Massive Muddy Whirlpool Leads To The End Of The Flooded Roadway

追加: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]Hey everyone, we just found another big blockage which is making this road super duper soft. Look what the beavers have done. It's flooding way out here into this intersection.

[00:00:14]Look at that. And look behind me. You see how muddy that is?

[00:00:20]Vehicles it looks like have literally been getting stuck back there because of the beavers.

[00:00:25]Let's drain all this. Look what these beavers have done.

[00:00:30]This is across a seasonal main artery, meaning this was not plowed this winter.

[00:00:35]It has just thawed out. Two weeks ago, this was snow covered and I couldn't travel it. The risk of getting stuck two weeks ago was 100% you would have got stuck. Today, there's a few areas if I wasn't careful, but I made it through.

[00:00:49]We have water crossing, and it's because of the beavers. We dealt with the same location last year. What's amazing is last year when we unclogged it, they never messed with it again. Although they were not relocated. Maybe they'll be reasonable again this year. I just parked here at this corner. You wouldn't want to do that in the summer, but I guarantee you a log truck is not going to need this space to turn here. Log truck would never make it out here this time of year. Look at this mess. I partially blame the beavers for this.

[00:01:20]Actually, I'm pretty much this is the beaver's fault. The water table is so high and it froze underneath here.

[00:01:28]Look at this mess. We're gonna attempt to get through this. I attempted last night, but I didn't like how much I was sinking. I believe that's me right here.

[00:01:37]I stopped right here. I was like, "Nope, I'm not using the winch in the middle of the night like this." Probably here at 1:00 in the morning.

[00:01:46]No, actually, those are my tracks. I made it a little bit further before I decide to back up. Road looks fine up there, but I'm just walking on foot. How is my heavy vehicle going to deal with this?

[00:02:01]See someone else? Maybe that was me last night that stopped here and backed up.

[00:02:07]I don't know.

[00:02:10]Are we going to make it through? If we can make it right there, I think we'll make it. There's another very problem area that I suspect about a mile up here. And if we make it that far, I'm going to try to make this road through the mountain.

[00:02:24]Otherwise, if we have to hit this from the other way around, it's going to take us two or three hours, if the road is even open yet. Still very muddy because these roads are still frozen beneath.

[00:02:35]Mud is unpredictable. I'll give it some speed in four-wheel drive, but I'm not gonna fly down here because it's much worse if you get into an area where only half of it sinks and then you're off into the ditch. It's way, way worse. I'd rather get stuck and have to winch out than have myself veer off into something that's potentially horrible.

[00:03:01]You still hear a couple frogs here. Last night, the amount of frogs peeping was enormous.

[00:03:09]So, let's see how the pipe is. This was a very easy one to drain the road last year.

[00:03:17]Let's have a look. There's the pipe. It is plastic, but it is deep enough it shouldn't be a problem.

[00:03:24]So, let's follow it over.

[00:03:34]Is it going to be easy?

[00:03:37]I off the bat can't see it.

[00:03:42]Is it underneath this? Is it further out? I don't know.

[00:03:51]I think it's right here.

[00:03:54]I think it's right here. I think whatever I just kicked feel like I heard it.

[00:04:02]But we're going to drain this back.

[00:04:04]Beavers do not live in this body of water. Probably the reason they didn't really care when we drained it last year. They live right up in here. They'd be completely left alone if they wouldn't mess with this pipe. Logging company wouldn't care. But because they make the road this soft, they're a problem.

[00:04:24]I see no active evidence of them, but I know they're up there. And by looking at this, they likely clogged it last year.

[00:04:31]We were in drought back in the fall, so we just never noticed it.

[00:04:37]You see that dirtiness? There's a little bit of flow.

[00:04:41]Shouldn't be hard to find. Nice relaxing day. No logging operations going on on this road, at least for the next month.

[00:04:52]Yep. Let's go get camera number two. Get the rake. Have some fun.

[00:04:58]All right, everyone. We got the rake. We got camera number two. The big high boots. We're all geared up. You know, it's been a very busy week when my rake is getting shiny like that. We are getting shiny.

