Could You Have Done It? Even An Ox DIED In Its Yoke Trying To Climb This Hill!
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I love Saturday morning tv
Same here
Who needs tv and Hollywood!
This trail and it's history represents a whole level of "Tough" that we do not understand in this time. Thanks, Jeff, for making this available on the channel and showing it the respect it deserved.
I could almost hear the sounds of the oxen, wagons, and equipment during their struggle up the hill. This video makes me feel like I'm right there with them.
Thank you for this, Jeff.
Thank you, Julie! 🙂
i bet it took many days to get all their wagons up that one slope.
Unbelievable what these pioneers did to get to their new home.. I can't phantom how hard life must have been and the determination..
Thank you for sharing this amazing video.. history is amazing
With that bit of drone footage, I have full appreciation of the scale of the obstacle. Thank you for providing the views of this amazing story!
Hello from Montana. I really enjoyed this episode. My ancestors left Utah and moved to settle Northern Arizona in the 1870s. They crossed the Colorado River, south of current Page, AZ at Lee's Ferry and then up the incline called "Lee's Backbone." Your video gave me an impression of what they endured to do so. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing your history with us! Can't imagine how it must have been to be in such a place in the 1870s. I bet they saw some amazing things!
What an amazing video about the pioneering spirit of that expedition. Anyone else would have said nope......but someone in their group said... yeah, we can do this. Unbelievable determination and I'll bet they said a lot of prayers on the way up. There's such a beauty and kindness you bring to your work. Thanks for sharing.
I really appreciate that! Thank you for your comment! As much as I have read, it sounds like no one lost their life on this dangerous venture. In fact, I think there were two babies born along the way!
I’ve hiked and/or traveled portions of the Oregon Trail and the thing that always stands out to me is the incredible fortitude that the pioneers had in their quest to find a new home.
I have no idea your feelings about the politics on our southern border. But these immigrant people also show that same level of determination of these adventurous few. Both then and now, people willingly suffer great hardship for their dreams.
Fences and river obstacles and armed soldados don't always deter these new pioneers from their quest. Most of the weak have died or turned back long before the final "crossing". They fell away in the jungles of Honduras or Guatemala due to injury or deprivation, or smugglers and thieves. Of memories and homesickness.
But on the promise of their dreams and hopes, these immigrants to a new place struggle on to the last barrier, their own McComb's Ridge. Those who pass this last test of endurance and skill and luck; who finally put behind them the pain and misery of their journy, enrich the American dream, because they are the "Overcomers".
Obstacles never contain the human spirit, they can only bear witness as silent milestones to the indomitable will of humans. For this reason, we know that in some future day, the stars themselves will share with these rocks, the scars of our passing.
@@tinkerstrade3553It never fails, there’s always someone who brings politics into a benign video. You try to go a day without hearing someone’s political tripe and you can’t.
@@asmodeus1274pathetic isn’t it?
I suspect it was a matter of do or die. 😏
@@asmodeus1274 And you don't think there are conflicting views on all things when people share a location.
I thought the first lines made it clear that it wasn't about a political position. Rather, it was how people will struggle for a dreamed of future. It was about how struggles are our common lot.
I think you're being a bit over sensitive on the issue. But, even so, my apologies.
We have a similar trail here in Washington called the Naches. Only 14 miles but took pioneers over 8 months to travel it - at one point having to slaughter oxen and hunt whatever they could so they could use sinew to make rope in order to repel their wagons and gear down down a cliff - and it ends with a 200 yard hill at that's constantly between 40-50 degrees. It's currently a 4x4 trail, and while driving it you seriously cannot comprehend how *ANYONE* could possibly take a train of wagons over through there.
It's amazing that pioneers could acomplish such a trek with wooden wagon .
Your treks are good watching mate from AUSTRALIA. 👍🏼
Ty ❤. The drone adds another layer of understanding how the terrain really looks. Pioneers were such a strong tough & determined group of people. I have a few in my ancestry.
