Thanks for visiting such an amazing and unique location! Pretty interesting places you visit, places I would never see if not for you. It helps make my world a larger, more fascinating place.
These boulder fields are left over from major flooding when the last ice caps in that area melted down and carried large boulders and deposited them in these valleys. Many of these boulder fields have running water at the bottom of the bolder field along the length of the run. Randall Carlson covers this topic on several of his seminars and vidoes.
I love Boulder Field. I haven't been there in many years, so it's great to see this video. A buddy and I painted our initials on one of the rocks in the far corner back in the day. We went back the next year and found the paint bottle and brush we had stashed. Unfortunately we couldn't add a new addition to the rock as the paint was dried up. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Hey while your in the Poconos you should check out the abandoned honeymoon resorts from the 70's. Been to a few. Also, further south in eastern PA is ringing rocks state park. That's in upper black Eddy, bucks county. The rocks make music when you clang them together. Top notch video as always!
A pretty cool if a little dangerous place. I love that tree just being bold and striking out on it's own, it actually looks a bit like a big Bonsai tree. Thank you. x
Blue Rocks campground in Lenhartsville, Berks County, Pennsylvania has a huge Boulder field, I mean huge, it’s my favorite family owned Campground, just awesome.
I'm always looking forward to new videos from you. Thank you for walking me, so to speak, through the boulder field. I'm 66 years old and walk with a cane.
@@MobileInstinct2 Hi Chris. Thanks for the reply. I'll try not to ramble, but since you implied that you were headed out to California, let me tell you that my best vacation to Death Valley occurred in the winter. (I sent you a letter about another vacation there through your website.) I even saw snowfall at Ridgecrest, the town where I was staying. One morning, I was going to drive up to Death Valley, but I was warned off by flash flooding signs. Since I was driving my roommate's Chevy Nova, I decided not to tempt fate. Then I realised that I wasn't all that far from a place called California City. This was some real estate developer's idea of a planned suburb (about 100 miles north of Los Angeles). I'd heard that it was all but a modern ghost town. What I heard, turned out to be reality, abandoned strip malls, a lot of neatly laid out streets with the occasional house on some lot.
if you get back to Maine at all you should check out the Desert of Maine, its an inland glacial desert that back in the 1790's was a Potato and Cabbage farm, but failure to rotate the crops caused the sand to reappear and burying the farmhouse and farmland under Sand
A most interesting geographical spot. That reminds me of flash flood debris at the front of the water. Glacial influences I'd imagine. Big water made it I'd bet.
There are fields in britain like this that were farmed , very thin soil which had formed over thousands of years but when worked the soil disappeared back under the stone , plough marks still visible
The area is too flat. I am not sure how that would form naturally. The rocks are too smooth to be formed by cracking. It's possible they were left by a glacier.
simple---glacier! underneath hundred of feet of glacier during the ice age, rocks were push all across Canada and north America.. big bolders in new York city parks still bear the scares
It couldn't be too old as even leaves and dust should have been blown into nooks and crannies and vegetation covered it in only a few hundreds of years, also, why are the areas around it forested and so much different?
My grandfather is Cherokee Native American he has always told me to stay out of National Parks. He has told me stories handed down by his ancestors about the evil and human like animals in the woods. There is a reason why no one lived in the areas before they became national parks. Be careful.
