Backpacking During A TOTAL ECLIPSE
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- čas přidán 11. 06. 2024
- 0:00 Eagle Rock Loop, Arkansas
3:56 Plans ON THE RUN for The Eclipse
7:46 TIME For Day 2
15:42 GREAT Day 3 IN THE SKY
19:19 Update on Pregnancy and New Backpack $$$
23:48 Eagle Rock Vista
28:46 Brush Heap Mountain
30:15 Eclipse Day and Nervously Waiting Through The Clouds
36:56 Getting BRAIN DAMAGE Waiting on this Dern Eclipse
40:46 ECLIPSE
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This turned out to be one of my favorite videos! I'm excited to chat with everyone during the premiere 🙂
Great video; beautifully captured! Thank you for sharing your experience! I'm so glad that the clouds cooperated and you were able to directly experience the sun's ethereal silvery corona with your own two eyes; there is nothing remotely like experiencing totality and seeing that for yourself!
Nice captures and editing compilation!!
Thanks for sharing
Could you please share a speed up time-lapse of just the eclipse from beginning to end?
Congratulations on your pregnancy and best wishes
I'm so happy you finally came to hike AR!
I hiked a piece of the ERL last fall on an overnight hike, but didn't get a chance to do the whole loop (yet). It's nice to see the rest of it. Definitely planning on going back for the whole loop.
My new favorite vid from you. I saw totality up in the Adirondack mountains.
Congratulations on your pregnancy!🩵🩷
That night-to-day stove transition...amazing.
Yep, that was cool.
That "star" to the lower right was Venus, and the "star" to the upper left was Jupiter. You have produced a stunning video. Thank you. Congratulations on your expectancy.
I've been watching you since near the beginning of your blogging history. Your quality of video has gotten superb. These videos are quiet, respectful of the outside world, and yet so real and "approachable". It's not about trying to rack up x number of miles in a day, or seeing how far/hard you can push your body, it's about enjoying the process of being outside - quite literally noticing the small things most people just stomp past to get to the next peak.
So thank you!
Dixie gently evicting all the bugs from her tent before taking it down will forever have my heart lol I love the baby names ❤
Wow, that edit where you light your stove and the background goes from night to day was amazing
I loved that part! It was so fun.
That was amazing! Well done Aaaron!
Why is it that my daughter and I can watch you build a fire or stir trail food, and it draws us in like a gripping moment in a movie drama? This certainly is one of your finest offerings, dear Dixie! And how kind you are to share baby names with us!
I was apprehensive during my first pregnancy, but savored every moment with my second, in awe of the marvelous changes in my body, such as the dramatically increased efficiency in getting nutrients from my food. Enjoy those wonderful changes, Dixie.
There is an old wives' tale that if you climb over your husband and get out of bed on his side, then go around and get back in on your side, he will have your morning sickness, lol. My dad was never superstitious, but he laughingly crossed my mom off every time she tried that. 😁.
Blessings. 💗💙
Thank you so much! I’m trying to “enjoy” pregnancy, but it’s been kinda rough so far 😂 Hoping my next one will be a bit easier on me!
Thank you for watching ♥️
Oh, and I’m definitely trying that trick lol.
Taylor the Nahamsha Hiker just announced she was pregnant too. Due this summer. Great job on this one Dixie!
They all want to be like Dixie.
What beautiful photography. You never disappoint. Hope all is well. I was touched when you talked about Motherly feelings starting from the beginning ❤️ Yes they do. You’re a Mom.
We saw the total eclipse in Northern Vermont near the Canadian border. It was hard to describe. I urge everyone make a pilgrimage to see a total eclipse. Dixie since you walked the pilgrimage of Camino de Santiago try to get to Spain in June 2026 for a total eclipse along the pilgrimage routes.
YOur films have evolved tremendously since your AT days. Thanks
Once you've seen a total eclipse, you become addicted! I've seen 3 now, and each one has been an AMAZING experience!! 👏
I saw my first total eclipse on the 8th! Been here 41 years and finally got to see one. It definitely won’t be the last.
