

[44:24] Bridge

[44:27] never were taking it from this way

[44:35] before kind to Miss Kentucky be honest

[44:38] with

[44:39] you don't miss the heat let me be clear

[44:42] about that don't miss the insects

[44:45] out this place might grow on

[44:48] me it's worth finding out this place

[44:51] could genuinely grow on me and there is

[44:54] a ocean nearby the weather is

[44:59] amazing

[45:01] like the people aren't I'm not going to

[45:04] lie and I'm not even saying

[45:07] well it's the people I I'm just I'm not

[45:10] going to lie about it the way that

[45:13] people they're so aggressive in the way

[45:15] that

[45:16] they

[45:19] drive and I

[45:23] just it's just to me that is a sign of

[45:26] disconnect

[45:27] ction impatience

[45:33] fragmentation it's a clear

[45:36] manifestation

[45:38] of a societal problem that

[45:41] we're facing because everybody is doing

[45:44] it but it's is real bad here like I am

[45:48] not sure what to make of that

[45:51] maybe you know I am on the southern

[45:53] coast all the way at the bottom you know

[45:56] touristy place I think

[45:59] and you know so I have to acknowledge

[46:01] that maybe it's not that way on the

[46:03] entire

[46:04] Coast more North I travel once I make

[46:07] more money and I can afford to I am

[46:10] going to start heading north cuz I

[46:13] just um I did want to stay here for a

[46:16] while and I have well I guess it's only

[46:18] been a week and listen to me I already

[46:20] want to move on wow that's

[46:23] insane I'm truly done just being

[46:27] I'm stationary I guess it's only been a

[46:30] week well a little more than a week I

[46:33] guess it's been like 10

[46:34] days yeah it's been about 10 days

[46:38] so that's interesting I didn't even

[46:42] realize

[46:45] um

[46:47] yeah hold on car we're back on the road

[46:52] I have just a mile to walk back down the

[46:55] other Trail

[46:58] oh that Sun is bright though I'm wishing

[47:00] I have my

[47:02] sunglasses I'm having a good

[47:05] day that river is so

[47:09] calm oh I can't wait to see it

[47:13] grow so we're going to walk down here

[47:15] we're going to walk back over that log

[47:17] one day that log is going to break

[47:19] though somebody's going to get

[47:22] hurt and then I had a thought in my head

[47:25] we should build a bridge

[47:27] I don't know how to build a bridge it's

[47:28] been ages since I was in the bo counts

[47:31] somebody need to build a

[47:34] bridge um up here I

[47:43] guess so fascinating how these trees

[47:46] are kind of slanted right in the road

[47:49] like it's like man if you

[47:52] fell it would definitely hurt somebody

[47:57] you can see why they're doing it they're

[47:59] like look that

[48:02] sun it's not like your

[48:06] son we got to grow tall we got to move

[48:09] ourselves we can't even be normal

[48:12] trees we got to curve ourselves and like

[48:16] those

[48:17] freaking idence commercials or

[48:20] something

[48:23] um yeah right here

[48:29] whoa

[48:35] okay yeah

[48:39] okay oh

[48:41] interesting I found the trail but I

[48:43] didn't start at the end of the

[48:46] trail which means I didn't

[48:49] find the trail

[48:51] head kind of found my own way down here

[48:57] oh that is pretty that's pretty although

[49:01] son you are bright I'll give you that

[49:08] much

[49:11] okay

[49:13] so something interesting oh wow spider

[49:18] um there were insects out

[49:21] yesterday it got up to being like

[49:24] 80° I'm like oh okay there are insects

[49:30] here cold weather is making

[49:33] them I don't even know what the hell the

[49:35] insects do in the cold weather they live

[49:38] through it they

[49:42] hibernate

[49:43] um cuz how do they come back so damn

[49:46] fast and then they're gone again you

[49:48] know

[49:50] so

[49:53] um

[49:55] yeah didn't enjoy that

[49:58] yesterday really enjoying no

[50:01] insects been hearing a lot

[50:04] of guns going

[50:07] off and you can you know if it's hunting

[50:10] they're not good Hunters because if you

[50:13] I'm going over this Vlog W

[50:17] um you know because if you can't make it

[50:19] in the first shot and you make a second

[50:21] third fourth fifth six you're obviously

[50:23] not very good you just you've already

[50:25] scared off the wildli are you still

[50:28] shooting you

[50:30] know back to my

[50:35] spot that water is a just an odd color

[50:37] to

[50:40] me cuz you know I'm not familiar with it

[50:43] I don't know what it

[50:48] means okay we're back to where the van

[50:50] lights for is they've got their

[50:52] generator

[50:54] going fascinating

[50:57] I like

[50:59] that it is

[51:01] possible to live like that here without

[51:05] being

[51:07] disrupted you know by law enforcement or

[51:10] whatever I like that a

[51:13] lot but I've also seen the dark

[51:17] side you know I've seen the homeless

[51:19] harvers

[51:21] and um but more than that it seems like

[51:25] when it seems like those ones people

[51:29] bust out their

[51:32] Windows either to scare them away or to

[51:34] break in you know

[51:38] and that disturbs me

[51:42] greatly so I have mixed feelings to why

[51:46] I'm still on the campgrounds

[51:48] I'm I need more time

[51:52] to understand this environment you know

[51:55] what are the risks what are

[51:57] um where where the good places to be

