Whiterabbit Creek (Featuring Matty Outdoors)

We are headed for Farley Lake. Got a group of six of us in total. Matty outdoors and a couple of his friends plus two dogs. So we are going to get moving here. She's moving high and fast and we're trying to figure out what we want to do here. I think we're bailing on Farley just to be safe because better to be safe than, you know, dead. I don't think anyone's going to die on It's no Farley Lake but it is a nice consolation prize. What's up everybody? I'm Evan. I'm Dani. We are adventure happy and here we go again. You can see the beautiful Abraham Lake in behind us there. This is our staging point for a nice just a single night overnighter down in the Bighorn Backcountry. We're headed up to Farley Lake this weekend. Tonight we are just staying here at the edge of Abraham Lake. Tomorrow morning we're gonna drive up the road a little bit and we're gonna hike in with some new friends who we have sort of hooked up with on YouTube so you will likely recognize at least one of them. Yeah for sure if you pay attention to backpacking YouTube channels for this area, for the Canadian Rockies, I'm pretty sure you're gonna know this guy. Looking forward to meeting him in real life and getting out for an awesome little weekend here so pretty pretty chill night tonight. We drove down after work on Friday. It's the second weekend in June and tomorrow we're probably gonna wake up to a cold rainy rocky mountains but right now it's like 22 degrees and just absolutely perfect so we're really gonna enjoy tonight if nothing else. Yeah so stay tuned tomorrow morning. Big adventures. Alright morning guys. Here we go. We are on the trail. So we are at the Kootenay Plains Ecological Preserve. We are just getting on the trail. This is the Siffler Falls trail to start out with so if you're looking for the area. Oh okay. Cody's doing some business. Pick that up. Alright just ran back up to the trailhead because Cosley did some business and we were right by the parking lot so it made sense to just go do that. Drop it off so I didn't have to carry it the whole trip. Okay so we are leaving from the Siffler Falls staging area in Kootenay Plains Natural Preservation area. We are headed for Farley Lake and by we I mean me, Danny and Cosley the adventure dog as usual but we're also joined this weekend we're here actually invited by Matty Outdoors and a couple of his friends. So yeah it's gonna be it's gonna be cool. Got a group of six of us in total plus two dogs and the goal is Farley Lake. Farley is about 16 or 18 kilometers up the trail. So we are gonna get moving here first major milestone is going to be the good old suspension bridge North Saskatchewan River Suspension Bridge headed towards Siffler Falls. If you've seen our Siffler Falls video you know what is coming. I'm gonna be carrying a dog. There's no water underneath now buddy. All right through the first hurdle got across the bridge now we're on the boardwalk. The Kootenay Plains Ecological Reserve is very sensitive I guess so they built these boardwalks going along here to minimize the damage. That valley up ahead that is the target that's where we're headed. This one's not so bad hey buddy. Nice get across the Siffler River right now heading for the mountains. This is the first junction up here I think we're gonna hang a left and start heading up. So we got a whole crew out this weekend Got Devin up there with his ultralight pack just leaving us behind dropping us in the dust. Of course you know me you know Danny you know Cosley the adventure dog and if you watch us I know you know this guy over here it's the legend Matty outdoors. Thanks for the invite buddy it's uh it's great to get out with you finally meet you in the real world. I appreciate you guys coming out I feel like we've been like I everybody I've hiked with the last little bit I feel like we've been talking about this for a bit so yeah it's good to finally get out and get some trail behind us. Yeah we got Matty's buddy Bo in behind me there there he is there he is yeah so whole crew we're out just for one night down in the Ram public land use area heading for Farley Lake. Never been out this way before we had talked about it once but crossing the suspension bridge you saw earlier Cosley doesn't love it so kind of needed a good reason to come back and do this one so this is it it's like the second weekend of June weather's about as perfect as we could hope for so far so far I'm supposed to get some thunderstorms later on today but anyways we'll see how it goes and um just great to be out so stay tuned should be a fun little trip all right made it to White Rabbit Creek outfitter camp it's pretty uh pretty set up back there uh good spot to stop have a little snack get our stuff together before we go down here just gonna duck across White Rabbit Creek start working our way up along the creek until we find a trail heading up towards Farley so far pretty good I was expecting the creek to be running a little higher