Good morning Rita, You are doing wonderful work and an impressive fashion for your first 3 weeks "on the job." You are recording an important time in our Country's history from both an ecological sense as well as giving our people hope and encouragement. Real folks doing great benefit in the Colorado basin... No politics, no whining just good people who love the land and Lake Powell making a monumental improvement in rescue of the lake. Thank you for being there and telling a story of life, hope and love for this great country of ours. LONG LIVE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Good Morning Rita ! Great job on this video ! Your filming and editing as well as the information pertaining to the size of Lake Powell was most compelling ! Keep up your great work ! Warmest Regards from Arizona.
Thank you for this. I moved to Page in 1981. I got to witness the lake when they opened the spillways because it was so high and now this low level. Places I once swam are now dirt. My grandson doesn't mind playing in the dirt but I sure mind. There were so many special spots to make memories at. It's been quite heartbreaking for us locals.
Let the Colorado River flow. God's masterpiece was flooded so yahoos could waterski, swill beer in their houseboats, and "explore" with their motorboats and jet skis. Sad. Drain Lake Foul.
@@majorpayne8373 My understanding is the Glen Canyon dam supplies 1300 MW of power 24 seven 365. If you’re going to take that dam apart you will need to find a source of electric generation to replace it. My suggestion would be to line the coast of the US with large wind turbines. And leave existing Hydro power generation stations like the Glen Canyon dam alone. You really want to offset coal fired power plants and burn less fossil fuels in general.
Thanks so much for sharing Rita!! I grew up watching this lake been developed. My family drove this way many times because we had ranch land in Nevada. I remember when Lake Powell opened. So interesting to see the changes it has gone through. Keep it going!!!
I would have never known you were kind of new at this. This video is very well done. The photography, narration, overlays, and of course your story! Keep up the good work - I'm a fan.
Having guided on the Colorado , I'm not surprised it's up presently. I'll be very curious to see what you find in July. Very good presentation dear soul.
Thank you Rita, love any video of this lake. Started coming here in the 60s as a baby, my late parents remembered a dirt road as the only access when it was first filled. I now live on the East Coast but Lake Powell will always be home.
Dang good vlog for a Newbie! 👏🏻👍🤛Major Props. Good to see the water level rising, ever so slowly. 🙏🏻Stay well out there. I surely miss those sweeping Panamoras. Breathtaking, with or without water! 😊😁
Good video, been there on houseboats several times. Also the green comes via Utah down through canyonlands originally from Flaming Georg. Spent many trips camping in those parts and love the beauty. Would love to see CA improve desalinization sourcing water from their plentiful ocean, instead of draining the Colorado, If the "oceans are rising" like chicken little says, USE IT... Thank you for the update on the lake.
It’s never the “plentiful ocean” water that holds them back from desalinization but rather the tremendous amount of energy the process requires. There’s also the environmental impact from sending millions upon millions of gallons of brackish byproducts back into the ocean.
@@douglasskaalrud6865 117 countries are already doing this including the Saudi's with 27 plants along their coast, 1 of which produces 16 MILLION cubic feet of drinking water. Like the gas shortages, and the power grid shortages, all caused by governments and special interest.. Where I live I'm standing on top of $1.80 gas while pumping $6.00 Biden gas in my car.
The ocean is the biggest thing that cools our planet and it's absorbed about all the heat is can take. The ice melt in Iceland and the poles are the best indicator. As this warming continues there will be a big shift on what can be grown and raised, and where and people will be migrating away from areas that are just not livable any longer. You should listen to Chicken Little Tim Brink.
Nice work and thank you for sharing! This subject is basically being ignored but it's impact will be felt by most of the country. Not only water for drinking, agriculture and animals but the power generation. Everyone driving electric cars won't work if they can't be recharged!
@@MrJohnRight yeah kindly expound upon that statement, not many gonna belive it's "all lies" just by saying it. Not saying there isn't a problem going on with climate blah blah blah. We've all heard it unfortunately its true, can't really deny the impact now. Make me and everyone else belive the lies these people are saying. Dont just say it. Prove its a lie i challenge you.
@@Spacepup. Hi Scott It's all in the records super easy to prove. And remember the lake was full in 2000 .. 911 2001 down goes the lake until 2015 they got it right where they want it. Look up snow pack in the Rockies for the last 30 years . That's how much water we have it's all in the snow. I had all the records on my old phone. But you can also look up dam lake level records since the first day and you can see that climate change just started in 2001 and ended about 9 years ago. The lake does have a natural balance it goes and down a little every year as there are no two years the same in snow pack. The only record I have left to see is the release records maybe you do a digging on that I'm sure their public . But Scott I can tell you that I lived in bullhead city for several years and the river doesn't run high in the mornings in the winter. What they are saying doesn't make any sense. There have always been droughts in places like California. I live in Oregon and I have only seen about 7 dry days this year. We have plenty of water don't let them bs you Scott. They could run a dozen plastic pipes up the Columbia River then run them down the coast in the ocean super easy and cheap. They say the oceans are filling up too and they have giant rivers flowing fresh water right in the oceans. They could help that by taking a little bit of the water in using it for farms right? But they don't and they lie lie lie. Sorry. So if you look at the records for the lake from the beginning you will see this hasn't ever happened before in the history so what changed climate? Nope just what I said happened 911 Oh ya Scott what do you think the reasoning was for having state police on both sides of the dam until the bridge was built. They didn't want anyone to blow it up. They're still worried someone might fly a plane into it. I have known this for many years and I just want to say they started beating the drums as soon as Brandon was elected. I was watching them roll out one after the other. It's truly amazing the length they will go to. I know it sounds crazy but we had lots of rain and snow for the last 20 years I ski on it every year and this year we about 5 feet April and may. That's extra snow more water.. there's so much water here we have 3 rivers in my town that end up on the ocean. Thanks for asking I hope you can see for yourself. John
We in Texas have a lake called Madina near San Antonio every few it suffers much like Mead right now is about 25 percent it is only fed by rain fall from Kerrville area of the hill country. Very sad.
