Very glad to see that your approach to all of these sites is gentle and respectful. That and your calm demeanor are a rarity in the YT world. Thanks for your humility and curiosity.
Pete again, And one more thing, My gut feeling is the ancient Pueblo peoples who built these homes and granaries would be honored to have a man like you visiting them. • You respect their work, skills & craft. • You respect the hard life they had out there farming in a rock pile. • In telling their story we come to know them, remember them and thus honor them. Personally I have developed a profound respect for them thanks to the videos you and a couple other men like you are producing. Thank you
@ftldontquit4Every human that ever lived was a colonist. Most didn't let those they conquered survive, but western, Christian Europeans did . You lost.... ,get over it .
@ftldontquit4 What did the Hawaiians do to the people before them? Who did the Sioux take the Black Hills from? How did the Bushmen like being taken over by the Bantu? I hope you grow up someday...until then, shush your mouth when adults are talking!
They would have robbed him of his Thai Chicken Peanut Curry and freeze dried meals, for sure. I'd love to switch the world's electricity supply off, to see how modern generations could cope with lifestyles like those of only 200 - 100 years ago, when 1:3 - 1:4 of all children under the age of 5 died annually. Wot! No TikTok?
I am a rancher in SW Texas, and working on 82 years of youth. My family lived on a ranch 14 miles north of Crownpoint, McKinley County, New Mexico. We were there in the forties and fifties, until 1955 when Dad sold the ranch to the Navajo Nation, pow wows being held at the Big Room, Window Rock, Az. My dad was a lifelong rancher, but was an archeologist and anthropologist. An ancient Pueblo village of pueblos had once thrived only 209 meters to the south of our house and pens. Your videos are the best educational tool of discovery and understanding of the ancient Anasazi. My father would have appreciated your educated dialogue and your understanding and bequests for all those who venture into these ancient riparian canyons. Those who follow your footsteps and explore the shelters must leave them as they are! Look, enjoy, even touch, but leave for the next visitor. Take pictures not artifacts. A very long drought meant peaceful puebloans who farmed for centuries became famished with failing crops and lack of water. Research proves that some turned to theft, cannibalism, and forced families to shelter in the cliffs. Foraging through gathering and hunting took the place of the old ways. Defensive impenetrable walls in high places protected family groups of various sizes to survive, often migrating from Winter south facing shelters to summer jokes facing north away from the hot sun. I thank you and pray you will continue your treks and your teachings🙏
This comment, was helpful in understanding why they were building up in the rock face. It didn't make sense to me at first, because if it was due to wildlife, we humans tend to just hunt it and eat it, wear it's pelt, etc; normally. Not always of course, but normally. I figured it also likely isn't going to be due to snakes or smaller critters, because those can climb up or fall down rock faces too to some extent or another. There would be more raised beds and stuff like what you see in jungles or swamps as I understand, where the critters are a much larger problem... as I understand. Or the cold during the night. A fire can be used to combat that. And way back then, we certainly weren't as concerned about burning some wood due to pollution. Also, we humans of today are much less conditioned to the elements like we would have been back then. Today, most people can barely stand being in any temperature range above or below 23c without tossing on extra layers, or removing them. (It's quite pathetic, really.) But when considering the human aspect of cannibalism and infighting, then it makes a heck of a lot more sense. Those rock faces and hills of stone fallen down from above, definitely make it a lot harder to make any sort of attack on those buildings with the kind of tools and weapons they would have had back then. And it's not like the residents would be short on heavy stones to toss down as a defence. Slings and arrows would be heavily advantaged at that height as well. Finally, the part about the winter and summer facing homes, makes some sense as well. Might as well make the best of things with what you have, of course. But again, the fighting and cannibalism makes the most sense.
I am a 75 yr old great grandmother from Liverpool up North in U K, now living in perth W A. I realy enjoyed your journey and love the respect you show to the ruins thank you for sharing your video, the scenery is beautiful, we love the native way of life that was in the past.
Hey! I have an Aunt from Liverpool, UK that moved to Perth, Australia and has now moved to Southeast Texas! My parents emigrated to Texas from Scouseland in 1954.
I grew up in the Mojave desert. I no longer live there. Your quiet video took me back home to the desert I love and all its beauty. Thank you for the journey.
EXACTLY! I'm in a similar position! Still hike and explore in my dreams. Only time I get away from my wheelchair, but thank God for folks like these adventurous ones!!
OLD TEEPEE RINGS STILL IN THE MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE UP ABOUT 11 THOUS FEET CAVES WITH BUFFALO DRAWN ON WALLS AND BEDS METEL AND STOVE IN A MOUNTAIN BUILT IN THE WALL HOUSE CRAZY AND ANT HOUSES YOU CAN SEE FROM AIRPLANES
@@johnmarkcarsonjr1848 nope i am lucky to have found this guy to do it all for me. i couldnt stand the sun and heat. i would be nervous about wildlife and not sleep. and even in my youth i couldnt climb as well. it cant get any better than watching it on my computer, thankyou mr drifter!
You are exploring my childhood these past few months! I’m too old to do any hiking these days, but man, I’m enjoying your videos! The camera just doesn’t do the views justice. But they ARE beautiful.
@@Desert.Drifter, the wild west the land of my birth. What do you use to charge your gear while out on these camp hikes? Love your work and i do understand the edge of life and death you put yourself everytime you venture out into nature. It can be a very unforgiving place on the plane.
@@Desert.Drifter Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, NC, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and Washington. Favorite job was in Yellowstone working for the Museum of the Rockies at Montana state back in 1995. Also Grey Fossil site and Museum in Tennessee. Museum of science and industry MOSI in Tampa. Pensacola Archaeology Lab. Burke Museum in Seattle. I’m about to head down to your neck of the desert and wander about. . I’m currently in north Idaho and looking for a change of scenery.
Your videos are helping my depression….you’re so right about being in solitude. It forces you to be present in the moment with that natural focus we are all capable of. I found myself in tears for much of this video and I’m truly grateful that for a moment I was looking at the world with a childlike enthusiasm I had stored away a long time ago…. Love and Light ❤
Im 61 When ibwas a kid i had hopi classmates that took me to old ruins and we explored a few. I'm glad we didn't damage anything. Its nice that you go close up to the ruins but are careful not to destroy anything. Takes me back toba good time in my childhood. Thank you
Hi you are so lucky to have that experience as a boy I live in England where we dont have these untouched ruins or wilderness to visit a few years ago I cycled the Rockies with a friend its left me longing for these surroundings
@@lordvader3538 You would love it mate, I live here and find new things to explore every weekend, old mines, stone circles, military sites,abandoned victorian engineering, we also have areas where the wilderness is expansive, you could walk for hours and not see a soul depending on where you go, just not as ' out there ' as the USA obviously.
Dude, you get so many nice compliments on both your explorations and on the high quality of your story telling skills. EVERYBODY LOVES YOU DUDE! Take a moment and let that sink in. Respectfully, Pete
Thank you Pete, I genuinely needed to hear that today. Thanks for the support. The saying, "you're your own toughest critic" is definitely true for me. It's a blessing and a curse, maybe more of a curse. I appreciate you
I never reply, but if you need it here, it is. Very good content presentation...shit I like it all with one exception. Not going threw that second doorway that time. That was crap in my opinion. What do you want? There's always room for improvement. But it's as good as any I've watched. Thanks. You should take me with you. I am 5'6, and I can squeeze right in that second door
It is the curse of the true artist to be overly self critical. It is how one either has great outcomes or (?)* * I'll leave it there for one to speculate as I look for me 'Bloody Ear' @@Desert.Drifter
I love the fact that you like to take these long tracks out into the desert and whatever. I can no longer do things like this because I'm 75 years of age with bad legs but thank you for taking me along. It is truly beautiful and some of the views are absolutely breathtaking!
