This region of Canada is FILLED with Wildlife. | S1E12

There's a bear on the road There, ya Oh, there's a deer there Oh, so many cows Oh, I'm really scaring them now Oh god They run pretty fast Oh my god Well, I've never seen that before 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 2 to an Alaskan beginning Good morning It's time for another day of riding motorcycles I'm feeling refreshed and good I took yesterday off to do some work, which I'm not sure how that all works, but I'm definitely feeling better. Big ride today Let's go look at the map So right now we're in Cunel and I want to get near Vanderhoof. So, normally you take the highway to get to Prince George, and then you go to Vanderhoof, but I'm gonna take all these little roads in here to get straight to Vanderhoof. So, we'll just take it step by step and I'm sure we'll see a lot of amazing stuff along the way Alright! On the road again So, first thing I gotta do is get some fuel It's pretty cool that the bike has done 470 kilometers on one tank and the lights not even on yet Quite sure it'll do over 500 but, still need to get some gas today It might not sound like a lot to you like 500 kilometers on a tank but, motorcycles are notoriously they notoriously have small tanks, so you kind of um, you know if you want to do long distance travel a tank upgrade is pretty much mandatory In North America, you could probably get away without it, but already the stuff I've been doing, like I've not been passing any gas stations and the more north you go the less you'll come across fuel so let's see if I can not spill today, cause it always seems to come flowing out and I didn't spill well, a little bit but not really and I got 15.7 liters in, so I still had like 2.3 liters left so yeah, I think that would have taken me over 500 for sure so yeah, yesterday I got a tire pressure gauge for the bike actually I should have checked the pressure this morning but I still had that wrong size tube in the back tire I'm kind of being a bit lazy about that cause I I'm so sick of taking that tire off woah, what is this guy jeez trying to kill me it's a lot of wood I got a little pebble on my chest from that this guy is hauling, oh my god just lost my 360 cam I thought it was flopping around oops where did it go? oh, it's right up there I see a dark thing in the road oh, the lens is still good yeah, just I bought this quick release mount here and the idea is that it's easy to take off, but now the mount did not handle this abuse I guess remove that part I guess yeah, I was thinking like it sure is bobbling around a lot well I should pay attention to my surroundings shouldn't I yeah, well that should be at least more solid there's no quick release anymore oops just turned it on hello sorry about that little camera ok let's just put this back in wow, these mounts I guess there's just it's so long that there's a bunch of leverage on this, this one seems super solid alright well that was a bit of a surprise oh my god, these trucks are scary oh, there's a whole farm out here it's like nothing but trees and an old summer farm and cows oh, scared him oh, so many cows oh, I'm really scaring them now oh god they run pretty fast oh my god I guess the cows aren't used to traffic much, cause nobody comes through here oh, it's nice in here I've got a friend with me he's trying to fly Vanderhoof the geographical center of BC alright I got a few things from the grocery store and had a little dinner anyways, heading to Greer Creek rec site for some free camping on the creek, and it'll kind of take us into the the back roads, the kind of remote, more remote off the beaten path area but it's um what time is it now? almost 8 o'clock, 7.42 yeah, I'll have a little bit limited time to set up a tent and stuff, but should be good hello Greer Creek nice yeah well, what a beautiful relaxing day I needed that, cause the last couple days were a little rough with all those flat tires and some gnarly bits and steep hills and all that stuff don't get me wrong, I like that adventure, but nice to just take it easy and you know, just take it all in and just relax a bit so I really appreciate that and now I've got this whole, this beautiful spot to myself you gotta have a little bit of everything in life, you know so well, it's already been a good morning uh, I just had breakfast and I just saw a deer crossing the river, I've never seen that before anyhow, today we're gonna be heading to Houston, which is not Houston, Texas, but Houston, BC it's one of the little towns on the Yellowhead Highway, and uh, yeah, but we're gonna take all back roads together today, and uh we'll see what we find, it's just a really beautiful area, so should be, should be a nice relaxing ride, I hope could somebody explain why flies go directly for the ears as I was like packing up the flies, they just wanna go straight for your ear holes and I don't know what evolutionary advantage they stand to gain from irritating their target anyways um, so, our first stop today is Chislata Falls, looks to be a pretty cool waterfall that's kind of on my route, so I figured why not check it out, so as a mountain biker coming to motorbikes, oh man, it's so gravely here too the one thing that spooks me is gravel cause the bike just wants to kinda skate around on the surface cause the gravel just kinda moves under you, right? and it's pretty disconcerting uh, so I watched a couple YouTube videos about this and uh what I learned is that sit forward on the bike so you get a little more weight on the front tire or stand up but uh, I'm not very confident going fast