(tense music)
- What's going on guys?
Now, you're used to us bringing you episodes
of Breaking Trail where I'm catching live animals,
but, today, we're gonna do something a little different.
We're headed off into the back country of Utah
to search for dinosaur tracks!
Now, as most of you know, I absolutely love dinosaurs,
so what I'm gonna do is trade in
my cowboy hat for this helmet
as we ride on these awesome Polaris RZRs
onto the rough and rugged terrain
to search out these tracks.
Alright, hop in, guys!
This is gonna be awesome!
Woo!
(engine roars)
Yahoo!
(tribal theme music)
In most of our adventures, we break trail on foot,
however sometimes the best way
to cover many miles of distance quickly
is by way of all-terrain vehicle.
Today, the crew and I are in Hurricane, Utah,
one of the best places in the west
to find and get close to dinosaur tracks.
This is awesome, we finally made it!
Let's head back in there and find the tracks!
Woo!
(haunting music)
Aw, man, this is epic!
Just this backdrop, I mean, you can't beat this!
It is hot, it is dusty.
Look at this, check this out.
Do you see all the dust coming off of me?
- [Mark] Oh, yeah.
- Woo, it is, what do you think it is?
About 100 degrees out here, right now?
- [Mark] At least.
- At least 100 degrees,
and look at how bone dry this is, check this out.
Look at that, it is just red dust.
It's amazing to think that, at one point in time,
dinosaurs were walking right through this environment.
Alright, I think, if we head down through this ravine,
here, we're gonna find some!
Wow, check that out!
Dinosaurs passed this way,
this is the whole area that
we're gonna be exploring, right here on the side.
That's where we are.
You've got Megapnosaurus and Dilophosaurus tracks.
Dilophosaurus are much larger.
You see, right there, huge compared to a human.
I can't imagine what it would be like
to have actually seen one of these walking
in this environment 120 million years ago.
Now, let's go find the tracks!
(piano music)
And even though this is sloped down,
at one point in time,
before water washed through here and wore the rock away,
this could have been flatter,
so I'm always looking at an angle
for any indentation in the rock
has the potential to be a track.
I mean, look how deceiving this is.
That almost looks like a toe, right there.
Wow, I wonder if that could be a track?
It's not defined enough to prove that, though.
Alright, let's keep going!
This is actually great substrate, right here.
Check this out, look at this, Mark, look at this.
We just found our first set of dinosaur tracks.
This is Megapnosaurus, right here,
a small, upright walking therapod,
and you can see where this animal
moved right through the environment.
Look at this, I'm gonna step right next to the tracks.
Look at that stride!
Wow, that's so cool, walking right along side dinosaurs!
You ever think you'd be able to do that, Mark?
- [Mark] No!
I'd never thought I'd see a dinosaur track.
- I know!
- [Mark] This is amazing!
- Check this one out.
That's actually really cool.
So, it took a real sharp turn, right here,
and probably headed off in that direction,
but if you come up here a little bit further,
you got the larger Dilophosaur tracks.
Check this out.
These are Dilophosaur tracks.
Look how big this animal was!
Here, come up through this way,
you can see this one best.
Look at that!
- [Mark] Wow!
- Wow, what a giant!
Dilophosaurus is famous because it was featured
in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park.
If you remember, it was the one that
had the big frill that came out and it spit the venom.
Now, scientists do not believe
that this dinosaur actually had those frills,
but the filmmakers took the liberty of giving
that dinosaur these traits to make it
a little bit more scary.
Look at how big they are!
In the movie, the Dilophosaur they featured
was much smaller than this,
but you can see with my hand right down there in the track,
this is not a carnivore that you would
just wanna stumble upon out here in the desert.
How awesome is that!
- [Mark] Did you ever think you'd be, like,
standing right in a dinosaur track?
- No, I didn't!
I've never seen dinosaur tracks before out in the wild,
and you can almost feel the energy of this animal
when you put your hand into the track like that.
Okay, so these tracks that we're looking at, right here,
anybody can come and see these.
What we wanna do now is actually head off into the desert
and see if we can find some for ourselves.