Kia ora & im another kiwi watching as I have just subscribbed 2days ago and I love the history behind these stories so interesting and I'd love to climb up to those ruins. Thank you amazing
Didn’t know wood could even last 800 years virtually unchanged. Wild. Thanks for sharing, I’ve got chronic back pain so this is out of reach for me. Getting to see this vicariously is awesome
Probably because it's such a dry climate. I grew up in northeastern California near the edge of the mountains and the high desert. Now I live/work over on the northwest side of the state. I've noticed due to the climate being wetter on the west side, old structures/wood doesn't last as long and decomposes alot quicker compared to old abandoned stuff I've seen on the east side where it's a dryer climate.
That’s the thing. I don’t believe it can. So I’m not buying the narrative that these are “ancient” remains of people from hundreds and thousands of years ago.
Great video. So many people don't understand the rugged beauty of the American Southwest. I live in Apache county Arizona between the Apache to the south, Navajo to the due North and Zuni Pueblo to the Northeast. My 40 acres ranch is 6 miles from New Mexico and 7300 ft up. I wouldn't change the life I have here for anything else of worldly value. I have found Arrowheads and small pieces of Anazazi pottery plus all the petroglyphs. People from well over 1000 years ago left these beautiful messages for us... To them the future. I absolutely love eastern Arizona and western New Mexico.
I grew up in Phoenix. Every weekend during my childhood my parents would take us to a different, historic site or place of natural beauty throughout the state.
I'm a Land Surveyor...and I definitely appreciate the quad map...topo views...as well as the aerials... you're living the Dream buddy....stay Safe! And I'll be a long for the Journey! Thank you!!
Thank you for taking this 55 year old woman from Australia with you. I lived in the States for years and camped around Vermont, upstate New York, i would love to get to explore where you are someday. So inspiring.
You are my legs.. I m old ,can’t hike anymore. Thank you for taking me along man! I enjoy you and your adventures. Be blessed. And careful my friend! 💙🇺🇸👍🏽
I'm In the same boat ,I had two strokes last year I'm 63 its a game changer ,they were mild still can drive my typing is better have to learn how to do some things again.
@@backagain5216 Thanks Backagain, Im going to try to go to mono lake and look at petroglyphs and take In some fishing and drive up thru Yosemite and go down 395 south....
I just want to thank you, I am a Australian and Inlove the history of the world but America has Amazing history and because of your effort I get to see some of it, the canyons blow me away and how some of these homes are but are beyond belief, However if it wasn’t for yourself and others like you People like myself would never know. So again a big big Thankyou, much respect Andy. Perth Australia
I am really happy I found your channel. I am 68 and have not traveled alot. I watch U Tube for my different adventures. Thanks for people like you to post video's for us to see things like this that we don't normally get to see. I love seeing these places. I wonder how they got up to some of these places. It amazes me. ❤ thanks !
Wow, What beautiful country. The ruins are amazing. My stomach drops a little when you stand on those ledges. I enjoy your videos so much.. Thanks for taking me along.
I want to thank you for producing this RUclips channel of all of the hikes that you take within the southwest. At my age, I’m not able to get out anymore to hike those trails. And especially since I lost my wife three years ago. We used to love to look at the ancient ruins and camp out wild, exploring the ruins in the canyons and the beautiful rock formations. Watching your videos, brings back a lot of fun, memories and showing places that we never seen. Again, I just want to give you a thanks for sharing your experience and your knowledge the RUclips videos that you produce. I really appreciate them.
Honestly brother, if i knew where you were, id prolly go off grid. Youd be finding me building my own hut on a mountain. Im only in maine to care for my elderly mother, and give my 3/13 year old pups a place to chill and retire. Once theyre not here, im going to the desert. Its so beautiful. I owned land in nm, but had to sell it for funding the 3000 mile bicycle ride with the dogs. It took us 4 months. Anyways. Your an artist. Thanks for the documentaries you do. They are on another level, and no other channel compares
Not New Mexico, maybe Utah is possible. But yes to Arizona. I was born and raised in the Southwest US. My Dad built High Pressure gas pipelines all over that country for almost 40 years, before and after WW2. @@JeffBrazeel-fe4wc
SensiProduction you are amazing yourself! What a wonderful person to put your Mom and dogs before yourself! God bless you and hope in the future you get to go back to the desert and explore. But what you are doing now is awesome and you will look back on this time and be thankful that you did it. God bless you!❤😊
My first time watching this man and his journey. I stumbled across this by chance. You know how you see a person in real life or on video like this and you just click with them and their videos? That’s me with him. What a respectful journey I watched just in this one video. I broke my lower back in two places and my neck. At 43yo I had one of two needed knee replacements. I can’t do this kind of thing anymore, so I have to watch someone else. When he stood at the first little home and turned and looked back at the canyon, to be honest, I wanted to cry or I would have if it were me there. I miss the hiking, the journey and the what’s around the next bend or over the next hill. Thank you for your video it made my day. Your young my friend so never slow down never give up. Be safe
Im an American who has lived in Ireland for nearly 50 years, but I love so many things about the wonders of my Country. Thankyou, Desert Drifter, for bringing me with you on your travels. Great work, thoughtful, respectful and awesome!! RESPECT❤
Stumbled onto your channel. I live in the SW corner of Colorado. I’ve see these dwellings quite often and have ruins that surround the farm here and after all these years they still blow my mind. The farm is still littered with countless pottery shards that have been worked over and over for generations. I still stop and pick up a piece here and there to remind myself how tough they had it back then and what they saw before it was settled. I could talk about it for hours. There were more of them then there are of us now. It’s just mind boggling. Thanks for being respectful to the land.
@Farmer Dan, I did my archaeology field school in Plesant View on Charlie Brougher's farm very near Lowry Pueblo in 1976/77. Do you know the Wilson family from Yellow Jacket?
I took a look at some other people’s work that was a similar theme to yours, but yours was so much better! Your calm and gentle spirit, your reverence and respect, your sense of adventure and wonder, amazing photography, drone footage and great editing-no competition!
I don't get tired of every watching your videos. You personality and voice soothing and fit your exploration perfectly and intelligently. Love the videos and thanks for sharing your passion my friend. Be safe out there. I want to take my 17 year old son. We traveled abroad and seen many places but never to that beautiful part of the country.
Something about those hand prints is just amazing. You can imagine them doing that all those hundreds of years ago, what's happened in all that time, and for you to spot them and share it with the world. Incredible. Kind of emotional. Thank you.
I always hiked with other people and my ex -husband always said " hiking is not a group sport". That is so true because someone always gets tired, knee hurts,ankle hurts ,I gotta get home etc. Plus the loud constant talking is annoying ! And scares animals away. And nobody ever agrees what direction to go in. I living vicariously thru you. I'm 65 now and my back is shot. BUT you're inspiring me to get out to someplace I've not been to and do a little hiking just me the dogs and the old man.
Unless you are like me with crippled feet. It is difficult for me to walk across the room even with my canes. And my feet are not the only limiting factors in my life.@@Anaa2205
Love it when you spend the night and use the indigenous things around you, reminds you that the people in those ruins did the same thing. Alone in the desert at night is definitely an experience you can't explain.
Most people don't understand wanting to be alone in these places. But I do! Thanks for letting me live vicariously through you while I wait out the winter where I am. ❤
Thank you for having us along with you on your adventure. Much appreciated , all you work you do to bring us a video. we appreciate you doing it. thank you.
At the 22:08 mark it almost looks like drawings of humans at the top of the arch. Thank you so much for sharing your adventures with us. I am 66 years old with chronic low back pain so adventures like yours are so wonderful to watch since I am not able to do long hikes or climbing over things anymore. I have only been to the mountains a few times in my life and there is so much to find in these out of the way places. So much ancient history. Again, thank you.
