EXTENDED CUT: What I Found in the Grand Canyon is Baffling
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ค. 2024
- While exploring the Grand Canyon I came upon ancient ruins from a prehistoric civilization that once thrived in this rugged place. I backpack into this remote natural wonder to explore some of the stories hidden within these massive walls. Intriguing discoveries still need to be made for us to fully understand this place. #ancientdiscoveries #grandcanyon #ancienthistory #exploration #adventure
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Hey everyone, as the title says, this is an extended version of my recent Grand Canyon trip. There's additional insights and footage in this one. Just FYI. Thank you for continuing to support the channel, I've got a video coming out next week I'm very excited about. Stay tuned
Thanks for the video.! An yes I truly believe the cookbook idea would be great
What kind of Hoodie are you wearing?
You have shown us all more than any Tv program his ever shown. Thanks
@Desert.Drifter I sent you an email the other night on places to explore. Let me know when you read it. Thanks -Robert
Cookbook…yes! Thanks for posting your journey, it’s truly exceptional in all ways.
I am 70 years old but never had the chance to do what you do even though I used to hike into mountain lakes with my wife and friends who are no longer alive. I have learned more watching your videos and appreciate what you do. Thank you for taking us with you.
I'm 72 and I did exactly this. too old now. watching these videos brings back so many good memories. it is bitter-sweet. these videos are awesome. however, it doesn't compare to being there.
I’ve read many comments like this on this channel, and it constantly reminds me to get out and do more while im still young. Do I actually do it? No, I work too much and the cost of living keeps rising…..but it does remind me 😂
@@ookie4179 Sorry to hear this. I know it sucks right now for a lot of younger people. Try to find some time to go for a hike out in nature. It doesn't have to be extreme. Even if it's only once a month. It will do wonders for your physical and mental health.
@@short-hand4312 So true the camera can't capture places like this. I stopped taking pictures of these places back in my late 20s. I am now 50. My friends and family don't understand why I don't. I tell them no picture will ever compare. You have to see it for yourself.
I used to hike the Natl parks back when I was much younger...not something I would do anymore at 66. My respect to all who have hit the trail, cheers!
The most difficult thing about these videos, is that they end. I think I go into a bit of a grieving period. I watch the program a second time, but still find it so sad when it ends. Third time? Same. Honestly everything about his programs is just so damn perfect. The videography, the lighting, his voice with such a pure tone of reverence. The breaks for history and grounding. Holy cow... what a fine thing this is.
Not to mention that he's pretty nice eye candy!
That too!
@@karie9890 the dude is married, in his previous video, his ring finger was clearly seen.
I find the heights to be the most difficult part. Im terrified every time camera pans down over the edge of a sheer drop i get that panic feeling sweaty hands weak knees. Just watching a video! Its crazy. I want to stop video but i power thru and keep watching. (Lol) Dont want to miss a sec! I love archeology. Ancient history is a passion of mine. These videos are priceless to me.
@@IgorMironov-rq4ye ... I'm glad for him! Doesn't mean I can't give him a complement by saying he's great looking! No offense was meant to his wife or him.
This is what TH-cam was made for. If Andrew had to go to some major network and pitch this, he would most probably be be dismissed as some crank with a niche idea. Yet here we are. Professional level cinematography, editing, narration, just a feast of landscape, experience and ideas. And HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of people in one day taking almost an hour of their daily schedule to go hiking with Desert Drifter and friends. How many major network shows get hundreds of thousands of viewers?! The future is here and it doesn't need to be edgy and trendy, it just needs to be good. Thank you so much for all that you have showed me, Andrew. Stay on your path, distant friend!
The rock's and structres are the story. D put's word's to the story. Thats all you need. LESS IS MORE🌵🪶
Oh, they would totally grab the show, and then change everything that made it good and add some fake drama for good measure .
it just shows how much we don't need the main stream programming. I haven't had cable for way over a decade, there are so many awesome talented people, so much information out there from everyday people. It widens the perspective.
wish I could explore with you ! all the best from Canada!
