- In this video we'll be off-roading along
the Medano Pass primitive road in Great
Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. 11
miles there and 11 miles back.
- [Diana] So have 4 wheel drive - strictly enforced.
- We had checked conditions at the Visitor Center
and all reports were good. In fact, we
passed a Ranger just as we were about to
join the road who confirmed everything
was good and told us to go and have fun.
It started off well but things took a
turn for the worse and it turned into a
much bigger adventure than any of us
could ever have thought.
- [Matt] What was sandpit at?
- [Diana] 1.8
- [Matt] So this is where deep sand is? 
- [Diana Yup.
- [Jānis] So you are still in two-wheel mode?
- [Matt] Aha.
- [Jānis] You will try to get through?
- [Matt] Aha.
- [Jānis] This is kinda cool that they still let people to drive this place.
- [Matt] Yeah.
- [Diana] It is very rare.
- [Jānis] In National Parks?
- [Diana] Mhm.
- [Jānis] But in that forest I belive there were lots of tracks.
- [Matt] National Forests - yeah, loads!
- So after hiking on the dunes
we're now back in the truck and
this time we are driving the Medano
Pass primitive road. This is strictly a
four-wheel drive road and we've spoken to
several Rangers today and they all say the
conditions are good. But we're about four
miles in and we've just hit our first
proper water crossings. So yeah, this is a
pretty good four-wheel drive. Do not bring
your Prius down here.
Move! Or they will eat us!
[all laughing]
- [Matt] Ready?  
- [Diana] I'm ready.
- [Matt] Ready, Jānis?
- Yes, yes, faster!
- That is kind of cool!
- [Diana] Have you done off-roading before, Jānis?
- No.
[Music]
We've made it to Medano Pass which is
the end of this off-road journey. Eleven
point two miles from the start. We've
done a lot of this drive actually in
two-wheel drive. Couple of sandy sections
that I couldn't get through in two-wheel
drive I had to switch to four-wheel
drive but it made it through no
problems. And although it says it
recommends airing down, we haven't done.
We have that option if we need to. We
have the compressor with us. We can air
down if we need to. And if we really got
stuck we've got the traction pads as
well. So I wasn't too concerned. But yeah,
as always the tires did great, the truck
did great!
Bumpy ride, it's taken us almost exactly
an hour to get here. They say it takes
about two and a half to three hours so
maybe we're a little quicker than
average. But definitely give yourself a
couple of hours for this drive
- [Matt] The drive
up to Medano pass had been fairly easy.
So we were just enjoying our drive on
the way back down taking in the
beautiful scenery. We passed a couple of
other vehicles - an off-road modified
Jeep and a Range Rover with street tires.
[Music]
- [Matt] Some nice rained on the drive home would be good.
- [Jānis] To wash the car?
- [Matt] Yeah, exactly!
[Music]
[Dramatic background music]
- [Matt] Suddenly it started raining and we were
still a long way from the end. Despite
the clouds the forecast from the visitor
center hadn't been suggesting much in
terms of rain.
[Dramatic music]
- So it has been raining most of the way back
which means that all this trail which was nice and dry on
the way out here is now pretty muddy and slimy
and rocks are slippery. So we are just taking it nice and easy.
It's not a race.
The car is going to be filthy.
But maybe if the rain is still ongoing by the time we get
to the road - maybe it will wash the car off.
I'm probably being optimistic there.
Wohoo
This is good fun though.
And this is why whenever we go off-roading
we always make sure we have all the right equipment
so that if the conditions do
change we are not caught stranded.
We have everything that we would need to keep going and recover ourselves
if necessary.
- [Matt] I'm not sure how the wet sand is going to be like.
That could be nasty.
[Dramatic music]
- [Matt] The rain grew heavier and heavier.
Sections of the previously dry sandy
road were now completely underwater and
it was quickly getting worse. Turning
around would have been very difficult.
And the long detour would have taken us
further away from civilization. Not
knowing how bad conditions were on the
other side of Medano Pass we made the
decision to keep going.
