Hey guys.... back to some more videos of my recent trip out west to California and Arizona. Now we visit the site of the Battle of Palen Pass near Blythe, California. I visited this place on my previous trip but wanted to explore it some more. I will be posting many more videos from this area soon. I really want to bet back out there. It is so much fun!
My dad spent some time in North Africa during WW2 with the Texas National Guard, 36th Division, 143rd Infantry, Company D. He was a mortar platoon sergeant and he also made the beach landing at Salerno, Italy. I used to go to the yearly gatherings with him and his 36th Division buddies and it was always a learning experience.
That rock you picked up at the end is a concretion! It was formed by minerals and sediment compacting and surrounding organic matter in a wet environment. Over time, the minerals form layers around the nucleus of the concretion and makes that very appealing concentric texture. This was likely formed millions of years ago when the area you were in was under water.
Really enjoy these videos from the desert. I have fond memories of my granddad telling me about his time stationed in Tripoli, North Africa. My deepest gratitude goes out to everyone who served in the forces. Your videos are such an inspiration, your life is one long adventure and it's giving me the motivation to get out and live my life to the fullest now I no longer use drugs. Thanks for all your hard work 👍🇬🇧
I love your videos that you take from out west. I’ve never been to a desert born and raised within 10 miles of where I sit right now. Fifth generation living in this area. Someday I hope to go see a desert. In your videos the stark beauty of everything is incredible.
When I lived in Ft.Mohave Az. It was believed that Patton trained across the river on the California/Nevada side we use to find metal mesh leftover from targets that were towed behind the planes and the guys on the ground would shoot at them
Lot of those towed target banners around the el paso area, they are copper mesh and can be worth picking up. There where also towed target sleeves among many other towed targets like gliders
Hi Chigg! Great video... stunning views...most of all ...solitude...! The rock you found is a shellfish fossil.. .a clam, mollusk maybe ...millions of years old. When an inland sea covered ALL the area of now desert. ..
So educational and interesting thank you! How fascinating that General Patton knew North Africa would be the first assault and trained his soldiers out there in the empty desert! VERY interesting ! Those practice trenches sure were shallow but hard work digging. Foxhole was quite clear !
That's my old stomping grounds,I lived out there in the 1970's,went to school in Blythe Ca, smoke tree valley,mid-way well area ,I'm glad to see that you run around out there ,Those are old tank track's, for sure.I found some good things out there when I went exploring.I lived at number 2 smoke tree ln.Don Moore homestead
That’s cool that you can see this area on your phone. It’s quite the area for all that activity in the past from the soldiers. That rock looked like an igneous rock and when still forming it rolled, but that’s my guess.
Chigg I will share with you he also was in Italy Alexandra bay in Egypt , I have some photos here of Messerschmitt 109 in the desert grave yard , thanks for sharing appreciated
Hey Chigg; Was stationed in a sandy beach area in Nam just a few miles south of the DMZ. Qua Viet, 3rd Marines, 1st tracks. All our vehicles, jeeps and trucks, drove in the dry beach sand by letting most of the air out of the tires so they ballooned out a little bit. Just in case you get stuck brother! Aloha! Maybe polish that dino egg?
80 years mate, they fill up about 2 inches per year. The area was also rehabilitated after the war. The Corps of Engineers went out there and cleaned up.
13:38 that's a volcanic b0mb. Basically, semi molten lava that was ejected from a vent and shaped during its flight. Going by how egg shaped that one is, this means that thing flew a long, long while OR was part of the first layer of lava that was in the vent and was almost solid on top, and was blown (tho i lean for the first one). That's SUPER cool to find. 13:45 those round rocks just above the one in your hand are probably the same. The square ish blocks are part of a solidified volcanic plain that got fragmented.
Good evening chigg , very interesting video , what a vast area they trained in ,I bet it was scary for these men , practicing going to war in a foreign land ,my father was in North Africa in bomber command he was a rear gunner in Lancaster,he went to North Africa , to keep a eye on Rommel the German tank commando the 7th Panzer Division desert fox , very emotional for me thanks for sharing your video's about these brave men,
Glad you enjoyed it. My dad was in the Air Corps himself and campaigned in N.A., Sicily, Italy and the Rhineland although I do not know if he trained out here, but he probably did.
I wonder if those shallow trenches are meant for ambush. They are out in the middle of no where, laying down is all you have. Would help shield flying debris, too. Anyway lol thank you for the content!
I think the shallow trenches might've been only a feature, rather than functional trenches, no point in expending energy to make actual trenches when they're not actually fighting. Possibly (and i'm saying this because there's period correct pictures of these online) they were rock and sand bags trenches, with the sand bags long gone... buuut that's a stretch on account of not even a lick of sand being on the ground... Regardless, real trenches wouldn't be any higher than what these are, they'd just be dug deeper into the ground, so from the perspective of a tank, or infantry, those would be proper height trenches. Just my two cents. Online one can find various war game type fake emplacements used in Europe before and after ww2. In some of those, they aren't even dug, they're just mounds and dirt lines.
