Deep Into The Ice | Jeep Gladiator & JL Wrangler Off-Road Snow Wheeling Adventure

Okay, so at the lake here we're at 465 meters. Let's see where we get to today. Yep, let's hope for no snow. The mountains can be unpredictable, cold, dangerous, mysterious. Is that why we go explore them, even at risk of our own safety? Cozy. My name's Sean and this is the story till now. Brought to you in part by Epic Adventure Outfitters. What's up guys? Hope you had a good weekend. Welcome back to the channel. Just wanted to say a quick thank you for getting us to 80,000 subscribers. I can't believe we've come this far. We were just at 1,000 subscribers at the beginning of the year in January, and now we've just passed 80,000. As you guys know, if you watch the channel every week, I'm trying to get to 100,000 subscribers by the end of the year. We're so close. Just 20,000 more. If you're not already subscribed, do me a favor, hit the subscribe button. I appreciate it. Also, t-shirts are back in stock at dirtyanddangerous.com. 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Used the electric heater almost the whole night, off and on, and turned on the electric heater whenever I woke up. Got up, had 1% battery left still in the Jackery. It was not bad. Not my best sleep, not my worst. Oh, is that coffee? Slept okay? Yeah, yep. Not too bad. Roasty toasty. Curtis has the propane heater going with the giant tank. All right, we're heading out of this campsite. Gonna try and get up to a fire look-up tower in the mountains. Got Richard here with us from Freedom Recovery Gear, and he's in the green JL. Okay, so at the lake here, we're at 465 meters. Let's see where we get to today. Yep, let's hope for no snow. The weather forecast on this weekend called for sunshine. Clearly, the weatherman was slacking off. Okay, we're just passing 5,000 feet right now of elevation. Copy. We stopped along the way because of this large tailings pile, the surefire sign of a nearby mine shaft. Heading to check out mine here, walking past this tailings pile. This shaft goes over a kilometer deep into the side of the mountain. It was dug by hand many years ago for mining gold. Don't step in there. Icy water? Yes. We're about here. Oh, that collapsed maybe. That's the end of the road. Yeah, it's all water from here. Hip waders. Hello? Wow. Those rocks are sharp. Curtis, very specifically, did not want to go snow camping. And the weather forecast called for sun. And now we're in a good few inches of snow, ice, walking through a mine shaft, like negative 10. It's all because I said that. Cold on winter. It was very cool to see the track. And as I'm walking in, I'm seeing the cross pieces from the track. And that was, you know, just old history. At the end where it stopped, where we didn't go any further, there was like a foot of water. Like this big rock bounces off the ice and just slides down the mine. I'm just going to use this outhouse first. Okay. I don't think there's toilet paper. You're going to have to grab some leaves. There's another mine shaft here, but it seems to be flooded and full of water. We're not going to be able to get inside it. Yeah. Carrying on up the mountain, the snow is starting to pile up and get deeper. We run the risk of conditions being too dangerous to get back down the mountain. But for now we're pushing forward. You back up a bit, Sean. Stop. Stop where you are. Suddenly the road has turned to sheer ice on a slope. Got ourselves in a little predicament. Oh, this is an adventure. That's why I asked you to stop here. Because as I was going up, I knew I couldn't stop. But where I stopped, you don't want to see. Because I just started sliding sideways. All right, we're going to get my chains on. And I'm almost there. And then I can back up and turn around. I feel like there was no option but to chain up to go down anyway. It's just a complete sheet of ice under this fresh snow on the road. There's no way we can go up any higher. We stopped in a very precarious spot. So clearly we had to put the chains on. It was the only option because I have to back down. And then we're going to head back down. It's cold. How did that feel? Oh, that was a little bit slick. But I'm happy to be down off that corner for sure. Yeah. Once the chains are on, traction is good. However, Richard doesn't have chains for his rig. So we decide to start heading back down and regroup as conditions continue to deteriorate. Richard takes a lead on the way down. Because the fresh snow provides more traction for his bare tires. Curtis and I have decided to head up to another fire lookout tower at a lower elevation and hope for better conditions and a warm place to sleep. We've got a cozy place to stay up there tonight. Just got to move this. Yeah, so on our way up to the previous tower, we hit sheer ice on the road and there was just no way that we could go any further. So we decided to go up another mountain. And it's snowing. It's minus 10. And there's a tree down in the middle of the road. So let's not waste any time. Get the chainsaw out. Chop this off. Drag it out of the way. And get to camp. I was going to say it should be. Just as it looks like we're going to make quick work of moving this tree off the road, we discover my winch hook is frozen shut and won't open. There you go. With the tree out of the way, it's clear sailing to the top of the mountain. As long as the hills don't get too slick. Here's the shed. Is there wood? Hard to say. Guys, it's literally like a blizzard out here. High winds. We're going to take shelter in the fire tower. Get a fire going because there's a wood stove inside. And get warmed up. Are you alive? Dude, that was rough. We got a wood stove in here. So we're going to get that going. Get a fire going ASAP. All right, we got the fire going in the wood stove in the tower. Starting to get warmer in here. Feeling good. I'm going to get set up so that we can relax in here a bit before we go to bed. Get it nice and warm. And chill. Getting the coffee going. Nice and warm. So last night we had to get the wood stove going pretty hot to keep it warm in here. Filled this thing up with wood. Can't really feel how hot it is through the camera. But woo, that is toasty. Beautiful day outside today. Let's go take a look. It's so windy out here. The wind is literally blowing the camera in directions that I don't want it to go. It's still about minus 11 even though the sun's out. It was a pretty cold night. You can probably hear the wind. It's about 50 kilometers an hour wind. After some warm coffee and packing up, it was time to get off this mountain and down to a lower and warmer location. Thanks for watching guys. Do me a favor and hit the thumbs up if you like this video. And make sure you're subscribed. You don't want to miss what we're going to do next time. Also, t-shirts are now back in stock. 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