I am an 71 yo female with a bad knee but I feel like I was beside you traversing that slot canyon. Thank you for allowing me along on your journey. Keep up the good work.
Hello, sister. I turned 71 March 8 with bad knee. This adventure reminded me of driving the Girl Scout camp counsellors nuts because I didn't care about the "buddy system" and after I started climbing all over other girls would get the bug. I was not popular with the "leaders." That was yesterday...."
Hahaha, I'm 70 and been in a wheelchair for more than 10 years. What an awesome find! The spiral seems a universal symbol? They are all over Peru. Here those holes in the cliff walls would be stuffed with mummified bodies and bricked up. My head was spinning and my heart In my throat. I could hear the hornets 😢. Sure glad there wasn't any flash flooding 😮 Love from Grandma in Peru 🇵🇪
I’m 71 also, lol. My late husband and I used to hike parts of the Appalachian Trail and camp. I feel like I’m right there navigating along those rocky trails. I can’t do strenuous stuff anymore cause I have an over heating problem. All the drs blame menopause, haha
I'm 74, basically stuck at home with an old cranky cat and your vids show me your personal adventures. They help make my day when I watch them. In one of them you said something I really liked so I wrote it on a 3x5 card which is next to my chair now. When I tell people about your channel i repeat what you said because it is so very true, and that is: Be the good in someone else's bad day. Thank You Jeff, for who you are and what you do.
Your cat loves you more than you will ever understand! I'm glad he or she chose you! I agree completely with you about this channel, too. Desert Drifter's channel referred to this channel - they're both stunning people and intrepid adventurers. Cannot get enough of their videos, narration, and clear regard for the historical perspectives. Peace, from the glorious Southwestern US!
great show. really enjoy your regular guy show. really love it. watch it on my big screen tv that won’t let me like or comment. but your public appreciation is here. thank you for being respectful of our ancestors past lives. the art work they’ve left for us is phenomenal.
You have taken a lot of us old folks along with you Jeff. People with bad knees, hips, joints. People who just can’t do the hiking and discoveries that you bring home to us. From me and many more, Thank you Jeff. We will be with you on your next journey.
That petroglyph showing the sheep and the spear, is showing how the natives would spear the sheep from above as they passed through the canyons. Showing a source of food could be had there and how to hunt it.
thank you for adding all of those considerate tips on not touching or removing artifacts, not stepping on plants or crypto, and most of all for emphasizing that you are re-discovering everything so to speak. it's really important that these kids of channels like yours take a responsible approach otherwise we soon wont have anything left for anyone to re-discover.
Loved this video! When I was a little kid some 70 years ago, my big thrill was to get up on a Saturday morning and watch cartoons on the television. Now as an old lady, I get the same rush on a Saturday morning when I get up to watch one of your videos. This is so very cool.
Which cartoons did you watch? As a kid of the 1970s, I never got a rush from my cartoons. I only experienced that in the 1980s while smoking weed and watching cartoons.
At the same time you heard the hummingbird 7:00 I could hear the magnificent call of a Canyon Wren. This would be a good place for it to live and raise a family. I always enjoy your discoveries. Keep them coming.
Thank you so much beautiful. I’m disabled old lady now, and I appreciate all your adventures. I follow and watch you and Desert Drifter (who gives you credit all the time) and takes me on amazing journeys I don’t get to do anymore. I’m glad your home safe. Until the next adventure, love and blessings, Sandy Far Northern California
Wow, it must be so awesome to take these adventures. What a rush to find a slot canyon that isn’t over run with tourists. To be able to be there alone and be able to appreciate what it’s like when it’s totally natural. Thanks for taking us along. You’ll have wonderful memories for life.
Gidday from Australia!! 🥰 I Love hearing your footsteps & the surrounding silence, occasional bird & the wind. Wonderfully pure sounds & then there are the Rocks!!! Petroglyphs!!! Amazing finds 🙌🏽❤️🔥👏🏾👏🏾🫶🏽 THANK YOU!!!
Ever since I started watching your videos I get lots of suggestions for other similar channels but none of them put out the same positive and respectful energy towards the places they are exploring. You are like a ghost when you visit these places and I appreciate that.
Besides Trek Planner, there's one other explorer that I watch... Desert Drifter. He's also extremely respectful of the areas he's in. You should check him out sometime!
I was very touched by your message, Jason. I was not really having the best day and I came across your comment. Thank you (and others) for lifting me up! 🙂 -Jeff
I've been watching you for a couple of years now, and wanted to say that your production values just keep getting better and better. They were already good when I began watching you, they are better now by orders of magnitude. You have a good eye, and you edit your content very well. The drone shot of you walking through the canyon was my favorite part of the video. Lyrical
"...and I wish you were all here." We are, seeing through your camera's eyes. I've been in slot canyons like that, and to me it felt like brushing up against a living organism, not lifeless stone. Wonderful; thank you for this! And if you ever get up towards Lake Powel at the north end of AZ, check out the canyons that most people know of by the most visited: Antelope Canyon. It's stunningly beautiful, but if you check around with the guides from the Navajo Nation, you'll find some that'll take you to the *other* canyons, Owl and Mountain Sheep and Rattlesnake, etc. They take more climbing but are particularly beautiful in my opinion, especially Owl. Thanks again for this; I'm glad it made you so happy, it was just pouring out of you! :)
Wow, thank you for that! I haven’t really heard of any other slot canyons that are hikable near powell except for the Antelope and X. I will have to do more research. Thank you for the suggestion!