Great area. You saying you encounter these rattlers now in winter? Always have my wits about when I’m out there but figured I could get a snake break mid winter.
Im not sure id be able identify a meteor if i saw one. Quite valuable too.! Metal ones are usually quite magnetic . I might mistake a hot rock for one. Dense and bubbly on outside i read. I havent found one yet that i know of ! Anyway great video and thanks.
When you come back to AZ let me know, I can provide overwatch for your field expedition, a little battlesights zero from atop the pickup? Happy New Year Chigg
You again missed the concrete pillboxes there. The E-W "line" across the valley is a 6-8 foot high berm made of dirt and cut down trees. Almost no artifacts. Many fighting trenches exist south of that berm. Some portions of the barbed wire fences have empty metal cans attached. A small rock place inside the can acted as an alarm if an invader rattled it.
I can't find everything on my own right away, but do enjoy looking for new things. It's a big area for someone on their own to explore in such a short time. I do have some video coming up with cans and rocks on barbed wire.
@@aquachigger The large wash in that valley north where the main road crosses it has the remnants of several sandbag bunkers in the small side washes. There also used to be concrete "dragon's teeth" in the wash a half mile above the crossing. It had soldier's names and dates in the concrete. A 2006 flash flood took them away and buried them.
Why aren't people forced to restore the terrain from the damage they cause? The military should have at least removed the barbed wire, tin cans and rebar, all potential hazards to local wildlife... and the mines should have all been filled in and any toxic chemicals - like arsenic - removed, as part of the cost of doing business on public lands. It really angers me to see the scars and junk dumped into these formerly beautiful wild places.
Doing what I’d love to do. I go on Google earth and explore that way all the time never leaving my home. Having a wife that’s working a house and a dog keeps me here. Send a picture of that rock to Jeff Williams. He’ll have an answer for you. Might need to do a subscriber caravan one time. Some folks and their 4x4s out exploring doing some walks. Fireside chats.
Hey guys.... back to some more videos of my recent trip out west to California and Arizona. Now we visit the site of the Battle of Palen Pass near Blythe, California. I visited this place on my previous trip but wanted to explore it some more. I will be posting many more videos from this area soon. I really want to bet back out there. It is so much fun!
Iron concretion is what that rock was.
Love your channel brother! Please keep them coming as I learn something in every video.
My dad spent some time in North Africa during WW2 with the Texas National Guard, 36th Division, 143rd Infantry, Company D. He was a mortar platoon sergeant and he also made the beach landing at Salerno, Italy. I used to go to the yearly gatherings with him and his 36th Division buddies and it was always a learning experience.
You need another drone, the DJI Mini 3, that way you won't run into anything...hehe ;)
Thanks for sharing yourself with all your fans ! 😊
That rock you picked up at the end is a concretion! It was formed by minerals and sediment compacting and surrounding organic matter in a wet environment. Over time, the minerals form layers around the nucleus of the concretion and makes that very appealing concentric texture. This was likely formed millions of years ago when the area you were in was under water.
Really enjoy these videos from the desert. I have fond memories of my granddad telling me about his time stationed in Tripoli, North Africa. My deepest gratitude goes out to everyone who served in the forces. Your videos are such an inspiration, your life is one long adventure and it's giving me the motivation to get out and live my life to the fullest now I no longer use drugs. Thanks for all your hard work 👍🇬🇧
Happy to hear that and thanks.
Love the history lessons in your videos 👍
I love your videos that you take from out west. I’ve never been to a desert born and raised within 10 miles of where I sit right now. Fifth generation living in this area. Someday I hope to go see a desert. In your videos the stark beauty of everything is incredible.
Thanks Chigg 🤘😎
Thanks so much. Happy to know you enjoy my videos!
Good one Chigg!! Much appreciated....much enjoyed!
Glad you enjoyed it
I appreciate that you’re taking us along on another great adventure 👍
Thanx Chigg for another great AQUACHIGGER ADVENTURE
Love seeing your WWII relics you have over there Chigg! would love to see more!
Hang on.... more to folow!
I have been waiting for you to return here after your last trip west! Thanks @aquachigger !
When I lived in Ft.Mohave Az. It was believed that Patton trained across the river on the California/Nevada side we use to find metal mesh leftover from targets that were towed behind the planes and the guys on the ground would shoot at them
I'd believe that. Apparently there were all over out there.
Lot of those towed target banners around the el paso area, they are copper mesh and can be worth picking up. There where also towed target sleeves among many other towed targets like gliders
Love the out west videos.