As your video showed the moment of totality, my eyes welled up, just before you said, “This makes me want to cry!”. I was lucky enough to see this in 2017. I immediately planned to be in the path for 2024. It is an experience that defies explanation but I had the same sense of needing to see this every time it happens. Do it if you can!
4 of my favorite things all in 1 video. 1) backpacking, 2) iron maiden (or bruce dickensen's voice) 3) dixie (been following you since your AT hike) and so happy for your wedding and becoming a mom. and 4) solar eclipse. i was in little rock for this one.
I follow and watch all your content...this is the first video I've watched more than once. It's truly a piece of art! Thank you!!
May your algorithm prosper.
that’s exactly what happened to me during totality in 2017. I cried, it was just extreme to be in the darkness @ 10AM and all that accompanies an eclipse. your photography and editing is lovely. thanks for sharing. and congrats on the pregnancy, enjoy it!
Beautiful video! You summed it up 100% … “put it in reverse and do it again”. I felt like we needed two; one to just look at the moon and sun and the second to look around. So surreal. Thanks for posting ❤️
This is one of my favorite hikes. Sometimes we just walk in and find a spot to just camp out for 2-3 days and then sometimes we do the whole loop. It is so nice with access to fresh water. I have woken up to black bears in my camp and some funny stories about my son. Great memories. Glad you enjoyed it.
Your photography along with your videography are absolutely stunning. Thank you
Omg, that was amazing!! Thank you so much for capturing this. I wasn’t able to go. This by far is the best footage I’ve seen. So incredible! I teared up 🥲
The editing on this one was spectacular; you and Aaron really hit it out of the park with this video! I'm so glad you're finally able to get back to what you love.
I just watched this entire video, again. I finally realized you were on the summit of Brush Heap mountain instead of ER Vista, but they're next door neighbors. Oh boy, the videography is just absolutely amazing! Kudos to both you and Aaron, and I think this is one that you may wish to submit to one or more of the film festivals this year! REALLY, you should do that 😊
We were not far from where you were that day, and had the same experience with clouds. I like to think that the hand of God just wiped the sky clear in those last minutes before totality. Sure felt that way ♥️
Wow I'm loving the cinematography!
When it switched at the beginning from the awe of the universe, and the music started. I could just here you saying, "And then little 'ol me" 💙
We watched the eclipse from Lake Ouachita. I said afterwards I wished I had done a Timelapse. It was definitely an awesome movement. Thanks for sharing!!
That night to day transition with the stove 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I backpacked in the first trimester with each of my 3 pregnancies - Isle Royale at 9 weeks, Yellowstone at 11 weeks, and Pictured Rocks at 6 weeks.
Yellowstone was by far the worst - I got off trail, ate a banana, and threw up in front of a bunch of tourists and a geyser in September 2020. I wanted to shout "it's not covid! I'm just pregnant!"
Congratulations on your impending arrival and on a great video.
Wow, Dixie! Your production values and video quality are amazing.
OMG! I can't believe you're still using that old bacon grease pot as your camp pot! LOL 😂 Hey, if it works it works! 😊
Was in central MO for 2017, just on the side of the highway after speeding down I 70 trying to get out from under the clouds. Even though we were right next to the highway across the street from a McDonalds, it was such a mind blowing event. I remember sitting on the back bumper of my car with my partner inexplicably crying. Then went home to plan for 2024 immediately.
We went to Austin for this one but because of the cloud cover headed up north for better chances and landed in Waco. I don't know how it happened but at around 85% of totality, the heavy cloud cover just VANISHED. Clear skies all during totality. I don't know what it is about a total eclipse but they really just change your mindset in the coolest way.
I've been loving watching everyone's journeys and reactions to this one!! It's like reliving it just a little again. Loved all your time lapses and it's so great to see you out on trail again!! Tentatively planning to be in Iceland for 2026
We were up closer to Dallas ... and that clearing that graced your totality hit us just after. The whole "waning" part was clear blue sky. It was still an amazing eclipse ... we had lots of little windows that gave us views of the whole thing.
Then right after I headed down to Big Bend National Park for 4 days of backpacking. That was awesome, too ... and a place I'll not likely ever get back to.
