Driving the Trans-Labrador Highway - Overlanding From Tundra to Tides
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- In this episode we set out on an epic road trip, starting in Baie-Comeau and following the stunning St. Lawrence River before heading north to Labrador City. Along the way, we visited the incredible Manic-5 Dam, delving into its history and marveling at its impressive engineering.
Our journey took us through unique geological wonders, including an ancient impact crater, and gave us a firsthand look at the environmental impact of the region's mining industry. We also explored cultural centers and historical sites, gaining insights into the rich native cultures and history that shape this remote area.
As we traveled, we were captivated by the rugged beauty and the challenges of the road. Our adventure culminated with a visit to a picturesque lighthouse, offering breathtaking views and a sense of accomplishment as we wrapped up our Labrador adventure.
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I live in fermont , love to see people visiting and enjoying how beautifull the region is , i realy need to go trough the trans lab highway someday
It's nice to see you guys exploring my back yard. Some east coast content is a nice change from the flood of West coast content. If you need any destination suggestions, I got a bunch for you!.
I live in Lab City and used to drive haul trucks at IOC, I was also the truck training supervisor at Tacora in Wabush. IOC decorates the truck at the gate for Christmas and everything.
Glad you enjoyed my hometown!
Ahh that makes sense :)
We’ve followed your adventures since the Alaska trip. Always appreciate your way of story telling.
Being truck camper people (northern lite) looking forward to this trip. I lived in Newfoundland as a kid and started school up there in corner brook.
The laundromat was cool, bet you’ll find more on the island. Probably next to the barber shop.💈
If you can find grand lake their used to be a place called camp 33 where all the Air Force families from Ernst Hartman AFB used to recreate. It would be a cool spot to spend a night or two.
Safe travels.. thanks a bunch for all your efforts.
Thanks for taking me back to memory lane, i used to live in Fermont and Lab City, i bicycled from Lab City to GooseBay and return twice when the translabrador hwy was all gravel…
Always love your informative videos for the last 3 years now, keep up the excellent work and safe travels 😎
That is the kind of drive I wanna be doing. You not only got some great road driving and vantage points, you also got in some local history and culture museums. Can’t beat the light house overnight stay. Or the lakeside ones! Another one for my bucket list. Pumped me up just watching you guys!
Oh this place is amazing for spectacular scenery and endless scenic drives!
Amazing. You are seeing more of Canada than some of us Canadians! 🇨🇦 we have made it to Tuk but would love to do what you’re doing in Quebec and Labrador. Don’t think we have the right rig for that. Glad you are giving us video. Awesome. Thank you.
Those models were flipping amazing.
Right! Never seen anything like it.
I grew up in Labrador city and probably done at least a dozen trips over the Baie Comeau road. I never spent any significant time at manic 5 but remember as a kid getting sick on that gravel road many times. Especially the rolling hills and crossing the tracks close to a dozen times near Fremont.
Also remember doing the Labrador highway when it was new and all gravel and the furthest you could go was Goose bay, it was very rough and washed out and we got a flat tire. Took a ferry from Goose bay to Lewisport which also stopped in Cartright along the way. Great video and look forward to the others!
Wow that must have been something! I could imagine getting sick on those hills! That would be a scary road in the winter.
I like finding plants like that too! And to see trees growing out of rock - amazing how they survive.
❤Red Bay. We pent Two nights there. Amazing displays and information. 🇨🇦
Wow (big truck) it looked like Honey I shrunk the kids! Another wow - I don’t normally love museums but that man’s work was brilliant! How precious to leave those to bring history to life!
Halfway through the video as I type. Amazing! Amazing! Thank you for educating this Canadian.
So glad your enjoying it 😊 I know it's long, just didn't want to cut too much.
Great watching this video. Brings back great memories as we did it last summer in our Ram 3500 with a Host 11.6 Everest truck camper in the opposite direction. Thanks John and Geraldine
They still open up the river from time to time good views when the falls are flowing!
Awesome video! Thanks for bringing us along !
Tom, Cait- That was Just amazing. Thank you for that awe inspiring journey.
Glad you are back on the road sharing your adventures. Thoroughly enjoying the videos of this trip. Thank you for sharing.
