My Wife and I Found Complex Prehistoric Beings in these Desert Caves
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- My wife and I ventured into the desert southwest, in search of adventure and traces of the past. Along the way, we face snakes, spiders and the scorching heat, but what we discovered made the challenges worth it. #ancientdiscoveries #exploration #adventure #hiking #history
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Fascinating stuff, guys. Hope you are taking care for a Plan B, in the event of injury or mishap, such as a Sat Phone or such and perhaps filing a route plan with friends.
I've driven many miles into empty desert, just as you have done. 'Turned a corner to find a horse ranch!
That’s a bit tight for a chunky guy like me….
One thing about your videos I don't think gets enough credit is your way of weaving a story with your narration. It is so well done and creates such a sense of adventure and adds a lot of insight into the visuals.
Thank you Lynx, that means a lot
I agree👌
So true! Everything he puts out is such high quality and so interesting. He’s very talented!!
Happy Birthday Evelyn! What a wonderful birthday memory - you made it home! Take care & be safe!
Yes!! Happy birthday! What a wonderful birthday adventure!!
🎂
Your wife is a great addition to your videos! Congrats on 250k subs, too!
*Yes, as someone who barely glamps, I can assure you Evelyn is a trooper.*
Make that 250001k
Yeaay!
Thank you John!
I can't believe how fast his subscriber count shot up
I just love Evelyn! Please bring her more often! 60 year old lady who used to climb the canyons.
Yes!!! Back by popular demand! This is awesome!!! Back to watching.... Thanks!! Mr and Mrs. Drifter I love you guys!
The cave art is beautifully preserved. One of the best I have seen on this channel. Keep on driftin
I appreciate the long pauses in video on the rock art! Feels like we are there with you
I highly agree.
Joe, I agree, with your agree!
They’re sort of like a Mars rover…taking photos and sending the images back to Earth for analysis by experts, and for us, the curious.
Good technique
Yes , I enjoyed Mrs along
I love your videos ,
It is very enjoyable , learning of the past . I enjoyed the sense of humor .
Thank you
Thank you Both for taking us along such a magnificent journey with you!!
This is the first video I've watch since my wife passed away a few weeks ago. I feel like some life has returned. Thank you.
Huge & good energy friend ❤
Stay strong friend.
Sorry to hear about your loss my friend
🙏🏻
Sorry for your loss.
That canyon is amazing and beautiful. Good to see Evelyn back with you. She is as amazing as you are: agile, nimble, brave and strong. You two were blessed to find one another. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EVELYN!!
It's actually cool to see a positive relief pictograph. I've never seen one and I've studied them!
Mrs Drifter is one in ten million! Great narration by Mr Drifter 👍
Your wife has a lot of spirit to traverse over snakes. I enjoyed this video very much. What a joy to see that beautiful country and remote ruins. You are tops in your narration and adventure. Thanks for taking us along.
I can see why you made her the Mrs. Drift. Her fun free-spirit energy is amazing.
19:20 Ross Musselman, known as the “Father of Canyonlands”, had a couple of ranches in southeastern Utah and took folks on pack trips all over the area in the 1940s . Musselman Arch near the White Rim Trail is named after him. His mother was named Eva, but she died in 1942. Maybe it was a memorial to her.
Wow! Thank you for sharing that information! I bet Ross was a great guy!
I like your videos a lot. From what I have seen you don’t make outrageous claims trying to impress others . I think you are authentic and value your Channel’s reputation and integrity.
Yes! And no sponsored products or trying to sell anything. Such a gem on TH-cam.
I loved Evelyn's donkey bray imitation! And also loved the dragonflies the best. That was the best panel I have ever seen. Thanks for taking me along.
Thank you guys so much for taking me again :-) it is always so much fun. Don't blame you about the snakes!!
Excellent and loved the pictographs. I keep my distance from snakes also, but it would be hard to do in a slot canyon...
