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[[File:monticello.jpeg|thumb|The "village" of Monticello.]]
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'''A Hike''' is a rare video that takes place both during the day and outdoors. The video is broken up into small chunks with [[Chris]] alternating between hiking and filming, [[Chris and health|presumably the exertion from walking up a slight grade requires all the energy he can muster]]. In what can be considered the spiritual successor to the [[Sonichu's Edge|Parkay]], he is immediately out of breath after the first cut and continues to deteriorate from that point. Top men calculate the filming took place at the [http://www.monticello.org/parkway/trail.html Saunders-Monticello Trail]
[[File:monticello.jpeg|thumb|The "village" of Monticello]]
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'''A Hike''' is a video Chris uploaded on 9 [[October 2010]]. As part of Chris's commitment with Jackie to make a video for each day in October, Jackie suggested Chris film himself hiking in the [[Wikipedia:Blue Ridge Mountains|Blue Ridge Mountains]], though Chris was too cheap to go there (he had been there with [[Bob Chandler|Bob]] using his "[[Wikipedia:Free travel pass|Seinor pass]]"<ref name="JackieChat6"/><ref>[[Jackie E-mails 17]]</ref>). [[The Miscreants|Top men]] calculate that the filming took place at the Saunders-Monticello Trail.<ref>[http://www.monticello.org/parkway/trail.html]</ref>
 
The result is a rare video that sees Chris active during the day ''and'' outdoors. The video is broken up into small chunks with [[Chris]] alternating between hiking and filming, [[Chris and health|presumably the exertion from walking up a slight grade requiring all the energy he can muster]]. In what can be considered the spiritual successor to the [[Sonichu's Edge|"Parkay" video]], he is immediately out of breath after the first cut and continues to deteriorate from that point. Along the way, Chris rambles about various things he finds, including fallen trees, and dry stream beds, which he repeatedly mistakes for 'rivers'.
 
==Description==
{{EmailReply|I took a hike.}}
 
==Video==
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==Transcription==
{{quote|I'd care to comment, but you know what? I'd just prefer to marvel on nature and its revels.}}
 
=== Transcript ===
 
[[File:Chris' River.jpg|thumb||What could be a 2ft stream, Chris considers a river]]
[[File:Mississipi River.jpg|thumb|The Mississippi River is 20-30ft wide]]
[[File:Chris' river 2.jpg|thumb||right|What could be a tiny creek, Chris considers a BIG river]]
[[File:Ohio River.jpg|right|thumb|The Ohio River is one mile wide]]
[[File:Ditch.jpg|thumb|What could be a 5ft deep ditch, Chris considers a chasm]]
[[File:Purgatory Chasm.jpg|thumb|A real chasm]]
[[File:Blairchris.png|thumb|The parallels are eerie.]]
 
'''0:00-0:14''' ''[Chris is filming himself with his handheld camera. He is sitting in his car in broad daylight. Children scream in the background]''


Quarter after three now. I'm gonna be making my way up a mountain trail nearby [[Wikipedia:Monticello|The Monticello]]. I'll check back in about a quarter of an hour. I've got my ''[[wikipedia:OFF!|OFF!]]'', an' got my camera here and my phone. Be okay.


''[Chris is filming himself with his handheld camera. He is sitting in his car in broad daylight. Children scream in the background]''
''[Jump cut, Chris has begun to labor in his breathing]''


Quarter after three now. I'm gonna be making my way up a mountain trail nearby [[Wikipedia:Monticello|The Monticello]]. I'll check back in about a quarter of an hour. I've got my ''OFF!'', an' got my camera here and my phone. Be okay.
'''0:15-0:27''' Ah, just a few minutes into my little hiking trail. So I walk off course to visit the little woodland theater or Palmer that [[Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church|my congregation]] and I visited one past Sunday


''[Jump Cut, Chris has begun to labor in his breathing]''
'''0:27-0:35''' ''[Chris walks up to the stage of the theater and pans the camera around the sitting area]''


Ah, just a few minutes into my little hiking trail. So I walk off course to visit the little woodland theater or Palmer that [[Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church|my congregation]] and I visited one past Sunday and now I'm gonna walk up further up the trail and I'll be back in a bit.
'''0:35-0:38''' ...and now I'm gonna walk up further up the trail and I'll be back in a bit.