Grand Canyon is one place that everyone should see in person at least once in their lives. Pictures never do it justice.
Yeah was just at the overlooks last week. It's even hard for your eyes and brain to grasp the vastness even in person!
My ex misses had a bigger canyon so I think I get the idea
I am lucky to live in AZ and spend every summer in Flagstaff. I trek it to the Canyon every summer-only 90 mi from Flag! Yes! I know I am so fortunate!
@@DISOPtv I have a state of the art Fujifilm camera and trying to focus confuses even the camera as the panorama and distance confuses the camera.
Do you know what a blessing you are to a 62 year old Grammy from Maine?? As a hiker and climber for decades I’m just grateful to you!! I can no longer do these adventures!! This is phenomenal!! 😮😊❤
Greetings from also Maine! 🌲 It's cold and not sunny much lately what with all the spraying of our skies. I'm thankful for this warm video of sun baked rocks! ☀️🏞
@@cathydaniels8957”spraying of our skies”. ?? What’s does that mean?
I'm 60, I feel young and active! But you make being in our 60s sound like we're ancient!🤣🤣🤣
@@loncho5079There are folks in their 80s hiking and mountain climbing.
Kudos from another Mainer!
The quality of this video would be hard to overstate, VERY interesting and educational.
I am 1,337 years old. I remember the old days when these structures were new. My family and I visited often. Thank you for making these videos, they bring back old memories. Alas, I am now just a brain in a jar unable to visit again. God speed young man.
Wow, I live within 25 miles of south rim entrance. The picture u took of San Francisco peaks gave me an excellent point of view about where you were on that break, 5 miles in.
I had trained hard in phoenix to do rim to rim in 1991, 1992, but my Ford escort motor blew in 1992 half way from phoenix, at black canyon city. So I limped the car back to my apartment. Never made it up there for the hike your now doing.
I'll be 70 yrs old in beginning of June. Time has long passed for when I was in excellent shape.
So ill watch instead. I have been inside the south rim many times, since I bought my senior pass, b4 prices went up. I've just knew better to not do the hike, now that I'm older.
Thanks your imo, the best video maker on youtube.😂
What kind of Hoodie are you wearing?
@@gregor6922 a first Infantry division hoodie. Class of 1972, when sissies/babies, ran to Canada and I chose to enlist and learn how to fight.
Best 6 years I ever did! Made Sgt E5, in 2 years, because there weren't enuf Sgt's that survived in Vietnam. Nuff said
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Beautiful. A hiking recipe book is a great idea. Greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦
Night starry sky , the sound of the air , the silence of the Earth just breathing ... What peacefulness abounds there . I could envision my self living in a place like that ... deeply peaceful.
I would like to live there too. Just let my soul live at creek bottom with the frogs for eternity. Sigh.
Dear desert drifter, what an amazing and beautiful video! i;m living in the Netherlands, as flat as can be. But i would love to visit the U.S.A. and see the stunning nature with my own eyes.
I was;nt aware of the rich history of the native Americans until I came across your channel, thank you for these amazing pictures, right before going to sleep🍀
I am very happy to hear you use the term "the ancient ones". This is a great way to help people understand how long we as a people and our ancestors have been on the lands here in north america.
Is there any way of telling from native stories how long your people believe they have been on the land?
@@aidanmartin7923 Its well known fact they migrated from Asia originally .
@@aidanmartin7923 The stories have clues. One, from where I am from, is the stories about giant beavers, giant beavers lived 10,000 (500 generations) ago. Also, where I am from, there are stories about the creation of a certain waterfall, something that geology says happened around 14000 (700 generations) ago and the people have been talking about in stories for generations. This is in eastern canada. I bet you can map these stories in this way, matching stories to known geological, paleontological or any other "ogical" sources and based on this get a better view of how long we have been here.
