The instant I felt the first raindrop I would have been sprinting out of the canyon. If it looked like I wasn’t going to make it, I would have gotten as high and dry as possible and waited it out.
They were safer in the cove where they started. It was high ground. You're getting soaked anyway, so just stay put, and call the BLM office so they know you're pinned down. There's signal all the way up Moonflower, it's only about 1000ft long anyway.
I'm so glad this was a "see what I escaped" video instead of a "this person's last moments" video! Lessons learned and all that. It's not just the water itself you need to beware of (swift currents can knock you down even at ankle height), but debris like big logs in the water that can knock you down and kill you. Stay safe in your adventures!
Yeah I'm like stay in the shelter and hunker down, wait it out. STAY under that overhead and and chill out. Storms out there don't last long stay out of the wash
I'm voting that your storm footage is the best I've seen .awesome place to see those falls coming from the rim , .. and then your desparation and your trail down river ..damn I got nervous ..thanks a million ..awesome coverage
Be careful am from STG Utah and I love my hikes and what not but Zions and Snow Canyon are a no, no during any 🌧️. Its awesome to see it here tho am glad you are safe❤
Unless you've been there, it's hard too comprehend how BIG these Canyons are. Moonflower has about a 1,000 ft elevation change. Nobody is going very far, very fast.
Seeing this, the Old Ones strong spirituality concerning the ways of Nature, both awesome beauty and deadly power, makes perfect sense. Their rock art well defines the power behind flash floods, the long dry and the Great Mystery.
Thanks for your video. If you're up in a canyon, under an overhang and the canyon bottom is lower than you are and the outlet is even lower, you're safer staying put. Vehicles can be replaced, you can't.
Glad you got out of there in time! As for the video, it's too bad all you had was your phone, but you go with what you've got! It's kind of funny that we actually see only a little bit of flooding in the last 4 seconds. As some of the other comments point out, you might have been safer to wait it out on high ground. Thanks for sharing.
You were concerned about the canyon wall across the stream when really the canyon wall you were standing next to became more of a threat. Why not wait it out under the overhang you were next to? You got yourself into some dangerous situations on trail and in your car.
You are correct. In the moment I made the wrong decision to leave thinking it was the better choice, but in hindsight waiting it out would have been the safer bet. Being new to hiking in Moab, I didn’t know better.
@@braydonwise5250 SOP is to get to higher ground. Hard to tell where you were. How much higher you were than the canyon bottom. But if the flooding continues, anything by a waterfall is going to get dicey. Everything is going to funnel that way. Again, hard to tell how low you were Amazing footage, and gave my ass a pucker when I saw that water fall start in front of you. Instantly thought "time to get the fuck out". No mater what, your decision was correct, in that you lived. That area is AMAZING but also the real deal. Check out the Maze and Needles if you have not been. Be safe!
@@braydonwise5250 well, the issue for me is that the overhangs are formed somehow but presumably carved by waterfalls like what you escaped, so not obvious to me that staying would be wise. It might be that the event was relatively small compared to some and thus the area of the overhang might have been safe this time, but there must be some events that happen once in a while that are the reason the carve-out exists in the first place. water made that thing, so water must, once in a while, eat under that overhang. Maybe only in spring. I don't know, not from there.
Found myself in a similar situation in the desert outside Phoenix in my late teens. Had to get out quick. The catch was that I was tripping on acid 😮. That's one I'll never forget.
Call it luck or guardian angel just wasn’t your time! Very fortunate! I hope your getting out doesn’t boost your confidence to where you may try that on the next one! Trust me I know been there done that my 13,000 lb work truck was picked up like a toy and carried down a wash with me in it! I pucker every time I come to a little stream of water. Glad ur safe
Very cool footage. I hope your on high ground in that cave? Moab in a rain storm? What was I thinking 🤔??? Film 🎥 over safety….. Thanks for sharing this experience, Glad you’re okay! It’s a bitchin thunderstorm. But please Don’t test yourself for safety. Life is precious. Stay live ……. 💪💪🙏🏼🇺🇸
Ignorance of the power of flash floods got the best of me in this situation. I was out for a leisure hike and began filming simply because of the beauty of the waterfalls that appeared. It came as a complete surprise when I found myself in the thick of the flood having to make the decision to stay or leave. Probably made the wrong decision in the end, but glad i made it out safely with an experience to share. Thanks for watching!
Side note here…. We had a Shiba Inu puppy about 6 months old and one night some idiot (as usual) was blowing off fireworks for no reason and it sounds like thunder of course especially to a dog that has never heard it before…so she panics and runs around trying to climb EVERYTHING even got up on our fireplace mantel using a table! Of course she did that because her instincts told her a flood was coming and get to high ground FAST!
