Mountain Bike Ride Down Caprock Canyons Trailway, South Plains to Clarity Tunnel

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  • @destinytodestination
    @destinytodestination 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This is a never seen place for me. Thanks for showing this part of the world. Place looks beautiful. Watching from Scotland . Big like and support for entertaining me👍

    • @secretsoftexas6872
      @secretsoftexas6872  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow thanks for watching. I hope I can produce more content that you enjoy watching. Consider watching my video coming out Thursday. I go to a somewhat similar environment.

  • @TonyStark-or3er
    @TonyStark-or3er 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video & really fun to see the beginning of the canyon...thanks for sharing!

  • @cowboygeologist7772
    @cowboygeologist7772 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video; thanks for posting.

  • @jonmeek3879
    @jonmeek3879 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Really enjoyed this , hope you post some more

  • @wendingourway
    @wendingourway 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It is amazing how the terrain changes so sharply...newer sub and dropping in from Nova Scotia, Canada...hope you have yourself a marvelous weekend...

    • @secretsoftexas6872
      @secretsoftexas6872  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks again. Yeah, that's what drew me to the area. Love it.

  • @lindamurray5503
    @lindamurray5503 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Actually the town that Caprock Canyons is part of is, Quitaquay, Texas, pronounced kittyquay. We live in Texas and have been camp hosts there. It's the 3rd largest canyon in the U.S. we love your videos. The funky odor in the tunnel is bat dung, and owls wait outside at night for the bats to come out. There's hundreds of them. We never walked in, only in trucks because the bat dung is all over the top, sides, and floor of that tunnel.

  • @flamingmooseproductions
    @flamingmooseproductions 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just discovered your channel. This vid was especially interesting to me because my best friend lives in nearby Lockney and I'm hoping to move to the area in a couple months. I love biking and had no idea this was in the area. Now that I do, it could become my go to spot!

    • @secretsoftexas6872
      @secretsoftexas6872  3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Cool. This trail and the hiking trails at the main park would be fantastic places to explore on a regular basis.

  • @jeffjohnson1302
    @jeffjohnson1302 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So to let you know that is an eolian sandstone deposited by the wind not the water. Easy mistake but I appreciate you showing the wonderful geology! Great video by the way!

  • @JasonF19001
    @JasonF19001 ปีที่แล้ว

    Planning to ride South Plains to Estelline, like maybe one day to Turkey Hotel, then Estelline. Have you ridden the rest of the trail east of the tunnel?

  • @ryandaniel6531
    @ryandaniel6531 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ty for sharing

  • @Addink999
    @Addink999 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love this area of the south plains

  • @jimkinkade6919
    @jimkinkade6919 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How did we miss this?

  • @zbillster
    @zbillster 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for the video. I was thinking of riding the South Plains to Quitaque section over the holidays, but it looks a lot less maintained and rougher than expected. Most of the videos on this trail are several years old, and I think the weather has taken its toll.

    • @secretsoftexas6872
      @secretsoftexas6872  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah it's mainly the rough gravel that's the problem for the first couple miles and then here and there over small sections beyond that. Overall I enjoyed it though. If you have fresh tires with slime inner tubes you may be okay.

  • @sierrachoco5271
    @sierrachoco5271 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love your channel, I just found it. The only TX experience I had was driving across the pan handle, yuck! I had no idea TX was so diversified. Thanx, will visit some of these places hopefully soon!

    • @l042987
      @l042987 ปีที่แล้ว

      This place is in the panhandle lol

  • @LemonySnicket-EUC
    @LemonySnicket-EUC ปีที่แล้ว

    The Llamo Estacado at some point was beach front property.

  • @franceselainethurston1606
    @franceselainethurston1606 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You are a brave man for going through that tunnel. It is well constructed, but the bats would scare me away. How about snakes?

    • @secretsoftexas6872
      @secretsoftexas6872  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I didn't see any signs of snakes in the tunnel. I had a light but didn't want to mess with the bats in the middle of the tunnel. I did see some incredibly fast prairie snakes (i think)outside though.

  • @rosewhite---
    @rosewhite--- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    erosions-fluvial was actually where the Flood water drained off.

  • @gibson5056
    @gibson5056 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    IS THERE PRIMITIVE CAMPING ON THIS TRAIL?

  • @thomaswiman3804
    @thomaswiman3804 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where is this its very cool

    • @secretsoftexas6872
      @secretsoftexas6872  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The trailhead I used is in community of South Plains. Go east from there. There's another at Monks Crossing on highway 689 but it will a bit less scenic.

  • @allenatkins2263
    @allenatkins2263 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Thank you for cutting away and not showing your disposal of the bodies of the two hikers.

  • @thefrontporch8594
    @thefrontporch8594 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What was the tunnel for?

    • @secretsoftexas6872
      @secretsoftexas6872  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Train tunnel

    • @Texaca
      @Texaca 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ...it was for the Fort Worth and Denver Railway...

  • @Iziireal
    @Iziireal 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where is your flashlight?

  • @RR98guy
    @RR98guy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Looks like part of the trail is an old abandoned train right of way

    • @genelappe
      @genelappe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It is all RR right-of-way and is now managed by the park service.

    • @RR98guy
      @RR98guy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@genelappe Thanks for the info. Looks like a great ride.

  • @joeycad
    @joeycad 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    A strong headwind can be much more of a challenge than the gradient

  • @beauxjones8793
    @beauxjones8793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If you wonder which part of TEXAS that someone is from, ask them how they say the town named LA MESA or LLANO

    • @purpleyeti705
      @purpleyeti705 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol, i felt this. Lameeeesa. I live in Snyder

    • @beauxjones8793
      @beauxjones8793 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@purpleyeti705 I’m from Amarillo originally. Spent every summer up there until I was 16, but most of my life I’ve been in the Hill Country around Austin and San Antonio usually in the small towns.

  • @rosewhite---
    @rosewhite--- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    3:44 rock was laid down during The Flood 4,350 years ago.

    • @lilcrumb6420
      @lilcrumb6420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Texas used to be a shallow sea. No flood

    • @rosewhite---
      @rosewhite--- 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lilcrumb6420 Texas was covered with flood waters and was never a shallow sea.
      If all the ice of Antarctica melts it will cover the entire planet to 213 feet depth.
      Now stop trolling.

    • @lilcrumb6420
      @lilcrumb6420 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rose White texashillcountry.com/find-fossils-texas-limestone/
      Don't let science get in your way. Proof Texas was a shallow sea

    • @LemonySnicket-EUC
      @LemonySnicket-EUC ปีที่แล้ว +1

      More than 100 million years ago, a giant inland sea divided North America into two smaller landmasses. This sea stretched from the Gulf of Mexico all the way to Montana! Even though much of the American West is dry desert today, its character was shaped by the many years it spent under water.

    • @rosewhite---
      @rosewhite--- ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LemonySnicket-EUC you need to stop watching old Flintstones cartoons.

  • @rosewhite---
    @rosewhite--- 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    how long you been using metres?

    • @secretsoftexas6872
      @secretsoftexas6872  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I used to run track and am now a geologist so I often used meters

    • @rosewhite---
      @rosewhite--- 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@secretsoftexas6872 meters to check your breathing or for gas?

    • @LemonySnicket-EUC
      @LemonySnicket-EUC ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@rosewhite---distance

  • @weswalker1208
    @weswalker1208 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    On that first bridge I did not I know you had already dumped the truck. I thought it was video from the truck so I cringed when you went over that super narrow bridge

  • @roberthutchinson3236
    @roberthutchinson3236 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey buddy, did you know that at 634/951 to the above right there is the face of a man! Go back and look at your video! creepy!