[00:05:13]Look at that pattern in the water. That is so cool.

[00:05:17]All the dust staying low with clear water over it.

[00:05:21]I love seeing that.

[00:05:28]Here the nice happy tree frog.

[00:05:31]We're going to go set up camera number two.

[00:05:35]Once we find the pipe, this should be fairly easy. The most difficult part is going to be locating the pipe. I think I just kicked it cuz I heard something that sounded like an echo.

[00:05:49]But we're going to put camera number two down here. Getting a nice view from far away because if I remember last year, this entire grass just got flooded over when that pipe opened up. So, we're going to have a nice far away view for when that opens up. But here we go.

[00:06:10]Camera number two is going Okay. So, it's got to be right here where the ground bumps out. That's from beavers messing with it. So, I'm going to put you guys out in the water looking back for a good view because this shouldn't create too drastic of a blast.

[00:06:42]Okay, let's try to get it open.

[00:06:52]Got to find the pipe first. Where's the end of it?

[00:07:04]We're definitely hitting it.

[00:07:07]So, we're going to start from there.

[00:07:10]You have to find the opening.

[00:07:15]We get it. Nope.

[00:07:23]All right. Hitting. I'm hitting it. You hear the echo on camera number two?

[00:07:28]It's there. It's not there.

[00:07:33]So, the entrance is there somewhere. Oh, we already got it going a little bit.

[00:07:53]That's really packed.

[00:07:55]Oo, why aren't we moving? It started moving.

[00:08:19]What's going on?

[00:08:29]That's a rock.

[00:08:31]All right, we're going to start digging the ground up now.

[00:08:53]Oh man.

[00:08:59]Pipe, right?

[00:09:03]Feels like a rock, but it's touching the pipe.

[00:09:07]Absolutely.

[00:09:15]What's that?

[00:09:17]Another rock.

[00:09:22]Just because we thought we found it doesn't mean anything you can't see below this mud.

[00:09:52]Come on.

[00:10:57]We're back to square one.

[00:11:12]That did not help.

[00:11:16]We had movement.

[00:11:19]False movement.

[00:11:39]Where's the damn pipe?

[00:11:55]Further out here under this pile.

[00:12:00]Crazy.

[00:12:49]Is that it? Yeah, we got it. I think we're in it. Crazy how you can lose it like that. I hope we got it. I see the current.

[00:13:09]Let's not let that get plugged again.

[00:13:17]Yeah, I think we got it open now. We got to let all this debris pass so it doesn't get lodged in there again. Okay.

[00:13:24]Yeah.

[00:13:25]Is that it? Yeah, we got it. We got it.

[00:13:28]Now, it's crazy how you can just lose it like that.

[00:13:35]I have no reason to suspect there's a collapse or anything.

[00:13:41]Time to dig it out so the water pressure can start helping.

[00:13:50]Got to open it up more. The end of the rake can't even fit yet.

[00:13:57]Oh, there we go. I think there we go.

[00:14:08]There we go.

[00:14:23]push all the junk through so it doesn't get clogged again.

[00:14:28]You got to really clean this up. Let the water clear up so I can see what I'm doing.

[00:14:35]Use my hands to tell where I got to dig more cuz I can't see at all under there.

[00:14:48]Okay.

[00:14:52]At least the plastic pipes are easier to open when they're functioning good.

[00:14:57]They're slippery.

[00:15:04]Almost open all the way.

[00:15:07]Feeling the edges from every angle.

[00:15:11]I think we're open all the way. Now I got to send all the junk through so that it can't just instantly stay plugged or replug itself.

[00:15:28]The beavers will shove all this back in if it's here.

[00:15:47]There's so much water pressure it won't get stuck again.

[00:15:51]Not like this anyways.

[00:15:56]This will certainly bring it to capacity where it'll seem like it's slowing down on this side but not the other side.

[00:16:06]It looks like it'll slow down just because there's so much water coming in from so many angles. Now we got to get rid of this Beaver Dam foundation down to the bottom of the pipe so it can drain to its maximum and get off the road.

[00:16:23]I'm going to go check camera number two real quick.