[Heavy rain]
- [Matt] Wow!
Look at that there!
- [Jānis] Look at those sand dunes!
That's so interesting!
- [Matt] Snow?
- [Jānis] What was that?
- [Diana] Grass.
- [Matt] Yeah, tumbleweed.
- [Matt] Skidplates, yo!
- [Diana] Oh, lightning!
- [Jānis] Uh-oh!
- [Diana] That's insane!
[Jānis laughing]
- [Matt] That's pretty scary if I'm honest.
- [Diana] That's very scary!
- [Jānis] What?
- [Diana] That's very scary.
- [Matt] I could hardly see the trail in places
and was doing my best to gauge the water
depth based on the sides of the trail.
With the truck in four-wheel drive, low
speed, I was focused on keeping us moving
slowly but steadily towards the end of
the trail before conditions grew even
worse.
- [Jānis] Those guys are still there, the Defender [the Ranger Rover]..
- [Matt] Yeah.
The jeep I'm not worried about, but the ..
- [Jānis] .. Defender could get stuck ..
- [Matt] Yeah.
- [Jānis] I guess he wasn't specifically right, like extra tires, you know?
- [Matt] No.
Let's stop at the visitor center if we don't see a ranger first.
Just let them know that this road is washing out pretty bad.
- [Matt] Ehm.
- [Diana] Should we even try?..
- [Matt] Yup.
- [Jānis] Defender won't get through this!
- [Matt] It would be really tough.
- [Jānis] And it will get worse only.
- [Matt] I'm going for it. I have no choice.
- [Jānis] Be careful with this!
Oj, oj, oj, oj, oj!
- [Matt] Washed out fence post there!
- [Jānis] You have to stop there at the ranger house and tell them that there are
two cars in the track.
- [Matt] Yeah. 
- [Jānis] and that the road is washed out.
- [Matt] This camp here. Is there a name on it?
- [Diana] No.
- [Jānis] Just count miles. How many miles?
- [Matt] We are 18.5 now.
- [Matt] Ehmn..
- [Diana] I'm quite scared.
- [Matt] Yeah.
You are not alone. Don't worry.
- [Jānis] This is fine. This is nothing special.
- [Diana] I wonder if this is the sand pit.
- [Jānis] What is this?
- [Matt] Ok, I'm just going to go for it.
- [Diana] I should..
- [Jānis] Maybe they have special vehicles for this kind of condition?
- [Matt] Maybe. Hang on.
- [Jānis] You are filming this, Diāna?
- [Diana] Yup.
- [Jānis] On that camera?
- [Diana] Yeah.
- [Diana] Aaah, no, wait no.
- [Diana] Wait, wait, wait.
- [Jānis] Wait, wait, wait.
- [Matt] No, I'm just going for it. 
Going across.
Momentum, yo.
- [Jānis] I wouldn't push you out of this [mud].
- [Jānis] I don't know how you would get out of there.
- [Matt] It's going to be bumpy for a second.
- [Jānis] Oh!
- [Matt] Drop down into it.
- [Jānis] Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!
- [Matt] Argh.
Wow, that's totally washed out.
No cell signal.
We are right at the end!
- [Jānis] Right at the end?
- [Matt] Pretty close to the end, yeah.
Ok, radios!
Hello, does anyone copy on channel 4 CB?
Anyone copy? Please come in.
- [Jānis] Black stone underneath there?
- [Matt] Yeah, I think so.
- [Diana] You think? I think it's a plastic thing underneath.
- [Matt] Hello, if you copy please come in,  please
come in on channel 16.
- [Jānis] Yeah, you are right. It's a road blanket. How did water get
under the blanket?
- [Matt] The storm has totally washed it out.
So we are on the trail on the way back. This storm has
really really badly washed out this
trail. We were not expecting these
conditions. This is a lot more serious than we
thought. We've made it through a number
of areas that have got really deep with sand
and we're pretty concerned 'cause there's two
other vehicles behind us and this rain
is continuing. Back there there's a Jeep
Wrangler who I'm not too concerned about.
