(whooshing)
(dramatic music)
(beeping)
(helicopter radioing in background)
(engine roaring)
- Hi, let me just find a good place for this.
(upbeat rock music)
What is it right now?
It's not too bad, minus three Celsius
with a low of minus eight today.
It's 7:10 in the morning.
It's 8:10 in the morning.
Little bit of a late start.
I am here in, where am I?
Where am I?
I'm in a place called Revelstoke
which is three hours from Colona
which is an hour plane ride from Vancouver
which is across the country from Toronto.
I'm here to get a kickstart on winter, if you will.
Yeah, what does that mean, get a kickstart,
and who would want to get a kickstart,
who would want the jump on winter?
This guy does.
You see, last year, I bought a sled,
a snowmobile for those of you guys who don't know the slang,
we call them sleds.
I bought one closer towards the end of the year,
kind of like right now,
but then we didn't get any snow in Ontario,
which is the province I live in,
until later on, so I only got to ride it a few times.
So I have the opportunity today to go out with a pro rider.
This dude is amazing.
I think he's sponsored by,
I don't even know.
He's a pro rider. This guys mobs.
I have the opportunity to come out here
with a friend of mine, Mattie,
and give him a little taste of how I enjoy winter,
and the things I like to do
which is most definitely snowmobiling,
so we're gonna go into the mountains
and actually snowmobile in backcountry
which is very exciting for me
because I've never done that before.
I'll probably suck really bad at it,
but hey, you gotta start somewhere.
There doesn't even seen to be very much snow here
which is concerning.
Very excited, always good to be back in the mountains
as you guys know.
I love it.
Super pumped for Mattie to get to ride proper snowmobiles.
It's been a while since we've been on one together,
and yeah, looking forward to today.
It should be very, very fun.
The guy has a couple extra sleds for us,
so we're gonna hop on those and just,
I think he's even got a satphone.
I was told he has a satphone
and that just makes me so happy.
I would love to make a call from a satphone,
just to say I did.
Like I was a true CTU agent in duress.
- Erwich is gone. The canisters are gone.
We've got nothing here, damn it!
- And I needed to use a satphone to call in air support.
It's just something I would love to add to my list
of things I've done.
Not actually, fictionally,
but I need to get my snow pants on.
(upbeat rock music)
(dinging)
(beeping)
(groaning)
- Dude, the weather's looking good.
Weather is looking crispy.
So here's the plan.
I got all my snow stuff in the trunk.
I gotta get, are you already ready?
- Pretty much.
- [Pete] When did you get all your snow stuff on?
- I was so nervous that I had to put it on first.
(laughing)
- Mattie hasn't ridden sleds.
Well, you rode a sled once in Sweden,
but they were very different than these ones,
especially backcountry in a mountain.
I don't even really ride backcountry in mountains ever.
Like I ride flatground on a lake, so we're gonna meet
a guy named Rob Alford.
He's a pro rider, and he's gonna come make sure
we don't die or get snowed in from an avalanche.
That's safety first.
Hey, you want the blue one or the black one?
I'm just kidding, I'm taking the black one, obviously.
(whooshing)
(building electronic music)
(record scratching)
- Hey Mattie, this is the most
I've ever seen you crash drones.
You crashed 'em in the sand,
you just crashed us in the snow.
What's happening, drone master?
- I'm just getting more relaxed with it, that's all.
(laughing)
- We all thought he was a pro at this thing,
but I guess not.
I think I might have to strip you of that drone lord title.
- I don't know about that. (laughs)
(panting)
- That's not half bad.
Hey Rob, how feasible is it to tear
some of that soft powder up?
You know when you see a calm lake,
and you just wanna throw a big rock in it?
I kinda want to throw you in that.
- That's totally feasible.
(laughing)
- I wouldn't do it, but I mean,
he's actually good at this so.
(engine roaring)
- I can't do that, that's for sure.
(engine roaring)
(heavy electronic music)
(dinging)
(whirring)
- Dude, that came down fast.
- Sorry, man, I almost chopped off your fingers.
- That drone was like,
"I am landing, now!"
Dude, sick drone flight.
- Heck yeah. - Looks good, right?
This dude is a boss on the sled.
Ah, he's so good.
(engine rumbling)
Dude, you know how to ride a sled, man (laughs)
All right, food break?
- Yeah, we gotta get these things cooking.
- [Pete] Kay, tell me, how do you cook
one of these out here without a stove?
- Well, I call it the panini press.
I put it in here, and it presses against the hot exhaust
and cooks it perfectly.
- [Pete] How long do you lock it in there for?
- Well, that's the other thing.
If you're riding really hard,
then you don't want it in there that long,
but if you're just sitting around,
it's not too bad. (laughs)
- The panini press, I love it.
The side of the sled.
- You gotta make sure you rotate it though
or else you'll burn the one side which is no good.
- [Pete] You gotta flip.
- Yeah, you gotta flip it.