[00:16:32]Just making sure it's safe off to the side. This debris can get stuck against the tripod and knock it over.

[00:18:24]Mud's getting sticky like peanut butter.

[00:18:28]Not that there's no more debris to stand on.

[00:18:33]Just roughening up the ground, making a channel so it can drain all the way to the bottom of the pipe.

[00:18:41]It was rainy this week, so these issues really started to show themselves. This is the best time of year to do inspections.

[00:18:50]The ground is still frozen. It can't absorb. It's been raining a lot. Tons of snow melt. There was so much snow we couldn't get down these roads two weeks ago.

[00:19:03]The grass is all pushed over from the winter.

[00:19:06]It's why you can't really inspect all this in the summer. too dry. Nothing's running. You can't look for capacity issues.

[00:19:15]Everything's hidden.

[00:19:18]Couple more weeks when these leaves on the trees grow, that'll be the end of our major season. We'll just end up looking for the obvious over the summer, like flooded roads from the beavers.

[00:19:33]But this time of year, hidden disasters all are able to be shown.

[00:19:42]Make sure the pipe is still completely open. Yep. Feeling the bottom of the pipe so I can dig it out to that level.

[00:19:50]Yep. There's still a lot to do.

[00:19:55]If beavers come by, they'll clog it up.

[00:19:57]But this is more for water draw down purposes. And hopefully they leave it alone because it's a secondary pond.

[00:20:07]Of course they won't if they realize it, but they won't realize this until they inspect it again because they don't live here. If they lived here, they'd feel this water drop in their lodge and they'd be out immediately after we leave. Sometimes even while we're still there, they'll come up.

[00:20:26]But in a beaver's brain, it can literally see you or an excavator opening this and they don't associate it.

[00:20:37]They just think it's naturally failing.

[00:20:39]They don't really understand what you're doing.

[00:20:43]They just see you in their territory and they will sometimes splash their tail as a threat to get away, but they're unlikely to bother you.

[00:20:55]Especially in a bigger area like this, beaver attacks are very rare. Only a couple people a year, which is very little.

[00:21:14]What most people don't realize is the most common creature that attacks people is actually farm animals just because there's so many of them.

[00:21:26]Nothing out here really wants to bother you. Most things would prefer to walk the other way.

[00:21:37]Got a few more sticks coming through.

[00:21:40]Did that make it or did it block? Nope, it made it.

[00:21:45]Oh well, that's a first. I lost my rake.

[00:21:50]I'll go get it. We're almost done anyways.

[00:22:25]I think that might be a first that I've ever let the rip go by accident.

[00:22:31]These just take the energy out of you cuz you're going so quickly.

[00:22:46]We're almost done. This mud is very soft, so as the water drops, there'll be more rapids going over it. That'll naturally help.

[00:22:56]Like, that's why it's running dirty.

[00:22:58]It's eroding all by itself.

[00:23:03]These clumps of grass won't erode by themselves, though.

[00:23:19]That undertoe is definitely helping though.

[00:23:35]Now we can maybe use our feet a bit to break it up.

[00:23:58]All right, I think we're just about done.

[00:24:01]Let's see how long that water takes to clear up over on camera number two.

[00:24:08]Give it a moment. It won't completely clear up because it's still eroding a bit. But let's see if there's any difference just from me getting out of there.

[00:24:19]See those nasty bubbles right there in the whirlpool?

[00:24:22]That's organic material, rotting, natural oils, feces, all kinds of things mixed together from the swamp.

[00:24:34]Yeah, that's as clean as it's going to get for the moment until this slows down a little bit.

[00:24:44]Does look really cool, though.

[00:24:52]Cleaner than I thought it would have been, though.

[00:24:57]Here's what it looked like before.

[00:25:03]And here's what it looks like now.

[00:25:06]Really, really good difference.

[00:25:09]We already got the water to not be in the road. I'll show that in a moment.

[00:25:14]We're also going to take a walk and I'll show you where the beavers actually live that caused this.

[00:25:20]Oh my gosh, look at the other side. And yeah, it is already running pretty clean all considering.