He looked pretty well equipped. There's also
a Range Rover Discovery that..
I mean it's a competent off-road vehicle
but this is some pretty serious stuff.
We are stopped here now because this
obstacle in front of us - I really don't
like the look of this. The rain has
totally washed out the trail. We're
talking.. there're holes in the trail now
probably three feet deep and it's
actually revealed like some black
plastic or some kind of like sheeting
was under the sand here that I guess the
National Park Service put in to
stabilize the trail and it's completely
washed it out. So we're trying to get
hold of them on the radios just anyone
we've tried there's the usual channels
on both CB and GMRS. And we'll just sit
here. We're gonna wait for those other
guys, see if they come forward. That
Jeep would have more chance of getting
through here than us. Otherwise we're
gonna sit out the rain. Wait till that
stops and then we can actually assess
the situation on foot. But right now it
is chucking it down. There is lightning
all around us. Not the ideal situation
you want to be when you're off-roading. And I
still feel good that we've taken all the
precautions. But right now we're probably
out of our depth. So we're just going to
sit here and wait for a bit until we can
assess the situation a little bit more
cleary. 
- [Jānis] We got so far at least.
- [Matt] I mean I don't
know how the others gonna get through
that stuff back there. 
- [Jānis] No, that's crazy!
- [Diana] Especially if they started after us.
- [Jānis] Mhm.
- [Matt] Doesn't say here any emergency channels or anything, does it?
If you copy me on CB channel 16,  CB
channel 16, please come in!
- [Jānis] And I know how happened because here the water got
under a blanket and it went under the
blanket and washed out underneath,
not over, but underneath. 
- [Matt] Yeah.
So ok. So we gonna have to drive through at some point.
So what's our path?
We have a shovel.
- [Diana] We have a shovel.
- [Jānis] We have a shovel?
- [Matt] We have a shovel.
- [Jānis] Oh, then it's not so bad.
Then we can manage.
- [Diana chuckling] Jānis can make a road.
- [Jānis] We have those.. those..
- [Matt] Can I back up?
- [Jānis] Yes. 
- [Diana] But.. yeah..
- [Matt] I don't want to. I just want to know
if I can. Because if the Jeep can get
past.. He almost certainly has a winch and if he
doesn't I have a tow strap.
- [Diana] Yeah.
- [Matt] No one has signal. 
- [Jānis] What about your skid plates? What they are like? Good?
- [Matt] Yeah. They are good. But all what will happen here...
- [Jānis] Heavy duty? Or.. 
- [Matt] Yeah. But all will happen here is I will pop some out.
- [Diana] Yeah.
- [Jānis] No, not now. I mean if you
shovel, put skid plates, you go like here
and then continue on on this side of
the road. You are fine. If no one will come, we will go.
- [Diana] Well, first, once the rain stops, we will walk it out and see where it might go into the road.
- [Matt] Does anyone copy on channel  4? Does anyone 
copy on channel 4? Assistance required.
- [Jānis] You are calling channel 4 and channel 16?
- [Matt] No, that's what four by four
people use. It's channel four and four times four.
Four by four. Four times four, makes channel sixteen.
- [Jānis] What about rangers?
- [Matt] They don't typically use these and the
frequencies they are on aren't public, you can't get onto them.
- [Jānis] But nobody can get up this trail except
tractor or something.
- [Matt] Yeah. I mean the only other option we've
got
that I see right now is someone
going down. 'Cause we are not that far from ..
- [Diana] Yeah. 
- [Jānis] How far we are?
- [Matt] We are probably a mile and a half.
- [Jānis] I can do that.
- [Matt] Maybe two miles. There's lightning still ongoing.
- [Diana] Yeah.
- [Jānis] That is snow, by the way! That is..
- [Matt] It is snow.
- [Jānis] Yeah. 
