Thanks for creating video and sharing the site. Almost castle like and very different construction; they used no mortar and clearly were cutting stones. Is that a natural mound or completely manmade? Sounded like the elevation getting up there was pretty steep. Don’t feel bad about stopping looking around and catching your breath. I watch the other two channels you mentioned welcome to exploring and documenting the past that has been hidden. God’s Blessings 🙏🏼
Thank you! Haha, I am much older than the other guys who are doing this. I will edit out my struggles on future videos to help them seem more cinamatic 😂 Yes the builders were definitely cutting the stones and skillfully stacking them. They may have used mortar but it may have worn away. The top of the hill seemed natural but heavily worked. Some of the rooms were dug down into the soil or the soil was piled up around the rooms. Thanks for watching, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I found this ruins a few years ago using Google Earth also. Took the trip out by myself to explore. It was quite a long run. The climb was steep and entry into the ruins itself was very slippery with all of the fallen flatrock near the top. Eventually I made it inside the walls and took in the awesome views while catching my breath. Explored the area and had some lunch before starting back down. This was an awesome ruins with views beyond belief. Well worth the work it took to get there.
Obvious from all the stones on the downward slopes that they were once part of the surrounding walls. I can only imagine how the entire structure looked when it was originally built. I also wonder if like many of the cliff ruins if the walls were once plastered over with mud. Geez...think what that would have looked like back in the day! Unbelievable site. Thanks for mentioning the other two channels...I had already subscribed to them.....and now you!
Beautiful footage! I am disabled so this content takes me places I can not go! Music is always nice with the scenery! Try to say any facts you may have on the history of the area. Thanks for the nice film!
I am happy you joined me! It is always so rewarding for me to know people enjoy the places I go also! I will work on the history stuff, I’m not very knowledgeable about that stuff yet. I am working on it though. This was my first video of this type, I have about 10 more published. Hopefully they are getting better quality! Thanks for joining my adventure and the feedback!
Only 10.6k subs? 10yrs you've been here. I follow TreckPlanner, and surprised you only have that amount! Darn youtube, but I'm here now haha 😄 🍻🇨🇦🍻 cheers from Vancouver Island
Thanks! Apparently TH-cam only likes one niche channels… I like to video what I do and help people. No good deed goes unpunished! Haha! Thanks for joining my adventures!
@@heathputnam9524 my pleasure. I am a gold prospector, so all these areas I watch for signs of gold. I don't follow too many adventurers, just don't have the time to watch, but I enjoy your layout, and giving support where it's needed.
Thank you for taking me on this ride. Always love to see puebloan or anasazi (?) dwellings. This was quite a defendible place. I guess they had to bring food and water up with them. It more looked like a safehouse or a look-out post. The very thick walls are awesome, including the technique with which they seem to be build. Protection from the wind and the cold? Keep the light of a fire hidden? Any reason, why it was build in such a remote place? Very rugged country in the surrounding area as well. Much enjoyed what you were able to show. I liked your invitation to audience participation, makes one involved. I always wonder why all the pottery found is broken. Does it weather that way? The pieces that you (and others) do find, do not look weathered in a particular way. Why not more pieces in close proximity? Always more questions than answers. Wonderful findings. Thanks again!
Yea the ruin was on top of the hill but it was on the edge of a canyon that actually has water in the creek. Most of it runs under the sand now, but does emerge in places. I am in the high desert and the temperature dips below zero during the winter so if any pot got water in it the resulting ice would definitely split it! Most of the ruins I have visited have also shown signs of deer, elk and cows within the walls. Not sure why they like them but they do! Probably for the same reason the ruins were built there in the first place! Those visitors hooves as well as houses man shoes grind the pottery up pretty fine. Almost all the ruins in the southwest were looted long ago. Thanks for watching!
I have just started getting some of the exploring content on my feed. Have watched Desert Drifter a bit. I think this was a good video for just getting started. I am 70, and would not be able to visit these wonderful sites under my own steam.
that was amazing: thank you very much for sharing your adventure. the country is stark and beautiful at the same time, and i reckon it's teeming with life yet appears to be completely inhospitable
Thanks I’m glad you enjoyed it! This time of the year there are mule deer, elk, coyote, bobcat, mountain lions, rabbits and javelina. During warmer weather add the insects, lizards and snakes. It is truly lively! But you are right, the beauty is in the starkness! Thanks for watching!