A favorite place of mine to hike! While I am a flatlander from Minnesota, I have guided 9 one week trips into The Big Ditch. We enjoy the non-maintained trails the most, especially Boucher Creek and North Bass Trail. Yuma Point is one of my favorite views on earth! Great video and you advise viewers so well. Hydration is everything down there, and I have seen people in dire conditions too many times. A sign at the top says, “Know Your Limits!” Still, until one has hiked The Canyon for themselves one time, it is impossible to know one’s limits. Getting good advice and good planning is extremely important to enjoyment and survival. And most people should take at least one layover day near a perrenial water source to recover before hiking out.
Being former military and a historian of ancient culture my guess is security as it would be near impossible for an opposing force to wage war against a people in those cliffs. Also, I do not agree about the difficulty to have a flourishing agriculture because of the readily available water supply. You might take a look at what some people are doing in the middle of the deserts turning waste land into flourishing food gardens. I think these ancient people did the same. Also, by having hidden food caches dispersed up and down the canyons this would allow them to survive while traveling the area but because they are hidden would not allow an opposing force to access them.
Wouldn't it be relatively easy to wage war against people in those cliffs? Burn their crops and deny them access to water-or did they store significant amounts of water in their cliff houses?
Maybe they are way points
@@finnberglander7816 Good point but new research strongly suggests these ancient people did not actually "live" in the cliffs but rather used them for food processing, storage, look out posts and defensive positions when needed. This is what I think also meaning they lived with their crops and easy access to water.
The granaries are ingeniously placed!
Some of the areas in GC looks like petrified cities
I'm a 900 year old frog person stuck on a swamp planet. Thank you so much for uploading your adventures so that people like me can experience them.
God bless the USA ❤️❤️
Ribbit..
Swamp planets have wifi too
I'm also a frog person. Like you, I am also stuck on a swamp planet. However, I am only 669 years old.
What part are you from? I live in Boggy. By any chance, do you know Squippy? He lives in the Soggy District of Boggy and runs a moderately successful fungus farm. 🍄 😜
If you find Squippy, let me know- he’s owes me 2,000 Boggins.
900, wow. Im surprised you havnt croaked yet.
That view at 27:30 is mindblowing. Photography at the Grand Canyon never does it justice - I can only imagine how spectacular that view is in person.
Next time you post a time stamp, post it as 27:30 so it will be highlighted.
If you made longer videos like this I think people would watch them through
A cookbook would be a welcome addition to my library.
You eat well for back packers. I'm near 80. Usta hike about 20-30 miles a week in the PNW before I wore out my knees and hips. I never hiked the desert, so your videos are very interesting. Especially with the ruins and info about the old inhabitants. Thanks!
Thank you oceanmariner! That’s incredibly generous. I’m glad I can show you a part of the country you haven’t experienced yet. The PNW is a special place as well!
Love the cookbook idea, hope you go ahead with it 😊
Always feel like I’m on adventure with you. You get to explore places some will never visit
Thank you for letting me live and see things vicariously through you.
I think this is my favorite video you have posted 😃🫶🏻
I love that you went a bit deeper into the history than usual. I wish I could hike into these places you go. I could’ve in 20s and 30s but I was raising a family then. Now I’m just plain broken, from head to toes, literally. I love this kind of history and our beautiful country 🇺🇸.
These comments make me sad. Try carnivore. Maybe it’s not too late for you. American diet kills. That includes the low fat garbage the doctors recommend. Killed my dad and was on the way to killing me. Turned it around and lighter that my high school weight. Life changer!
The night shots are spectacular
I love the signs at the GC advising hikers. Someone explained it to me like this: usually we go up a mountain when we are fresh and down when spent. It's the opposite in the Grand Canyon. You have the easy descent when fresh and the hard climb out once your energy is spent. It's energy is absolutely majestic, in person.