We did almost exactly the same thing as you. I took my family backpacking on the North Sylamore Creek Trail in northern Arkansas, and we watched the eclipse out in the woods well away from civilization. Amazing experience!
Aw Dixie…I love how excited you got, and especially the way you describe what it was like! So fun, and the best eclipse coverage I’ve seen. Thank you!
I don’t think I’ll ever forgive myself for not sticking with my original plan of going to ERL. Paid $4k for an airbnb in central Texas and we couldn’t see totality at all because the clouds were too thick. 😭 I’m so so glad you were able to see it and share with us! Your reaction made me cry haha.
I am so so sorry that happened 😭
What part of Texas? We had reservations in Temple and cancelled them because of the forecast, but it looks like we probably would have been able to see the eclipse there after all 😭
@@rjensen2586 Bandera. We were able to see the beginning through clouds, but by about 40% the clouds were too thick to see the sun at all. I think my cousin who lives in Temple was able to see it.
We were in grapevine north of Dallas... forecasts said no blue skies and high clouds... We ended up with blue skies and what clouds were there parted to see all of it.
@@rjensen2586 I have family in Austin where one house had an amazing view and 10 miles away the other didn't see a thing due to clouds.
It is an amazing event. I saw a total eclipse in Germany in 1997 or 1998. Of course, totality is incredibly impressive, but just as surreal is seeing the moon’s shadow rushing across the landscape just before totality. I just happened to look to my right and there it was screaming across the land. I can still see it in my mind’s eye.
It was 1999.
Great footage and editing! The eclipse, the stove switch, the nature. Great job!
10 out of 10 for the night to day cook pot transition! We drove 10 hours and packed into the mountains of Indiana (I use the term mountain very loosely here). Well worth the trip. Your reaction matched ours. I felt like I was living a scifi movie. Great job.
That was just wonderful, Dixie! We can feel your excitement! Thank you for sharing so much of your life with us. 🖤🤍🖤
Watching your reaction was the absolute best!! It is such a life changing experience and I didn’t even see it in totality! Thanks for doing what you do!
My wife and I were a couple of hours northeast of where you were. Sunny for the whole time (forgot my hat and burnt my head). My favorite point was when just a tiny piece of the sun came back into view and it seemed like the sun was a spot light. Definitely cooled down during the process. Frogs and other critters were confused. I also learned a lot about Arkansas terrain, and have added in some great views from your experience. Thank you for sharing your adventure! Greenland 2026!!!
My dear. You should get some kind of award for this one! Excellent job and I am SO glad you got to see it.
So glad you got to enjoy my home state. Great story as always.
We went to Arkansas as well. Even though I live in Austin, we played it safe and went to Heber Springs. Got lucky and had nothing but blue skies the entire time!
That was amazing. Just finished watching your video to the end. My wife and I and a friend saw the eclipse from Southeastern, Oklahoma, very close to the centerline. There was a group from the Netherlands and two guys from Barcelona, Spain, just to see the eclipse. Your video was tremendous. Thank you for sharing it with us. Now we wait for the next one.
during the 2017 Eclipse, i'm convinced my family and 3 of my best friends had the absolute prime location to see it all from start to finish. i found out about the eclipse in 2011 and had 6 years to plan. it worked in every way imaginable. we were between Gregory's Bald and Joyce Kilmer on the Little Tennessee River. just us in a place that imo is even prettier and def far wilder than Cades Cove. (no need to ask me where, i'll never tell). The bears were out along with the otters, eagles, and deer. we were in max totality of i think 3:36 mins.
that spot was one of the smartest plans i've ever had as a human being. i'm not kidding. no crowd so, we heard everything along with seeing it all. the cicadas and the swallows went nuts during totality. i was so stunned at the way the light got swallowed up by the moon that i almost forgot to take pictures after all that planning.
i'm an East Tennessean from Townsend. i've seen some pretty incredible things in nature. i'm also a wildlife and landscape photographer and have been since long, long, long before it was "cool." i'm almost 60 years old and that day was the greatest natural event i have ever, or will ever see in my lifetime.
I've been watching you since you hiked the AT. While you were watching the eclipse I was about 100 miles NW of you watching it. I decided that next spring I am going to hike the Eagle Rock Loop Trail. I'm not doing it this year because the skeeters have hatched, and they love me way too much. Plans are made and wheels are in motion!