[00:25:27]Here's what the discharge looked like before.

[00:25:33]And here's what it looks like now.

[00:25:36]Massive improvement.

[00:25:44]from down below.

[00:25:46]Here's what it looked like before.

[00:25:51]And here's what it looks like now.

[00:25:56]That's a lot of water coming through.

[00:26:03]Camera number two off.

[00:26:07]Here's what it looked like from camera number two's angle before.

[00:26:14]And here's what it looks like now.

[00:26:18]Massive, massive improvement.

[00:26:20]Camera number two is going Sticks coming through.

[00:26:55]Did that make it or did it block? Nope.

[00:26:57]It made it.

[00:27:00]Oh well, that's a first. I lost my rake.

[00:27:06]I'll go get it. We're almost done anyways.

[00:27:09]Heat.

[00:27:24]Heat.

[00:28:02]Now, just because you only see less than half of the capacity right now does not mean it's not at its capacity. What that means is, let me explain. At the entrance, it could be coming in the complete opening of the pipe, but as it goes through the smooth pipe, the water goes faster and faster. As it goes faster, it no longer takes up the entire pipe to clear. So, you'll never see the end at capacity unless it reaches differential pressure. And when it reaches differential pressure, you don't want to be near that. It can suck you in. It's not at differential pressure right now. What that means is it'll start basically siphoning the weight of the water pulling starts pulling even more. Then in that rare scenario, you will see the entire pipe filled up. But even in that situation, if the pipe is long enough, it will still gain speed.

[00:29:03]But that's the only possible way you would see a covert at capacity at the end. also only possible way.

[00:29:12]But that water is coming out really, really fast. I love to touch that. Look at that. Can't even hold the camera, the tripod straight. That is blasting.

[00:29:25]Wow. I had to go and play with that for a moment.

[00:29:32]Let me get on in there for a moment.

[00:29:34]This would be a fun place to cool off if it was the middle of the summer.

[00:29:49]Heat. Heat.

[00:30:19]So much nice water. That beautiful linear flow right there.

[00:30:24]As a kid, I would have spent all day playing with that right there.

[00:30:29]People ask me all the time what kind of games I like playing online and stuff.

[00:30:34]I'm not that type of person, and I wouldn't be who I am today if I did. I'd much rather be out here playing with something like this than anything digital.

[00:30:49]The natural world is so much more exciting.

[00:30:54]Look at that. So, now we got two opposing whirlpools.

[00:30:58]Things will change as it drops.

[00:31:01]But that's awesome.

[00:31:04]Maybe we'll get to check this out again in a couple of hours when it completely recedes. It's already receded about half a foot as you can see back there where the water line was.

[00:31:17]Now, let's go for a brief walk and I'll show you where the beavers live. Beavers always have natural levels of ponds.

[00:31:26]Hey, look at that. Look at all the current draining this back area.

[00:31:32]They'll have different levels of swamps.

[00:31:35]Primary beaver pond, and there is no limit on secondary beaver ponds depending on their layout.

[00:31:43]One beaver family could be maintaining dozens of ponds.

[00:31:47]It's how it is.

[00:31:51]And they'll always mess with coververts because the road is basically a dam already built for them. They just have to plug one little spot. Why wouldn't they?

[00:32:03]Here's where they actually live. Last year when we checked this out, it was a brand new lodge.

[00:32:11]I'm assuming they're still living here.

[00:32:15]But nothing about this dam and the ditch here is fresh.

[00:32:21]We're looking for fresh evidence. They might have been relocated.

[00:32:24]They could have clogged this up right before relocation, but that is a huge beaver lodge.

[00:32:33]That was a fresh build last year. But beavers renovate. The right side of that lodge is old. Look at the trees growing out of it. It's an older construction.

[00:32:44]Beavers, just like humans, will move into a old house and fix it.

[00:32:50]They add a fresh layer of sticks and a fresh layer of mud to the top. Then they hollow out anything rotten on the inside. That's why beaver lodges get bigger and bigger over time.

[00:33:03]A beaver will live about 10 years.