Do you mean the darker figures on the left of the arch, at the top? Looks like 4 figures (one pregnant woman) plus some more shaded in the background and an animal to their left?
I too enjoy camping alone. It keeps me sharp and in tune. Learning what to bring is often vital. Knowledge is the lightest thing that you’ll ever have to carry. Thanks for the awesome exploration. 🙏
Totally enthralling documentation of your hike! I had just said to myself, "I like the way he puts things back exactly where he found them -- lots of people would collect stuff as souvenirs, and there would be nothing left..." and then you cautioned viewers to leave everything in its proper place! Way to go!!! Glad you made it there and back again safely! And many thanks for such a detailed and beautifully photographed account of your adventures! 👍😊
Fantastic scenery and historical places you visit. Thanks for sharing your adventures. I'm there with as you as you hike. I am 88 years old, but I still get out there in Nature and hike and explore. I am looking forward to your next video! Have you ever encountered bears or cougars on your hikes?
Neither of those animals in the southwest. I have seen some bears on hikes further north, in western Wyoming. The mountain lions are definitely around out here, but I've never seen hide nor hair of them
I send my compliments on your videos . I have a huge curiosity about the Southwest, and all that goes with the area and its history . Thanks . 71 years and still standing .
Imagining people living there, children growing up & exploring every square inch of that setting. You know they went to & through that arch. I hope you do at some point, too. Thanks for sharing the adventure.
Love your videos. This was a great one. I treasure my experiences hiking in the Grand Canyon area and red rock areas of southern Utah and north Arizona. So many wonderful things to see. I particularly enjoy the ruins. Fantastic. Thanks!
AWESOME! I so admire your determination. When you paused to contemplate I was chanting, "GO! GO! GO!" and of course you did. Your RESPECT is what is astounding to me. For ALL things you encounter even difficulty. It is this deep & profound ability that I believe can change the entire structure of our "humane" world. To know that this channel is being broadcast everywhere gives me hope. Thank You Brother -
As a professional chef and educator, nice to see you showing how easy it is to cook wholesome, and interesting meals with minimal tools. Just some planning. Forget the high salt “all tastes the same” meals. Great videos. Can’t wait for our next trip to the area from chilly Canada in winter.
Some of the terrain is so fantastic it's almost otherworldly! And do you ever feel like the people who used to live there are somehow still there? With the handprints all over the rock walls and the ruins are EVERYWHERE! I don't think people have any idea but your videos bring that home.
Well yes, the people still live there. The Pueblo people number more than 75,000 and live all throughout the Southwest. They are the direct descendants of people who built these structures.
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Watching this in Finland. Thank u for taking me to places 🙏
Amazing! I wish I was a younger man after seeing these videos. Great work on putting these together. Not only the hiking and climbing to get to these sites, but all the video work to record your journey! It can be so time consuming to get great shots like you have in this video. Thank you for this channel!
Rather you than me, climbing those heights. I feel sick about 3 ft off the ground and as for looking down , ugh! But glad to share these videos because they are so interesting and I learn a lot about where you go and what you see and share.
I'm 72, a native of south central Texas, visited West Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Four Corners, Colorado, Utah countless times since I was 8 years old. My extended family lived in Albuquerque and Chama NM. We traveled to the Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial and throughout the greater region. We all loved the native American arts of Hopi, Pueblo, Navajo and Zuni tribes and learning about the culture. I've visited Grand Canyon (including North Rim) and Mesa Verde several times. It means a lot to be able to visit these places through your videos and reflections. Thank you so much for sharing your experience.
Beautiful shots of the amazing scenery, thanks for sharing. Stay safe, greetings from Alberta, Canada. Really enjoyed all your content you put together.
That’s why we love your channel drifter. You climb and give us great content. A lot of the other channels won’t climb and just show drone footage. Great job.
Really enjoying the added tech you've included to your videos. Not that it was needed... the drone footage and the really nice, not over used music. Thanks. Really enjoying your passion for the wilderness/history and your creativity with the videos.
Thank you Benjamin. I agree that the drone and music has definitely brought things up a notch. I’m wondering if my camera setup is adequate or not. I may play around with some different options. I’m always open to feedback :)
I'm not an expert in production, yet, when content is good, the experience flows. The video looks really good to my eye. It's always possible to get better equipment, but where is the cost/benefit line. One of the signatures of your channel, is the personal experience the viewer has joining you on the exploration. I'm wondering where the line of production and intimacy lands. Probably different for each person. I don't think you're approaching this line, in my opinion. Thanks for sharing your passion.
@@Desert.Drifter be very very aware of wilderness areas and wilderness study areas where drones aren't allowed. I've noticed in a few areas you've flown that are off limits, with the new regulations and RID they are clamping down on enforcing this.
Love what you do man! Wish I could tag along… You have the best attitude and philosophy towards history, respect towards artefacts and ethics for history.
Thank you Andrew, for posting yet another beautiful and interesting video..... what a rough and scenic canyon complex! I want to see the next parts of your three day "jornada".... I am a recent subscriber, and have been enjoying a "Marathon" viewing of all of your videos. What an amazing collection you have amassed! -- Now in my senior years, I have a residence in W. CO, but I have not done the volume of desert hiking, camping, & exploring in E. UT, N. AZ, and N. NM, that I once enjoyed, mostly solo as you too enjoy. My old extended camping "Treks" are just good memory dreams these days! -- A Campfire Meditation: One Item that has ALWAYS PUZZLED me..... now more than ever with the proliferation of "Desert Indian" Videos, etc..... is this: I have noticed that nearly all of the "Broken Potsherds" found lying about are mostly pieces of the SAME nominal size (or very nearly so), and of a common variety in their textures. It has always seemed strange that very few LARGER pieces are ever found..... perhaps most larger pieces have been absconded by archaeologists, disrespectful amateur collectors and hikers over the decades, but it certainly seems there must be some around which the deeper trekking & more active explorers like you should often spot! That said, even if you did find them, you would likely not remark about them, eh?! That and pondering on what the reason Ancient Peoples may have had for breaking their pottery into such UNIFORMLY sized potsherds. In "BOOK OF THE HOPI", I seem to recall that Frank Waters remarked that as Clan conflicts arose and were settled, the dominant Clan would break-up the Pottery and Things made by the inferior Clan, in order to nullify the "Spirit Magic" held by or defined in those Items, and thereby ease the "Absorption" of the inferior Clan into the superior Clan...... Food for thought..... -- In 1972, on one of my own "jornadas" driving through the Hopi Reservation, a stop was made near Second Mesa Pueblo. On a short hike to a rather insignificant hilltop to obtain a better view of the Pueblo, I realized that the ENTIRE HILLTOP, in a radius of 50 to 60 YARDS (at least), was literally covered with Potsherds! ONE COULD NOT TAKE A SINGLE STEP without tromping on at least one or two pieces, so great care was used in watching our steps! It seemed the whole hilltop was geologically formed of the stuff..... and virtually ALL of the Potsherds were of the same nominal sizes with the commonly found variety of textures. We were astounded!! The very same common attributes to the Potsherds found on RUclips Videos these days, except TONS of them in a single location..... perhaps I had inadvertently came across the "Midden Pile" for that Pueblo, although there were NO visible paths or obvious walking trails anywhere to be seen on that hilltop. I had a feeling that we may have entered a "Sacred" and "Off-Limits" site, so we left everything untouched, and beat a hasty retreat down the hill and away, before anyone might confront us. A remarkable Mind-Boggling, experience eh??!