- [Matt] Yeah.
You can see some by the trees over here as well. 
- [Jānis] Not snow, the this big white..
..how it's called?
- [Matt] Oh, hail. Oh it has been hailing here. Yeah.
Ok, so here is the latest. It is just
after seven o'clock in the evening.
So although it's light now, the light will
start to fade in the next couple of
hours. We've decided not to try make our
own way through up ahead just yet.
There's some big drops there we've
checked out on foot and it really looks
very very soft. So we have used our
Garmin InReach satellite communicator.
We have used that to message one of our
friends and asked her to kind of get
help for us.
The Rangers and the visitor center are not
answering because it's now seven o'clock
and they're closed.
We have asked her to go ahead and call
911 and see if she can find a dispatch.
We're just hoping they can find someone
to come and help us. We've explained to
to them, or to her to pass on to them,
that we are fine, we're safe, we're dry,
were uninjured, the car's okay. So it's not
so kind of an absolute emergency. That
being said, this is a situation that we
don't want to be stuck in for long and
could get worse. We're also very
concerned for the two people who are
stuck further back. We've now been here
nearly half an hour and there's no sign
of them. And those rigs should have been
maybe I don't know 10-20 minutes behind
us at most. One of those in particular
that Range Rover I'm pretty concerned
may have got stuck. Otherwise our plan
now - we have sent Diana's brother off to
the visitor center or to the campground
to see if he can find any staff over
there or any people with jeeps or
whatever who want to come and help us.
Basically just to get some attention and
hopefully some tools and things. It looks
like to get through here we're gonna
have to dig the road down a little bit,
just a level it. It's completely crazy
there right now. And so we just hope that
some people can come and help us. We've
sent him off with a radio. We are
listening here
on GMRS, CB and ham radio. He has all the
frequencies and channels for those that we
are on. So hopefully he can get the word
to someone that can help us. Other than
that we're gonna sit tight for now. If
the rain stops we're gonna get out and
inspect the road a bit more. I've checked
the front of the car from the big kind
of .. 
- [Jānis over radio] Can you hear me?
From the ..
Hang on ..
Yeah. Copy.
- [Jānis] Is this radio wateproof?
[Diana laughing]
Sort of. I would
try and keep it dry if you can though.
So yeah. So we've sent Diana's brother off
with the radio trying to some help. But
otherwise..
- [Jānis] There is some
sinking sand just 300 meters forward.
[radio beep]
Okay so there's some
quicksand apparently just little bit
further up. You can see now why we don't
want to carry on on our own. We would
like to make sure some other people here
when it when we try that. Maybe we're
being overcautious but in a situation
like this I would rather be over
cautious if possible. I also want to make
sure that the guys further back they
could be seriously stuck. They could be
injured, they could be in water, we just
don't know. Right now we're not in a
position to go and help them and I feel
horrible don't be able to do that. But
right now our primary goal is just our
safety and making sure that we don't get
ourselves into more trouble. That won't
help anyone at all. So fingers crossed
Jānis will go through and find someone
who can help or at least raise the alarm
for us. And we're gonna sit tight
until then.
- [Matt] You can see the road here is
a complete mess. Some of those drops
they're like about three feet and it's
actually undercut under this black
fabric as well. So it's just not gonna
support the weight of our truck. So they
say that every cloud has a silver lining.
Our situation isn't great right now but
look at that rainbow! That is beautiful!
This is the state of the road here as
you can see. It's really badly washed out.
And like some of these drops are huge!
You can see there.
Not something we want to be doing alone.
As we're sitting here, a deer has just
appeared. It's just by that tree there. I
think he's very confused as to what's
going on and why the path has suddenly
disappeared and there's this big weird
black truck thing sitting in the road. In
other news we heard from our friend. The
rangers are on their way. And Diana's
brother Jānis he's still in radio
contact with us and is able to hear his
still. He's gonna try and meet ..
- [Jānis over radio] Sorry, I miscalculated.
