Loved the detail you shared, the info is so helpful! Great drone shots! Putting Milt's on the to eat at list when traveling there! Well done Grand Adventure!
Can’t really get my head around how big canyon lands is just unbelievable and more so unmissable, love the view points and the Schaffer road I would really enjoy that Great film well done Marc G&Z
Hey Marc, i regularity watch about 50 rv/camping channels like yours. I only have the bell icon selected for two channels, you and fate unbound. I think you should finish one of your videos with an explanation of why people should “ring your bell”, and what they should expect when they do. You have a unique channel that provides excellent content and asks very little in return. Maybe something like “ring the notification bell to Hike to your next Grand Adventure”. Always looking forward to the next new video as i make my way through all your content. Keep it coming Marc.
You've definitely been binge watching, and we're both flattered and appreciative! And Fate Unbound does an excellent job. We're grateful to have you along, thank you! We'll think of some way to best explain the bell, great suggestion.
Awesome video Marc!! I liked your scene changes - especially the first one with the broken triangles! So fitting with the drive down Schaefer Road. That looked like such a cool ride. The scenery is so “another world”. The quality of your videos like this one, are top notch; so professional. I really enjoy your videos even the ones that are not about RV’s like your skiing (temps me to go skiing) and your four wheeling (makes me wish I had a four wheeler). Thanks you for all the effort you do putting out such a great product. 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks Ram! As you've been slowly going through our back catalog from oldest to newest, I sincerely hope that you've been able to see a progression in quality over time. It's funny, but even though Grand Adventure's mandate is "RV-centric Outdoor Adventure", every time we make a new video that does not involve RV camping, like last week's ski video, the video positively tanks. We're hopeful, but not optimistic, that our audience will eventually come around whenever I do one of those videos, because we're going to just keep doing them.
Last night I watch both this video and the skiing video again, but this time with my wife on the “big screen” (my wife’s iPad). There were a couple scenes that were so smooth in the skiing - I felt like I was skiing - that I wished you had filmed the whole run! Of course my wife informed me that there would be NO WAY she would ever go down Schaefer Road!! Thanks again.
@@laughingram7287 those moving ski sequences were filmed with a gimbal to deliver that smooth footage. Actually we did shoot the whole run, although watching the same scene for a couple of minutes would've been boring as hell, so we broke it up into segments. If you get a chance, watch any of these on a truly big screen, a 4K TV. That's actually how about 30% of our viewers watch Grand Adventure. It's a completely different experience.
Marc you consistently put out a video every Wednesday. I don’t know of any other that does that. You also interact with every one of your viewers. What do people expect you to do in the winter when you have your trailer laid up? You even took it out to the ski resort! 90+% of your videos are RVing and the rest are hiking, skiing, kayaking, biking and eating(😉). After all, your site is called “Grand Adventure” not “Grand RV Adventure”! I don’t think you will lose any viewers by throwing in an occasional non RV video. Not this viewer.
Wow Marc! I’ve did me the Schafer Trail and White Rim Road 3 times and watched countless videos of the trip down the Schafer Trail…your footage in this episode is by far the best video of the experience, including that first heart-stooping transition! Well done!!!
I just started watching your TH-cam channel. I follow many, mainly full time RV’ers, but your channel is great. More of a tourism, so to speak, view of the areas in which you visit. Keep up the good work. I’m hooked. I’m from Pennsylvania and love the west. Been to many of the places you show on TH-cam.
Thank you so much, Jim! We do try to showcase the area as much as possible, because we're too boring to feature in a vlog. :D For us travel, RV life and camping are all about seeing places and getting out in nature to recreate, and that's what we've chosen to share. So glad that you're with us! Out of curiosity, what part of Pennsylvania? Both of my folks were from the Lehigh Valley and I spent a ton of time there in my youth.
I like your videos. Keep up the good work. I've been to Needles & the Island in the sky. When in Moab I stayed in a BLM Campground called "Horse Thief." It's just outside the Island in the Sky, it offered only a pit toilet. As I remember I gathered my water at the National Park office.
Thank you Bill! We stayed on a sand bar at the mouth of Horsethief Canyon for a night on our 8-day kayak camping trip down the Green River many years ago.
My father hauled tankers of water to the uranium mines in the fifties over the shaffer trail. Imagine driving a tanker truck over that road! He said that many of the switchbacks required two or three maneuvers to negotiate.