Mormons used Jacobs ladder to see ahead !
Hey bro can you do me a favor oh, I know you're stupid busy but can you send me the GPS coordinates on that place in Arizona that you visited that had the petroglyphs of the pyramids on the cliffs. I know this is going to sound far-fetched but I've been tracing the roots of Cleopatra along with some of the Roman soldiers from Alexander the Great along with other individuals. Listen to this Cleopatra had a lover he was a secret lover by the name of Cincinnatus they named the city of Cincinnati after him but if you actually type in Cincinnati how it's spelled under the pronunciation it means the city of transgressions against the children of God😮😮😮 I've been doing a lot of digging in a lot of research bro you put something in front of me but I've been looking for for over 20 years😅😅😅 and it's right there in front of our face on the Cliffside in Arizona😅😅😅😅 thank you for these videos bro you're helping more than you even realize by the way most of them settlements are ancient Egyptian settlements they're not Native American settlement they're spread out over areas but most of the Native Americans come from the children of the Egyptians and it's way older than 4,000 Years sir😮😮😮 way older
@@allenschmitz9644 don't know what you are talking about.
Many props to you for your relationship with Annie and especially her kids.
Love Annie and these kids so much!
That circle at the end may be an ancient impact crater, so very round.
My ancestor Walter Joshua Stevens was a member of that expedition. It’s pretty incredible what those people accomplished.
Why did they want to go there? Intresting ♥ from 🏴
My ancestor also. He has quite a story himself. The Hole in the Rock trip was only the beginning. He married his wife, Elizabeth, right before the trip and this was their honeymoon. At the age of 55 he was murdered on his front porch in Pacheco, Mexico.
@@444zana my memory might be wrong but they were trying to be a “buffer” between the LDS members in western Utah and the Indians to the east. It was the shortest route to the San Juan area and due to the time of year, they could not turn back and go a different and much longer route.
Neat feature, Jeff! You should definitely do more of these types of videos in awesome historical spots. I rarely visit that area, but hadn't heard of this story. Very interesting! Also, Boston is an awesome city. I grew up in CT (live in UT now), but even though I'm a Yankees fan, Boston still is my favorite city. It was pretty awesome growing up 2 hours from there and 90 min from NYC!
This guy makes some great content!!! and I agree, that more of these historical locations should be on Jeff's bucket-list! Thanks for showing us!
Thank you! I think I will do some more historical sites that I've been wanting to do 🙂I would love to do the actual Hole-in-the-rock Trail where they dynamited a trail down to the Colorado River.
I love the Yankees and Red Socks! Is that even possible?? haha I'm jealous you lived so close to Boston and NYC!
@@TheTrekPlanner Yes it’s possible to love Red Sox and Yankees. My family has all kinds of stories related to that rivalry. My nephew was born during the final rubber game of the Pennant Race that brought us our unlikely 1st World Series in 83 yrs! Doctors and nurses kept dashing in and out of our waiting room. “What’s the score?”
Thanks for bringing us along on this trail of history. As you were showing the 'trail' and 'road' they took up that steep incline, I thought to myself, that doesn't even look like a road just rugged rock face. Yeesh, these were some very determined pioneers! 😄
That last part especially! Couldn't believe how they got wagons and animals up that!
I so often think of how hard the pioneers worked to persevere. They don’t deserve to know the state the country is in today! I love the south west for its old entrepreneurial history. Great video!
I have a 2x great uncle who was a part of the expedition to Hole in the Rock. Thanks for taking us along.
I live outside of Boston in Worcester. I'm so happy you got to come to Massachusetts. I love coming into Boston and doing all the touristy things, even as a resident! I'm a revolutionary war buff and enjoy retracing the history. I hope you got visit some historic sites while you were here.
I love watching your channel. You hike out to places I never would dare to, and I appreciate how respectful you are of the ruins. I also hope you carry a Garmin inReach in case something happens to you while you are in the middle of no where!!