It's 15 feet deep. 
[radio beeps]
But unfortunately he's found a section
of the road that is washed out 15 feet
deep.
We think it's at the side of the
road rather than across the road but
either way. There goes the deer. Either
way that sounds pretty terrifying. So 
this could take a little while to get
out of here. Not what we had planned.
We had received an update from our friend
that the Rangers were on their way. But
they had got stuck on the trail
themselves.
Okay. So here's the situation.
This trail is in bad shape now.
Jānis wasn't lying. There is genuinely a
washout that is probably 15-20 feet deep
and about, I dunno, 10-15 feet across.
It looks like we can drive around it. We're
very reticent to do that because it
means driving across all of the the
plants and things. We're certainly not
gonna do that without the Rangers okaying
it first. But if we can't do that I don't
see any way that we're getting out of
here without a tractor coming and
rebuilding the whole trail. And that
could be, I dunno, days, weeks, who knows.
So right now we are hiking on the trail
to meet up with Jānis and the Rangers. I
would just feel a lot more comfortable
if we're all there together. We've taken
some photos of the trail that we can show
to them. And maybe together we can come
up with a plan. But whatever it is, it's
not gonna be pretty.
And we've got a lot of gear with us but
we certainly weren't prepared to
comfortably spend the night in the in
the truck. So yeah, fingers crossed at
this point.
So we've made it here to where the
Rangers are. They've asked us to step
back our way. But right now you can see
their Raptor, Ford Raptor ranger truck
is stuck completely in deep mud. And the
tractor has been working for quite a while to try and clear some space so they can dig it out.
Okay, so next update. We
are back at our trailer. Good! We don't
have a truck. Bad! So one of the Rangers
very very kindly gave us a ride home.
They got their Raptor truck totally
stuck in the mud. It 
took a tractor a long time, well over an
hour to get the Raptor back out of that
mud. And that was just the first of a
dozen different obstacles that are
between where they were and our truck. We
spoke to them. They think we did exactly
the right thing in contacting them and
let them know. But for now the plan is
that they're going to send a
construction crew out in the morning
with a tractor. And they're going to try
and go through each of the obstacles in
turn and sort of make them passable
I guess. We're gonna join them late
morning tomorrow.  They've asked us
not to go on too early because we're
just get in their way honestly. But we're
still quite keen to get back to our
truck. So for now our truck is spending
the night sleeping alone out on the
trail. But we are back here at our
trailer. So yeah no injuries nothing was
damaged and all the right people now are
involved. So it's been a really bizarre
crazy evening and is not at all what we
thought was gonna happen. We planned to
spend it in the swimming pool tonight.
But we're all safe and uninjured so
that's it for now. We'll see you in the
morning. Okay, so it's now the next
morning and we think we have a plan. The
road that we drove down before we got
stuck was actually in a far better
condition than the road after that. Now
we don't know if the storm came through
and has made it worse. We're not sure. But
our plan right now is to head back over
to the National Park and see if we can
get the truck back up the other way. See if
we can do that before the Rangers clear
the road going forward. Obviously if we
get stuck we're gonna have to stop and
wait and wait for the Rangers to get to us. But
if the road is clear we can actually get
out the far end and it's about a 70-80
mile round-trip drive to get back
round here if we do go that way.
But that's probably still quicker than
filling a 15-foot trench.
So we've got to get over to National
Park but we have no truck because it's
over stuck over there. So we're gonna
cycle. It's about 30 miles. So Jānis and I
are gonna head over there and and
hopefully, we'll make it there in a couple
hours. We can throw the bikes into the
back of the truck bed and hopefully
rescue the truck. Okay so we have made
it back to Great Sand Dunes National
Park. We are at the start of the Medano
Pass Primitive Road here. As you can see
they've completely closed this road so
we're gonna head down there and find the
Rangers. We didn't bike the whole way
here a lovely person stopped and gave us
a ride in. So thank you, Rhoda, really
appreciate that you saved us about 15-20
miles of that ride which was fantastic.