Thank you for taking us with you!! When I have a bit more time I'll explore more of your channel. Thank you for recording such beautiful cinematography!! I hope Miss Lois enjoys it as much as I did!!
Good job. Great choice of music. My geology professor did his master's thesis on the Colorado Plateau. He was one of the most engaging and inspirational instructors I've ever had.
Thank you. I'm new here. I live in the Southern San Joaquin Valley of California . Don't know what we would do with out these waters. Thank you for beautiful pictures and good information. Safe travels to you and God bless you all.
Hello Rita, first time here and really enjoyed your content, very informative! I'm a Native Coloradan and never have had the opportunity to visit Lake Powell or any of the beautiful sites of Utah. I need to get out more😁Thank you for sharing. God Bless
Yes you do need to get out more! Lol I’m hoping to do one showing how I fixed my Subaru for sleeping at very little expenditure, The main cost in travel is motels , so if you muster the energy to be slightly less comfortable in your car…… you can see a lot!
Thank you Rita.. I really appreciate your time in putting your videos together.. And sharing this information with the people.. This is information that I'm sure so many beautiful people aren't aware of... 👍
Thank you Rita. You did a good job with this video that let's us easterners get a visual on what's happening out in the west. Years ago, I had a friend from the coast of Washington, and when I saw the cows they reminded me of something she told me about growing up there. She said it was always quite confusing to her, as she would read books about the cowboys out west..just the Pacific.from her perspective! Lol! I loved the rainstorm on your way home. Beautiful scenery.
We dropped trout fingerlings in Lake Powell in 1963 ( or 64 ) from a C- 46 . Intermountain Aviation , Marana , Ariz. It was just starting to fill for the first time .
Aloha Rita, I subbed your channel today, mark this on your calendar, your first Hawaii resident and ham operator to sub your channel. I loved your presentation and you did a wonderful job on this video. I look forward to your next video and you’ll hit 100,000k very soon if you keep making such wonderful videos! Mahalo-Todd WH6DWF SEMPER FI 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@digitaldreamer5481 thank you so much! I’m amazed at all the nice people who made comments…… I never expected more than 50-100 views because it’s not like most videos on TH-cam…..just some friends and family….. you could knock me over with a feather ‼️❤️
I grew up on the shores of Lake Ontario. Growing up, never did I ever, have to think about needing water, like people in that area do. It's always been here. These videos are so eye-opening. I've been watching others videos too, and it's a devastating sight to see how far down the water has gotten, and to hear about the missing people who've been found. As an adult, I now realize, it can happen anywhere, at any time. I can only hope our younger generation can fix disasters like this. 💙💛Peace
@@connieward2042 I'm from that decade too. Our community held special days, where we would all go to the beach and clean up anything that didn't belong there(cut dead tree limbs, weed, rake the sand, etc.). We had our pictures in the local paper every year(like it was something special).
@@GOGOSLIFE it was something special but should be the norm. Have you seen the amount of plastic that’s floating in the oceans. I think it may be to late
@@connieward2042 I've seen those videos, and it looks devastating. I also realize that part of that mess is a lot of stuff from tsunami's too. There is a program out there, that recycles plastics, picked up by people operating large shipping boats. They get something for every pound(?) they remove from the ocean. Sorry, I don't remember all the specifics at the moment.
I haven't seen this part of of the USA but I try to keep up with issues like water. You showed some awesome scenes. There is beauty out there. Thank you.
Hoping your friend Lois is doing well. You are my mother's generation and i want to show my appreciation while I still have the chance. You seem like a very sweet lady. Good to know you live in Colorado too. God bless.
Thank you for the video. I used to live in cortez colorado but now I'm in las Vegas. 6 yrs ago I knew the western area was in a general drought. The lakes in the cortez area was low. Nkw I see the true sights of a drought when I was watching videos about lake mead , just outside las Vegas. It is nearly empty ! I wonder why they let lake powel fill so high when lake mead is nearly empty ? Check out lake mead on utube channel , sin city outdoors . they do alot of videos showing diffrent levels of this lake at diffrent times...i dont even know how hoover dam is even producing electricity anymore , let alone how states on the lower colorado are even watering crops and things of that nature...its sad to see all the dead fish and marine life , lake mead floating cafe and marina floating docks being effected by all this.