Navajo elders can answer your questions. The people who lived temporarily in the Grand Canyon were Cliff Dweller people who fled into remote areas to escape the Anasazi people. The Anasazi were not good people. They came from the south (Mexico), remained in Chaco Canyon for 280 years, then returned to the south. While in Chaco they captured, and traded, slaves. They also ate human flesh. When the Anasazi left Chaco, the cliff dweller people returned to their traditional farm lands. During this period (Anasazi occupation), many cliff dweller clans, as well as Fremont people, and ancestral Puebloans people, joined with the Dene' people, (safety in numbers) where they remain to this day. Because the Anasazi people in Chaco relied upon slave labor, their building techniques, and pottery styles, confused early archeologists. What the Anasazi left behind is pretty much a mishmash of various other enslaved peoples arts, crafts, and technology. The Anasazi have no decedents currently living in the USA. They returned to Mexico long ago, and were most probably a clan of the Aztec people.
I believe that the Anasazi are now being called the Ancient Puebloan people,
Because Anasazi means ancient enemy,
And Native American tribes were getting upset about the name.
Not to get into a online debate but Hopi elders would disagree with the Navajo elders you are referencing.
@@deanasnarky3903 If the Anasazi were likely of Aztec origin, why would they now be referred to as ancient Puebloan?? That confuses the issue even more.
Weren't they Giants
Not nessisarly those were people from long ago
Thank you SO much for your trips! I have watched other hiking videos, but mostly they just film themselves walking in a pretty environment. Nice, but YOU share so much information & history about the places you go, and the way to behave and respect the land and habitat! I enjoy it all so much. I have always wanted to do what you are doing, but never had the time. Now at a moderately senior age, and a few spine injuries later, I don't see it ever happening. Your generous sharing of your adventures in this way is allowing me to live my dreams vicariously through your camera! I can't thank you enough.... Blessings on your future travels~
Cook book a good idea!
Hey... have you ever gone miles and run into a spot that you just couldn't pass & had to go back to the beginning and take another route?
I can’t thank you enough for your high quality videos. I was a desert rat myself during the 30 years I lived in Utah, exploring much as you do but without the modern camera gear. Your work often brings a tear to my eye as I recall my own revelry when experiencing these most beautiful landscapes on earth. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I stumbled upon your channel a few months ago and have watched every video since (and most before that). I find it amazing what kind of quality content is brought to us by content creators. When I think back to my childhood, I'd compare this type of content to legendary TV shows like The Crocodile Hunter (since I can't think of a Geology/History-based one) in scope and the things you can learn from it. Thank you for taking us to some of the most interesting places you are excited about.
Thanks for the beautiful videos of these canyons and ruins. One likely reason cliff dwellers in the Southwestern canyon lands might build granaries and storage spaces high up the cliff faces would be to protect their food and supplies from flash floods. These canyons experience severe flash floods on a fairly regular basis, and the bottom land area where they were farming and building a larger settlement could have been submerged by floods often enough that the people adapted to storing their critical food supplies and tools high up the canyon walls. These cliff storage spaces could also double as defensive installations if the tribe was attacked.
That's a good point! The floods that bring silt and deep moisture to the fields and promote high nutrient loaded ground for farming would be random enough to warrant the creation of a high safe area for produce.
I think that was the obvious answer, but 800 feet up is extremely high, and so perhaps flooding was not the issue, but defence concerns were.
I'm so happy that I found your channel. I'm like some of these other viewers, I'm 57 years old. Arthritis has taken its toll on me . I loved exploring the desert in Nevada. Your videos are better than most shows on TV. Thanks for sharing your adventures.
It's a great morning when you wake up to a new @Desert Drifter video! Thanks!
It seemed like the same video as the other week to me?
@@user-xh3zo4ts6hextended cut
@@user-xh3zo4ts6h I noticed some similarities, but as DD wrote, this is an “extended version of his 4 day trip.” So that explains a few overlaps. No problem at all from this viewer! Best on TH-cam, imo.
Gratitude. All I have for this video is gratitude.