''[Jump Cut, Chris is standing still.]''
''[Jump cut, Chris is standing still.]''


Another trail as got explored by me, so I'm gonna take a little look up the trail and see what's up this way. Check in in a bit, it is quite a mysterious forest. Along the mountain beside The Monticello.  
'''0:38-0:55''' Annuder trail has gone esplored by me, so I'm gonna take a little look up the trail and see what's up this way. Check in in a bit, it is quite a mysterious forest. Along the mountain beside The Monticello.  


''[Cut to dead tree]''
''[Cut to dead tree]''


Hm. A tree that has been uprooted by a past weather event, along the side of this path. Deep in the chasm, that forms a river. Which could be a river, if there was more water in it.
'''0:55-1:10''' Hm. A tree that has been uprooted by a past weather event, along the side of this path. Deep in the chasm, that forms a river. [[Random-access humor|Which could be a river, if there was more water in it]].


''[Jump Cut, Chris's heavy breathing is slowly replacing the narration as the dominant soundtrack]''
''[Jump cut, [[Chris and health|Chris's heavy breathing]] is slowly replacing the narration as the dominant soundtrack]''


Deeper and deeper into the forest the trail goes, where it leads? I don't know yet. There's a rock with moss. Moss grows on the north side. On tree bark or rock formations. I just walked across a wooden plank. ''[Prolonged gasping for air]'' If you think it's spooky. Well, you're wrong. Because it's only a stick I've stepped on. [[Obesity|A really big stick]]. North is that way! As I have seen, on this rock and it's mold.  
'''1:10-1:31''' Deeper and deeper into the forest the trail goes, where it leads? I don't know yet. There's a rock with moss. Moss grows on the north side. On tree bark or rock formations. I just walked across a wooden plank.  


''[Narration becomes slower and slower with more breaks]'' Huh, look at that. A tree bit formation with moss on the wrong side. Bet it got twisted and turned. That's why it's on the wrong side. Isn't it?
'''1:31-2:01''' ''[Prolonged gasping for air]''  


It is a sunny day in the village of Monticello. It's even a sunny day in the forest. Things may or may not be well, we'll see what what happens as we walk long this trail ''[Breathing continues horribly]''
'''2:01-2:21''' If you think it's spooky. Well, you're wrong. Because it's only a stick I've stepped on. [[Obesity|A really big stick]]. North is that way! As I have seen, on this rock and its mold.


Huh, another tree fallen. [[Chris_and_music#Singing|''[Chris sings]'' Free fallin']]. Cut up 'chucks. Ah, look at this, a bit of an open field. A field that is open for play by one animal or two, or so. Quite possibly, many more. I think we go this way in the fork of the road. Other way goes back to civilization and I'm not ready to head back just yet. Look at that ''[Chris points the camera at a tree]'' a shade of red on this tree. One would suppose, rotted? Or dead wood? Or perhaps it is just dirty from dirt and grime thrown upon by it's wondrous past.
'''2:21-2:51''' ''[Chris continues breathing heavily]''
[[File:Blairchris.png|thumb|The parallels are eerie.]]
 
'''2:53-3:03''' ''[Narration becomes slower and slower with more breaks]'' Huh, look at that. A tree bit formation with moss on the wrong side. Bet it got twisted and turned. That's why it's on the wrong side. Isn't it?
 