So we've got a little bit more energy
now that I suspect we're going to need
to go and recover our vehicle. So for now
we're going to head on down
Medano Pass Road and see what we can see
down there. Okay, we've made it to the
spot where the Raptor got stuck last night.
This is where we got taken home from by
the Ranger. It's 10:15 in the morning. You
can see the excavator, the digger, behind
us.
This is where the Raptor got stuck. You
can see it's really deep. It's dried out
a lot. This was all just like wet thick
heavy mud last night but you can see how
much of an operation that was to to get
that Raptor out. Since there's no one
here
we're gonna keep going and see if we can
get to our truck. Along the way we obviously we can check out what the terrain is
like and see if we think we can self
rescue or we need to wait for them or
whatever. But we'll be keeping our ears
open for signs of movement. You
can see here how deep the foot holes are
from last night and we're walking right
now, barely sinking in at all. This is
still soft but it's a lot better than
last night. You could not walk on this
last night. So you can probably see a
little better on the video here this
morning in the daylight. But that's the
trail over there that comes down here
and then this just drops off into this
giant crevasse which crosses the entire
road. I mean that thing must be 15 feet
across.
It's just sand. There's nothing of
substance there. It's just so deep.
That's
the one I'm worried about.
Okay, we have nearly made it. We are back
in the truck we've turned around on the
trail and we are now about to head out.
We've spoken to Dale, one of the Rangers
here. And he has confirmed that the trail
is passable, in fact, he's come down from
that side. We've still got a long drive
because even when we get to the top it's
another 70 or 80 miles to get around. But
we're free. It means we can get back to
the trailer and get on with our journey
at last.
- [Jānis] Be careful here.
- [Matt] Yeah.
- [Matt] It hadn't rained since the previous day
but there was still a lot of water on
the trail and we made full use of our
four-wheel-drive and high clearance.
We've made it! We are back here at the
top of Medano pass. Hopefully from here
on out it should be pretty easy forest
roads, then on to the main road and back
to the RV. What a busy day. Oh and we
still have to drive a few hours on to
Denver today. So today it's not over yet
but we're getting there
slowly but surely. Good thing is no
one's hurt. No one's injured. Everyone's
healthy, happy, dry, warm. The truck's not
damaged so we're all good. There were
miles of dirt road the other side of
Medano pass before we hit pavement again.
It took us a few hours to get back to
the RV but we made it. No time to rest
though. We had to hook up the trailer and
drive to Denver because Jānis'es flight was
the very next day.
So yesterday big truck rescue. That was
pretty eventful. We spoke to the Ranger
at the scene. He said he has never seen
damage like that on the trail before. The
storm is about a once a year, maybe twice a
year event for something that big. No one
saw it coming. They had no warning for
that one. But yeah the damage was just
unparalleled. I imagine that trail's gonna
be closed for a while as they do
repairs 'cause that's going to take some
serious work to do.
But we got the truck out. We went back
the other way. The journey up the other
way was not too bad going. It was still
definitely a four-wheel-drive trail to
get to the top. The trail was pretty
badly damaged again still. Then when we
got to the top it was like another
hundred miles round trip all the way to
get back to where we were camped in the
RV park which wasn't ideal. I'd rather
not driven for a few hours to get around
there.  A lot the roads were pretty
slow but we made it. We're safe.
The truck is fine. It's not damaged or
anything. So overall I think it could
have turned out a lot worse. Throughout
the whole thing we just really try to
stay calm, think about what we can do to
make the situation better. It's very easy
in those situations to make rash
decisions. In the heat of the moment
you're worried, you want to go out there.
It's very easy to do something that is
gonna really make the situation worse.
