MINES, ARCHES, CAVES & RUINS! (SUV Camping/Vanlife Adventures)
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
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Abandoned uranium mines, spectacular natural arches, ginormous caves, and Native American ruins-just another day in the desert :)
DATE FILMED: Late March 2018
GPS COORDINATES
** Red Canyon mine campsite: 37.5407, -110.2860
** Dinosaur tracks parking area: 37.5345, -109.6168
** Dinosaur tracks: 37.5342, -109.6159
** Fish Mouth Cave trailhead: 37.4279, -109.6318
** Butler Wash campsite: 37.351067, -109.629035
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Just want to say Tristen I love your videos. I will be 75 next month and I am a great grandma. I am just waiting for cooler weather and I am going SUV camping. Very excited! I am learning a lot from you. Thank you so much! I love the outdoors and nature, of course, it will not be as extensive as yours but I believe it will be fun for me. I have all my things ready to go. Please keep going!!!
Thanks Joy! It sounds like you have some great adventures planned. Good luck, and be sure to let me know if you have any questions :)
SUV RVing will do!. God bless you!
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Absolutely Amazing, as usual. I can't stop watching! I've been to a few of those, when I was younger, thank goodness! It's amazing, how many sites are in one area. It would take years to document them all. More being found, all the time. Even the least favorite place to camp, had to be wonderful!
Hey Tristan, that round small hole is a Geological Test Core Drill Hole ( someones looking for minerals )....... Nice adventures!
Ah, good to know. Thanks Ian!
Ruins fascinate me! Curiosity of a day in the life of... I'm a huge Clan of the Cave Bear series fan! 😊
A great video Tristan! I just started watching some of your earliest videos and they're as good as your recent ones! Really glad you did this video on Natural Bridges NM--this is a wonderful NM and at least it used to be less visited. Thanks for sharing these videos!
the hike from Sivapu bridge to the next bridge is quite nice.
I found the dinosaur tracks to be my favorite part. I've never seen anything like them before. TFS
There are a bunch of dinosaur tracks in southern Utah. I'll try to visit more of them on my future travels. Thanks TheRealDonald!
I like your ending comment about the pull u feel from S UT; same for my husband and me. Not far from where you camped was one of my favorite hikes in that area, The Citadel. 👍👍🙌🙌
Southern Utah is where my heart is too! I lived there for six years during my "formative" years and my parents loved camping and exploring. We went everywhere. Now I live in southern Arizona and hate it. Only thing keeping me here is my father who lives in Mexico. My mother has passed and my father will soon follow. Once he is gone I'm out of here and back to Utah. Not sure where I will settle but it will be in red rock country for sure.
I understand completely, I feel exactly the same about southern Utah. I go back there every year, and when I'm not there, my mind certainly is.
Really enjoyed this one. Definitely want to visit those ruins!
Really...you spoil us 😊.....LOVE LOVE LOVE your travel vlogs....I learn so much!
Thanks Christina! I'm glad you like them :) Thanks for watching and commenting.
Thanks👍 I love the cave and ruins 😃
Really enjoyed seeing the ruins. I always try to imagine what life would be like then. How would they go about their day, working, cooking, just day to day life. Another great day. Davin
I like to do the same thing. Thanks Davin!
Nice footage lots of big rock gorges but not many trees. I have hiked Natural Bridge and Red River Gorge seen Double Arch and Courthouse Rock climbed Haystack Rock in Kentucky looking down at the top of trees.
One of my favorite areas to date is Natural Bridges. Was a ghost town in comparison to Canyonlands or Arches. Sat at Owachomo for 5 hours wayting for the clouds to break long enough for a milky way picture. Seen some dinosaur tracks outside of Moab on an ATV trail which was pretty neat. Hard to spot them though for sure. I happened to roll through Blanding during the 4th of July parade which was cool. First time I've seen dollar bills thrown to the kids from the parade. 😅
Looking for the Zebra Canyon video. 🤣
Wow that cave was huge. It's sad people had to deface it. I really liked the lower caves with ruins. Really cool video. Thank you!
Thanks Sue!
It's sad that people feel they have to leave there name in a place they may never return to. Especially a native site. Thanks for bringing me along.
I agree, it's unfortunate. No one cares that you were there, people! Ugh. Thanks for watching, Tim.
Just a guess but the "ruins" in the cave look to be very recent. In your photos, compare the mortar joints at the cave to the others
Mind you, my language is not crazy! 🤪 lol (FYI I understood what you ment) All in good humor! 😊🤙🏽 Diné, or Navajo as most know us as, our language when spoken is quite poetic 😎
Your videos are so educational! Thank you for putting all the time in, which I’m sure includes editing.
Thanks for watching! It does take time to put the videos together, but I really enjoy it.
Was going to ask you if you've seen any videos by Dana Hollister & then saw his comments to you...his videos are terrific as are yours.
That hole you dropped a rock into may have been part of a ventilation shaft ? Liked that mine's, and Fish Mouth cave. However sad and sorry to see the graffiti vandalism inside fish mouth cave the land natural Bridge's were very interesting and Kool. I liked also the ruins , my family of American Indian decent, and yes the language is different, interesting, and quite unique! Nice job on shooting this video Tristan. A+ I would score you on this Vlog .
Thanks Dave! I'm glad you enjoyed the vlog :) Thanks for watching and commenting.