@@GrandAdventure Yeah, you have to get out of town on the hiking trails.... absolute best hiking and mountain biking trails in North America! Keep up the great work!
I’m glad that I found your videos. I’m planning a trip to Utah to visit Arches NP and Canyonlands NP in a rental van in September. Your info on a Japanese Internment Camp is also interesting. As a Japanese American, I love to visit and stay there. Thank you for your great videos.
Thank you so much, Yumiko! We're glad that you found us, too. You'll love the whole Moab area, and as regards the internment camp, there's a small plaque just off US-191 at Dalton Wells Road north of Moab commemorating the site. Here's a brief history of the camp from the National Park Service: www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/anthropology74/ce14.htm
Very informative. I didn’t know about this area and I tried to listen intently but the music was very distracting. I think natural sounds of some kind would be really nice. But I’m probably the only one that thinks that :-) Your videos just keep getting better and better :-) you’re really good at this Marc. The national parks system should put you on their payroll! :-)
Thanks Jesi! Often times are video contains voices of others, truck engines, wind noise, etc. Other stuff like the drone footage has no audio at all, hence our use of a soundtrack.
Just started checking your channel out! Grand stuff!! On a weird note, my wife and I simultaneously said, “those chairs!” on an earlier video. Lol. So, like, where’d you get those chairs? Edit: Just saw the link in your description! That’s thorough as all get out!!!
They're the most comfy camp chairs ever! We got ours at Camping World where they called them a "club chair" but we've linked to similar "moon chairs" on Amazon in the video description. Happy shopping! And thrilled that you've found us, thank you!
That is one hell of a video. Very beautiful and professionally done as usual. The commentary is over the top. Thank you. Hope some day I can go camping with you and your family. Living the dream.
We made it to Zion, Escalante, Calf Creek, Bryce, Capitol Reef. We need to return and pick up a few more lookey sees. Thanks again Mark. You made it easy to want that return trip.
I have driven the Shafer trail in my jeep, it was amazing. Not sure about bringing my 37 foot class A to your boondocking sit. We stayed at Horse Thief Campground.
Ronald, your Class A would indeed have not reached that site, but if you could have gotten it across the 100' sandy wash at the entrance to Dalton Wells there were many large sites a half mile in - we saw both class As and fifth wheels there. Thanks so much for your comment, and for being a new subscriber! We'll be hosting a new Premiere at 9pm Eastern/6 pm Pacific from the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, hope you'll join us!
Great video and love the geologic and topographic descriptions and information. I grew up in southern Nevada and spent a lot of time in the southern area of Utah, St. George to Cedar City, Zion, Bryce Canyon and the north rim of the Grand Canyon but never made it to Canyon lands and Moab. Just put it on my must do next fall. Well done and thank You!
Looking forward to this one! I recognize Shafer Canyon Road in the video thumbnail. I really wanted to drive down there but didn't have enough gas to go the entire route. Next time I'll go with a full tank.
Great episode. We love Moab !! Awesome place. My last trip 3 years ago stayed at Dead Horse Point SP, and the Needles Outpost. Been looking forward to your white rim road trip, believe you mentioned it about a month ago. So the my question is did you take your Tundra down Shafer canyon ? I also have a Tundra, so was wondering. Mine is a crewmax. Didn't look like there was much room for oncoming traffic, the pull offs no so big, a bit harrowing.
Thanks Eric! No issue with the Tundra at all on Shafer. We have the extended cab but the full long bed. White Rim may not air for a bit, we'll do it when we don't have something fresher in the can already.
Great video, but to truly enjoy this country you have to do it on foot or serious 4WD into the back country. White Rim trail is pretty milk toast stuff when compared to other 4WD trails in the area. Nonetheless, hard to pull an RV with an off road vehicle, unless you add a second trailer with the 4WD. Keep up the Grand Adventure and be safe!
We agree, Thom. We've done a bunch of 4WD trails in the area but know our limits, too. Have you done Top of the World? That's the hardest one that we've done in the Moab area. Access is also the most limiting factor in the Maze district of Canyonlands, where the still images shown in this video we're taken.
Thanks for all the great and useful info! We are going to visit this area this summer with our trailer and planning on boondocking. Do you ever worry about your trailer while out exploring?
Loved the detail you shared, the info is so helpful! Great drone shots! Putting Milt's on the to eat at list when traveling there! Well done Grand Adventure!
Thank you so much Tom!