That's because those stones in fact at one time living. Just look up what petrified bone and petrified bone marrow look like. U will see that it looks exactly like the upper parts of the slot canyon where all the holes are at and then that's also why the rock below it doesn't have the holes and is a different color cuz that's the tissue layer. Everything we are all walking on is from everything that died in the great flood. Water does not carve out rock think about it solid rock and cold river water. No doesn't happen. Maybe if the water was hot enough to melt the rock but at that temperature the water would of evaporated already. It was all formed during the great flood that was a hot & highly mineralized waters so it sloshed everything into a muddy murky clay like material with a high silica content then when the water level went down and everything dried out the clay murky material dried to hard as a rock. Hence why lots of rocks almost always have 1 side to them that's more flat then the rest. That's the side that was laying down while the material dried out for that rock. In the Bible it says earth is a pile of corpses. Which obviously where did everything go that was here then? It would be visible and we wouldn't have to dig to find fossils and skeletons now. People don't realize that everything that was alive back then was also giant in size. Like it says that adam lived to be like a thousand years old and like a thousand feet tall
And all soil is organic so where did it come from then? Something organic that's for sure n which only living things could produce a material that's organic. There's plenty of mountains all over the place that have the same holes or indentions in them indicating petrified bone those indentions or holes are not formed by water unless they had a water jet cutting machine back then. That's literally what it would take for water to cut through rock. Now while it's all soft and pliable it could be formed into any shape they wanted. But most likely any cave system tunnel system caverns hollow chambers are the insides of what ever died right there. Yes animals use to be that big. The atmosphere was pressurized back then with lots more oxygen so everything stayed alive longer and got bigger especially since they weren't stupid enough to spray round up on the food the farmers grow or pesticides on the crops or use round up as a drying agent after they harvest oats like Quaker oats does a long with all the other chemicals and fake ingredients in food and drinks. Literally everyones paying these companies to poison ourselves. Where else does everyone think these diseases come from? Being exposed to chemicals. We are actually a lot dumber then previous lives that lived here before us
It's a wonderful sentiment, I know what TP means, but since this video has 140k views in 2 days we probably shouldn't all show up in the slot canyon at once.
I really liked the shot of you walking away and the camera panned to the flower. Vert artistic. I also think the sound of you walking and the birds chirping would make some good ASMR. Another great video!
@@TheTrekPlanner If I was a little more sure footed, 20 years younger & had that kinda equipment with me; This video would've been an hour & twenty minutes! lol I would've been scouring every inch of even stone looking for petroglyphs. The illustration of the slot canyon as a hunting ground reminded me of plaques that would explain how ancient hunters hunted near where they've found evidence of megafauna being hunted. The difference is - these illustrations were made by the hunters themselves as a tip for future hunters! lol The spiral petroglyph you found is quite common. Do you remember what they say that is meant to represent? I think I've read a few different theories about it.
Every speculation of the ancient peoples is good because we have no idea of what they were about or how they thought and took in their culture and world. Good eye Jeff I would not have picked up on that interpretation of the rock art and it makes sense that it would be a bit of information for the tribe. Great stuff again Jeff and walking in their shoes allows the watcher to wonder about who was here before us in each millenia. :) :)
Wow! That was so awesome.❤ Thank you so much for bringing me along. It brought back memories of riding my horses into Peek-a-Boo slot canyon north of Kanab, UT more than 30 years ago. I was amazed that spiral Petroglyph hadn’t been worn away by erosion from flash floods over the centuries. Five Star hike!⭐️
So cool! You mentioned seeing other Google earth explorer type channels popping up, and I’ve noticed that too. I’ve almost clicked on some thinking it was your channel at first. There’s this (maybe irrational) fear I have about watching those other explorer channels - a fear that they might be exploitative of these amazing natural and historical places (not that they are, it’s just a fear I have of contributing views to a potentially exploitative channel). You treat each place you visit with reverence and respect, and it feels very genuine. It’s refreshing to see, and I’m so grateful that you don’t give the exact locations of every place you visit. It feels protective of these places, but also, I think it is in the spirit of exploration to let people “work” for it. We viewers can join you on your adventures by watching and supporting your channel, and (here’s where the work comes in) we can also be inspired to research and embark on our own Google earth adventures (hopefully responsibly and respectfully, as you do), rather than just showing up to a place that you shared with us. Keep up the amazing adventuring!
This was a stunning video. The flora, fauna, topography, geology, information & filming are incredible. Thoroughly enjoyed watching and will be checking out more of your vids 😊 - best wishes from the UK
Ahh, the Pinion Pine, I love it and the hiking through the Pines and rock. Even if you find nothing spectacular, you've found something spectacular, the sights and smell of the pines, I love it. It was short but stunningly gorgeous. And I always love your drone footage at the end.
I love that you caught the skeletal remains of a big horn sheep at 20:23. That just serves to confirm what the ancients were telling us with their art. Thank you for that trek. I’ve never walked a slot canyon and have no desire to, but it’s nice to see what is inside!
Like previous commenters, I am a disabled senior. I feel privileged to come along with you and trek where I could never go physically. Thank you most sincerely.
I'm not a scatologist, but my guess on the scat would be bear, not coyote or mountain lion. I really enjoy you and your content. Thanks for taking us along!!
This is a great step-up in your camera & drone work & editing, well done and keep it up! The petroglyphs in the desert varnish are stunning, even if they've been worn away a bit by occasional floods. Shows how rare flash floods really are.
This is amazing adventure. I love that you go right in and explore no fear. I appreciate that so much. You are lucky to live within driving distance. Nice job. Thank you for sharing. You are the best!
As an urban Londoner, i LOVE your work.. so jealous of your landscapes. The 2 goats pointing to the canyon- WITH the spear and the hand- could have been a sign that it was a popular hunting/ambush spot?
Don't hate on the wasps. They are really cool creatures and are a very important part of the ecology of the southwest. Their little mud houses are so cool!