Im so glad youre back on YT and traveling! I hope you dont leave us again. This is a great series.
An incredible video! Thank you for sharing you adventures!
WOW! I did this route two years ago, with a few more stops than good memories!
Thanks!
Thanks very much for the trip and information on North West River.
My home is going to be the last town you will be driving thru. L'anse au Clair .
Beautiful place!!!
Welcome to town!
If you have a chance you have to see manic 5 at night when it's lit up lol
Passed you guys on the highway when I was headed towards my house !!! Glad you guys enjoy my town of lab city!! Not also to mention you guys passed thru my home town of red bay. Forgot to mention saddle island the big house on the top my grandmother grew up in and took a boat across to school everyday
Ha no way! Very cool :)
Big gunner
Newfoundland is beautiful.
Neat places to explore!
Absolutely amazing, can’t wait for the next one.
This was one awesome video. Thank you so much for letting us tagalong. Thank you for all your hard work that you do for us RV folks!
The closer you got to the ferry the more stunning landscape there was , Really
Enjoyed this video.Thank you so much , at 49:23 paused it for awhile , One of the best screenshot / photo I've ever seen , we'll done guys 🥂
I think your rig is absolutely perfect for this trip. I was wondering what other people travel in and it wasn't till the end where you showed a camper van and then a travel trailer. I would think a 4x4 van, maybe with a mild lift and bigger tires, could do this trip. With solar and lithium system obviously.
Mainly truck campers and vans, the Quebec side is tougher, the lab side is quite nice, mostly smaller rigs, but anything can do it, its just rough road in spots, Gotta be prepared for lots of washboard, Airing down was helpful for us.
Amazing trip! Thanks for sharing. Brought back some great memories of my trek there. Looking forward to the Newfoundland side.
Incredible video! So interesting! I just love watching your videos because you go into detail with everything.
The Mount Wright mine in Fermont, QC is the largest iron mine in Canada, top 15 in the world. IOC in Labrador is the second largest in Canada, top 20 in the world and the Lake Bloom mine 5 minutes up the road from Mount Wright main gate is the 3rd largest one.
You can visit the Mount Wright mine from End of June to End of August, on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sunday in the morning. You need to reserve at least a day before, and the tour is in French (I don't know if they have English tours, I doubt it).
That rock truck at the tourist office is actually rather small and obsolete today. It has 150-tonnes capacity, Mount Wright currently operates 240-tonnes mainly and slowly moving to an all 400-tonns capacity truck fleet (think it's about 25% 400-tonnes trucks right now, maybe a bit less).
Thanks so much for sharing Labrador. We love the Canadian maritimes, but have never seen that area.
A fantasting video. Thanks.
What a great adventure. Thanks so much for sharing it with great video.
Just Stunning! Thank You!
Another epic journey!
Wow that was so good. Definitely on our places to go!!! Looking forward to Newfoundland....Happy Trails 🐕🦮
Excellent! Thanks for sharing!
Fantastic episode. Enjoyed seeing more of Goose Bay (stopped there when airline didn’t have enough fuel to get from Hamburg, Germany to Newark). Debated going to Red Bay when we were at north end of Newfoundland. We didn’t due to Nova Scotia ferry reservation and now I wish we had. You will love Newfoundland.
At 59:36 you called a plant a something apple, maybe a May Apple. That is incorrect, those are Cloud Berries! You can eat them raw or cooked. The are made into jams, jellies or syrup traditional. In Scandinavia they mix them with a sweetened cream to make a cloudberry flavor. We had it for breakfast in Copenhagen, Denmark, when we visited while in the military. It was on Norwegian waffles, as syrup and with the cream, it was amazing!
Wow. epic trip!
That was soooo much fun.
thanks guys.
Thinks a 789 is huge, Wait until he sees a 797 up close ;) i love your quirky obsession coming from myself obsessed with seeing trains up close.
Nice video. Too bad you didn’t visit the Gateway in Labrador City. Nice little camping spot there as well.
Hi guys. Newfoundland should be pretty this time of year. We were stationed there in the navy from 64 thru 67 in Argentia bay navy base that has since been closed since the 90s. Good times as a kid.