Wow, thanks for sharing all of this with me. I always appreciate hearing from those who have been out across this land for longer than I have. In regards to the potsherds, I don’t have a great answer beyond what you’ve already observed. I will say that I see more larger pieces the more remote I am. It’s not always a given, but I do notice that trend. I assume that’s simply because the larger pieces have attracted more attention over the years and people unfortunately walk off with them. I also see a lot more of the corrugated style. I’ve assumed this is because 1. It was a more common and frequently used style for the Ancients. 2. It doesn’t catch peoples eyes as easily, and therefore isn’t absconded with as often. A more sophisticated answer than these I can’t offer, but I hope to someday with more research and experience. Thank you for watching the videos
Great job with this video. Thank you for teaching your viewers to leave things as they are. As a traveler to the Southwest for 40 years I appreciate what you are doing and how you are doing it. Please continue to do well in every regard.
So beautiful and almost sacred and I just love your appreciation of the things you come across.. A wealth of knowledge as well and many many thanks for sharing..
I love watching your videos. You have such a calm air about you that is so relaxing compared to many other creators. No deserts in the UK but still plenty to explore, just a lot wetter 😂. X
Andrew, I really appreciate your down-to-earth approach to sharing your hiking adventures and finds and I applaud you for your respect of the area and sites while also helping to inform and educate us, your audience. It's obvious to me that you care about these sites, their preservation, and helping others to enjoy and appreciate these treasures in the southwest. Thank you and keep up the great job your doing!
I stumbled across you last night and I instantly loved the way you do videos and the respect you show for the ruins that you find. Instant sub. That drone footage of the arch at the end was fantastic and I am glad you included that after mentioning it before the climb up. It must have been a wonderful thing to wake up to everyday back then. Thanks for taking me along on your journey and I look forward to more.
Another incredible video! Thank you so much for sharing these insightful journeys with us! Please be careful out there alone!! I had been grateful on more than one occasion having a hiking companion with me during explorations throughout Arizona years ago. Regardless how prepared and experienced you are, things can happen unexpectedly! Also, thank you for the respect you exhibit to the culture, peoples, land, artifacts, wildlife, etc.! A wonderful example you set and it is greatly appreciated!
Not typical but real beauty in that area. Thanks for bringing us along. The rocks, cliffs, snakes, spiders, scorpions would keep me wary from visiting. Really admire your venturous side.👍
I really enjoy you doing the canyon i get to see it it's so beautiful. I will never be able to walk-on it's dirt track's ur go to the country. Man you enjoy doing it and so do all of us subscribers enjoy watching it.
Loving these , thank you. Being from Australia i am amazed at the lack of snakes, spiders, ants, centipedes, either being found when you are walking through or when you stop and i see you put food down on the ground while you are eating ... totally different here ... really majestic country and powerful art and the constructions you show are awesome oh and where are the flies
What an astounding place. So beautiful it just captures the heart and mind for sure. I love the places you take us too. I would not be able to travel like you. I'm too old too. I am very grateful that you younger people do all this exploring and take videos, then share them on RUclips. And Andrew, you just amaze me! Alone out there, not a care or worry, so brave I think you are, so confident in your skills. GPS? I have GPSH, Geriatric People Stay Home LOL. You are a wonder and an enigma to me. Keep posting I'll keep watching. Thank you for sharing.
I love watching you (& your wife) explore & share these beautiful areas. As a mom & Grandma watching my heart is in my throat watching you scramble & climb some very sketchy places. When you’re by yourself….what would happen if you did slip? How would anyone find you?
I enjoy videos like this. For your own safety I hope you let someone know where you are going to be exploring and for how long. And a " if I'm not back by call for help," One of my Uncles I was really close with lived in the N. England area for most of his life. He moved to Maryland for a few years and eventually living in Telluride C.O.. He really liked it.. Until he moved to Moab.... He fell in love with the area. loved hiking in the canyons.. He passed away 12 years ago. Seeing exploring in that kind of terrain makes my smile and think about em. 🙃
Thank you ❤ I'm a 68yr old lady from the UK lovely camera work on your adventure
As a Native American (Apache), I enjoyed your video and am appreciative of the respect you show to these sites and artifacts.
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Yaadaa chindii....
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More respectful than those that came before. Thank you.
Very glad to see that your approach to all of these sites is gentle and respectful. That and your calm demeanor are a rarity in the YT world. Thanks for your
humility and curiosity.
Absolutely
Pete again,
And one more thing,
My gut feeling is the ancient Pueblo peoples who built these homes and granaries would be honored to have a man like you visiting them.
• You respect their work, skills & craft.
• You respect the hard life they had out there farming in a rock pile.
• In telling their story we come to know them, remember them and thus honor them.
Personally I have developed a profound respect for them thanks to the videos you and a couple other men like you are producing.
Thank you
That's very well said Pete. You are well spoken, and I appreciate the time you take to watch and comment on my videos
@ftldontquit4You’re welcome for all the things we’ve given you.
Love,
A colonist
@ftldontquit4Every human that ever lived was a colonist.
Most didn't let those they conquered survive, but western, Christian Europeans did .
You lost.... ,get over it .
@ftldontquit4 What did the Hawaiians do to the people before them? Who did the Sioux take the Black Hills from? How did the Bushmen like being taken over by the Bantu?
I hope you grow up someday...until then, shush your mouth when adults are talking!
They would have robbed him of his Thai Chicken Peanut Curry and freeze dried meals, for sure. I'd love to switch the world's electricity supply off, to see how modern generations could cope with lifestyles like those of only 200 - 100 years ago, when 1:3 - 1:4 of all children under the age of 5 died annually. Wot! No TikTok?
I am a rancher in SW Texas, and working on 82 years of youth. My family lived on a ranch 14 miles north of Crownpoint, McKinley County, New Mexico. We were there in the forties and fifties, until 1955 when Dad sold the ranch to the Navajo Nation, pow wows being held at the Big Room, Window Rock, Az. My dad was a lifelong rancher, but was an archeologist and anthropologist. An ancient Pueblo village of pueblos had once thrived only 209 meters to the south of our house and pens. Your videos are the best educational tool of discovery and understanding of the ancient Anasazi. My father would have appreciated your educated dialogue and your understanding and bequests for all those who venture into these ancient riparian canyons. Those who follow your footsteps and explore the shelters must leave them as they are! Look, enjoy, even touch, but leave for the next visitor. Take pictures not artifacts. A very long drought meant peaceful puebloans who farmed for centuries became famished with failing crops and lack of water. Research proves that some turned to theft, cannibalism, and forced families to shelter in the cliffs. Foraging through gathering and hunting took the place of the old ways. Defensive impenetrable walls in high places protected family groups of various sizes to survive, often migrating from Winter south facing shelters to summer jokes facing north away from the hot sun. I thank you and pray you will continue your treks and your teachings🙏
“Jokes”!is typo that should read “jokes”
Oops, “homes”
@@kirkemckenzie6402You can edit it if you want.
Thank you for posting this. 👍🙏🕊️🪶
This comment, was helpful in understanding why they were building up in the rock face. It didn't make sense to me at first, because if it was due to wildlife, we humans tend to just hunt it and eat it, wear it's pelt, etc; normally. Not always of course, but normally. I figured it also likely isn't going to be due to snakes or smaller critters, because those can climb up or fall down rock faces too to some extent or another. There would be more raised beds and stuff like what you see in jungles or swamps as I understand, where the critters are a much larger problem... as I understand. Or the cold during the night. A fire can be used to combat that. And way back then, we certainly weren't as concerned about burning some wood due to pollution. Also, we humans of today are much less conditioned to the elements like we would have been back then. Today, most people can barely stand being in any temperature range above or below 23c without tossing on extra layers, or removing them. (It's quite pathetic, really.)