When do you enter the canyon I heard a canyon wren call twice. It was that very musical descending song. I don't know if you are interested in birds. The thing about Canyon wrens is that I have only ever heard them I have never seen one. They are very well camouflaged. Great hike and I'm with you on the swarms of wasps.
Thank you again! Incredible journey, my favorite parts are your expressions and amazement. I get so excited right along with you. Your Treks are so welcome 🤗
@@gittarollke3102 imagine a creek, minus the water. In the desert creeks only flow after a heavy rain, the rest of the time they are called dry washes, or just called a “wash”.
@@gittarollke3102 imagine a creek, now imagine it without water. In the desert creeks only flow after a heavy rain. The rest of the time they are called dry washes, or just a “wash”. Slot canyons are created over thousands of years, when it rains they begin as a trickle. And the silt maddened water acts as liquid sandpaper
Being born and raised in New Mexico, I say the southwest is the best. So many unexplored history locations and famous ones as well. Keep Treking my friend 🎉!!!!!
Greetings from Aus 👋🇦🇺. I love natural rock formations and that slot canyon was beautiful. I could spend hours in there with my camera. Thanks for taking us along for the ride 😃👍
what incredible scenery. It was so clear and real I felt like I was right there and could reach out and touch those walls. Thank you so much for taking us along with you on this beautiful trip.
I agree with you. The quality of the videos makes for a great experience. That, in turn, makes it so real to me. I have even watched these videos on a 60" TV just to see more of what he's seeing
Artifact at the end was not likely an arrowhead but a knife or some other artifact. Cool find! And the petroglyphs! Thanks for encouraging people to leave things.
Glad your channel is blowing up bro ! Your my favorite wholesome hiking / desert exploring guy on the platform. I haven’t been keeping a eye on your views and just noticed you have over 150k on this video. I watch your stuff every week and you deserve a million on every video. Thanks for putting this great content out weekly.
Gret job on the video! Makes me feel like I'm there with you! Who knows , you may find some old out of place civilization on one of your trips! Take care! 😎👍👍👍
I like your video's more than others I've watched. I don't get the same feeling of respecting where you are and who went before you from the others. Thank you .....
What you are doing is special in ways I hope you know. I love exploring the same as you but I find it means so much more when you can share the history with others who have never been exposed or never will be exposed to this part of our past. You definitely are an ambassador of Native American history and the respect you show has definitely earned you that title. Keep up the great work educating others and entertaining others as well. Stay safe and God bless you in all you do.
I've been watching and subscribed for a long time. This has to be the best video I've seen from you, awesome! Plus this location is amazing. Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
9:56 I believe behind you on your right (on that thin strip you pointed out) there are letters, but I can't make out what it says. Also, up near the top of the screen (left side) it looks like a faded spiral and lower right of that looks like a carved ankh or similar shape.
12:02 Celestial body symbol. I agree, those logs were definitely placed there, People, do not travel through canyons like these in monsoon seasons! Perilous! 14:07 Love all of the pictographs and petroglyphs!
Those rock formations are just gorgeous. What a beautiful place. I've had hummingbirds come and try to drink from the flowers on my gardening gloves, they are so beautiful and unafraid.
We have a hummingbird at our house who perches atop the tree where our feeder hangs. He guards it, and he won't let other hummingbirds drink from the feeder - until last year, when I started seeing lots of baby hummingbirds drinking from it, and he was leaving them alone. I concluded that the babies must be his. He interacts with me frequently. When the feeder goes empty, he'll find me and hover in front of me to get my attention. When I'm watering plants in the garden, he'll come down and hover nearby. If I spray the water in a mist or shower spray, and point it at the fence, he'll come sit on the wire and have a bath in the spray.
This Water-carved landscape is Fascinating! Your shot of the fading "1891" inscribed on the wall suggests this feature has been around for a long time, as we humans reckon such things. We sometimes hear about some unusual storm dumping so much water that a new stretch of canyon can be carved in just days. But at the same time, even though that can be verified, some arid regions have persisted for thousands of years, and maybe once carved, a canyon like this can remain un-changed by any further water flow for a Very Long Time... Setting up the camera, walking past, then going back to retrieve it.... must have added considerably to the time and energy you put into this. Thanks for the post, especially for those of us who can only enjoy vicariously from a distance. New Subscriber.
Not only is that a man made spiral , couldn’t the notch in the wall next to it be for a pole ? I wonder if there is a notch directly on the other side ..thank you for sharing such an amazing explore !!! I love it!
As Karen below stated, I am 75 and I loved your video and all the wonderful photography. Thank you so much for sharing this with all of us that wish we could still do these hikes. Now we can through you!
In Australian Aboriginal First Nation people’s petroglyphs a circular symbol can indicate a water source. Could the spirals you see possibly mean similar🌀
Abriginals all over the world thought the same way and left their marks...I imagine water holes in the slot canyon attracted animals in the dry season...A man at each end of the canyon could spear an animal as it tried to escape...
Thank you for being so respective of the natural habitat and especially the special respect you show for the ancient Americans' sites that you have chosen to explore with your cameras and drones.
Once again I am consumed with your treks , We know you are vigalent and take precautions, Sir your post are much appreciated for and by those of us that do not or can not Thnx for the travels . You Rock ! get it hahaha rock ….
Kinda looked like that spiral had more around it too, extremely faded. Beautiful, I'm disabled and love your videos, hope you get to do a nice long trip with the family because the STARS make the positive spiritual vibe even more amazing. Be safe.
@@rebeccacampbell8020 black bears, not aggressive unless cornered or protecting their young. Mostly just searching for food. I call them 300 pound rats.