If cattle had unrestricted access to the ruins in Comb Ridge and especially in Grand Gulch they would knock many of the walls over. Grand Gulch had cattle wintering there starting in the 1880's
Thanks. I always enjoy your adventures. Hopefully I will be able to experience it myself.
I hope you will be able to too, Mike. Thanks for watching and commenting.
You’ve spent some time in Utah! So nice for you! I love your reviews of these places... I love the neighboring states. I hope I get to see Utah’s beauty soon... thank you for aharing
I hope you get to see it soon too. It's an unbelievably beautiful place. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Ventilation shaft maybe? Definitely watch were you step in that area...😳
Very well could be. And yeah, that hole was about five feet from where I parked and camped!
Very nice. Thanks
Thanks Radnally!
Wow those bridges are so cool!! Have you been to the one in Sedona? It’s a pretty nice hike, and then I climb, but some pretty amazing this does and views… This one was a really cool video showing those bridges
Wow that is so cool about the dinosaur tracks!! How were they preserve? Is that in rock sediment?
Yes, I have been to the one in Sedona (Devil's Bridge). I really enjoyed it, and I liked that you can walk out across it (not allowed on these ones). But the ones in the video here are 3-5 times larger. They're massive. To answer your question about the dinosaur tracks, I'm not sure exactly. The rock is sandstone, which I'm guessing was wet sand/sediment when the dinosaur walked on through. I don't know much beyond that about how they're preserved.
Very cool, yes, that’s the one, Devil’s Bridge. I hope I get to see the ones in this video... happy trails❤️
Loved the caves......it's a shame about the graffiti though. I really enjoyed the entire video. Thanks for sharing!
Yeah, I just don't understand the need to write my name on rock. Weird. Thanks Carol!
How timely! I just went to see Jurassic World! The real dino tracks are more exciting, even if there are only a few. Great video, as usual. :o)
p.s. My brother in law is spokesman for Utah's DNR. I'm going to share your vids with him and hopefully get you more exposure. He shares stuff on Fb with a much larger groups than I ever could...
The dinosaur tracks are neat. There are a bunch of places to see them in Utah. I've been to a handful of them. And thanks for sharing your videos, Jeanette!
Really liked those ruins. Sometimes the smaller ones are the most intimate. How many hours driving do you average per day moving from campsite to campsite? I’m sure it varies a lot, but a rough idea would be interesting to know.
Like you said, it really varies. On an average day on a trip like this, I'd say... up to 3 hours? But sometimes it's less than an hour, and sometimes it's 6 or more hours.
I know your videos are time delayed, so do you spend much time in the Summer camping in Southern Utah? Also, I didn't see any signs designating a campsite, so how do you tell when you've found one? I don't have a favorite part of the video...I enjoyed it all!
I just got back yesterday from a 4-day trip to southern Utah, but I was in the mountains the whole time, not the desert. I tend to avoid the desert in the summer, mostly because I'm too busy trying to climb mountains. You're right, there are no signs designating campsites, but basically you can camp anywhere where there's a road pullout, etc. An existing fire ring or fire pit is a good sign that someone has camped there before, so you're probably find to camp there.
You wouldn't dare be a sleepwalker in that area with all those open mine shafts!
Between those and the dropoffs at the edge of the cliffs, you would definitely be sleepwalking at your own peril! Thanks Greg.
Loved the dinosaur tracks. Didn't find the other therapod tracks? Weren't there two different ones?
Nope, never saw anything resembling a second set of tracks, and the woman I met out there (who had been there before) hadn't either. Maybe they got reburried by the sand :)
just wondering how camping felt in such remote.places or did you stay at campgrpunds and are the road signs easy to understand and follow?
Good videos, thumbscribe! See you in Utah some time.
Thanks Dana! Yep, hopefully we'll get to meet up at some point down the road.
That would be fun. Looking forward to it.
Tristan, I’m going to Moab at the beginning of August. Coming out of Yellowstone, where could you recommend between for Utah on my way down?
Oh man, there's a lot, and it depends which route you want to take and what kinds of things you like to do. The Mirror Lake Scenic Byway is a beautiful drive through some of the best mountains in the state. Great hiking and camping up there, too. Provo Canyon has some beautiful waterfalls (look up Bridal Veil Falls). The Wind Cave Trail in Logan Canyon takes you to some really cool limestone arches. Hope that helps. Shoot me an email if you have more questions.
How do you decide where to go next from one place to the next?
It just depends on what I feel like doing/seeing next and what other things there are to see/do in the area.
11.00 disneyland for dummies
boy! you found a melted city
dinoszar was an Emu kind of bird
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I hope that someone called you out for referring to the Navajo language as being crazy, frankly that was racist. I guess that you have forgotten that the Navajo 'crazy" language was used to safe our nation during ww2
Crazy language???? That's our American native people!! Beautiful language, that's an insult to all Native Americans ! (Sadly)
I realized as I was editing the video that I could have phrased that better. I didn't literally mean crazy. I meant crazy in the same way I'd say that an interesting rock formation is crazy. Crazy as in amazing. I'm a linguist by training, and Navajo is a fascinating language to me.
SUV RVing OK,I'm sorry too for jumping to conclusions, you're video's are great,and with a lot of thought, thanks for you're response and courtesy😊
It's a good thing for the Allied Naval forces in World War II that the Japanese found the Navajo language crazy as in "incomprehensible; too complicated to understand." The "Code Talkers" saved many Allied lives.
Rick Barbrick Amen to saving of lives !