(panting)
(sighing)
♪
Colin! Colin!
Hey, Colin, it's Anna, just calling you again.
He has these big arms, but he's actually really weak.
Tells a lot of bad jokes.
-Any luck? -Colin!
Colin!
♪
(grunts)
Hey!
-Oh, man. -You asleep in that bush?
Wait up, um--
Let me get this.
I don't even want to know.
Classic Colin.
-What a dingus. -Vegas.
You better have made a ton of money on slots after this.
Good morning, guys.
Welcome to Vegas.
Happy you guys could all make it.
-Yeah. -I'm Mike.
-And I'm Kelly. -And we're gonna be
your guides for our trip.
This is the Zion and Bryce REI Signature Camp.
I think it's gonna really blow your guys' mind.
-You guys! -Look at this.
♪
And now we're suddenly in a forest.
-This is crazy. -Look at this vanilla wafer.
Kind of makes you want to cry.
And before we get started here,
we got you guys some welcome gifts.
That's just kind of a starter pack.
It has a few items in there
that you can use along your trip
that will help you have a good time.
-So, what do we do first? -So, we're gonna make sure
that you guys are well-suited for the drive.
It's gonna be about five hours in the vehicle
on the way to Bryce, so get comfortable,
grab some snacks, water.
I'm about to do some damage.
Ooh, it's so fuzzy.
We got jackets that look like pants.
We got pants that convert into jackets.
She's nice.
Get out of your comfort zone.
Go with a little color--oh!
Use the restroom, and we'll be on our way.
Come on in.
♪
So we just left the REI Henderson store,
and we're on our way to an adventure!
So, I am so excited.
One to ten, how excited are you guys?
Anna?
♪
Elena?
Well, this is gonna be a really fun adventure.
I'm excited, I'm a ten in case you were wondering.
♪
To be clear, we have only been in the car for 1.5 hours
and this is the state of the union.
Welcome, guys.
Look at the view!
Welcome to our Signature Camp
outside of Bryce Canyon National Park.
Your guys' bags have already been taken care of,
but I'd like to show you around camp.
-Cool. -Let's do it.
♪
Here's the tour. Ready?
Tent, tent, tent.
Didn't have to set up that tent.
We're really roughing it out here.
-We're home. -Mi casa is always su casa,
as you guys know.
This is the--this is the foyer.
This is crazy.
I had no idea.
I'm Colin's servant.
Anything I can do for you?
Can we just look at our view for one second?
It's so pretty! It's so nice!
I'm gonna weep a lot on this adventure.
Welcome to Bryce.
(indistinct chatter)
Anna.
What?
-Anna. -Kelsi?
Bryce Canyon sunrise.
-We gotta go. -Okay.
Elena, Anna, we gotta go.
-What? -It's sunrise time.
It's gonna be beautiful.
It's worth it.
-Come on. -What time is it?
I'll meet you at the car.
Kelsi, what time is it?
Colin...woo-hoo!
Sometimes my schedule is a little overwhelming, guys,
but I mean, this is so worth it, right?
-Yes. -My eye bags say "no,"
but my heart says "yes."
It's turning more red.
It's changing colors!
♪
Honestly, I have never actually watched
the sun rise before.
This is my first sunrise.
You might as well just be done with sunrises after this.
Like, you're never gonna see a more beautiful sunrise.
We're, like, the luckiest people
in the world right now.
If only sunrise was at, like, 11:00 a.m.
That would be dope.
Are you guys ready for some coffee?
Yeah!
Today has been unreal.
♪
Awesome and super challenging.
-This is what we trained for. -We trained?
I don't usually start every day
at 3:30 in the morning, but today I did.
I'm a little winded here, y'all.
And it was worth every second.
♪
I just saw the most unbelievable scenery.
It's like a hundred feet!
(screaming)
And then there was one.
I don't know that I'll ever see a sunrise like that again.
It was pretty crazy, I'm getting a little choked up
-thinking about it. -I got to share it
with some of my best friends.
♪
I ate the most unbeatable food.
The food here has been amazing.
Like, when I think of camp food, I think of sad food.
Just, like, a lot of hot dogs, a lot of sandwiches.
And they have taken such good care of us here.
♪
I feel like we packed so much into the day.
I'm exhausted.
All of my cells are saying,
"You really wore us out today, bud."
But I had one of the most beautiful days
and wonderful experiences I ever had in my life.
I grew up surrounded by beautiful landscapes everywhere
and I will tell you that what I saw today
was nothing near what I have seen
ever before in my life.
I feel like we're getting a peek
behind the veil here of what we can experience.
If this is the first couple days,
I'm super stoked to see what happens
in the next couple of days.
Nighty-night.
♪
Today, we go off to Zion.
Bye, camp.
♪
'Cause there was a small chance of rain,
Mike and Kelly had to drive us in, like, these--
Four-by-fours, I don't even know what they're called.