Oh, so y’all didn’t go up to Goose Bay? That is a beautiful village. You missed out! Wow! OK, still great video!
Three thumbs up. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Glad to have you along :)
I lived in goosebay as a kid. We left on the new high way before they finished all the bridges. Its amazing to see that its now based.
But Newfoundland and Labrador is Atlantic Canada, Not the Maritimes. Maritimes is New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI.
that haul truck in lab city i have a video of my dad using iocs tow truck (witch is another 830e haul truck modified) to town that one over to carol lake metal works for get repainted and have all the lights added to it
Really enjoyed you video
That’s just an old 789, which is smaller than a new 789, which is much smaller than a 797 or one of its competitors made by Liebherr or Komatsu. You should see one of those. Yes, front and rear suspension consists of hydraulic struts. I don’t know the capacity of that era truck, off hand, but the new ones are rated to carry 213 tons, and the 797 almost double that, at 400 tons. They are mechanical drive with huge diesel engine, transmission, and differential.
That second truck is a Komatsu 830E with 250 ton capacity, is diesel over electric for motivation, and utilizes energy recapture for braking.
If you’re tired after driving that road, you should try it at over 200,000 pounds with a 110’ long drill mast for the mine.
Lol, yea that would be somethig! I did tons of research on those trucks after seeing them, just amazing. As an electrical engineer I love the diesel electric, the second one still had the gen attached! Allison and Magna are working on live axles four medium duty trucks and I think it would be a blast to convert this beast to diesel electric, lol.
Great video & information. If you ever come through Lake George, NY you are welcome to boondock on my property. Be safe. Thank you.
take your electric fly swatter....works great on those big flies
While in Newfoundland...take the Ferry (need passports) to St Pierre and Miquelon...its a French...like...actual France governed enclave just south of the southern tip of Newfoundland. Not allot of people know it exists.
Was it you guys who parked behind an apartment building in Avalon Lab City a couple of nights ago? I should have knocked on your door and took a picture with you guys if it was you☺️
Sorry nope, we were through about a month ago now.
Thank you for the video. I"m planning on going along that hwy, this week, from Toronto. Off to visit parents in NF, via the Labrador Hwy. Doesn't seem you had an issue with Black Flies.
Not too bad, but it was mostly dry.
What is your opinion of gas vs diesel for truck camping?
Personal preference really, your not as heavy as towing so you can get away with gas fine, but you still get better range and fuel efficiency with the diesel. As heavy as we are I wouldn't do the gas tho.
You just missed the forest fire evacuation a few weeks ago..
I read recently that a whale museum in New Bedford MA has whale skeletons that over 25 years old that are still dripping oil.
What month did you go through ?? I drove from Toronto to Newfoundland on the same route in May, there was an iceberg in red bay when I arrived!
all them dams supply power to the us eastern seaboard very little is used by cda
❤😊
I want to ask a question about fuel cost.
If you convert the amount you paid for fuel from Canadian funds to American funds, is it not equal to the amount you usually pay.
Hey, planning on thet trip next year.How much of that highway is still gravel.
The eskimos only took the whales the could eat and use. They used every part of the whale as you found in Tuktoyuktuk. The whalers from Europe were trying to fulfill quantities too big for the population of whales and wasn’t sustainable!
Great video! What is the name of the light house? Where is it?
l'anse amour
Really love your videos, ❤ But dude get a haircut. 😊
Poor guys must have gotten eaten by the bugs. Labrador is disgusting.
You clearly can’t put yourself in their position centuries ago. Whaling was a way of life and it provided a major industry of the times. Cultures, towns, cities all depended on it until innovation made it extinct. Let’s not judge the ways of the past based on your modern views of life. . .🤔
Not judging it, we get it, nature was to be concurred and seemed in-exhaustive, seen it everywhere we go. doesn't mean ya cant dislike parts of it and not see it repeated.
Great video…thanks. Two questions please. How many amp hours are in your house bank? Is the Labrador highway paved well enough to be suitable for a luxury class b, like a Grech/Airstream? Thanks!
Yea totally, the lab side is way better, the Quebec side is fine, but there are a few hundred KM of washboard so thats up to you. doable yes, comfortable, no.