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"In every walk with nature,

one receives far more than he seeks."

It's been amazing for me. It's like, I'm literally

in the places that Muir's writing about,

looking at these places,

and he's bringing like a third dimension

to this wilderness experience.

"Thousands of tired and nerve-shaken, over-civilized people,

are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home.

That wilderness is a necessity,

and that mountain parks and reservations are useful

not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers,

but as fountains of life.

Awakening from the stupefying effects of the vice of over-industry

and a deadly apathy of luxury,

they are trying as best they can

to mix and enrich their own little ongoings

with those of nature,

and to get rid of rust and disease."

I first came across John Muir

with this simple quote of, "Mountains are calling and I must go."

And I just started reading more and more

about the early days of, you know,

protecting the environment,

and it really all led to Muir.

You know, he was the first guy that celebrated wilderness

and said we need to protect it for future generations.

And I went to Glacier Point

20 years ago and I saw the Muir-Roosevelt photo

and I looked out, and it largely looked the same.

And I had the realization that these people stood there

and said, "Let's think more than next year and in five years.

Let's start thinking like, what does America look like in a hundred years."

And I feel like that perspective has been lost.

And I find myself looking back to Muir

for that wisdom and inspiration.

"I am losing precious days.

I am degenerating into a machine for making money.

I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men.

I must breakaway

and get into the mountains to learn the news."

I don't really know.

It'll be okay.

I have never been winter camping.

Sounds like a good idea in theory,

but, yeah, I'm psyched.

No better person to be out in the mountains with than Jeremy,

I don't think, so, we'll see.

"What am I doing out here with this guy?"

- No. - What is the plan we're doing?

I think I'll be good.

We're just heading into the John Muir Wilderness.

Life's about to get lot simpler.

Food, shelter,

water,

snow.

See what the mountains are giving us.

I've been snowboarding in the High Sierras for over 15 years now,

and I've struggled to get into the heart of the range.

So, this trip, loading up a bunch of gear

with the goal to go east to west,

and hopefully have an opportunity

to ride some obscure peaks out there.

When it comes to snowboarding in these mountains,

these are big, serious mountains, we're in a remote area,

and it's really like a conversation

with the mountains.

So, the conversation has started.

I am excited.

Little nervous, but very excited.

We are off the trailhead

and officially on to the adventure.

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,

places to play in and pray in,

where nature may heal and cheer,

and give strength to body and soul alike."

I'm struggling

a little bit with the puzzle.

Not working as well as I wanted it to.

Get physical with it. I mean, you wanna like...

Borderline break fingers packing your pack.

Okay.

You know, the idea when I was thinking about the trip, like,

who is the right crew, and I knew right away, Schnidy.

He literally is, like the current day John Muir

who spends more time in that range than anyone I know.

We call him the Sierra Phantom, like you'll rarely see him.

He's out there every day and you'll see his tracks.

And then, we wanted to have someone

from a different side of the sport.

And I talked to Elena, she was just like,

"I'm in, let's go, I got this."

And I'm like, "How much have you splitboarded?" "Oh, don't worry about that."

"How much have you winter camped?"

"Never. But I got this."

And I'm like, "Well, she sure is confident."

You can't say "no"

when someone like Jeremy asks you to come out on a trip like this.

I remember watching his snowboarding in his movies,

and just being like, "I just don't even understand how he got there,

or the hell he is doing.

It's just incomprehensible to me."

My snowboarding has been so focused on training and the Olympics

that I feel like I've lost my love for it a little bit,

or it's at least gotten mixed up

with a lot of other emotions,

and been very result-based.

I'm really excited to be doing something totally out of my comfort zone,

learn as much as I can,

and get back to the roots of snowboarding.

Ready for...

Lug number 2

with the massive pack.

We're up.

We're up.

"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains.

Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life.

Every fiber thrilling like hot springs."

I'm nervous.

My skiing skills are sub-par.

You know that pain you start to feel it in your teeth,

long day with the heavy pack,

but it's a beautiful time of the day to be out.

So, all good.

We are at camp one.

Waiting to do this all day.

Yeah, team.

That felt so good.

"Walk away quietly in any direction

and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows

in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

The winds will blow their own freshness into you,

and the storms their energy,

while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."