Amazing structure. You seem to have an intuitive grasp of what needs to be done. You knew where to climb to not disturb the site, good Bush Whacker clothing, (that prickly Pear could have ended the trip if you'd been in shorts, or even Levis) and when to NOT to fly a drone. Trust your instincts. TYVM!
These look like pueblo ruins probably around 1000-1400 AD. They typically dug down so part of the room is in the ground and stacked stone up on the walls with clay as mortar. Typically you wouldn't see any entry into these small little rooms and the only way you can access them is through the roof with ladders.
There is a mountain range over 70 miles across the valley and you can clearly see it and everything in between. They could certainly see enemies coming from a long way away! Thanks for watching!
@@heathputnam9524 Hey, it just looks like your camera can't keep up with motion too well. Some of the cheap Chinese cameras on Amazon actually make decent video, and they're under a hundred bucks. I subbed and will follow! 🙏
I have another video of a similar but more intact of a ruin very close to this one. I called it Yellow Castle. That shows the floor better. Thanks for joining the adventure.
Out in the middle of nowhere. Where did the people get their food? and water? What could have been the age of the tiny settlement. The dating would be imperative to who and what might have been going on. Thanks for the trek and your camera work and upload to TH-cam!!
The structure is at the top of a high hill which commands a hundred mile view of the surrounding area. At the base of the hill is a canyon with a small amount of water in places. Since they built a huge structure I expect they lived, hunted and farmed in that area at least a large part of the year. As to how old this is, who knows… hundreds to thousands! Thanks for watching!
Thinking about whoever inhabited this, it appears that they would have visibility in all directions. They could see their enemies coming. Sounds a lot like a “book” I routinely study. Neat place.
The yellow color of the rock would have made this place shine on the top of that hill. You could see it for miles, but in return they could see their enemies for miles also! Thanks for watching!
You know, I watch these videos, and have so many questions afterwards. That looked like a very large structure, with a lot of it tumbled down all over the hill. Why did they build it there? The work, just to get the stone up there, would have been intense! What was it? Why exactly, were the walls that thick? Was it a temple, a dwelling, an observatory, a burial site? So many questions. Thank You for this very interesting find. 😊
I know what you are saying. When I visit these places I am in awe and always leave with more questions than answers! In this weeks video I visit another ruin that is fairly close to this one. The walls are in much better shape but even that ruin answers very few questions, except the fact these were defensive ruins! Hopefully you will come on that adventure with me on Saturday! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for sharing your adventure. Pretty darn good for a first try. Is this Arizona, New Mexico, Utah , or Colorado? I think I know from the mountain range as you scanned.
I'm sure that all of it was neat and orderly when it was new but time has taken its toll on how it looks today. The upper part has gradually been sliding down the mountain and leaving behind a jumbled up mess. I would have loved to have seen the finished product with the roof on it before.
@@brendadavis4254 I found another ruin that is pretty close to this one on Google Earth and visited it a few weeks ago. The walls were much more intact. I called it Yellow Castle! If you watch the video of Yellow Castle, please let me know if you think it was built by the same people. Thanks for joining me on the adventure!
Terrain, look and setting remind me of some of our stone ruins here in South Africa. One suggestion is maybe higher frame rate - the panning shots seem slightly jarring. Great vid!
Thanks for the feedback! I am learning the filming part, as to make my videos more cinematic. I think my second video is much better and my drone footage is getting better in my opinion. I would like to see videos of ruins from South Africa! Thanks for watching!
What's the story on the modern day open pit mine or prospect in the near distance shown in one of your shots from the top? That could help explain why the ruins are there. Especially if there is copper oxide (azuride or malachite) present.
That pit has been closed for years by looking at the entry road. Full sized trees growing up through the center. The yellow rock the ruin is made out of is the same material in that pit. Thanks for watching!
I don’t think so. I found another site very close to this one with walls more intact. But I am not an expert. I posted that site this week. Check my channel for it! Thanks for joining my adventure!
