冒險狩獵｜軍事 ｜離奇故事 ｜燈塔 紐芬蘭荒原 6 天 140 公里：在冰霧與寒風中，完成了一場極致的冬季探險

This is the Barrens of Newfoundland, a vast wilderness that feels more like the Arctic than the Atlantic. Here the landscape can shift from a hostile wilderness to a winter wonderland in the blink of an eye. Over the next six days my friend Tristan and I will attempt to ski and camp over 140 kilometers across the coastal barrens of southwest Newfoundland as we cross five distinct areas. Coming from Nova Scotia we took the overnight ferry from Cape Breton to Portobasque with the plan to hitchhike to the starting point the next day. Bergio! We're just planting the seed now. Any takers? No but the ferry guy was a bit confused. After a failed attempt and Tristan being asked to get back in the car, we grabbed some much needed sleep feeling pretty defeated. But the next morning our new friend Matthias drove us partway to Stephenville where we then met Perry and Edward, two brothers from Bergio who took us the rest of the way. That ridge there when the wind is westerly or northwest it blows down across the highway there and that could close that for a day or so or it could be a month. Just got dropped off on the side of the highway. We're certainly alone out here. What did we see? Four cars maybe on the last two hours of driving? Yeah. And they're all going the wrong way. Man I'm feeling nervous. I don't even think we know what lays ahead. It's kind of intimidating. It is just endless barrens. Nowhere really to hide if the weather were to turn on us. How you doing? What's up? How you doing? I feel, I feel keen. Yeah same. Our bags are incredibly heavy. They're about 65 pounds and that's the hardest part is like just getting used to that weight and knowing that it's a long distance. Seven o'clock, full day and it's good to sit. Tristan's whipping up some pasta with bacon and parmesan. It feels so good to sit and it feels so good to drink water. Yes. Those are my two big pleasures today. Two things that we didn't really do this afternoon. No we did none of that. Our buddy Dave has done a lot of winter tripping and the formula that he uses is 180 milliliters of fuel per day per person from turning snow into boiling water for breakfast and dinner. And drinking water. And drinking water. Precious, precious water. Visibility today is a lot less than yesterday so I pulled out my compass thinking that we might just want to navigate with some compass bearings today. One thing we know is that maritime or Atlantic weather changes fast especially in Newfoundland. They're like peanut butter, buttered jam. Oh yeah a little butter. Just a bit. Thank you. A couple slices. So when you think of Newfoundland you think of big rocky terrain, big cliffs, big landscapes. Here we're in the We'll talk about this later in the video but we are on the top of a 250 plus million year old mountain range and over the last millions and millions of years a lot of it has eroded away. So what was once a peak is now a flat top and we are skiing on that flat top which is the plateau. All right now we're down. Six o'clock. First full day out here in Newfoundland. It was a full day. We got up with the sun and it's it's already past sunset. Finding a protected camp in this landscape is is very difficult and we got to make use of any sort of berm or hill like this might work right here. What else in this landscape looks it has potential? It's still quite windy and exposed here but it's the best spot we could find. The land got a little flatter. Fewer hills to tuck behind so we're working with that. But yeah I think we're all set up for a nice warm cozy night. It is day three and today we are getting to the kangaroo junction which is the part of the trip where we have to decide which route we got to take. Each route has a different distance. Our main goal is to do the longest one to Portobasque. The weather is going to dictate that a bit as we're going to see how today goes but overall we're feeling pretty good. We've been starting the days of getting up around 6 30 and getting out of the tent packed up by 7 30 and so far just skiing until dark. This landscape was just made for skiing. So what we've been doing on this trip is we ski for about an hour before we stop for breakfast. We look for little changes in the landscape that will give us a little bit of reprieve from the wind and a lot of them are these erratics. It does really well for for wind protection in an otherwise pretty relentless landscape for for wind. So this is breakfast rock. You pumped it like as much as possible. We're having issues with one of our pumps. It's not pressurizing so I'm changing out the gasket here. With these stoves we're totally relying on these stoves to boil water. So we have two stoves and a repair kit and we hope enough fuel to get us through the end. Then you gotta boil the pump cup. I think we're good like nothing's nothing wrong has happened. Our equipment is all working perfectly. Our bodies are happy. Forecast is good like you said. Let's try. All right Portobasque. Portobasque or bust. Yeah. Where are you guys from? Nova Scotia. Where are you from? Peter Stride on Bergio Highway. You meet anybody coming across or just us? Just you guys. We saw some tracks along the way. Well that was us when we went in. Okay yeah so no one else then. We know the weather's been good like the winds haven't been too fierce. Tomorrow's gonna be nice too. Is it? Okay awesome. Miles? Two days it's gonna be half decent. It's gonna be sunny today too. Yeah. Okay perfect. We got an in reach. Yeah so we're checking in with his dad. Okay. Yeah. Oh my god. Wow. For your supper tonight. Thank you. That's October 5th. Appreciate that. Just out for a rip. I used like a tub and a half of peanut butter for this trip. Oh my god. For this trip we packed roughly about one kilogram of food per person per day. Obviously the calories will change if it's a fat versus a carb versus a protein and we were just blessed with some moose sausage this afternoon too so that should kick up the calories a bit for us. We're at about 20 kilometers for the day. We have another about hour and a half to two hours of good travel ahead of us. I was pretty down yesterday with just the grind and what was ahead of us and then today with the visibility and the great skiing conditions also just the mental game of getting into the daily rhythm. I feel a lot better. Today was a great day. Oh my god. He'll do anything for a good night's sleep. Look what we got for dinner tonight. Oktoberfest moose. Moose sausage mushroom risotto. Wow. Cold this morning yet. We're in some thick ice fog as well. Found a little cabin. Good to know. There's like an ice rainbow over there. Fresh moose tracks. Newfoundland is home to a ton of moose. We saw a couple on the first on the second day and then the snowmobilers that we met yesterday they're just out