Do you ever get over to Sturbridge and the living history Museum? Also, while there, if you've never been...hit BT's Smokehouse, fabulous BBQ, his bison burger and/or brisket is to die for. Taking the back roads is quite tranquil as well, but then again, there are many a tranquil back road up just out from where your at.
@@Normandy1944 I haven't been to Old Sturbridge Village in a while. I really love Plimouth Plantation. The staff/actors are in period costumes and stay in character during your visit. I absolutely love colonial American history, especially this time of year with the foliage.
We did! We did part of the Freedom Trail and got to see the USS Constitution and Bunker Hill (it was closed though). We ate at a really good Italian place next to Mikes Pastry (didn't like Mikes though lol do you locals go there??). I loved Boston so much that I told my gf that I was serious about wanting to move out there! haha
I really appreciate your concern for my safety! I do have a satellite beacon thing that I use to send messages and stay in contact. It's really handy and I keep it with me even if I have cell phone coverage.
Thank you so much for your comment!
@@TheTrekPlanner I love The North End! Caffe Vittoria (A few stores down from Mike's Pastry, same side, cash only) would have been a better choice for dessert and cappuccino. Mike's is where the tourists go. Modern Pastry is excellent, too (They supply the pastry to Caffe Vittoria). Almost every Italian restaurant in that neighborhood is good. Next time you're in the North End, make sure you visit Paul Revere's House. 😁
I was born in Worcester at the old St. V's before they tore it down and moved it. Born in '91. I was raised in NH and now live in Maine. My cousins live in Grafton and Northborough .
I love the addition of visual aids, maps, over head highlights and such. Really helps to understand the route.
And those pioneers and to put up with their big broods of kids repeating "are we there yet?"
Hi Jeff. I grew up in Maine and have been a Red Sox fan since the 1950's. My step father went down to Fenway and saw them win the World Series in 1918. I also went down to watch Bobby Orr when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup in 1970. And as a Deadhead I went to my first Grateful Dead concert down in Boston in 1967. I loved the city but hated the traffic there. We moved to Oregon about 25 years ago and love the nature here.
Love your channel. Keep em coming I would love to explore like this
Thank you! 🙂
WOW, I am reading about Everett Ruess who apparently lost his life near this area he was last seen in, and was hoping you would do a hike into this area! Many books written about this fascinating trekker who was a poet, an artist, and who wrote so beautifully about the Southwest areas in the 1830s. Thank you for the timely trek to this infamous place!
Is that the name of the book??? I love books like that.
My relatives Rowley, an Hollyoak. Was part of that settlement.
Is that the same guy who disappeared, but a search party found some of his donkeys at a make-shift camp?
Yes....such an interesting complex 20yr old.@@TheTrekPlanner
FINDING EVERETT REUSS by David Roberts A very comprehensive book, well written, well detailed...a succulent read! @@oooloo99
Comb Ridge is such an Amazing "aerial landmark", so easy to spot on Google Earth. I remember riding through it on Hwy95 back in the 1970s on my first Utah motorcycle tour and not thinking much of it at the time having been so overwhelmed by everything else I saw in the "Grand Circle". I believe the original regular road over Comb Ridge is 229, north of 95, passable by the "not faint of heart", in a proper vehicle.
This Channel just keeps getting better . This is perfection !
I have visited many times where the Oatman family was attacked by a group of what historians now believe to be Yavapai natives. They had just stopped to rest, eat and repack their wagon. What amazed me is that they had emptied their wagon, got the wagon to the top of the grade, carried their belongings up the grade, and reloaded the wagon. You mentioned the oxen dying but I wonder if these pioneers did the same or simular thing to reach the top on this grade. Very fascinating episode!
Good morning! I think you're 3 hours ahead of me. I'm in/from Alaska. I can't imagine traveling all that way then knowing your practically there except for the ridge. I'm not at all surprised more of their livestock didn't perish on this last leg of the journey.