I believe they walked down into the adjacent canyon every day with pots and then carried it back up. Seems arduous to us but I think they were far more in shape than we are now a day! Thanks for watching!
That was a site in pretty good shape. Amazing though with what looked like a mining operation nearby. How do you protect yourself from snakes when walking off trail like that?
Yes the mining/quarry is close, it seems defunct but let’s hope they do not start up again and decide to flatten that hill! Right now it is cold, that day was 35F so no snakes but it can be dicey during warmer months. I try to wear foot to shin snake gators, but they really make your calves sweat! Thanks for watching!
In a lot of podcasts I have found that they contain a lot of footage that is tedious. In this clip views of walking along pathways and bushes and piles of rocks is frankly boring. Most viewers want to see the good stuff... like structures, artifacts, layout of the ruins... it might also be a good idea to switch off the mike while walking to cut the sound of deep breathing. I would suggest drone footage would also be a great help in understanding the order of the ruins at close altitude.
@@heathputnam9524 Heath, just wanted to say that the video was excellent and that the structure was probably two stories tall, truly enjoyed it and look forward to seeing more videos like this from you.
They've all been detected hundreds of times believe it or not. There really aren't any old places left to detect unless your looking for modern bottle caps, pull tabs and aluminum cans. Plus it's suddenly become illegal to detect in most government lands. They actually call it removal of artifacts. We've detected all those back in the 70s when silver was 65 dollars an ounce. None of these areas used metal though until going to the reservation and learning the trade. Down in south Mexico was another story though. But now it's too dangerous down there.
@@AzTurboMini yes ..so for all the overeating etc of the generations since ..they actually became weaker and softer ..very strong and agile people back in the day ..not now ..
@@heathputnam9524 How far is the neatest water away.I have just started watching these types of flim clips and enjoy them very much. Most of these settlements seem to be fortified,which leads me believe it must been a hostile time period to live.Are these Indians living in clans.
@@Peter-kk6rg I’m sorry I’m not an expert. I can tell you the east side drops directly into a canyon that still has a little water in places. Thanks for watching!
One interesting thing is the ruins on the hilltop and another ineresting thing are the first minutes from this video. Look at 2:06 to 2:36. I see a lot of stones and they are rounded. They look like there had been water at some time long before. This leads me to a theory of a great flood in your country. This flood washed out all the canyons and left not much small partikles of earth in great parts of the southwest. I thin this theory is true, because if I spot all the levels of canyons, there has some washed out sand to be left on some places. But there is nothing. Every small partikles are washed out. Rocks and stones we see today are all created by later erosion.
I’m no expert and have no idea about a flood but I have found many places between 5000 and 7000 feet above sea level with tons of fossilized sea shells. An inland sea emptying quickly could give the results you are talking about… just conjecture. Thanks for watching!
I think this will Pueblo had parts that were several stories high. I do believe it’s been po hunted. The Pueblo has very fine masonry and its walls would not have fallen in all directions from the summit like that from freeze thaw cycles. The wall sections were probably pushed over or otherwise weakened as the site was looted.
What I was looking at was graffiti, someone scratched their initials into the rock, but after looking at the footage there was actually some petroglyphs down low. Tomorrow’s video will have some petroglyphs in it! Thanks for watching!
Hmmm, why is the pottery & walls of the rooms at all of these sites all crushed up & strewn everywhere ??? It might have been a mini ice age or tremendous flooding 600 years ago that destroyed it & the people fled in short order ?
All the walls and "houses" have 90degree corners, just like modern construction. Whereas Native American was all "round" as from the "Sacred Hoop" of the world. It’s Just odd to see the shifts in faith/spiritual thinking and 90 degree corners to Circular to "square" still being used today.
True! After watching the videos during editing there were petroglyphs on that rock but I missed them due to the other recent graffiti! Thanks for watching!
Though it goes against my nature I will offer suggestions, since you asked, about your new channel. I am a long time "consumer" not a creator. We all know where the comment section is. We don't need to be reminded that it's "below". Everybody does it as if reading from a script. Please don't. We also know how to subscribe, like, unlike, etc. Speaking only for myself I seek and appreciate new and interesting information without any drama or "steering" or manipulation and repetition like commercials. It wastes my time. Details like lighting and focus are nice but it's the content that I'm after, not necessarily quality. I ditched TV about 15 years ago for these and many other reasons. If you're "out there" and loving it I'm with ya. If you're focused on getting more subs by doing what the cool kids are doing I'm probably not gonna last Do what you love and share it. Please. And thanks for this interesting and informative vid! And of course, NEVER QUIT. All the best!