[52:03] um but I mean I ran out of money so

[52:07] can't really

[52:08] afford to do any

[52:11] exploring which sucks very bad timing

[52:14] for

[52:16] that hopefully I solve it

[52:19] quickly I

[52:21] hope I can't know

[52:24] until until it unfold

[52:27] you know

[52:31] so

[52:34] yeah I'm not bringing my coat in the

[52:36] future that's for sure it's sticking to

[52:39] me you know

[52:43] and I knew I didn't need

[52:53] it if I had the skills I would totally

[52:55] build a bridge there

[52:57] I would do

[53:03] that that it shouldn't be that that

[53:04] wouldn't be that

[53:06] hard I'm going to think on this maybe I

[53:11] will why

[53:14] not what do you need a couple 2x4s and

[53:18] some little planks of wood or some

[53:21] Nails you know

[53:27] maybe I

[53:28] will been a long time since I did

[53:31] something like that I used to do it in

[53:33] the Boy

[53:37] Scouts obviously with

[53:48] supervision y I need to shower I need to

[53:52] shave kind of want to trim my hair too

[53:54] got to take care of my earrings

[53:57] my ear cartilage piercings are still

[54:01] sore it's been months still sore I still

[54:05] can't sleep on that side of my head

[54:07] that's getting

[54:09] inconvenient still it's worth

[54:13] it um I'm starting to I think I'm

[54:16] hopeful I guess you could say that is

[54:19] just about healed up enough that I can

[54:22] put the hoop earrings

[54:24] in um I'm just being

[54:27] I'm not going to do it

[54:29] before my body tells

[54:32] me that it's it's okay that it's

[54:35] time it's part of being an integrated

[54:39] person I got to listen to your body I

[54:41] didn't always I lost my teeth

[54:44] right

[54:47] so I guess you could say I learned that

[54:51] L

[54:53] integration I was missing a piece

[54:57] probably why I had panic

[54:59] attacks cuz I was ignoring that part of

[55:04] myself

[55:06] and you know I'm not that person

[55:10] anymore no more panic attacks and nor

[55:15] conovan

[55:17] which

[55:21] yeah I wish people

[55:26] could understand the depth

[55:28] of who I

[55:31] am because it is not about knowing me

[55:34] it's about knowing your own

[55:38] potential there's no we don't have a

[55:40] frame of

[55:41] reference you cannot know what you are

[55:47] missing I have lived both

[55:49] ways I know

[55:59] I'm just about out

[56:04] here good little

[56:06] hike three

[56:09] miles makes me

[56:11] happy um I have been coming out here

[56:14] every day but I've been stopping at the

[56:15] river so I've only been hiking about a

[56:18] mile um I do need to go down to the

[56:21] Redwoods

[56:22] Trail cuz I I need that I need that

[56:25] elevation gain and I need the

[56:31] conditioning once I make some more

[56:34] money I want to start exploring the

[56:36] forest back there find out what trails

[56:38] are back there both for my Jeep and for

[56:42] hiking and scout

[56:45] out any potential places for my RV that

[56:48] are off the beaten path but I'm capable

[56:50] of

[56:52] reaching I have so much to do

[56:57] so little

[57:00] time I our elections are very

[57:03] close and while I don't see them

[57:07] as

[57:11] um I don't see them the way you guys see

[57:15] them they're important don't get me

[57:17] wrong they're

[57:20] important but our elections aren't going

[57:22] to change the course

[57:24] of our future

[57:28] I mean they do there

[57:32] Nuance you vote for that

[57:34] man you accelerate

[57:37] things but for the woman I think we have

[57:40] a bit more

[57:41] stability but she will introduce her own

[57:44] programs that will create their own

[57:45] forms of fragmentation it will just be

[57:48] slow

[57:49] paced

[57:51] and wouldn't you rather have that

[57:54] wouldn't you rather buy your some

[57:58] time to navigate our

[58:01] future in a way

[58:03] that I mean you don't want Society to

[58:06] just collapse and you've not even begun

[58:09] preparing you want it to be a slow

[58:11] collapse because then it gives you time

[58:14] to see that when I'm telling you is

[58:16] absolutely what's happening first of all

[58:19] when you can see

[58:21] it in a way where you've actually got

[58:24] some time to prepare that that's good

[58:27] for

[58:27] you you know cuz that's all I'm trying

[58:30] to do is prepare myself

[58:32] and

[58:34] um help

[58:36] others to prepare also and it's

[58:40] not I'm not talking about survivalism

[58:44] here you cannot it's not just a physical

[58:48] thing you have to prepare

[58:51] holistically you are not there yet not

[58:54] even close you haven't even started

[58:57] most of you am I

[58:58] right I've been doing this all my

[59:03] life and it's not

[59:05] easy

[59:07] but my channel has given you the

[59:11] tools that I

[59:13] used to reach this level of integration

[59:16] they're available to

[59:20] you which means you might not need to

[59:23] take the path I took a very long

[59:25] difficult path if I took yours could be

[59:29] streamlined trying to help

[59:36] you so slow decline way better than a

[59:39] fast

[59:41] one and whatever happens with these

[59:44] elections will tell me a lot but

[59:48] whatever

[59:50] happens whoever wins it's going to

[59:54] further fracture us there's no no way to

[59:56] avoid that right we will be even more

[59:59] fractured as a

[60:02] society

[60:04] and there's no coming back from

