This mountain was TOO MUCH for my Motorcycle | S1E20

Alright guys, so I have absolutely zero sand riding experience Oh god! I wonder if this is a good idea Let's have a look Bit sketchy Oh, maybe this is a bad idea My journey around the planet begins at North America's most northern drivable point The plan is to ride through Canada and America before crossing over to Europe From there, I'll make my way through the Middle East and Asia After island hopping through Indonesia, it'll be Australia and finally New Zealand The end of my journey will be marked by the southernmost point of the South Island I'm calling it the Big Spiral and this is act two to an Alaskan beginning Not as deep All right, let's head into Carcross And I believe Yeah, that's Montana Mountain there And that's the one I want to go up to Very popular place for mountain biking Well, now it's getting a little rougher Oh, yeah Oh, it's starting to get into the Alpine now I didn't even really notice, I'm so focused Alright, I had a bit of lunch and Let's move on, we're gonna Plan is to head up and around the mountain here but all these Roads I'm riding on are old mining roads 1904 there's a bit of a rush to stake claims on this mountain Because they figured there's a lot of silver on it As a result, there's a lot of old mining stuff Kind of left behind Like if you look down there, maybe you can see I'll get closer in a second, but there's an old slick Mine cart bridge thing but it was um a Guy by the name of Conrad. He was kind of the big big guy Behind the whole thing Unfortunately for him the mountain was not as rich as he thought it was So it didn't last too long, but there's definitely tons of mining kind of leftovers around so if you look over here, there's some Mining things And I believe there's an old mine shaft here. I guess yeah, there's like still like Track coming out of the shaft and Let's have a look Still snowing here Bit sketchy. Oh Maybe this is a bad idea Maybe I'm not gonna go past this 2x4. Oh, it's full of ice back there Yeah, oh, it's like then actually goes pretty deep. I don't know if you can see that but Yeah, it goes fairly deep It did a good job like all the used to a lot of had timber and Actually old trees. It looks like just like a literally a tree trunk here Anyways, if everything's like melting and thawing Maybe it's not a good idea to go in there It is cool to explore this stuff though Where did these tracks go? Maybe I don't want to walk on that. It's all Falling away. Yeah, I wonder like They rolled them out here to this dead end. And then what did they just dump the ore? Because they would have taken you know rocks and stuff out of the mine to process and So they just dumping it off the end here, is that what the plan was But imagine that's quite the job, you know Working in those mines really scary stuff anyways, uh Let's head down there and See what we see But yeah, you wonder about these these real bridges these mine cart bridges because they just seem to end I Guess they would just roll them to the end and dump whatever they had off the end Yeah, look at those pretty cool I'm gonna choose not to walk They're already falling over on their own without me on them, so yeah, you can see it's literally just they've cut down trees and Dragged them up the mountain and staked them to the into the ground All right I'm gonna go down there and I just Well, let's have a lunch. I spoke to a guy and he said There's a creek down there and he went to the last time he tried to go through the creek on his motorbike He went over the bars Lots of water running down here Oopsie From up here. It doesn't look too bad, but let's get closer. Oh It's two creeks yeah, I just gonna have a look because I Don't want to fall in and I Don't want to get hurt myself Okay So I think just straight through here Yeah, there's that rock right there where the water is going over But if I avoid that Should be good. I think oh You're getting nervous again Yes, I wasn't so bad Yeah, he told me how about how he fell in and I was thinking like I'm wearing two pairs of pants right now And they're the only pair of the pants I have and I got if I fell and got soaked well, I Don't know I'd wrap up in my sleeping bag or something I guess Because I wouldn't really have anywhere to go Oh, it's cool up here You can see Remains of some mining stuff over there Pieces of wood on the side of the hill Although I try to look at what I'm doing here Little bit of snow there. Oh God Oh Tried to go down a gear and went to neutral Now I'm on the hill There we go And now that we're at a stream I could use some water. So I'm gonna fill up here nice fresh water Snowmelt perfect All right. Oh, so here's some mining stuff cool And actually over here There's an old tramway so they would basically have buckets of these ore going down the mountain a lot of them have fallen over in hell, but There's still a few of these towers Or pylons still standing yeah, so It's too bad actually But yeah, you can see there's full piles where everyone is falling over, but this one's still standing I think they could do it without power too because They were getting ore from the top of the mountain and then bringing it down to the lake you can see that where the lake is there and they would just use the gravity of the ore filled in the carts and all you would need is a break really and Then the empty ones would come back up using the weight of the ore. So It's pretty cool. It's so old that it's cool to see it But nowadays like if if a mining company just left stuff out That wouldn't go over so well, but yeah, this is just old mining stuff and it's Yeah So I might oh, yeah, you can see like there's a Yeah, let me get my phone out there's some kind of like Engine or or pulley system down there. It's probably a steam engine Right by the water. They probably were like, yeah, we'll put it by the water