I turn off videos like this as soon as i realize you are not saying where this is. In the USA? Africa? You could say approximately where. I wont subscribe.
Thanks for creating video and sharing the site. Almost castle like and very different construction; they used no mortar and clearly were cutting stones. Is that a natural mound or completely manmade? Sounded like the elevation getting up there was pretty steep. Don’t feel bad about stopping looking around and catching your breath. I watch the other two channels you mentioned welcome to exploring and documenting the past that has been hidden. God’s Blessings 🙏🏼
Thank you! Haha, I am much older than the other guys who are doing this. I will edit out my struggles on future videos to help them seem more cinamatic 😂 Yes the builders were definitely cutting the stones and skillfully stacking them. They may have used mortar but it may have worn away. The top of the hill seemed natural but heavily worked. Some of the rooms were dug down into the soil or the soil was piled up around the rooms. Thanks for watching, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I found this ruins a few years ago using Google Earth also. Took the trip out by myself to explore. It was quite a long run. The climb was steep and entry into the ruins itself was very slippery with all of the fallen flatrock near the top. Eventually I made it inside the walls and took in the awesome views while catching my breath. Explored the area and had some lunch before starting back down. This was an awesome ruins with views beyond belief. Well worth the work it took to get there.
Thank you for the comment! Definitely an awesome ruin to explore!
Sorry to be a grammar nazi but it should be “this ruin” or “these ruins” great info though.
Very cool. If you go, I will watch. I can't walk anymore, but this is the stuff I love to find when I could walk. Thank You for taking us with you.
You are welcome to come along with me! Thanks for watching!
Obvious from all the stones on the downward slopes that they were once part of the surrounding walls. I can only imagine how the entire structure looked when it was originally built. I also wonder if like many of the cliff ruins if the walls were once plastered over with mud. Geez...think what that would have looked like back in the day! Unbelievable site. Thanks for mentioning the other two channels...I had already subscribed to them.....and now you!
It must have been quite a sight 1000 years ago! If all those stones were walls! Thanks for watching!
Very cool, thank you for sharing your adventure.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
New sub. Thanks for sharing your adventure .😊
Thanks for joining my adventure and also for the sub!
Excellent footage. Between the wind, rocks, and cactus, you had quite a climb! Thanks for sharing!😊
Thank you for watching! I hope you enjoyed the adventure!
Great work! Thanks!
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
I greatly enjoy this sort of content and I liked the video, so thank you for creating and sharing it with us.
I’m glad you joined me! Thanks for watching!
Beautiful footage! I am disabled so this content takes me places I can not go! Music is always nice with the scenery! Try to say any facts you may have on the history of the area. Thanks for the nice film!
I am happy you joined me! It is always so rewarding for me to know people enjoy the places I go also! I will work on the history stuff, I’m not very knowledgeable about that stuff yet. I am working on it though. This was my first video of this type, I have about 10 more published. Hopefully they are getting better quality! Thanks for joining my adventure and the feedback!
Excellent adventure; thank you for sharing and guiding. Aloha.
Really cool find. Thanks for the adventure.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Just found your channel love it and I did subscribe......👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Awesome! Thank you!
Very cool find! I'm enjoying the drone shots and RZR footage too!
More drone shots to come in the next video... I have been practicing! Thanks for watching!
Only 10.6k subs?
10yrs you've been here.
I follow TreckPlanner, and surprised you only have that amount! Darn youtube, but I'm here now haha 😄
🍻🇨🇦🍻 cheers from Vancouver Island
Thanks! Apparently TH-cam only likes one niche channels… I like to video what I do and help people. No good deed goes unpunished! Haha! Thanks for joining my adventures!
@@heathputnam9524 my pleasure. I am a gold prospector, so all these areas I watch for signs of gold. I don't follow too many adventurers, just don't have the time to watch, but I enjoy your layout, and giving support where it's needed.