@@rebeccacampbell8020 Just little old black bears. Campers bang pots and pans to scare them off. They will break into homes or cars if you so much as leave a chapstick in there. Bear scat looks like a brown wad full of berry seeds most of the summer. Bigfoot scat is black and greasy-looking. Some hair.
I can no longer do this but I soooo love experiencing it with you!!! Sometimes you're on the edge of something and my palms start getting sweaty!!!! LOVE IT!!!
There is an explanation on a documentary about Glacial Lake Missoula, the flood waters were so strong that 'tornadoes' formed off large rock outcroppings and dig up the ground. If you've never heard of GLM it's a bit of a deep dive... pun by accident but it works. As the water flows it picks up all sorts of things but the water itself can be very powerful.
I noticed the pitting on the sidewalls too and wondering the same thing. I think the previous replies are talking about the ground out water basins in the floor of the canyon. I was wondering if birds had pecked out the sidewall holes for nesting. Does anyone else have thoughts on this.
@@QuasiBlond I know water can do things like this, but so many shallow circles - I was wondering if maybe there are minerals in the sandstone that lead out and cause the circular erosion. I should have paid better attention when I had 2 days of "earth science" geology back in 7th grade 😁
I’m also an elder female with unhappy feet & ankles who can’t hike anymore. I used to enjoy the thrill of exploring and seeing your video gives me a bit of the old thrill. Well done you.
I want to thank you for sharing your treks. I am a 60 year old lady who loves the outdoors and exploring. I never had the money to travel when I was younger. Now I am older with health issues so I know I will never be able to follow my dreams to hike and explore. Your videos give me the opportunity to see things I will never.be able to see myself Thank you, stay safe.
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I am an 71 yo female with a bad knee but I feel like I was beside you traversing that slot canyon. Thank you for allowing me along on your journey. Keep up the good work.
Me too!
Hello, sister. I turned 71 March 8 with bad knee. This adventure reminded me of driving the Girl Scout camp counsellors nuts because I didn't care about the "buddy system" and after I started climbing all over other girls would get the bug. I was not popular with the "leaders." That was yesterday...."
Hahaha, I'm 70 and been in a wheelchair for more than 10 years. What an awesome find! The spiral seems a universal symbol? They are all over Peru. Here those holes in the cliff walls would be stuffed with mummified bodies and bricked up. My head was spinning and my heart In my throat. I could hear the hornets 😢. Sure glad there wasn't any flash flooding 😮
Love from Grandma in Peru 🇵🇪
I’m 71 also, lol. My late husband and I used to hike parts of the Appalachian Trail and camp. I feel like I’m right there navigating along those rocky trails. I can’t do strenuous stuff anymore cause I have an over heating problem. All the drs blame menopause, haha
Me too,so glad to be with you. Thank you for sharing 😊❤
I'm 74, basically stuck at home with an old cranky cat and your vids show me your personal adventures. They help make my day when I watch them. In one of them you said something I really liked so I wrote it on a 3x5 card which is next to my chair now. When I tell people about your channel i repeat what you said because it is so very true, and that is: Be the good in someone else's bad day.
Thank You Jeff, for who you are and what you do.
Love this🫶🏻
That’s nice! I’m almost 70, can’t hike anymore, and I’m living my life through him! 😂
Your cat loves you more than you will ever understand! I'm glad he or she chose you!
I agree completely with you about this channel, too. Desert Drifter's channel referred to this channel - they're both stunning people and intrepid adventurers. Cannot get enough of their videos, narration, and clear regard for the historical perspectives. Peace, from the glorious Southwestern US!
great show. really enjoy your regular guy show. really love it. watch it on my big screen tv that won’t let me like or comment. but your public appreciation is here. thank you for being respectful of our ancestors past lives. the art work they’ve left for us is phenomenal.
I am very touched by your comment and that you and your cat watch my videos. Thank you for sharing that, Bob. I appreciate you
You have taken a lot of us old folks along with you Jeff. People with bad knees, hips, joints. People who just can’t do the hiking and discoveries that you bring home to us. From me and many more, Thank you Jeff. We will be with you on your next journey.
Thanks for the journey Jeff it was beautiful
Yes ! Thank you from me as well as I have to use a walker as I have balance issues as well 🤭☺️😉
Same here, 72 with disabling health issues. Watching the videos here is almost being there!
More than 100,000 views the first day. I’m glad there are so many people interested in quiet, peaceful viewing of TrekPlanner.
I am too! Makes me so happy to bring these places to you
That petroglyph showing the sheep and the spear, is showing how the natives would spear the sheep from above as they passed through the canyons. Showing a source of food could be had there and how to hunt it.
Thank You for sharing your wisdom with us!
It can also be saying if you heard these sheep into this canyon, you can throw spears at them from above.....
@@zimrasawyer1881 If you are able to herd the sheep, you wouldn't need to force them into the canyon to be able to spear them lol
It looked to me that there was a turkey pictured there too.
How did sheep get through those places where he had to crawl?
thank you for adding all of those considerate tips on not touching or removing artifacts, not stepping on plants or crypto, and most of all for emphasizing that you are re-discovering everything so to speak. it's really important that these kids of channels like yours take a responsible approach otherwise we soon wont have anything left for anyone to re-discover.
I have seen a growing number of exploration channels not care as much about being respectful. It is dishesrtening
Danger lurks in shady , snake places. Eyes busy, but feet ,ankles calf’s bare . Surely , you must be more careful . Great hike takes me out and about.
Loved this video!
When I was a little kid some 70 years ago, my big thrill was to get up on a Saturday morning and watch cartoons on the television. Now as an old lady, I get the same rush on a Saturday morning when I get up to watch one of your videos. This is so very cool.