Best thing in the morning.

Coffee is what got me out of my sleeping bag.

This is the good stuff now. Waking up, blank canvas,

beautiful mountains, no one around,

and, uh, yeah, gonna go play in some tall mountains today.

Price of admission...

Lots of calories.

Church is looking good today.

Finding happiness, for me, is so easy to achieve,

and it doesn't cost a lot of money.

How lucky I am for that.

Yeah.

Yeah, Schneider.

Good morning.

Look at it.

First star just came out.

The tents are probably 2,000 feet down.

Do a little headlamp-ride down to that.

Remember this...

Forever.

You...

There's a point where you're gonna sleep good

- no matter how cold you are. - No matter what.

- Keep having days like that. - Yeah.

What a day.

If it's not too steep, then we can, you know...

Right. Right along that side.

More north-facing too, so there would have probably better snow than,

- like over here. - Right.

There's a really nice, like, line in here

- that we were super-excited about. - Mm-hmm.

Big, big mountains.

Basically, we're in the known right here,

and when we drop into that side, we're in the unknown.

And I love the unknown.

I feel so lucky that

I've basically spent my life in the Sierra

and I continue to see huge chunks of terrain for the first time.

We're heading somewhere that way.

It's a little bit of a...

Follow your nose, got some ideas,

feel the mountains, listen to where they're saying,

kinda hone in on the aspects and elevation that we're looking for.

West is calling.

"Few places in this world

are more dangerous than home.

Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain-passes.

They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy,

and call forth every faculty

into vigorous, enthusiastic action."

Just giving a piggyback ride

across the Sierras here.

No big deal.

All right.

Try not to fall and die.

It's a trick to poleboarding, one hand.

It's like that thing could be, like a 6-45 7 deal.

I think we should at least go to saddle and evaluate.

Yeah.

You only get one chance to walk into new mountains.

We just crossed over into the, into the unknown,

and the whole vibe and mood and feel,

is different.

There could be some skiing over here.

Oh, God.

See how he does.

It's looking good. He's a good skier though.

Peter!

Peter!

Yeah!

That was the accomplishment of the trip so far, guys.

It's fun, huh?

My whole focus has been doing this for 15 years.

Elena comes out here, has like, hardly been on a splitboard,

never winter camped, and it's like,

"This stuff's fun."

It's driving me nuts.

It should be harder.

Ho-ho-ho.

Plans continue to evolve, look at that thing.

There's no way we're not going there tomorrow.

That's what I'm looking for, right there.

Just spectacular.

Oh, this stuff makes me giddy.

That's awesome.

It's just, it's perfect.

Couloir looks pretty fun.

That couloir looks awesome. Elena's couloir.

It's right there, right?

More like right here, so that's like, I mean...

We're close to 12,000.

Breathless, man. This is... Yeah, straight up.

This is just unheard-of.

What do you think, Schnidy?

Pretty fortunate to be up here.

Super grateful.

Party.

"No synonym for God is so perfect as beauty.

Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers

or gathering matter into stars,

or planing the movements of water.

Still, all is beauty."

The conventional thinking

back in the days that the Sierra was created

- by earthquakes... - Mm-hmm.

And Muir, he just felt that the glaciers

carved these mountains,

and so he went out, he took a piece of wood,

to a glacier, pounded it in,

measured it,

came back six months later and the wood had moved

eight feet, proving that there were glaciers in California.

Wow!

And they're responsible for

shaping these mountains.

That's pretty impressive.

So we're starting to hear more and more about last descents.

There are some lines here. I was talking to a buddy

who, um, down south is the biggest part of our range,

and he did a remote peak back there

that, for it to be ride-able,

it had a glacier that needed to hold ice and snow

all summer long.

And he's been trying to get back to it for ten years,

and he's like, "It's just all rock now."

There's no permanent snow on it.

So he thinks he has the last descent of that thing.

And now it plays out all over the place.

Just feel the granite.

So grateful to be out here

and to be doing something

that I honestly never imagined myself doing.

And the joy that it's brought me,

just in the short amount of days that I've been already is

beyond what I expected.

You know, I could stay out here forever.

You don't need a shower or anything?

