Exploring Oregon’s hidden lava caves | Oregon Field Guide
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- Опубліковано 12 тра 2021
- What was once a river of red hot lava roaring across the Oregon high desert is now a playground of secret lava caves, holes and passages, many of which have yet to be fully explored.
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I remember my grandpa showing me an ice cave in Eastern Oregon when I was young. I honestly don't think very many people know it's location. It seemed very raw, no path to it even. Very cool to see a fallen tree inside covered in ice crystals.
Where is it??
@@sergcas5361 I was young, and there were no markers that I could remember. In the hills between union and cove maybe.
@@LL.Johnson go back and record lol
Wow! I’m way too claustrophobic to do this. Even watching the video gives me anxiety. Extremely interesting, non the less!
Right? Ugh!
Whew wee you can hear how sharp and glass like those rocks are when hes hiking in at the beginning! I love Oregon, it's truly a treasure trove of natural beauty!
This guy is so lucky to have a job like this ! How many other people out there can honestly say they wake up on a Monday morning and say great it's Monday morning and I can go to work again, like he probably does ! You only have to watch him for a short time to see just how much he enjoys his work.
Brave, crazy people! Blessings for them and for the bits of natural world they save.👍👍👍
I could feel my heartbeat increasing as he squeezed through the passage.
Hei is nuts! I was in the big lava cases and that was scary enough!
Thank you for your service Ken!
This is absolutely amazing! Talk about the best job in the world!
I know, right?
Since I am claustrophobic, sort of, I will stay above ground, and let crazy people, like the guy in the video, do what they seem to have no problem doing. More power to you. Excuse me but you are nuts!
I'm not really claustrophobic. I mean I get MRI's in those tiny tubes & it doesn't really bother. Plus I ride the bus. There's been a few times it was so packed I wanted off but usually endured.
But these guys are absolutely insane. I could not do this at all. Period.
But luckily videographers take us along.
Awesome, a great cave for no one to ever see. The rocks and minerals down there appreciate your service.
I never thought I had claustrophobia until I explored a cave in Tennessee with my cousins. It went through a ridge of rock from a cow pasture to natural meadow. In order to get out you had to swim or float across about eight feet of water and duck under a slit of maybe six inches of daylight. God only knows how deep it was. To get out, you grabbed onto shrubs at the edge of what was essentially a sinkhole. Later on, the landowner hammered in iron spikes with hand grabs and installed cable bolted to trees and then to the rock inside the cave so non-swimmers could pull themselves along. It was all on private land and not exactly safe! I’m glad I was only 17 and still stupid enough to check it out, because another few years and you wouldn’t have gotten me in there for love nor money!
What a cool job!
I originally went to school for ecological biology (now in med school) and get a twinge of regret with videos like this. Its HARD dirty physical work, but so freaking much fun! Not a ton of money in it though.
The BLM aggravates me sometimes. Many of the lava tubes that I enjoyed exploring in the 90's are now gated up and locked. I wanted to be able to show them to my son's but cannot. These were "high traffic " caves anyway so I really don't see the reasoning behind closing them. They seem bound and determined to remove or block or gate anything worth seeing.
I agree, in the last few years as indoctrinated graduates from our hate America, people are a scourge upon the Earth teaching Universities started running the BLM the closing of public lands has accelerated. Here in New Mexico they cut off rockhounds by making an area a National Monument and stopped collecting. They did that to one place, Kilbourne Hole forgetting part of it was private land. Not to mention some hotshot straight out of school BLM agent told me I couldn't carry a gun in _HIS_ desert unless it was hunting season. It is always hunting season for something and I pulled out my hunting license and told him the Supreme Court ruled that the BLM and NPS couldn't ban guns just by declaring an area a National Park or Monument and besides I won a permit to get an Oryx and we were in neither.
I lectured him about what public lands were for. I pointed out to him that when there were brush fires land grazed by cattle was easily put out, but un-grazed land without Bison anymore burns everything to the ground.
That is such a cool job. I admire that guy.
Dream job
I've done this!
is there lava tubes in the portland area?
When’s he gonna tell the real reason why he’s searching and sealing off those caves?
I like your vids but sponsor Otto Insurance is misleading. They are just a data collection company, not insurance.
i'm an Oregonian from birth & couldn't live anywhere else we have everything in this state Beach, Mts, Forests, Desert, great fishing & camping everything in between i've been all over the state Downtown Portland is a mess but looking past that it's a beautiful state
Too bad the government there is fkd
My imagination would get to me and after watching these bigfoot and alien vids on YT, I'd run out screaming.
That looks like fun.
I bet he wants to find the hole.
I'm glad he sealing them off.. good job
I couldn't crawl into that cave if you paid me. Paid me lots and lots of money.
Except new ones where made in Hawaii last year and right now in Iceland.
Right, Kinzie! Except no one's going into those for quite a while.
Way to go Ken, go around and close off everything to everyone. Thanks BLM for "protecting" everything so nobody can look at it.
Noooo
Are these Andesitic?
This made my anxiety skyrocket 😅