The “star” you point out was actually Jupiter! ✨❤
Another great video. Looks like you had a great trip. I hope your time in Arkansas was pleasant off trail as well. Come back and visit us again. ERL has a very special place in my heart.
This was such a good video. You really made the trail come alive. The cinematography was great. Best video of the eagle rock loop so far.
Thank you very much!
I love that y’all have names already and that y’all shared them. Cora Mae is cute,cute,cute….Bratcher Winfield…nice way to honor your Granddaddy.
Totally agree with the trail being home…It’s the best!!
This was my first TC…absolutely the BEST! Saw mine in SW Illinois…traveled 12 to see it! So cool! TY!
I was in a Grocery Store Parking Lot in SW Michigan .. I didn't realize that you need to be closer to the mapped Path to see a Total Eclipse. It was a Warm Sunny day with no Clouds.. I saw a 7/8 Elipse there were strange shadows and a bit darker and all of the Parking lot lights came on .. They it was back to normal again.
I was stuck in the store so long trying to use their Kiosk that I almost missed it .
I live in Shreveport, LA close to the Texas state line. A few of us drove two hours west toward Dallas to watch the total solar eclipse. It was spectacular and we will always remember that heavenly event.
That was incredible! Did you notice the solar flare at the bottom?! We didn't get totality here but it was still amazing. Such a beautiful video from beginning to end. I simple can't understand people who don't marvel at nature's...incredibleness! Thank you both for such an amazing video! ❤👏🏻
South of the Starway when you have to do the big crossing, it becomes impassible in high water. So high, a bunch of people died at Albert Pike due to a flash flood. I really thought the mountain section was rough. That was the worse part. No switchbacks.
Great Video, Great to know you're back out there. Was also great to run into you on trail... Hike on..
Your so brave wow
ERL is my favorite "Close to Home" trail. Beautiful video!
The quality of your videos are always so great!! Thanks for sharing with us. This trail looks breathtaking!
The 2017 Total Eclipse passed directly over my home. It was my second total eclipse, so I got to focus on the more ethereal aspects like the Shadow Banding. So beautiful. Made me want to see every eclipse possible.
Just, just, just, fabulous Dixie. What an experience, for you and all the critters you beautifully filmed, thank you. They have their experience too! Well done,Duplex girl.............
This was an amazing video even without the eclipse. Happy return to backpacking! ❤
Love this video. I would love to see a video showing all of the camera gear you use and how you pack it for a hike.
Make sure you eat good food rather than poor hiker junk. Dixie, I am >80 and I still worry about my kids, grand kids and one great grant kid. I must say that I am envious but happy for you being able to catch the eclipse, as I ground my own 8" mirror telescope when I was in my twenties, purchased a more compact 8" one a few years later and have never seen a full eclipse in my life. Several times there have been full eclipses at my home location, but each time I was away from home either working overseas, or doing volunteer work across the other side of the country. Such is life.
Thank you, Dixie for showing this. Absolutely stunning!
And Aaron.
Wow!! I recorded the eclipse as well and posted it on CZcams from Newfoundland, Canada. We didn’t see the total eclipse because of cloud coverage but it was so dramatic, the wind came up and it went pitch black.. It was wild. Loved your vid, you are amazing at photography 🙏.
The production value on your videos is getting serious!
Thank you for normalizing wearing big hats on the trail. The sun is highly damaging to our skin, so I never go without it. The shots underwater, the shadows created by the clouds on the mountains, the slow motion of the bee and small creatures are so, so good! Also, about the eclipse, I cried a little while watching it through your video. I was lucky to see it in real-time in Montreal, Canada; I will never forget this moment.
What a fabulous video! I loved seeing how moving the eclipse was for you; it actually made me cry seeing you. I'm also kicking myself for not thinking to find a way to backpack to see the eclipse. What a wonderful way to experience it!
I was able to drive and be on a lake in a kayak! My second love. If l am not on trail, l am kayak/camping a river system.
