Running out of Water, I have 90km of Rough Desert to go | S1E54

My backpack's really light now and I must be super low on water now, so. Oh, so dusty. 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, officially on White Rim Trail. Apparently the land of big ruts. Feel good? Amazing trail, but I had no idea it was like this. It's maybe harder than I thought. Oh wow, look at all these guys. Got guys littered on the hill. Littered? Oh no. We got a bike broken down. This is turning into a bit of a golf show, isn't it? Just bent my shifter really bad. All right, I gotta stop sometime to camp because the sun's getting pretty low now. All right, good morning from White Rim Trail, Utah. If you watched my last video, you'll have seen that I've gotten myself into a little bit of trouble. I honestly thought this trail was more of a road and that I'd be moving through it a lot faster, but it's actually quite technical and fairly slow. And I've only made it about halfway through. And to be honest with you, I'm a little low on water. So I've woken up earlier this morning, it's still cool out and I want to get going before it gets too warm and I start drinking too much. So yeah, maybe we should get going. All right. So I think I still got somewhere between 60 and 80K still to do in this trail. So yeah, I need to get a move on. There's the sun. But I have to say, I'm definitely getting more comfortable in this loose, sandy stuff. I'm still no expert, but it's definitely improved since my start yesterday. Oh, it's, when the sun comes out, it's so beautiful. Oh, it's a Rivian. Oh, it's so dusty. It's getting techy. Can't see much. Oh, getting some views now. Well, I guess I'm going down the Mesa now. All right. Let's see how this goes. Wow, this is quite the thing. I'm looking at here. It's not too bad, it's not too bad. So far, it seems like the other end of the trail that I started at is definitely the gnarlier bit. This is a lot faster. Whoa. Oh my God. What a place. Man, it's so beautiful here. And the weird thing is, is that this road was made by the Atomic Energy Commission in the 1950s because they wanted prospectors to come in here and look for uranium. And well, it turns out they didn't find much uranium, but we got the road out of the deal. So, but yeah, the road is great. I think this end is definitely easier than the end I started on. And I think, I'm not sure, but from what other people have been saying, this end is easier. So it's probably a good thing. My backpack's really light now and I must be super low on water now. So I got to get going and maybe without the jacket now. Oh, it's a rock slab. This is probably the steepest rock slab I've done on my bike. I'm very fortunate to be here. This is really a crazy place. You know, I've been to Moab before, but I've never done this trail. I've only seen the trail from above, from a viewpoint, but I think the views down here are better. It's funny because the reason I saw this gravel is because I was looking from that viewpoint. And I looked down, I'm like, oh, it's just gravel. Wow. This is where the trail goes. So cool. Look at this place, man. Seriously, a Roadrunner cartoon. Expect a big anvil to drop on my head at some point. Feel like I'm in the Flintstones. It's bedrock here. This is bonkers, no? This is crazy. What an amazing place. Like this is just insane. Look at this. And it's surprisingly green too. Wow. This is just bonkers, like such majesty. Look at that. I think this is the end of the weight rim. And then if I turn left, I can climb up to the top, which is quite the climb. Or I can turn right and go to Moab. I kind of want to go up that climb, but I also want to go back to Moab and get some water, drink something sweet. Okay. Oh, Moab. To the right. Doesn't look much better. I might drink the rest of my water now. Let me maybe just, just check how far to this to Moab. All right, turning right. And I'm going to take Potash Road. Oh, it's the Flintstones, isn't it? Bedrock. Fred and Wilmar, just around the corner. Oh, this road is really cool. I was expecting, you know, after finishing the weight rim, I thought it was just going to be like, all right, let's just cruise. But actually, wow, this is really nice. Oh, slick rock. Oh, some motorcyclists. Wow. I had no idea this road was like this. It's really cool. Wow. This is, it's so red. And apparently it's red because of a high iron content in the rock. So iron rust and rust is red. So that's why it's all red. All right, well, there's, I don't know what those are. Water thing. I have no idea what that is, but I imagine they must be like evaporation pools. Is that, what is that? Is that salt? Oh, I'm riding through it now. Must be salt. Okay, I have no idea what this is, but my guess is they're making salt. Is that pavement over there? What is, what's paved? It's been a long time. Wow. So smooth. This means I'm getting close to a cold drink. I've been out of water since I finished, oh, since I finished White Rim. Well, I think I'm better at riding in sand