I need a shower.

I think I'm probably pretty smelly.

But I'm embracing it.

You gotta get in nature,

fall in love with nature, if you want to protect nature.

I think that

there's more and more people getting out, which is awesome.

I just don't think

our elected officials value it

as much as they used to.

Like, historically, you look back,

it was kinda like a deal

to like, for businessmen and politicians

to go and sit by the campfire and see the stars and

I think that we got less of that in there right now.

Maybe you could have, like, take a politician

camping program...

We're trying, man.

It's kinda, the first question I ask is like...

"Do you get out, you know do you ever get outside?"

And it's usually like, "Ah, I go for walks with my wife."

That's what we're looking for, beautiful turns.

All right!

There you are, Schnidy.

Send it!

Have fun, man.

That's pretty sick!

Oh, damn, look at those curls, bro!

Holy shit!

Yeah, that is just perfect.

If you're able to just, like,

plant yourself and live amongst it,

- that's the good stuff. - Yeah.

Pretty epic.

Not making the Olympics, having to watch the Olympics on TV, I was...

- Beatdown, I guess. - Right.

And now seeing this,

being able to walk to your own beat

- and... - Yeah.

Clear your head has exceeded my wildest dreams.

Right, right, right.

With change comes opportunity.

That's hot.

"Another glorious Sierra day

in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed

and sent pulsing onward we know not where.

Life seems neither long nor short,

and we take no more heed

to save time or make haste

than do the trees and stars.

This is true freedom,

a good practical sort of immortality."

Twilight-y.

It is beautiful, though.

Got a little more purple in the sky today.

Little different cloud vibe.

It's like, it's definitely lighter.

I don't know how...

It's not like, not any smaller, really.

Oh, shit.

I love the crampons.

Feel like a bear with the crampons.

I like.

Pretty mean.

This is a hard start.

The crampons, heavy pack right out of camp.

Kind of a shocker way to start your day.

But it's gonna get us up high really quick.

It's just gonna hurt a little.

It's steep.

Dare I say all downhill from here with the heavy packs.

- Almost. - Most of the way.

I think we leave our packs and start moving towards that face.

Because of timing?

Just go get that thing while the getting's good.

Yeah.

Ooh, this is perfect right here.

Happy to be here.

Nice, Schnidy.

Good job.

- Yeah. - Good times.

Feeling great.

The air is clean.

The sky is beautiful.

The mountains are treating us well.

Can't complain.

That was great.

The snow looked good.

Oh, yeah.

It's nice to have that snow settled out,

take kind of the guesswork out of it.

You know, the older I get...

The older I like my snow.

Schnidy.

Is he good?

Whoa, Nelly.

Don't question the Sierra Phantom.

Yeah, dude.

You going for water?

"The snow is melting into music.

Everything is flowing, going somewhere,

animals and so-called lifeless rocks as well as water.

Thus, the snow flows fast or slow

in grand beauty making glaciers and avalanches.

The air in majestic floods carry minerals,

plant leaves, seeds, spores,

with streams of music and fragrance."

Packed up camp this morning.

Climbed over this mountain,

traversed, climbed another deal, left our heavy packs,

climbed up that, snowboarded down,

out of water, and so, just relaxing.

We're up around 11,000 feet,

which is top of the water source, so this is our faucet.

But this water actually goes into the lakes,

and then the rivers, and eventually to the homes and farms in California.

When we get these huge rains,

it just blows out all our water capturing system.

So rain does not work. Um,

snow is critical.

This little drip is going on all over the mountains, and

just like the perfect, steady stream of water.

Gotta go figure out where our next home is.

Lot of options.

I can do the kitchen over by those rocks, maybe.

Just says kitchen all over it.

Another night in the wilderness.

Getting into groove.

"Never while anything is left of me shall this camp be forgotten.

It has fairly grown into me,

not merely as memory pictures,

but as part and parcel of mind and body alike."

And I'd say, at the heart of it is why it's like super-frustrating,

where India, like your average citizen in India,

their carbon footprint is about 95% less than American.

Man.

And so, part of the Paris Agreement

is for these big, heavy polluters,

like the US, to go

to places like India and go,

"Hey, skip coal,

we're just gonna go straight to renewables."