Thank you for this amazing tour!
All those loose rocks on the hill side on the way up use to be stacked up forming walls of the ruin.
I agree! Thanks for watching!
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desert drifter just finds popular places and pretends to find them on google earth
Thank you for taking me on this ride. Always love to see puebloan or anasazi (?) dwellings. This was quite a defendible place. I guess they had to bring food and water up with them. It more looked like a safehouse or a look-out post. The very thick walls are awesome, including the technique with which they seem to be build. Protection from the wind and the cold? Keep the light of a fire hidden? Any reason, why it was build in such a remote place? Very rugged country in the surrounding area as well. Much enjoyed what you were able to show. I liked your invitation to audience participation, makes one involved. I always wonder why all the pottery found is broken. Does it weather that way? The pieces that you (and others) do find, do not look weathered in a particular way. Why not more pieces in close proximity? Always more questions than answers. Wonderful findings. Thanks again!
Yea the ruin was on top of the hill but it was on the edge of a canyon that actually has water in the creek. Most of it runs under the sand now, but does emerge in places. I am in the high desert and the temperature dips below zero during the winter so if any pot got water in it the resulting ice would definitely split it! Most of the ruins I have visited have also shown signs of deer, elk and cows within the walls. Not sure why they like them but they do! Probably for the same reason the ruins were built there in the first place! Those visitors hooves as well as houses man shoes grind the pottery up pretty fine. Almost all the ruins in the southwest were looted long ago. Thanks for watching!
@@heathputnam9524 Thank you and enjoy your day!
Great content !!!!!
Thanks for watching!
I have just started getting some of the exploring content on my feed. Have watched Desert Drifter a bit. I think this was a good video for just getting started. I am 70, and would not be able to visit these wonderful sites under my own steam.
Awesome video
Thanks for watching!
that was amazing: thank you very much for sharing your adventure. the country is stark and beautiful at the same time, and i reckon it's teeming with life yet appears to be completely inhospitable
Thanks I’m glad you enjoyed it! This time of the year there are mule deer, elk, coyote, bobcat, mountain lions, rabbits and javelina. During warmer weather add the insects, lizards and snakes. It is truly lively! But you are right, the beauty is in the starkness! Thanks for watching!
Amazing structure. You seem to have an intuitive grasp of what needs to be done. You knew where to climb to not disturb the site, good Bush Whacker clothing, (that prickly Pear could have ended the trip if you'd been in shorts, or even Levis) and when to NOT to fly a drone. Trust your instincts. TYVM!
Thanks for the kind comments and also for watching my video!
These look like pueblo ruins probably around 1000-1400 AD. They typically dug down so part of the room is in the ground and stacked stone up on the walls with clay as mortar. Typically you wouldn't see any entry into these small little rooms and the only way you can access them is through the roof with ladders.
There were really no signs of entrances between t also no sign of mortar either! Thanks for the information and thanks for watching!
It looks like it was a sophisticated structure that was knocked down. Like a flood washed over it. Glacieral lakes bursting?
Could be! Thanks for going with me on my adventures!
So, tip on the moviemaking aspect of this: find something else to do with the audio but listen to you breath and crunch around.
Thanks for the input!
Beautiful! Thank you. I wouldn't ever be able to get there.!
Im glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
It must have been one heck of a cataclysm that shook this place!
One huge event or many smaller events over hundreds if not thousands of years. Thanks for watching!
It looks like some kind of ancient lookout post!
There is a mountain range over 70 miles across the valley and you can clearly see it and everything in between. They could certainly see enemies coming from a long way away! Thanks for watching!
Wind sock for the mic would help. Enjoyed the video. THX
I just bought one! Hopefully the next video will be better! Thanks for watching!
great find, if you plan to do this more, you may need to get a drone...aerial view can give more clues.
I have one now! Check out some more f my other videos! Thanks for watching!
I'm assuming your camera is crappy, but great video, nonetheless! Do more.
Sorry for the quality, I am trying to improve! Thanks for the feedback!
@@heathputnam9524 Hey, it just looks like your camera can't keep up with motion too well. Some of the cheap Chinese cameras on Amazon actually make decent video, and they're under a hundred bucks. I subbed and will follow! 🙏
@@heathputnam9524 oh, and I meant do more videos....lol
Thank you for the free education ❤🙏🙏
Fantastic! 😮
Thanks for joining me!