Can’t really get my head around how big canyon lands is just unbelievable and more so unmissable, love the view points and the Schaffer road I would really enjoy that
Great film well done Marc
G&Z
Thanks as always, folks -- we truly appreciate you. When you're ready to jump across that pond, just let us know. ;)
Holy cow! You weren’t kidding!! This may be the scariest road in America!
The camping spot looks perfect. Beautiful park. Incredible shots.
Thank you Christina!
Hey Marc, i regularity watch about 50 rv/camping channels like yours. I only have the bell icon selected for two channels, you and fate unbound. I think you should finish one of your videos with an explanation of why people should “ring your bell”, and what they should expect when they do. You have a unique channel that provides excellent content and asks very little in return. Maybe something like “ring the notification bell to Hike to your next Grand Adventure”. Always looking forward to the next new video as i make my way through all your content. Keep it coming Marc.
You've definitely been binge watching, and we're both flattered and appreciative! And Fate Unbound does an excellent job. We're grateful to have you along, thank you! We'll think of some way to best explain the bell, great suggestion.
Awesome video Marc!!
I liked your scene changes - especially the first one with the broken triangles! So fitting with the drive down Schaefer Road. That looked like such a cool ride. The scenery is so “another world”.
The quality of your videos like this one, are top notch; so professional. I really enjoy your videos even the ones that are not about RV’s like your skiing (temps me to go skiing) and your four wheeling (makes me wish I had a four wheeler).
Thanks you for all the effort you do putting out such a great product.
👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks Ram! As you've been slowly going through our back catalog from oldest to newest, I sincerely hope that you've been able to see a progression in quality over time. It's funny, but even though Grand Adventure's mandate is "RV-centric Outdoor Adventure", every time we make a new video that does not involve RV camping, like last week's ski video, the video positively tanks. We're hopeful, but not optimistic, that our audience will eventually come around whenever I do one of those videos, because we're going to just keep doing them.
Last night I watch both this video and the skiing video again, but this time with my wife on the “big screen” (my wife’s iPad).
There were a couple scenes that were so smooth in the skiing - I felt like I was skiing - that I wished you had filmed the whole run!
Of course my wife informed me that there would be NO WAY she would ever go down Schaefer Road!!
Thanks again.
@@laughingram7287 those moving ski sequences were filmed with a gimbal to deliver that smooth footage. Actually we did shoot the whole run, although watching the same scene for a couple of minutes would've been boring as hell, so we broke it up into segments.
If you get a chance, watch any of these on a truly big screen, a 4K TV. That's actually how about 30% of our viewers watch Grand Adventure. It's a completely different experience.
Marc you consistently put out a video every Wednesday. I don’t know of any other that does that. You also interact with every one of your viewers.
What do people expect you to do in the winter when you have your trailer laid up? You even took it out to the ski resort!
90+% of your videos are RVing and the rest are hiking, skiing, kayaking, biking and eating(😉).
After all, your site is called “Grand Adventure” not “Grand RV Adventure”!
I don’t think you will lose any viewers by throwing in an occasional non RV video.
Not this viewer.
Wow Marc! I’ve did me the Schafer Trail and White Rim Road 3 times and watched countless videos of the trip down the Schafer Trail…your footage in this episode is by far the best video of the experience, including that first heart-stooping transition! Well done!!!
Thank you so much Randy!
I just started watching your TH-cam channel. I follow many, mainly full time RV’ers, but your channel is great. More of a tourism, so to speak, view of the areas in which you visit. Keep up the good work. I’m hooked. I’m from Pennsylvania and love the west. Been to many of the places you show on TH-cam.
Thank you so much, Jim! We do try to showcase the area as much as possible, because we're too boring to feature in a vlog. :D For us travel, RV life and camping are all about seeing places and getting out in nature to recreate, and that's what we've chosen to share. So glad that you're with us!
Out of curiosity, what part of Pennsylvania? Both of my folks were from the Lehigh Valley and I spent a ton of time there in my youth.
I am in Western PA, about thirty miles west of Pittsburgh.
Moab is like Disney for outdoor enthusiasts!
Hahaha -- so true!
I like your videos. Keep up the good work. I've been to Needles & the Island in the sky. When in Moab I stayed in a BLM Campground called "Horse Thief." It's just outside the Island in the Sky, it offered only a pit toilet. As I remember I gathered my water at the National Park office.
