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The irony with watering the dead tree right in front of the drying up Lake Mead. That's literally like slapping Mother Nature in the face. No wonder why she just takes back what's hers.
Nice video, Russ. During the summer, Red Rock Canyon campground, just West of Las Vegas on Route 159 (Charleston Avenue inside the Las Vegas City limits) is closed and they put up a fence so you can't reach the campsites. Overton and Echo Bay campgrounds east of the City remained open the last time I visited but spending the day in 115 degree F heat is not fun. I used to climb Mount Charleston where there are 2 or 3 different campgrounds (notably Lee Canyon) where the temperature is more bearable (maximum around 85 deg.). I hope you will film a little inside Valley of Fire to show us some of the beautiful rock formations. Safe travel !! RICHARD
I love longer videos. So glad you are doing Lake Mead. I love that place. So many memories and it's so sad. Thank you for all you do Russ. Much appreciation!
Love your channel and adventures. Also, your chuckle......I feel that you are a very genuine and kind person. Be safe out there. And greetings from Utah and the mountains.
🙋Hello Russ! I Can't even begin to imagine what Lake Mead will look like next summer. From the aerial view not much room left for boating. Enjoy it while you can. It's not going to be with us much longer. Sadly to say.
Right on Russ, I worked here in the 90s on the fuel dock and also lived here as well. Sorry to see the water gone but still a beautiful place, nice video.
Shocking to see the water levels so low. Interesting to see what the fall & winter months will bring. Reality check for certain. Thank you for documenting your travels. Stay safe.
Hard to look at. Iam done! Las Vegas will run out electric soon. Let's look at something else. It's like looking at the Biden Amidastration sinking America! We need more positive information. We're out of water in California, God help us! Stop the lake mead disaster. Thanks.
Hey Russ!!! Would like to say thank you for the tours of Lake Mead these days. Just too sad for words. Also, scary situation that we will be in within the next couple months to a year, when it comes to water supply. Keep up the good work and keep the videos rolling. Again big thank you to you for sharing! Alec…
As a LV resident and former boat owner, This is heartbreaking!! The endless memories on that lake, and each one of these marinas. 🥺😩. Hoping you can stop at Rogers spring on your way to Echo.
Thank you so much for sharing this great tragedy with me. I remember swimming in the lake when it was full.You do a great job filming it . I look forward for each video.
It’s absolutely amazing how long people are holding on to the lake and boating. At what point will boaters pack up and do something else with their time? Are there no other lakes anywhere? I swear the water will be so shallow a toddler can stand up in it and they’ll still be boaters trying to get their boat in the puddle.
@@seatime674 UUMMMM ok but what about Lake Oahe or Lake Sasakawea? Lake Mead is only the largest by Volume but it is quickly losing ground, there are plenty of larger man made lakes in the States and by surface area Lake Mead sits 6th.
That restaurant on the hill, or whatever it is, that's where the water used to be in the lake's heydays, just outside it. Quite incredible. Saw a photo in a video a while ago.
They used to rent the houseboats at echo bay and Temple bar back in the day. I thought for sure Callville was all but closed by now. Go figure. It was all you could do to find a beach on the north side of Sandy point when they rented them out of Temple bar. I think the last time I saw a rental in Greggs basin was 2005. We would often see these things heading up past Pearce Ferry back in 83 and 84 when you the river delta was past quartermaster point. Good stuff as usual Russ, keep up the good work.
Marvelous, 👍😳🎶🤗. Certainly a lot of effort unloading ice. Nice walk but think I'll get trekking poles. Last trip my knees hurt for days. I see all these rv's and remember how miserable we were tent camping. No air conditioning in car either. Death Valley was a real oven . Take care .
Do the Feds actually prohibit people/organizations that would want to dispose of the junk that becomes exposed from doing so? If so, what is the logic behind such a regulation?
This is not a weather problem it is a people problem. When you have more people using water than water coming from the heavens you get this sort of situation.
We manufactured and assembled "Floating Sanitation Facilities" (marine floating toilets) for the National Park Service 14 years ago at Calville Bay. The water level was close to the Marina Store at that time. I recently viewed our $1.5 million dollars worth of bathrooms beached, vandalized, and stripped, sitting on land where the Park Service left them. Pretty sad.
With a day left, the water level has dropped about 2-1/4" in the past month which likely has been helped a bit by sporadic rains in the region during the past two weeks. Hooray for the little bits of rain (sorry about Vegas flooding) that have fallen in the region.
