How can a great country like the USA be so irresponsible and let things like that happen. It's a scandal which no one can find excuses for letting it be. Before giving lessons to other countries the population of the USA should first sweep in front their doors. I'm a grand canyon regular hiker, I did one raft trip from Lees Ferry and expect to do another one and love that river and got the most beautiful moments of my last 23 years of living inside this canyon and its river and I just can't understand this. There at times when camping near the river in the canyon, I just cry before such beauty; and now I'm overwhelmed by emotion by the terrible situation at the end of the river. Someone wrote that this movie is "over dramatized "! That's precisely the kind of irresponsible guy who brought that environmental nightmare. You guys made a superb film with guts and full appraisal of what is going on. May be your generation will bring a new one more responsible of environment in acts instead of words. Thanks. (Claude - Paris -France)
Yep. It's a sad state of affairs You should come see the man made island of Japan where you can't go anywhere that hasn't had concrete poured. 10,000 feet in the mountains...steel dams every 100 meters, or so... Why? Look at Hokkaido on Google Earth...the whole of it is pretty much ringed by paved and concreted road. Sometimes I just want to scream.
OkinawaWild It's unfortunately the situation around the world; among the last incredible attack against nature and its beauty is the actual debate which will probably become effective in grand canyon of building a gondola between the rim at Cape Solitude and the Little Colorado confluence with restaurant and other devices (The Escalade Navajo ) project) which will ruin not only the beauty of this place only accessible on foot or by raft and which is also occupied by rare flora specimens. The Navajo tribe's leaders take advantage of the fact that this is just outside the boundaries of the National Park which makes it impossible for it to intervene under the present regulations. I've been there three times twice after a 4 days hike and once on a raft trip down the river and to imagine those turquoise waters to be occupied by a device and smell of hamburgers makes me vomit! Moreover it is scandalous that such people show such lack of respect for their ancestral believes and those of another Indian tribe the Hopi people!
I live in San Luis Rio COlorado, Sonora México. Even down here there is plenty of wáter on the USA side, but a few feet away is as dry as it can get. And I mean ZERO moisture, Just in the YUMA County (Arizona's border county) there are 7 wáter diverts from the Colorado River right before it reaches México. We have an ARMY of Native Cucapah's, proffesors, student, universities and lovely people that are working on restoring this end of the river....
I grew up on the Colorado River. I remember driving over Hoover dam and waters reachable by leaning over the sidewalks that lined the dam. It's extremely sad to see how low our river and lakes have become.
I think it is great that they had an adventure with friends and family. I admire people who take the risk. One comment. We as a people need to be careful of intellectual groupthink. We are fortunate to live in a time where people can choose indoor or outdoor plumbing. I must always remind myself that my peace and tranquility might not be yours. So who is right? Never the less well done. These two young men will leave their "campsite better than they found it" wherever life takes them.
The ease at which this is possible today compared to over one hundred years ago what people went through to travel the same route. Is this progress, perhaps yes perhaps not.
very interesting film, several cool aspects to it. so the first question that sprang to mind is how the heck did they get permits for the grand. then I understood that timing the trip to hit the delta in mid winter when temperatures are tolerable must also have facilitated the permit problem. Seeing them reach the moreles dam, i thought the trip must be over. when instead they entered the maze of irrigation canals in Mexico beyond, it brought to mind Chris McCandless, a fascinating character I hadn't thought about in years. I have never seen expedition kayaks in class V white water like that. either sea kayaks are more versatile than I know, or those are very good paddlers. and lastly, pack rafts! how can you not like pack rafts after seeing this film.
Thanks for the questions. I’m not sure of the specifics of this trip and the film but I do know it took a ton of planning and logistics work to make it happen. The Grand permit was probably one of the easier things to get. They either jump in with another group or picked up a cancelation. This video does a great job of driving home the point that this massive river ends up getting sucked dry.
Such a great film! Have been rafting on the rogue river in Oregon recently. Looking forward to doing the Colorado someday. You guys breath adventure. Congrats on an awesome trip!
I really enjoyed that! I lived vicariously through their grand adventure and youthful enthusiasm. Plus i learned a good deal about river ecology in 45 minutes. The river is being dammed, sifoned off and otherwize abused on a significant scale. By the time it gets to Mexico it becomes visibly polluted and then dries out all together in parts. I got a good sense of the scope of the problems associated with dams, massive interstate diversions, industrial pollution, and trash in a more visceral way than reading about it. I can't wait to see what these guys do next?
Awesome video. Great way to highlight our gross misappropriation of natural resources, sometimes for little more than reasons of vanity. Great work guys!!!
