LIVING IN THE CACTUS FOREST || For Wild's Sake: The Rare Trout Chronicles

LIVING IN THE CACTUS FOREST || For Wild's Sake: The Rare Trout Chronicles | Episode 3

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Join us for episode 3 of For Wild's Sake: The Rare Trout Chronicles, season 1! A series which explores human beings relationship to the natural world, in hopes of gaining a better understanding of how and why we assign value to wild things and places. In a quest to illustrate rare and threatened species of wild native trout in watercolor, artist Chase Bartee and wife Aimee set off on a multi year, cross country adventure of discovery.
After years of planning, we finally pulled the trigger and moved full time into our 1985 VW camper van, leaving our lives in new England behind, and starting a new chapter of adventure in the American West. Being that the journey started in middle of winter, after reaching our new home state of Montana, we quickly pointed the van south to spend the coldest months of the year exploring the desert southwest. Though the trout were buried beneath a deep blanket of snow, keeping our fly fishing to a minimum, we were completely immersed in the incredible and unfamiliar desert landscape. Though the environment was beautiful, the rugged terrain of the Saguaro, Joshua Tree, and Death Valley National Parks would put our bodies, and more importantly, our vehicle, to the test.
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0:00 Recap
0:50 Intro
01:47 Freezing in Montana
05:07 Arriving in Tuscon
08:57 The State of the Saguaro
14:05 Onwards to California
19:20 Entering Death Valley
22:13 Credits

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@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

*Hey Everybody! Thanks for tuning in. Theres still tons of episodes to come on this season of For Wild's Sake, so make sure to like and subscribe and turn on notifications etc etc blah blah. It really helps the channel a ton, plus it means you won't miss anything, which is whats most important. Enjoy, and we'll catch you on the next one!*

@fredericjennings6391 2 жыл бұрын

Great stuff! Thanks, Chase and Aimee, for doing what we'd all like to be doing ourselves. I lived in my VW camper a lot between 1969 and 1971, traveling around the Northwest with fly rod in hand. Thanks for bringing back a whole raft of happy memories for me. Bravo to you both!!!

@PerryKiblerboy-of-destiny 2 жыл бұрын

The quality of this is mind-blowing. The transitions, the sound, the photography, everything is so well done. The content is great, but so is the production quality. I've seen documentaries on Netflix done far worse than this.

@TheFlyFishingFilmmaker 2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah totally, I've spent many a night looking for a good documentary to watch on Netflix so many that aren't as good as these.

@flypescaamigo7795 2 жыл бұрын

This sheight needs to be a Netflix series! The intro is so clean.

@gr8wallly 2 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks you! The intro was super fun to make.

@flyfishingphotoproject 2 жыл бұрын

Heh..I love the outros

@jamesbartee1568 2 жыл бұрын

Philip James Bailey tells us that, "Art is man's nature; nature is God's art." This kind of filmmaking and storytelling brings that home in such a beautiful way. Tightloops represent the best hope for a future for all our children to have a world to appreciate and enjoy.

@judsonl8990 2 жыл бұрын

I can't believe I'm just now seeing this! I live in Arizona and I love this beautiful state. I'm so glad Tight Loops got to experience it and document it in such a beautiful way!

@andrewmshuff 2 жыл бұрын

Your videos are absolutely fantastic. Came for, and love, the fishing content but what I learn from your videos, travel and nature documentation keeps me coming back for more. Thank you and I can't wait for more!

@WildeFische 2 жыл бұрын

You guys cannot believe how stoked I am to watch this!!!

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

yes!!

@NorthernRetreat 2 жыл бұрын

Very enjoyable series, can't wait for the next one.👍

@freebein 2 жыл бұрын

I am currently in the Cactus Forest and decided to search videos after filming the sunrise. I'm blown away at the quality of this episode. Simply amazing. Very informative. You all display the landscape so perfectly well.

@remingtonlittle 2 жыл бұрын

Music choice was so good! I can’t wait for the next episode

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@leemowers9395 2 жыл бұрын

Outstanding, thanks you.

@grahamkay8711 2 жыл бұрын

Really great to see you guys doing great been some time since the last one I was hoping nothing was wrong you guys truly do the best videos even though there was no fish it was still fantastic to watch 👍great videos your friend in the North 🤟🇨🇦

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Graham. Unfortunately I've had some really debilitating health issues all summer/fall. But it looks like there may be some light at the end of the tunnel. Anyway, hopefully we can be a little more steady with content now

@guyfromwa9911 Жыл бұрын

These are the best videos on KZfaq

@TightLoops Жыл бұрын

Awe thanks! That means a lot!