We can hope and pray. Or better yet, we can greatly reduce burning fossil fuels, greatly increase our usage of renewable energy, eat less meat and wear condoms. Good luck, earthlings.
Best educational video of the Upper Basin I have seen so far. Nice laid back pace and you stopped for the written material just for the right length of time. Even the background audio was pleasant ! Great work, I have nothing left to do but subscribe. I am a village elder myself and am rather taken aback by what you were able to accomplish here. Makes a fella wonder where the next adventure will take us ? Cheers. P.S. Lake Powell had risen at the expense of Lake Mead. This area is being " micromanaged " of late.
keep up the good work Rita, water thieves have killed the rivers and lakes over the years , maybe a few thorium salt reactors could solve some water and electricity problems
@@ritagordley4699 Well, we have tourists now, they are a welcome sight after all this strangeness. Campervans are the way to see the place, but you ought to bring a friend, it is much safer here than other places in the world, people DO camper around alone but . . . I wouldn't. At present the weather is a bit crap tho. :P
Well done Rita I am preparing to go out to our HB in a few days and I am Thankful to see your report on the water level. We are parked down at Antelope Point so different marina, but I will keep watching your videos none the less. Keep up the good work! Will from San Diego
Thank you so much, I’ll get right with it for the next one….. my daughter from FL and family have been here while this thing has exploded! I’m dumbfounded!!!
Hi Rita, and old earth scientist here, enjoying a little refresher course about water at my most favorite lake, I haven’t been there since 2017, I think I will have a heart attack when I see how depleted the water level is. Thanks for the journey!
Loved it, brilliant - you can actually speak, too many youngsters in here just can’t hang a phrase together And I’m sure you’re friend Lois enjoyed the scenery!!
At 8:56, are the beautiful cows by the road. I loved that. Nice video I do wish there was something safer to make a breakwater than old tires. Seems like old rubber would pollute water. Hmmm
Thank you….. as to the tires, they don’t break down much and I bet they get them for free as tires are hard to dispose of…..it was something I never would have thought about if I hadn’t seen it like it was.
Never been to this lake, only see images/video. I live down in Phoenix, and Lake Mead is just about done for. The reason Powell is filling back up is because of upper reservoirs releasing water into the Colorado, as well as the Glenn Canyon dam releasing very little water to go into Mead. Keep up the great work, enjoyed your video.
We moved to page in 1960, my father was hired to work in the kitchen being built to feed the three shifts of dam workers. Page was a bus stop, a curio shop and bowling alley and a little Chinese restaurant where my dad would work occasionally when he had off days feeding the minors. And S A N D !!! Blowing sand. There was no place to stay so thank God in heaven my dad had a Studibaker and the front seat laid down to make a bed so we would make a huge bed and we would all sleep by the bus station. Eventually on the Utah side a community of trailers Was put together and I believe they called it Glen Canyon city? They had a one room school for all grades and they had a block laundry house on the other side of the block school room. There was a Mormon fellow whose last name was Jensen! He came down from Salt Lake and built a little restaurant and a little motel on the side of the highway and across from that a gas station. He pretty well owned the town. The big kids how to ride a bus every day all the way to Kanab Utah for their school the little kids all got together in that one room school and had their lessons by the same teacher. Somebody built a bar I don’t think it was any of the Mormon people but someone built a bar and that caused a lot of military I was 10 years old and I remember all the fighting and the terrible things that happened in that bar. There was no law-enforcement so the sheriff deputized some of the Mormon men who were straight and law-abiding. I never figured out where they put people when they arrested them probably just took them to their house. Mr. Jensen offered my father the restaurant if he would quit the Dam. My dad was a retired Air Force non com officer in food service. He had owned a restaurant before and he actually met my mother when she was a 16-year-old waitress. So that was a good thing for everybody he no longer had to travel to and from Paige and he and my mom really made that restaurant into a gold mine. I don’t even remember that town having a name of Paige. I just remembered Glen Canyon city the trailer Park . As I recall the bridge was built first because we had to travel over it back-and-forth and the dam was being built in a different location. But the food had to be brought in 24-7 from Salt Lake City and wherever else because there were a lot of men working and they had to be fed three times a day cause there were three shifts. I really enjoyed this and I am going to shut up now and rewind and watch from the beginning. I wonder if that greyhound bus station in curio shop is still there?
I'll bet they where fed 4 times a day; morning, Noon, night, and midnight (mid rations) I'm from out east. So I don't realy know the dry lake beds of the high desert
You did a wonderful job of recording and putting this video together, thank you! It was beautiful, and rather scary, at the same time. What humans have done to our planet has so many ill consequences today that are worsening. But, sometimes, those consequences are good, too. This was such an eye-opener. I would love to join you on one of your excursions. We all have so much more work to do if we're ever going to reverse the environmental problems that continue to persist. Peace.