[00:33:06]If they die and no one else moves in, it stays fairly small. But sometimes when you see lodges that are bigger than a car, that thing could have been there a hundred years with multiple families continuously living in it. They'll even let muskrats live in there with them and they'll help maintain everything.

[00:33:23]Muskrats like a small beaver without a flat tail. I've seen them on trail cameras handing each other sticks to work on dams together on my trail cameras.

[00:33:34]But this it was not technically messing with the road negatively. It's low enough not to cause frost heaves.

[00:33:42]But when they hear flowing water, they have to come to it. It's their instinct to block it up.

[00:33:49]See, they have all this beneficial water around and after a drought, these ponds would be more empty and then you'd have more beneficial retention areas for oncoming floods. It's why they try to relocate them.

[00:34:03]Now, what do we have here? Look at these egg sacks. What could that be? They look different than any egg sacks I have in my yard. Is that some type of frog?

[00:34:13]Is it something else? In my yard, the foggy egg sacks are usually salamanders, but these are totally different.

[00:34:22]Some sort of frog. Is that tree frog eggs? They're smaller masses. Could be.

[00:34:27]All those peeps you hear are frogs that get maximum the size of a quarter.

[00:34:32]Usually not even. The tiniest little tree frogs.

[00:34:40]I'll definitely show some of them at night.

[00:34:43]They're just so extremely loud.

[00:34:47]Now, what is this?

[00:34:50]Is that the start of another lodge or am I on to something?

[00:34:55]Is there another pipe here that I've never noticed?

[00:34:59]Could be. They got more moose tracks.

[00:35:05]Not that I immediately see.

[00:35:08]Could have been the start of a second lodge. Beavers are strange creatures.

[00:35:14]Just like human houses, they're always different. I've seen multiple families living in one massive lodge that potentially has separate rooms. I've seen territorial beavers with a small lodge, not allowing anyone else to move in next door. I've also seen small ponds that have half a dozen lodges. A bunch of families that share the pond, maintain the dam together, but they don't live together.

[00:35:38]No, there's no pipe over here.

[00:35:41]I've seen all kinds of scenarios with beavers.

[00:35:45]I've seen lodges one after another all at separate ponds right next to each other and they get along that way. I've seen all types of scenarios with the beavers just from being out here in my own experience.

[00:36:04]They're very fascinating.

[00:36:06]Always different. Always got something else going on.

[00:36:13]They are to an to an extent social creatures to each other sometimes.

[00:36:19]That's why they have a 60% success rate if they relocate them as a family opposed to 40% by themselves because if you move just one of them and they did have a family, they'll never stop trying to find their way back. So, they never build shelter in dams.

[00:36:35]And then winter comes along and they're screwed because they never built back because they spent all summer trying to get home. Oh, wow. The Yep. The current really picked up just after that short walk.

[00:36:50]Almost down where the pipe is going to be showing. It really drained back. Wow.

[00:36:54]Here's what it looked like before.

[00:36:59]And here's what it looks like now.

[00:37:02]Got good currents coming out from the deep crevices of the swamp. It's draining quickly. Let's get back on the road, though.

[00:37:09]All right, everyone. From this angle, here's what it looked like before.

[00:37:16]And here's what it looks like now. Yeah, that has already receded nearly a foot off of the road. These puddles are trapped, but they'll quickly sink into the ground now that the water table is changing.

[00:37:30]You won't see a good effect today, but give it a couple days. That'll really help this road dry out. Now, are we going to get stuck? I'm going to try to get down that. It's really, really bad.

[00:37:44]But this water should stop flowing once that puddle's gone. It's no longer being fed by anything.

[00:37:54]But here's what it looked like before.

[00:37:57]You'll see a bigger difference later.

[00:37:59]And here's what it looks like now.

[00:38:05]Alrighty.

[00:38:08]Let's get prepared to maybe get stuck.

[00:38:16]All right, four-wheel drive on.

[00:38:20]All right, we're gonna try to do it.

[00:38:23]I'm going to go really slowly at first.

[00:38:27]Just testing how much we're sinking.

[00:38:32]I think it's worse off to go fast.

