Forgotten Places, Cliff Structures Part 2, Nine Mile Canyon, Utah 

I know one thing, It can get awful cold out there. Amazing history in Utah. Thanks.

Thanks for the video… be safe

One possibility is that the hand-pressed mud filling has been washed away from between the rocks in the walls. Note that this area is not protected by an over-hanging cliff so it is very exposed to the rain and the elements. Thank you for showing us these structures.

A lotta water coursed down that canyon, toward the end of Lake Anasazi, as the waters began to recede. The Fremont People emerged in northern Utah, near the confluence of the Wasatch Front with the transverse Uintah Mountains. Where you are standing, at the beginning of this video would have been "beach-front living" about 2,500 years ago! As the water continued to fall, the Fremonts moved off the ridges, onto the cliff-sides, then onto the plains, where they became Anasazi. A thousand years later, they left in search of greener pastures, leaving one of archaeology's enduring mysteries. What is stranger, though, is why they came, in the first place, and why they stayed. Water in that canyon was deeper than the tops of the cliffs. Lake Anasazi stretched from up near Helper UT, down to Pie Town NM, more than 400 miles, south by southeast, from the San Francisco Peaks, to the Sierra Nacimientos. For more than 1,500 years, the region was probably very different from what we know today, blessed with plenteous water, attracting game of every type, and allowing them to raise crops without fear of drought or lack of rain. The hillsides show steadily falling water levels as clearly as a neon sign. If you doubt it, tell me WHERE did they get the mud? The world was turned on its ear, upended and possibly reversed, leaving the survivors to figure out a way to go on. Starting way up in Alaska, on the killing plains of central Alaska, their ancestors had trekked along the eastern flanks of the Canadian Rockies, leaving "medicine wheels" along the way, reaching the present northern boundary of the US around 1000BC, making it into central Utah about three centuries later. The real story is "Why?" What caused primitive people to leave families and friends, on the Russian Steppes, to begin an unimaginable journey across Siberia, into Alaska, Canada, and the northern US? This, before they walked out onto exposed clifftops, to build "ruins" demonstrating significant masonry skills, and a keen sense of defense, then down the sides of the cliffs, and finally out onto the prairies of southeastern UT, southwestern CO, northwestern NM, and northeastern AZ, to build the trading empire ruled by their descendants, the Anasazi. Where did those people go, and what happened to them? That is a tale unto itself, another stunning turn of events that would help define the modern world those ancients would never see.

I think I've seen stacked rocks in caves really high on cliffs.

anyone could have piled those rocks at anytime. 50 years ago or a thousand

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Just subscribed, I love this original content! Its truly amazing the structures are still there after all these years. I didn't see Franks canyon on the map, this is in Nine mile also right? Curious, did you see any elk out there?

Thanks for showing the structures. It's nice to see how much is still showing