A short canyon with a big elevation gmin on the approach! Moonflower Canyon is likely best know and most often visited for the impressive rock art panel at its confluence with Kane Creek. There is also a BLM walk-in campground available.
I hope you learned a lesson . When it Raines in a canyon in Utah don’t stick around to watch the water falls . Run as fast as you can. Curiosity killed the cat ……!!!🤭
I certainly did learn that lesson! Haha. It was amazing to see all the waterfalls and scary to escape them once I realized my mistake in sticking around. I probably could have waited out the water, but my dumb brain told me that canyon was going to fill all the way up and drown me if I did. Lesson learned.
Sorry, but you're not the sharpest tool in the shed if you didn't check the forcast for that area beforehand. Moab is known for this type of weather, and many have died because they ignored the danger. You were just damd lucky to get out alive.
Hey Braydon Wise, do you have an email address at which we could contact you regarding this video? We would be interested to discuss a license to use this video if this is generally possible? (i.e. via email) 🙂 Cheers, Felix
Yeah. That would have been nice, but a simple video planned to be just for me turned into quite a different experience when the flood came. Running through the flood I wasn't too concerned about the camera angle, but it could have been better for sure.
![[TH] VCT Pacific Stage 2 - Week 1 Day 1 // DRX vs ZETA | BLD vs TS](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/AWaOqaxN6Y0/mqdefault.jpg)
Thank you for posting, no matter what anyone thinks Of your decisions at that time, every video helps us all learn what a storm here can do.
The instant I felt the first raindrop I would have been sprinting out of the canyon. If it looked like I wasn’t going to make it, I would have gotten as high and dry as possible and waited it out.
They were safer in the cove where they started. It was high ground. You're getting soaked anyway, so just stay put, and call the BLM office so they know you're pinned down. There's signal all the way up Moonflower, it's only about 1000ft long anyway.
On the list for a Darwin Award.
I'm so glad this was a "see what I escaped" video instead of a "this person's last moments" video! Lessons learned and all that. It's not just the water itself you need to beware of (swift currents can knock you down even at ankle height), but debris like big logs in the water that can knock you down and kill you. Stay safe in your adventures!
Yeah I'm like stay in the shelter and hunker down, wait it out. STAY under that overhead and and chill out. Storms out there don't last long stay out of the wash
I really liked your safe spot in a cave, that was awesome. 😊
I'm voting that your storm footage is the best I've seen .awesome place to see those falls coming from the rim , .. and then your desparation and your trail down river ..damn I got nervous ..thanks a million ..awesome coverage
I appreciate your vote!! It was exhilarating to say the least!
Scary. Nature is so powerful. Thank you for sharing this. Glad you’re okay.
Yes.. I have a totally changed appreciation for the power of nature now. It is definitely powerful and beautiful as well.
Wow, great adventure, thanks for sharing the video and that you got out safe. Cheers
Yikes! You’re lucky to get out safely!
Be careful am from STG Utah and I love my hikes and what not but Zions and Snow Canyon are a no, no during any 🌧️. Its awesome to see it here tho am glad you are safe❤
Unless you've been there, it's hard too comprehend how BIG these Canyons are. Moonflower has about a 1,000 ft elevation change. Nobody is going very far, very fast.
Seeing this, the Old Ones strong spirituality concerning the ways of Nature, both awesome beauty and deadly power, makes perfect sense. Their rock art well defines the power behind flash floods, the long dry and the Great Mystery.
Thanks for your video. If you're up in a canyon, under an overhang and the canyon bottom is lower than you are and the outlet is even lower, you're safer staying put. Vehicles can be replaced, you can't.
You are definitely correct. A valuable lesson I learned the hard way and escaped with some luck one my side.
As wise men says Nature is beautiful and deadly at same time. I like how thunders are echoing in canyon.
Glad you got out of there in time! As for the video, it's too bad all you had was your phone, but you go with what you've got! It's kind of funny that we actually see only a little bit of flooding in the last 4 seconds. As some of the other comments point out, you might have been safer to wait it out on high ground. Thanks for sharing.
beautiful powerful majesty of nature and the desert. love this!
Couldn't agree more!
You were concerned about the canyon wall across the stream when really the canyon wall you were standing next to became more of a threat. Why not wait it out under the overhang you were next to? You got yourself into some dangerous situations on trail and in your car.
You are correct. In the moment I made the wrong decision to leave thinking it was the better choice, but in hindsight waiting it out would have been the safer bet. Being new to hiking in Moab, I didn’t know better.