Real treasue he found is his wife
Oh yes it's always a treat when Evelyn comes along :-) her sweet personality and precious smile are delightful. The way her and Andrew lightly tease one another is so cute
Thanks for showing these places the respect and care they deserve, leaving no trace, and for being a great teacher.
Amazing work!
Wow thank you sunsetdev, that is very generous!
I am at a loss of words to describe the beauty and quality of this hike's panel. I've never seen one so well preserved. It reveals what others I have seen may have really looked, once long ago! I love the delicate stokes of the dragonfly wings! You can see the circulatory veins within each wing!
What makes this all this all the more precious is how ephemeral, fleeting these images are and how blessed we are to momentarily connect with another human from countless centuries go...appreciating the very same delicate wonders of nature we see today. Thank you Duo Desert Drifters!
❤❤❤ lovelovelove
Yes
Well said Alison!
you are very Well Spoken Mam. You have great articulation in your words. I bet you would write a good book.
Your videos are awesome! I'm a desert rat myself. Living in Buffalo, NY now. I really like your vids. Makes me homesick for the beautiful,spacious desert scapes of Northwest Arizona! Bravo to you and the Mrs. God Bless !
Nice having Evelyn along. You guys are awesome!!!
Isnt it a sad state of affairs when we as a nation need to buy water and soil and pay admission to our own land???
Your own land?? I doubt that very much!!
@@EgérieS in general, as a nation.
Whose land? And these areas cost money to maintain and preserve, if it’s your land why are you not willing to to contribute to the maintenance of “your” land?
So glad your wife is with you.
Y'all are crazy.😂
Was glad to go along with ya’ll. As I am 2 months away from 70 I won’t get to go any other way. So THANKS I enjoyed it
When I was a kid, my mother, father and I were driving in our pickup on a dirt road that had been bladed in the bottim of a canyon, near Moab, UT in the month of August, Monsoon season. My father, very experienced in this type of terrain and situation was constantly watching the sky and clouds up-stream behind us. Yes, it happened and all at once he drove the pickup up on a high mound on the side of the canyon bed up against a canyon wall as you show. It took a while for the flash flood to recede so my mother and I went exploring around the cliffs. We found a HUGE pack rats nest, no rats at home. We started digging at it and found turquoise beads, pieces of shiny worked stone, and bits of metal on different layers. It was like a rat treasure bank...obviously from the many past years. We left it in place...cautious of mites, lice, fleas, bubonic plague, etc.
I am in my late 70's and seeing your videos bring so many memories back in great detail. Thank you.
So grateful you left that treasure where you found it 🙏🏻
that brings back so many. memories.😞 🥲
Sounds like our dads probably ran into each other! We left enough oil pans along such roads! 😂😂😂
@@JoanePappasWhite Yes, one time was going along the eastern side of the San Juan river north of Blanco. My mother and I waded across the river to a small farmers house. They did not speak English but through sign language and the generosity of these wonderful people they got on their tractor and drove miles out of their way to tow our car to another farm. Someone drove my father to town for a new, or used, oil pan. They helped fix the car. (We all became great friends through the years.)
In the meantime my mother and I stayed at the original farm and I ate honeydew melon fresh from their garden.
You are inspiring yourself❤
This is insane! It is beautiful but the inherent dangers of being in a narrow slot canyon is terrifying to me and I felt my heart pounding in certain parts of this journey. Evelyn did amazing.
Same here!
Hey drifters and thank you for another video! It’s always great to see more of these for those of us drifting most of our lives between the bedroom and a fridge lol
Love Evelyn’s high pitch spider fear squeal and pinch of comedy sprinkled here and there. I call it a good entertainment.
Courageous wife award.
I was glad your wife could join you. I'm impressed at her abilities.
Me too ..