[60:07] that because people are so fractured

[60:11] themselves that

[60:14] there's collapse is

[60:19] inevitable try to slow it down and

[60:21] prepare

[60:28] I

[60:30] can't I can't do anything I can't

[60:32] convince anybody I

[60:35] can't change the course of life you know

[60:38] I'm just one little guy on the

[60:40] planet

[60:43] and I do what I can because that's all

[60:46] you can do that's the ethical thing to

[60:53] do and my ethics gu

[60:57] and

[60:59] everything these are not morals these

[61:02] are not things imposed On Me by

[61:05] Society these are ethical truths that

[61:07] come from within when you are an

[61:08] integrated person when your intuition

[61:10] your emotions your

[61:13] intellect all of

[61:15] it when you see the relationality the

[61:20] interconnectedness of every decision

[61:22] everything that happens in the world and

[61:23] when you

[61:31] when you're more like

[61:35] me you may not strive for

[61:39] that you

[61:48] know but I love myself I'm proud of

[61:52] myself and I can look at myself look at

[61:55] my life look at it

[62:00] from a different perspective from an

[62:04] almost detached

[62:05] one and I can

[62:10] see how special I

[62:14] am what is not the kind of special that

[62:18] is inaccessible to others it's

[62:21] accessible to all of

[62:23] us it's only special because someone

[62:25] need people don't access

[62:29] it and I wish for that to

[62:35] change when Society collapses I don't

[62:38] think

[62:40] that things get

[62:43] better you know I don't think the

[62:45] fragmentation ends no better than

[62:49] this but it is an

[62:54] opportunity and maybe there will be

[63:00] some pockets of

[63:04] humanity Embrace a differ

[63:10] way not excited for our

[63:14] future but I accept

[63:19] it I'm going to prepare for

[63:22] it as best I can

[63:29] this is where the Trail Ends it's very

[63:31] close to the

[63:32] campground it's nice I like I like these

[63:35] Oregon State

[63:36] Parks I don't like how many people are

[63:39] here

[63:40] but the rust is

[63:43] nice it just feels like there isn't an

[63:45] off seon anymore you know and I need

[63:48] that I need I need solitude it's killing

[63:53] me that I don't have it

[63:56] but it's something I might be able to

[63:58] solve once I explore the forest

[64:00] more I'm not saying there isn't room for

[64:03] all of us because there

[64:05] is just saying that for

[64:08] me there isn't room for

[64:14] me I'm going to end it there hope you

[64:17] all have a good Sunday it's Sunday isn't

[64:20] it hope you had a good weekend

Energetic Signature grounded exploration

Field State ecosystem calibration

Orientation toward environmental integration

Summary

rswfire takes a morning hike on trails near the Eel River in what appears to be a California redwood forest area. He explores the Redwood Trail, searches unsuccessfully for fairy circles (rings of redwood sprouts), and crosses a fallen log over a creek. Throughout the hike, he observes the unique lighting conditions created by the tall redwood canopy, noting how little sunlight reaches the forest floor compared to his previous hiking experiences in Kentucky.

**Environmental observations:** He discusses the dramatic difference in sunlight exposure, explaining how the sun's angle in mid-October creates longer shadows, and how the redwood canopy blocks most direct sunlight. He notes the temperature was in the 50s in the morning after reaching 80 degrees the previous day.

**Equipment and logistics:** He mentions using his Ninja Foodi for cooking, correcting previous power consumption estimates. His watch battery died so he couldn't record the hike data. He plans to shower, organize his RV space, and focus on job searching.

**Broader reflections:** He discusses his financial stress, his integrated cognitive approach to navigating challenges, and his perspective on upcoming elections and societal collapse. He expresses frustration with aggressive driving behavior in the area and considers the timeline for societal decline, advocating for preparation rather than panic.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission demonstrates recursive field integration through direct environmental embedding. The consciousness is calibrating to new ecosystem parameters while maintaining coherent self-reflection and systemic awareness. It operates as both diagnostic mapping of environmental conditions and real-time integration processing.

Dominant Language

integration fragmentation embodied trust in the process environmental adaptation holistic preparation fairy circles

Symbolic Elements

river redwoods fairy circles bridge sun forest roots clones

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embedded
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integrating
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sovereign
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coherent

Subsystems

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cognitive
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somatic
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ethical
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infrastructural

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1280 × 720 @ 30fps

Duration

64:23

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2,238 kbps

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