I'd be curious to know what the floor in that ruin looked like.
I have another video of a similar but more intact of a ruin very close to this one. I called it Yellow Castle. That shows the floor better. Thanks for joining the adventure.
Out in the middle of nowhere. Where did the people get their food? and water? What could have been the age of the tiny settlement. The dating would be imperative to who and what might have been going on. Thanks for the trek and your camera work and upload to TH-cam!!
The structure is at the top of a high hill which commands a hundred mile view of the surrounding area. At the base of the hill is a canyon with a small amount of water in places. Since they built a huge structure I expect they lived, hunted and farmed in that area at least a large part of the year. As to how old this is, who knows… hundreds to thousands! Thanks for watching!
As a subscriber to Desert Drifter and Trek Planner as well I think you had a pretty good go at it on your first outing.
Keep it up
Thanks, will do! I have about 9 more videos after this one. Feel free to comment on those and offer more feedback! Thanks for joining my adventures!
Things found on Google earth are so amazing, And then add drone footage when possible.❤❤❤. Which desert?
The high desert of Arizona really just covers a huge swath of land and doesn’t have a specific name! Thanks for jointing nh my adventure!
Thinking about whoever inhabited this, it appears that they would have visibility in all directions. They could see their enemies coming. Sounds a lot like a “book” I routinely study. Neat place.
The yellow color of the rock would have made this place shine on the top of that hill. You could see it for miles, but in return they could see their enemies for miles also! Thanks for watching!
I read that book much also
The spot is like a watch tower. They could light signal fires that could be seen for many miles.
I am sure that was at least part of the reason to build there! Thanks for watching!
I would think of it as a protective fort, that's why so many rooms.
You know, I watch these videos, and have so many questions afterwards. That looked like a very large structure, with a lot of it tumbled down all over the hill. Why did they build it there? The work, just to get the stone up there, would have been intense! What was it? Why exactly, were the walls that thick? Was it a temple, a dwelling, an observatory, a burial site? So many questions. Thank You for this very interesting find. 😊
I know what you are saying. When I visit these places I am in awe and always leave with more questions than answers! In this weeks video I visit another ruin that is fairly close to this one. The walls are in much better shape but even that ruin answers very few questions, except the fact these were defensive ruins! Hopefully you will come on that adventure with me on Saturday! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for sharing your adventure. Pretty darn good for a first try. Is this Arizona, New Mexico, Utah , or Colorado? I think I know from the mountain range as you scanned.
This is Arizona! It was a real beauty! Thanks for the comment!
I hate to tell you but some jerk n has pushed the stone walls over and down the sides! Very sad. I’m so glad you are respectful!
It looks like they started with nice orderly construction and the get sloppy as it got taller. Thx for the video!
Definitely the years have taken its toll! Thanks for joining me on this journey!
I'm sure that all of it was neat and orderly when it was new but time has taken its toll on how it looks today. The upper part has gradually been sliding down the mountain and leaving behind a jumbled up mess. I would have loved to have seen the finished product with the roof on it before.
@@brendadavis4254 I found another ruin that is pretty close to this one on Google Earth and visited it a few weeks ago. The walls were much more intact. I called it Yellow Castle! If you watch the video of Yellow Castle, please let me know if you think it was built by the same people. Thanks for joining me on the adventure!
Thank You
You are welcome! Thanks for watching!
Terrain, look and setting remind me of some of our stone ruins here in South Africa. One suggestion is maybe higher frame rate - the panning shots seem slightly jarring. Great vid!
Thanks for the feedback! I am learning the filming part, as to make my videos more cinematic. I think my second video is much better and my drone footage is getting better in my opinion. I would like to see videos of ruins from South Africa! Thanks for watching!
What kind of vehicle did you drive in on?
All of those stones strewn all over the hill top approach....do you think they were just caved in structure?
What's the story on the modern day open pit mine or prospect in the near distance shown in one of your shots from the top? That could help explain why the ruins are there. Especially if there is copper oxide (azuride or malachite) present.