'''3:03-3:29''' ''[Chris continues his way up the trail, struggling for air]''
 
'''3:30-3:43''' It is a sunny day in the village of Monticello. It's even a sunny day in the forest. Things may or may not be well, we'll see what what happens as we walk long this trail
 
'''3:43-3:56''' ''[Breathing continues horribly]''
 
'''3:56-4:04''' Huh, another tree fallen. [[Chris_and_music#Singing|''[Chris sings]'' Free fallin']]. Cut up chucks.  
 
'''4:04-4:14''' ''[Chris takes a pause from his narration again]''
 
'''4:14-4:55''' Ah, look at this, a bit of an open field. A field that is open for play by one animal or two, or so. Quite possibly, many more. I think we go this way in the fork of the road. Other way goes back to civilization and I'm not ready to head back just yet. Look at that ''[Chris points the camera at a tree]'' a shade of red on this tree. One would suppose, rotted? Or dead wood? Or perhaps it is just dirty from dirt and grime thrown upon by its wondrous past.


Over here, there's another big tree. OVER THERE! Fallen and uprooted.
'''4:55-5:01''' Over here, there's another big tree. OVER THERE! Fallen and uprooted.


''[Heavy breathing, slow walking, shaky camera]''
'''5:02-5:21''' ''[Heavy breathing, slow walking, shaky camera]''


Quite a chasm down there. If that were water, it probably would be a river. A big one.
'''5:22-5:27''' Quite a chasm down there. If that were water, it probably would be a river. A big one.


''[Heavy breathing followed by a burp]''
'''5:28-5:57''' ''[Heavy breathing; Chris burps loudly at '''5:36''']''


Goin' up a trail, not down the trail. Goin' up a trail not down the trail.
'''5:57-6:02''' Goin' up the trail, not down the trail. Goin' up the trail not down the trail.


I'd care to comment, but you know what? I'd just prefer to marvel on nature and it's revels.  [[Random-access humor|A bug buzzing about me. Not busy as a bumble bee.]]
'''6:02-6:28''' ''[At this point, it's safe to say Chris is about to give up]''


''[Camera spends prolonged periods of time pointed at the ground, Chris is now gulping air.]''
'''6:28-6:46''' I'd care to comment, but you know what? I'd just prefer to marvel on nature and its revels. [[Random-access humor|A bug buzzing about me. Not busy as a bumble bee.]]


''[Two pained grunts]''
'''6:46-7:33''' ''[Camera spends prolonged periods of time pointed at the ground, Chris is now gulping air. Chris utters two pained grunts around the '''7:25''' mark.]''


Whew, a long way up we have gotten.
'''7:33-7:38''' Whew, a long way up we have gotten.


''[Chris is stumbling with exhaustion and stops midway on the trail]''
'''7:38-8:01''' ''[Chris is stumbling with exhaustion and stops midway on the trail. He [[Stress sigh|sighs]] at '''7:56''']''


Well I think we've reached the end of our trail, not too many ways to go, yeah? We have reached a dead end.
'''8:01-8:20''' Well I think we've reached the end of our trail, not too many ways to go, yeah? We have reached a dead end.
''[Camera clearly shows the trail continuing off to the right, despite Chris's claims to the contrary]''
''[Camera clearly shows the trail continuing off to the right, despite Chris's claims to the contrary]''


Rest a moment and I'm going to head by to [[Son-Chu|my car]]. Take a hiking trail of your own, if you will, in your own forest where there in dwell.
Rest a moment and I'm going to head by to [[Son-Chu|my car]]. Take a hiking trail of your own, if you will, in your own forest where there in dwell.


''[Jump Cut]''
''[Jump cut]''


Another commentary note, if you will, for down that big trail at that major fork with the clearing, we find an overlook. Let's take a look over.
'''8:21-8:30''' Another commentary note, if you will, for down that big trail at that major fork with the clearing, we find an overlook. Let's take a look over.
   