I always enjoy your adventures. The landscape is phenomenal. Waiting for the next one. Stay safe. 😊
Thanks for sharing your explorations! I always enjoy your wanderings and discoveries. Regarding your Nankoweap visit, as an aging and long time river guide in Grand Canyon, I’ve encountered many of the granary structures tucked into and sheltered by ledges and alcoves along the length of the Canyon and the side canyons. I was told back in 1970 on my first trip, that they were built as defensive measures to protect and hide their food and other survival supplies from potential enemies. I’ve often thought there may be a more prosaic and much more practical explanation. If I were living and farming there, and had at the end of the growing season, several hundred pounds of corn and piñon nuts etc to store, I’m faced with the question of where to build my storage facility. Creating a weather and varmint proof storage structure out of rock would I think, be quite challenging to do out under the open sky. Those protected ledges/alcoves offer a much simpler build (the roof and half of the walls are already built) and offer an extremely protected location, safe from the ravages of the climate extremes that exist there. The extreme heat affecting a food storage area out in the open there, would alone be damaging to stored crops. There seems to be little way of knowing about the level of inter-tribal hostilities in those days and that may well have been a factor, but I still think from a purely practical point of view, that’s where I would have built my food storage structures. As always, I look forward to your next beautifully produced video.
Awesome! Thanks, Andrew, for an exciting exploration. Good to see Josh with you. Some of those cliffs are nerve-racking just watching. I appreciate the editing and prepareing useful information. See you on the next episode.
Very informative really appreciate, so well done 🫡👍
Very nicely done.The narration is calming as well as informative.The videography superb.
Your videos keep getting better and better! Thanks so much! Cheers!
Love to see you locate the secretive Egyptian portion no one talks about.
Just down from the gay quarter. Ssh
Yes! Same here. Perhaps if they have the Egyptian named peaks in the camera site. If they can't now, maybe the next time.
I'm just so grateful that Josh, and his friend have the passion, physical strength and courage to climb and hike this part of the canyon. They have been risking their lives.
The discussion pulls the whole adventure together! One of the best you have done!
I hiked across the Canyon back in about 1977. North to south, solo. I was fortunate to tag along with a college geology class on a field trip, and their instructor was very friendly and helpful. It was a march down through the history of the earth. Layers like Coconino limestone, Toroweap sandstone, (I may have some of this wrong), Vishnu schist down at the bottom, pre Cambrian stuff. It was a great trip and I will never forget it. I still have the coffee cup I packed along on that trip. I did some free climbing in some areas, but not as brave as you and your buddies. Great work, keep it up, and big thanks for all you do for us.
But the grand canyon was created in less then a year.
@@mattmatt6572Wow, I heard that somewhere. Please tell us more. I know that Lake Missoula the ice age lake broke through and carved out the Grand.Coulee in WA , and the badlands in Eastern WA , but the Grand Canyon? ..it never made sense that a river did all that.
Am really not certain what did it as far as proof go's. I attribute the grand canyon to a great flood. As their is hard evidence the river did not carve it out. The start of the river at the canyon at the rim is higher elevation then the end of the canyon at the rim. The river could not have started flowing their befor the canyon was carved as water does not flow up hill. Unless the laws of gravity didn't apply back then. But in that case a river could never carve a canyon without gravity.
Rather you than me on those sketchy trails mate ! The history and archeology is fascinating and the photography is top notch.
Thanks 👍
Lots of work to build those structures. They must have brought mud and clay all that way up the cliffs. Maybe the did have a block and tackle. Maybe there was more timber around in those days. Maybe they used it all and had to move on.
Best Grand Canyon video I've seen yet...thanx!
Thanks for another great escape on my Saturday morning. I like the extended version even more!