No, I can tell you where those came from. All of us farmers' fields! 🤣 When they cleared for farming, they needed a place to dump them after building all the homes, statues, buildings, and yes, there were THAT many left! Trust me, I have a pile, 12 foot high, 1/2 mile long, 15 foot wide, from a 100 acre field. 😳🤣
These boulder fields and streams are the result of massive floods from the rapidly melting glaciers. There's several of these in the US. We have a small one here in Wisconsin at Devil's Lake. On a topographical map, you can see the channel that the flood waters carved into the bedrock that Devil's Lake now sits in. Just south of the lake is a 90 degree turn. The bedrock that was carved out of that channel was pushed over the side of the hill at the 90 degree turn, and the boulder field covers the south side of the hill. These aren't the result of millions of years of freezing and warming. These were made in a matter of weeks. There's no doubt that a catastrophic event happed 12,800 years ago. Followed by another 11,600 years ago. There's impact proxies all over the world at the Younger Dryas Boundary. That's also where you find the Black Mat Layer - a dark layer of sediment that indicates a massive, sudden change in the soil composition (massive floods). Oh, and that's also the same time over 120 species of megafauna went extinct...including the only humans known to live in North America at that time... During the last ice age, sea levels were 400 feet lower than today, due to several miles of ice sitting on top of all of Canada, Greenland, and Northern Europe. There's evidence of 2 enormous influxes of water into the ocean during this time, as well. Meltwater pulse 1A, and meltwater pulse 1B. Since there's no natural source of heat on earth capable of causing the glaciers to suddenly melt, the only other option is something from space. The sun could play a part in something like that, but the sun doesn't leave impact proxies. Impacts do. A comet breaking up and peppering the earth in the northern hemisphere from Canada on east to Russia certainly would explain it. That also explains why N America and Europe lost most of its megafauna, but Africa did not. There's also evidence that large parts of the world were on fire at this time, too... We know that earth gets hit by shit from space. We just lived through a too close for comfort near miss a few years ago with the Chelyabinsk incident. Had that one been a more direct hit, and located over a major city, you'd have millions killed instantly. That explosion was several times more powerful than BOTH atomic bombs dropped on Japan... Let that sink in for a minute. What's even scarier is that nobody saw it coming until it started lighting up the sky. And it wasn't even that big. The size of a 6 story office building...and it had more explosive force than 2 nuclear bombs. Imagine what would happen if a 100 mile wide comet broke apart and hit the earth. Imagine mile-wide pieces of comet hitting the ice sheets at 50,000 mph. That would send tens of millions of house-sized pieces of glacier into space, ultimately raining back down on earth. Check out the Carolina Bays for possible evidence of this. Want me to continue? I haven't even touched on the Pacific northwest, or the desert southwest...
Boulder field! This place is pretty amazing and worth the long dirt road to get to it.
Outstanding,Awesome,,,,,What was the name of the park? U BUS YOUR ANKLE THEN LEG STATE PARK..ong Looks very cool,Safe travels..73s
Wish I could travel with you some! 😃
Thanks for visiting such an amazing and unique location! Pretty interesting places you visit, places I would never see if not for you. It helps make my world a larger, more fascinating place.
Glacier deposit
These boulder fields are left over from major flooding when the last ice caps in that area melted down and carried large boulders and deposited them in these valleys. Many of these boulder fields have running water at the bottom of the bolder field along the length of the run. Randall Carlson covers this topic on several of his seminars and vidoes.
Interesting.
Always cool little known and interesting places. That’s for taking us along on adventures.
Thanks for watching and coming along
You have the best RUclips channel , you go to the coolest places , please keep doing what you do 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😊😊😊
I love Boulder Field. I haven't been there in many years, so it's great to see this video.
A buddy and I painted our initials on one of the rocks in the far corner back in the day. We went back the next year and found the paint bottle and brush we had stashed. Unfortunately we couldn't add a new addition to the rock as the paint was dried up.
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Hey while your in the Poconos you should check out the abandoned honeymoon resorts from the 70's. Been to a few. Also, further south in eastern PA is ringing rocks state park. That's in upper black Eddy, bucks county. The rocks make music when you clang them together. Top notch video as always!
Ive been wanting to check out Ringing Rocks for a long time. Gotta get there one of these times.
That is stunning! Well done as always.
Never heard of this place before. Interesting.
Fascinating! Looks like great ankle twisting material.
We turn to dust - They turn to sand
Thanks, Chris!
I'm sure there have been a few injuries there from time to time!