Beautiful work & country! Excellent presentation of geographic layout re: Divide, flow, direction. Miss the west. Sad state of things to come sooner enough. Way too much development & waste. Thanks again
Good job Rita, keep on keeping on! Love your commentary, it is concise, informative and laid back. Nice voice too. See you next t time. Y’all subscribe!
Thank you! I never expected more than 50 or so views cause I don’t make videos like most that are out there….. no drama, no banners as a hoook will you ever see!
I-70 yes, on the way home with snow was Glenwood Canyon……. The canyon that John Denver saved from destruction as the highway department was going to blast the canyon wider and do all sorts of things ……. he started the awareness and the rest is history.
Thank you for the video . It is crazy to think that the watter from here goes to California to grow rice, seems like a wast .out of all the facts I have learned about the lakes and watter usage, growing rice in California just kinda stuck out .
Good morning Rita,
You are doing wonderful work and an impressive fashion for your first 3 weeks "on the job."
You are recording an important time in our Country's history from both an ecological sense as well as giving our people hope and encouragement.
Real folks doing great benefit in the Colorado basin... No politics, no whining just good people who love the land and Lake Powell making a monumental improvement in rescue of the lake.
Thank you for being there and telling a story of life, hope and love for this great country of ours.
LONG LIVE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Thank you!
Good Morning Rita !
Great job on this video !
Your filming and editing as well as the information pertaining to the size of Lake Powell was most compelling !
Keep up your great work !
Warmest Regards from Arizona.
Thank you for watching!
Rita knows all the back roads as a truck driver much respect it's crazy that this beautiful landscape is going to be forever changed
Very informative! Thank you Rita. I love being informed by people who don't have any discernable agenda.
Thank you for this. I moved to Page in 1981. I got to witness the lake when they opened the spillways because it was so high and now this low level. Places I once swam are now dirt. My grandson doesn't mind playing in the dirt but I sure mind. There were so many special spots to make memories at. It's been quite heartbreaking for us locals.
In the 80s and 90s I had my favorite cliffs to jump from into deep Lake Powell. Now if I were to jump from those cliffs I would land on rocks.
It’s sad but is it enough to make us do anything about it? Time will tell.
Let the Colorado River flow. God's masterpiece was flooded so yahoos could waterski, swill beer in their houseboats,
and "explore" with their motorboats and jet skis.
Sad. Drain Lake Foul.
@@majorpayne8373 My understanding is the Glen Canyon dam supplies 1300 MW of power 24 seven 365. If you’re going to take that dam apart you will need to find a source of electric generation to replace it.
My suggestion would be to line the coast of the US with large wind turbines. And leave existing Hydro power generation stations like the Glen Canyon dam alone. You really want to offset coal fired power plants and burn less fossil fuels in general.
What's page like now that NGS is gone? It must be weird looking out and not seeing the stacks.
Thanks so much for sharing Rita!! I grew up watching this lake been developed. My family drove this way many times because we had ranch land in Nevada. I remember when Lake Powell opened. So interesting to see the changes it has gone through. Keep it going!!!
Thank you. I bet you have some wonderful stories to tell yourself!
I would have never known you were kind of new at this. This video is very well done. The photography, narration, overlays, and of course your story! Keep up the good work - I'm a fan.
Having guided on the Colorado , I'm not surprised it's up presently. I'll be very curious to see what you find in July. Very good presentation dear soul.
Than you!
Thank you! Oops on first reply
Thank you Rita, love any video of this lake. Started coming here in the 60s as a baby, my late parents remembered a dirt road as the only access when it was first filled. I now live on the East Coast but Lake Powell will always be home.
Thank you!
Dang good vlog for a Newbie! 👏🏻👍🤛Major Props. Good to see the water level rising, ever so slowly. 🙏🏻Stay well out there. I surely miss those sweeping Panamoras. Breathtaking, with or without water! 😊😁
Panamoras??
@@dr.OgataSerizawa Nice catch! But you know what I meant>>>PaNaRoMas. Beautiful sweeping landscape views! 😇👍😁
Good video, been there on houseboats several times. Also the green comes via Utah down through canyonlands originally from Flaming Georg. Spent many trips camping in those parts and love the beauty. Would love to see CA improve desalinization sourcing water from their plentiful ocean, instead of draining the Colorado, If the "oceans are rising" like chicken little says, USE IT...
Thank you for the update on the lake.
It’s never the “plentiful ocean” water that holds them back from desalinization but rather the tremendous amount of energy the process requires. There’s also the environmental impact from sending millions upon millions of gallons of brackish byproducts back into the ocean.
@@douglasskaalrud6865 117 countries are already doing this including the Saudi's with 27 plants along their coast, 1 of which produces 16 MILLION cubic feet of drinking water. Like the gas shortages, and the power grid shortages, all caused by governments and special interest.. Where I live I'm standing on top of $1.80 gas while pumping $6.00 Biden gas in my car.
More like 6$ exxon gas
@@davep5647 he said it right! Biden is a terror to this country!
The ocean is the biggest thing that cools our planet and it's absorbed about all the heat is can take. The ice melt in Iceland and the poles are the best indicator. As this warming continues there will be a big shift on what can be grown and raised, and where and people will be migrating away from areas that are just not livable any longer. You should listen to Chicken Little Tim Brink.