You guys ready to do this?
- [Mark] Let's do it!
- It's gonna be dry, it's gonna be hot,
and it's gonna be dusty,
but I'm pretty confident that
we're gonna find some tracks of our own!
(hopeful music)
There's a hole.
Oh, check this out!
This could be a track!
Yes! (tense music)
Chance, come up here, look at this!
You got one here, one here, wow!
I think this is it,
I think these are actual dinosaur tracks!
This one, right here, is almost perfect.
Bring your camera up.
Come here, come here, come here!
Look at this!
Look over my shoulder, look at that.
Three distinct toe marks.
Alright, I'm gonna blow the sand on you, ready?
Yes, there's no question about it,
that is an upright walking therapod,
most likely a carnivore,
and guessing on the size of these tracks,
I'm saying it's probably four feet tall,
and close to 11 feet in length.
Not an animal that you would want
to run into out here 65 million years ago.
Holy cow, this is exciting!
Dude, high five!
I cannot believe we actually came across tracks,
and look at this, you got one here, and look at that stride.
Here to here, shorter there, planted, and then off,
and who knows, I mean, this rock
could have broken apart millions of years ago,
but you got one right here, and one right there.
And, oh my gosh, we actually came across dinosaur tracks.
Now this was objective number one, find dinosaur tracks.
Well, we found them.
The good news is that we still have a couple hours
out here in the desert, and we have those RZRs,
so objective number two is gonna be
to head to the sand dunes and really have some fun.
I hope you guys are ready, 'cause this is gonna be awesome!
- [Mark] Yeah, come in, guys.
(tribal drum music)
- [Coyote] Woohoo!
What up?
- [Mark] What'd you think man?
We brought you out in the field!
- I know, this is frickin' awesome!
This is killer! - I mean, dude!
- [Mark] Can you think of a better trip
to come along with, jeez?
- Yeah, the walls in the editing bay
do not look like these mountains.
It is amazing out here.
(engine roars)
(rock music)
- [Coyote] Woohoo!
Yep, I'm stuck!
Woohoo, it's a little bumpy, right there!
- [Mark] I don't know if I got the whole flip,
but that was gnarly!
- [Coyote] Ouch!
- [Mark] You alright?
- Well guys, rule number one,
if you flip the RZR, is always to keep your arms inside.
Thankfully, I'm walking away from yet another one.
Aw, man!
I was barely even turning!
I don't know how that thing flipped!
(tense music)
But it, ah, yeah, I flipped it.
You know, if I'm not falling off of a cliff,
I'm flipping a vehicle.
That's why we just usually don't let me do these things.
(laughs)
A good lesson here is that
if you do roll a machine like this,
you just hold on to the steering wheel,
keep your hands inside,
you're always wearing your seat belt,
always wearing the helmet,
and, so far, I'm walking away
from this one completely unscathed.
My back and neck might be a little sore tomorrow,
but no broken bones, no stitches.
We're having to bungee cord the door shut,
'cause that's broken.
I cracked the top of it, and, unfortunately,
I may have just bought the Brave Wilderness team a RZR,
because this is gonna be an expensive one to fix.
My bad!
- [Mark] Woo, alright Coyote, well,
that's one way to do it in Utah.
- Yeah, I say it was an extremely successful day.
We found dinosaur tracks, that was awesome.
Then we came out here to the dunes to rip up the sand
with our RZRs, and I kind of rolled mine,
but the good news is, no cuts, no broken bones,
and, yet again, I walk away
from another Breaking Trail mishap.
All I can say is that Utah is unbelievably epic!
- [Chris] Yessir!
- I'm Coyote Peterson, be brave,
stay wild, always wear your helmet,
we'll see you on the next adventure!
Here we go!
Eh, buckle up!
Woo!
(engine roars)
If you thought flipping my RZR was a close call,
make sure to go back and watch the time
I missed a jump and fell off a cliff in Arizona.
- [Woman] Oh my God!
- [Coyote] Yikes, and don't forget,
subscribe to the Brave Wilderness channel,
so you can join me and the crew on the next location.
(coyote howls)