on gravel, like it just really feels, in fact, I've had a couple moments where, like had like a bit of a tank slapper kind of and uh oh my god, that really scares the heck out of me oh, the other thing I learned is really light on the bars, you know just let the bike do what it wants to do don't try to force it to, you know I think also this case I have on the back cause it really feels like my the box back there is just like the tail wagging the dog, you know it's really just kinda changing the attitude of the bike so, I want to do a test, I just want to take it off ride that section I just rode and see how it feels cause it really feels like this thing is going, whoa you know, so uh let's just pop it off quick, gonna ride that section again and then that'll, if it feels better after that then that'll be kind of that'll help me to understand my issues but you know, I don't really have any context yeah, it's definitely better now the bikes, um the spring is definitely too much preload on it now, because there's no weight on the back, but yeah, so the back is still skipping around but without that weight there the bike doesn't want to shake around so much anymore but I need that box I need that I need the storage it provides but yeah, the bike feels a lot better now oh, there's the box there look at that it's a lake oh, it's a dam huh, go down here, I guess nice alright, let's go for a bit of a walk got my walking shoes on much much improvement over the squeaky boots, and it's kinda nice, I'm the only one here, but I guess it's Tuesday, so check out this snow, the snowmelt must be so high right now BC always has the the sketchiest hiking trails it's a beautiful little path, if I do say so myself and here oh, there's a deer there oh, the way he bounces, I already thought cause I was looking at the ground and I'm like, there's a lot of deer tracks here, deer season more, so it's probably the same deer I saw swimming across the river this morning, just swam upstream probably, right? Same deer? yeah, I hear the falls it's funny, after the falls the river calms down quite a bit wow that's a lot of water that waterfall didn't I expect it wah, spider I was expecting, you know, like you know, just a little waterfall that thing was gushing, holy man but it is pretty hot right now, and I'm sure the snowmelt is going off like crazy, so just a lot of water right now alright, just had a bit of lunch and uh, it's time to head north east no, north west I'm not an expert here Marilla FSR alright I think there's a bear on the road there, yep haha went in there somewhere just a black bear they don't do much to you, they're more they're kind of freaky cats most of the time ah, first bear on the trip! that's cool oh, and I just saw a bunny or something so we're heading to the Francois Lake ferry which is kind of cool it's just this big long lake up there and there's a ferry that goes across it and I figured, well, why not so I see a girl in the field working all day in the sun her eyes are dark as the winter's night and as bright as the morning sun I see that girl on the train jumping every time a whistle blows clutching her fingers to the band looking pale as an ivory rose looking pale as an ivory rose oh sister let's go down down to that river there bathe in that cool water forget about all our cares ooo Alright, change of plans so instead of Houston we're gonna head to Smithers because hotels are completely booked up so I got about an hour and 40 minutes to get there and, uh, yeah should be good music Alright, we arrived in Smithers and a lot of progress was made, I'm pretty happy about that Uh, happy to be back in the mountains though, that's for sure Wanna see the hotel room? I'll show you the hotel room It definitely has a bit of a smell in here I've kinda got used to it already but it's not great couple stains on the floor but, um yeah, it's alright Uh, and then out here, I can see I can see the bike down there next to the sketchy van but also, I can see the mountain which is, I believe called Hudson Bay Mountain which is a little bit of a confusing name but anyways, let's go check out the map and see what progress we made Alright, so here's our map of British Columbia and we started in Cornell and uh we did something like this it's a little hard to see went up here past this Bobtail Lake um, went up here something like this to Vanderhoof and then went down here and this is where I spent the night, so we camped there by the river saw in the morning, saw the the deer swimming across the river and then just went down here, just a little ways somewhere around there saw the massive waterfall that was pretty cool actually so then we went across this dam uh, and then what did we do? Oh, I think we went somewhere around here um to Utza Lake, something like that and then went up here to the ferry took the ferry across to Burns Lake and then just now this evening, I just tore up the highway past Houston, Houston BC not Texas and then went up to Smithers made it pretty far so far all the way up to Smithers not too bad, but like I was saying I'm happy to be in Smithers cause there's mountains here, and the next ride is gonna be an epic I'm really excited for it I'm not gonna spoil it yet, but uh, there's a really cool pass uh, to get a little bit west of here, I bet if you look on a few maps you might be able to figure it out but it's like, I've seen a couple videos, it's so cool, so I'm really excited to do that and uh, I hope to see you there in the next video, and also, I should mention this there's a button on the bottom here somewhere if you'd like ok bye