Nice work and thank you for sharing! This subject is basically being ignored but it's impact will be felt by most of the country. Not only water for drinking, agriculture and animals but the power generation. Everyone driving electric cars won't work if they can't be recharged!
It's all lies
@@MrJohnRight yeah kindly expound upon that statement, not many gonna belive it's "all lies" just by saying it. Not saying there isn't a problem going on with climate blah blah blah. We've all heard it unfortunately its true, can't really deny the impact now. Make me and everyone else belive the lies these people are saying. Dont just say it. Prove its a lie i challenge you.
@@Spacepup. Hi Scott
It's all in the records super easy to prove.
And remember the lake was full in 2000 .. 911 2001 down goes the lake until 2015 they got it right where they want it.
Look up snow pack in the Rockies for the last 30 years . That's how much water we have it's all in the snow. I had all the records on my old phone. But you can also look up dam lake level records since the first day and you can see that climate change just started in 2001 and ended about 9 years ago.
The lake does have a natural balance it goes and down a little every year as there are no two years the same in snow pack.
The only record I have left to see is the release records maybe you do a digging on that I'm sure their public . But Scott I can tell you that I lived in bullhead city for several years and the river doesn't run high in the mornings in the winter.
What they are saying doesn't make any sense. There have always been droughts in places like California. I live in Oregon and I have only seen about 7 dry days this year. We have plenty of water don't let them bs you Scott.
They could run a dozen plastic pipes up the Columbia River then run them down the coast in the ocean super easy and cheap.
They say the oceans are filling up too and they have giant rivers flowing fresh water right in the oceans. They could help that by taking a little bit of the water in using it for farms right? But they don't and they lie lie lie. Sorry.
So if you look at the records for the lake from the beginning you will see this hasn't ever happened before in the history so what changed climate? Nope just what I said happened 911
Oh ya Scott what do you think the reasoning was for having state police on both sides of the dam until the bridge was built. They didn't want anyone to blow it up.
They're still worried someone might fly a plane into it.
I have known this for many years and I just want to say they started beating the drums as soon as Brandon was elected.
I was watching them roll out one after the other. It's truly amazing the length they will go to.
I know it sounds crazy but we had lots of rain and snow for the last 20 years I ski on it every year and this year we about 5 feet April and may. That's extra snow more water.. there's so much water here we have 3 rivers in my town that end up on the ocean. Thanks for asking I hope you can see for yourself.
John
@@Spacepup. you prove it
We in Texas have a lake called Madina near San Antonio every few it suffers much like Mead right now is about 25 percent it is only fed by rain fall from
Kerrville area of the hill country.
Very sad.
Thank you for taking us with you!! When I have a bit more time I'll explore more of your channel. Thank you for recording such beautiful cinematography!! I hope Miss Lois enjoys it as much as I did!!
Thank you. More coming.
Good job. Great choice of music. My geology professor did his master's thesis on the Colorado Plateau. He was one of the most engaging and inspirational instructors I've ever had.
Thank you!
Thank you. I'm new here. I live in the Southern San Joaquin Valley of California . Don't know what we would do with out these waters. Thank you for beautiful pictures and good information. Safe travels to you and God bless you all.
Thank you…….. there will be more, I never expected but 50 or so people should ever watch because it’s not like most of the videos out there.
One heck of a video Rita. Thanks for educating us about this area and the issues impacting it.
Thank you!
Thank you Rita, very good content! I really enjoy your laid back style and informative way. Love from Texas!
Thank you for watching!
Rita, really enjoyed your video. The background music was especially enjoyable. Keep making your videos; they are wonderful!!
Thank you!
WOW!! SUPER GREAT QUALITY VIDEO, MADAM!! YOU FOUND YOUR VOCATION, FOR SURE!! I am hoping to see more of your handiwork in the future! THANKS!!
Thank you, I have more planned. I never expected any more than a few friends and family to ever watch!
Thank you Rita I enjoyed your beautiful video and hope to see more soon . 👍🏻
Thank you for watching and another is up now and another one on headwaters of Colorado which I tell about on the video I put up a week ago.
I enjoyed your video. I have never traveled out west and it is neat to see the views. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
Hello Rita, first time here and really enjoyed your content, very informative! I'm a Native Coloradan and never have had the opportunity to visit Lake Powell or any of the beautiful sites of Utah. I need to get out more😁Thank you for sharing. God Bless
Yes you do need to get out more! Lol
I’m hoping to do one showing how I fixed my Subaru for sleeping at very little expenditure, The main cost in travel is motels , so if you muster the energy to be slightly less comfortable in your car…… you can see a lot!
Thank you Rita.. I really appreciate your time in putting your videos together.. And sharing this information with the people.. This is information that I'm sure so many beautiful people aren't aware of... 👍
Thank you for watching!
I just found your channel! I have always loved history and this is fascinating!
Thank you ….. I never expected more than a few friends and family to watch it.
Thank you Rita. You did a good job with this video that let's us easterners get a visual on what's happening out in the west.
