The Road To Paradise | Epic Jeep Gladiator and EcoDiesel JL Off-Road Adventure

The most epic adventures happen with like-minded friends. Especially those with a similar mindset and life outlook as your own. When you can travel far, face challenges together, you form a true brotherhood. The eco-diesel breaks down. These are the adventures that we will tell our kids and our grandkids about. This is how we make memories that will last a lifetime. My name is Sean and this is the story till now. Brought to you in part by Epic Adventure Outfitters. We're cruising along just trying to get this trip underway. All of a sudden the eco-diesel breaks down on the highway. What's going on? You blow a fuse? I don't know. I said service electronic throttle control. He was flooring it. Flooring it. I'm trying to catch up to him. I'm going 120 uphill trying to catch this guy. All of a sudden he slams on his brakes and he's like, I'm getting engine codes. I guess it's getting too hot. Looks like you're having some epic problems with your diesel. We just stopped in Kamloops to fuel up. Let's get an update on the eco-diesel. I'm done fueling and somebody wants to use the diesel I think. So I think what happened was we hit the steepest incline on the coca-cola and of course, you know, I didn't want to slow down. So I was in the fast lane trying to do like 120 and keep up with the rest of the traffic. Foot to the floor. And I don't think that the computer was happy that I had my foot to the floor and we weren't accelerating. We're actually decelerating with all the torque of the diesel. What happened here is he was trying to pull ahead, trying to show that his eco-diesel was superior to the Gladiator and he broke it. First code though, I mean. Yeah, first code. So there you go. Torture test, right? So we just met up with Clint from Dirt Garage and his crew after driving about eight hours across the province. And now we're trying to find camp for the night because we're really going to get started on this adventure tomorrow. But we're willing a little bit to get to camp tonight. This is pretty nice up here. Some pretty good views and the road is pretty rough. So I'll check in with you guys when we get to camp because I got to focus on driving. We pulled into camp as it was getting dark and after a long day driving, we quickly called it a night. Bacon, bacon. Oh yeah. Yeah, it's important. Too bad the steam's not coming out of the coffee anymore. No steam coming out of the coffee? Come on, man. I should almost relight it for the shot. All right, it's morning one of day one of a three-day trip. We just drove halfway across. No, we drove all the way across BC to meet up with my friend Clint from Dirt Garage. Hey guys, dude, it's so nice to see you. I'm glad you made it. Yeah, it's nice to finally meet you. My hands are covered in bacon grease, I'm sorry. He's making up some bacon before we get on our way. We're headed up to a glacier, I believe, today. Yeah, we'll see a few glaciers this weekend, I'm pretty sure. We packed up and were quickly on our way. After some bacon breakfast, of course. I was excited to get out onto this new terrain and see what it has in store for us. It wasn't long before we started hitting some rocks and water crossings and it was shaping up to be a pretty epic day. This trail is super fun so far, but it's a little bit tight in a few spots and Clint just lost a mirror. It didn't take long. Didn't take long at all, eh? First bit of trail damage. Oh no, trail damage. Yeah, it's pretty much like the optimal thing to break, right? It doesn't suck that much. The only crappy part is I've got them paint matched. So Clint, while we're stopped here, you want to give me a little bit of info on this beast? Oh, of course. This is my 1989 Toyota pickup. It's got the solid axle swap with the Trail Gear 3-inch kit. I'm running 37-inch Toyos. It's got the 3.4 from like a 2000 Tacoma 4Runner type feel. I've also got the TRD Supercharger on it. e-locker front, launch box, locker rear. Pretty simple. Recently did the mirror delete kit. I don't know what else to say about it. It's got the dual transfer cases. That's something a lot of the Toyota guys will really like. Stock gears in both transfer cases. If you guys want to see more of this truck, make sure you subscribe to Dirt Garage. Good channel. Great footage. Great guy. Get on it. Well, thanks, Sean. The next section of trail was not only completely washed out, but was still in the process of being washed out by the overflowing creek next to it. Although late snow melt this year, the water is high everywhere. After crossing a rocky landslide fairly easily, I