And that's why

us pulling out of it is a huge deal.

Especially right now.

Party's on.

Yeah, Schnidy!

I'm alive!

Easter Sunday. You gotta kinda get, you know, cleaned up for Easter.

Invigorating.

Fire it up. Second lap on this face.

Just a line on it

that I couldn't walk away from.

'Cause some lines stick out more than others, and this one has been calling my name.

So worth the view.

All right!

Yeah!

Goes down the mountain.

Well, we came into this valley as strangers,

and now we got a bunch of new friends.

This morning we rode a peak over here.

Afternoon, we rode a peak right there.

And then

we're on a pretty fun line right now.

Memories are being made in this wonderful valley

that, I don't even know the name. Don't know if it has a name.

But it's a happy place.

Yeah!

- Wow! - What an epic night!

Being that it is Sunday,

Easter, I felt like we needed a Muir passage, so,

to celebrate what has been a day to remember.

Yeah!

"Fresh beauty opens one's eyes..."

"Wherever it is really seen.

It is a good thing,

therefore, to make short excursions now and then

to the bottom of the sea,

or up among the clouds on mountain-tops,

not only to learn something of what is going on

in those out-of-the-way places,

but to see better what the sun sees

on our return to common..."

"Everyday beauty."

I kinda feel like we did that today.

I would agree.

- That's exactly what we did. - Yeah.

Take the boots off and maybe just, just, like,

just do this and go for a little moon-hike.

I'm down.

Moon power. - Little rest. We'll sleep when we're dead.

Just get the last drop of life out of it today.

Sunset at 13,000 feet.

Far as you can see north and south, the range stretches.

So it's just...

Makes you feel small, which is a good thing.

'Cause we are small.

Oh, yeah!

Whoo!

Did that really just happen?

So fun.

Oh, that was the run of the day right there.

Fond memories here.

Place's been good to us.

As much as I think I may come back,

there's just so much to see that I usually don't.

But I'll always remember it.

Adios, new friends.

Thousand-year-old bonsai tree...

Looking pretty good.

Got a friend here, friend there. These are really old trees.

Elders.

"Few that fell trees plant them,

nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything

like the noble primeval forests.

It took more than 3,000 years

to make some of the trees in these western woods,

trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty,

waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra."

It's not like this particular land

is threatened by the bulldozers, so to speak,

but it's definitely threatened by climate change.

I mean, we were just camping by these whitebark pines,

and they're basically going extinct because it's too warm.

And every part of nature feels those effects.

I think of trees a lot.

I think of the sunrises and sunsets it has seen.

Ability to bend in the wind,

not be rigid.

Rigid doesn't really work in nature.

And I don't think it works in life either.

That's a nice tree right there.

Every time we get our heavy packs on,

we, like, have this goal to move 'em really far,

and we keep getting stopped in our tracks.

I keep seeing stuff and having to stop and going,

"How can we leave this?"

Nice to have camped down in some trees.

Means we got to walk a little further to our summits now.

Even these areas that are protected are like,

everything's being affected by climate.

It's unfortunate. When I started Protect Our Winters,

I would have never thought that the frontlines would be Capitol Hill.

- Yeah. - But we need support

by the Federal Government.

Right now they're dug in on the past,

and we need them fired up for the future.

Exactly.

That's our frontlines right now.

- It's 2018 mid-term election. - Yeah.

If we can move the needle on a couple of congressmen

we can make a difference, 'cause it's like because of like, three votes,

that we're drilling in the arctic now,

and the pipelines are back on the table,

and the offshore drilling is on the table.

Yeah. I mean, I think, for me,

realizing that

the choices that are being made now

are choices that are gonna affect me and my children,

not the people that are making these choices.

- Totally. - So,

for someone my age

to say "I'm not gonna vote

and help make the choices that are gonna affect me

for the rest of my life" seems...

Short-sighted.

Looks like about...

The same steepness.

Yeah, I'm thinking...

Yeah, similar steepness.

Nothing too crazy, right?

Just obviously,

have this exposure.

Lot of room. I don't... I think it kind of flattens out more, but just...

You know.

- Respect the exposure. - Yeah.