Missing 411
Hey Chris. Awesome find. Enjoyed it a lot. Keep em coming....J
trip! I've never heard about that location, amazing actually. Thanks for sharing!
That was my backyard. We had so much fun exploring all around there
An excellent place to visit for those that have a passion for geology or just the curious.
Agreed
Great place and a great man for showing us.
Awesome! Thanks for the upload. I really enjoy your work!
Fond memories were made here as a child with my family!
A pretty cool if a little dangerous place. I love that tree just being bold and striking out on it's own, it actually looks a bit like a big Bonsai tree. Thank you. x
I agree! Pretty cool looking out there all by itself.
@@MobileInstinct2 It just proves how life wants to continue no matter the circumstances.
Love this place I’ve been there twice. Glad you went.
If you walk to the back tree line from the entrance and walk through the trees theres another smaller field where the boulders are the size of cars.
That is a real oddity, never seen anything like it !
Blue Rocks campground in Lenhartsville, Berks County, Pennsylvania has a huge Boulder field, I mean huge, it’s my favorite family owned Campground, just awesome.
Wow what a find, strange and amazing at the same time.
Rock solid video
Congratulations on the BOYT award !! Well deserved.
Excellent video subscribed
That was amazing ! Ive never heard of this place!
I'm always looking forward to new videos from you. Thank you for walking me, so to speak, through the boulder field. I'm 66 years old and walk with a cane.
Glad you like them Bart
@@MobileInstinct2 Hi Chris. Thanks for the reply. I'll try not to ramble, but since you implied that you were headed out to California, let me tell you that my best vacation to Death Valley occurred in the winter. (I sent you a letter about another vacation there through your website.) I even saw snowfall at Ridgecrest, the town where I was staying. One morning, I was going to drive up to Death Valley, but I was warned off by flash flooding signs. Since I was driving my roommate's Chevy Nova, I decided not to tempt fate.
Then I realised that I wasn't all that far from a place called California City. This was some real estate developer's idea of a planned suburb (about 100 miles north of Los Angeles). I'd heard that it was all but a modern ghost town. What I heard, turned out to be reality, abandoned strip malls, a lot of neatly laid out streets with the occasional house on some lot.
utterly amazing
Well done! Thanks for that! Rox
never even heard about this. awesome
This is just the coolest channel!!!
Those rocks/boulders are expensive if sold for landscaping. Crazy though.
We got some rocks in PA, you traversed them rather well.
I like what you do it neat. You don't work in a shop and do the same thing every day you get to travel around the world
This is one of my favorite places to go. I go here a couple times during the summer
Yeah it's a pretty cool place to stop by for a bit on a nice day.
I have enjoyed your videos. Just wondering who travels with you? At one point in this video, it was clear that you were not holding the camera.
Here in N. Central Pa. We have a smaller field of "glacial" boulders on top of Bald Eagle Mountain. The local name for it is the devil's turnip patch.
3:19 i see what you mean...this place looks like an ankle injury waiting to happen
That must be a pain in the ass to walk across.
Perfect set for the Flintstones
if you get back to Maine at all you should check out the Desert of Maine, its an inland glacial desert that back in the 1790's was a Potato and Cabbage farm, but failure to rotate the crops caused the sand to reappear and burying the farmhouse and farmland under Sand
I've heard of it but never been there. I ll definitely check it out next time. Thanks for the suggestion
A most interesting geographical spot. That reminds me of flash flood debris at the front of the water. Glacial influences I'd imagine. Big water made it I'd bet.
There are fields in britain like this that were farmed , very thin soil which had formed over thousands of years but when worked the soil disappeared back under the stone , plough marks still visible
An amazing place!
Awesome!!
I've been there. It's pretty awesome!
The boulder field might have been better titled (twisted ankle).💚
The area is too flat. I am not sure how that would form naturally. The rocks are too smooth to be formed by cracking. It's possible they were left by a glacier.
Rock on Chris !!!!
Should have filmed a Star wars movie here.
Are people allowed to take some of the rocks away?