Thank you, some good news. There have been pulse flows, and they have found life returns despite all the gloomy forecast. I feel we can take back the river, maybe not make it wild, but at least conserve it as best we can.
I live in the laughlin nv area and I think you all did a great job. I was disappointed not to see the two of you enter the water at davis camp or the other side of the river in nv. Much nicr look than those damn casinos, lol. Awsome job guys.
I've dreamed of making the entire journey myself. I've paddled many sections in this film that brought back many memories. The entire production was great; narration, videography, editing... awesome job guys, and this is coming from a videographer and editor. Thanks for taking the time and effort to share your journey with the world.
Saw it full-length on a big screen. Excellent photography and editing. However, this film is really made for entertainment value and a "big picture" overview of the River, which is well known. Would have liked to see it a bit more of a documentary (which it is not), with more details about legal and economic issues added. Will and Zak are a bit too goofy at times, which also takes away from the impact. Not much whitewater, but i sort of expected that.
Joe Nelson agree these guys don't care about this river they want views too make themselves famous. too much playing around and not enough about the river and how too help save it. they acted like a bunch of 13 year old kids. the river was just a excuse too make the film.
I have to do a project for school involving watching the video and answering questions about it like, explain what they mean when they say , they saw the first signs of the river being put to use.I love the video.
Looks like a great adventure! Could have gone without the hippster message the entire time, but the trip looked awesome. Neat that you guys had such good friends and family join you in parts.
Cool film and a good message, but the irony of a couple of hipsters on a fully funded, fully supported cruise down a river, outfitted with the best modern equipment, complaining the entire time about man, electricity, society, industry, and what not...is not lost on me...
What time of year did you do this journey? I would love to experience this...maybe not the FULL length but do you recommend a certain stretch over others?
THE AGRICULTURAL LOBBY MUST BE CRUSHED. In California, farms use 80% of Colorado River water, yet account for only 2% of the state's economic output, including the alfalfa & almonds they export to China. Yet they are so powerful that politicians constantly bend over for them. Every day they're asking for new dams & diversions to be built with taxpayer money. They were the only group exempt from drought cutbacks. They've illegally drawn so much groundwater that many sections of land have collapsed. This industry doesn't give a damn about the environment, just their own profits.
so sad to see the mighty river become a canal.. why would any one do that a beautiful river.. its like people just want to grab every bit of that river and drain it..
Great video. One of the best I've seen in a long time. Has an old river guide turned office jockey longing for the days of being on the river. If I was wanting to do say a five day to seven day self guided trip what section would anyone suggest that is isolated and does not take years to get a permit? I'd be traveling frim the east coast. So really any point that meets my criteria would be great, any ideas?
do you guys know for how many miles the Colorado River is not reaching the sea ? I live in Arizona.. I hope the states of AZ AND CA make their people concious abt this terrible problem.. great job guys! I wish I could do that journey trough the Colorado River
I need to know the name of this song - you can hear a little tune across the canyon whistles of the days gone by at night you can hear the coyotes echo the hills let out their lonely sigh you can see the cowboys playing sweet and melancholy tune its the same thing the river keeps saying harmonized by the light of the moon gather good friends 'round the campfire so free 'neath the clear western sky tell us all about your true love the one you cant leave behind
+Will Stauffer-Norris Sorry for the late response but are you the guy in the video? This is one of the few nature documentaries that I really loved. Anyways, if you or somebody was singing, what chords were used?
Started out well, but lost me a 5:33 when he complains about not having water, while standing next to a running stream complaining about the filtration pump being frozen...ummm water treatment tablets/straws dudes???
@@NRSWEB thanks man 👺👹 real truth you will soon day when you least expect it yeah be safe out there buddy you're doing a great thing I wish I was there man what a life God put this world for us to enjoy and we're just ruining it keep safe in The kayaks I'm sure you do I'm very experience but I'll be watching more of your shows and thank you
Thanks guys. That was great experience to share
Fantastic film 🤌👏👍
How can a great country like the USA be so irresponsible and let things like that happen. It's a scandal which no one can find excuses for letting it be. Before giving lessons to other countries the population of the USA should first sweep in front their doors. I'm a grand canyon regular hiker, I did one raft trip from Lees Ferry and expect to do another one and love that river and got the most beautiful moments of my last 23 years of living inside this canyon and its river and I just can't understand this. There at times when camping near the river in the canyon, I just cry before such beauty; and now I'm overwhelmed by emotion by the terrible situation at the end of the river. Someone wrote that this movie is "over dramatized "! That's precisely the kind of irresponsible guy who brought that environmental nightmare. You guys made a superb film with guts and full appraisal of what is going on. May be your generation will bring a new one more responsible of environment in acts instead of words. Thanks. (Claude - Paris -France)
Yep. It's a sad state of affairs You should come see the man made island of Japan where you can't go anywhere that hasn't had concrete poured. 10,000 feet in the mountains...steel dams every 100 meters, or so... Why? Look at Hokkaido on Google Earth...the whole of it is pretty much ringed by paved and concreted road. Sometimes I just want to scream.
