Riding with Gary (Volcan Baru Adventure E3)

This is where it turns and gets really bad. There's big boulders in the road and lots of loose rocks. And it's like, what do I do? Do I go up the loose rocks or do I go up these boulders and hope that my tire just grabs a hold of something and pushes me through. Same thing you did. I never did that. I was on the ground. That's exactly how I look. We're running into more and more spots where it's really steep and rocky like this. Big rocks. You can't really go over, you have to go around. What's funny is, I'll sit down at the bottom and go, okay, there's the line that I want to take. I'm going to stay on this side, I'm going to cut over there around that big boulder. And then I get on the bike and hit the gas. All that goes out the window. How many times is that, Gary? Five. I lost track. Four or five. Gary? Zero. Just found a little sign here. I believe it says we have 9.5 kilometers to go. And right now we're at an altitude of 2,356 meters above sea level. This is pretty cool. We're about five kilometers from the top of Volcan Baru and it's so wet so often up here. The trees are just covered with their own little ecosystem. There's plants and moss and it looks like they're giant chia pets almost. I'm going to get some little scissors and get my hair cut. Not long after I stopped to film the fuzzy trees, Gary came walking up the trail. He explained his bike was losing power because of the altitude and the steep sections of the road were becoming impossible. Because he wasn't prepared to spend the night on top, he decided to turn back now rather than risk being caught in the dark. Had Gary ridden just ten minutes more, he could have looked down into the crater of the dormant volcano. Our group of three had now fallen to one and I continued on alone. Next time on Half Throttle. We knew this would be a real adventure. In every adventure, a man should have to grit his teeth and keep going.