Years ago, I had a friend from the coast of Washington, and when I saw the cows they reminded me of something she told me about growing up there. She said it was always quite confusing to her, as she would read books about the cowboys out west..just the Pacific.from her perspective! Lol! I loved the rainstorm on your way home. Beautiful scenery.
Thank you for watching, more coming.
Good Day. Very nice. Hooray for the snow! Thank You
Thank you!
The video was great and informative. Thank you for the time you put into it,I enjoyed it very much. I truly hope things get better with the lake.👏👋
Thank you. You've done a wonderful job making this video!!
Thank you!
Rita, you go girl. one thousand kudos to you on your new career.
Thank you for watching!
Fabulous work & good information, Rita! Thank you!
Thank you for watching!
Great video. You're gonna be a big hit. Probably bigger than Crystal Gayle is in the music business. Thank goodness for TH-cam!
Thank you so much!
Thank you Rita, I enjoyed your video and information!!
Keep them coming
From Texas
Thank you so much, daughter and family have been here and now they are going home to Florida so I’ll get to work!
We dropped trout fingerlings in Lake Powell in 1963 ( or 64 ) from a C- 46 . Intermountain Aviation , Marana , Ariz. It was just starting to fill for the first time .
Thanks for the memories of that. I like to hear peoples experiences.
Hi rita love your channel. keep it going, all the love from the uk. Thank you.
Thank you!
Enjoyed your video.....good job
Thank you!
Aloha Rita, I subbed your channel today, mark this on your calendar, your first Hawaii resident and ham operator to sub your channel. I loved your presentation and you did a wonderful job on this video.
I look forward to your next video and you’ll hit 100,000k very soon if you keep making such wonderful videos!
Mahalo-Todd WH6DWF
SEMPER FI 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thank you so much, I love Hawaii!
@@ritagordley4699 I spoke about your YT videos on my nationwide radio show this morning and I hope many people subbed your channel. Aloha!
@@digitaldreamer5481 thank you so much! I’m amazed at all the nice people who made comments…… I never expected more than 50-100 views because it’s not like most videos on TH-cam…..just some friends and family….. you could knock me over with a feather ‼️❤️
I grew up on the shores of Lake Ontario. Growing up, never did I ever, have to think about needing water, like people in that area do. It's always been here. These videos are so eye-opening. I've been watching others videos too, and it's a devastating sight to see how far down the water has gotten, and to hear about the missing people who've been found. As an adult, I now realize, it can happen anywhere, at any time. I can only hope our younger generation can fix disasters like this. 💙💛Peace
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Back in the 60s the parental generations made fun of us for wanting to “Save the Planet”! Not meaning to say we told you so but…
@@connieward2042 I'm from that decade too. Our community held special days, where we would all go to the beach and clean up anything that didn't belong there(cut dead tree limbs, weed, rake the sand, etc.). We had our pictures in the local paper every year(like it was something special).
@@GOGOSLIFE it was something special but should be the norm. Have you seen the amount of plastic that’s floating in the oceans. I think it may be to late
@@connieward2042 I've seen those videos, and it looks devastating. I also realize that part of that mess is a lot of stuff from tsunami's too. There is a program out there, that recycles plastics, picked up by people operating large shipping boats. They get something for every pound(?) they remove from the ocean. Sorry, I don't remember all the specifics at the moment.
Great video editing, great content, scenery and education for folks like me. thank you and god bless
Thank you!
Great video. Will definitely share with friends and family. Thanks I appreciate the quality.
Thank you so much Kendall!
Beautiful, peaceful video. Good work, Rita.
Thank you …. Very glad you appreciated it, I was afraid people would get bored with the scenery.
WOW beautiful scenery especially that bit with the rain.
Thank you!
I loved this... I hope you can make some more sometime. The history and geography most people pay no mind. Thanks alot !
Thank you! There will be more for sure.
I haven't seen this part of of the USA but I try to keep up with issues like water.
You showed some awesome scenes. There is beauty out there.
Thank you.
It’s a wonderful place every weekend you can go somewhere different
Thank you, I’ve got more planned.
Hoping your friend Lois is doing well. You are my mother's generation and i want to show my appreciation while I still have the chance. You seem like a very sweet lady. Good to know you live in Colorado too. God bless.
Thank you, I have more coming up too!
I certainly did enjoy your video! Thank you and be safe out there on the road!
Thank you and I do try to be safe…… I’ve made it this long so want to continue as long as possible….
Thank you for the video. I used to live in cortez colorado but now I'm in las Vegas. 6 yrs ago I knew the western area was in a general drought. The lakes in the cortez area was low. Nkw I see the true sights of a drought when I was watching videos about lake mead , just outside las Vegas. It is nearly empty ! I wonder why they let lake powel fill so high when lake mead is nearly empty ? Check out lake mead on utube channel , sin city outdoors . they do alot of videos showing diffrent levels of this lake at diffrent times...i dont even know how hoover dam is even producing electricity anymore , let alone how states on the lower colorado are even watering crops and things of that nature...its sad to see all the dead fish and marine life , lake mead floating cafe and marina floating docks being effected by all this.