Which cartoons did you watch? As a kid of the 1970s, I never got a rush from my cartoons. I only experienced that in the 1980s while smoking weed and watching cartoons.
@@chrisdraughn5941 lol
You are showing the world millions of years of human activity, erosion of landscapes etc. This is awesome!
At the same time you heard the hummingbird 7:00 I could hear the magnificent call of a Canyon Wren. This would be a good place for it to live and raise a family.
I always enjoy your discoveries. Keep them coming.
I heard it too ❤❤❤❤
As a kid, I always thought those birds were laughing! It has stuck with me even until now. Whenever I hear those birds it makes me smile
@@TheTrekPlannerI laughed when you said you hate wasps and hornets! Oh me too! I know everything serves a purpose but....
Canyon wrens - as pretty a bird song as you'll ever hear.
Thank you so much beautiful. I’m disabled old lady now, and I appreciate all your adventures. I follow and watch you and Desert Drifter (who gives you credit all the time) and takes me on amazing journeys I don’t get to do anymore. I’m glad your home safe. Until the next adventure, love and blessings, Sandy Far Northern California
I loved this. I especially like the small moments where you stop and let us hear the wind and "smell the flowers" .
I appreciate you.
Wow, thank you so much!
I am 77 and i really enjoy watching where U go ! 🎉 it's like we are with U , every step of the way ! Thank U ! 😊
A wild guess: it says "you can hunt big horn sheep in here" because they would come drink in there. It's a natural trap for game.
I think you are on to something here!
Wow, it must be so awesome to take these adventures. What a rush to find a slot canyon that isn’t over run with tourists. To be able to be there alone and be able to appreciate what it’s like when it’s totally natural. Thanks for taking us along. You’ll have wonderful memories for life.
Gidday from Australia!! 🥰
I Love hearing your footsteps & the surrounding silence, occasional bird & the wind. Wonderfully pure sounds & then there are the Rocks!!! Petroglyphs!!! Amazing finds 🙌🏽❤️🔥👏🏾👏🏾🫶🏽
THANK YOU!!!
I too am from Australia and love the these things also . Thumbs 👍👍 up I reckon 😊!
I am also an Aussie and loved this video.
Exquisite architecture from nature. THANK YOU FOR THIS JOURNEY
Ever since I started watching your videos I get lots of suggestions for other similar channels but none of them put out the same positive and respectful energy towards the places they are exploring. You are like a ghost when you visit these places and I appreciate that.
Besides Trek Planner, there's one other explorer that I watch...
Desert Drifter.
He's also extremely respectful of the areas he's in.
You should check him out sometime!
I was very touched by your message, Jason. I was not really having the best day and I came across your comment. Thank you (and others) for lifting me up! 🙂
-Jeff
What I like about your videos is your pure joy in discovering what something is and the way you portray the journey.
I LOVE doing this! It brings me so much happiness to get outside
The drone shots were awesome and the drone shots with the music worked really well too!
I've been watching you for a couple of years now, and wanted to say that your production values just keep getting better and better. They were already good when I began watching you, they are better now by orders of magnitude. You have a good eye, and you edit your content very well. The drone shot of you walking through the canyon was my favorite part of the video. Lyrical
I AGREE!
Thank you for that!! It's been a slow evolutionary process, but I am immensely grateful you have stuck with me even when things were more rough!
"...and I wish you were all here." We are, seeing through your camera's eyes. I've been in slot canyons like that, and to me it felt like brushing up against a living organism, not lifeless stone. Wonderful; thank you for this! And if you ever get up towards Lake Powel at the north end of AZ, check out the canyons that most people know of by the most visited: Antelope Canyon. It's stunningly beautiful, but if you check around with the guides from the Navajo Nation, you'll find some that'll take you to the *other* canyons, Owl and Mountain Sheep and Rattlesnake, etc. They take more climbing but are particularly beautiful in my opinion, especially Owl.
Thanks again for this; I'm glad it made you so happy, it was just pouring out of you! :)
Wow, thank you for that! I haven’t really heard of any other slot canyons that are hikable near powell except for the Antelope and X. I will have to do more research. Thank you for the suggestion!
That's because those stones in fact at one time living. Just look up what petrified bone and petrified bone marrow look like. U will see that it looks exactly like the upper parts of the slot canyon where all the holes are at and then that's also why the rock below it doesn't have the holes and is a different color cuz that's the tissue layer. Everything we are all walking on is from everything that died in the great flood. Water does not carve out rock think about it solid rock and cold river water. No doesn't happen. Maybe if the water was hot enough to melt the rock but at that temperature the water would of evaporated already. It was all formed during the great flood that was a hot & highly mineralized waters so it sloshed everything into a muddy murky clay like material with a high silica content then when the water level went down and everything dried out the clay murky material dried to hard as a rock. Hence why lots of rocks almost always have 1 side to them that's more flat then the rest. That's the side that was laying down while the material dried out for that rock. In the Bible it says earth is a pile of corpses. Which obviously where did everything go that was here then? It would be visible and we wouldn't have to dig to find fossils and skeletons now. People don't realize that everything that was alive back then was also giant in size. Like it says that adam lived to be like a thousand years old and like a thousand feet tall
And all soil is organic so where did it come from then? Something organic that's for sure n which only living things could produce a material that's organic. There's plenty of mountains all over the place that have the same holes or indentions in them indicating petrified bone those indentions or holes are not formed by water unless they had a water jet cutting machine back then. That's literally what it would take for water to cut through rock. Now while it's all soft and pliable it could be formed into any shape they wanted. But most likely any cave system tunnel system caverns hollow chambers are the insides of what ever died right there. Yes animals use to be that big. The atmosphere was pressurized back then with lots more oxygen so everything stayed alive longer and got bigger especially since they weren't stupid enough to spray round up on the food the farmers grow or pesticides on the crops or use round up as a drying agent after they harvest oats like Quaker oats does a long with all the other chemicals and fake ingredients in food and drinks. Literally everyones paying these companies to poison ourselves. Where else does everyone think these diseases come from? Being exposed to chemicals. We are actually a lot dumber then previous lives that lived here before us
It's a wonderful sentiment, I know what TP means, but since this video has 140k views in 2 days we probably shouldn't all show up in the slot canyon at once.