Thank you Bill! We stayed on a sand bar at the mouth of Horsethief Canyon for a night on our 8-day kayak camping trip down the Green River many years ago.
My father hauled tankers of water to the uranium mines in the fifties over the shaffer trail. Imagine driving a tanker truck over that road! He said that many of the switchbacks required two or three maneuvers to negotiate.
We can believe it! Hats off to your father.
love the drone shots. beautiful scenery. thanks.
Wow beautiful place with great views. It’s on my bucket list 👍😎🌎🚌⛰ thanks for sharing and safe travels
Thank you Tom, and the same right back at you!
I like Moab..... but nothing beats beauty of Sedona, AZ.
Sedona is indeed gorgeous, and we did an early video from there. It definitely felt upscale to us, perhaps at times a bit too much so.
@@GrandAdventure Yeah, you have to get out of town on the hiking trails.... absolute best hiking and mountain biking trails in North America! Keep up the great work!
And again, "Excellent job. You da man!"
Wow, thanks Craig!
I’m glad that I found your videos. I’m planning a trip to Utah to visit Arches NP and Canyonlands NP in a rental van in September. Your info on a Japanese Internment Camp is also interesting. As a Japanese American, I love to visit and stay there. Thank you for your great videos.
Thank you so much, Yumiko! We're glad that you found us, too. You'll love the whole Moab area, and as regards the internment camp, there's a small plaque just off US-191 at Dalton Wells Road north of Moab commemorating the site. Here's a brief history of the camp from the National Park Service: www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/anthropology74/ce14.htm
Wow, I received a personal reply with wonderful info. What a treat! Thanks again!@@GrandAdventure
My wife and I really enjoyed that thanks 👍🇺🇸
Thanks so much Sam!
Was there a year ago. Passed on the Schaefer Trail. Looks like I missed out but thank you for the peek. Just awesome.
Thanks so much Michael!
Except for the sometimes intrusive music, a great video of stunning locations.
We'll take it. Thanks!
Very informative. I didn’t know about this area and I tried to listen intently but the music was very distracting. I think natural sounds of some kind would be really nice. But I’m probably the only one that thinks that :-) Your videos just keep getting better and better :-) you’re really good at this Marc. The national parks system should put you on their payroll! :-)
Thanks Jesi! Often times are video contains voices of others, truck engines, wind noise, etc. Other stuff like the drone footage has no audio at all, hence our use of a soundtrack.
Just started checking your channel out! Grand stuff!! On a weird note, my wife and I simultaneously said, “those chairs!” on an earlier video. Lol. So, like, where’d you get those chairs? Edit: Just saw the link in your description! That’s thorough as all get out!!!
They're the most comfy camp chairs ever! We got ours at Camping World where they called them a "club chair" but we've linked to similar "moon chairs" on Amazon in the video description. Happy shopping! And thrilled that you've found us, thank you!
I"ll be back for the fourth time. From New England.
And you can go four more times and still see different things each time, the park is that huge. Enjoy!
Wow!! Super nice. Great production and narration. Very informative. Just was there last month. So much BLM land to camp and be alone. Subscribed. ;-)
Thanks so much Nigel! Sounds like you enjoyed yourself as well.
That is one hell of a video. Very beautiful and professionally done as usual. The commentary is over the top. Thank you. Hope some day I can go camping with you and your family. Living the dream.
We'd love to see you on the road, Leroy! Thanks so much as always!
Great video, as always!
And thank you as always Ilse!
We made it to Zion, Escalante, Calf Creek, Bryce, Capitol Reef. We need to return and pick up a few more lookey sees. Thanks again Mark. You made it easy to want that return trip.
Thank you as always, Spell Madam!
Beautiful! Thank you for touri6and sharing!
And thank you for watching and commenting!
Great video!! A couple times forgot if I was watching one of my "rv-ing" channels or one of my "overlanding" channels ...
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed!
I have driven the Shafer trail in my jeep, it was amazing. Not sure about bringing my 37 foot class A to your boondocking sit. We stayed at Horse Thief Campground.
Ronald, your Class A would indeed have not reached that site, but if you could have gotten it across the 100' sandy wash at the entrance to Dalton Wells there were many large sites a half mile in - we saw both class As and fifth wheels there. Thanks so much for your comment, and for being a new subscriber! We'll be hosting a new Premiere at 9pm Eastern/6 pm Pacific from the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, hope you'll join us!