But when considering the human aspect of cannibalism and infighting, then it makes a heck of a lot more sense. Those rock faces and hills of stone fallen down from above, definitely make it a lot harder to make any sort of attack on those buildings with the kind of tools and weapons they would have had back then. And it's not like the residents would be short on heavy stones to toss down as a defence. Slings and arrows would be heavily advantaged at that height as well.
Finally, the part about the winter and summer facing homes, makes some sense as well. Might as well make the best of things with what you have, of course. But again, the fighting and cannibalism makes the most sense.
I am a 75 yr old great grandmother from Liverpool up North in U K, now living in perth W A. I realy enjoyed your journey and love the respect you show to the ruins thank you for sharing your video, the scenery is beautiful, we love the native way of life that was in the past.
ey ey calm down
Hey! I have an Aunt from Liverpool, UK that moved to Perth, Australia and has now moved to Southeast Texas! My parents emigrated to Texas from Scouseland in 1954.
I grew up in the Mojave desert. I no longer live there. Your quiet video took me back home to the desert I love and all its beauty. Thank you for the journey.
Great video. I’m 73 and can’t get out so I really appreciate your work.
EXACTLY! I'm in a similar position! Still hike and explore in my dreams. Only time I get away from my wheelchair, but thank God for folks like these adventurous ones!!
amen I am 63 in july back hurts but went all over in wyoming alot to see up in the big horn mountains hon
OLD TEEPEE RINGS STILL IN THE MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE UP ABOUT 11 THOUS FEET CAVES WITH BUFFALO DRAWN ON WALLS AND BEDS METEL AND STOVE IN A MOUNTAIN BUILT IN THE WALL HOUSE CRAZY AND ANT HOUSES YOU CAN SEE FROM AIRPLANES
Do you regret not doing these things before becoming overtaken by old age?
@@johnmarkcarsonjr1848 nope i am lucky to have found this guy to do it all for me. i couldnt stand the sun and heat. i would be nervous about wildlife and not sleep. and even in my youth i couldnt climb as well. it cant get any better than watching it on my computer, thankyou mr drifter!
I really enjoy your treks. At 73 I can no longer do the scrambling required so I live vicariously by watching your videos.
You are exploring my childhood these past few months! I’m too old to do any hiking these days, but man, I’m enjoying your videos! The camera just doesn’t do the views justice. But they ARE beautiful.
Pictures and videos of the west NEVER does justice. You have to see it with your own eyes!! Gorgeous out there
You’re correct. Nothing beats it in person, but I’m glad you can get a taste of days gone by through my videos. Thanks for watching
The views are so beautiful.
*I've never seen an intact roof like that before. thank you!*
@@Desert.Drifter, the wild west the land of my birth. What do you use to charge your gear while out on these camp hikes? Love your work and i do understand the edge of life and death you put yourself everytime you venture out into nature. It can be a very unforgiving place on the plane.
Ex archaeologist….you’re keeping me alive! I’m soooooooo inspired to go back and wander a little while I still can! Thank you!
Love this! Where did you practice archaeology? Were you in the Southwest?
@@Desert.Drifter Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, NC, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and Washington. Favorite job was in Yellowstone working for the Museum of the Rockies at Montana state back in 1995. Also Grey Fossil site and Museum in Tennessee. Museum of science and industry MOSI in Tampa. Pensacola Archaeology Lab. Burke Museum in Seattle. I’m about to head down to your neck of the desert and wander about. . I’m currently in north Idaho and looking for a change of scenery.
@@adventurehawksancientharmony So cool, would love to hear what you’ve seen during your career!
@@Desert.Drifter do you have an email?
@@Desert.Drifter I have site reports somewhere around here in Idaho, or back at my place in NC
Your videos are helping my depression….you’re so right about being in solitude. It forces you to be present in the moment with that natural focus we are all capable of. I found myself in tears for much of this video and I’m truly grateful that for a moment I was looking at the world with a childlike enthusiasm I had stored away a long time ago…. Love and Light ❤
Im 61
When ibwas a kid i had hopi classmates that took me to old ruins and we explored a few. I'm glad we didn't damage anything. Its nice that you go close up to the ruins but are careful not to destroy anything.
Takes me back toba good time in my childhood. Thank you
Always important not to take anything away from those sites. The spirits of the ancestors do not like anything to be removed.
Hi you are so lucky to have that experience as a boy I live in England where we dont have these untouched ruins or wilderness to visit a few years ago I cycled the Rockies with a friend its left me longing for these surroundings
@@tonesharp3728 It's funny, as an american I have this longing to explore rural uk. Cheers mate
@@lordvader3538wales and Scotland are amazing 👍🏼
@@lordvader3538 You would love it mate, I live here and find new things to explore every weekend, old mines, stone circles, military sites,abandoned victorian engineering, we also have areas where the wilderness is expansive, you could walk for hours and not see a soul depending on where you go, just not as ' out there ' as the USA obviously.
Dude, you get so many nice compliments on both your explorations and on the high quality of your story telling skills.
EVERYBODY LOVES YOU DUDE!
Take a moment and let that sink in.
Respectfully,
Pete
Thank you Pete, I genuinely needed to hear that today. Thanks for the support. The saying, "you're your own toughest critic" is definitely true for me. It's a blessing and a curse, maybe more of a curse. I appreciate you
I never reply, but if you need it here, it is. Very good content presentation...shit I like it all with one exception. Not going threw that second doorway that time. That was crap in my opinion. What do you want? There's always room for improvement. But it's as good as any I've watched. Thanks. You should take me with you. I am 5'6, and I can squeeze right in that second door
It is the curse of the true artist to be overly self critical. It is how one either has great outcomes or (?)*
* I'll leave it there for one to speculate as I look for me 'Bloody Ear' @@Desert.Drifter
Totally agree
I love the fact that you like to take these long tracks out into the desert and whatever. I can no longer do things like this because I'm 75 years of age with bad legs but thank you for taking me along. It is truly beautiful and some of the views are absolutely breathtaking!
77 year old lady watching from New Zealand. Beautiful vid. Thank you
And another 75 years old New Zealander (female) watching: 23rd of May 2024 😊
And a 66yr old from NZ . . recent subscriber. Amazing content.
Kia ora & im another kiwi watching as I have just subscribbed 2days ago and I love the history behind these stories so interesting and I'd love to climb up to those ruins. Thank you amazing
I very much appreciate the cinematography and who I am and where I am is of no interest in the least.
@@MsMesem Superior and Impersonal. Love it.
I love seeing comments from the older crowd that can’t get out but live thru you vicariously! Great content!!
Didn’t know wood could even last 800 years virtually unchanged. Wild. Thanks for sharing, I’ve got chronic back pain so this is out of reach for me. Getting to see this vicariously is awesome
I as well, isn't this fantastic? I can even feel the sun on my shoulders & the wind on my back . . .
Probably because it's such a dry climate. I grew up in northeastern California near the edge of the mountains and the high desert. Now I live/work over on the northwest side of the state. I've noticed due to the climate being wetter on the west side, old structures/wood doesn't last as long and decomposes alot quicker compared to old abandoned stuff I've seen on the east side where it's a dryer climate.
@@yearginclarke Paper is the same way like the Dead Sea scrolls
It'll last hundreds of thousands of years underwater or buried in sand
That’s the thing. I don’t believe it can. So I’m not buying the narrative that these are “ancient” remains of people from hundreds and thousands of years ago.
Great video. So many people don't understand the rugged beauty of the American Southwest. I live in Apache county Arizona between the Apache to the south, Navajo to the due North and Zuni Pueblo to the Northeast. My 40 acres ranch is 6 miles from New Mexico and 7300 ft up. I wouldn't change the life I have here for anything else of worldly value. I have found Arrowheads and small pieces of Anazazi pottery plus all the petroglyphs. People from well over 1000 years ago left these beautiful messages for us... To them the future. I absolutely love eastern Arizona and western New Mexico.