At the 'top' I was going to say they were living on prayers then you showed the carved gratitude in the rock. Wow.
Thank you fir another most excellent journey my friend. Good to see you and your gf are taking time to enjoy life.
they sent out scouts to look for the best routes, and hence they already knew what lie at the top.
Jeff missed that fact.
I sure do miss Alaska! Especially the fall time and the Northern Lights! Enjoy it for me! 🙂 Thanks for your comment
@@ThatOpalGuy That is true! I was going to talk about Salvation Knoll and tie it in to this adventure, but I figured it would be another video at some point. I should have at least mentioned the scouts! Doh!
@@TheTrekPlanner It's cool. I bet a lot of people would think they felt this way. I cannot wait to see the next video. That area is pretty dramatic, and it must have felt pretty hostile to the people pulling their wagons as they went through it. We, as modern citizens, dont understand the effort, the work, the huge risks that settlers went through. I know I couldnt do it, not having lived a spoiled and easy life. I may have been up to the task had I grown up in that ere, but I think most of us would fail trying anything nearly this difficult. And many of them did fail.
This was a great learning opportunity for the kids, as well as all of us viewers.
Thanks for the hike! Very cool settler's trail.
A new video from you! Great way to start the day! 😃
Some GREAT stuff to explore in San Juan Co., Utah and the Four Corners region ! Thanks for an interesting video - you taught me some good history today !
Thank you for watching! 🙂 I'm glad you enjoyed this video!
I think the circle at the end is an meteorite impact crater. Or possibly a more modern blast area with dynamite. This would be a fantastic place to swing a metal detector around!
Jeff you're making the world better one Saturday at a time!
Awesome trek. Thank you for the back story
How does your channel just keep getting better? This was absolutely fascinating. I love stories like these and if you look really carefully, you'll see one of the pioneers running really late. He probably hung around to add the religious graffiti. He's wearing a red shirt at 13:34 and walking kind of drunkenly. Ha-ha. Seriously though, this is the sort of story that inspires people and should be part of the primary schools social studies or history curriculum. Here in Aotearoa-New Zealand, we have our own tales of colonisers and indigenous peoples and one of the ones I find so incredible is that local Maori climbed the southern alps wearing goodness knows what on their bodies and feet, to go into the westland side of Te Waipounamu-South Island, where they found the beautiful pounamu from which the original name for the island was given. Pounamu is a type of nephrite jade and it takes many forms and colours.
Thanks again Jeff.
Really loved this video. Area is beautiful and rugged. I could almost see myself exploring on horseback when I was younger. I used to haunt the forests where I would live, riding most of the time, at times hiking. Have seen some amazing things. There are places in w. Arkansas and e. Oklahoma where quartz crystals are thick in ground, clear your mind and u can feel the energy.
I have visited this area and hiked that hill. Thank you for showing the carved inscription. The novel “Undaunted “ by Gerald Lund is a wonderful book about this expedition and makes you really appreciate these amazing settlers of Bluff Utah. I also recommend visiting the Bluff fort visitor center. ❤
You should mention the other videos you made in this area! The River House is very cool and you saw some neat ruins in the video where you and Kevin (and Maggie!) search for your lost drone.
Another crazy part of the Hole-in-the-Rock Expedition is the Hole-in-the-Rock at mile 55.5 on the Hole-in-the-Rock road! Those same hardy pioneers spent six weeks “chiseling, digging, and blasting” a “road” from the rim to the Colorado River.
I really appreciate the adventures that you take on because they teach us about the history of the people who lived originally in the land and those that moved there and settled in our countries early history.
Thank you for watching! 🙂
Next time that your e down in the Bluff area, you should look up Design Build Bluff. It's a program that works with architecture students from the University of Utah to build houses on the Navajo Reservation. It's not yourself typical video, but it's a really cool program and the students integrate native) Navajo customs and culture into their designs. They're headquarters are at the older Scorup House in Bluff.