@@TheTrekPlanner look up the olgas, in australia. & black mountain queensland.
Thanks for taking us on another great adventure !!❤
I love the sound of the birds & the flower closeups with the bee! I listened to the birds in my backyard all day today! It was beautiful!
Apparently you are at the forefront of an emerging entertainment genre! Thanks again for taking us along!
I'm so happy you are back. I love your adventures..
😁 I binge watch your exciting adventures....✌️💖
I really liked the shot of you walking away and the camera panned to the flower. Vert artistic. I also think the sound of you walking and the birds chirping would make some good ASMR.
Another great video!
I am trying some new camera ideas and glad to see you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Me, too, I was wondering how you did that! I’m stuck at home on doctor’s orders, so this made my Sunday.
@@TheTrekPlanner If I was a little more sure footed, 20 years younger & had that kinda equipment with me; This video would've been an hour & twenty minutes! lol I would've been scouring every inch of even stone looking for petroglyphs. The illustration of the slot canyon as a hunting ground reminded me of plaques that would explain how ancient hunters hunted near where they've found evidence of megafauna being hunted. The difference is - these illustrations were made by the hunters themselves as a tip for future hunters! lol The spiral petroglyph you found is quite common. Do you remember what they say that is meant to represent? I think I've read a few different theories about it.
This was so much fun to explore with you! Thank you so much for sharing the amazing and beautiful southwest with us!!
Every speculation of the ancient peoples is good because we have no idea of what they were about or how they thought and took in their culture and world. Good eye Jeff I would not have picked up on that interpretation of the rock art and it makes sense that it would be a bit of information for the tribe. Great stuff again Jeff and walking in their shoes allows the watcher to wonder about who was here before us in each millenia. :) :)
Wow! That was so awesome.❤ Thank you so much for bringing me along. It brought back memories of riding my horses into Peek-a-Boo slot canyon north of Kanab, UT more than 30 years ago. I was amazed that spiral Petroglyph hadn’t been worn away by erosion from flash floods over the centuries. Five Star hike!⭐️
What an amazing find! The canyon itself is gorgeous and the petroglyphs were the icing on the cake. Thanks for taking us along.
So cool! You mentioned seeing other Google earth explorer type channels popping up, and I’ve noticed that too. I’ve almost clicked on some thinking it was your channel at first. There’s this (maybe irrational) fear I have about watching those other explorer channels - a fear that they might be exploitative of these amazing natural and historical places (not that they are, it’s just a fear I have of contributing views to a potentially exploitative channel). You treat each place you visit with reverence and respect, and it feels very genuine. It’s refreshing to see, and I’m so grateful that you don’t give the exact locations of every place you visit. It feels protective of these places, but also, I think it is in the spirit of exploration to let people “work” for it. We viewers can join you on your adventures by watching and supporting your channel, and (here’s where the work comes in) we can also be inspired to research and embark on our own Google earth adventures (hopefully responsibly and respectfully, as you do), rather than just showing up to a place that you shared with us. Keep up the amazing adventuring!
Thanks for showing us the Slot Canyon, I really enjoyed it.
This was a stunning video. The flora, fauna, topography, geology, information & filming are incredible. Thoroughly enjoyed watching and will be checking out more of your vids 😊 - best wishes from the UK
Ahh, the Pinion Pine, I love it and the hiking through the Pines and rock. Even if you find nothing spectacular, you've found something spectacular, the sights and smell of the pines, I love it. It was short but stunningly gorgeous. And I always love your drone footage at the end.
I love that you caught the skeletal remains of a big horn sheep at 20:23. That just serves to confirm what the ancients were telling us with their art. Thank you for that trek. I’ve never walked a slot canyon and have no desire to, but it’s nice to see what is inside!
Love your videos simply because they are full of adventure and we can tell that they are not pre-planned. Keep them coming!
Agreed. We can tell there is an enormous amount of effort for our edification and pleasure. Jeff, you earn a place in our lives. 😎
@@rockdaddio69 Thank you and Nancy for your very kind words. You all are the best! Thank you!
Like previous commenters, I am a disabled senior. I feel privileged to come along with you and trek where I could never go physically. Thank you most sincerely.
I'm not a scatologist, but my guess on the scat would be bear, not coyote or mountain lion. I really enjoy you and your content. Thanks for taking us along!!
Most likely with all the seeds.... Raccoon.
Yes, there are Bears, in the Arizona, & New Mexico Area!
I agree BEAR!😊
That’s what I was thinking.
Could be bear, but it’s also similar to the Javelina scat we have here in the White Mountains of Arizona.
The desert equivalent of caving, you're praying for no injuries and his safe exit after exploring.
This is a great step-up in your camera & drone work & editing, well done and keep it up! The petroglyphs in the desert varnish are stunning, even if they've been worn away a bit by occasional floods. Shows how rare flash floods really are.
Really appreciate that! Thank you!
Beautiful video!!! This was definitely a fun adventure. Loved the hummingbird!
Thanks so much!
Thanks for taking us along. I really appreciate the Treks you plan for us all.
Mahalo, THANK YOU for the adventure! Amazing hike.🌄
❤Probably the most beautiful place you've done yet - at least in my opinion. 🤷🏻♂️
Amen!