Great videos! Love them!💕
I grew up in Phoenix. Every weekend during my childhood my parents would take us to a different, historic site or place of natural beauty throughout the state.
I'm a Land Surveyor...and I definitely appreciate the quad map...topo views...as well as the aerials... you're living the Dream buddy....stay Safe! And I'll be a long for the Journey! Thank you!!
Thank you my friend. Glad to have you along for the journey
Thank you for taking this 55 year old woman from Australia with you. I lived in the States for years and camped around Vermont, upstate New York, i would love to get to explore where you are someday. So inspiring.
You are my legs.. I m old ,can’t hike anymore. Thank you for taking me along man! I enjoy you and your adventures. Be blessed. And careful my friend! 💙🇺🇸👍🏽
I'm In the same boat ,I had two strokes last year I'm 63 its a game changer ,they were mild still can drive my typing is better have to learn how to do some things again.
@@davis6048I wish you the best Davis. We are all breaking down somewhat. I’m 59 and don’t have the energy that I once did. Who does?
@@backagain5216 Thanks Backagain, Im going to try to go to mono lake and look at petroglyphs and take In some fishing and drive up thru Yosemite and go down 395 south....
I just want to thank you, I am a Australian and Inlove the history of the world but America has Amazing history and because of your effort I get to see some of it, the canyons blow me away and how some of these homes are but are beyond belief, However if it wasn’t for yourself and others like you People like myself would never know. So again a big big Thankyou, much respect Andy. Perth Australia
If I was in Oz I would explore the 40,000 year old human history you have in your amazing country.
I am really happy I found your channel. I am 68 and have not traveled alot. I watch U Tube for my different adventures. Thanks for people like you to post video's for us to see things like this that we don't normally get to see. I love seeing these places. I wonder how they got up to some of these places. It amazes me. ❤ thanks !
Wow, What beautiful country. The ruins are amazing. My stomach drops a little when you stand on those ledges. I enjoy your videos so much.. Thanks for taking me along.
You and your cameras go places I no longer can. It means a lot to explore these again thank you.
You're welcome RidgeRider. Glad you can come along on adventures still
I want to thank you for producing this RUclips channel of all of the hikes that you take within the southwest. At my age, I’m not able to get out anymore to hike those trails. And especially since I lost my wife three years ago. We used to love to look at the ancient ruins and camp out wild, exploring the ruins in the canyons and the beautiful rock formations. Watching your videos, brings back a lot of fun, memories and showing places that we never seen.
Again, I just want to give you a thanks for sharing your experience and your knowledge the RUclips videos that you produce. I really appreciate them.
Honestly brother, if i knew where you were, id prolly go off grid. Youd be finding me building my own hut on a mountain.
Im only in maine to care for my elderly mother, and give my 3/13 year old pups a place to chill and retire.
Once theyre not here, im going to the desert.
Its so beautiful.
I owned land in nm, but had to sell it for funding the 3000 mile bicycle ride with the dogs.
It took us 4 months.
Anyways.
Your an artist. Thanks for the documentaries you do. They are on another level, and no other channel compares
Southwest, take a guss.
He's in my Neck of the Desert Southwest, Either Arizona or New Mexico is my guess.
Prolly the Former if you ask me.
Grand Canyon Area, so Yes Arizona, Confirmed.
Not New Mexico, maybe Utah is possible. But yes to Arizona. I was born and raised in the Southwest US. My Dad built High Pressure gas pipelines all over that country for almost 40 years, before and after WW2. @@JeffBrazeel-fe4wc
SensiProduction you are amazing yourself! What a wonderful person to put your Mom and dogs before yourself! God bless you and hope in the future you get to go back to the desert and explore. But what you are doing now is awesome and you will look back on this time and be thankful that you did it. God bless you!❤😊
My first time watching this man and his journey. I stumbled across this by chance. You know how you see a person in real life or on video like this and you just click with them and their videos? That’s me with him. What a respectful journey I watched just in this one video. I broke my lower back in two places and my neck. At 43yo I had one of two needed knee replacements. I can’t do this kind of thing anymore, so I have to watch someone else. When he stood at the first little home and turned and looked back at the canyon, to be honest, I wanted to cry or I would have if it were me there. I miss the hiking, the journey and the what’s around the next bend or over the next hill. Thank you for your video it made my day. Your young my friend so never slow down never give up. Be safe
Im an American who has lived in Ireland for nearly 50 years, but I love so many things about the wonders of my Country. Thankyou, Desert Drifter, for bringing me with you on your travels. Great work, thoughtful, respectful and awesome!! RESPECT❤
YOU FIND THE MOST UNTOUCHED PLACES IV EVER SEEN, I LOVE IT
Thank you for watching Monica 😊
Stumbled onto your channel. I live in the SW corner of Colorado. I’ve see these dwellings quite often and have ruins that surround the farm here and after all these years they still blow my mind. The farm is still littered with countless pottery shards that have been worked over and over for generations. I still stop and pick up a piece here and there to remind myself how tough they had it back then and what they saw before it was settled. I could talk about it for hours. There were more of them then there are of us now. It’s just mind boggling. Thanks for being respectful to the land.
Average weekly wage was 30cents or you could get paid $5 for a natives scalp and there homes and pottery were deliberately broken to push em out
@Farmer Dan, I did my archaeology field school in Plesant View on Charlie Brougher's farm very near Lowry Pueblo in 1976/77. Do you know the Wilson family from Yellow Jacket?
My family is from the San Luis Valley..I'd love to explore like this...
I just moved from Durango to the east coast i miss Colorado the mountains and the high deserts so much.
"There were more of them then, then there ars of us now." What a powerful statement.
I took a look at some other people’s work that was a similar theme to yours, but yours was so much better! Your calm and gentle spirit, your reverence and respect, your sense of adventure and wonder, amazing photography, drone footage and great editing-no competition!
I, too, love being alone in the wilderness, it is such a fulfilling feeling. That was a tasty dinner you made, yum.
I don't get tired of every watching your videos. You personality and voice soothing and fit your exploration perfectly and intelligently. Love the videos and thanks for sharing your passion my friend. Be safe out there. I want to take my 17 year old son. We traveled abroad and seen many places but never to that beautiful part of the country.
Something about those hand prints is just amazing. You can imagine them doing that all those hundreds of years ago, what's happened in all that time, and for you to spot them and share it with the world. Incredible. Kind of emotional. Thank you.
Did the same thing to me when I saw the hand prints. Yes we know they built it but to see their definitive signature is emotional indeed.
Nice find! Beautiful landscape. Thank you for letting us join you on this exploration, I can't wait for part 2.Keep on trekking!
I always hiked with other people and my ex -husband always said " hiking is not a group sport". That is so true because someone always gets tired, knee hurts,ankle hurts ,I gotta get home etc. Plus the loud constant talking is annoying ! And scares animals away. And nobody ever agrees what direction to go in. I living vicariously thru you. I'm 65 now and my back is shot. BUT you're inspiring me to get out to someplace I've not been to and do a little hiking just me the dogs and the old man.
Yes! Get out and see something new while you can. It’s always a gift!
Never go anywhere alone anymore
Boogeyman is under my bed
yesssssssssss me too, walk !!!!!!we are alive and walk is health, thanks for your coment
Unless you are like me with crippled feet. It is difficult for me to walk across the room even with my canes. And my feet are not the only limiting factors in my life.@@Anaa2205
Love it when you spend the night and use the indigenous things around you, reminds you that the people in those ruins did the same thing. Alone in the desert at night is definitely an experience you can't explain.
Most people don't understand wanting to be alone in these places. But I do! Thanks for letting me live vicariously through you while I wait out the winter where I am. ❤
I hope you can get out before too long!