Hi Chigg! Great video... stunning views...most of all ...solitude...! The rock you found is a shellfish fossil.. .a clam, mollusk maybe ...millions of years old. When an inland sea covered ALL the area of now desert. ..
You should have your own podcast, I bet you have some of the best stories from making these videos
thanks for another fine adventure!!
Great video! I can't wait to visit one day
Thank you !
This was a very cool video.
So educational and interesting thank you! How fascinating that General Patton knew North Africa would be the first assault and trained his soldiers out there in the empty desert! VERY interesting ! Those practice trenches sure were shallow but hard work digging. Foxhole was quite clear !
Thanks for the tour chigg
Puts history into perspective for sure. Enjoyed
Got my desert training at 29 Palms Marine Corp Base as a Navy Seabee in the 80's
Very close by.
Thanks Beau for your wonderful videos!👍
That's my old stomping grounds,I lived out there in the 1970's,went to school in Blythe Ca, smoke tree valley,mid-way well area ,I'm glad to see that you run around out there ,Those are old tank track's, for sure.I found some good things out there when I went exploring.I lived at number 2 smoke tree ln.Don Moore homestead
Awesome day chigger 👍
I can’t stop watching your videos! 😊
That was AWESOME FUN!!!
We go out there quite often. You missed all the concrete bunkers. There all over out there. We’ve found about 12 so far.
I love your adventures they are really unique and awesome.
Great video, thanks for sharing.
That’s cool that you can see this area on your phone.
It’s quite the area for all that activity in the past from the soldiers.
That rock looked like an igneous rock and when still forming it rolled, but that’s my guess.
Chigg I will share with you he also was in Italy Alexandra bay in Egypt , I have some photos here of Messerschmitt 109 in the desert grave yard , thanks for sharing appreciated
Cool. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Chigg, looks like fun out there 😄
so cool to see the ww2 training grounds. i wonder if the piled up rock is a buried latrine?
Shazam ! "Patton Valley" , North America has a little taste of every environment , from ice to beach . Truly blessed by the Lord .
I love all the vids but love the metal detector videos!!!!! Keep them comin.
looks like Needles area. Thanks for the video !
Blyth, Ca. It all looks the same around there...lol.
You should do a "Lewis and Clark drive" trip someday.
have found 50 cal rounds with 41 and 32 headstamps plus 6.5 ounce dr. pepper 4-10 bottles near cadiz lake. great video.
Hey Chigg; Was stationed in a sandy beach area in Nam just a few miles south of the DMZ. Qua Viet, 3rd Marines, 1st tracks. All our vehicles, jeeps and trucks, drove in the dry beach sand by letting most of the air out of the tires so they ballooned out a little bit. Just in case you get stuck brother! Aloha! Maybe polish that dino egg?
Is that an euphemism...lol. That's good advice about the air. I did learn that trick on the beaches of Cape Cod many moons ago.
@@aquachigger By the way, Claymores are at least 4 times that surface, maybe an inch thick and have a curved face.
I know. I was Army Infantry.
Interesting exploration!
80 years mate, they fill up about 2 inches per year. The area was also rehabilitated after the war. The Corps of Engineers went out there and cleaned up.
You saying those trenches were 13 feet deep when they were dug by hand? They are only 24/36 inches across.
Cross cultural error, I meant 2cm
Thanks.
Nice one
Love your videos. What kind of camera are you using?
13:38 that's a volcanic b0mb. Basically, semi molten lava that was ejected from a vent and shaped during its flight. Going by how egg shaped that one is, this means that thing flew a long, long while OR was part of the first layer of lava that was in the vent and was almost solid on top, and was blown (tho i lean for the first one). That's SUPER cool to find.
13:45 those round rocks just above the one in your hand are probably the same. The square ish blocks are part of a solidified volcanic plain that got fragmented.
Love the videos but I wana see your rig set up. That in cab angle has me interested.
Made it... Good evening from Southeast South Dakota
Pretty Awesome! who knew.✌️
Good evening chigg , very interesting video , what a vast area they trained in ,I bet it was scary for these men , practicing going to war in a foreign land ,my father was in North Africa in bomber command he was a rear gunner in Lancaster,he went to North Africa , to keep a eye on Rommel the German tank commando the 7th Panzer Division desert fox , very emotional for me thanks for sharing your video's about these brave men,
Glad you enjoyed it. My dad was in the Air Corps himself and campaigned in N.A., Sicily, Italy and the Rhineland although I do not know if he trained out here, but he probably did.
Gotta wonder what's underneath that mound with the rocks on it ... 🤔🧐
Gotta wonder....
I wonder if those shallow trenches are meant for ambush. They are out in the middle of no where, laying down is all you have. Would help shield flying debris, too. Anyway lol thank you for the content!
Maybe the trenches were shallow because they only put dummies in them for the tanks to spot from a distance.
