How The Niagara Falls Cliffs And Trails Are Maintained | Deep Cleaned | Insider
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- Опубліковано 14 вер 2023
- Niagara Falls welcomes roughly 9 million visitors every year, and the sprawling parks in the surrounding region are also a popular destination for outdoor enthusiasts.
But much of the essential maintenance work that ensures these natural havens are safe for visitors takes place behind the scenes. Over time, the cliffs that hug the Niagara River can erode, causing rocks to tumble onto the walking and hiking trails below.
Statewide rope access coordinator Andy Chouinard took us along on a recent operation at Devil’s Hole State Park to show us how his crew fearlessly scales steep ledges to manage the loose dolomite that would pose a danger to hikers.
For more, visit:
www.parks.ny.gov
niagarafallsstatepark.com
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How The Niagara Falls Escarpment, Cliffs, And Trails Are Maintained | Deep Cleaned | Insider - Розваги
A big thanks to all park staff around the world who keep trails safe, maintained, and clean. It really makes such a positive impact for those of us on them. To all hikers: if you can help contribute, please help keep the trails clean and educate yourselves to be respectful hikers. It's a journey for everyone that so many of us can contribute to :)
3:38.
"Am I scared? nah I just have a healthy respect"
~a daring man
That's literally how I always respond as well.
Great video… brought back memories! Back in my youth, I worked for the Parks Commission on the Canadian side and one of my jobs was to rappel down the cliffs to clean garbage and random things tourists would drop over the edge!! You can imagine the looks we used to get from the crowds of people when we were roped up and jumped over the railings beside the rushing water.
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I worked for the parks fairly recently and well, you’d be surprised at how many people climb over barriers near the gorge. Or go in the water near the whirlpools.
These workers doing work that I’d never have the guts to try. Thank you for keeping our leisure activities safe, and thank you to anyone else who makes our everyday lives easier, nicer, and safer.
They are so professional, good job keeping people safe.
Beautiful country, glad so many people get to see it.
Oh yeah, the escarpment goes all the way to Toronto lol rattlesnake point. Full of actual rattlesnakes lol I don’t tell people I bring there. Hahaha
Where is the trail at? Just curious. I think personally they should just use dynamite to blast all that rock. It'll make it easier for them to not have to even repel down. They can just stick like grenades or dynamite sticks in the rocks or holes along with wall. Then just explode it.
Hi, some issues there:
How would you get the explosives down there without having a man to place it into the rocks? If you had a man there why not just remove the rocks manually?
How would you justify the cost of that?
How would you avoid damaging the seamless parts of the rock that help uphold the cliff and avoid further corrosion?
What about the massive sounds of the explosives exploding? To wildlife and to people living there?
We saw climbers from the Canadian side last summer while hiking the Gorge trail and were wondering what they were doing, so cool to see !
This is awesome. Devil’s hole is my favorite place to hike. You can always see the remnants of what appears to be landslides (now I’m questioning if maybe it’s the remnants of these crews!) and you think about the possibility of a fallen rock. Had no idea this work occurs, but I am thankful for it now!
What interesting jobs that some of us never knew existed! Great stuff.
How to deep clean a cliff . . .
Bro is tryna get a blue comment
Both sides of the Niagara River have some amazing trails. Totally worth checking out if into some more difficult hiking. (I wouldn't recommend pets on the Canadian whirlpool trail to Niagara glen)
i have a lot of respect for how they take the safety of their job very seriously!!
"A good day where we're really *rockin'* ..."
Appreciate the pun.
That is pretty awesome. Talk about a vital job, saving a lot of people from potential injuries or death. I could never do it. I tried zip lines, and apparently I am deathly afraid of heights. Very irritating.
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Awesome group of hardworking men! Respect to them!
Bro I live on the NY side and I have never seen them doing this before. Pretty cool to see!
I love the Niagara Escarpment. Too bad the best parts are in Canada (Georgian Bay, unpolluted water). Its so nice to hike all day and have fresh water beside you. Wish I had been a Native before the pollution of the Great Lakes.
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Georgian Bay is beautiful, everything about it.
Really glad to be Canadian. Have a cottage on Georgian Bay. Always welcome in Canada, and we'll even give you some good beer.
Had no idea this happened!!
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Looks so natural too.
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That looks like a fun job
We saw these guys at the top of the gorge and wondered what they were doing down there. Now we know!
looks fun
Idk but it looks fun 🤩
Interesting job ;)
WOW! 👏👏👏👏🇬🇧
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Would love if crews would improve the trails upstream from Whirlpool State Park , perhaps with a staircase up near Whirlpool bridge.
Instead of prematurely removing the sides of a cliff, and never fully eliminating the risk of falling rock, is it possible to shift the hiking path away from the fall zone instead?
sadly not for this section, since the river's just a few feet away and the riverbank is equally as unstable as the cliffside. you can see it briefly in the background at 6:40 ish. i haven't been to niagara falls in a long time, but i imagine many other hiking trails are similar.