Thank you for having us along with you on your adventure. Much appreciated , all you work you do to bring us a video. we appreciate you doing it. thank you.
Found your channel awhile ago, and I’m obsessed. Lived in Phoenix for a couple years and never got the chance to do this.
At the 22:08 mark it almost looks like drawings of humans at the top of the arch. Thank you so much for sharing your adventures with us. I am 66 years old with chronic low back pain so adventures like yours are so wonderful to watch since I am not able to do long hikes or climbing over things anymore. I have only been to the mountains a few times in my life and there is so much to find in these out of the way places. So much ancient history. Again, thank you.
I’m glad you can see an area of the country you wouldn’t otherwise get to see Ellen. Thank you for supporting the channel!
I saw that too
Do you mean the darker figures on the left of the arch, at the top? Looks like 4 figures (one pregnant woman) plus some more shaded in the background and an animal to their left?
I too enjoy camping alone.
It keeps me sharp and in tune.
Learning what to bring is often vital.
Knowledge is the lightest thing that you’ll ever have to carry.
Thanks for the awesome exploration. 🙏
Well said. Thanks for supporting the channel
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I live in Texas but was raised in Kansas. My grandpa would find arrowheads all the time but this is amazing. How awesome to hike in the desert!
Night sky shots would be awesome, with no light pollution. Love your trips, not a sound around, peaceful. Thanks fir sharing🎉
A night shot through a natrual arch, or a window of an native building would be beautiful.
@zGJungle that would be a dream. Can you imagine our ancestors looking at the night sky? They were fascinated by it, just like we are.
You are such a pleasant chap, thanks for sharing your adventures, you have an amazing life.
I am sooooo glad I came across this channel this morning!!!! Thank you so much!!! Absolutely breathtaking!!!
Totally enthralling documentation of your hike! I had just said to myself, "I like the way he puts things back exactly where he found them -- lots of people would collect stuff as souvenirs, and there would be nothing left..." and then you cautioned viewers to leave everything in its proper place! Way to go!!! Glad you made it there and back again safely! And many thanks for such a detailed and beautifully photographed account of your adventures! 👍😊
Fantastic scenery and historical places you visit. Thanks for sharing your adventures. I'm there with as you as you hike. I am 88 years old, but I still get out there in Nature and hike and explore. I am looking forward to your next video! Have you ever encountered bears or cougars on your hikes?
Neither of those animals in the southwest. I have seen some bears on hikes further north, in western Wyoming. The mountain lions are definitely around out here, but I've never seen hide nor hair of them
I send my compliments on your videos . I have a huge curiosity about the Southwest, and all that goes with the area and its history . Thanks . 71 years and still standing .
Imagining people living there, children growing up & exploring every square inch of that setting. You know they went to & through that arch. I hope you do at some point, too. Thanks for sharing the adventure.
Love your videos. This was a great one. I treasure my experiences hiking in the Grand Canyon area and red rock areas of southern Utah and north Arizona. So many wonderful things to see. I particularly enjoy the ruins. Fantastic. Thanks!
AWESOME! I so admire your determination. When you paused to contemplate I was chanting, "GO! GO! GO!" and of course you did. Your RESPECT is what is astounding to me. For ALL things you encounter even difficulty. It is this deep & profound ability that I believe can change the entire structure of our "humane" world. To know that this channel is being broadcast everywhere gives me hope. Thank You Brother -
Another million dollar video. Just stunning!
Thanks a million! 😉
Thank you for the hard work, and bringing us along.
Just wanna throw a little support your way for taking us on these amazing adventures!
I appreciate that so much!
What a gem of a spot! Thanks for pushing on to show us that stunning site. Hope you made it back before dark!
It’s nice to see you are not stressed by needing to hold a job.. you always appear very relaxed.. great discoveries!👍
Thank you. As they say, fake it til you make it 😂😉
@@Desert.DrifterI always say that too! It really does work though😅🤙🏼
Ohhh Lil Brother, the awesome memories You will have made for Your life in older days and years… Much Love and Light
🙏🕊️👍🌲💘🌞🦋♾️🦋🌞💘🌲👍🕊️🙏
Made up with little cartoon figures. A dick with blue balls, ect. @@PeteKiefer
@@PeteKieferlol nice
Thanks for sharing. So little is known of our past but you are helping fill in some of the gaps. Excellent.
As a professional chef and educator, nice to see you showing how easy it is to cook wholesome, and interesting meals with minimal tools. Just some planning. Forget the high salt “all tastes the same” meals. Great videos. Can’t wait for our next trip to the area from chilly Canada in winter.
Some of the terrain is so fantastic it's almost otherworldly! And do you ever feel like the people who used to live there are somehow still there? With the handprints all over the rock walls and the ruins are EVERYWHERE! I don't think people have any idea but your videos bring that home.
Well yes, the people still live there. The Pueblo people number more than 75,000 and live all throughout the Southwest. They are the direct descendants of people who built these structures.
Watching this in Finland. Thank u for taking me to places 🙏
Amazing!
I wish I was a younger man after seeing these videos. Great work on putting these together. Not only the hiking and climbing to get to these sites, but all the video work to record your journey! It can be so time consuming to get great shots like you have in this video.
Thank you for this channel!
Rather you than me, climbing those heights. I feel sick about 3 ft off the ground and as for looking down , ugh! But glad to share these videos because they are so interesting and I learn a lot about where you go and what you see and share.
I love your videos thanks for teaching this old lady so much! God Bless
You’re always respectful of the ancients and the lives they lived ⚡️☀️✨👣
I'm 72, a native of south central Texas, visited West Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Four Corners, Colorado, Utah countless times since I was 8 years old.
My extended family lived in Albuquerque and Chama NM.
We traveled to the Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial and throughout the greater region.
We all loved the native American arts of Hopi, Pueblo, Navajo and Zuni tribes and learning about the culture.
I've visited Grand Canyon (including North Rim) and Mesa Verde several times.
It means a lot to be able to visit these places through your videos and reflections.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience.
Beautiful shots of the amazing scenery, thanks for sharing. Stay safe, greetings from Alberta, Canada. Really enjoyed all your content you put together.
How beautiful! I'm another one who can no longer get out and clamber around. How nice of you to make room in your pack for us to tag along.
That’s why we love your channel drifter. You climb and give us great content. A lot of the other channels won’t climb and just show drone footage. Great job.
So impressed with your life, you embrace it. What a history in those rocks, so, Awesome
Really enjoying the added tech you've included to your videos. Not that it was needed... the drone footage and the really nice, not over used music. Thanks. Really enjoying your passion for the wilderness/history and your creativity with the videos.
Thank you Benjamin. I agree that the drone and music has definitely brought things up a notch. I’m wondering if my camera setup is adequate or not. I may play around with some different options. I’m always open to feedback :)
I'm not an expert in production, yet, when content is good, the experience flows. The video looks really good to my eye. It's always possible to get better equipment, but where is the cost/benefit line. One of the signatures of your channel, is the personal experience the viewer has joining you on the exploration. I'm wondering where the line of production and intimacy lands. Probably different for each person. I don't think you're approaching this line, in my opinion. Thanks for sharing your passion.
@@Desert.Drifter be very very aware of wilderness areas and wilderness study areas where drones aren't allowed. I've noticed in a few areas you've flown that are off limits, with the new regulations and RID they are clamping down on enforcing this.
Love what you do man! Wish I could tag along… You have the best attitude and philosophy towards history, respect towards artefacts and ethics for history.
Just stunning... If only... too many if only. I love watching and your calming energy is inviting. Can't wait for more.
