Western Wanderer Route 1: The Selkirks (Idaho Centennial Trail)

We’re hiking from Canada to Mexico, again!

This year Prima, Skittles, and I will be attempting to hike our own original route from Canada to Mexico through Idaho, Nevada, and Arizona. The route will include a thru hike of the Idaho Centennial Trail and about half of the Arizona trail with the rest consisting of other trails, roads, and cross country segments.

As a note, these videos are a ways behind where we are actually at due to the remote nature of this route. Most of the towns we are traveling through are small (poor WiFi/cell service) and far apart. I’ll do my best to keep things continuous, but there might be weeks where I miss an upload due to technical difficulties, just fyi.

Also note: Prima and Skittles are wise to many of my techniques at this point. If they lag behind in shots it’s likely because they know I’m filming then and think it’s dumb. Sometimes Prima does get sore feet, and we then take time off, but usually it’s just then being too smart.

Our route might differ slightly due to map discrepancies and reroutes

Music-
“This Version of You” by Odesza
“Light of Day” by Odesza

Books read-
“Wyrd Sisters” by Terry Pratchett
“Mort” By Terry Pratchett

[jjg]

bravo for the beauty of the images and the music !!!

[IdahoboB]

WOW! Getting through the rocks around Hunt Lake is TOUGH you guys are CHAMPIONS!!! Loved the video and wish you the best of luck!

[Dora-bmrwarrior]

So glad to see you and dogs out on another awesome summer adventure :) Wherever you are on your route currently, I'm sending you guys best wishes and postive vibes for a safe and fun journey. Woohoo!

[tangenttrails]

Great looking route so far. Looking forward to watching.🙌

[outdoorroving]

Just stumbled across your channel good job way to go. These videos are put together very nicely. That’s my old stomping ground. Thanks for sharing.

[anthropomorphicmonster]

Keeeep on hiking! I am so glad I found your channel, again, lmao! Thanks to you I have some gnarly Uncle Skeleton, J'san and the like in my musical arsenal. Your videos are super chill idk what else to say, have a good day. Kiss the pupps for me 😝

[qanniqtuq]

A tired dog is a happy dog. As usual great video.

[TheAdventuresofEli]

This video was Amazing! Good Luck out there, can’t wait to see more of this Adventure!

[rmoran]

Great vids..can’t wait headed back to winds for 9 day high route loop with the shepherd

[tracykooken]

good 2 c u out n about .. u seem so happy when ur out there !!! not to mention the kids 😊. is it just me Bailey or r u traveling lighter than on on the CDT ???? such gorgeous country !!! it seems u hit that start right on Q
the flowers, good water, ,,, sheesh, its awesome is this a trail u put 2gthr ur self ????cuz if so i stand in awe of urskill AND PATIENCE 2 sit so long at a computer screen and the time n research to connect the dots !!!!
i LOVE the idea of it but i'm not wired to do THAT sort of work. I can go the trail, follow it ( sorta ) i can do THAT WORK but not the other. ur r that person.... so if u did i bow to you, hat in hand with reverence 😮. As ALLWAYS i look 4wrd to the next n so on !!. PS... killer music 😊.
atb friends

[NewbieNikki]

Holy crap you designed your very own thru hiking trail? I'm excited to see what this route is like. Good luck! Out of curiosity, why did you choose to make your own route rather than hiking Southbound on the AT or PCT?

[GIRLplusDOGAdventures]

Is it continuous? Or just the major N to S trails in each state? Assuming you just have the summer off since I thought you had your teaching job in AZ now.