@@shadowfire04I am a local, and you are correct.
dude this is awesome. where do i sign up???
I imagine that if this started in the 1930s then 1 or 2 people must have died from falling rocks. Money is never spent unless its dragged out.
People might know about a dangerous road for years but it's never dealt with until a child is killed or a car rolls.
Good on you lads you have no doubt saved lives.
😅
0:48 there’s a place in Ontario not far from the falls called devils punch bowl and it’s wild, people fall into it almost every year
its in hamilton ontario and funny enough i can see the giant cross that sits beside it from my house; people dont fall into the actual waterfall its just the trails leading down to it and around it that aren't really safe
Is Andy a relative of Yvon Chounaird, the famous mountaineer/climber who invented the Chounaid harness and started the company Patagonia??
@hownot2 these guys would be awesome to hang with!
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What do they anchor off too when rappelling?
Looks like a metal guardrail at 6:09
It cleans its deb ris from its cliff
do they work for Canada or USA
Canada.
This is pretty cool, but have these guys never heard of a forecast?
"I'm filthy from one jump today" (laughs in ontario archaeology)
I’d be curious to know what the pay is like for jobs like these.
not a lot
@@tloud600 are you assuming or do you know for sure?
@@JBrotsis1 I’m assuming
@@tloud600 probably 28-35$ an hour canadian
@@tloud600Based
Close the trail !!!
Dehydration? I guess thats a danger if the dont drink water as they should
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Maintaining?....aren't they just speeding up the erosion process by like...10000×?
Oh u Dumb.. If they don't do it then loose rocks couls hurt anyone
You would think it would but the freeze/thaw that takes place every winter/spring is what inevitably breaks down the cliff face. The rocks removed aren’t supporting pieces. Removing those rocks creates a smooth “crackless” layer which in turn prevents separation and ice build-up during the winter months.
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Close the damn trail !!!
No. Erosion is caused by flowing water. There’s no flowing water there. The falls used to be down at the gorge, but they aren’t anymore. It’s eroded already, there’s no more erosion where they’re cleaning, just where the river is. Source - I worked in the area on the Canadian side.
This would never happen in BC, Canada. There would be no trail there at all as it's "too hazardous" to pedestrians. There's absolutely no way they'd pay that many people to clear the cliffs every year.
I've seen a lot of Japanese cliffs with nets on them...why not just do this.
Instead of permamnently breaking down the cliff which progresses the degration even faster .... just built iron nets down there to catch those rocks who fall down naturaly
You would think it would, but the thaw that takes place every spring (from the freeze of the winter) is the thing that actually breaks down the cliff face.
Only the seamless rocks with no air inbetween are hindering erosion, the loose ones you can remove without significantly increasing erosion.
I hope these guys are adding rock too, otherwise they'll be out of a job
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What do you do?
He: I clean mountains
Lol chosss!!
Where is the trail at? Just curious. I think personally they should just use dynamite to blast all that rock. It'll make it easier for them to not have to even repel down. They can just stick like grenades or dynamite sticks in the rocks or holes along with wall. Then just explode it.
Seems like it's right inside the city of Niagara Falls, on the US side of the river.
Job well created. Canada's employment rate fell by .99%.
I wish they’d clean that ugly casino next to the falls out of existence.
Explorerniagara
SALUTE GENTLEMEN!
sad that mountains gonna be a hill in 50 years
This doesn't really speed up erosion.
You would think it would, but the thaw that takes place every spring (from the freeze of the winter) is the thing that actually breaks down the cliff face.
Only the seamless rocks with no air inbetween are hindering erosion, the loose ones you can remove without significantly increasing erosion.
since the 1930s? how much of the cliff have they carved away lol
Erosion? No. Cliff Cleaners. 😂
2023. Youd think they'd have some air pressured hammers
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Do you know how heavy an air pressured hammer has to be to produce the same force as a human?
@LaugeHeiberg my point is in 2023, you'd expect them to have a more efficient way of doing this. That is the point. Wasn't a call to have a whole engineer conversation 🙄
@@theurbanphilosopherz mate if we can't come up with a better solution, how are we supposed to have a better solution?
Manual labor still exists, also in the west, and that's.. Fine? The people don't seem unhappy to do this.
lol.. they should cement it like what they are doing in other countries
nope
bruh im sorry what? maintaining dirt and rocks? also every year they erode and take away so much of the cliff that it might collapse in the future.. it may not seem like much in this video but every time they do this every year they speed up the eroding.
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My thoughts exactly
No. Erosion is caused by flowing water. There’s no flowing water there. The falls used to be down at the gorge, but they aren’t anymore. It’s eroded already, there’s no more erosion where they’re cleaning, just where the river is. Source - I worked in the area on the Canadian side. You’d be surprised at how slow the erosion under the falls is.
You would think it would, but the thaw that takes place every spring (from the freeze of the winter) is the thing that actually breaks down the cliff face.