now. Oh, you know, in that first canyon they went into, Spring Canyon, I was like, oh no, how am I going to do in the sand? And it was pretty cautious. But then like leaving today, I was like, no, sand, that's fine. Just go through it. It's just, you just got to be a bit relaxed and just kind of let the bike do what it wants to do. And when you're letting the bike do what it wants to do, you just kind of like, you're not turning, you don't want to turn the bars. You just want to lean the bike left and right, I think. So I'm not an expert yet, but I've improved. I've improved, I'm pretty sure. Yeah. But yeah, it turned out to be a little harder than I thought. So I think the whole loop is like 100 kilometers or something, 120. And in my mind, I thought it was gravel because I had looked down into White Rim from like the upper rim. And I had seen like those, I think they're salt ponds. And I saw those and I saw the road and I was like, yeah, it seems fine. Like it's just, it looks like gravel. Well, I wasn't really, I don't think I was looking into the White Rim at all. So I got a bit confused there and it was a lot harder than I thought. And the thing is, is like the hotel room I'm standing in now, I was supposed to be here yesterday. I actually booked yesterday and today. So I paid for yesterday for nothing. I actually booked a mount bike rental for today. I booked a shuttle for today because I thought I was going to be doing that. And then I got into the White Rim and I was like, uh-oh. But I already kind of at the start, I kind of like, I don't think I'm going to make this, but I was already like, I was like, I'm fully committed. I have to go, I have to do this. And I'm just going to like not do the mount bike thing tomorrow. So yeah, I think in the end it was worth it because it was really cool, but it goes to show don't book ahead if you don't have to. I haven't for the whole trip pretty much, except for like in Prudhoe Bay, I think I booked ahead and here because Moab is a really popular place. And I actually, even riding through town now it's gotten a lot busier than it has been in past years I've been here. And I think the last time I was here was probably four or five years ago. So it's actually, it's growing like crazy here. And for good reason, it's like awesome. It's amazing here. So, but anyways, yeah, canyons are cool. Red rocks are cool. Deserts are cool. The lack of water, not as cool. I was getting pretty parched by the end of the day today. So yeah, I got myself a really big smoothie and I sucked it down so fast. Gave myself a brain freeze, but, but anyways, yeah, I'm glad I did it though. I'm glad I did it. But anyways, let's have a look at the map. All right, so here's my map of Utah and it's actually a really great map. It's a recreation map and it actually has pretty much everything I did on this map. So it was kind of cool, but we started in Wellington and I just took the highway straight down, straight down. And then I went this way, crossed the Green River and then took a right, went down towards Moab, but I didn't actually enter Moab. And then I took another right here and where did I go? Okay, this is where it gets tricky. Oh yeah, so I went to Mineral Bottom Canyon here and then I went back out, back to the road. Oh wait, did I get it wrong? I got it wrong already. Sorry, I went to Springs Canyon, which is here. And then I went back down and then I went to Mineral Bottom Canyon and then entered Canyonlands National Park. And the White Rim Trail is actually on here and you can see it follows the Green River for a little bit, but in a lot of places you can't access the river because it's a cliff. And then, yeah, it goes all the way down here. And I camped around here somewhere. And then, so you can see that I was like actually less than halfway. And then today I actually completed the kind of loop. Oh, where did I go? This way, this way, this way, this way, this way. Yeah, White Rim, but I went to Potash and I think it's this one. Something like this. Oh yeah, there's these lakes, those settling ponds over there. And then I got back, this is the Colorado River and went up this way. Yeah, you have to follow the Colorado River all the way like this, I think, into Moab. And then now I'm staying at a hotel somewhere around there. But yeah, I've done a lot of Utah now and Utah is great. I love, it's so cool here. It's such unique terrain. And I don't think you can find anything quite like this anywhere else in the world. It's really, really interesting place. I had a ton of fun. I hope you enjoyed the video too. I hope you enjoyed my somewhat chaotic demeanor because I know in past videos I've said, I'm not this chaotic. I'm normally not this chaotic. Well, apparently I am because I keep doing this over and over again. So yeah. But anyways, if you liked the video, maybe you'll consider subscribing. Oh, it's so awkward. Maybe you'll consider subscribing. But anyways, thank you so much for watching the video and maybe I'll see you in the next one. Bye.