Back when the dam was built water demand in the area was many times lower than it is now and it took over six years to fill it up. Every little rain we get is better then no rain at all though .
Sadly it will probably take about 6 months of straight rain to get this back close to the way it was, that is not going to happen so just hope for the best..
The only thing that is going to save this lake is about ten years of heavy winter snowfall in the region of the Colorado River headwaters. A few good rains that lead to flooding is only going to buy the lake a little more time but not enough to make much difference. The lake will soon be effectively GONE!
I’m not complaining working over electric oven after your walk out to in July weather! Wow! Tough as nails! Looking forward to campground in fall those tiny palm trees just tickle me to pieces.
Russ gas has dropped to 3.59 a gallon here in central Ohio but diesel is still over 5$ a gallon first time I've ever seen a 2$ difference between gas n diesel
That camphost trailer looked abandoned. I'll bet the electricity has been turned off there too. No one wants to camp there at 115° with no AC. Like you say "maybe in the Fall". The desert is just reclaiming itself. Back to being the Colorado River. Where have you been spending the nights in that heat? Hookups? Please put the date each video was filmed on the description. Thanks Russ for the drive along.
I've been at Lake Mead quite a few times in July & August. Pretty sure I'd accidentally fall into the water a couple times each afternoon if I was out in the sun on those barges moving stuff around all day! ;-) Thanks for yet another fantastic video, Russ!
Nice coverage Russ. Well when and if the water comes back the boat launch will be ready to go. Russ when you were up at the hotel restaurant and you were standing by that red hose with all those big rocks how far down do you think the Highwater mark is from that point it would be neat if you could tell us that if you ever go back to Lake Mead.
I seen a video of another lady at the same place you're at a couple weeks ago and that golf cart is a free shuttle for people like you and me it's over 60 so we don't get wore out and we do business at their Marina the lady offering a golf cart is a sweetheart
Well am in Minnesota and we have a severe drought going on, rains and then drys up right afterwards ,but at least when I camp still have brush and trees,and some grass.
From the brief drone footage you can see the massive marina literally barely floating in a puddle of water. Is there any room to push the marina out farther into the lake when an island is rising out of the water preventing everything but narrow structures from becoming landlocked?
No all the assholes in LA will move to Texas ans ruin it just like they did LA. Than this country will go completely socialist and be in in bankrupt ruins like post-WW2 Germany. The difference is their won't be another country to save us. The last of the free world will be gone and we will be speaking Chinese.
That water was dropping fast, considering the total surface area, weird ! I wonder if anyone has looked at the 22 years prior to year 2000, etc, etc…..for comparison, in relation to whatever ? something weird 🤦🏻♂️! Seems in time, all the campground ,restaurant area, will dry completely up 😢! Thanks Russ. 👍🏻
There is still enough lake to sail around on. I assume that some people rent dock space, so they keep their boats there. Also some boat owners don't have a place to take their boat. They would either have to take it back to their house or store it in lot. This is especially true for house boats.
if you own a houseboat on lake mead... oh boy. why would you even want to live ontop of a twin volcanic complex, during an age of increasing vulcanism, has got me scratching my head. it is what it is.
Glad we did all our House Boat ? WAKEBOARDING trips to MEAD while it was FALT/BUTTER & FULL!!! Same with Powell , even though it's higher in WATER Levels but still NOT the Same :)
Put the lake back in the river! I know there's lots of gold there, lots of gold!!We use those plastic wheel barrels to put our fish in to take them to the cleaning table.
It would take YEARS of above average rainfall and snowfall to even begin to make a dent in this. I hope the people who live there are ready for what is coming their way.
I've been watching all these videos, what I don't understand is all the building going on, light posts, historical signs at the town that has come back to life, roads, even some structures, all were it used to be 80+ feet high, are they not expecting for Lake Mead to ever get back to levels it used to be. I'm from Florida but I have been to Lake Mead / Hoover Dam three times in my life, so I'm at a loss.
Other than a few workers, the marina looks abandoned. Pretty sad state of affairs It also looks like if it lowers another couple feet, the entire marina will either be cut off, standing in its own pool, or will have to be moved a quarter mile to get past the cutoff
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That shot of a sprinkler going with the lake in the background was pure gold , it said it all ! Wake up people
Stupidity has no bounds. And they probably don't have any customers who'll see the grass anyway.
Bless Lake Meade and the worker's who bled blood sweat and tears..it was fun back in the days
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5:25 "I did that" sticker on the sign.😂
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The irony with watering the dead tree right in front of the drying up Lake Mead. That's literally like slapping Mother Nature in the face. No wonder why she just takes back what's hers.