OkinawaWild It's unfortunately the situation around the world; among the last incredible attack against nature and its beauty is the actual debate which will probably become effective in grand canyon of building a gondola between the rim at Cape Solitude and the Little Colorado confluence with restaurant and other devices (The Escalade Navajo ) project) which will ruin not only the beauty of this place only accessible on foot or by raft and which is also occupied by rare flora specimens. The Navajo tribe's leaders take advantage of the fact that this is just outside the boundaries of the National Park which makes it impossible for it to intervene under the present regulations. I've been there three times twice after a 4 days hike and once on a raft trip down the river and to imagine those turquoise waters to be occupied by a device and smell of hamburgers makes me vomit! Moreover it is scandalous that such people show such lack of respect for their ancestral believes and those of another Indian tribe the Hopi people!
I live in San Luis Rio COlorado, Sonora México. Even down here there is plenty of wáter on the USA side, but a few feet away is as dry as it can get. And I mean ZERO moisture, Just in the YUMA County (Arizona's border county) there are 7 wáter diverts from the Colorado River right before it reaches México. We have an ARMY of Native Cucapah's, proffesors, student, universities and lovely people that are working on restoring this end of the river....
I grew up on the Colorado River. I remember driving over Hoover dam and waters reachable by leaning over the sidewalks that lined the dam. It's extremely sad to see how low our river and lakes have become.
Such a great film! well done gentlemen
Well done, fellas. I'm watching from Canada. I'm just doing a little research on the plight of the Colorado River estuary,....
I think it is great that they had an adventure with friends and family. I admire people who take the risk. One comment. We as a people need to be careful of intellectual groupthink. We are fortunate to live in a time where people can choose indoor or outdoor plumbing. I must always remind myself that my peace and tranquility might not be yours. So who is right? Never the less well done. These two young men will leave their "campsite better than they found it" wherever life takes them.
The ease at which this is possible today compared to over one hundred years ago what people went through to travel the same route. Is this progress, perhaps yes perhaps not.
very interesting film, several cool aspects to it. so the first question that sprang to mind is how the heck did they get permits for the grand. then I understood that timing the trip to hit the delta in mid winter when temperatures are tolerable must also have facilitated the permit problem. Seeing them reach the moreles dam, i thought the trip must be over. when instead they entered the maze of irrigation canals in Mexico beyond, it brought to mind Chris McCandless, a fascinating character I hadn't thought about in years. I have never seen expedition kayaks in class V white water like that. either sea kayaks are more versatile than I know, or those are very good paddlers. and lastly, pack rafts! how can you not like pack rafts after seeing this film.
Thanks for the questions. I’m not sure of the specifics of this trip and the film but I do know it took a ton of planning and logistics work to make it happen. The Grand permit was probably one of the easier things to get. They either jump in with another group or picked up a cancelation. This video does a great job of driving home the point that this massive river ends up getting sucked dry.
great work guys. be very proud of that.
Such a great film! Have been rafting on the rogue river in Oregon recently. Looking forward to doing the Colorado someday. You guys breath adventure. Congrats on an awesome trip!
over dramatized but great footage and an amazing adventure
Thanks for putting it all together
I really enjoyed that! I lived vicariously through their grand adventure and youthful enthusiasm. Plus i learned a good deal about river ecology in 45 minutes.
The river is being dammed, sifoned off and otherwize abused on a significant scale. By the time it gets to Mexico it becomes visibly polluted and then dries out all together in parts. I got a good sense of the scope of the problems associated with dams, massive interstate diversions, industrial pollution, and trash in a more visceral way than reading about it.
I can't wait to see what these guys do next?
Awesome video. Great way to highlight our gross misappropriation of natural resources, sometimes for little more than reasons of vanity. Great work guys!!!
beautiful. great movie
Beautiful and sad. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, some good news. There have been pulse flows, and they have found life returns despite all the gloomy forecast. I feel we can take back the river, maybe not make it wild, but at least conserve it as best we can.
Wow! This was amazing! Thanks for sharing your inspiring adventure.
great guys - thanks - really interesting viewing...
Great adventure, Many Thanks!
I live in the laughlin nv area and I think you all did a great job. I was disappointed not to see the two of you enter the water at davis camp or the other side of the river in nv. Much nicr look than those damn casinos, lol. Awsome job guys.
as Bob Linton said below, "...beautiful and sad," my heart goes with the current of this river.
