I Discovered Mysterious Symbols in an Uncharted Canyon 

68 year old geologist here…. Your videos are absolutely fascinating! Thanks for sharing your rock encounters with the world.

The whole area looks like a dried up ocean floor with rocks that looked like dried coral

Rocks with deep lines and wavy lines, petrified tree bark?? Bubble rocks, petrified barnacles or some crustaceans?? Whatever it is, I like it.

Ever thought about a collaboration? I would love to hear you and Desert Drifter’s possible conversations out there in the field while observing all these unique features. IMO your personality’s would combine well and spark interesting thought. Just a random idea I had….

Time is something totally different there. The eons that pass as the canyons are formed is truly mind boggling. Cities and empires have been raised and fallen in the time those rocks have been there bb

Those wavy lined rocks are petrified corals. They were under water. As was that entire landscape millions of years ago. A lot of those narrow passages were likely formed under water by underwater currents as well.

I'm so amazed how the ancient ones seem to have done a lot of climbing but digging out steps and building granaries on majestic spots

A geologist once told me he didn't know what some of my yard rocks were. I use to bring rocks home, now I leave them in their natural setting. Ty for sharing. 😊

Seems to me and I'm no expert but I think you were walking on the sea floor . The "waves" on the rocks look like sea worm tracks I've seen on the sea floor made on the sandy sea bottom. The "bubble rocks" look like coral. The Grove rocks look like petrified sponges . The Jim carving looks as if it was effected and worn down that way because of repeated flooding.

WOW! How do you keep from getting lost in those labyrinths of canyons...so many dangerous cliffs and overhanging boulders!! Geology can tell us so much about the ancient history of Earth, your videos are excellent records of the terrain and can be studied by Scientists for references!! I love your Doggo too!! Great work!

8:00 Petrified wood..(bark)...? Then you found a piece! The next wavy lines in the rocks look like petrified bark too. (I live near a petrified state park on the Columbia river) Thanks for taking me along again on another cool adventure!

As an avid amateur geologist, if I found these, I'd consider the layered rocks to be narrow sediment where softer sediment has been weathered away. The whole area reflects a sedimentary creation pattern. Likewise, the odd, circular bubbles are indicatory of fossilized fungal and algae-like lifeforms that exist in shallow tidepools. The one item of wave, [symbol], sun also has an arrow pointing up. Could be a manmade road marker. No idea how old. Would be interesting to do some tests of when that etching was made. Was that on original rock, with orig orientation, or had it fallen off another rock?

I love the wind and the birds and your writing. You're really good at what you do. Works of art really. Thank you.

@11:00 is fossilized coral-I have a large sample covered with druzy quartz that I retrieved from an ancient Missouri seabed near Haunted Ridge. It’s so old that the crystals growing on the fossilized coral are estimated to have begun growing 66million years ago. Fascinating finds indeed!

These symbols, writings and weird rock formations are so fascinating and mysterious! I love your videos!

This may just be 1 of the best videos of hiking in a desert canyon I’ve viewed to date! This was amazing!! Watching your channel grow is awesome. Love you are able to take your dog along. Thx for taking us along. Those huge boulders?? = WOW‼️ Be safe! 👍👍❤️🇺🇸

Love it, Nolan! Amazing work, as always! 😍 Your philosophical thoughts on this one were pretty cool. Never stop wⒶndering. 🥰

Those symbols are definitely new, like 100-200 years old and no more. They suspiciously look like symbols cowboys would use, especially how closely they resemble cattle branding marks.

I really love your videos. The round rock balls are called Moki/Moqui Balls that are iron oxide concretions. The split rocks that had some moki on them are called Brain Rocks. They are round shapes that actually start to fall apart from the outside and it leaves a brain in the middle. Of course, there are other huge rock formations that are called Brain Rocks that we have seen in White Pocket and Coyote Butte. Some of my favorite rocks are the ones I call concrete rocks. Those were some really big ones at the end of your video at 20 minutes.

Those boitroydal rocks (bots) you found are sooo cool!! AND those big chunks with the deep ridges in them!! Yeah, they do look like tree bark. Nature is utterly fascinating!! ❤

Amazing area and amazing geology, images, and perspective. Thanks for sharing!

Poetry and Cinematography all combined… keep’’em coming. Love your work..

Ex-military here. As a 78 years old retired military I got to say that I love your videos.

Amazing vid...can't believe how you scramble up and down some of these rocks. Great drone footage, it's really opened up the world for us imo. Thanks for another great trek.

Thanks for the great episode! Shots are just awesome, and nice narration is also included :)

As an old Deadhead I really enjoy your videos. Thanks Nolan

Of all the shows like this yours is one if the best. It's so real and honest. You definitely have a knack for it! Joe

Beautiful and very profound tour! Thanks so much! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Don't know why, but the algorithm led me to you and Desert Drifter and now I'm hooked. I really enjoy your peaceful style and your doggo is awesome.