😊I enjoyed it too
Exquisite and humbling. Loved the drone following you through the canyon. Many thanks!
This is amazing adventure. I love that you go right in and explore no fear. I appreciate that so much. You are lucky to live within driving distance. Nice job. Thank you for sharing. You are the best!
Thank You for taking me on your journeys. The slot canyon is spectacular!
Due to physical limitations I travel through your camera and narrative
As an urban Londoner, i LOVE your work.. so jealous of your landscapes. The 2 goats pointing to the canyon- WITH the spear and the hand- could have been a sign that it was a popular hunting/ambush spot?
Thank you so much, Lizard Tattoo! I think an ambush site makes sense!!
Absolutely gorgeous. Thanks for sharing the experience.
Don't hate on the wasps. They are really cool creatures and are a very important part of the ecology of the southwest. Their little mud houses are so cool!
Nonsense. Wasps are the devil’s senators.
Wasp are Like dragon flies in that they help control mosquitoes around stagnant water. Also they are edible 😂
I agree
I find t refreshing for an outdoors man to admit he doesn't love all of nature!! .. it very honest! :)
When do you enter the canyon I heard a canyon wren call twice. It was that very musical descending song. I don't know if you are interested in birds. The thing about Canyon wrens is that I have only ever heard them I have never seen one. They are very well camouflaged. Great hike and I'm with you on the swarms of wasps.
Really appreciate going on this adventure with you. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing your adventures❤❤❤😊😊
Thanks for giving us a view of all the rock art and these slot canyons. I did not realize how much rock art is out there.
Enthusiasm plus respectful curiosity on these explorations keep me coming back for more!
Thank you again!
Incredible journey, my favorite parts are your expressions and amazement. I get so excited right along with you.
Your Treks are so welcome 🤗
I love my Saturday “hikes” with you while sitting on the couch drinking coffee 😂. Beautiful. I miss hiking and seeing beautiful things.
If this channel gets a sponsor it should be a coffee company!
Can somebody please tell me what is a slot canyon and why the paths are called washes.
@@gittarollke3102 imagine a creek, minus the water. In the desert creeks only flow after a heavy rain, the rest of the time they are called dry washes, or just called a “wash”.
@@gittarollke3102 imagine a creek, now imagine it without water. In the desert creeks only flow after a heavy rain. The rest of the time they are called dry washes, or just a “wash”. Slot canyons are created over thousands of years, when it rains they begin as a trickle. And the silt maddened water acts as liquid sandpaper
@@tedecker3792 Thank you Ted, I grew up in a city and always only lived in a city except for short times at summer camp in the Laurentians as a child.
Being born and raised in New Mexico, I say the southwest is the best. So many unexplored history locations and famous ones as well. Keep Treking my friend 🎉!!!!!
Perhaps not those but natural rain water in pools of sandstone is some of the best tasting water on this earth.
Greetings from Aus 👋🇦🇺. I love natural rock formations and that slot canyon was beautiful. I could spend hours in there with my camera. Thanks for taking us along for the ride 😃👍
Thank you for watching from 🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘!
what incredible scenery. It was so clear and real I felt like I was right there and could reach out and touch those walls. Thank you so much for taking us along with you on this beautiful trip.
I agree with you. The quality of the videos makes for a great experience. That, in turn, makes it so real to me. I have even watched these videos on a 60" TV just to see more of what he's seeing
Artifact at the end was not likely an arrowhead but a knife or some other artifact. Cool find! And the petroglyphs! Thanks for encouraging people to leave things.
Glad your channel is blowing up bro ! Your my favorite wholesome hiking / desert exploring guy on the platform. I haven’t been keeping a eye on your views and just noticed you have over 150k on this video. I watch your stuff every week and you deserve a million on every video. Thanks for putting this great content out weekly.
Gret job on the video! Makes me feel like I'm there with you! Who knows , you may find some old out of place civilization on one of your trips! Take care! 😎👍👍👍
You really find some great spots to explore. Enjoyed this. 😊
Beautiful adventure. Humming birds are attracted to red, so it could have been checking out your backpack.
This is my favorite video so far! What an amazing hike. And the wind sounds early on sounded like distant drumming. Great video! Thanks for sharing.
Such a beautiful place. Thank you for letting us tag along. Your outdoor photography has become absolutely stunning.
Very VERY cool! Thanx for this vicarious experience. I LOVE your adventures & your channel. Thank you for sharing it all with us!
I like your video's more than others I've watched. I don't get the same feeling of respecting where you are and who went before you from the others. Thank you .....
What you are doing is special in ways I hope you know. I love exploring the same as you but I find it means so much more when you can share the history with others who have never been exposed or never will be exposed to this part of our past. You definitely are an ambassador of Native American history and the respect you show has definitely earned you that title. Keep up the great work educating others and entertaining others as well. Stay safe and God bless you in all you do.
I like the improved format showing more of the scenery as you hike.😊
As you were talking about the sound of the hummingbird, I was hearing the call of the Canyon Wren twice.
I've been watching and subscribed for a long time. This has to be the best video I've seen from you, awesome! Plus this location is amazing. Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
I agree absolutely!
9:56 I believe behind you on your right (on that thin strip you pointed out) there are letters, but I can't make out what it says. Also, up near the top of the screen (left side) it looks like a faded spiral and lower right of that looks like a carved ankh or similar shape.
Has you wondering just how many years water traveled through that canyon...breathtaking. Thank you for another wonderful adventure!
I love your videos. Ty for taking us on these adventures with you. The peace of that area was so calming.
always nice to see your treks - love your channel and it feels like I'm on the trek with you
Love your channel!! Drone views of this canyon are awesome. Thanks for taking us along. Safe trekking! 👍 🤜🏼🤛🏼 ❤️
12:02 Celestial body symbol. I agree, those logs were definitely placed there, People, do not travel through canyons like these in monsoon seasons! Perilous! 14:07 Love all of the pictographs and petroglyphs!