@@kimberly-munchonthetrail oh that sounds amazing! I've never kayaked, but it's something I've always wanted to do. What part of the earth were you on? Do you have any photos or videos posted anywhere that you'd care to share?
This was the best eclipse vlog that I’ve seen. I was also in Arkansas for the eclipse.
So glad you had good weather for totality. Hearing you get excited brought all my memories rushing back of the event. The coolness in the air, the hazy look. Everything had. The tiny little crescent sun, then the rush of Totality.The naked eye prominences was so unexpected and 360 degree dawn. How long Totality lasted. So glad to share that with my family.
Seize the day and if we are lucky we will embrace the moon's shadow.
Thanks for this video! I enjoyed all of the spring wildflowers, tiny critters, birds, descriptions of your hiking while pregnant and then the grand finale of the total eclipse. Your excitement was palpable, I even got chill bumps and wanted to tear up too!
Another great video! So glad you got to see that so close
This was great! Thanks for sharing!
Very unique video work in the water, in the sky, olus the fliwers and critters🎉
I had the same reaction watching it from my backyard. It was the most surreal experience of my life.
So so cool! Thanks for showing us.
Beautiful video! Thanks for sharing! 😊❤
Beautiful video, guys.
Soooooo awesome!!! Absolutely wonderful work Dixie & Aaron!!!
This was excellent!
Great video, lady!!❤
I've been watching you since your TC days.
I didn't get into backpacking until after I had already become a mother. (I'm 47, and became a mom at 20...) I remember reading about a guy that managed to TC in a single calendar year w a 20# base-weight. My mind was blown: I wanted to do it SOOO bad, but I still haven't...😔
I'm so happy for your motherhood!😍 It is certainly its own special adventure. I have NO DOUBT that you'll balance it better than I did...
I have also been an RN for almost as long as I've been a mother. I had my own pandemic experience that had its own toll on me. I lost way too much of my courage...and faith in my fellow humans.
But I happily report that I just checked something off my "bucket list": I took a road-trip down Baja accompanied only by my dog. (He's a 90-lb mastiff-mix, but actually just a huge baby.) We had a FANTASTIC time....I don't know if I would've come home if it weren't for my other bestest friend: my husband.
Now I have to convince him to go w me.😂
Steel (my dog) and I had a very cool hike from playa El Arbolito in which we spotted a 10' bull shark in shallow water, just after I had been in such water, taking a pee.
It was exciting...
The quality of this video.. WOW
I am glad to see you out and about! My son and I traveled to the base of the White Mountains in New Hampshire to observe the eclipse. It was amazing to behold: pictures don't do it justice! The interplay between the rest of nature and the event has to be experienced. (Your experience with the owl was cool!!) During the eclipse, I was struck with two random thoughts: 1) I could see how these events would terrify earlier "more primitive" humans!!! 2) I am amazed that more recent humans were able to accurately calculate timing and paths without the benefit of computer technology!!
Thank you for sharing this video!
Fantastic video Dixie. Great teamwork. I love it when a plan comes together.
8:53 I love Iron Maiden! One of my favorite bands.
“Holy crapamolie.” 😂😂😂❤❤❤❤
Amazing experience is t it?
I would have really enjoyed watching it on a vista like that.
This is the BEST video of the eclipse!! I love your enthusiasm and childlike wonderment. (this is a compliment) I'm so glad the clouds cleared for you. Thanks for sharing your beautiful hike and awesome mountaintop eclipse.
AMAZING footage!!
Fantastic video and congrats on the baby. Great photography as usual. Spectacular actually.
Welcome back on the trail(s). Your videos are amazing! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for sharing!
Dixie, you are the best nature photographer EVER! Thank you so much for doing this.
Watched it from home in Cleveland, i had only ever seen partial eclipses before and this blew those away.
You had the best video I've seen of it. I'm so glad you got to be there! I remember getting to see a total eclipse as a child and that memory has never faded!
Thanks for letting everyone see the eclipse. We had rain in Georgia and we were to far to see what you saw so thank you.
The photography of the eclipse and the night sky with all the stars was amazing! Congrats on your pregnancy! Beautiful video as usual!💜
we watch to learn and enjoy your stories But I really enjoy your cinematography