drove right off the road into a stealth hole. It was stealth. That's my story. I'm sticking to it. Guys, I drove off the road a little bit. Got myself into a hole. It's going to require a little winch action, I think. So I'm going to grab a recovery bag, spool out the Freedom Recovery Gear winch line, hook up to a tree over here. See if we can drag out of here. There's also a stump sticking into my back driver's side tire that I don't want to go any closer to because I might pop the bead or the tire. So we're trying to avoid that. All right, you're out now. Sweet. That was sloppy. Yeah. We made our way through multiple landslides along this section, each being a bit more challenging than the one before it. Guys, we had a landslide here. We're going to have to dig out the side of the road a little bit so we can get past. It'll be fun. This landslide doesn't look too difficult from this angle, but it was an extremely thin road on a bad angle and it definitely made me sweat a little. Next up, a section called Boulder Alley. I can kind of see why it got that name. Nice one. Yeah, buddy. That was a crazy line. How's that? It looked good. I suspect this little bushy section is responsible for about three new dents on the Gladiator. What a trail. And the payoff? Pretty decent. We made it to this glacial lake. Crazy trail. Super fun. Is this where he said to meet for the margaritas? All right, it's time to cook up some lunch. So we got some lamb skewers going on the grill. I love lunch. So do I. I was saying that this is probably one of the most beautiful trails, even after going to Mali a couple weeks ago. This is pretty crazy. There's a variety of this trail and the scenery. Let me just pan up here. Holy! Yeah, it's pretty darn good. Oh yeah. Don't drive over that, okay? Geez. I don't even want to stand on this. Yeah, I know. You can feel it. You can feel it moving. Holy. A crumbling bridge over a raging glacier melt river. What could go wrong? Well guys, we drove all the way up to this, well, partial way up to this glacier. There's a big pile of snow in the middle of the road. I don't think we're shoveling this one, but you know, I don't want to speak out of turn. That could happen. Pretty crazy waterfall here. The sun is setting. We're going to set up camp somewhere around here. Pretty epic views. Good morning. We slept here at the base of these beautiful glaciers. The patterns and shapes on this massive glacier almost feel otherworldly. It is truly awe-inspiring. All right guys, we had to go back over this bridge. Somehow it looks even sketchier than when we went across it yesterday. We're pulling out the max tracks. We're going to make a bit more of a bridge. Hopefully that helps. Get another chance on sketchy bridge. Yeah. Round two, we can see it in a bit better light. It looks worse than yesterday. Like I feel like this is worse than yesterday, isn't it? Yep. I'm not going to lie, guys. I love this stuff. So we just stopped for a quick break here before we head up into this crazy mountain range. What's the craziest? It's looking pretty crazy. It's a pretty steep climb on some shale. You see the red line we're climbing up? Yeah. It's going to be fun. Nothing like heading up a dangerous looking mountain pass with a big road close sign to get the adrenaline pumping. Guys, we made it to this epic glacier lake. It's super green and it's only one thing left to do. Jump in the lake and drink some margaritas. Oh, man. Be careful. It's hard to swim back. It's so much deeper than you think, too. How do you feel about that? Yeah, I don't feel anything. So much bigger. I'm going to put a bunch of tequila. One, two, three. Glass. I ruined my glass. Cheers. Cheers to overlanding. Oh, my God. They're so good. Guys, make sure you hit the subscribe button for margaritas on a glacier next to a glacier lake that we swam in. Also, buy our merch. Dirtyanddangerous.com. And subscribe to Clint at Dirt Garage, too. He also likes margaritas. And me at Casey250. I've got a brain freeze. This was going to be the final night of the trip, and we couldn't have asked for a better place to end it. All right, guys, this is what's going on. We're making dinner, but we've noticed this crazy rock formation here, and I feel like we kind of have to fly the drone through it. So we're going to do it to end the day off right, then we're going to eat dinner. Check this out. Thanks for watching, guys. If you enjoyed this adventure, we do this every week, so smash that subscribe button for me, and I'll see you next time. If you guys want to see another perspective of this adventure, make sure you subscribe to Casey250 and Dirt Garage.