Awesome video Mark! And as usual loved the drone footage. Looking forward to the upcoming Canyon Lands videos.
Thank you Joseph! Those Maze and Needles district videos aren't presently scheduled, but they'll happen some day.
Nice video Marc. I would not be brave enough for that road. I would be afraid I would go too far left. 😉
LOL! Whatever you do, don't go left.
Went there last year, beautiful place. Now I have to go back! How did I miss sooo much?
We've been countless times, and still have more to see than we've already seen!
Excellent video as always
Thank you as always, William!
Another great video with the background that allows a trip to be planned. Thanks, Marc!
Thanks as always, Mark!
Great video and love the geologic and topographic descriptions and information. I grew up in southern Nevada and spent a lot of time in the southern area of Utah, St. George to Cedar City, Zion, Bryce Canyon and the north rim of the Grand Canyon but never made it to Canyon lands and Moab. Just put it on my must do next fall. Well done and thank You!
Thank you so very much, Joyce! Utah is very diverse, for a wide range of experiences.
outstanding video! thank you
Thank you for watching, Ray!
Awesome as usual. Too bad I can't give two thumbs up.
Wow! Thanks John!!
Looking forward to this one! I recognize Shafer Canyon Road in the video thumbnail. I really wanted to drive down there but didn't have enough gas to go the entire route. Next time I'll go with a full tank.
Thanks! As you'll see, it's a worthy drive.
Beautiful place and loved the traditional Burger Bar. Thanks for sharing P&J
Thanks as always, Phil & Juliet!
Great video, great views! The shafer trails reminds me of my DW hometown in philippines!
You'll have to tell us about that!
Great episode. We love Moab !! Awesome place. My last trip 3 years ago stayed at Dead Horse Point SP, and the Needles Outpost. Been looking forward to your white rim road trip, believe you mentioned it about a month ago. So the my question is did you take your Tundra down Shafer canyon ? I also have a Tundra, so was wondering. Mine is a crewmax. Didn't look like there was much room for oncoming traffic, the pull offs no so big, a bit harrowing.
Thanks Eric! No issue with the Tundra at all on Shafer. We have the extended cab but the full long bed. White Rim may not air for a bit, we'll do it when we don't have something fresher in the can already.
thanks for the info. Your video gives a very good perspective what to expect.
Thanks Mark, we may visit Moab this fall. Your information is very helpful. Milts!
Definitely Milt's, we can't visit Moab without stopping there. Thanks as always, Tom!
We are rafting cataract canyon next month. Can not wait! Thanks for the video.
That should be a wild ride, Colin - enjoy it!
Great stuff! And the info links you added are always helpful. Thanks!
Thanks as always, Gringo!
Great video, but to truly enjoy this country you have to do it on foot or serious 4WD into the back country. White Rim trail is pretty milk toast stuff when compared to other 4WD trails in the area. Nonetheless, hard to pull an RV with an off road vehicle, unless you add a second trailer with the 4WD. Keep up the Grand Adventure and be safe!
We agree, Thom. We've done a bunch of 4WD trails in the area but know our limits, too. Have you done Top of the World? That's the hardest one that we've done in the Moab area. Access is also the most limiting factor in the Maze district of Canyonlands, where the still images shown in this video we're taken.
Capitol Reef N.P. Has the best PIE at Gifford House Museum and store. Warning one is not enough! mmmmm GOOD
Great advice, thank you!
Nice campground at the end of the video.......is there running water there at the BLM campground??
Honestly I don't recall, you would have to check out the campground listing. But thanks for watching!
Again, why do people give a video a thumbs down before they even see it?
Because we are a fans, just like a sporting event. You cheer on your team even before they win.
Who cares. Enjoy the show. Great content.
@@stevenschiff808 that makes absolutely no sense at all. You don't cheer your team on by giving them a thumbs down.
@Just Some Medic yeah I guess you can say you lost it.
Oh, one place crossed off my list. I would be vomiting I'm so afraid of heights.
Trust me, Bob spent a good half a day trying to talk me out of driving him down the Shafer.
Thanks for all the great and useful info! We are going to visit this area this summer with our trailer and planning on boondocking. Do you ever worry about your trailer while out exploring?
Not even in the slightest, Eric. In fact, we get asked that so often that we're planning an episode on that very subject.
Yass 😁
Who the heck gets ketchup instead of fry sauce at Milt's? lol
Me! As a non-native I've truly never gotten the love affair with fry sauce.