Only the seamless rocks with no air inbetween are hindering erosion, the loose ones you can remove without significantly increasing erosion.
bruh what they do is like adding fuel to the fire.. XD@@LaugeHeiberg
On Mars, cliffs decay at peace...on Earth we need to make provisions for the most dangerous species on the planet
“More than TWO hours at a time”
Is this supposed to be impressive. This seems like an easy and safe job comparatively. I’m tired of all these simple jobs getting tired as “the worlds most live threatening but vital work”
This is made for westerners, this is alright to say, this is a tough job, this will wear you down over time
Now this is what I called asking for trouble
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Minecraft 👍
We are not allowed to disturb anything in a park because it changes or affects the ecocystem
But, if they decide they can break the cliff in Niagara or set up helipads in the middle of Grand canyon...!!!
Hypocrisy
Well it's loss/gain.
By telling the public they shouldn't disturb anything the public's experince doesn't change all too much.
By doing this they save lives, which is seemingly a larger gain than not distributing the park is.
Premature erosion is what it really is.
Hi, you would think it would, but the thaw that takes place every spring (from the freeze of the winter) is the thing that actually breaks down the cliff face.
Only the seamless rocks with no air inbetween are hindering erosion, the loose ones you can remove without significantly increasing erosion.
I hope these guys earn at least $200 per hour.
why won't they just blow the entire cliff, hehehe
Hahaha just close the walking trails. Easy.
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And lose a massive industry and the opportunity to experince these great trails through hiking?
Is this necessary…?. If so why …. I’m not getting the point here
Saving lives? That's also said in the video
I would be scared. My feet hurt just watching. ( American side im guessing )
One rope is keeping you alive i would want a chain. And class 4 harnas gimme class 5.
It's 2 ropes each rated for a minimum of 22kN which is way more than good enough.
Seems futile
Why?
How to make a typical Insider's video:
-blame the users/consumers
-complain the risk of the job
-complain about low salary of the job
-complain about impact on the environment
Someone's gotta do it because corporations deny all 4
Why you don't let the Nature be the Nature?😢
Because they don't want people to die? They wouldn't be allowed to do this if it wasn't to preserving the land for future generations.
@@neko42girl42just stop the so called trail..
@@randomhumanonearth777"So called trail" What makes it not a trail?
Ruining the cliff, causing more damage than natural erosion.
Such a ridiculous task.
This doesn't do more damage and it saves lives.
If only there was a permanent solution to blocking the path below from falling objects...................... Real facepalm video and job. Maybe take a lesson from Switzerland
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Man you aren't smarter than an entire team working on this, there is a very good explanation of why they don't just do X i can guarantee you
So you're helping to erode the cliff, that's what it is. It may have been thought of by a cliff climber enthusiast saying "hey let us introduce this job so that we can do our hobby climb and at the same time earn a living without the taxpayers noticing they are paying us to do this".
No. Erosion is caused by flowing water. There’s no flowing water there. The falls used to be down at the gorge, but they aren’t anymore. It’s eroded already, there’s no more erosion where they’re cleaning, just where the river is. Source - I worked in the area on the Canadian side.
@@orangeradishneo my friend. Do your research. Erosion is not limited to the action of water alone. There are a lot of things and situations that cause erosion. Air cause erosion, physical activity like what they are doing cause erosion. Just search for the definition, you have the internet to supply you the info at the least.
You would think it would, but the freeze/thaw that takes place every winter/spring is what inevitably breaks down the cliff face.
The rocks removed aren't supporting pieces. Removing those rocks creates a smooth "crackless" layer which in turn prevents separation and ice build-up during the winter months.
If you ever feel useless here's a job where guys deep clean a cliff
They're breaking off loose rocks that could and will inevitably fall off and can hit an unsuspecting person or animal, these guys are preventing injury and even death so if that's useless to u then I guess you must be very young or just extremely ignorant/naive
@@cmonbruh7139 of you ever feel useless here's a job where guys deep clean a cliff
soo this is useless? Rip 50%+ of jobs and employees
@@shawnfoogle920 shut up
I don't see any women working on cliffside yet they want equal pays
Go clean off those dishes 😂
Their literally speeding up the erosion process….their not helping at all honestly haha….damn some people really think their smart but this is not one…completely unnecessary…doing more harm than good and they don’t even know it
They’re *…. Some people think they’re educated, but not this one…. This comment was completely unnecessary…..You’re uneducated and don’t even know it.
This is max Dunning Kruger. They arent speeding up erosion. You would think they are, but the thaw that takes place every spring (from the freeze of the winter) is the thing that actually breaks down the cliff face. The loose rocks dont help slow erosion.
Only the seamless rocks with no air inbetween are hindering erosion, the loose ones you can remove without significantly increasing erosion.
@@LaugeHeiberg You've copy/pasted the same comment at least 4 times; your logic doesn't really make sense either.
It's plain to anyone that _humans using prybars_ is going to dislodge rocks faster than they would naturally, hence _speeding up erosion_