   
Hm. Vast glorious view from here. As was portrayed and enjoyed by a Carter family.
'''8:30-8:38''' ''[Chris approaches the overlook and shows a view of plain trees and grass]''


''[Chris points the camera at himself. He is simultaneously flushed, pale and drenched with sweat]''
'''8:38-8:47''' Hm. Vast glorious view from here. As was portrayed and enjoyed by [[Wikipedia:Carter Family|the Carter family]].
 
'''8:47-end''' ''[Chris points the camera at himself. He is flushed, pale, and drenched with sweat]''


Signing off now, y'all take care and be s-
Signing off now, y'all take care and be s-


==Notes==
{{clear}}
While difficult to try to guess why Chris does things, a person might find it odd that he turns his camera off while walking. One theory might be he doesn't want people to see how little exercise it will take to get him tired. Thanks to a map of the Saunders-Monticello Trail (found [http://www.monticello.org/parkway/ParkwayTrails.pdf here]), we can calculate the relative health of Chris by comparing his breathing with the actual distance covered. Using the scale of the map, estimates place the distance from his car to the Palmer Woodland Theater at roughly 822 feet. In addition, Chris had climbed 40 feet in elevation.


The map also conveys the length of the trail segments we suspect Chris walked. Adding those together and calculating the distance it takes to get to those trails yields a grand total of .59 miles (less than 1 km) before Chris reaches his “dead end,” wheezing and covered in sweat.
==See Also==
*[[Sonichu's Edge]]
*[[Walking to the post office]]
==References==
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Chris repeatedly refers to Monticello, the historic home of famed Virginian and Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, as ''The'' Monticello for no reason.
==External links==
* [http://www.monticello.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/mountaintop_map_0.pdf Map of the Saunders-Monticello Trail] — what an average human could walk through in fewer than 15 minutes without breaking a sweat.


==See also==
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* [http://www.monticello.org/parkway/ParkwayTrails.pdf Map of the Saunders-Monticello Trail] — What an average human could walk through in less than fifteen minutes without breaking a sweat.
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Latest revision as of 15:40, 10 September 2021

i believe in you. you're my little mountain man! but chris, think of how manly you'll be for me when you conquer that trail!
Jackie[1]
The "village" of Monticello

A Hike is a video Chris uploaded on 9 October 2010. As part of Chris's commitment with Jackie to make a video for each day in October, Jackie suggested Chris film himself hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains, though Chris was too cheap to go there (he had been there with Bob using his "Seinor pass"[1][2]). Top men calculate that the filming took place at the Saunders-Monticello Trail.[3]

The result is a rare video that sees Chris active during the day and outdoors. The video is broken up into small chunks with Chris alternating between hiking and filming, presumably the exertion from walking up a slight grade requiring all the energy he can muster. In what can be considered the spiritual successor to the "Parkay" video, he is immediately out of breath after the first cut and continues to deteriorate from that point. Along the way, Chris rambles about various things he finds, including fallen trees, and dry stream beds, which he repeatedly mistakes for 'rivers'.

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I took a hike.

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A Hike
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I'd care to comment, but you know what? I'd just prefer to marvel on nature and its revels.

Transcript

What could be a 2ft stream, Chris considers a river
The Mississippi River is 20-30ft wide
What could be a tiny creek, Chris considers a BIG river
The Ohio River is one mile wide
What could be a 5ft deep ditch, Chris considers a chasm
A real chasm
The parallels are eerie.

0:00-0:14 [Chris is filming himself with his handheld camera. He is sitting in his car in broad daylight. Children scream in the background]

Quarter after three now. I'm gonna be making my way up a mountain trail nearby The Monticello. I'll check back in about a quarter of an hour. I've got my OFF!, an' got my camera here and my phone. Be okay.

[Jump cut, Chris has begun to labor in his breathing]

0:15-0:27 Ah, just a few minutes into my little hiking trail. So I walk off course to visit the little woodland theater or Palmer that my congregation and I visited one past Sunday

0:27-0:35 [Chris walks up to the stage of the theater and pans the camera around the sitting area]

0:35-0:38 ...and now I'm gonna walk up further up the trail and I'll be back in a bit.

