Welcome to the official youtube channel for Suluk 46 - Engineered Backcountry Gear - we create the lightest equipment in the world, designed and built in Canada. My name is Steve Evans and I am the owner of Suluk 46. I started this channel when I first launched the company back in 2008 in hopes that I could help people get into the backcountry and display some of the gear and trips that I do. Over the years, I have uploaded various types of videos ranging from trips, testing of gear, gear reviews, and sometimes even vacation videos or bike rides with the team. The channel has evolved and now my primary focus is content on the building and testing of prototypes and market available gear, as well as multi-sport trips that often include biking, hiking, climbing, and paddling or packrafting. I prefer unique trips that haven't been done before and have a love for remote arctic adventures. Thanks for watching!
I see trees like that mutilates where they grind them all up on the roadsides with a big toothed grinder thing that eats them up, bums me out when they kill all thr cook willow trees. Man yhat looks almost like copper harbor
That my friend, is a 2008 Honda Element SC, 5 speed manual transmission with 300,000 km on it. I bought it for $9k in 2014 and I will drive it into my own grave.
Great video. I was a whitewater canoe guide in my previous career and spent a lot of time in places like you're in around the country. Those swaths of broken trees are not from tornadoes when they're lying in a straight line. Those are from microbursts. Powerful downdrafts that hit the ground and continue for considerable distances, given their highly localized nature, often crossing rivers where you'll see the trees lying in the same direction going up the other side. There are a few I've seen that knock down massive trees that leave scars for decades. The Derecho did similar damage in places back in 2022. Tornadoes usually leave a circular pattern of damage over large areas.
I booked that exact site then broke my leg two months before I was to go. My best friend and I followed through with our plans and helped me hike that brutal portage from Murray lake with a cast on and crutches. I couldn’t walk but I made it there. It was one of the hardest but best things I’ve ever done. It was over two months ago and I still have calloused palms from the crutches. Great content, Love your videos! You’ve inspired me and my best buddy to purchase some packrafts for some new adventures. Keep the content coming! Ps if anyone is going to Nelly lake bring swimming goggles! The water is cold but my god it’s absolutely mind blowing with the goggles on.
Dude. That sounds like a mission. Portaging with a broken leg! A new level of suffering has been achieved. You'll love the packrafts, endless trip opportunities.
Rail heads are NOT shinny when the line is abandoned idiot! this is a used line! and I take it you cut the tree down and put it over the track in the first place!
@@Suluk46 Well Mr squirrel IRON RUSTS when it is not used! being that I rail cart a lot I know! the only thing that makes them shinny is by trains going over them! always some smart ass like you that thinks they know all!
cool thing you built there. looks like you dialed it in. some extra bolts and lock washers and wrench along with a bottle of locktite or 3m 5200...😁. I'd probably pass on the handsaw and just bring makita chainsaw or reciprocating saw and a bunch of batteries. dang....your going into some virgin ( kinda) territory and it's not going to be steep climbs. just cruising and soaking it all in. you probably should have a couple or 3 cans of bear spray as well. can't wait to watch the next video! 😎👍
Glad you liked it. It's still in development form, but this version is getting pretty close to final. I've got spare parts and tools with me. It's a blast to ride.
I don’t think it’s the rail part that makes it sound noisy. It’s the knobby tire on the smooth rail. I bet it would be nearly silent with a hybrid tire on the rear.
Love the vid!! And compliments on your attitude in spite of the tough conditions 🙏🤍 leaving for this trek at the end of the week... forecast isn't promising, but this provided some inspiration to embrace the adventure one way or another!
Hey there, thanks for posting this video (as well as your other awesome videos). Ever since I watched it a couple of years ago, I’ve been very interested in riding it (as part of a longer bikepacking ride). Will watch again…and may have a few questions about that route if you don’t mind answering. 😊
@@Suluk46 Third time watching your video...quite the blast! Noticed that you used some of the music I used for my GDMBR video from last year...gotta love the free-to-use YT music...very cool! A couple of questions; What time of year did you do the ride? (looks like spring'ish...) How was cell coverage along that route? Considering your route as the start of a mostly off road ride from North Bay to Chaffey's Lock, Ontario... Thanks man!!
We did the route in August. If you go too early in the season, that big water crossing might be an issue, but not sure. We also didn't bring cellphones with us so not sure about coverage, although I seriously doubt there would be any once you're deep in the park.
Skateboard wheels, and tapered to give it more width, and tapered to help keep it centered on the rail, and somekind of suspension, spare parts, and tools in a low center of gravity positioned compartment on the out rigging arm to prevent hopping and maybe a helmet because the tracks and everything that your riding on is unforgiving in every way!!. Thankyou so much for this video!!!!
Amazing trip! I have searched on line, this is the only video I can find of hiking to the canyon park instead of by train. I am thinking to hike to the park this fall. Can anybody tell me exactly how long it is from Towab trail head to the train stop in the park? And how long it will be by hiking to there? Thanks.
@@Suluk46 In your video, it doesn't show how to get to the train track from the Towab trailhead clearly. Do you mean I have to find out my own way? How long will it take? Thanks.
Park at Towab Trail head. Hike north on Frater road until you leave the park boundary at Frater station. Then bushwhack into the canyon. It will take 9 hours. There is no defined trail, you have to make your own from the hydroline, snowmobile trails, game trails, and river banks. Be fluent in off trail navigation, and comfortable orienteering through thick brush. You'll get there eventually. Once it opens up, it is beautiful.
Hey, randomly got suggested this video and I LOVED it. I'm from Germany and I cannot comprehend the vast majority of nothingness in NA. I cannot fathom there just being abandoned towns while biking on a several 100km long railway. I would love to experience a trip like this, really looked like a lot of fun (except the forgetting the tent part).
Great adventure just a thing i noticed that ur saddle is a bit too high. If u r going to do longer rides maybe u need to drop that so ur hips stops rocking side to side. It might cause u some back of the knee issues if the saddle is too high
ever since I was a kid playing on, and walking the rails, I ALWAYS wanted to ride my bike on them....do you have plans on how to make the rack? It would be a dream come true to do this some day!!!
In Ontario, you really don't have to worry much. There's not really grizzlies mostly black bears and they're just as scared of you as you are of them and are usually easy to just scare off by yelling. Just dont mess with a mama
Great Adventure!~ you have a lot of experience with this style of video making, love the jokes and little tool tips. Even though you may profit off of the tool tips sometimes, they are still great for people who enjoy this stuff but don't have the means/tools to do this kind of stuff. Im glad that you are getting back out there and living life! Keep sharing :)
Glad you like it. I don't profit off the products I recommend, they are simply good products from cool companies. No affiliation except of course the Suluk 46 products.
i myself daily drive a 03 honda ex element and i absolutely love it every time, it's the first car i ever learned to drive and honestly i wanna keep it running for years to come, i only wish it had a 6 speed because my only gripe is it's highway performance