Sorry man, I didn't see this till after I posted
@@braydonwise5250 SOP is to get to higher ground. Hard to tell where you were. How much higher you were than the canyon bottom. But if the flooding continues, anything by a waterfall is going to get dicey. Everything is going to funnel that way. Again, hard to tell how low you were Amazing footage, and gave my ass a pucker when I saw that water fall start in front of you. Instantly thought "time to get the fuck out". No mater what, your decision was correct, in that you lived. That area is AMAZING but also the real deal. Check out the Maze and Needles if you have not been. Be safe!
@@braydonwise5250 well, the issue for me is that the overhangs are formed somehow but presumably carved by waterfalls like what you escaped, so not obvious to me that staying would be wise. It might be that the event was relatively small compared to some and thus the area of the overhang might have been safe this time, but there must be some events that happen once in a while that are the reason the carve-out exists in the first place. water made that thing, so water must, once in a while, eat under that overhang. Maybe only in spring. I don't know, not from there.
Now, they want to build a bunch of houses down in that area.
Found myself in a similar situation in the desert outside Phoenix in my late teens. Had to get out quick. The catch was that I was tripping on acid 😮. That's one I'll never forget.
Call it luck or guardian angel just wasn’t your time!
Very fortunate! I hope your getting out doesn’t boost your confidence to where you may try that on the next one! Trust me I know been there done that my 13,000 lb work truck was picked up like a toy and carried down a wash with me in it! I pucker every time I come to a little stream of water.
Glad ur safe
When thunder roars, get inside
Very cool footage.
I hope your on high ground in that cave?
Moab in a rain storm?
What was I thinking 🤔???
Film 🎥 over safety…..
Thanks for sharing this experience,
Glad you’re okay!
It’s a bitchin thunderstorm.
But please
Don’t test yourself for safety.
Life is precious.
Stay live …….
💪💪🙏🏼🇺🇸
Ignorance of the power of flash floods got the best of me in this situation. I was out for a leisure hike and began filming simply because of the beauty of the waterfalls that appeared. It came as a complete surprise when I found myself in the thick of the flood having to make the decision to stay or leave. Probably made the wrong decision in the end, but glad i made it out safely with an experience to share. Thanks for watching!
Side note here…. We had a Shiba Inu puppy about 6 months old and one night some idiot (as usual) was blowing off fireworks for no reason and it sounds like thunder of course especially to a dog that has never heard it before…so she panics and runs around trying to climb EVERYTHING even got up on our fireplace mantel using a table! Of course she did that because her instincts told her a flood was coming and get to high ground FAST!
This should be a lesson on what NOT to do...you just got lucky, on the trail and in the truck...
Wow, man. 😮
Sweet 😎
You are a very lucky person. A few more minutes and you'd have been a gonner.
Damn son. That’s scary as hell
A short canyon with a big elevation gmin on the approach! Moonflower Canyon is likely best know and most often visited for the impressive rock art panel at its confluence with Kane Creek. There is also a BLM walk-in campground available.
F BLM
Anxiety level 📶📶📶📶📶
Great video. I see that high waterfall coming down, I’m running, not filming!
Edit. But if you try to outrun, you could be killed. Smarter to get to a higher spot
Fair point. I honestly wasn’t sure what to do in the moment. It was awesome and scary at the same time.
That made me nervous!!!!
I 100% agree with this statement!
Yikes 😮
where does all that water come from
Rain. There is a lot of bare rock around. The rain runs right off of it into the washes.
I'm sure the poor woman in Zion saw all these same things...only she wasn't as lucky.
I hope you learned a lesson . When it Raines in a canyon in Utah don’t stick around to watch the water falls . Run as fast as you can. Curiosity killed the cat ……!!!🤭
I certainly did learn that lesson! Haha. It was amazing to see all the waterfalls and scary to escape them once I realized my mistake in sticking around. I probably could have waited out the water, but my dumb brain told me that canyon was going to fill all the way up and drown me if I did. Lesson learned.
Sorry, but you're not the sharpest tool in the shed if you didn't check the forcast for that area beforehand. Moab is known for this type of weather, and many have died because they ignored the danger. You were just damd lucky to get out alive.
What not to do
Darwin fail - 1 boulder in that wash could have put a dent in your vehicle or you.
looks wet ...
☂👣
Narrow pic.cant see.
Hey Braydon Wise, do you have an email address at which we could contact you regarding this video? We would be interested to discuss a license to use this video if this is generally possible? (i.e. via email) 🙂 Cheers, Felix
You can contact me @ usuwise@gmail.com with more information.
How to Die 101. Don't check the weather report.
Turn your phone
Yeah. That would have been nice, but a simple video planned to be just for me turned into quite a different experience when the flood came. Running through the flood I wasn't too concerned about the camera angle, but it could have been better for sure.
Are you serious???
Come on man common sense will tell you to have some patience!!!
Just be safer next time.
Yes they were under an overhang just chill out till it stops