Definitely love the backcountry cookbook idea!!👍
What a treat to find your video this morning. I appreciate going along with you visually on your journey and I love the historical back story you provide. In my childhood, like many family’s, I went to the Grand Canyon - a stop along the trip from coast to coast. A semi-annual event. It gave me a life-long desire to learn the history of a place. Your channel with video is a blessing now that I’m past the season of hiking and travel. Thank you for sharing your journeys.
As far as the height of the graineries, maybe the higher elevation was more conducive to food storage. Maybe the food lasted longer with less degradation?
LOVE that you’re putting out the extended versions of these. More please! Love what you’re doing.
It's a great morning when you wake up to a new @Desert Drifter video! I visited the Grand Canyon a few years back and I was amazed how looking down in the canyon messes with your depth perception.
I am happy you brought someone else along, in case something goes wrong. I love the videos but hate to see you alone.
Your content keeps getting better and better! It's great to see artifacts and academic references too. A+
already watched the original, back for the extended cut... mesmerizing scenery
Some of those angled trails are scary as hell. One mis-step or trip and it’s all over. Whew!
Epic! Fantastic camera angles 📸 grateful for this share thank you!!
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This is a beautiful and hugely interesting hike. 35 years ago we took an 8 day raft trip through the Canyon and your vlog brought back so many memories. We hiked to a grainery and enjoyed wonderful views. Thank you for teaching me more about the Canyon.
Did you raft on the Georgie White rafting adventures?? Think that was the name of the company. They’re take you white water rafting. Just curious caz my aunt did it at age 68 probably 35+?yrs ago.,🤔🤔.
My fear of heights would prevent me from hiking that (along with my lack of hiking experience.). Great video Andrew. Such fantastic views.
I love you taking me on your journey from the uk 🇬🇧
watching enviously from London UK. Magnificent.
Thank you, Desert Drifter; this is a side of the Grand Canyon that I have never seen, just imagined. My son is a guide for Great Ventures, but I have never been below the rim. Your wonderful video reports are my vicarious way of " seeing , what could never bee seen." I'm 80, now, so you understand. My desk top computer is my link to the world, and I am so Thankful for IT ! and for you! Blessings, Grace and Peace to you and your team. Please continue what you are doing. It is greatly appreciated!
Yes, please write a camping/backpackers cookbook! I love getting ideas for backpack cooking based on your suggestions and examples. Keep showing and sharing with us! Thank you!
I don't mind double dipping! lol Another "don't look down" video that was breath taking! Can't wait for next week!
This Extended Version is nicely done. I too feel the same question about the old people's ideas. Thank you.
Had to pause the video to say: Yes!!!! A "backcountry cookbook" would be fire. I am always amazed by the things you pull out of seemingly thin air. The ingredients just make sense for backpacking. Having fresh meals while out in the wild is such a luxury when you're not living off the land with the cultivated resources natives might have had. We gotta work with what we got... And you bring practicality to the table!
Love and appreciate your Channel. I'm 61 today and enjoy this from a distance now. Did Half the Appalachian 5 years ago. Be Safe and God's Blessings 🙌 🙏 Thank you 😊
Brother! Your videos are epic! I look forward to your videos every week like we used to wait for our favorite TV shows "back in the day."
Absolutely spectacular scenery, which made my hands sweat seeing you perched so high on a crumbly rock edge😳 Thrilled that you have a hiking companion with you👍👍👍 The scenery you have captured is amazing and your narrative is wonderful. Thank you for sharing your adventures and continue to be safe❤
Just wanted to thank you for bring us your journey. I pray for you and your friend safety. You are awesome!
Thanks Andrew! You’re doing a great job showing and explaining! Awesome insight!
Thank you!
What a pleasant morning treat!
I expect the river itself is partly to blame. Many growing seasons were probably not productive so those graineries were the only thing keeping them alive. Now imagine perfecting as well you can you're agricultural plots, and then a 100 year flood happens. Not only damaging your crops, but washing away 100 years of soil building and irrigation canals. It would be devastating. Now imagine it happens again. The feast or famine nature of the canyon could have finally been too much. Remember, this was a river without dams and had a very different hydology than it does not. Just some thoughts. Enjoy your videos.