@FreakofNature1 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful! Keep making memories🍻

@ThisSentenceIsFalse 2 жыл бұрын

These guys are crazy...in a good way.

@Valasyna 2 жыл бұрын

The best quality stuff there is!!!

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

@petersullivan6708 2 жыл бұрын

All class! Thank you.

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

thank YOU!

@jdmevo536 2 жыл бұрын

Just finding this page yesterday has spark that fire in me to start shooting photos again! Man you guys are amazing! I hope and wish nothing but the best for you all! Wasn’t in the best place in my mind and seeing the big sacrifice you guys did to move in to your van made me realize to go after that one thing that I put aside and bring it back to life. Thank you guys again! Oh yea I’m also heading to Joshua tree next week!!

@cdeboer11 2 жыл бұрын

Easily some of the best story telling I’ve come across, thank you for what you do!

@marcbouchard6307 2 жыл бұрын

Masterpiece!

@billcahill8825 2 жыл бұрын

The wait was well worth it…

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Bill!

@nicgreenisen1399 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely superb editing.

@stephenbrody2717 2 жыл бұрын

These are really well edited. Thank you for all of the work that has come into making your vids a must. I used to go fly fish the hell’s gate wilderness in northern Az

@amarlow7 2 жыл бұрын

Outstanding! Thank you for doing Tucson justice! The beauty of our city’s location is lost to so many including locals. If you’re ever in town and need anything, including tools or a good meal, I am at your service, it’d be an honor to pay you back for all the beautiful videos and inspiration you’ve given me to get into flyfishing.

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I think that part of southern AZ is one of a kind. Can't wait to go back, and maybe we'll see down the line!

@DumpsterMarcus 2 жыл бұрын

Man I love your videos!!

@RiverbendlongbowsOutdoors 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome 👍🏻

@spiritreins1 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome !

@ILikeCatsMoreThanILikeYou 2 жыл бұрын

I can't accurately convey just how much your videos mean to me personally. I grew up in the country, surrounded by nature and at 20 decided to move to a major city. In the last 5 years or so I've been increasingly drawn back to my roots. These videos have give me the motivation I needed to make a major life change and get back to the natural world before it's too late. Thank you. I mean that, thank you.

@junmattison2830 Жыл бұрын

i see a lot of middle fingers in those shots lol beautiful work. i love how you caputure it so beutifully and the back stories.

@jacqueline7118 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful adventure! The desert surely holds a beauty of its own. Love the van but am always afraid it is not going to hold up, here is hoping it helped you complete your trip. I guess I will have to keep watching to know for sure! haha! Thanks for sharing. :) :)

@danielpanopio5894 2 жыл бұрын

As a native Phoenician, you guys truly captured the beauty of the Sonoran Desert.

@saginawdan 2 жыл бұрын

Every aspect of your production is the best I've seen on KZfaq. A real pleasure. Thanks, Dan from N. Minnesota 🌲 🌲🌲

@desocratic 2 жыл бұрын

Yo... Imagine if humans had to live 80 years before they sprouted their first arm. I love everything you two create. From the writing to the cinematography, and everything in between. Always a tour de force.

@dickmillet 2 жыл бұрын

Love this! I just left the Cactus Forest this morning!

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing! I bet you miss it already!

@Rez072 2 жыл бұрын

Great film. Great art. Correction @ time stamp 21:00 -- the largest tract of protected wilderness in the lower 48 is Idaho's Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness.

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I've heard The Frank get mentioned often in this discussion, but according to the numbers I've seen listed its short by almost 1,000,000 acres to death valley: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_wilderness_areas_in_the_United_States

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

And I'm not totally sure why you see those two conflated so often. Its possible that it has something to do with the idea of "unbroken" wilderness. The Frank is super remote, and its possible that it has more wilderness that isn't intersected by roadways or something like that. But pretty much anywhere you see this broken down, DV is number 1 for acreage in the lower 48.

@philjosephs7303 2 жыл бұрын

Marvelous!

@danieltyler2225 2 жыл бұрын

I am so excited for this!!

@CalledCollectiveMedia 2 жыл бұрын

Let’s gooo! I love it

@randysayers4369 2 жыл бұрын

Dr Seuss was from San Diego, so you can see a lot of influence in his books from that area of California. If you visit the San Diego Zoo, I swear you will see Trufula trees...

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

ahhh makes sense!

@Retired-nohurry 2 жыл бұрын

Great video.

@TheFIREFLAME53 2 жыл бұрын

The audio engineering of these series is quite literally the best I’ve ever seen on an independent KZfaq channel. Actually mind blowing that this is free. If you started some sort of Patreon as an optional thing, I would totally contribute!