[00:38:37]Okay. Feeling it.

[00:38:44]Okay. Not that bad.

[00:38:48]Okay, we made it. How about the second piece?

[00:38:57]Okay, I those tracks look pretty recent.

[00:38:59]Someone else recently made it through.

[00:39:02]Okay. Oh, no. No, no, no, nope.

[00:39:12]Try to get away. That edge is very soft.

[00:39:15]Let's try to get over my track already filled. It's like quit sand.

[00:39:22]Come on.

[00:39:27]This is not something I'm going to just go blasting through.

[00:39:34]All right, now we're going. Now we're going. There we go. We made it.

[00:39:41]Yep. Could have got stuck if we chose the wrong path. Now there's another notorious issue that usually happens up here.

[00:39:49]Road's really smooth now. We can go really fast.

[00:39:56]It's like being on the pavement. This road is really, really good, actually.

[00:40:00]All right, everyone. We're back about 6 hours later.

[00:40:04]It took about 4 hours to loop around.

[00:40:07]That is a gigantic loop. It's about 80 miles that loop we just did.

[00:40:13]So, this road is drying out a bit more.

[00:40:15]I do suspect it's possibly frozen there, so it's going to be a little bit. The puddle's still here. Very packed road surface that's going to have to evaporate. But the water hasn't crossed in a long time. Here's what it looked like before.

[00:40:32]And here's what it looks like now.

[00:40:37]Big improvement. And up here, the frog cycles behind. I can hear in the middle of the woods a whole bunch of wood frogs mating. I can hear it somewhere. My area that happened weeks ago, but up here is a whole different climate zone. Ground is still frozen.

[00:40:57]Wow. Look at the difference. Here's what it looked like before.

[00:41:06]And here's what it looks like now.

[00:41:09]Trying to pinpoint where those frogs are. I don't know how difficult that'd be. I might go look for them. The water has completely drawn down now.

[00:41:19]Check it out.

[00:41:22]Here's what it looked like above the pipe before.

[00:41:29]And here's what it looks like now. That did do a lot. But wow. It looks like we could dig down a little bit more, too.

[00:41:40]Look at all that slop.

[00:41:44]If we dig down a little trench, we can get it to go a little more.

[00:41:52]That's why I like to return to these areas and do some touch-ups.

[00:42:00]See how much more we can get it going just by doing that. And if we concentrate the water into a little canal like that, it'll be flowing much heavier and maybe even help itself erode.

[00:42:24]All that muck.

[00:42:40]So much muck. It was barely flowing when I just drove by.

[00:42:49]Well, we're getting more out.

[00:42:54]Get that. There we go.

[00:42:57]That should clear up pretty quickly.

[00:43:02]That'll drop it down even further.

[00:43:09]I like to see that it was running clean until I just did that.

[00:43:18]Not nearly as much as was flowing out of here before.

[00:43:24]The dirty water mixing in with the clean about to start running clean again.

[00:43:47]that's mixed with a lot of water grass roots. So, that's going to green up very quickly.

[00:43:54]That's why it's having trouble eroding.

[00:43:56]It's this water grass roots.

[00:44:00]It's going to really start clogging that up again. When that starts growing, this whole area is going to be beautiful and green in a couple weeks.

[00:44:14]Just got to clean off my boots.

[00:44:27]It was raining earlier for a little brief moment, but it stopped.

[00:44:36]Frogs are in here somewhere.

[00:44:41]They're quiet cuz they hear me.

[00:44:46]So, there'll probably be a bunch of tadpoles over in these puddles. Woodf frogs develop very quickly if they're in warm puddles, but hopefully it doesn't dry up.

[00:45:02]Look at all the ferns coming up out of here. Little spirals that are going to reach out.

[00:45:10]I'm looking for frog eggs.

[00:45:20]Uh, it's it's pretty deep back here, so it probably won't dry up. I believe they were right here in this pool.

[00:45:30]Wow, there's a lot of pollen I'm shaking out of these trees.

[00:45:38]Yeah, this is pretty deep. Hey, this whole thing's floating.