honestly some of the trail reports I read said that this creek can get kind of kind of spicy but maybe there's another crossing further on that's where it's a little bit more interesting I guess we'll find out um yeah really nice hiking so far nice and easy mostly flat hardly any elevation gain just been cruising along uh hopefully pretty soon though we'll start getting some elevation and get some views going we've been fortunate so far with the weather too I don't know if you can tell but the sky started getting a little bit so we might get some rain here um but so far it's been essentially perfect hiking weather so it's been great coming out all right just gotta have something to eat and we'll keep moving all right we came across the creek uh White Rabbit Creek and uh came out into the Kootenay Plains here and this spot is nice this is amazing actually this is a great little camping spot there's a nice fire pit over on this side are you filming me filming uh yeah so this is kind of what we have to look forward to it's kind of wandering through the plains here for a little bit cause these off to explore we're not going that way buddy come on we're up this way okay so that little stream that we crossed by the camp spot was Wilson Creek this is White Rabbit another nice little camping area right here and hopefully a bridge somewhere around here that we can use to get across this sucker without getting our feet wet let's see just moving pretty quick pretty muddy huh yeah looks like there might be some logs laying across further upstream there so might work our way up a little and check that out we'll see she's moving high and fast and we're trying to figure out what we want to do here it's either wading across up here somewhere we're trying for the single log log bridge up there towards Devon neither option is super appealing how you feeling yeah yeah it is problematic for sure i don't think he's gonna like that bridge very much likes that stick though so that's good that's good yeah yeah definitely seems like no good options right now but um we'll figure something out so we're just kind of bushwhacking our way along the side here trying to find a spot that looks a little bit more gentle to cross this is actually looking significantly better here i mean we don't have any idea how deep it is there but it's at least shorter in distance so i mean i don't know looks a bit better we'll see we'll see we have to go along this creek for a while anyways so i might just kind of do it along this until we find something that looks a little bit more promising for a crossing so what are you thinking danny about life or about crossing a raging river what are we doing with about this uh little creek crossing in behind us here that makes me scared yeah it's a little the spot we found here like it's we could break it up into a couple smaller little sections and get across on the sandbars the only real concern is that tomorrow or overnight tonight it's supposed to rain 30 to 40 millimeters so coming back through here tomorrow could be much much worse so i think what we're leaning towards is to backtrack along the way we came in uh find a cool spot to set up camp and just hang out make it a chill kind of a evening maybe go for explore from there yeah there's a survey hill down that way that maybe we can go up get some views i don't know i don't know we're just going to kind of wing it um but yeah i think we're bailing on farley just to be safe because better to be safe than dead i don't think anyone's going to die on this one but um stranded could be pushing our spot button could be unfortunate results so anyways uh yeah we're going to start moving back the other way all right so it's official we're uh decided to bail on farley we're going to start working our way back along white rabbit creek towards kootenay plains we found that nice little open meadow and then we're going to kind of regroup from there figure out what we want to do next there's a tent we haven't seen in a little while busted out the old tarp tent double rainbow for this trip thought we were going to be doing a so wanted to lighten it up a bit brought the more minimal tent we only ended up doing about eight kilometers um got turned around at white rabbit creek there right now we're on the kootenay plains just kind of set up in a nice little spot between wilson and white rabbit creeks got devon's hammock set up over there maddie's over there and then beau being a absolute beast brought a whole eight person tarp with a um wood stove so if the weather really turns on us we've got a amazing place to hang out for the evening so yeah i don't know we're here nice and early trying to decide what to do next i was thinking maybe just going for a little tour from here and see what we can find got our cooking and eating area all set up over here had some lunch not a bad little view though it's a nice area wouldn't mind exploring it a little bit more um yeah so june white rabbit creek can be a little sketchy