Take a risk. Someone gets hurt. The truck
gets stuck. If we'd gone another few feet
and try to get through that first
obstacle
we would never have made it through. And
even if we had made it through that one
we certainly wouldn't have made it
through the others after that. And then
the rangers would had to bring out
machinery to help us get unstuck. And that
would all have just been a lot slower, a
lot more difficult. So lots of decisions
like that where we just decided to stay
put - to take it easy, to consult with the
Rangers, get their input and things. I
think really helped yesterday turn out,
frankly, as well as it could have done
given the situation. We did carry
supplies with us. We had off-road
equipment. We had all the gear. We had the
emergency coms. We didn't use any of the
off-road gear in the end. In that
situation, unless we had 25-foot ramps
really nothing else is going to was
gonna get us through that. But we did
use the communication gear. That worked
out really well. I'm glad we carried that
stuff. I wasn't expecting to use it, but
we did. But in the end we made it back to
the RV park by about 3:30 in the
afternoon yesterday. And then we had to
drive for another three and a half hours,
four hours up to Denver where we've been
staying at the park. So it was a really
long day but we made it. As I said everyone's
safe.
The trailers is fine, obviously.  That was
just stuck in the RV park for a while. And the
truck is not damaged or anything. So yeah
all in, what was meant to be a quick  two hour off-road journey along the
Medano pass primitive road turned into
essentially a 24 hour ordeal. So yeah,
good times. 
Type 2 fun! That's what I like to think. It's
something that we'll look back on and
remember a good story for the campfire.
So Jānis'es time with us here in Colorado has come to an end. We are heading now
to the airport. So Jānis has spent around 10 days touring the Colorado National Parks with us.
So Jānis, what did you think?
The trip was amazing. First of all I didn't expect to have
so many experiences during this trip.
So the trip was really versatile.
We went to mountains, to Black Canyon,
we went to Mesa Verde National Park
as well as Sand Dunes National Park.
We hiked. We had several campfires.
We visited really beautiful places.
And I enjoyed it really much, as well we went off-roading
which finished with another great story.
- [Matt] Would you go off-roading again with me?
I would definitely go off-roading again with Matt.
- [Matt] Yes!!!
It's a two-day experience together with Matt being offroad.
- [Diana] So how was it
staying in the RV?
I'm actually really
surprised about that you don't actually
make so many compromises by staying in the RV.
It may seem really small from outside
but actually, it was enough of space for
all three of us in one RV. And even
the bed, which was turning into the table
every day was quite comfortable.
- [Diana] And you're quite tall, right? How
was it?
In feets I don't know. I still haven't grassped this measurement.
It's one meter 90
centimeters. You can have in brackets how many feet is that.
- [Diana] So was the length of the bed
fine for you?
Yes. It was really
comfortable. I had great sleep. We were
cooking food in RV for almost all
meals. We only went several times to
restaurants eating out. And I'm really
pleased with this kind of living style. I
could get used to that as well. So I
completely understand that after one
year spending in RV you still don't feel like you miss something out.
- [Diana] What were your favorite parts of this trip?
- The most in my memory will stay the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River.
It was something that I have never seen in my life.
- [Diana] You have never seen a canyon before?
- Yeah, I have never seen canyon before. And the views were breathtaking.
And I enjoyed that this National Park wasn't so strict with barriers so I
didn't feel like forced in the jail and
I could sit on the rock and see the
spectacular views from any point I wished to be in.
- [Diana] That's awesome! Well, thank you for joining us, Jānis.
Of course. The off-roading with
Matt was amazing as well.
And even that storm hit it was slightly
scary and we were going through those
obstacles during the storm. And when we
had to stop because the trail in front was
washed out. But I'm happy in the end it
ended really well. I'm happy I have a
story to remember, to tell forward.
I hope you enjoyed
this video and thanks for watching.
Let us know in the comments below what
your craziest offroad extreme drama has been.
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- [Mtt]Hey Jānis, I have a question for
you. 
- Sure thing!
- [Matt] Who let the dogs out?
- Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof.
[All laughing]
- [Matt] Awesome!
That is the thing Diana never does so Matt is happy that someody is actually answering his
somewhat weird questions.
