My Dad's Words After My Hike Brought Me to Tears
The last episode of the Ghosts of the Frank series. From Sleeping Deer Mountain to Challis. Giardia has set in and I am hiking sick, close to home but still days away. The road is too high to get water from the streams so melting snow is the only option. Long days, slogging along to get out of the Frank Church Wilderness and into civilization.
This series is dedicated to my dad, I love his final message in this video. Big thanks to all who participated in this series.
Ghosts of the Frank is a 5 episode docuseries created by Dan Noakes which highlights Noakes' solo winter ski traverse across the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho while also exploring the drama of the people who once lived, worked, and died there.
Ghosts of the Frank takes viewers on an emotional experience as Dan Noakes goes beyond skiing by examining the controversy of the Forest Service’s efforts of burning down cabins as it acquired private land in the name of preservation. It leaves the audience to answer for themselves if the mainstream Wilderness narrative has silenced the whisperings of the ghosts that still roam in the Frank Church today.
0:00 Intro
0:31 Ridgeline to the Road
2:12 Finishing the Hike
6:08 Dad's words
8:11 End Credits