like we found a spot where we could definitely could have gotten across but it's more tomorrow that we were worried about because it's supposed to rain a lot tonight thunderstorms all night so if it's really swollen in the morning tomorrow it could have been a little bit sketchy not a bad consolation prize though it's gonna be a great place to hang out for a bit so yeah i'm not sure what's what's going on now probably just gonna sit maybe have a couple of beverages maybe uh go for another little stroll see what else we can find in this area so we had some lunch had some snacks hung out at camp for a little while looked like a little weather system was rolling in then didn't so it's like 3 30 or something like that and uh sun's coming back out so we figure go for a little hike um so just like a kilometer kilometer and a half from our camp spot there's a spot on the map called survey hill so i figured probably be some sort of view up there go check it out anyways it's only like 15-20 minutes from camp so might as well it's been a nice little afternoon definitely not what we originally set out for which is always a bummer but it's been nice just to hang out have a relaxed kind of afternoon and uh yeah we've lucked out so far it's supposed to have been just relentless rain all day and we haven't gotten a drop of it so fingers crossed that keeps up all right i'll show you the view once we get to the top of this hill yet another creek in our way this one should be pretty easy to get nice pretty sure that's it oh wanda just look at that balance so graceful nice made it look a lot smoother than i did well we got a bit of a view anyways survey hill is pretty treed in so i don't know if it gets much better than this but we'll kind of skirt around the top of it and see what we see just bushwhacked our way through right over the top of the hill got a nice little view as our reward the dogs are very excited went straight up and then walked along just kind of bushwhacked through here that's what we were hoping that you would do matt found a survey marker looks like so probably this far why survey hill that's pretty good pretty good little view survey hill nice little view down towards abraham lake sorry about the wind noise it's picking up a little bit up here and a nice little ridge walk on the way out you can see uh mount william booth in behind me there yeah actually pretty nice little view from up here glad we made the detour for sure it's uh it's no farley lake but it is a nice consolation prize and we managed to find the trail on the way up we just kind of bushwhacked through here somewhere um but on the way back we will follow the trail enjoy the scenery while we can head back down the camp here i don't think it's probably happy hour good day danny yeah i had a good day nice i'm tired yeah it's like it's not even six o'clock yet but it's kind of getting dark some stormy clouds rolling in dogs playing dogs still have some energy though i don't know where they go oh my god there they are they love each other yeah they're having fun best friends now which is cool uh any highlights from today i like being up on surveyor ridge or hill or whatever it was called survey hill survey hill yeah that was uh it was nice nice consolation prize it's a shame we didn't get up to uh farley but it was uh resort decision yeah it was i think i think having a nice time um let's see in that way is camp got the fire going um just settling in gonna make some dinner and relax it's been a nice night it's been or it's been a nice day and it will be a nice night yeah i think so clouds are rolling in so we probably got some rain um yeah won't be surprised we pack it in a little early just because of the weather but it is what it is and it's been great to get out i am looking forward to having a weekend at home though uh because this is our third weekend in a row out in the mountains we didn't film the last two just because we were doing some other stuff with friends and things like that it didn't make sense to so um but this is like the kickoff of the 2020 season really and there will be some cool stuff coming soon we have lots booked this summer yeah what's what's next what do we have uh canada day over uh we have six seven days off yes um so we'll go down to my parents cabin um and then maybe do a couple days somewhere in that pincher creek type area yeah somewhere southern alberta um southwestern alberta uh yeah this is our that's our covid consolation prize vacation we were actually supposed to be going out uh to ontario that week but uh no such luck um what with everything that's going on in the world right now so it's for another time we get to just play at home and that is totally fine too um yeah it's gonna be great it's gonna be great really looking forward to that trip so that will be the next one coming up so stay tuned 2020 season kicking off and it's gonna be a good one all right let's go get some dinner not exactly what we had planned having a nice fire and the storm