All right, put that in there.
Push that in, boom.
- So if you guys follow my channel or Mattie's channel,
you may know that we both
have very different opinions of winter.
I love the winter.
I think it's fun. There's fun activities.
It looks beautiful, I mean, look around.
Look at this.
It's very rare you get to see this sort of a landscape
and the fact that it goes away and you get your seasons,
and then it's summer, and you can enjoy both.
I just love it, so it's great.
Now Mattie, on the other hand,
is not the biggest fan of winter.
He's more of a summer guy,
wants to lay on the beach and do warm activities,
and swim in the water, and there's nothing wrong with that.
He loves jet skiing. I love jet skiing.
So when Hyundai came to us with this idea,
"Hey, do you and Mattie wanna go
do each other's versions of winter?"
We're like, "Well, what does that mean?"
and they're like, "Well, Pete, you're into snowmobiling,
you like to ride sleds,
why don't you take Mattie snowmobiling in the backcountry
with a pro rider?
And the next day, you can go do Mattie's version of winter.
You can go snowboarding up on the mountain
with a pro rider."
It's like, "That sounds great,
minus Mattie's actual version of winter
because I don't like snowboarding.
I'm not very good at it.
I tried it once before.
I found it very difficult,
even though I can ride a one-wheel,
snowboarding's just not my thing, no offense.
It's just this, this is my thing.
The snow is so deep out here (panting).
All right, airlift me back.
- Start it up. Make it hotter.
Let's cook these sandwiches.
- [Pete] All right.
Good.
- Shot of the day.
- [Pete] Open the oven. Whoohoo.
They're like smoking hot black.
- Yeah, hopefully they're not overcooked.
- [Pete] How they looking? - [Rob] The cheese is melted.
Love it.
Wow.
- Yeah.
Boom.
I'm going to bed now.
That was a long day.
The sun has set.
Snowmobiling was amazing.
Tomorrow, I gotta do Mattie's version of winter
which is snowboarding,
and I'm really, really not looking forward to that. (sighs)
(light electronic music)
I'm trying to find the lobby. (beeping)
I'm super late, and this is apparently the way you go.
I mean, that sounds better than snowboarding.
Just gonna put that out there.
Where is this lobby, seriously?
Oh my goodness, this is insane.
Found the lobby through the tunnels of this place.
Can you snowboard in a puff coat? Does that work?
Can you snowboard in snowmobile pants?
Does that work?
Gonna go meet up with Mattie and this pro rider now
and shred the powder.
I don't know, is that what they say?
Shred the mountain?
I'm just really not feeling snowboarding, guys.
I'll make the best of it.
We'll make it look good.
They gave me snowboard boots
because they said I can't snowboard in snowmobile boots
which makes sense since there's bindings and stuff.
Where do I put these on?
Is there a bench or anything?
Is there a bench?
I guess I'll just put them on right here.
(stomping)
I feel like I'm going to the moon in these boots. (laughs)
Straight to the moon!
I was ready to go and totally forgot I need a board
to make this work.
(beeping)
No, no, no wait.
(beeping)
- [Mattie] You're okay, right?
- I don't like chairlifts.
- [Snowboard Pro] We're not in a chairlift.
- This isn't a chairlift?
- [Snowboard Pro] No, it's a gondola.
- A gondola? Whatever. I don't like gondolas.
(laughing)
Thanks. Thanks for pointing that out there.
How high does this go?
Are we almost at the top?
I can't say I'm that much of a fan of how high we are.
Especially, I've never done this.
And this is a little much.
- I think we got some ways to go still.
- Yeah, we're just at the start.
We're just hitting the snow.
(heavy rock music)
(laughing)
(melodic music)
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(melodic music) (laughing)
(heavy metal music)
- Whoa!
(melodic music)
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(laughing)
- Hey dude, how much longer
are you gonna be up on that mountain?
Couple more hours?
Yeah, I should still be around when you get back.
Okay, yeah, just give me a call.
Yeah, I'll be here.
Kay, bye.
Nope.
(funk music)
(beeping)
Made it back home.
Sorry, Mattie, couldn't wait around for you.
Snowboarding's just not my thing,
but maybe it's your thing.
Hyundai Canada is actually putting on a contest
so that you and a friend can win a trip
out to Whistler, BC and shred some mountains
with your snowboards, and if you don't snowboard,
with a snowmobile,
and they're gonna give you a couple of GoPros
to go along with that so you can capture the whole thing.
The link is below.
It's hyundaisocialcontest.ca.
Everything is there for you to check out
if you would so choose to do so.
Also, some of the photos that we took on this trip
are gonna be down there too if you wanna peep those.
And that's it, so thanks Hyundai for setting that up.
That was a blast, minus the snowboarding.
That was not a blast, and yeah, I'm home early,
so sorry, Mattie, if you're seeing this.
This is what I did while you were mobbing the hills.
Have a great day.
(rock music)