You two are awesome you're doing the things that I did when I was in my twenties I went all over this country backpacking everywhere my favorite one was Utah in Arizona you make everything come back what I was doing climbing on the Rocks like that with your legs apart now that makes your legs tired but when you're up there and it's quiet your ears start ringing cuz it's so quiet and the views that you see When the Sun Goes Down And when the sun comes up cooking your eggs and bacon and drinking your coffee and you're sitting in that area where people lived in if only the Rocks could talk so inspiring you actually brought tears to my eyes because I remember I'm in my 60s now so you too enjoy what you are doing now because someday you won't be able to do it anymore you'll just have the memories so I think you so much for your videos cuz I love to watch him if I could pay money to you cuz I'm on a tight budget right now the one I can I will start paying money so that you can do these videos God bless you and thank you so much😂❤❤❤😮😢😢
Your wife is such a charming personality and you make a super good duo in these explorations ! Enjoyed your in video comments as much as your voice over!
I gasped right along with Evelyn; she was MUCH braver than I, especially with the snakes. I have been told that when I was a 3 year-old and t my grandparent's farm near Abilene, Texas I opened the kitchen screened door to find a coiled rattler and was reaching for it as I was snatched away... we were quite a ways from the hospital, but luckily it took off too, probably driven away by the shrieks of my mother, aunt and grandmother! I was, of course incensed that they wouldn't let me "have" it. Creepy!
I did some research into the mythology of Native Americans and the dragonfly and found this which I thought was very interesting!
"In the Hopi and Pueblo tribes, the dragonfly was considered a medicine animal, associated with healing and transformation, whose spirit was often called upon by medicine men and women. Killing a dragonfly was considered highly taboo in the Pueblo tribes."
They also mean water nearby
A signal to others that amidst the dry arriid spot you can find some water nearby
Dragonflys definitely magic
Happy Birthday Evelyn. My family has a little Murray Grey Cattle farm in Queensland Australia Called Nyleve which was my great Grandmothers name backwards. I love your adventures, the archeology is fascinating, the scenery captivating & your smile illuminating.
As a child in the late 1970s, I spent 2 summers at Camp Yavapines, in Prescott, AZ, where my mom was camp nurse. The kids' cabins had cinderblock walls covered up high in the corners with giant "scrums" of bouncing daddy long legs spiders. Giant quivering patches of these spiders, looking like creatures from Star Trek, lol! The spiders never came down and bothered us, so after our initial terror, we learned to ignore them. I gotta say, the cabins for my mom and the other adults did not ever have these spider scrums 🤔
I grew up all over, in Utah and AZ, and spent a lot of hours hiking in the Superstitions and through canyons with dwellings, camping on both Grand Canyon rims, eating pinion nuts and prickly pear jelly, dancing around jumping cholla. The thrill of seeing tarantulas and scorpions. The dry-leaf rustle sound of a rattlesnake tail shaking. I truly love watching your videos, remembering those wonderful places I saw as a child. Thank you both!
There are so many grifters online that say they are discovering ancient civilizations when in actuality they're just showing us eroded boulders.. TH-cam guy called Colorado Forest beings does it all the time.... you my friend are actually uncovering stuff that maybe no one has ever found! Do you ever show any of your work to archaeologists?
We are watching.
@@Wolves335could you sound more ominous 😂
You're right. These types of people don't know geology and call natural formations man made structures. I guess some people believe them. Maybe they do know better but like fooling others.
Agree w/ Tanner.
This is a well known archelogical site.
Those paintings at the 25 min mark or so were amazing. Far more realistic and intricate than you've come across before (I think) It was nice to see you out and about with your wife. Do it more often.
Evelyn is amazing! That narrow canyon had me feeling claustrophobic, and then the snakes 😳 Definitely not for the faint of heart.
Beautiful part of this country. Thanks for taking us along and Happy Birthday!
Fantastic video! Brave souls in extreme heat, gotta be! Sooooo glad you gingerly lifted the lid/rock. We needed just that. Amazing rock art, really ephemeral experience! (word posted by someone earlier). We are so happy you’re not alone out there. Great new exploration area, pricey for stamina, a long drive as well. We appreciate all your tenacity and grit!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!
Good to see you “both” back on the trail again!