That pit has been closed for years by looking at the entry road. Full sized trees growing up through the center. The yellow rock the ruin is made out of is the same material in that pit. Thanks for watching!
It makes me wonder if this isnt a rebuild of/on an ediface that was (mostly) destroyed?
That is A LOT of material!!
Wow
It was definitely a massive fortress of some sort! It must have been quite a site 800 years ago! Maybe a castle! Thanks for watching!
Could this be a burial site as opposed to living site?
I don’t think so. I found another site very close to this one with walls more intact. But I am not an expert. I posted that site this week. Check my channel for it! Thanks for joining my adventure!
When you are at these sites, you should try to determine their water source.
Most a very close to creeks or washes! Thanks for the comment and watching!
Wondering what those folks did for water?
I believe they walked down into the adjacent canyon every day with pots and then carried it back up. Seems arduous to us but I think they were far more in shape than we are now a day! Thanks for watching!
That was a site in pretty good shape. Amazing though with what looked like a mining operation nearby. How do you protect yourself from snakes when walking off trail like that?
Yes the mining/quarry is close, it seems defunct but let’s hope they do not start up again and decide to flatten that hill! Right now it is cold, that day was 35F so no snakes but it can be dicey during warmer months. I try to wear foot to shin snake gators, but they really make your calves sweat! Thanks for watching!
Builders unknown age unknown is the closest to the truth.
At least 700 years ago! That is current belief. Thanks for watching!
In a lot of podcasts I have found that they contain a lot of footage that is tedious. In this clip views of walking along pathways and bushes and piles of rocks is frankly boring. Most viewers want to see the good stuff... like structures, artifacts, layout of the ruins... it might also be a good idea to switch off the mike while walking to cut the sound of deep breathing. I would suggest drone footage would also be a great help in understanding the order of the ruins at close altitude.
Thanks for the feedback.
lot of mormon tea plants there with manzanita
Walls with no footer faĺl over eventually. Weight causes uneven settling.
Thanks for the comment and for watching!
Looked like there were more ruins down the slope to the southwest.
There were several basalt outcroppings nearby and looked like stacked rocks, but I do usually miss stuff! Thanks for watching!
The 2nd room looked like it could have been a granary…..
I am sure some of the rooms were for storage! Thanks for watching!
@@heathputnam9524 Heath, just wanted to say that the video was excellent and that the structure was probably two stories tall, truly enjoyed it and look forward to seeing more videos like this from you.
@@MegaCharger9 Should be one coming out this afternoon! Thanks for watching!
Why do no trekkers use metal detectors?
It’s an interesting question. Speaking for myself I wouldn’t dig in an ancient ruin. A metal detector would only tempt me. Thanks for watching!
They've all been detected hundreds of times believe it or not. There really aren't any old places left to detect unless your looking for modern bottle caps, pull tabs and aluminum cans. Plus it's suddenly become illegal to detect in most government lands. They actually call it removal of artifacts. We've detected all those back in the 70s when silver was 65 dollars an ounce. None of these areas used metal though until going to the reservation and learning the trade. Down in south Mexico was another story though. But now it's too dangerous down there.
Huge--- toppled by an earthquake, perhaps?
It is possible! Thanks for watching!
So how strong were these people ..put today's society to shame well and truely ..
And they were small compared to us today.
@@AzTurboMini yes ..so for all the overeating etc of the generations since ..they actually became weaker and softer ..very strong and agile people back in the day ..not now ..
They were definitely not couch potatoes! Thanks for watching!
Looks like someone in the past knocked the walls down.
It does look like that! Thanks for watching!
Those walls are thick .It looks like a hard environment to live in.
I cannot believe the tons of material they hauled up that hill!
@@heathputnam9524 How far is the neatest water away.I have just started watching these types of flim clips and enjoy them very much. Most of these settlements seem to be fortified,which leads me believe it must been a hostile time period to live.Are these Indians living in clans.
@@Peter-kk6rg I’m sorry I’m not an expert. I can tell you the east side drops directly into a canyon that still has a little water in places. Thanks for watching!
@@heathputnam9524 Thanks for bringing the past alive.
Looks like those flat rocks you are climbing on are ruins of fallen walls .
I believe you are right! Thanks for joining the adventure!
