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

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3 жыл бұрын

I started this journey at South Plains so that I could experience the descent down the Llano Estacado into the canyonlands below. It was a total blast flying down this feature at about mile 3. Clarity tunnel was awesome and there were hundreds of bats flying over my head as I walked through it. Be prepared for a potential flat tire as portions of this trail are rough.
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@destinytodestination 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@allenatkins2263 3 жыл бұрын

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

@TonyStark-or3er Жыл бұрын

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

@lindamurray5503 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@cowboygeologist7772 3 жыл бұрын

Great video; thanks for posting.

@jonmeek3879 2 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed this , hope you post some more

@wendingourway 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@ryandaniel6531 3 жыл бұрын

Ty for sharing

@flamingmooseproductions 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Addink999 2 жыл бұрын

Love this area of the south plains

@LemonySnicket-EUC 9 ай бұрын

The Llamo Estacado at some point was beach front property.

@franceselainethurston1606 3 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@zbillster 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@rosewhite--- 3 жыл бұрын

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

@JasonF19001 8 ай бұрын

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?

@sierrachoco5271 3 жыл бұрын

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 7 ай бұрын

This place is in the panhandle lol

@jimkinkade6919 3 жыл бұрын

How did we miss this?

@joeycad 2 жыл бұрын

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

@weswalker1208 3 жыл бұрын

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

@secretsoftexas6872 3 жыл бұрын

lol, that's funny

@beauxjones8793 3 жыл бұрын

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

@purpleyeti705 11 ай бұрын

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

@beauxjones8793 11 ай бұрын

@@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.

@gibson5056 4 ай бұрын

IS THERE PRIMITIVE CAMPING ON THIS TRAIL?

@RR98guy 3 жыл бұрын

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

@genelappe 3 жыл бұрын

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

@RR98guy 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Iziireal 2 жыл бұрын

Where is your flashlight?

@thomaswiman3804 3 жыл бұрын

Where is this its very cool

@secretsoftexas6872 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@thefrontporch8594 3 жыл бұрын

What was the tunnel for?

@secretsoftexas6872 3 жыл бұрын

Train tunnel

@Texaca 2 жыл бұрын

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

@rosewhite--- 3 жыл бұрын

how long you been using metres?

@secretsoftexas6872 3 жыл бұрын

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

@rosewhite--- 3 жыл бұрын

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

@LemonySnicket-EUC 9 ай бұрын

@@rosewhite---distance

@rosewhite--- 3 жыл бұрын

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

@lilcrumb6420 3 жыл бұрын

Texas used to be a shallow sea. No flood

@rosewhite--- 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@LemonySnicket-EUC 9 ай бұрын

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--- 9 ай бұрын

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