I jumped on the smartphone with a clever reply to a rude comment, but after reading quite a few of these comments here I decided I would just live and let live. I actually enjoyed reading these comments. Good vibes!
Another riveting exciting journey into the land where ancient folk scratches out a living.😊
I love seeing husband and wife sharing their lives as you
Watching your very cool adventures from NZ 🇳🇿✌️ I like how genuine you both are thanks for keeping it real
This was a wild adventure I must say. It looked dangerous and I am glad all went well.
Very much enjoyed watching you and your wife do the exploring together. Invite her more often !
Right at the 13:00 minute mark…did you see that? What is that? I zoomed in and…well, you tell me what that is. It’s not a bird or plane. If I had watched it on my phone or iPad I think I would have missed it. But since I was watching it on my tv, it really stood out. It’s a 60” tv. What do you think?
Great video. I love hiking along with you and the Mrs. Beautiful landscapes, sunrises, sunsets, and …WOW! The wildlife! That’s my favorite part of my trips. Thanks for another great video.
UFO ?
It may be something with the drone camera ???, a green light seems rather odd; @13:05 and onwards there is darts of white-ish light like leaping in front of it on the same plane as it moves on. I dunno.
I was wondering that too. It seems like a spec on the lens but it tracks left to right, then disappears down the slot.
That is interesting. I wonder if Desert Drifter has any ideas
@@alrivers2297 just an added benefit to ponder on
Another awesome video. My wife and I can really appreciate the time spent that Mr and Ms Drifter enjoy each other. Good job guys, we love you.
Evelyn deserves a lot of credit with the way she maneuvers in those tight spaces, not to mention all the critters.
*ME (start of video): "Oh he's taking Evelyn hiking, how romantic!"*
*ME (at rattlesnake): "Worst date ever!"*
*ME (at hoard of daddy longlegs): "Worst boyfriend ever! lol"*
*ME (at petroglyph panel): "Ok, maybe it wasn't the worst birthday ever. Sniff."*
Thank your lucky stars Drifter. You have found yourself a likeminded partner. Good for both of you. It’s truly a pleasure watching your adventures.
Evelyn, I believe you, when you talked about playing with Daddy long legs. I did too. I also played with snakes. 🐍 I was raised with 3 brothers and I didn’t dare show fear, or I’d have them shoved down my shirt! Just because you don’t like them now, doesn’t mean you didn’t play with them. I’m proud of you!
@@louisedoolitttle6842daddy long legs , don’t bite ! 😂
23;15 minutes 👽petroglyphs spotted !
I don’t care what you think or say ! ❤️😂✌️
What a beautiful area, those deep canyons were very interesting. Happy birthday Evelyn!
Wow...what beauty and such deep mysteries those canyons hold! Thanks for taking us along ❤️
That intact storage pit was pretty dang incredible! Yeah, exploring the wilds & discovering the past - very rewarding!
A good Friday for a video with Desert Drifter and Desert Driftess
Thank you for this episode!!! Loved every minute!! Your wife will always be a welcome addition to your already amazing videos! 😊
This is an awesome video.
Those slot canyons are scary and claustrophobic! I like exploring all the details of the caves and alcoves, giving us views and panoramas most of us we will never see in person in our lives!
Evelyn is your perfect match! Bring here anytime! Loved the trip and both of you!🥰
i have a very serious health issue, i had planned to take my grandkid to egypt in 2026 but unless i can have a significant surgery i am just in no shape to go exploring. i've lived a pretty amazing life but i am hoping there's still a little gas left in the tank yet. i adore your content cuz, you take me to places i wish i could still get to. i live in new zealand too and there are heaps of cool places to explore and fortunately i've hiked, climbed, ski'd, dived and traversed much of it. i'm seeing the surgeon in a few weeks, wish me luck, but until then i get my kicks watching stuff like this. youtube really is a trash bin but there are things like your content that reaffirm my faith in folks. go hard you guys, you are appreciated much.
