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Most Leica reviewers are far more focused on their own personality and the status of owning a collection of fifties museum pieces than actually taking pictures. I have two digital Leicas, an M9 and an M10-R. I also have a set of Sony Alphas. They represent a different approach to taking pictures. Sony makes things fast and easy. With the Leicas, you have to stop and think. With cats and little children, this can be problematic. With adults and landscapes, less so. The quality of images makes the effort worthwhile when you nail it. Count on three months of learning curve at least. Leitz lenses are hugely overpriced. You buy them as investments or fetishes. the price of the lens cannot be seen in the final result. Beware of the Leica cultists!

I appreciate your honesty. 🙏🏼

My choice from film to digital happened when the costs of film, optical prints, flash drives, premium scans and shipping costs were over $100 a roll. My film camera is a Nikon F2 and was curious about the Leica MD 262 after Thorsten Overgaard`s video. As it happened, I did manage to purchase a mint condition MD 262 over at KEH camera! The images from the SD card, RAW, to computer were mesmerizing. Film still has a spot but it`s much smaller now...!

At 8:04, is that an alpaca sweater that you found on trail? If it’s Appalachian Trail Gear it is mine. I was on trail about the same time. It has great sentimental value.

No poop kit? 😅

Looking forward to doing it this fall, 4 days.

Brother, you look a lot like Vicente Luque

Nice setup and presentation (better than most). I subscribed and will be watching for video’s. Good luck.

Add the blue connector and a loop of line to your CNOC bag , this will allow you to gravity filter your water right into a SmartWater bottle.

It’s called Pass Through charging not trickle charge. Trickle charge is a low charge for low power devices ie AirPods..

Come on Thomas, Day 1 video!!! Looking forward to some amazing footage and stories.

Thanks for the Hilltop Packs shoutout!

Just some advice lighters are easy to loose i recommend bringing 2 large bics

Im so glad your doing the umbrella, i love my umbrella i was lucky enough to get the full carbon one , its very strong 💪

Let’s go!

Been looking at the Ricoh too…dislike is no weather seal. Rumors the IV may have it, but no release date. Nice kit and best to ya!

Id go with the full frame also personally. You could always change your mind and switch cameras if you regret it.

I start May 1st. Would love to catch up with you!

What do you stuff your pillow with on a freezing night when you need to wear your puffy to bed?

I'm going back! This was amazing to rewatch after almost a full year.

Nice set up! I did the PCT in '21, and my kit definitely changed throughout the hike. -I ended up dumping my sun umbrella in a hiker box because it would trap the heat on the really hot days, but plenty of people swear by them. -You don't need a full roll of luko tape. Just wrap some around a pen/sharpie/itself or even your trekking pole. If you ever run out, there is a very high chance you'll find more luko tape in hiker boxes on your journey. And do the same thing with a little bit of duct tape as well, for those unexpected gear failures. -Have you tried using injinji liners with the darn toughs? Perfect for helping prevent those blisters! -I used the Durston last year on the CT and its the best tent (just double check the lines that hold the floor in place, mine came untied so I had to make some tougher knots). -There were a few sections we needed more than 4L of water so just keep an eye on the water report 😊. (Sorry for all the unsolicited advice 😅) Good luck, yall are gonna rock it!!!

Very curious about the cooking situation. If you’re camping at a spot with no water source, how are you washing out your pot afterwards? I’m just thinking I’d want to avoid using the filtered water for that.

I think you'll eventually find that shooting with a cellphone as an EDC will begin to feel wrong. Yes, it's logical. Yes, it's convenient. Yes, the image quality is quite good. But, at the end of the day, it doesn't *feel* like photography. The physical process, holding a phone out at arms length and composing with a screen.. immediate feedback all the time.. no relevant choice with focus decisions, etc. All it offers is a photo. Fine and well, but in absence of the experience a photo can lose part of it's soul, imo. Probably just me being too in those feelings lol

Which month was this trip?

Great video! I am watching every TMB video to prep myself as my daughter, (24) and me, her mom (64) hike it in Sept. We are just praying for little to no rain on on descents so those knee issues don't become more difficult. Thanks for sharing, happy to hear you made such wonderful friends along the way!

I'm loving this series. Nicely done all around. Emily is completely adorable and a straight gangster hiker. She sets a pace! I'm crossing my fingers to get in the lottery for WLT! Hope to experience this soon.

You caught Reflection Lake at the perfect time with no wind to ripple the water! What a wonderful capture of your journey on the Wonderland Trail! Hope you'll come back and visit our beautiful Pacific Northwest again! Were you ever stopped by a ranger to see your permit? If so, what did you do since you lost it at the beginning?

Enjoying how you documented your trek around the mountain....one of my favorite places to day hike. Yes, that is Mt. Adams in the distance...it's in Washington.

Loved the photos included in this. Great images

I believe the mountain in the distance 4 minutes in is Mt Adams in Oregon

Beautiful photography. Thanks for the video.