@the_pov_channel That corridor becomes a sand blaster on steroids when it gets windy. Could easily erode all of that "Jim" stuff in less than 100 years. The other carving there is a "you are here" pictograph showing North (crack arrow points North), East (sunrise on right), South (river on bottom), and man's straightline roads north of that location indicated by the "dot". Check your modern map to confirm.

We'll have to thank Jim. I noticed that at 4:44, but the second one was put there after the striations. Love your choice of music. Are those weird stripped rocks thick petrified cedar bark? That's the only thing I can think of At 9:55 and 14:17, which is petrified bark of another type of tree. I think that both are petrified bark. Cool. I'll bet there are fossils everywhere too. Wow again. Those bubbles are a trip. People have lived there for at least 12,000 years on and off through the centuries. There are some cliffs in Moab that look like ancient buildings that I have seen in Turkey and Iran. Thank You for taking us along. 😊 I really enjoy your videos.

I discovered that your dog is adorable.

Jim is definitely a time traveller :)

Wow ! Dude you just found something that was in Jim Morrison from the Doors auto biography . He witnessed a crash on a desert highway and a ghostly native American led him to some canyons where he wrote his poetry that then became songs for the band , that may have been carved by Morrison himself. He ventured into the canyons many times after that encounter to write poetry. He was very connected with native American cultures, Interesting,very interesting. Damn good drone footage on your videos, keep up the great work, and thanks for being so clean with your videos. Not like Jim was with some not so clean lyrics and poetry 😂 .

Those rocks at timebar 8:05 are pretty sure petrified wood from a specific tree million years ago.

Check out fossilised mammoth or elephant teeth dude , very similar to the ridges on those rocks .

I love this channel. I've always had a fascination with geology. I grew up in the Coachella Valley in So-Cal, surrounded by mountains and canyons. From generator parties along the San Andreas fault on the east side to ditching school with friends and hiking the canyons of the San Jacinto range on the west side I've always had endless places to explore. It would take three life times to see everything. This channel and Ice Age Floodscapes are like geology crack. Keep going.

Certainly spectacular landscape ! I was a prospector in the desert in outback Australia more than 50 years ago, and it is amazing how similar and familiar the countryside seems, even if the Petroglyphs differ somewhat. My first impression of the shapes after the name was possibly a map, with the snake-like shape being the channel you were in ? Anyhow, now that am too old and crippled to travel any more, I rely on channels such as yours to keep my mind active. (The geologist in me wants to take a closer look at the rock formations, and stones and pebbles in the watercourses; and the archaeologist wants to seek artefacts ) Take care! Greetings from rural South Australia!

Your trek will give us a great view! The drone views are exiting too. You have a faithful dog always with you, are there any dangerous pumas or rattlesnakes there?

I'm surprised you never encounter any rattlesnakes. Amazing videos. Thank you for sharing.

Amazingly gorgeous country. Love the drone shots

Bird in canyon 3:39 looks amazing. I like it. Overall natural scenes are amazing!

F-ing crazy awesome. Wow! Thanks so much for doing this. Thanks to your hiking/climbing buddy too.

Awesome video! Thanks for sharing 😊

Rocking out a bit of Wolfmother there. Nice explore too.

Splendid photography, intriguing carvings in the rocks, fascinating geology, and the icing on the cake was your poetic philosophy near the end. Thank you.

Thanks, love your channel, recommended it to everyone.

Absolutely Love going on these adventures with you and Toohey.😊😊 My guess is .... What is on top now was likely to have been deep ocean floor once upon a time. Perhaps the bubbles were where gas or liquid had been bubbling out of the ground. Plate tectonics shift, and the source of heat/water or gas is lost. And also very ancient life forms from said bottom of the ocean floor. It was then silted over to create an environment where preservation can happen and then much much later exposed like now as more tectonics shifted the landscape

Awesome video man. Thank you for sharing. I'm unable to do that anymore. You make me feel like I'm right there with you. I love it. Again thank you

Fantastic drone work! And fascinating content. Very much enjoyed. Thanks.

Wowser your video is amazing thanks for sharing Your both so brave with the heights and loose rocks etc., your dogs great too. Congratulations on your venture. Best wishes from Australia

Was this area once underwater a million years ago?

Awesome content man!!

I love everything you are doing brother! I cannot get enough of you and Desert Drifter. I enjoy the treck planner as well 👁️ I can't leave out Jerry Arizona, he's a hidden gym amongst the RU-vid community. 👍🔔

Amazing hikes and geology you, your pup and camera companion see

Excellent video! Thank for sharing your travels!

Extremely awesome. Hope to see more soon.

This was your best writing, I loved it dude. It's like you can feel time in these ancient landscapes. It's the only tangible scale for "time" we have- rocks☮️🕉️🤙

Wowie zowie! Those are some very cool rocks. Were you able to identify any of them later? Thanks so much for the eye candy!

Awesome video, as always! Thanks for expanding our thoughts with your experiences.

Amazing! Thank you for taking us along.