because we need we need water for this steam engine, but Yeah, there's just lots of that stuff scattered around here and it's It's technically it's garbage, but there's actually a law in the Yukon because there's so much history around it That you're not allowed to remove any of these artifacts So I remember a while back. There's a bit of a news story about a guy. I think he was taking like a train wheel or a some kind of pulley or something and the police were called because Someone saw him do this and Yeah, he just had to return it back to where he found it so but yeah, the Yukon has a rich mining history For the gold rush and all that Let's travel here But wow, is it beautiful? So actually the other thing about this mount is is that it's a strata volcano Is there actually a crater here? Or a cinder cone, whatever. I don't know what you call them. I'm not a geologist Where's the itchy boot when you need her Wow, this is cool up here It definitely feels volcanic I'm wondering about that road there Looks uh straight up and then You guys see a road there Well, there's a hole I didn't even see that before there's a hole Structure there building Okay, okay, so before I go through the creek and get it stuck in some mud I'm just gonna have a look Okay This looks fine, it's not a giant mud pit And then up there Well, we're here let's have a look at this mining ruins All these old cans here and stuff They ate a lot of baked beans back in the day or whatever, oh my god, it's just hundreds of them Okay. Oh, this one has a label on the bottom. What does it say? Price cream baking powder Oh baking powder Those miners they're litter bugs, huh? Purple glass it's broken, but when's the last time you saw a purple glass bottle? I Swallowed cuz they they just built the buildings with the rocks they found around them. I wonder It must have been really drafty cold in the winter I Guess it's not allowed to see because the roof has fallen in covering most of what was under it But I guess there was probably a wooden floor at some point What is this? Oh Some kind of probably oil container Canadian ruins who would have thought The reason I say this Canada is such a young country and You know when you think about history you think about Asia or Europe or Japan But that Conrad guy he did leave a bit of a mess Took the silver and ran but he did leave some roads and Although they're a bit sketchy I'm keen on Trying them out So maybe we'll head up to that second lake and see See what we can see All right, let's see what we can do about this water crossing I wonder if this is a good idea. Let's go a little more. Let's see One more try This a bridge too far It is a really rough road. I'm gonna try It's maybe too much Rocks here I gotta turn around on this road Front is lighter than the back Into my kickstand, it's up now Guess I'm gonna drag it over these rocks Don't drop it All right, let's head back down But I have to say as I head down this view It's not so bad, eh? It's not so bad Sure enough to be an amazing day Well, there's one of the towers that went From the line that goes to the top All right, let's go do some camping Well, I didn't make it up to that second lake I really wanted to see what was up there but that road just filled with sharp rocks and I think partly my tire, my tire was just like you know, it's bald, so Yeah, but I really love that mountain Montana mountain It turns out that riding your motorcycle up a mountain is pretty rad and uh Actually, it's more fun going up than going down Going down, you're like you're really like, careful, cause the bike loves to go uphill, so and it's cool to see all that mining kind of, all those mining relics and stuff, like We do have some history in Canada It's not like Europe or anything, but it's, you know We have some, we had some stuff going on in the early 1800's and 1900's and all that stuff, so So I solved my sharpie problem I got 5 now This can't be a problem for a long time now cause I can't lose 5 all at once so, anyways Let's go to the map and we'll see, well, we'll It's gonna be a lot of drawing, a lot of drawing Alright, so here's our map of Northern British Columbia So, uh Last time I did this, I was in Stewart So I backtracked out of Stewart Went to the junction and then started driving North North, North, North, North, North Keep going, keep going, keep going Up here, up here and then I got to Deas Lake and then I went this way I went to Telegraph Creek A little bit past, a little bit past and then it rained and then I rode through the mud on the way back Lost my plate, somewhere here, somewhere Got a new plate in Deas Lake and then I drove North North, North, North, North, North Boya Lake Very pretty water and then I kept going and then I had my Frito Pie right here and entered the Yukon I was quite happy about that Still happy about it and then I went West Oh yes and kept going, keep going, keep going Went to Teslin, got some gas Still going Still going, still going Still going It was a lot of driving guys I got to Marsh Lake I think the North end of Marsh Lake Maybe around there Got a little cabin and then I moved up to a little cabin here and then from there I decided to go South to the Carcross Desert and scared myself in the sand I went on up the mountain here and then came back and then drove back along the highway and something like Oh no, we're by the lake Somewhere around here Since my last map update I've made a bit of progress all the way up there So the next map update I think I'm going to need a new map because this one I've gone the full length Anyways Thank you for watching this video I really appreciate you guys who keep coming back to watch these videos You guys are making this work and yeah I really appreciate that and if you keep coming back and you haven't subscribed yet You know what to do So anyways Thanks for watching and I'll see you next time