Thank you for sharing such a beautiful journey!

So awesome! Thanks for taking me back to last fall and my memories of the WT. That little road crossing on Stevens Canyon Road with the little mileage signs is where our group started and finished! Yes! peanut butter in the oatmeal! The big leaf plants are Devil's Club. The branches are covered with nasty spines like a cactus. Great outdoor congratulations to both of you!

I think that staying at White River campground is close enough to the river for some similarly epic sunrise views. I’m not saying staying at sunrise isn’t great for that (hence the name) but white river campground by the river gives a similar vibe I believe. Beautiful shots of Summerland. Maybe the best I’ve ever seen to be honest. Excellent job capturing the beauty of the area in all its forms. And Indian Bar is a really beautiful area.

Another beautifully edited and executed video my friend!

Hey, wonderful job on this video, and congrats on finishing your thru-hike!! You did a phenomenal job capturing the scenery. What camera equipment did you use?

Those photos around the 4:30 mark of Winthrop Glacier and Tahoma are really fantastic, but the cinematography of both at 5:30 is even more impressive. And perhaps more impressive than both is Skyscraper Pass and Skyscraper Mountain.

Fantastic shot of carbon glacier snout at 19:30. That’s the lowest elevation glacier in the US I believe. And you’re right that it’s incredibly long. The soil and rock that cover it, if the layer is thick enough, serves to insulate the glacier from the sun. If it’s too thin, it ends up absorbing more than insulating and heats up the glacier quicker. And the shots of Tahoma from Moraine Park right before you get to Mystic are really beautiful.

Great video, man!

Great shots of observation and echo rocks in front of Tahoma around 7:00.

well done you guys

That Cowlitz Divide section from Indian Bar to Nickel Creek was one of my favorite sections--of course along with Emerald Ridge, Indian Bar, and the Gap! My best Rainier photos came along that stretch. Great that you had all that time at Nickel Creek. Our trip was 10 days, but we never had that length of time to hang out at camp.

I think that the river bed around the 6 minute mark is part lahar and part result of flood from 2006 or thereabouts.

Emerald ridge truly is breathtaking; excellent photography and cinematography. Great shots of Tahoma Glacier. I was quite impressed by you actually filming on the bridge as the standard thing I’ve seen on many Wonderland videos is that the phone goes away when you’re on the bridge. So your comments about the sketchiness of the bridge are definitely what others have felt as well. And it reminds me of something one of my engineering professors told the class many years ago, that even if a structure is structurally sound and has plenty of strength for the load it’s carrying, if it’s sagging or moving that in most cases is considered a design failure. While it may have been different for our ancestors, for most of us 21st century folks, we want rigid structures with very limited (if any movement). Swaying and bobbing isn’t really our thing. Thanks again for the beautiful video and for your enthusiasm and wonder!

The mountain is Mt Adams. Second highest mtn in Washington.

I actually love those Nature's Bakery fig bars! Gorgeous day! Cool that you did Skyscraper. Great herd of mountain goats. We only saw one on our whole WT.

Interesting limbo discussion you're having in the video. The comparison with the iPhone (which was my digital camera for the past many years) which in a way both makes perfect sense and no sense at all. If you don't care about photography but just want to make snapshots with family, then the iPhone assures "good" pictures in almost all situations. But they are stereotype with the same much to well known focal length that everyone shoots with and a big depth of field. Predictable and boring - everyone wants to show and share, but no one cares to take an interest in. You can do more with an iPhone - also fun sophisticated things, but the absence of intuitive buttons make it less user friendly. A Leica M, however is an almost fully manual camera. Slow to use, forces you to be attentive to what you are doing but with proper well prepared settings for your planned shots also extremely fast and a no hassle camera for documenting and reporting and a rewarding camera for stunning portraits, architectural og landscape photography, when you bother to work with all of your knowlege and experience to create artwork. As for the latter, lenses di matter, and you have the opportunity to express yourself in all but clinical correctness thanks to the array of vintage lenses since 1920. A friend of mine gave me a Leica R5 SLR for which I bought a Summicron 50 and Elmarit 90 lens as a reentry into photography. It gave me back the love for it and inspired me to go digital with a Leica M10, and I just love the experience. The camera doesn't take the pictures - I do. Whether I sink or swim, it's my doing. I also have Leica V-Lux with all the bells and whistles of advanced programmable buttons which served as my stepping stone from R to M, and I rarely use it. I will never get to understand it properly, and I enjoy the uncompromising simplicity of the M. It's like coming home. How I remembered analog photography from way back. But it is not nostalgia to me. It is uncompromising presence when I take the pictures. I sense, you are maturing some of the same thoughts. I hope you will find yourself photography wise and reunify with a manual rangefinder in any shape and form

Wonderful journey, amazing scenery! Thanks for sharing!

Great series, as always!

Lol, so we made it to the campsite... and now im gonna do a 6k run 😅😅😅