Awesome adventure! You put in the work for that one brother. Thank you!

Hi, i'm glad i got to exoerience your canyon advenrure. Thank you! However, maybe get some "hiking" boots for your dog too? A good bit of the terrain looked like it coukd tear up his foot pads. Please?

Enjoyed it Great Video.😊

Mate. Once again you've managed to blow my mind with your outstanding exploration videos. I always think you cant top the last one but you inevitably do. Please take care tho and make sure you and your cool asf pup make it out safe on the next trip 😊. Youre a real inspiration mate.

Nice that your dog lets you follow him around everywhere. 😁

Super cool landscape, if slightly spooky. One can easily argue that there is more than a hint of the mystical about it.

Wow very cool! Your dog is so patient.

Great trek, thanks for sharing. Stay safe.

Some kind ancient sea floor cool thx sharing

Incredible geology!! So many colors and layers! Thanx, amazing place. Good drone shots too, showed the layers well.

You're waxing philosophical amidst the sandstone. Awesome!

That old writing is in such a dramatically different rock type and location to 'jim' that you cannot compare the weathering between the two. 'jim' sand looks like large or different clast and loosely consolidated, the other one looks much more fine and well consolidated, certainly more firm and hard/cemented in order to get those sharp fine lines into it in the first place.. 'jim' location also looks to be pretty exposed to all weather, and some or all is on an upward-facing slope, so getting all the runoff, direct rainfall and wind, etc, there is no shelter at all for it. The other one looked extremely sheltered location, and with an overhanging portion of rock to protect from much of the aforementioned erosions, perhaps, but IDK.. 'jim' also is so low in that canyon that it may have been underwater at times, especially if flash floods or debris flow scoured past every so often, or even just a few times ever, it could increase erosion dramatically. Combine all these factors and to me it looks like modern carvings. Modern relatively, of course, maybe cowboys you know something like that.

I could wander there for days and never tire of what might be 'round the next turn. Thanks, Nolan.

This is my new favorite channel, I can't help from checking everyday to see if there's a new video. Thank you for sharing these experiences

As always, inspiring.

Did I enjoy it, how could you not. They are always done very well. That area could occupy an adventurous person for a long time. You weren’t picking up trash so it seems very few people have been there. Shame for me to use that gauge. Thanks for the video.

The beauty of these rocks is breathtaking. As I was admiring them I had the same thought you did as if they were surprised to be being admired.....that is 'maybe nobody has ever been here', at least not all that often recently.

4:43 considering how faded the name "JIM something" is, I'm not sure the other carvings can be all that old, either.

Thanks for taking us on these explorations with you

I love your narrative at the outro of this video. The respect you show to history do other generations can also be in awe. We are all here for a blink of an eye when compared to the existence of this planet. I used to explore desert canyons, but back then I only had the back pages of a telephone book to guide me and a 35mm Minolta camera that is have to have the film developed on before knowing what picture I actually captured. How I wish I had what is available now, especially a drone. I thought about using a remote-controlled plane with an old video camera, but aerodynamically couldn't get it to work. The camera was too heavy. 😢 Like others who have left comments, I, too, am referring to the areas outside and around the Coachella Valley.

That place seems very interesting. Strange indeed! 😮❤

I did enjoy your efforts and observations! Thanks very much.

That drone pull out was amazing. nicely done.

Another interesting video from you. You never disappoint.😎

Very cool as always. You asked for comments so, like some others, I’m no expert but those huge rocks with the really deep grooves look like they could be massive portions of ancient petrified trees and maybe that was the outside bark portion. The bubble rocks look kind of like petrified hot springs with the bubbles and everything. I mean again I don’t know but I’m as fascinated as you! 👍👍😎 Keep it up! 🙂

Great video,yes I did enjoy it,and thank you for sharing.

Interesting place as always. The entire time I felt like you were hiking through what was once an ocean floor. The bubble rocks resemble some sort of coral, those 3 broken sections look like they may have been a single piece at one time. Those ridged rocks.....wow, I have no idea. The ridges are so deep, it would have taken an incredible amount of time for them to be worn that way, and by what (?). It truly does look like you were the first or at least one of very few people to visit. Thanks for the eye candy, your dog is amazing

I did love it. Shared it with my Sister. We both love your channel. Keep exploring!

Fascinating view this landscape. Thank you for this work!

I always enjoy seeing your adventures! 😄

Don't tug on Superman's cape, and don't mess around with Jim. Keep trekking though - the concretion rock was pretty cool. Probably some funky fossils in that one.

enjoyed more than i expected bro🤙

The POV channel is absolutely my favorite. Our scroll through all the posts to look for yours. I did a little red rock scrambling adventures expanded 1000 of times.

Very cool 💯

The rocks with deep grooves were once giant trees. That was petrified tree bark. Beautiful and fascinating!!!

Fascinating video!

This, an incredible channel so well done. A place like this helps us realize that our lives are so short when compared to the millions of years that have made this place.

Really like the video,thanks for the show.

Petrified trees