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

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  • Опубліковано 18 лис 2020
  • 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
    @destinytodestination 3 роки тому +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  3 роки тому

      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
    @allenatkins2263 3 роки тому +9

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

  • @cowboygeologist7772
    @cowboygeologist7772 3 роки тому +2

    Great video; thanks for posting.

  • @lindamurray5503
    @lindamurray5503 2 роки тому +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.

  • @jonmeek3879
    @jonmeek3879 2 роки тому +1

    Really enjoyed this , hope you post some more

  • @TonyStark-or3er
    @TonyStark-or3er Рік тому

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

  • @wendingourway
    @wendingourway 3 роки тому +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  3 роки тому +1

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

  • @franceselainethurston1606
    @franceselainethurston1606 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +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.

  • @flamingmooseproductions
    @flamingmooseproductions 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +3

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

  • @ryandaniel6531
    @ryandaniel6531 3 роки тому +1

    Ty for sharing

  • @zbillster
    @zbillster 3 роки тому +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  3 роки тому

      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.

  • @LemonySnicket-EUC
    @LemonySnicket-EUC 10 місяців тому

    The Llamo Estacado at some point was beach front property.

  • @Addink999
    @Addink999 3 роки тому

    Love this area of the south plains

  • @rosewhite---
    @rosewhite--- 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @sierrachoco5271
    @sierrachoco5271 3 роки тому +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 8 місяців тому

      This place is in the panhandle lol

  • @JasonF19001
    @JasonF19001 8 місяців тому

    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?

  • @jimkinkade6919
    @jimkinkade6919 3 роки тому +2

    How did we miss this?

  • @joeycad
    @joeycad 2 роки тому

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

  • @beauxjones8793
    @beauxjones8793 3 роки тому +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 Рік тому +1

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

    • @beauxjones8793
      @beauxjones8793 Рік тому +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.

  • @RR98guy
    @RR98guy 3 роки тому +2

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

    • @genelappe
      @genelappe 3 роки тому +2

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

    • @RR98guy
      @RR98guy 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @gibson5056
    @gibson5056 4 місяці тому

    IS THERE PRIMITIVE CAMPING ON THIS TRAIL?

  • @weswalker1208
    @weswalker1208 3 роки тому

    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

  • @Iziireal
    @Iziireal 2 роки тому

    Where is your flashlight?

  • @thomaswiman3804
    @thomaswiman3804 3 роки тому

    Where is this its very cool

    • @secretsoftexas6872
      @secretsoftexas6872  3 роки тому

      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
    @thefrontporch8594 3 роки тому +1

    What was the tunnel for?

    • @secretsoftexas6872
      @secretsoftexas6872  3 роки тому +2

      Train tunnel

    • @Texaca
      @Texaca 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @rosewhite---
    @rosewhite--- 3 роки тому +2

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

    • @lilcrumb6420
      @lilcrumb6420 3 роки тому +3

      Texas used to be a shallow sea. No flood

    • @rosewhite---
      @rosewhite--- 3 роки тому

      @@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 роки тому

      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 10 місяців тому +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--- 10 місяців тому

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

  • @rosewhite---
    @rosewhite--- 3 роки тому

    how long you been using metres?

    • @secretsoftexas6872
      @secretsoftexas6872  3 роки тому +2

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

    • @rosewhite---
      @rosewhite--- 3 роки тому

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

    • @LemonySnicket-EUC
      @LemonySnicket-EUC 10 місяців тому

      ​@@rosewhite---distance

  • @roberthutchinson3236
    @roberthutchinson3236 3 роки тому +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!