[00:45:44]We're going to take a look out here a bit. Oh, this whole thing just sunk now that I'm out on it.

[00:45:54]I do see some eggs over here, but that's not from the type of frog I just heard. That mass right there, that's salamander eggs. I've got a lot of them, too.

[00:46:06]I don't know how deep this is going to be. And our next week out here could be bad for mosquitoes. I do see mosquito larae in here right now. Absolutely everywhere squirming around. See it right there in the middle of the screen. That's mosquito larvae.

[00:46:25]Cool. A couple of them.

[00:46:28]I have only got bit by one so far and it was weeks ago.

[00:46:35]There are still thankfully many deep freezes in the forecast which are going to stop them for the time being.

[00:46:46]Just looking around. I don't see any frog eggs over here, but maybe Oh, we got moose poop over here. There's a much larger body of water.

[00:47:01]You can't hear the frogs anymore.

[00:47:02]They're quiet because they hear me searching for them.

[00:47:10]And I'm sure when I approach them, they'll dive under and you'll never even see them. You'll just see their eggs potentially.

[00:47:19]This area is always wet. There's water grass everywhere. So, they've got a good chance, but I can tell by how it's growing. It does get most of this water is going to be gone at some point.

[00:47:40]Wow.

[00:47:42]Thousands of mosquito larae in here.

[00:47:46]Tadpoles are a good thing. They are carnivorous and they will eat mosquito larae if you didn't know that.

[00:47:55]Okay, this area is much deeper.

[00:48:02]But I don't see the frogs. They definitely hid now that I'm out here searching for them. And I'll probably hear him again as soon as I get out of here.

[00:48:22]Natural swamp oils.

[00:48:28]No, I didn't see any frogs.

[00:48:33]Nothing.

[00:48:37]They're not as friendly as the ones that are used to me at my house.

[00:48:41]That's probably why the ones at my house are used to me and they don't hide when I approach.

[00:48:55]Let's see if I can show you some pollen when I shake it out of these trees.

[00:49:03]The willow trees have a lot of pollen.

[00:49:06]It seems at least I shook the right one earlier and made a big poof.

[00:49:14]Who wants to go on another wild goose chase? I hear more frogs over here now in a totally different direction.

[00:49:29]They're probably going to be quiet when I get down there, but listen carefully.

[00:49:36]That's mating wood frogs.

[00:49:45]Just me trapesing through the woods is probably enough to make them be quiet.

[00:49:54]Nope. I'm still hearing them. We got iron oxidizing bacteria.

[00:49:59]Lots of it. Actually, there's quite a bit of water down here.

[00:50:10]I see some eggs.

[00:50:13]Those are not from the wood frogs.

[00:50:15]They're also not from the salamander. I don't know what that is.

[00:50:21]You know what I would like to see? I'm not even sure what they look like. Toad eggs. I've never came across that or I just don't know what it looks like.

[00:50:33]The water's being deep and they're quiet now.

[00:50:43]They usually lay their eggs in more shallow areas attached to branches. They anchor it.

[00:50:59]Oh, I see some more eggs.

[00:51:03]They're like Orbeez.

[00:51:05]They start off as those tiny little masses on the bottom and they swell up when it comes out of the frog.

[00:51:15]That might be salamanders, but that's a pretty big mass.

[00:51:20]The frogs are quiet now.

[00:51:25]Hey, look at this.

[00:51:28]This part of the road has some good snow banks because they're in a very shaded part of the forest. And I'm surprised this is the first time of the week I've seen it. That's not a snow bank. There's still some snow pack out there in this darker section. And it's the second week of May.

[00:51:46]You know, I've even found snow in June, but it's hard to find. You have to know where to look in the darkest crevices of the woods.

[00:51:56]Yep. There's still snow pack in this area.

[00:51:59]That's cool to see.

[00:52:04]So, that means this part of the road still probably has ice under it. So, it could be problematic.

[00:52:20]Yep. Could have got stuck if we chose the wrong path. Now, there's another notorious issue that usually happens up here, but we'll see you in the full version of this video. If you're watching the short version, thanks for watching and have a great day.