Thank you Andrew, for posting yet another beautiful and interesting video..... what a rough and scenic canyon complex! I want to see the next parts of your three day "jornada".... I am a recent subscriber, and have been enjoying a "Marathon" viewing of all of your videos. What an amazing collection you have amassed!
-- Now in my senior years, I have a residence in W. CO, but I have not done the volume of desert hiking, camping, & exploring in E. UT, N. AZ, and N. NM, that I once enjoyed, mostly solo as you too enjoy. My old extended camping "Treks" are just good memory dreams these days!
-- A Campfire Meditation: One Item that has ALWAYS PUZZLED me..... now more than ever with the proliferation of "Desert Indian" Videos, etc..... is this: I have noticed that nearly all of the "Broken Potsherds" found lying about are mostly pieces of the SAME nominal size (or very nearly so), and of a common variety in their textures. It has always seemed strange that very few LARGER pieces are ever found..... perhaps most larger pieces have been absconded by archaeologists, disrespectful amateur collectors and hikers over the decades, but it certainly seems there must be some around which the deeper trekking & more active explorers like you should often spot! That said, even if you did find them, you would likely not remark about them, eh?! That and pondering on what the reason Ancient Peoples may have had for breaking their pottery into such UNIFORMLY sized potsherds. In "BOOK OF THE HOPI", I seem to recall that Frank Waters remarked that as Clan conflicts arose and were settled, the dominant Clan would break-up the Pottery and Things made by the inferior Clan, in order to nullify the "Spirit Magic" held by or defined in those Items, and thereby ease the "Absorption" of the inferior Clan into the superior Clan...... Food for thought.....
-- In 1972, on one of my own "jornadas" driving through the Hopi Reservation, a stop was made near Second Mesa Pueblo. On a short hike to a rather insignificant hilltop to obtain a better view of the Pueblo, I realized that the ENTIRE HILLTOP, in a radius of 50 to 60 YARDS (at least), was literally covered with Potsherds! ONE COULD NOT TAKE A SINGLE STEP without tromping on at least one or two pieces, so great care was used in watching our steps! It seemed the whole hilltop was geologically formed of the stuff..... and virtually ALL of the Potsherds were of the same nominal sizes with the commonly found variety of textures. We were astounded!! The very same common attributes to the Potsherds found on RUclips Videos these days, except TONS of them in a single location..... perhaps I had inadvertently came across the "Midden Pile" for that Pueblo, although there were NO visible paths or obvious walking trails anywhere to be seen on that hilltop. I had a feeling that we may have entered a "Sacred" and "Off-Limits" site, so we left everything untouched, and beat a hasty retreat down the hill and away, before anyone might confront us. A remarkable Mind-Boggling, experience eh??!
Wow, thanks for sharing all of this with me. I always appreciate hearing from those who have been out across this land for longer than I have. In regards to the potsherds, I don’t have a great answer beyond what you’ve already observed. I will say that I see more larger pieces the more remote I am. It’s not always a given, but I do notice that trend. I assume that’s simply because the larger pieces have attracted more attention over the years and people unfortunately walk off with them. I also see a lot more of the corrugated style. I’ve assumed this is because 1. It was a more common and frequently used style for the Ancients. 2. It doesn’t catch peoples eyes as easily, and therefore isn’t absconded with as often. A more sophisticated answer than these I can’t offer, but I hope to someday with more research and experience. Thank you for watching the videos
Great job with this video. Thank you for teaching your viewers to leave things as they are. As a traveler to the Southwest for 40 years I appreciate what you are doing and how you are doing it. Please continue to do well in every regard.
Excellent, thank you for sharing your adventures.
Good Luck, stay the course.
So beautiful and almost sacred and I just love your appreciation of the things you come across..
A wealth of knowledge as well and many many thanks for sharing..
You are so welcome
What a gorgeous view they would have had, and well-protected. The arch, the birds singing, water nearby...sounds like a pretty good life to me!
I love watching your videos. You have such a calm air about you that is so relaxing compared to many other creators. No deserts in the UK but still plenty to explore, just a lot wetter 😂. X
Andrew, I really appreciate your down-to-earth approach to sharing your hiking adventures and finds and I applaud you for your respect of the area and sites while also helping to inform and educate us, your audience. It's obvious to me that you care about these sites, their preservation, and helping others to enjoy and appreciate these treasures in the southwest. Thank you and keep up the great job your doing!
70 year old woman from NZ enjoying your expeditions.
Love the scenery and history.
I stumbled across you last night and I instantly loved the way you do videos and the respect you show for the ruins that you find. Instant sub. That drone footage of the arch at the end was fantastic and I am glad you included that after mentioning it before the climb up. It must have been a wonderful thing to wake up to everyday back then. Thanks for taking me along on your journey and I look forward to more.
Thanks for the sub and support my friend!
Love your adventures! Thanks for sharing. God bless you and keep you safe
Another incredible video! Thank you so much for sharing these insightful journeys with us! Please be careful out there alone!! I had been grateful on more than one occasion having a hiking companion with me during explorations throughout Arizona years ago. Regardless how prepared and experienced you are, things can happen unexpectedly! Also, thank you for the respect you exhibit to the culture, peoples, land, artifacts, wildlife, etc.! A wonderful example you set and it is greatly appreciated!
Coming from Greenland I really enjoy these videos 🙂
Great adventure, Andrew! Thank you!
The sculpture of the stones is so varied and never ending...I never get tired..
Very impressive - scouting, discovery, scrambling, water, photo, video, drone, narration, enthusiasm, appreciation, preservation- the whole package! thank you very much!!
Thank you for the compliments my friend!
Not typical but real beauty in that area. Thanks for bringing us along. The rocks, cliffs, snakes, spiders, scorpions would keep me wary from visiting. Really admire your venturous side.👍
Excellent drone footage with perfect music
Thanks, I'm loving the new drone! Definitely adds some great perspectives
Recently found this channel, and I'm addicted. Binge-watching.
I can't get enough of these videos.
I really enjoy you doing the canyon i get to see it it's so beautiful. I will never be able to walk-on it's dirt track's ur go to the country. Man you enjoy doing it and so do all of us subscribers enjoy watching it.
Loving these , thank you. Being from Australia i am amazed at the lack of snakes, spiders, ants, centipedes, either being found when you are walking through or when you stop and i see you put food down on the ground while you are eating ... totally different here ... really majestic country and powerful art and the constructions you show are awesome oh and where are the flies
What an astounding place. So beautiful it just captures the heart and mind for sure. I love the places you take us too. I would not be able to travel like you. I'm too old too. I am very grateful that you younger people do all this exploring and take videos, then share them on RUclips. And Andrew, you just amaze me! Alone out there, not a care or worry, so brave I think you are, so confident in your skills. GPS? I have GPSH, Geriatric People Stay Home LOL. You are a wonder and an enigma to me. Keep posting I'll keep watching. Thank you for sharing.
GPSH, dang you are funny!😂
Haha. I do use a GPS when I'm out there, but no GPSH yet ;)
I am 79 , no longer able to hike the wilderness, but really enjoy traveling vicariously these canyons with you all hours of the night.
I love watching you (& your wife) explore & share these beautiful areas. As a mom & Grandma watching my heart is in my throat watching you scramble & climb some very sketchy places. When you’re by yourself….what would happen if you did slip? How would anyone find you?
Great content! Thanks for taking us along.
I enjoy videos like this. For your own safety I hope you let someone know where you are going to be exploring and for how long. And a " if I'm not back by call for help,"
One of my Uncles I was really close with lived in the N. England area for most of his life. He moved to Maryland for a few years and eventually living in Telluride C.O.. He really liked it.. Until he moved to Moab.... He fell in love with the area. loved hiking in the canyons.. He passed away 12 years ago. Seeing exploring in that kind of terrain makes my smile and think about em. 🙃