Hunting for Ancient Dinosaur Tracks in Northern Canada 🇨🇦 | S1E35

95 million years ago an animal came by and placed their print right in that mud and Yeah, they left their mark. So that's a track It's actually a bit of a treasure hunt. I'm kind of having fun now now that I've found a couple Now I really want to find more My journey 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 across asia and down to australia New zealand's southern most drivable point will mark the end of my journey I'm calling it the big spiral and this is act three across north america All right, the bike started this morning. How exciting Okay, um So I got to do that one thing in dawson before we head to tumbler ridge I gave you a little hint earlier It it has to do with alaska highway So turn left here So I think it's up there somewhere So there you can see it right there You are now entering the world famous alaska highway And I need to get myself a picture with that sign So this is basically Mile zero of alaska highway And of course I need to get a shot with my motorbike So this is essentially mile zero of alaska highway so I kind of did it all out of order, but i've i've pretty much done the whole alaska highway So it basically starts from here and finishes in fairbanks So I just wanted to get a shot, uh with with the sign because it's kind of you know The thing to do when you drive the alaska highway How do I do this? This is it's a bit silly, isn't it? Oh, that's better. Oh, that's better. Oh, yeah So I was just reading a plaque and actually the mile zero marker is right in the middle of that roundabout And originally it was a white pole, but then it got hit by a car so then Yeah, I guess they erected that statue over there All right, so i've done the touristy thing got my picture next to the sign uh, now it's time to head to um to tumbler ridge And i'm kind of excited for that because there's a lot of cool things all kind of packed into one place that you can go Check out And maybe the one i'm most interested in Is these dinosaur tracks? So basically many years many years ago, of course many years ago back when the dinosaurs were roaming around they were roaming around here And when they were roaming around here, they were walking through the mud Well, this mud has since turned to stone And uh, yeah, you can still see their tracks in the stone So I thought that was really cool. And uh something I definitely want to check out And you know the the thing is about this place i've never It's quite windy today. I've never really heard of it and still is until I started researching places to ride because this Is actually a pretty popular place to take your motorcycle. So It seemed like a pretty good combo of motorcycling and kind of exploring and checking out the interesting things to see so Yeah 96k from bluridge Global geopark All right, so our first stop is uh A massive waterfall even even bigger than the waterfall yesterday At least I think so from what i've seen in pictures it's a really really quite impressive so Okay, change of plans dinosaur tracks first sweet I realized I thought they're gonna be sort of in the middle of the route, but actually it should be the start of the route So dinosaurs are pretty cool, right? um So apparently these tracks have existed for 95 million years which is this seems just insane like how did they just It just seems so fortunate that they've lasted that long And they're on the surface and there's somewhere we can see them So even though the tracks are so old They were only discovered 24 years ago in the year 2000 by two boys that were just uh tubing down the river and apparently the story goes is that they fell off their tube and Had to walk back up the river and saw these tracks in uh in in in I guess in the rock So they contacted uh This part they contacted a paleontologist And then uh the paleontologist is like yep, you found some dinosaur tracks I don't know about you, but when I was a kid, I did not have the ability to Contact a paleontologist I wouldn't I wouldn't know where to begin Barely had the internet back then Oh, sorry Flat flatbed creek dinosaur footprint sites. Are they just on the rock here? Oh there already Is that it? Is that it doesn't look like a footprint maybe it is we're here too, uh Okay, maybe something down here lots of people walking around it does seem like These Very well could be dinosaur prints But maybe there's another path going this way going to it says original Dinosaur trackway viewpoint so Yeah, maybe all this is dinosaur tracks I think there's more of these ripples here I don't really know though because It also looks like you know the ripples at the bottom of a creek um but Okay, so I was just discussing it with them and I have like a little map So that's definitely a track but then down here it's way more obvious So that's a track And I'm pretty sure this is too It's actually a bit of a treasure hunt. I'm kind of having fun now now that I've found a couple Now I really want to find more So my little map here so two on that rock there two here Oh, I think they're all up here and then I can walk down there and it's going to be a bunch. Okay Oh, here's more. So I just found these as well. So actually they they pop up pretty good when there's water on them. So Yeah, there's a track right there. This is three toes like I can't do that three toes And then these must be tracks as well It took me a bit to figure out But they are here It's right there one. Yeah. Oh, you got it so fast. Yeah, and I think this one's here one's here, too Yeah, and uh, I think that might be one as well And then if you go down that corner there, there's at least three down there. Yeah Well apparently I wouldn't make a very good paleontologist because They were right under my nose and I was like, I don't see anything Maybe maybe they need to paint them for me So apparently there's three types of dinosaurs that left the tracks there so if I If I can say it properly ornithopods theropods and ankylosaurs To me the most obvious print was from the theropod because they have the three toes And uh, yeah, it's just like it almost looks like a leaf or something but yeah to think that these dinosaurs were walking 95 million years ago an animal came by and placed their print right in that mud and Yeah, they left their mark that i'm looking at 95 million years ago Now i'm pretty sure anything that I do Is not going to last 95 million years so Anyways, it's it's cool to kind of think about earth in that that kind of time frame because we only see like What's around us? And we only think about history Within I don't know maybe the last thousand years or so Ten thousand if you're lucky but uh The earth is an old place and these giant lizards Walking on their hind legs Were walking around where I am right now 95 million years ago, so It's it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool But anyways, let's go to our next stop Uh the waterfalls I believe All right, so it's 60k to the waterfall and I think most of gravel which i'm going to enjoy I think Oh here Canuccio falls, I think that's how you pronounce it. Oh, there's the gravel At the parking lot I suppose All right All right. Let's check out canuccio falls I can hear them already um apparently it's 75 meters tall, which is pretty high I was just looking over here and I think you could oh, you can start to see them a bit Just start to see it crossed over. All right, we gotta keep walking The best spot the best viewing spot is close Oh, maybe it's not the best viewing spot You can just see over the edge here All right, I have to keep going down but the rest of the trail is not maintained so i'm gonna have to be careful with my my squeaky boots Where does this even go? That just goes straight down a cliff This goes to fallen trees Is it steep I saw it I looked that way it looked crazy steep Did you guys make it all the way to the water? No, is it really? Too steep Okay, i'm not wearing good shoes either Oh, I got a warning about steepness Maybe I should have put my other shoes on you'd think they'd have a better trail to view these falls because That viewpoint up there you can't even see them. They're just you're you just see the top All right Yeah, look at this hill Hello, you think you'd have a better trail for these falls, eh? It's so amazing I find it's always super difficult to tell the scale of a waterfall from from video So it always helps to try to place a person in the shot somewhere so You can kind of see How big it is compared to that person So if you look in your bottom left of the frame All right now I gotta hike back up this in my my squeaky boots It's worth it It was cool. It was really cool. Yeah All right, well that was probably the best waterfall thus far actually Yeah, well definitely the biggest that's for sure um, it's uh Five o'clock now. So I think i'm gonna there's actually a campground right here so I think i'm gonna set up camp here and It's uh, it's time for bed so um Yeah All right. I think we're gonna end the video here. Uh tomorrow we're gonna head into the mountains and uh, yeah mountains are good