Which was an adventure of itself.
We zipped our way through another epic view.
We go up these, like, dirt path roads,
your hair is blowing in the wind,
and it's just the best way
to ever be transported anywhere.
And, then, they take us to this magical clearing
-in the woods. -All right, guys,
ready to see camp?
And we have this amazing campsite.
It's beautiful here.
-This is sweet. -This is awesome.
-Nice. -All right, guys.
Let me show you around.
I can't even believe, like, how much effort
is put into these campsites.
This hammock is definitely where it's at.
-Hammock life. -Check it out.
This is a cool one.
It's ours.
These are my digs currently.
So, these are a little bit more spread out
than the ones at Bryce.
Kind of nice to just have, like,
you know, a little bit of space
apart from people who haven't showered in ten days.
-(coughs) Colin. -Yeah, that would be me.
This is awesome.
You have no cell service out here
and you have no Wi-Fi, which I really appreciate.
And you can hear...
(grunting)
-Crickets. -That takes me to the kitchen,
which is the most important.
Oh, my gosh, Anna, look at this spread.
Craig had all these snacks laid out.
Oh, my gosh, is that Brie?
-Mm. -Just, like, above and beyond.
I want to be greeted like this at home.
Yeah, you could really get used to living this way.
Excited for what's to come, but in the meantime,
just look at that.
♪
-Good morning! -Good morning.
We are on our way to go hiking this morning
in Zion National Park.
This is kind of like the culmination for today.
How are you feeling about hiking up a mountain?
That's it right there, that's all she wrote.
All right, guys, here we are.
This is the final day of our hiking
and we're in for a big one.
-Are we hiking up that? -We sure are.
-Taking it to the top. -So, before we get started,
we just want to go through a few things.
Right off the bat, we should have sunscreen
going before we start.
Want to make sure that you guys all brought water...
♪
...you brought snacks along,
and that we're prepared for the hike
so that we can make it a good one.
So, we've been building up for this.
It's going to be a lot of uphill...
Starting to gain some elevation.
...but that's going to be super rewarding
because we're gonna have some fantastic views
-up at the top. -I think it's gorge.
It's like a literal gorge.
Wow!
See how the river cut this land.
-Yeah. -This is wild.
Your comfort is important to us on this hike,
being that it is gonna be a little more strenuous
than the ones we've been doing.
I'm gonna definitely replace a few cals this evening.
Just make sure that you're taking care of yourselves.
If you need to take a break, let us know.
We're more than happy to stop, you know, in a shaded area
and hang out for a minute.
That's a good place for a nap.
Taking a fiver.
Still a lot left to be discovered.
Let's go.
Cool, are you guys ready to go?
-Yes. -Let's do it.
-Awesome, let's go. -Yay!
♪
So, this has been one heck of a week for Elena.
This is the hardest thing I've ever done.
I have challenged myself both physically and mentally.
When I finish this, I'm gonna feel like a badass.
There were a couple of times where I wanted to quit.
This is hard, guys, I don't know
if I'm gonna be able to make it.
-You got this. -You got it, Elena.
With the encouragement of my friends...
-Oh, that helps. -Does it?
...and my self-determination,
and our awesome guides who were a tremendous support,
I was able to get to the top
and take in one of the most beautiful views
I've ever seen.
Wow!
This is truly incredible.
Kelsi, come smell this tree up here.
Is it the ponderosa?
Yay!
I'm someone who kind of, like, has a hard time
making me time in my day-to-day life,
and I'm really, really, really grateful
for this entire experience.
Let me know if you think it smells like
butterscotch or vanilla.
What do you smell?
♪
Oh, wow, it smells like butterscotch.
It really truly has been one hell of a week.
We've made it so far.
I will tell people about this for the rest of my life.
I'm pooped, I'm like a dog who has just gotten to, like,
run and dive off a dock 50 times
catching a tennis ball, and I am loving it.
I now understand why people have this
on their bucket list for their life,
because it's a life-changing experience.
I like to think of myself as one of these flowers.
While there aren't very many of them,
I do belong up here.
-I do. -It sounds corny to say,
"You've got to go on an REI adventure,"
but you have got to go on an REI adventure.
And I really want to do another one, so let's go.
Where else are we going?
This has been the trip of a lifetime.
-I'll never forget it. -What a world.
What a world.
You guys, we made it!
Yeah!
♪
Wow.
Wow.
(clacking)
♪
Colin?
Hey, bud, you all right?
Colin?
-Colin? -Huh? Yeah.
You okay?
Yeah.
Yeah.
-Shall we head down? -Let's do it.
-Let's do it. -We did it, guys!
-I can't believe I did that. -That was unbelievable.
We climbed above the birds, y'all.
-We did climb above the birds. -Straight up into the heavens.
Valhalla.
-Straight up into heaven. -Whoa.
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