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Many thanks for these 'vistas'. I've enjoyed a single 'Powel' houseboat' week, back in wetter times in the 70s.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed!
Hi dear Rita I really enjoyed your video best wishes from London England 🙏❤️🇬🇧
Wow! Long ways off! Thank you, I want to go back to UK, I visited there when I was 19!
We can only hope that the yearly snow pack comes back with a vengeance. Great Video, well made. Please keep filming for us "East Coast" folk....
We can hope and pray. Or better yet, we can greatly reduce burning fossil fuels, greatly increase our usage of renewable energy, eat less meat and wear condoms. Good luck, earthlings.
Great video! Looking forward to the next one.
Thank you, more are in my head!
Thanks for the time you put into this presentation 🙂😌
Thank you very much!
Doing a fine job on your video. Keep up the good work and never forget to have fun doing it.
Thank you and I love driving around looking at things!
Thank you so much! I thoroughly enjoyed your video. I’ll look forward to more!
Thank you, I have more planned.
Best educational video of the Upper Basin I have seen so far. Nice laid back pace and you stopped for the written material just for the right length of time. Even the background audio was pleasant ! Great work, I have nothing left to do but subscribe. I am a village elder myself and am rather taken aback by what you were able to accomplish here. Makes a fella wonder where the next adventure will take us ? Cheers. P.S. Lake Powell had risen at the expense of Lake Mead. This area is being " micromanaged " of late.
Thank you. It’s not an easy situation….. I’ll have more coming.
Great job with fantastic experienced underpinned in the video..keep it up.
Thank you!
I really enjoyed your video. I haven't driven through that part of the country in many years.
Thank you!
keep up the good work Rita, water thieves have killed the rivers and lakes over the years , maybe a few thorium salt reactors could solve some water and electricity problems
Finally someone else who knows! LFTRs for the win! I saw videos from Kirk Sorensen YEARS ago!
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Thank you, I’ll keep trying!
Thank you for sharing Rita.
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Hello new to your channel,
this was very informative, thank you for posting
Thank you very much!
Very interesting. Hello from New Zealand.
Hello back, I have a friend down there…… would love to see NZ
@@ritagordley4699 Well, we have tourists now, they are a welcome sight after all this strangeness.
Campervans are the way to see the place, but you ought to bring a friend, it is much safer here than other places in the world, people DO camper around alone but . . . I wouldn't.
At present the weather is a bit crap tho. :P
Well done Rita
I am preparing to go out to our HB in a few days and I am Thankful to see your report on the water level.
We are parked down at Antelope Point so different marina, but I will keep watching your videos none the less. Keep up the good work!
Will from San Diego
Thank you so much, hope your houseboat is safe and sound!
Love your video/ vlog. Told my hubby DONT BOTHER me,,,I’m in geography class with Ms. Rita.
Thank you so much, I’ll get right with it for the next one….. my daughter from FL and family have been here while this thing has exploded! I’m dumbfounded!!!
Hi Rita, and old earth scientist here, enjoying a little refresher course about water at my most favorite lake, I haven’t been there since 2017, I think I will have a heart attack when I see how depleted the water level is.
Thanks for the journey!
Thank you for watching!
Really good informative video Ms. Rita. Very Appreciated!
Thank you HighDesert!
Great job on your video! 👍👍💜
Fantastic Video ! You rock, Rita !! Can't wait to See your next One. :)
Thank you so much, love hearing from people!
Loved it, brilliant - you can actually speak, too many youngsters in here just can’t hang a phrase together
And I’m sure you’re friend Lois enjoyed the scenery!!
Lol…. Thank you very much!
This was a good video,thankyou Rita.
Thank you for watching!
I love the video watched and listened to the whole thing great job! Keep it up! Thanks!
Thank you so much, I’ve been up to the Cleveland area , you around there?
This very professional looking. Thanks!
Thank you for watching…… I’m new . Learning a skill with each video!
At 8:56, are the beautiful cows by the road. I loved that. Nice video
I do wish there was something safer to make a breakwater than old tires. Seems like old rubber would pollute water. Hmmm
Thank you….. as to the tires, they don’t break down much and I bet they get them for free as tires are hard to dispose of…..it was something I never would have thought about if I hadn’t seen it like it was.
How are the tires used???
@@alext8828 in putting together the breakwaters. so there is no wake when launching boats.
@@ritagordley4699 Ah! Never thought of that. Thank you. Good job.
Just Subscribed. Love what you do.
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Well done, and good for you that you at your age are still getting out for adventure. Keep it up!
I never use the o l d word! And thank you!
Thank you Rita, well done!
Never been to this lake, only see images/video. I live down in Phoenix, and Lake Mead is just about done for. The reason Powell is filling back up is because of upper reservoirs releasing water into the Colorado, as well as the Glenn Canyon dam releasing very little water to go into Mead. Keep up the great work, enjoyed your video.
Thank you for watching!