Nice video, Russ. During the summer, Red Rock Canyon campground, just West of Las Vegas on Route 159 (Charleston Avenue inside the Las Vegas City limits) is closed and they put up a fence so you can't reach the campsites. Overton and Echo Bay campgrounds east of the City remained open the last time I visited but spending the day in 115 degree F heat is not fun. I used to climb Mount Charleston where there are 2 or 3 different campgrounds (notably Lee Canyon) where the temperature is more bearable (maximum around 85 deg.). I hope you will film a little inside Valley of Fire to show us some of the beautiful rock formations. Safe travel !! RICHARD
I was surprised to see that Callville Marina was still open.
Thanks for letting us tag along Russ!
I love longer videos. So glad you are doing Lake Mead. I love that place. So many memories and it's so sad. Thank you for all you do Russ. Much appreciation!
Love your channel and adventures. Also, your chuckle......I feel that you are a very genuine and kind person. Be safe out there. And greetings from Utah and the mountains.
Great video as always. The water markers and dates were a sad thing to see for sure. Be safe. Thanks again Russ
Thanks for the videos, they are the news we don’t see on the media, great job!
Thanks for taking us along and doing the leg work.
🙋Hello Russ! I Can't even begin to imagine what Lake Mead will look like next summer. From the aerial view not much room left for boating. Enjoy it while you can. It's not going to be with us much longer. Sadly to say.
Thanks, Russ, for the ride
Good to see they're still watering the plants.
Good video wow sad though about all that water being gone but they're still trying we'll keep watching her us we love you
Right on Russ, I worked here in the 90s on the fuel dock and also lived here as well. Sorry to see the water gone but still a beautiful place, nice video.
We just did that whole lake loop in April. Went back to BC to visit family/old neighbors. Very sad to see. Thanks for sharing.
Shocking to see the water levels so low. Interesting to see what the fall & winter months will bring. Reality check for certain. Thank you for documenting your travels. Stay safe.
My money's on a continued drought.
Hard to look at. Iam done! Las Vegas will run out electric soon. Let's look at something else. It's like looking at the Biden Amidastration sinking America! We need more positive information. We're out of water in California, God help us! Stop the lake mead disaster. Thanks.
Hey Russ!!! Would like to say thank you for the tours of Lake Mead these days. Just too sad for words. Also, scary situation that we will be in within the next couple months to a year, when it comes to water supply. Keep up the good work and keep the videos rolling. Again big thank you to you for sharing! Alec…
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Thank you for all your wonderful videos!
As a LV resident and former boat owner, This is heartbreaking!! The endless memories on that lake, and each one of these marinas. 🥺😩. Hoping you can stop at Rogers spring on your way to Echo.
Thank you so much for sharing this great tragedy with me. I remember swimming in the lake when it was full.You do a great job filming it . I look forward for each video.
Excellent video quality, and love the casual commentary! Great stuff !
I'm binge watching today, too hot outside, even here in Missouri!
YAY!!!!
Those were great times, memories of 2018
Just a few years back.🤣🤣
The new tunnel under the Lake draining it like bathtub..
It’s absolutely amazing how long people are holding on to the lake and boating. At what point will boaters pack up and do something else with their time? Are there no other lakes anywhere? I swear the water will be so shallow a toddler can stand up in it and they’ll still be boaters trying to get their boat in the puddle.
This is insanity. The money spent on this could be better spent elsewhere. It's going to coast a fortune just to clean up the mess left behind.
You have to remember Lake Mead is the biggest man-made lake in the U.S and even if it's 10% full it's still the size of a small ocean
@@seatime674 Say what? Since when is Lake Mead the largest man made lake? Have you ever heard of Lake Volta or Lake Nasser or by Volume Lake Kariba?
@@hommie789 Meant to say in the United States
@@seatime674 UUMMMM ok but what about Lake Oahe or Lake Sasakawea? Lake Mead is only the largest by Volume but it is quickly losing ground, there are plenty of larger man made lakes in the States and by surface area Lake Mead sits 6th.
Wao.. thanks for sharing the update view from lake mead
How come you don't stay at the Elk's Lodge's anymore? That was such a cool option when you had the trailer.
Thanks Russ
That restaurant on the hill, or whatever it is, that's where the water used to be in the lake's heydays, just outside it. Quite incredible. Saw a photo in a video a while ago.