I found charts and reports on flood flow rates but couldn't find anything about depth of water at those flow rates. But I am of the same opinion: safety for those times when the river turned wild. Truly a different river many hundreds of years ago. Storage areas high and dry had to be a necessity as you so clearly stated.
Awesome scenery and treacherous areas. That was great, Andrew and friends.
Awesome content!
Always love those night shots! Great video
My friend is a ranger at the Grand Canyon and she can attest to the difficulty and danger of hiking there.
Thanks for this extended version…..been waiting since you told us it was coming!
I am 74 and can’t get out like I one time did but I enjoy the trips with you please keep it going
I would buy your back country cook book. You sure eat better than I do on the trail. On another note, a lot of your videos are pretty vertigo inducing (I’m very afraid of heights) but this one was off the chart. Still stunning and extremely enjoyable.
Hunter gatherers still walk here. You're one of them. 👍
love all those info tidbits, great editing!
Thank you for sharing these adventures, wish I was able to see all this with my own eyes!
Whatever the history, it remains a breathtaking view.
Thank you for this extended version. I truly enjoyed it
Amazing footage.. I love the fingerprints… brings you into contact with the ancients.. you have great respect for all the places you visit ..thank you
I've not been subbed to your channel for long but amazing travels pal, thanks very much for sharing your ventures and gorgeous photography. I think you're right about the beams being for a platform rather than lifting, they don't look like they would bear much weight and you would need a place to put things when moving multiple items in and out of the structure so it makes sense to me.
Love your videos. Despite 40years of flying I suffer from acrophobia when I'm rooted to the ground. I can hike vicariously and only cringe slightly looking down over your feet!🙂
Incredible, Andrew (hi, Josh!).
Majestic. Fascinating. Respect & admiration for those who lived & thrived there.
Greatly enjoy the extended content.
Blessings.
(Vertigo alert!)
This is another awesome video! The footage is exhilarating and the dialog is informative. Thank you Andrew!
Yeah, I also came down nankoweap but stayed on the Tonto on a traverse to Bright Angel. Only about 50 people registered for that permit that year. We camped at Unkar Creek and were flash flooded on and were forced to dry out for a day. That Unkar Delta looked like a perfect site to grow stuff. Looked like a great hike. Great pics and narration, bro.
Thank you for the time and attention to details, like the fingerprints.. so interesting, so colorful and beautiful🧡
This is an awesome exploration into areas we would never be able to traverse. It is awe inspiring. Thinking about visiting Grand Canyon now! Possible bucket list item.
You have an award winning talent developing.
Nothing like waking up to a new Desert Drifter video, Thank you!
I appreciate these videos and yourself so much! My Scottish heart soars at the beauty and sheer scale of the grand canyon, in a way usually solely reserved for when I'm out in the Highland wilds. Your voice is so lovely to listen to, too. So glad I stumbled upon your channel!
Its mind blowing to look out across the canyon and imagine how it wouldve looked as it was being formed so long ago.
This is becoming my favorite channel brother. Thank you for your wisdom and knowledge. 👍🔔💯🔥
Great video! One of your best. I can appreciate the time and effort you put in to researching this to make it as educational as it was an adventure for us. Thanks for what you do. Keep it up please
Thinking of the difficulty for you to get up to these storage units, and then think of that those who used them carried up everything they would put there is mind blowing.
AZ native here. Who else is watching from Arizona?
Tucson
Phoenix!
Mesa born and raised 🙌
Green Valley, AZ
I'm from NYC. But I'm drinking an Arizona Ice Tea, is that good enough?
Phenomenal camera work so clear and beautiful as well
So good that I find myself closing my eyes because of the heights and the rocky sloping pathways!
Watching from Québec, Canada. How beautiful! Thank you for these images.
I cannot walk very well so hiking along with you is a real pleasure. Thank you!!! ❤️