rolled in fortunately bo is a legend and brought a gigantic tent with a stove in it so we're able to huddle up in here although thinking probably gonna be kind of an early night good times good times in the mountains things change fast half an hour ago you couldn't see a single mountain out in this valley because it was just nuking it was a good little storm but uh fortunately we got to huddle up inside the the uh tent with the hot tent with the wood stove got to avoid the worst of it and now it's a really kind of peaceful beautiful evening birds are chirping temperature's nice got a good little fire going back over this way so i think this is the plan for this evening just gonna hang out and uh probably call it a pretty early night running on a little bit uh shortage of sleep this weekend so it's gonna be nice to turn in get a good night's rest and oh just get renewed a little bit like nothing else does honestly just days out here just uh recharge you in a way that nothing else really can it's been an awesome little weekend um made some new friends had a really good time didn't quite hit all the places that we wanted to but uh that's the way it goes sometimes and it's been it's been awesome it's a really nice spot just to hang out and just uh enjoy being out here some cool people morning how'd you sleep not bad yeah i was uh this comfy little spot and yeah nice flat spot nice and soft ground a little bit of stream noise in the background pretty soothing it was very soothing very quiet in comparison to the night before but uh it's a good little spot yeah this little area in between wilson and white rabbit creek um it's very nice didn't rain a ton last night there was a like it stormed uh but it didn't go like all night um so we probably would have been okay to do the ford and probably wouldn't have been too bad coming back but you never know so uh we had a nice little weekend it was fun just hanging out at camp have a good fire getting to know some other people yeah just hanging out talking and you know yeah it was it was a good little weekend um thanks for coming along i'm probably not gonna film much on the way out because it's honestly kind of a boring trail from here to the back to the car thanks for watching everybody see you next time slight change of plans it's only quarter to ten or something like that uh we just got back to the junction where uh our trail uh white rabbit creek trail and the siffler falls trail meet up it's only about a kilometer and a half two kilometers something like that to the first siffler falls so we are going to go check that out um denny and i've been there before but the other guys haven't so it's going to be a nice little detour and siffler river is running a lot higher than the last time we were here it's going to be really pretty hiking from here on out we're just on the side trail that follows right along the edge so we'll be hitting some more exposed cliffs up ahead here um some really nice views but this part is a fun little hike for sure give me a nice little detour have fun buddy i love this area so pretty glad those guys convinced us to come along up this way it's a nice little detour how's the view not bad not bad at all what do you think buddy time to go home yeah we're not going to keep moving on to the other falls just uh the first siffler falls is the nicest one danny and i have seen the other ones before so once you get past the third one there is an opportunity there where you can leave the protected area and you're actually allowed to random camp so i might actually come back and do that sometime might make a nice early season type of a trip depending on what's involved with extreme crossings and stuff once you get out there you have to look into it a little bit but now it's just uh backtracking hitting cosley's favorite the old suspension bridge getting back to the car and heading on home it's been a really really nice weekend all right home stretch just back in the uh crossing the plains here on the boardwalk you can see some of the amazing peaks all around us one last little nice view before we get back to the car and start working our way home end up being a really nice little weekend like sneaky good weather weekend got to make some new friends dogs had fun what did you think had lots of fun yeah yep um still sad that we didn't make it to the lake yep that's fair but something to do for some other time yeah i think we'll try this one again try farley lake again sometime later in the year though we'll shoot for like a august or september or something like that when the creek levels be a little bit lower we're just about at the suspension bridge so that's where we're gonna call it a trip um you have to pick the dog up and carry him across again i'm sure it's worth it to have him along because he is by far our favorite hiking buddy thanks for coming along guys it's been an awesome trip and uh stay tuned more adventures coming soon good boy what is your yeah you made it good puppy good dog