Nice campground
They used to rent the houseboats at echo bay and Temple bar back in the day. I thought for sure Callville was all but closed by now. Go figure.
It was all you could do to find a beach on the north side of Sandy point when they rented them out of Temple bar. I think the last time I saw a rental in Greggs basin was 2005. We would often see these things heading up past Pearce Ferry back in 83 and 84 when you the river delta was past quartermaster point.
Good stuff as usual Russ, keep up the good work.
Marvelous, 👍😳🎶🤗. Certainly a lot of effort unloading ice. Nice walk but think I'll get trekking poles. Last trip my knees hurt for days. I see all these rv's and remember how miserable we were tent camping. No air conditioning in car either. Death Valley was a real oven . Take care .
Russ you are doing a great job documenting the demise of Lake Mead. Thanks so much for these videos.
WOW! Thanks for sharing. Otherwise I would never see any of this.
Thank you for your great report.. I'm new. And will check daily...
This would have been a good question in 1983!!
Do the Feds actually prohibit people/organizations that would want to dispose of the junk that becomes exposed from doing so? If so, what is the logic behind such a regulation?
This is not a weather problem it is a people problem. When you have more people using water than water coming from the heavens you get this sort of situation.
They need to face reality
It is also a government ineptness and environmental extremist problem.
Thanks
It's very sad to see and I hope that maybe they can get a good ring in the Colorado River can overflow and make this late great again
If I win the Mega Million jackpot tonight, I'm gonna take up a lifestyle like yours. I really enjoy your videos.
Thanks for taking that long, lonely, solo, scary walk!
We manufactured and assembled "Floating Sanitation Facilities" (marine floating toilets) for the National Park Service 14 years ago at Calville Bay. The water level was close to the Marina Store at that time.
I recently viewed our $1.5 million dollars worth of bathrooms beached, vandalized, and stripped, sitting on land where the Park Service left them. Pretty sad.
With a day left, the water level has dropped about 2-1/4" in the past month which likely has been helped a bit by sporadic rains in the region during the past two weeks. Hooray for the little bits of rain (sorry about Vegas flooding) that have fallen in the region.
Back when the dam was built water demand in the area was many times lower than it is now and it took over six years to fill it up.
Every little rain we get is better then no rain at all though .
Sadly it will probably take about 6 months of straight rain to get this back close to the way it was, that is not going to happen so just hope for the best..
Up 1.5" from yesterday due to rain in the region I am happy to say. At least delaying loss for a time.
The only thing that is going to save this lake is about ten years of heavy winter snowfall in the region of the Colorado River headwaters. A few good rains that lead to flooding is only going to buy the lake a little more time but not enough to make much difference. The lake will soon be effectively GONE!
I’m not complaining working over electric oven after your walk out to in July weather! Wow! Tough as nails! Looking forward to campground in fall those tiny palm trees just tickle me to pieces.
Russ gas has dropped to 3.59 a gallon here in central Ohio but diesel is still over 5$ a gallon first time I've ever seen a 2$ difference between gas n diesel
That camphost trailer looked abandoned. I'll bet the electricity has been turned off there too. No one wants to camp there at 115° with no AC. Like you say "maybe in the Fall". The desert is just reclaiming itself. Back to being the Colorado River. Where have you been spending the nights in that heat? Hookups? Please put the date each video was filmed on the description. Thanks Russ for the drive along.
I've been at Lake Mead quite a few times in July & August.
Pretty sure I'd accidentally fall into the water a couple times each afternoon if I was out in the sun on those barges moving stuff around all day! ;-)
Thanks for yet another fantastic video, Russ!
Well, Russ, they were still watering their lawns while Rome burned.
Still sad to see what’s happened; it’s not like the officials in charge didn’t have warning 20 years ago. 😎😎😎😎👌👌👍👍👍
Nice coverage Russ. Well when and if the water comes back the boat launch will be ready to go. Russ when you were up at the hotel restaurant and you were standing by that red hose with all those big rocks how far down do you think the Highwater mark is from that point it would be neat if you could tell us that if you ever go back to Lake Mead.
Mother nature is reclaiming her land.
I seen a video of another lady at the same place you're at a couple weeks ago and that golf cart is a free shuttle for people like you and me it's over 60 so we don't get wore out and we do business at their Marina the lady offering a golf cart is a sweetheart
Well am in Minnesota and we have a severe drought going on, rains and then drys up right afterwards ,but at least when I camp still have brush and trees,and some grass.
well glad to see its still open if the mobile homes are losing value then just maybe i can buy one now !!!!! i love that lake !!!!!