Great videography and production! The drone footage was amazing.
Those rock formations are just gorgeous. What a beautiful place. I've had hummingbirds come and try to drink from the flowers on my gardening gloves, they are so beautiful and unafraid.
We have a hummingbird at our house who perches atop the tree where our feeder hangs. He guards it, and he won't let other hummingbirds drink from the feeder - until last year, when I started seeing lots of baby hummingbirds drinking from it, and he was leaving them alone. I concluded that the babies must be his.
He interacts with me frequently. When the feeder goes empty, he'll find me and hover in front of me to get my attention. When I'm watering plants in the garden, he'll come down and hover nearby. If I spray the water in a mist or shower spray, and point it at the fence, he'll come sit on the wire and have a bath in the spray.
Your camera shots are much improving. Loved the one where you rolled over to the white flowers as you walked away from the camera. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for the way in which you make these videos, just allowing us to absorb the surroundings with you..
This Water-carved landscape is Fascinating! Your shot of the fading "1891" inscribed on the wall suggests this feature has been around for a long time, as we humans reckon such things.
We sometimes hear about some unusual storm dumping so much water that a new stretch of canyon can be carved in just days. But at the same time, even though that can be verified, some arid regions have persisted for thousands of years, and maybe once carved, a canyon like this can remain un-changed by any further water flow for a Very Long Time...
Setting up the camera, walking past, then going back to retrieve it.... must have added considerably to the time and energy you put into this. Thanks for the post, especially for those of us who can only enjoy vicariously from a distance. New Subscriber.
I agree with your comments 100%. He makes all the scenery we've only clipped in movies now 'up in your face' close
Looks like the art at the end depict using the slot canyon to bottleneck the bighorns as a hunting tactic
Not only is that a man made spiral , couldn’t the notch in the wall next to it be for a pole ? I wonder if there is a notch directly on the other side ..thank you for sharing such an amazing explore !!! I love it!
Best gig ever…keep rocking
As Karen below stated, I am 75 and I loved your video and all the wonderful photography. Thank you so much for sharing this with all of us that wish we could still do these hikes. Now we can through you!
In Australian Aboriginal First Nation people’s petroglyphs a circular symbol can indicate a water source. Could the spirals you see possibly mean similar🌀
Abriginals all over the world thought the same way and left their marks...I imagine water holes in the slot canyon attracted animals in the dry season...A man at each end of the canyon could spear an animal as it tried to escape...
Thank you for being so respective of the natural habitat and especially the special respect you show for the ancient Americans' sites that you have chosen to explore with your cameras and drones.
Going slowly gets my vote
I'm 73 and now that ski season is done, I'm riding my bikes. Your video reminds me how much fun slickrock riding in Utah is. Adventure trip!
at 12:00 in your video. Definitely haroglyphics. The spiral is actually the sign for "Worm Hole" into another demension. Cool find.
Once again I am consumed with your treks , We know you are vigalent and take precautions, Sir your post are much appreciated for and by those of us that do not or can not Thnx for the travels . You Rock ! get it hahaha rock ….
hummingbird possibly attracted to your red backpack ??
Kinda looked like that spiral had more around it too, extremely faded. Beautiful, I'm disabled and love your videos, hope you get to do a nice long trip with the family because the STARS make the positive spiritual vibe even more amazing. Be safe.
Bear scat
My guess as well
Yes.
What kind of bear lives in that area? Black?
@@rebeccacampbell8020 black bears, not aggressive unless cornered or protecting their young. Mostly just searching for food. I call them 300 pound rats.
@@rebeccacampbell8020 Just little old black bears. Campers bang pots and pans to scare them off. They will break into homes or cars if you so much as leave a chapstick in there. Bear scat looks like a brown wad full of berry seeds most of the summer. Bigfoot scat is black and greasy-looking. Some hair.
I can no longer do this but I soooo love experiencing it with you!!! Sometimes you're on the edge of something and my palms start getting sweaty!!!! LOVE IT!!!
At 9:23, anyone know what causes the circular pitting on the sidewalls?
A slurry of water, stone and mud during floods.
There is an explanation on a documentary about Glacial Lake Missoula, the flood waters were so strong that 'tornadoes' formed off large rock outcroppings and dig up the ground.
If you've never heard of GLM it's a bit of a deep dive... pun by accident but it works.
As the water flows it picks up all sorts of things but the water itself can be very powerful.
I noticed the pitting on the sidewalls too and wondering the same thing. I think the previous replies are talking about the ground out water basins in the floor of the canyon.
I was wondering if birds had pecked out the sidewall holes for nesting. Does anyone else have thoughts on this.
@@Ron-d2s So then those little pits, are just miniaturized scab lands great basin pits I guess.
@@QuasiBlond I know water can do things like this, but so many shallow circles - I was wondering if maybe there are minerals in the sandstone that lead out and cause the circular erosion.
I should have paid better attention when I had 2 days of "earth science" geology back in 7th grade 😁
I’m also an elder female with unhappy feet & ankles who can’t hike anymore. I used to enjoy the thrill of exploring and seeing your video gives me a bit of the old thrill. Well done you.
I went to a funeral this morning and have been sad all day…until I went canyoning with you. Thank you ❤
I want to thank you for sharing your treks. I am a 60 year old lady who loves the outdoors and exploring. I never had the money to travel when I was younger. Now I am older with health issues so I know I will never be able to follow my dreams to hike and explore.
Your videos give me the opportunity to see things I will never.be able to see myself Thank you, stay safe.