Miles Yet to Go / Bucket List gets dicey / Moto Adventure / Series Ep1

This is what we came out here for. Hey guys, getting into the thick of it now. Well, good morning guys. Welcome to the channel. Joe here with you. Guess where we're at? Moab, Utah. We're getting ready to head out into the White Rim Trail. Yeah, we're going to camp out about two-thirds of the way around the trail today. It's going to be a hot one. We're going to try and stay hydrated and cool. And have a good time with one another. The Jeep is carrying our gear for camping so we can ride a little lighter. We've got two T700s. Dave and Brock riding those. We've got a 300L Rally. Of course, my Yamaha WR250. A couple of KLRs. Brad and Bradley. What else we got? 501s. Honda 450L. Being ridden by Dave. A 1921 Husky. A Husky 501 with Andrew here. No, it's Anthony. Anthony. Staying safe, enjoying one another's company and watching out for the most fantastic nature you could ask for. White Rim Trail. They've got way too much energy. We'll see how they are about it tonight. Alright guys, we're out and rolling through the downtown Moab. I've wet down my shirt so I'm feeling like air-conditioned right now, but that's not going to last for long. Along the Green River. Making our way to the trailhead. It's going to be an epic day. This has been a route, the White Rim Trail, that I've wanted to do for a long, long time. The opportunity came up to ride with other guys. What a great group of guys this is. We're really having a good time. It's not just a bunch of riders. We share our faith. We share a common bond in our adventure riding skills as well as our world view. That's important to refresh yourself and know that you're not necessarily the only one out there. Water in the desert. Epic. I'm going to overuse that word all day long, I'm pretty sure. Well, we're finally getting into it now. Off the pavement and into the real deal. This, ladies and gentlemen, is how the original hieroglyphics happened. A bunch of teenage ancients. I'm supposed to have been in school, but they're out doing this. Okay, this is getting quite interesting here at this point. Looking down on the river. Don't look too much. Stay focused on what's ahead of you. Yeah, boy. The Green River down below is just about to enter the main part of the White Rim Trail, Canyonlands National Park. An awesome view. It's not exactly cool, but it could be a lot hotter and it's not so bad. Yeah, we're entering the National Park. And a little sand bed to welcome us. Keaton and Bradley, the young guns. They're up ahead of me. I'm number three. Everyone else behind right now, but I'm sure they're going to catch up with the old man. What? Yeah, I don't need it anyway. This is a prototype and it didn't make it. Yeah, I don't know exactly what the temperature is out here right now. It's fairly mild for the Moab Desert, but it definitely feels good to get moving again. As long as you're sweating. Looks like the trail just disappears into that rock. It is. Oh, wait. Wait. Wait. There is a way out. Come on. Come on, Depew. You can do it. Oh, uh-oh. Dave's down in the ditch. He's bound. Holy moly. I think we're on the Schaefer switchbacks. I have to keep that in mind. Keyword, switchbacks. Oh, it looked out a little bit. Okay, you can do it in a Subaru. I guess I can do it. Maybe. See if I can catch the down below shot without running off of this cliff. That would not bode well. Yeah, Depew. You've used up most of your adventure bike riding lives already. Just don't do anything crazy. Wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow. What else can you say? Okay, this right here, guys. This is what it came out here for. Man, and it doesn't disappoint. Nature working its magic. And we get to be a part of it today. Yeah, I'll stop that information ranger station here at the top. Here at the top of the Schaefer switchbacks. Time for a snack and hydrate. Actually fill up a little water from the water fountain. Well, it's a good road right now. We're making some time, finally. We could have four to five hours more to go before we reach camp. Good road, but dusty. We've got Brock and Dave on the T700s taking the lead. Then Dave on his CRF400L. Here I am on my 250. The little monster is doing great. Beautiful vistas. Great bunch of guys. We're having a good time. I feel a lot more energized again after a little snack and getting some good cold water back there. And right now, it's a fast-paced trail. Alas, this optimistic estimate of time left ahead of us to reach camp was not to be. This fast-flowing road kind of deceived us, but very soon it became extremely difficult in the way of sand, steep, bouldery climbs, and some physical problems some of the fellows were experiencing from fatigue in dropping their bikes and also back muscle spasms. So we had a lot of challenge left ahead of us. Epic. Epic, guys. Epic. There's the Green River down there below us. Hey, guys. Getting into the thick of it now. Deep powdery right there in that turn. And we're headed down there. We're down here in the bottom of the canyon now along the river. And that produces a sandy trail. Some of it's been pretty deep. Maybe 100, 200 feet long. Look at that. Awesome or what? And we're in some shade down here. Temperature's certainly tolerable now then. Not bad. Not too bad. A bunch of sand here. Oh, yeah. Hey, guys. We've been hitting it hard here for about 45 minutes now. Got down along the river bottom here and lots of silty sand. Everybody's come through it. We're taking a little break. Some tiredness going on. We still got a ways to go. Breaks are important. Hydrate. Snack on something. Push on too far, too hard, too long. Bad things happen. We're right here. At this point, we didn't really realize how far time distance we had still ahead of us. We'd enjoyed the morning's ride so much. Perhaps we had squandered some time that would have been better spent getting onto this portion of the trail. I think we go this way. Pretty sure it's this way. Nothing like a challenge, huh? I'm glad I'm not by myself. Dave got stuck in that first sand. He did go down. Yeah, we just rode up this. Deep, deep powder. Coming right out through a river bed or a wash bed. And up this rise. Some bicyclists, man. Hardcore. You want more of this? I think we probably don't have any choice. Anyway, we're waiting on some guys that went down and some deep stuff back there behind us. See how they fare catching up. We did not realize how deep we would have to dig into our physical and mental reserves and work as a team to make it on through to camp, which was still hours and hours ahead of us. Little did we realize we were going to be caught out in the dark. Boy, is that the truth. We do have a long ways to go, but we're going to struggle through it. All that is in the next episode. Like and subscribe so you don't miss any, and I will see you out there.