[Jump cut, Chris is standing still.]

0:38-0:55 Annuder trail has gone esplored by me, so I'm gonna take a little look up the trail and see what's up this way. Check in in a bit, it is quite a mysterious forest. Along the mountain beside The Monticello.

[Cut to dead tree]

0:55-1:10 Hm. A tree that has been uprooted by a past weather event, along the side of this path. Deep in the chasm, that forms a river. Which could be a river, if there was more water in it.

[Jump cut, Chris's heavy breathing is slowly replacing the narration as the dominant soundtrack]

1:10-1:31 Deeper and deeper into the forest the trail goes, where it leads? I don't know yet. There's a rock with moss. Moss grows on the north side. On tree bark or rock formations. I just walked across a wooden plank.

1:31-2:01 [Prolonged gasping for air]

2:01-2:21 If you think it's spooky. Well, you're wrong. Because it's only a stick I've stepped on. A really big stick. North is that way! As I have seen, on this rock and its mold.

2:21-2:51 [Chris continues breathing heavily]

2:53-3:03 [Narration becomes slower and slower with more breaks] Huh, look at that. A tree bit formation with moss on the wrong side. Bet it got twisted and turned. That's why it's on the wrong side. Isn't it?

3:03-3:29 [Chris continues his way up the trail, struggling for air]

3:30-3:43 It is a sunny day in the village of Monticello. It's even a sunny day in the forest. Things may or may not be well, we'll see what what happens as we walk long this trail

3:43-3:56 [Breathing continues horribly]

3:56-4:04 Huh, another tree fallen. [Chris sings] Free fallin'. Cut up chucks.

4:04-4:14 [Chris takes a pause from his narration again]

4:14-4:55 Ah, look at this, a bit of an open field. A field that is open for play by one animal or two, or so. Quite possibly, many more. I think we go this way in the fork of the road. Other way goes back to civilization and I'm not ready to head back just yet. Look at that [Chris points the camera at a tree] a shade of red on this tree. One would suppose, rotted? Or dead wood? Or perhaps it is just dirty from dirt and grime thrown upon by its wondrous past.

4:55-5:01 Over here, there's another big tree. OVER THERE! Fallen and uprooted.

5:02-5:21 [Heavy breathing, slow walking, shaky camera]

5:22-5:27 Quite a chasm down there. If that were water, it probably would be a river. A big one.

5:28-5:57 [Heavy breathing; Chris burps loudly at 5:36]

5:57-6:02 Goin' up the trail, not down the trail. Goin' up the trail not down the trail.

6:02-6:28 [At this point, it's safe to say Chris is about to give up]

6:28-6:46 I'd care to comment, but you know what? I'd just prefer to marvel on nature and its revels. A bug buzzing about me. Not busy as a bumble bee.

6:46-7:33 [Camera spends prolonged periods of time pointed at the ground, Chris is now gulping air. Chris utters two pained grunts around the 7:25 mark.]

7:33-7:38 Whew, a long way up we have gotten.

7:38-8:01 [Chris is stumbling with exhaustion and stops midway on the trail. He sighs at 7:56]

8:01-8:20 Well I think we've reached the end of our trail, not too many ways to go, yeah? We have reached a dead end. [Camera clearly shows the trail continuing off to the right, despite Chris's claims to the contrary]

Rest a moment and I'm going to head by to my car. Take a hiking trail of your own, if you will, in your own forest where there in dwell.

[Jump cut]

8:21-8:30 Another commentary note, if you will, for down that big trail at that major fork with the clearing, we find an overlook. Let's take a look over.

8:30-8:38 [Chris approaches the overlook and shows a view of plain trees and grass]

8:38-8:47 Hm. Vast glorious view from here. As was portrayed and enjoyed by the Carter family.

8:47-end [Chris points the camera at himself. He is flushed, pale, and drenched with sweat]

Signing off now, y'all take care and be s-

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