Do not be getting nervous.

Just like, really on the front of your points.

Knees in the snow, hands in the snow.

- Okay. - Up over to the crampons.

How was that, Elena?

That was...

Freakin' awesome.

Whoo!

That's pretty full-on.

Pretty full-on.

Don't look down.

Yeah, Schnidy.

So nice.

Oh, man, looks great.

Yeah.

Ha! Yeah!

- Good job. - Whoo!

This is freakin' so cool.

This is classic.

This is like a proper line right here.

Another nice half-pipe for you, Elena.

I know.

Nice work.

There he goes.

Shredding.

Yeah!

Sick line.

Celebrating in the John Muir Wilderness today.

It's been so cool, like,

I mean, for me, not knowing what I was getting into, basically.

- Yeah. - Just,

doing all of it, it's been so rad.

I'm excited about it, it's...

Totally. That's it.

Where else do you want to go?

I mean, I've got, like, a totally different mindset right now.

Yeah.

Here. This is where you want to go.

I'll continue to do more and more of this.

Oh, what a place to wake up to.

Spent the night by this beautiful river.

Nice to get out of the elements up high,

able to sleep under the stars.

Just a long walk to get here.

Being out here, surrounded by wilderness,

having that connection with

nature, definitely makes me want to spend more time out here.

And this trip really opened up my eyes

to this whole new way of travel and excitement

for snowboarding and for nature,

and what I can do to help protect it and keep it this way,

so that others can experience the same feeling.

We gotta go right now? Are you kidding me?

Looks like we're leaving,

but you're never really gonna be like, you know, leaving.

Still like, be in our hearts, that did it.

It's in these mountains, you know.

It's kinda where I'm at.

Hard to leave though, for sure.

Always hard to leave.

"We are now in the mountains,

and they are in us,

kindling enthusiasm,

making every nerve quiver,

filling every pore and cell of us.

Our flesh and bone tabernacle

seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us,

as if truly an inseparable part of it.

A part of all nature.

Neither old nor young,

sick nor well,

but immortal."

We are leaving the mountains.

We're not moving too fast.

With reluctance, we head that way.

Just to have that,

and the perspectives gained

from being out there,

it's everything.

It's one of our greatest resources.

And the reality is, if nature fails, humanity fails.

"The battle we have fought,

and are still fighting for,

is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.

Every good thing, great and small,

needs defense.

So we must count on striving for these trees,

and should always be glad to find anything so surely good

and noble to strive for."

Thank you, John Muir Wilderness.

You've been good to us.

Oh, I broke the sign.

I climbed a lot of mountains in my life,

but nothing as challenging as Capitol Hill.

All of this with the global warming.

A lot of it is a hoax. I mean, it's a money-making industry, okay? It's a hoax.

The fact that science is under attack,

that's probably the most scary thing of it all.

That's pretty crazy. It's like the scientific process

is no longer accepted as truth.

- That's dangerous. - Yeah.

When I started Protect Our Winters,

the last thing I really wanted to do

was become politically active.

But it...

No disrespect, um...

It became very clear that, for us as a society,

to make real change, it needs to happen here,

it needs to happen at the White House, it needs to happen in Capitol Hill.

And really, our lever there is jobs.

President Trump has pushed to revive the coal industry,

but growth in solar power beat all other energy sources

in 2016.

Like, ten years ago, the projection was...

- Say solar panels cost "x" amount. Mm-hmm.

And in reality,

they're 90% cheaper

than we thought they would've been ten years ago.

Damn. That's crazy.

In 2016, almost 90% of new power

added to Europe's electricity grids

came from renewable sources.

In fact, wind energy has now overtaken coal

as the EU's second largest form of power capacity, after gas.

Take Germany, an industrial powerhouse,

one day last December,

got 81% of all of its energy from renewable sources.

Lot of countries are getting more than half on an average basis.

The Danes get almost 30% of their electricity

from the wind. And by 2050,

they promise to be completely fossil-fuel-free.

We are getting passed-up by these other countries

that have embraced this challenge,

and we're missing this huge opportunity that the issue presents.

We can be leaders on this transition to renewables.

- That's the code. - Yeah, totally.

That's the key to the portal. Putting it back.