I think the shallow trenches might've been only a feature, rather than functional trenches, no point in expending energy to make actual trenches when they're not actually fighting. Possibly (and i'm saying this because there's period correct pictures of these online) they were rock and sand bags trenches, with the sand bags long gone... buuut that's a stretch on account of not even a lick of sand being on the ground...
Regardless, real trenches wouldn't be any higher than what these are, they'd just be dug deeper into the ground, so from the perspective of a tank, or infantry, those would be proper height trenches.
Just my two cents. Online one can find various war game type fake emplacements used in Europe before and after ww2. In some of those, they aren't even dug, they're just mounds and dirt lines.
Great area. You saying you encounter these rattlers now in winter? Always have my wits about when I’m out there but figured I could get a snake break mid winter.
Im not sure id be able identify a meteor if i saw one. Quite valuable too.! Metal ones are usually quite magnetic . I might mistake a hot rock for one. Dense and bubbly on outside i read. I havent found one yet that i know of ! Anyway great video and thanks.
When you come back to AZ let me know, I can provide overwatch for your field expedition, a little battlesights zero from atop the pickup? Happy New Year Chigg
Happy New Year.
The circles are not tank tracks, those are areal targets
Poor shots then.
I miss watching your videos
Glad you're here.
Plenty of old videos g
He has done. They are fun too.
Its a Dyno Turd, Chigg.
Back to the desert! Hard to keep up!
I know, I don't have a hired crew to film and edit. I do everything on my own so get behind some times.
13:47 doesnt look like petrified wood?
It seemed very soft, unlike the other p. wood I have seen out there.
13;45=DINOSAUR EGG!GREAT FIND!
Remains of a broke open concretion.
Looks like a thunder egg, like an agatt formed as a bubble
You again missed the concrete pillboxes there. The E-W "line" across the valley is a 6-8 foot high berm made of dirt and cut down trees. Almost no artifacts. Many fighting trenches exist south of that berm. Some portions of the barbed wire fences have empty metal cans attached. A small rock place inside the can acted as an alarm if an invader rattled it.
I can't find everything on my own right away, but do enjoy looking for new things. It's a big area for someone on their own to explore in such a short time. I do have some video coming up with cans and rocks on barbed wire.
@@aquachigger The large wash in that valley north where the main road crosses it has the remnants of several sandbag bunkers in the small side washes. There also used to be concrete "dragon's teeth" in the wash a half mile above the crossing. It had soldier's names and dates in the concrete. A 2006 flash flood took them away and buried them.
Did you fix your windshield yet?
I did. I was an ordeal.
We dug 5.5 inch guns into the side of a ridge, it was fun,
Hmmm... care to share the site?
Alien 👽 Eggbert !!!; )
13:37 Baby dinosaur ? Might be a petrified pickled dodo egg.
Early stages of a geode.
Why aren't people forced to restore the terrain from the damage they cause? The military should have at least removed the barbed wire, tin cans and rebar, all potential hazards to local wildlife... and the mines should have all been filled in and any toxic chemicals - like arsenic - removed, as part of the cost of doing business on public lands. It really angers me to see the scars and junk dumped into these formerly beautiful wild places.
I think we were more worried about winning the war at the time, although as I understand it, the area was policed on several occasions.
@@aquachigger Sure - at the time it was necessary. But WWII ended 77 years ago.
My Dad trained there in 1943.
I spent some quality time in the mojove desert
And incredibly, the Germans were on the backsides of those mountains with artillery pre sighted and with observers hidden away watching and reporting.
I only work on you tube only !!!
Looks like water trenches to me. To control flash floods
concentric circles mean geode.
Howdy
Close!
@@aquachigger ha! Must be the cold.
That last rock looked like an Egg?
Hey Chigg and if anybody is with you Hey
Mohave Chigg, a wobble kitten and old Fiona. How could you go wrong with that? Much obliged.
My grandfather trained out there. He served in N Africa under Patton
what is wrong with your camera? the videos are distorted
😎👍✌
Doing what I’d love to do. I go on Google earth and explore that way all the time never leaving my home. Having a wife that’s working a house and a dog keeps me here.
Send a picture of that rock to Jeff Williams. He’ll have an answer for you.
Might need to do a subscriber caravan one time. Some folks and their 4x4s out exploring doing some walks. Fireside chats.
Sounds like a plan. Thanks
🌵🌵🌵🌵☀️👍⭐️
Maybe they'll bring it back for ww3! Which has started currently!!
Obviously Chig has never seen a claymore💣
Glad you didn’t get bit
Me too!
@@aquachigger I use to live in la Mesa texas LOL snakes are where you don’t think they are cut one up with the fan didn’t know it was there
Dinosaur egg fossil..
Remains of a broke open concretion.
1st
Looked like a fossilized egg.
desert stuff is kinda boring - I want cave stuff
This guy used to find decent stuff, now its like a show for children to get views to up the youtube money…