That would have been a great spot for todays Solar Eclipse. We are going to my cabin at Fish Lake to watch it. Thanks for the local history and awesome video.
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Thank you so much for sharing this with us. What an amazing opportunity to understand what pioneers went through and how hard their travels were.
Amazing, that was a tough hike, thanks for going the extra tough climbing and the history lessons..
The Hole In The Rock Expedition ranks as perhaps the most difficult route accomplished by a wagon train. It's possible (very difficult), but well worth the effort, to trace out the entire route on google earth. The eastern half starting at the Hole In the Rock on Glen Canyon is where the fun begins, if one has any understanding of the region, it will take your breath away. A great place to start studying the eastern track is on the mesa just west of the large horseshoe bend where the San Juan River waters actually enter the Lake Powell waters, just above and east from Cottonwood Creek/Canyon... Thanks for posting this video, Jeff, I'm an old timer and stay at home these days and I really enjoy seeing these places I missed, it's a bit sad all the history we pass by in our youth with no knowledge of it.
Of course Boston is cool! My wife was born and raised in Boston. Glad you liked it.
Oh my Gosh, love the style you have for your videos now! I've never been to Boston. Great video my friend💯👍
Thanks so much!! Glad you enjoyed this one!
Brother I’m sure this is gonna give you a big head and I don’t wanna hurt you in you next tight spot so I’ll keep it short you are an inspiration for me and others I’m sure to get off the freaking couch and live it you are a good person for sharing your feelings to us when life can be so ugly you find a way to make it livable thank you I’m from Pittsburgh. Pa
I genuinely dig what you are doing, you are sincere and likable. Keep up the great work bro.
I was there last week exploring the Hundreds of Native ruins in that area..I've not seen so many ruins in a row like Butler Wash..so beautiful..stay free..
ps..time is an illusion, all timelines are happening concurrently...There is only this ever present moment of Now.
I can't even imagine the difficult time they had getting up that hill with wagons! Thanks for sharing!
Absolutely amazing! Those pioneers are definitely made of more tough stuff than we are. And then to express gratitude and expend more effort to crave it in the rock.
The "off road Impala" is holding you back. If funds allow it, you should buy yourself a wrangler
Fascinating and scary! Those poor oxen and horses. I bet they must have emptied the wagons and the humans carried alot. I really love going to these places with you, but trade your car for a jeep maybe, tho you sure must be in good shape to hike like you do! Be safe out there! Hugs
Great history lesson, Jeff. Thanks for sharing.
I love that you got to see Boston. I live in Connecticut but love Boston and Fenway Park is the best place to see a ball game.
Fenway was awesome! Of course, we had to get the $50 chicken strips and fries box thing lol
Hi I'm Stella watching from South-Africa, I have my own crochet business, when I'm busy crocheting I love to go explore with you thank you so much for taking us along
Thanks for sharing some more recent history on your channel, Jeff! I suspect that the Hole in the Rock gang were less impressed than you were about getting past this little obstacle on Comb Ridge in April. Their January trek down to the river from the Hole in the Rock was still fresh in their minds! Those were some very tough people!
After learning about the ox that died on Comb Ridge, I'm curious to learn how many animals died in January? Gotta go check the Google!
This was awsome, Awsome, AWESOME! Fantastic journey and history! Love your channel so much!
Man! When you used that drone down the road and up off to the formations in the background that was awesome. I like how the mountains to the middle right form a u shape up into a sharp horn in the cliffs! Beautiful, thanks! It so cool to see the different formations from erosion! 😊😊😊😊
Thanks for the adventure Jeff. Bringing some joy back to my Saturday mornings.
I am in Western MA. Lived in Denver in the 90s. Explored far and wide. What an amazing place we're on!!😊
Glad you enjoyed this one! 🙂
Jeff, thanks so much for the awesome video, as always the best content. I've let many people know of your channel. Thanks again! (I'm from Boston too!) Brandon
Thank you so much and Thank you for telling people about my videos! Means the world to me! :-)
thank you so much for taking us along!