Yes
This is the good side of utube
Hey Mr Somethingelse, I wish all the luck in the World! Good luck on ya!
I never say “ hang in there” I much rather like the phrase “ Stand Firm!” Keep the faith and do what you can bro !
@@AKA_MR_LANCE Yeah, I got this Mr Lance, I have a big trip planned once I get well, Egypt and I want to take one of my kids on a road trip around the south west of the south island of New Zealand, dont count me out yet cuz and thanks, needed that today.
I love Evelyn!!! She’s a real trooper and one brave lady 👌
Love your content you seek spiritually aligned and i get really good vibes from these videos
Ahhh ... I'm reminded of a time in the 70's when my delightful girlfriend and I would venture into the desert around Moab when it had yet to really be discovered. Those were wonderful days. Thanks for the reminder.
Would have been amazing to see Moab in the 70's. My dad would visit in the early 80's, flying in weekly from Logan to teach.
Nobody visited Arches, moab had 1 motel as I remember. How bout that old wood bridge over the Colorado River, scary!
Happy Belated Birthday Mrs. Drifter! I love all of your videos but this one was extra special and a great way to end my crazy 🤪 week!
Your videos are amazing and so interesting… thank you for creating them!!!
Thanks for taking us along on another wonderful adventure Andrew ! It's a special treat when Evelyn is able to join you. Congratulations on getting 250K subscribers in just six months. I've never seen a TH-cam channel grow so quickly. You have clearly found a niche. Best wishes for your continued success !!!
7.08 reminds me of standing in a cathedral, and slowly looking up in wonder. Thank you for your videos.
Red neck from Mississippi here!! I just want to say thanks for what y’all do!! Love this channel! I never stop being amazed at the pictographs!! Happy late birthday!!
EXACTLY what I needed on a Friday night 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Same here
Me too!!!
Amen!
Hope you enjoyed!
@@Desert.Drifter You bring a very special part of the planet, & a special way of exploring it, to so many of us.
I always enjoy going with you, & Mrs. Drifter is very impressive.
Blessings.
Thanks! I knew you were a climber by your third video. But Evelyn was a wonderful, if unsettling, surprise. As a climber wife at her age, the videos with both of you are very special to me.
Aw thank you Joane. I always love seeing your comments on my videos. And thank you for joining the Patreon!
My love of Native American culture began when I was a little boy in the late forties, I had The Book of Indians, by Holling C. Holling.
Years later, in the late sixties, I travelled the country and visited modern Indian Pueblos and villages and saw Ancient sites, as well.
ventured into Canyon De Chelly at a time when you could backpack alone.
I spoke to a number of people about their ancestors.
I was fit, but I never did anything equivalent to you and
your wifes' explorations.
Back home in New Jersey, down the shore area, we often found arrow and spear points and some times axes,
near our home, which was on a brook which was on a branch of the Metedeconk river.
These were the Delaware and the Lenni Lenape group of Eastern tribes.
Where you visit. the weather and isolation has preserved so much more than back home.
I have great respect for these ancient dwellers and their modern descendants.
Cheers,
Rik Spector
Thanks for sharing your experiences with us. Even without video, I could picture it in my mind. Blessings to you and yours...
Hey Rik, Thank you for sharing!
Enjoyed reading this. Backpacking solo in De Chelly sounds like a dream! Thank you for sharing Rick
I grew up reading old western stories by Louis L'amour which often told of white men, drifters he called them, who would use the old Southwestern Native trails, and they would oftentimes use the old shelters along their travels. Usually they'd find or make a windbreak for a fire to make coffee and any food they might've had that needed cooking. They'd kick sand over the coals before leaving. He described dugout "caves" in canyon wall overhangs and spots that were off the beaten trails. He described how the horse would follow the scent of water oftentimes to stones that held water in them where nature or some ancient person had chiseled out a sink into it. I came to learn that such places were very real, and the fictional experiences he wrote of were based on his own and others'. Watching yall reminds me of those stories. The Natives called the ancient people The Ones Who Came Before. It really makes the mind wonder what "native" really means and who they were and all those who have come since then.
