Local YouTuber takes supercars on Kelowna's Gillard Forestry Road

An appropriate winter vehicle is usually recommended for driving on icy forestry roads in the Okanagan. Unless you're looking to make a popular YouTube video.

A recent video shot on Kelowna's Gillard Forest Service Road has garnered close to 500,000 views on the DailyDrivenExotics YouTube page. The video titled “Never off road Supercars!” shows a Ferrari and Porsche slipping and sliding their way up an icy hill about three kilometres down the forestry road.

Based in Kelowna since September, Damon Fryer runs the popular YouTube channel. The channel has more than 2.74 million subscribers.

In the recent video published Jan. 3, Fryer and pal Anthony take their Ferrari 488 GTB and Porsche Carrera 4S up the slippery logging road, with the beautiful views of Okanagan Lake behind them.

While the Porsche is actually an all-wheel drive, it's still a bit out of place in the winter wonderland.

“It looks pretty epic to see these cars in a place they are really not designed for,” Fryer says in the introduction.

The cars slip and and slide their way up the flat portion of the road until they reach the hilled area just past the three-kilometre mark – a hill anyone who's driven the road in the winter would be familiar with.

Several groups, most who are in four-wheel drive vehicles, are on hand to watch the pair attempt it.

Check out the embedded video above to see how they do.