Thank you for another beautiful adventure! Blessings ❤
Those were some determined people!
You missed my favorite Ruins called River House. Right there. They used Horses. My Ancestors!
My goodness, these are exciting videos! 🎉😮Thank you for taking us on your adventures. Oh, and you have a new subscriber😊
Love watching your videos !!!!
Gosh, really nice job of documenting that trail. Drone shots and your editing helped too. Hard to imagine the stamina of those early champions🏆
I really love your videos and your enthusiasm for history! Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful hike. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Jeff for another great video showing how the west was populated. Great story and drone footage!
Each adventure keeps me coming back 😊
Thanks for the video and hiking out there! Cool hats you wear too my friend 😊
I never used to watch this type of content can I ran into your channel.... Now I'm addicted!
Thanks Jeff, beautiful family. Those pioneers couldn’t go back they had to go forward at all cost.
I can't even imagine how the settlers made it with the carts or even the wagons. I have such respect for the pioneers. Thank you from Washington state. 😊
I grew up camping all over the Comb Ridge area. My dad had us hiking up and down all over that ridge. Very cool to see someone walking the same places I did as a child. Actually I've seen several of your videos in the exact same places that I spent my childhood!
Amazing ! Great video in showing the strength and tenacity of our predecessors.
Wow, excellent filming and hike...to tell a fascinating story not many people even know ❤thank you...
I'm from Boston. I really enjoy your channel because the environment is so different from what I'm used to. I would consider myself a pretty good outdoorsman but feel like I wouldn't last a day in some of the places you hike. Thanks for bringing me along with the great videos!
Thanks for taking me where I'm not able to go.
Thank you for joining with me! 🙂
These are really well crafted videos. The content is awesome! Thanks!
Such a crazy place! My brother-in-law and his father had to drive a covered wagon on that trail for a re-enactment film. He says it's still one of the scariest places he's ever taken a horse and wagon.
Once again 👍🏴 Excellent and thank you.
Love the information you put in your videos for us! Thanks man we enjoy it!
Hi! Boston subscriber here. Love your videos.
Hey Dan! Thank you so much for subscribing! Say hello to Boston for me :-)
I think the circle, at the end there, was an eroded stone corral. Not a lot of timber, so you made do...
I love that area and walked it 50 odd years ago on a summer break from Anthropology classes at ASU. Spent a week there and shot a fortune in 35mm film ! LOL !
Too old for that now, but I certainly love that there are young folks, like you, who care !! The old West is so awesome.
I subscribed for sure ! Thank you ...
That didn't look like much of a road up that slope. Very interesting video. There is so much history in out of the way places. I think you will be busy for a long time! You have a wonderful family.
This was an awesome adventure! Thanks for sharing 😊
I'd like to see the other half of the trail. Going back down. Thanks for the video. It was awesome!
Thank you for having us ❤️🙏
Thank you! Beautiful and awesome.
I have also been down exploring that area, you did a great job showing the difficulty of this portion of the trail. seeing how they had to stack rock to create the road up San Juan hill. Comb Ridge is an amazing place, just around the corner from San Juan Hill down by the river is some ancient ruins we call the river house that are in great shape for their age. The canyons on the west of Comb Ridge are also full of ruins and intresting sites. Keep up the good work, I enjoy your channel
Great explore! Love the 'Indiana Jones' music. Great history!
As another person commented, you were about 1/4 mile or so away from the River Ruins. A multi-level well preserved ruin. One of my favorite sites.
I recently found this channel and have become a regular viewer. Great content and love the respect shown for the history.
I've had my suspicions but the way you speak of the pioneers, I hope I'm correct in presuming you watch General Conference too!
Thank you for sharing your experience and thoughts, I appreciate you, Much love
Hey! I'm from Boston, glad you had a good time in our city!
Nearly unbelievable! Thank You for exposing their amazing efforts and success!