four hours into the hike and I'm completely lost my cell phone died sucker goes down I'll have no idea where to go but I honestly don't know what to do [Music] morning I'm just waked up here at Cerro Gordo it's about 6:00 a. m. and we are in a former mining town located about three hours outside of La and this is a town that about a year and a half ago my friend John beer and I sink essentially our life savings into as well as a lot of the savings of friends clients and others the coronavirus had about three or four weeks ago I was living in Austin Texas packed up a truck drove about 24 hours straight to get here I'm dampening in the Vegas around sunset which would be cool supposedly all the casinos and hotels are closed so it should be a weird kind of like just dopey look into Vegas from there I think I may across Death Valley in the middle of the night which should be some crazy stars and pretty fun final stretch just getting a death valley crossing over to Cerro Gordo all right you wanna see actually how dark it is out here watch this hahaha that's so freaky you cannot see anything there's no light pollution out here hook gotta lay out for that race of beans so my first night come up here I'm used to coming up here during the summer so there's no problem getting up our seven mile road it's it's a sketchy road it's a road that has switchbacks it's single lane gravel you're twisting and turning going from 2,000 feet above sea level to 8500 feet above sea level so you go almost a mile in elevation during that seven mile road and the first night I was coming in it was snowing I didn't know at the bottom because typically it doesn't snow at the bottom but because we're on the mountain so snow accumulated up there so maybe 3/4 of the road up I started seeing some pretty heavy what I think is rain and the closer I get to town the more I realize that's snow not only a little bit of snow but a lot of snow I was deciding to enter Cerro Gordo at 1:00 a.
m. and a blizzard which was the perfect time to you know start this adventure just to explain out various this is that way that's a cliff that goes down thousands and thousands of feet and so I remember the first day were coming up it just every turn looking at the rock formation to something Wow Wow and here's waiting for waiting for and then finally you take the final turn into Cerro Gordo and the town kind of presents itself in front of you I can see maybe 2 3 feet in front of me with the snow I stay here the snow will snow me in where I can't move my truck tomorrow morning it's really in a bad bad position [ __ ] Cerro Gordo these are the shoes I have my other shoes are down to my truck that's snowed in well there she is towns up there and I made it to about there with the truck I've learned that just because it's mid-may does not mean that there's no snow at Cerro Gordo no getting out now and snowed in for maybe four or five days looking for like another four or five days we have food that fur you know I don't know another couple days big storm coming being here for the last three weeks this is the house that I live in I wanted to get kind of show it uncleaned up we are currently in mr.