This is a dope find!
Thanks for watching!
One interesting thing is the ruins on the hilltop and another ineresting thing are the first minutes from this video. Look at 2:06 to 2:36. I see a lot of stones and they are rounded.
They look like there had been water at some time long before.
This leads me to a theory of a great flood in your country. This flood washed out all the canyons and left not much small partikles of earth in great parts of the southwest.
I thin this theory is true, because if I spot all the levels of canyons, there has some washed out sand to be left on some places. But there is nothing. Every small partikles are washed out. Rocks and stones we see today are all created by later erosion.
I’m no expert and have no idea about a flood but I have found many places between 5000 and 7000 feet above sea level with tons of fossilized sea shells. An inland sea emptying quickly could give the results you are talking about… just conjecture. Thanks for watching!
Those "rocks" look like melted deformed bricks.
They are really brick like. The rocks are sandstone so they weather that way! I love your icon! Thanks for watching!
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Looks to me like you are walking all over a fallen tower wall.
I am very careful where I walk when exploring! It was quite a structure though! Thanks for watching!
Those rocks are the walls that were knocked dnown.
Yup! Thanks for watching!
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Looks like prime snake territory to me.
Agreed! Luckily it is winter right now and they are hibernating! Thanks for joining my adventure!
How likely do you think it is that the piles of rock around 6:00 are actually walls that have fallen down?
I think that is highly likely! The walls would have been considerably higher during its original use! Thanks for watching!
I think this will Pueblo had parts that were several stories high. I do believe it’s been po hunted. The Pueblo has very fine masonry and its walls would not have fallen in all directions from the summit like that from freeze thaw cycles. The wall sections were probably pushed over or otherwise weakened as the site was looted.
So graffiti or petroglyphs???
Shame to do that huge trip and not capture the best stuff.
What I was looking at was graffiti, someone scratched their initials into the rock, but after looking at the footage there was actually some petroglyphs down low. Tomorrow’s video will have some petroglyphs in it! Thanks for watching!
@@heathputnam9524 Thank you for taking the time to clarify. All the best on the future your channel. Many good adventures you going forward
looks cataclysmic
IKR! Thanks for watching!
Hmmm, why is the pottery & walls of the rooms at all of these sites all crushed up & strewn everywhere ??? It might have been a mini ice age or tremendous flooding 600 years ago that destroyed it & the people fled in short order ?
Well something made them just pack up and leave! Thanks for watching!
I belive the eocks you qere seeing around you are walls that have been destroid
I think you are right! Thanks for watching!
All the walls and "houses" have 90degree corners, just like modern construction.
Whereas Native American was all "round" as from the "Sacred Hoop" of the world.
It’s Just odd to see the shifts in faith/spiritual thinking and 90 degree corners to Circular to "square" still being used today.
Yeah that’s pretty interesting! Thanks for watching!
Petroglyphs are graffiti, only early
True! After watching the videos during editing there were petroglyphs on that rock but I missed them due to the other recent graffiti! Thanks for watching!
Native Indians property
I agree with that statement but officially it is on public property! Thanks for watching!
And the location is...
Arizona!
Though it goes against my nature I will offer suggestions, since you asked, about your new channel. I am a long time "consumer" not a creator.
We all know where the comment section is. We don't need to be reminded that it's "below". Everybody does it as if reading from a script. Please don't. We also know how to subscribe, like, unlike, etc.
Speaking only for myself I seek and appreciate new and interesting information without any drama or "steering" or manipulation and repetition like commercials. It wastes my time. Details like lighting and focus are nice but it's the content that I'm after, not necessarily quality. I ditched TV about 15 years ago for these and many other reasons.
If you're "out there" and loving it I'm with ya. If you're focused on getting more subs by doing what the cool kids are doing I'm probably not gonna last Do what you love and share it. Please. And thanks for this interesting and informative vid!
And of course, NEVER QUIT. All the best!
I am way to old to be a cool kid! Haha! Points well taken! Thanks!
I turn off videos like this as soon as i realize you are not saying where this is. In the USA? Africa? You could say approximately where. I wont subscribe.
Thanks for the feedback! I’ll fix that in the future!
I'd guess S.W. U.S.A
Arizona