@terp53 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent thanks!!!

@josephharmon8606 2 жыл бұрын

watching this on a Monday. Thanks for making my Monday more tolerable!

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for tuning in!

@jonathanmccormack3973 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@glorifyhymn 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic production quality as always. Thank you!

@JasonYapp 2 жыл бұрын

These videos are so good and so well done! Thank you!

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Jason!

@_nickhill_ 2 жыл бұрын

Wow. That was incredible! Looking forward to all the episodes to follow.

@jamesbutler6261 2 жыл бұрын

Definitely worth the wait! Great work!

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, James!

@richardposey5375 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent- Trout are indeed “Rare” in Ohio, only a couple streams, and they do not reproduce, but if you are passing through “fly-over” country, I have a Dometic 12v fridge/freezer I will donate for the sake of the wild..Journey on and keep sharing!

@brandonstewart4349 2 жыл бұрын

Glad I looked I’ll be counting down

@kenf4903 2 жыл бұрын

Simply fantastic. You never disappoint. Thanks

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Ken!

@johnnybgood8369 2 жыл бұрын

Stunning as always , thank you so much, i hang out for new content from you guys , cheers !

@robertquinn9098 2 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you are back! Thank you for the episode.

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Another one comin' in hot this weekend!

@biglovehomestead5488 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! Beautiful work! Thanks for sharing your journey!

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for tuning in!

@MrVodonos 2 жыл бұрын

Another incredible, visually stunning episode!

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@TitusLivy777 2 жыл бұрын

You guys make the most amazing videos! They're just at another level. Thank you.

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

@thomasgranjon3215 2 жыл бұрын

So good ! The footage, the storytelling, the van all is perfect ! can't wait to see the next episode ! greeting from France

@Gulgonful 2 жыл бұрын

Dang that was a good one

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

thank you!

@danielhynes7336 2 жыл бұрын

Love this series! Hope you start to feel healthy again! Going to do my part and share wherever I can!

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, Daniel! Slowly but surely!

@annesaunders1157 2 жыл бұрын

Mindblowingly beautiful and great storytelling.

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, Anne!

@cmoseman8118 2 жыл бұрын

Chase and Amy, this is just fantastic filmmaking. So glad to hear you’re feeling a little bit better Chase. I’ve been so looking forward to to seeing this series return!

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! It's been a long road for sure. Hopefully at the end of the tunnel!

@mantismamba 2 жыл бұрын

I’m about to cry watching this

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

haha our job here is done

@c-nigh8091 2 жыл бұрын

Gorgeous pictures as always... This episode was so interesting and the ecological message was perfectly explained. Thank you so much, you made my day !

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! We really appreciate the support. More to come!

@Melchorf 2 жыл бұрын

Sooo glad I found you a few months back, one of a kind creators... Hope you get well soon and thanks again for all the amazing and inspiring content you keep bringing to the community!

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Aw, thank you! Glad you found us too!

@TheWildTable 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing! So so good to see your content again. Watched every delicious minute of it 🥰

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

thanks so much! More to come!

@chadhaugen-leathertech4848 2 жыл бұрын

Found you thru Bound for Nowhere… the level of pro quality filming, editing and education your doing, all while living in a VW(!!) is totally epic. I’m so excited to see more of this, you guys are super talented.

@flyfishingjunkie5891 3 күн бұрын

I tried watching this at work without sound and without the narration it’s not the same

@ericrollins4607 2 жыл бұрын

I googled hipster and this is where it brought me. In all seriousness, good stuff guys -- looking forward to more.

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

ha! I remember when that term first started getting thrown around over 10 years ago. I was in art school at the time, and it was reserved for a very specific, and quite extreme group of people. These days it seems to just be a catch all for "young person", although to be honest that doesn't work as well now that we're in our 30's. Anyway, thanks for tuning in! Appreciate the support!

@cutthroat399 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Tyler sent me!

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Sweet! Tyler's the man! Make sure to check out the previous episodes, they're a little fishier than this one

@richardsousa2625 2 жыл бұрын

This is the life. If I don’t get out of this cubicle soon I’m gonna lose it

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Patience! It'll come!

@BlueLinerMedia 2 жыл бұрын

The cactus at 6:52 is amazing

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

I know, right?!? Walking around in the dark out there looking for cool catus' to timelapse under the moonlight was pretty surreal. They look like giant people in the dark.