So bizarre. I had no idea that existed. How many acres? Does it say?
simple---glacier! underneath hundred of feet of glacier during the ice age, rocks were push all across Canada and north America.. big bolders in new York city parks still bear the scares
Whoa.
About an hour and a half south east of me, never knew.
It couldn't be too old as even leaves and dust should have been blown into nooks and crannies and vegetation covered it in only a few hundreds of years, also, why are the areas around it forested and so much different?
were there people salvaging rocks 4 building things?
My grandfather is Cherokee Native American he has always told me to stay out of National Parks. He has told me stories handed down by his ancestors about the evil and human like animals in the woods. There is a reason why no one lived in the areas before they became national parks. Be careful.
Pa had very large ape like creatures 6000yrs ago.
I wonder if a glacier deposited the rocks there. Or the weight of the glacier crushed the rocks
What if it was a pyramid once upon of time? That would be cool.
Isn't this where Fred Flintstone used to work ? Lol
that tree will become a monument.
Don’t go missing something out there
What do you mean
I live right next to it
I was there 2 hours ago
No, I can tell you where those came from. All of us farmers' fields! 🤣 When they cleared for farming, they needed a place to dump them after building all the homes, statues, buildings, and yes, there were THAT many left! Trust me, I have a pile, 12 foot high, 1/2 mile long, 15 foot wide, from a 100 acre field. 😳🤣
Between a rock and a hard place?
I’ll race you across!
These gangsters MUST BE STOPPED!
These boulder fields and streams are the result of massive floods from the rapidly melting glaciers. There's several of these in the US. We have a small one here in Wisconsin at Devil's Lake. On a topographical map, you can see the channel that the flood waters carved into the bedrock that Devil's Lake now sits in. Just south of the lake is a 90 degree turn. The bedrock that was carved out of that channel was pushed over the side of the hill at the 90 degree turn, and the boulder field covers the south side of the hill.
These aren't the result of millions of years of freezing and warming. These were made in a matter of weeks. There's no doubt that a catastrophic event happed 12,800 years ago. Followed by another 11,600 years ago. There's impact proxies all over the world at the Younger Dryas Boundary. That's also where you find the Black Mat Layer - a dark layer of sediment that indicates a massive, sudden change in the soil composition (massive floods). Oh, and that's also the same time over 120 species of megafauna went extinct...including the only humans known to live in North America at that time...
During the last ice age, sea levels were 400 feet lower than today, due to several miles of ice sitting on top of all of Canada, Greenland, and Northern Europe. There's evidence of 2 enormous influxes of water into the ocean during this time, as well. Meltwater pulse 1A, and meltwater pulse 1B. Since there's no natural source of heat on earth capable of causing the glaciers to suddenly melt, the only other option is something from space. The sun could play a part in something like that, but the sun doesn't leave impact proxies. Impacts do. A comet breaking up and peppering the earth in the northern hemisphere from Canada on east to Russia certainly would explain it. That also explains why N America and Europe lost most of its megafauna, but Africa did not.
There's also evidence that large parts of the world were on fire at this time, too...
We know that earth gets hit by shit from space. We just lived through a too close for comfort near miss a few years ago with the Chelyabinsk incident. Had that one been a more direct hit, and located over a major city, you'd have millions killed instantly. That explosion was several times more powerful than BOTH atomic bombs dropped on Japan... Let that sink in for a minute. What's even scarier is that nobody saw it coming until it started lighting up the sky. And it wasn't even that big. The size of a 6 story office building...and it had more explosive force than 2 nuclear bombs. Imagine what would happen if a 100 mile wide comet broke apart and hit the earth.
Imagine mile-wide pieces of comet hitting the ice sheets at 50,000 mph. That would send tens of millions of house-sized pieces of glacier into space, ultimately raining back down on earth. Check out the Carolina Bays for possible evidence of this.
Want me to continue? I haven't even touched on the Pacific northwest, or the desert southwest...