for a rip for the day they said they saw over a dozen. So there's a lot in the area. The other animal is the caribou. There's a population around here. They're migratory and it'd be really cool to see those as well. I'm so glad we are using skis for this trip and we're using these Nordic backcountry skis so they're basically beefy cross-country skis with metal edges a little bit wider and they seem to be the perfect thing. Noah hasn't even put his skins on once yet and we've gone up some pretty steep hills. So yeah we're using the the NNNBC boots to go with it. Yeah Nordic backcountry skis they'll take you some great places. Okay I cannot spill this stuff. Oh some nice pressure though. That's right. It's been a while. We are approaching the halfway point on this trip and we are a little concerned about our fuel level. If all goes as planned this fuel that Tristan has in his hands should last. That's yours. Should last until tomorrow morning and we think we might be a little low. So we haven't been boiling the snow we've just been heating it up because we've been trying to preserve our overall fuel consumption. As you see around us there's not many trees to make fires and boil water so we are fully reliant on the stoves for getting water and rehydrating our food. Oh yeah little blisters forming. Hopefully that gets you through another 100 kilometers. I hope so. We're entering the Long Range Mountains. This is the same mountain range that Gros Morne's connected to and it's the northern tip of the Appalachian Mountains. The oldest mountain range in North America. Some of the rocks being over a billion years old. The mountain process itself happened during the development of Pangaea, the supercontinent. And that's when the what is now North American landmass collided with the African and South American landmass. Back in the day the Appalachians were the same size as the Himalayas but over 250 million years of erosion and then the ice age really broke down these mountains into what we see today. Just getting ready. I got my booties on here. What I'm not excited about is these. These are just absolutely frozen solid and I gotta somehow get my feet in them. Yesterday I started getting blisters on my left heel so I added some moleskin. Tried to go double sock this morning but they just don't fit in my boots because they're frozen. So I'm gonna cross my fingers the blister doesn't get worse. This area, well I think all of Newfoundland, snowmobiling is a big part of the culture. It's a great way to access the backcountry in the winter. This lake's a bit of a junction. There's lots of tracks around here. Good chance we might see someone today. Well there's a very enticing route off to the right but that's not going to take us, that's going to take us north. We don't want to go there. So route is sort of, let's get on the lake, let's go around and there should be a path through there, over the mountains. We've just hit the 100 kilometer mark of the trip. And the landscape has really changed from like flat rolling to the sort of steeper rocky mountains really. Progress is slow. We're gonna get down there. Okay, all right Tristan made it down. Just follow his route. Oh my goodness. Oh yes. We've gone through the mountain pass and in front of us we see what dreams are made of. Flat snowy land as far as the eye could see. In the far distance there's a large large dark mountain that we're pretty much going straight for. Beautiful. I made it to camp. End of day five. Another big day. 25 and a half kilometers total. This is the strongest wind day we've had. We had to spend some time looking for a leeward spot for camp. Came to this river, built up a tent pad. Every day we began to camp around 6 p.m. Today is, we also got here at 6 p.m. eh? We're starting to find our groove. Day six. Let's go. Today we're trying to get to the gold mine road. This road will take us down to Portobasque and it's the final 40 kilometers of this journey. As we approach Portobasque, it's going to get a lot more mountainous. All right guys, time for a quick gear review. You might have noticed in this video and other winter trips, I'm wearing these monster arctic mittens. Well, I was recommended these from my good buddy Dave Green. You can get them at the army surplus store and then underneath that I have a liner as well. So it's a three liner mitten and the top is furry so you could wipe the snot off your nose and they're huge which is great. They go really far up your arm so snow doesn't get in in your wrist which as you guys know sucks. So overall, very hyped on this purchase I made last year. The last piece of the puzzle is this ruff on my hood. This isn't just for looks even though it does look pretty badass. This is a traditional way to stop wind from going directly into your face. The fur breaks it up and creates a bit of an eddy right in front of your face when the wind is tough. These ruffs have been used for thousands of years traveling in the north. Real fur is better than fake fur because moisture doesn't get stuck on it most of the time. I found this ruff at a local thrift store on a woman's coat for 30 bucks. If you're going to try to find a ruff from a fur dealer you're looking at 200-300 bucks. So check out your local thrift stores. Definitely helps out with this cold wind in the winter. A dead vole. What the heck is he doing out here? Poor guy. That could go in our dinner tonight. Right now we just reached the highway out of here. This is it eh? Probably yeah. I think this is our ticket out of here. So our route follows this old gold mining road and this path is taking us over these barrens. It's good whatever it is. We're gonna end up somewhere in that area. Cool a little bit of a mystery route. I like it actually. Working our way down off the long range mountains to Portobasque. We're just following our hearts now. Staying fully in the barrens. We're gonna be spread out somewhere and if we look ahead we can actually see the ocean. Oh it's windy! We're working our way down the mountain. It's starting to get pretty steep. It's starting to get way more rocky around us. It's getting icy now. I see the road. What do you think about that? Yeah good job. Guys that's a wrap. Thank you so much for watching. This is my first time in Newfoundland. Let me know if you think I should come back. Amazing place. The Barrens was a spectacular adventure here with my good buddy Tristan. And if you guys enjoy the content please make sure to subscribe and we'll see you on the next one. It's to the mall? Sure. But only if it makes sense to you. We can be quick. Okay. I'm your witness to say that you gave it a rise a lot. Okay. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. So where did you skate from? The Bergie O'Highway. Oh my god you guys are crazy. Thank you so much. Wow. I never even saw you do it. We did it!