We moved to page in 1960, my father was hired to work in the kitchen being built to feed the three shifts of dam workers. Page was a bus stop, a curio shop and bowling alley and a little Chinese restaurant where my dad would work occasionally when he had off days feeding the minors. And S A N D !!! Blowing sand. There was no place to stay so thank God in heaven my dad had a Studibaker and the front seat laid down to make a bed so we would make a huge bed and we would all sleep by the bus station. Eventually on the Utah side a community of trailers Was put together and I believe they called it Glen Canyon city? They had a one room school for all grades and they had a block laundry house on the other side of the block school room. There was a Mormon fellow whose last name was Jensen! He came down from Salt Lake and built a little restaurant and a little motel on the side of the highway and across from that a gas station. He pretty well owned the town. The big kids how to ride a bus every day all the way to Kanab Utah for their school the little kids all got together in that one room school and had their lessons by the same teacher. Somebody built a bar I don’t think it was any of the Mormon people but someone built a bar and that caused a lot of military I was 10 years old and I remember all the fighting and the terrible things that happened in that bar. There was no law-enforcement so the sheriff deputized some of the Mormon men who were straight and law-abiding. I never figured out where they put people when they arrested them probably just took them to their house. Mr. Jensen offered my father the restaurant if he would quit the Dam. My dad was a retired Air Force non com officer in food service. He had owned a restaurant before and he actually met my mother when she was a 16-year-old waitress. So that was a good thing for everybody he no longer had to travel to and from Paige and he and my mom really made that restaurant into a gold mine. I don’t even remember that town having a name of Paige. I just remembered Glen Canyon city the trailer Park . As I recall the bridge was built first because we had to travel over it back-and-forth and the dam was being built in a different location. But the food had to be brought in 24-7 from Salt Lake City and wherever else because there were a lot of men working and they had to be fed three times a day cause there were three shifts. I really enjoyed this and I am going to shut up now and rewind and watch from the beginning. I wonder if that greyhound bus station in curio shop is still there?
I'll bet they where fed 4 times a day; morning, Noon, night, and midnight (mid rations)
I'm from out east. So I don't realy know the dry lake beds of the high desert
Such great memories, loved your story! Thanks for sharing!:)
Thanks for sharing your memories.
Thank you for sharing your memories!
Thanks for the video Ruth enjoy your journey
Thank you very much!
I would say you have great skills with editing!
Thank you! iMovie is very easy to learn if you take one step at a time!
Enjoyed your video very much. Thanks
Thank you!
You have done ✅ for me! I don't get out much myself.
Thank you….. more coming……
nicely done and very informative also a heads up for people to get their minds right about usage of water in general
Thank you!
Very interesting. Loved your video. I subscribed.
Thank you!
Great job! I enjoyed the scenery. Let's hope the rising water continues.
The water is raising but May never reach the old days…… thank you!
Very nice video to watch. Good job.
Thank you!
You did a wonderful job of recording and putting this video together, thank you! It was beautiful, and rather scary, at the same time. What humans have done to our planet has so many ill consequences today that are worsening. But, sometimes, those consequences are good, too. This was such an eye-opener. I would love to join you on one of your excursions. We all have so much more work to do if we're ever going to reverse the environmental problems that continue to persist. Peace.
Thank you for watching……. I started thinking about the possibilities of my newfound friends meeting up to camp someplace wonderful in the future…..
@@ritagordley4699Rita, that sounds like fun. I frequently visit my daughter in Eagle, CO East of Glenwood canyon on I70.
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Beautiful work & country!
Excellent presentation of geographic layout re: Divide, flow, direction.
Miss the west. Sad state of things to come sooner enough. Way too much development & waste.
Thanks again
Thank you for watching!
Awesome video- this is unbelievable- new friend here
Thank you for watching ! More coming,
Great job keep traveling thanks for the video
Thank you for watching!
Thank you for that update Rita.
Thank you for watching!
Thanks Rita! Great job, you're the best! 🌈⚘
Thank you, more coming.
Very good video thanks I found this to be very interesting.
Thank you!
Good job Rita, keep on keeping on! Love your commentary, it is concise, informative and laid back. Nice voice too. See you next t time. Y’all subscribe!
Thank you! I never expected more than 50 or so views cause I don’t make videos like most that are out there….. no drama, no banners as a hoook will you ever see!
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Thank you First Catch!
thank you for your informative video, from down under [Australia]. cheers.
Thank you for watching! Hope I can visit your beautiful and wonderful country sometime!
Great job! Hello from Michigan
Thank you and Hello back!
Nice job Rita, enjoyed the video.
Thank you!
That is my FAVORITE freeway in the U.S. at the end! What is that, the 70? Love that drive!
I-70 yes, on the way home with snow was Glenwood Canyon……. The canyon that John Denver saved from destruction as the highway department was going to blast the canyon wider and do all sorts of things ……. he started the awareness and the rest is history.
Very informative about Lake Powell! The snow storm on May 20th is something else!
Thank you!
“Scenery photos are for my friend Lois who doesn’t get out anymore”
Bless you rita, you’re a good friend:)
I loved that, too!
Thank you for the video . It is crazy to think that the watter from here goes to California to grow rice, seems like a wast .out of all the facts I have learned about the lakes and watter usage, growing rice in California just kinda stuck out .
Some foreign countries owns land and having crops planted for them,they don't care