@TheBodanzas 2 жыл бұрын

Currently sitting in our van in very cold weather with a single propane heater- this reminded me to romanticize it all a little more 🥰

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

ha! There are definitely worse things you could be doing 😉

@flypescaamigo7795 2 жыл бұрын

Yeeeeessssssaaaaaah

@TaylorTheFishFreek 2 жыл бұрын

So did you get to catch the wild Gila and Apache trout? So excited to se a video of my backyard. Hopefully you got to experience these beautiful native trout.

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

You bet! We caught apaches that spring (a couple episodes down the line) and then Gila trout the following October (many more episodes down the line). Make sure you're subscribed and stay tuned, because they're all coming up!

@ozwalks8185 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome cinematography as always ( where’s the fishing ) never mind great vids . U talk to much ( wow did I say that aloud ) Great stuff guys , luv the desert 🌵 Much luv aka respect aka I always use aka as well aka never been a cat human ( wow did I just say that out loud ) Aka ✌️❤️✊🇦🇺

@dorsalfishing 2 жыл бұрын

One for the algo!

@_thoughtcriminal_9102 2 жыл бұрын

This is really well made, you should go international for the next season

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Theres still so much to cover here in the US though! And for whats it's worth "trout" are a distinctly north american fish, so it's unlike that "the rare trout chronicles" will go international. But we'll definitely be traveling internationally and making similar content in the future! Subscribe and stay tuned!

@_thoughtcriminal_9102 2 жыл бұрын

@@TightLoops true, there's many rare and beautiful salmonids that will take flies across the world even if not technically trout lol. On a side note have you ever heard about the "silver trout" or salvelinus agassizii? A now extinct species related to the arctic char that only lived in a few alpine lakes New Hampshire having been trapped by retreating glaciers during the last ice age, they went extinct in 1939 due to invasive fish introduction and only 13 specimens remain they are little known and I've never seen a documentary about them or even a quality drawing of one I just thought you would find them an interesting topic

@iammifl 2 жыл бұрын

Can't stop wondering, how are you handeling living with a cat in the van on the road? Is he a house/van cat? Or do you let him go outside when you are parked and he always comes back? Great video! Love watching these :)

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

So, Levi was an entirely indoor cat for 13 years leading up to this. He never even went outside once. So he's pretty skittish about the outdoors. Plus he's pretty old, so most of the time he likes to just hang around inside and snooze under the blankets. About a year into being on the road he started to get a little more confident and explore the area immediately surrounding the van, but thats only if we've been in one place for a few days and he feels comfortable. So yeah, he'll hang around with us at camp a little bit these days, but we never let him out of our sight.

@trevorschu 2 жыл бұрын

That shot at 16:03 just wow

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

nature sure is pretty!

@Hikingindepth 2 жыл бұрын

The images were awesome in this episode, but the sound design was absolutely off the chain! I was wondering if in particular the scene with the bird's in the saguaros was the actual audio you recorded? If so was what mic are you using and how far away were you? The sound was so good! I also enjoyed the deeper dives you took on the Saguaros and Joshua tree. I'd honestly love to see deeper dives where an entire episode was dedicated to that one subject. Thanks again! 🤙

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! So, long story short, no, its not the actual audio. wildlife photography usually requires distance form the subject and telephoto lenses, and we havent invented the equivalent of a telephoto microphone...yet. So all the soundscapes you hear are made after the fact from a million different recordings. Some i took in the actual place, and some from a growing library of sound fx i've been building for years (I have thousands and thousands of different recordings). It's a really painstaking process, but also very rewarding when its all done. This technique, by the way, is called "foley" and it's how pretty much all audio in films (besides dialogue) is recorded. Its a pain in the butt, but allows you to achieve really great effects that you could never get by just having a microphone on site.

@_BlueHorseshoe_ 2 жыл бұрын

Bob!

@blueman5924 2 жыл бұрын

It’s kinda ironic, how we can so enjoy a campfire in the “wild”, only to then witness the devastation a fire can wreak on the ecosystems we so cherish.

@samshepperrd 2 жыл бұрын

And then little Big Brother remembered he needs a war to stay on top and gas becomes more expensive than Cabernet.

@Somebro568 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video! What’s the song at 17:51?

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I can't remember. All the music on here is either from public domain libraries or subscription services. Theres a list of all the music in the credits if that helps! But yeah, its not by a popular band/artist or anything like that

@MrTheHegemon 2 жыл бұрын

The amount of work done into the editing of these videos is breathtaking. I've seen much bigger shows with depressingly worse editing and compositing.

@desocratic 2 жыл бұрын

On the dead homies. I'm in.

@Headtrons 2 жыл бұрын

We got SoundCloud fly fishers now

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

@@Headtrons haha sign of the times

@TightLoops 2 жыл бұрын

👊