Aww, all the snakes and spiders came to wish Evelyn a happy birthday, and this is how she reacts, lol
I actually think she did great. ☺
Evelyn is a trooper!
It is refreshing to see Evelyn again, happy birthday 🎊! It’s just so amazing to see these petroglyphs. Thank you for educating us all about our Native American ancestors! Stay safe 💗
Happy Birthday Evelyn! Fun sense of humor and a valuable addition to the journey...! Thanks for taking me along. That was entertaining .
Usually I'm not really into archeology but, this guy has ignited my interest. Thanks
I'm glad you took a hiking partner. Some of that stuff scares the heck out of me. Best to have someone who can help if something goes wrong.
the huge rock formations you are walking right next to are awesome!
Wow, I’ve never seen that smoothing of the rock to create a sign, a sign of life.
Your wife loves you a lot!! She follows you to the strange places- and scary!
Evelyn is such a sweetheart. She had me cracking up with the snakes and spiders. You are very lucky to have her. I was disappointed to see the name of someone on the wall because of how remote you two were in the canyon. Goes to show that "modern man" has been just about everywhere. Great camera work! Enjoyed your trek and look forward for more. Thanks to you and Evelyn for an enjoyable experience.
I wanna do this so badly. You are inspiring to start living again and getting out of this bed. Thank you 🙏
Your videos are incredible!
You both are so brave to go in those canyons, I'm watching and cringing at the same time. Enjoy you adventures.
I was a long distance runner and ran through canyons/on trails, in Colorado. I would have loved a drone back then. I encourage anyone who likes to walk to take up trail hiking. There're so many nice places to explore in the US. Be careful in slot canyons, if there's even a hint of rain, don't go. Always be prepared with hydration packs and high protein snacks, and get an emergency kit from an outdoor gear shop that includes a compass, fishing line, magnifying glass, and whistle in a cylinder that you wear around your neck. I also went trekking with my horse and dog. We all packed our own food.😊 Great videos!
Thank you very much for another wonderful video. My wife especially enjoyed it with your wife.
Wifey is BACK!!!❤ Hooray for a double scuttle butting adventure. 😂
Amazing videos and become compulsive viewing! The filming and commentary take you right there and let you forget about the madness of the world outside - thank you so much!
Very good, thank you for letting us all come along. Evelyn, loved the dancing outro.
Your videos always interesting. Only downside is they make me miss my youth and the vitality you need to explore these places. Great stuff to keep an old guy entertained. Good to see you brought Evelyn along again. My wife and I used to go all sorts of places, but our physical get up and go has got up and gone, lol. Thanks guys.
@4:35 American Ninja Warrior 😂.
All jokes aside, you both are extremely brave and talented.
The part where she ran to the car and you took the bags appeases the logistical/efficiency driven part of my brain. Its a prime example of playing to eachothers strengths in a tough scenario and Id say it speaks volumes about you two as a team as well as how a Man and Woman can compliment eachothers strengths and weaknesses.
Mrs. Drifter returns!
So cool to see a couple working and having fun together. Nice job. Love the videos. Like national geographic but better.
Andrew and Evelyn doing Ninja Warrior Moves! Andrew can you please tell me where you get your shirts. My 14 yr don wants me to get some for him. Thank you
There’s a link to what I wear in my video description
@@Desert.Drifter thank you
You guys are crazy. Love your courageous spirits! Evelyn is awesome! Looks like it was birthday to remember! Isn't it a blessing to have a partner that can share the same passions and that you can count on to survive anything! Thanks for sharing your adventure. Andrew you are so fortunate to have that girl ..don't ever forget that!
You didn't find anything so what's the point
Evelyn is a must have. Love her personality!
Glad I had a ticket to come along on this adventure. Absolutely stunning to see country I would never be able to see in my lifetime. Thoroughly enjoyable video.
Wow ,wow!! Thank you.