Wow beautiful video keep it up
From the brief drone footage you can see the massive marina literally barely floating in a puddle of water. Is there any room to push the marina out farther into the lake when an island is rising out of the water preventing everything but narrow structures from becoming landlocked?
Love watching your videos Russ.
Thanks very interesting
I was there last November and that RV park was full! The entire thing is so depressing.
They must have a ton of money to keep this going. Kind of like going down with the ship.
We all paying for it
I bet that's a process moving all that stuff down every time the water drops They would be interesting to see the process
That does not look the sort of campsite that I would pay money to stay at. Or even for free, come to that. Great filming and commentary. Thank you.
That's what lasvegas is going to look like soon
that area where you are with the lake level signs was as busy as a beehive even in July 2022. now it also is closed.
In 10 years or so there will be housing where Lake Mead once was.
No they won't, You need water to live there is gonna be no water there
@@johnjaco5544 and also no electricity. It'll be like it was a hundred fifty years ago
No all the assholes in LA will move to Texas ans ruin it just like they did LA. Than this country will go completely socialist and be in in bankrupt ruins like post-WW2 Germany. The difference is their won't be another country to save us. The last of the free world will be gone and we will be speaking Chinese.
They poured some nice concrete hiking trails for the curious in the future
Was this video taken before the torrential downfalls and flash flooding in the area?
Las Vegas under water? Are you seeing heavy rains?
love your videos hope you write a book about your adventures
That water was dropping fast, considering the total surface area, weird ! I wonder if anyone has looked at the 22 years prior to year 2000, etc, etc…..for comparison, in relation to whatever ? something weird 🤦🏻♂️! Seems in time, all the campground ,restaurant area, will dry completely up 😢! Thanks Russ. 👍🏻
Now now the most critical thing on a boat is beer and ice hell with the food
Is there nothing they can do to add more water to this lake? I feel like everyone has given up on trying
"They" cannot do anything. Everybody has to save water and take climate change serious. That would be a start.
If it was bad as the news says, wouldn't they be moving the boats out of lake? Or would it be easier to take them out with it dry?
There is still enough lake to sail around on. I assume that some people rent dock space, so they keep their boats there. Also some boat owners don't have a place to take their boat. They would either have to take it back to their house or store it in lot. This is especially true for house boats.
Wow that boat harbor will probably be high and dry in 1-3 months amazing video
Where's your e bike? Be nice going up the ramps with it
What will happen to the marina when the lake goes completely dry? Will it be moved. So sad!
if you own a houseboat on lake mead... oh boy.
why would you even want to live ontop of a twin volcanic complex, during an age of increasing vulcanism, has got me scratching my head.
it is what it is.
“Aren’t those houseboats impressive?” soon to be replaced by “Aren’t those house’s impressive?”😆😆😆
l see monsoon flooding in sin city last night on my news feed, curious to know how this changes things
Glad we did all our House Boat ? WAKEBOARDING trips to MEAD while it was FALT/BUTTER & FULL!!! Same with Powell , even though it's higher in WATER Levels but still NOT the Same :)
I love the I Did That Biden Sticker on the 2021 sign! Ha!
It will be nice to see them clean up all the junk and jackhammer up all the concrete that used to be boat ramps.
Thank heaven you can get ice, you need a cold drink out there.
Put the lake back in the river! I know there's lots of gold there, lots of gold!!We use those plastic wheel barrels to put our fish in to take them to the cleaning table.
It would take YEARS of above average rainfall and snowfall to even begin to make a dent in this. I hope the people who live there are ready for what is coming their way.
Well they had all that rain in Las Vegas so maybe it will fill back up.
I've been watching all these videos, what I don't understand is all the building going on, light posts, historical signs at the town that has come back to life, roads, even some structures, all were it used to be 80+ feet high, are they not expecting for Lake Mead to ever get back to levels it used to be. I'm from Florida but I have been to Lake Mead / Hoover Dam three times in my life, so I'm at a loss.
Be safe Russ looks hot out there 🥵😎
Other than a few workers, the marina looks abandoned. Pretty sad state of affairs
It also looks like if it lowers another couple feet, the entire marina will either be cut off, standing in its own pool, or will have to be moved a quarter mile to get past the cutoff
Haha! Love the sticker with Dementia Joe on the water level sign pointing and bragging about his failures:
"I did that!"
WOW ice machines at the lake who woulda thunk in NEVADA good way to make money that's better than fuel