Well done! I really enjoyed this.
I've dreamed of making the entire journey myself. I've paddled many sections in this film that brought back many memories. The entire production was great; narration, videography, editing... awesome job guys, and this is coming from a videographer and editor. Thanks for taking the time and effort to share your journey with the world.
I really enjoyed, amazing adventure.
I am glad I found your film I enjoyed it very much
wish I was there, this is too cool for words. but thank you.
Great film! Well done!
Saw it full-length on a big screen. Excellent photography and editing. However, this film is really made for entertainment value and a "big picture" overview of the River, which is well known. Would have liked to see it a bit more of a documentary (which it is not), with more details about legal and economic issues added. Will and Zak are a bit too goofy at times, which also takes away from the impact. Not much whitewater, but i sort of expected that.
Joe Nelson agree these guys don't care about this river they want views too make themselves famous. too much playing around and not enough about the river and how too help save it. they acted like a bunch of 13 year old kids. the river was just a excuse too make the film.
We really enjoyed this film - terrific job by all involved. There will be people who watch this and Still dispute that we're overpopulated.
great vid lads, you could almost call it beauty and the beast ...really enjoyed
Well done....nice job of producing also.
I have to do a project for school involving watching the video and answering questions about it like, explain what they mean when they say , they saw the first signs of the river being put to use.I love the video.
Great Video.
Looks like a great adventure! Could have gone without the hippster message the entire time, but the trip looked awesome. Neat that you guys had such good friends and family join you in parts.
Cool film and a good message, but the irony of a couple of hipsters on a fully funded, fully supported cruise down a river, outfitted with the best modern equipment, complaining the entire time about man, electricity, society, industry, and what not...is not lost on me...
What time of year did you do this journey? I would love to experience this...maybe not the FULL length but do you recommend a certain stretch over others?
Good stuff
THE AGRICULTURAL LOBBY MUST BE CRUSHED. In California, farms use 80% of Colorado River water, yet account for only 2% of the state's economic output, including the alfalfa & almonds they export to China. Yet they are so powerful that politicians constantly bend over for them. Every day they're asking for new dams & diversions to be built with taxpayer money. They were the only group exempt from drought cutbacks. They've illegally drawn so much groundwater that many sections of land have collapsed. This industry doesn't give a damn about the environment, just their own profits.
so sad to see the mighty river become a canal.. why would any one do that a beautiful river.. its like people just want to grab every bit of that river and drain it..
lol
Great video. One of the best I've seen in a long time. Has an old river guide turned office jockey longing for the days of being on the river. If I was wanting to do say a five day to seven day self guided trip what section would anyone suggest that is isolated and does not take years to get a permit? I'd be traveling frim the east coast. So really any point that meets my criteria would be great, any ideas?
do you guys know for how many miles the Colorado River is not reaching the sea ? I live in Arizona.. I hope the states of AZ AND CA make their people concious abt this terrible problem.. great job guys!
I wish I could do that journey trough the Colorado River
I need to know the name of this song - you can hear a little tune across the canyon
whistles of the days gone by
at night you can hear the coyotes echo
the hills let out their lonely sigh
you can see the cowboys playing
sweet and melancholy tune
its the same thing the river keeps saying
harmonized by the light of the moon
gather good friends 'round the campfire
so free 'neath the clear western sky
tell us all about your true love
the one you cant leave behind
Did you ever find this song? I'm here for it too!
@@maureeshields2627 sure thing! It's "the cowboy song" by the red stick ramblers
what was the put in alt?
Does anyone know the song at 24:00?
+MARCHINGBANDtbone the artist is the Random Canyon Growlers- I'm not sure what the song name is, I can't seem to find it.
+Will Stauffer-Norris Sorry for the late response but are you the guy in the video? This is one of the few nature documentaries that I really loved. Anyways, if you or somebody was singing, what chords were used?
Started out well, but lost me a 5:33 when he complains about not having water, while standing next to a running stream complaining about the filtration pump being frozen...ummm water treatment tablets/straws dudes???
And you didn't see any crocodiles or any that's kind of stuff out there
Save the Colorado River Delta on FACEBOOK... :)
Have you ever seen a Sasquatch or UFO at all just asking cuz Colorado is the home of them
Not yet!
@@NRSWEB thanks man 👺👹 real truth you will soon day when you least expect it yeah be safe out there buddy you're doing a great thing I wish I was there man what a life God put this world for us to enjoy and we're just ruining it keep safe in The kayaks I'm sure you do I'm very experience but I'll be watching more of your shows and thank you
American life style and economy destroy colorado river :(
Same thing is happening where you live.
what a joke