I Discovered Terrifying Beauty on Google Earth 

Apologies for the short stretch of silence in the middle of the video- i had to do this due to a false copyright claim. I reccomend some country (Colter Wall, Charley Crockett ) or your own thoughts to fill the void 🤙

I love that you don’t add music to your drone footage, thus not diverting our senses from the epic visual beauty.

Your dog's instincts are perfect for not going into the water in the cave, and he was worried about you going in too!

I'm 67 now and haven't been out in nature hiking in 2 years now. Thank you for letting me experience it still, through your videos. Much appreciation.

I’ve been around. All 50 States and 27 countries. Lived in 8 of those. Yet I’ve never explored the mountains and cavern of the West. I really, really appreciate your sharing the footage. You’ll remember the adventures fondly when you’re older and can’t physically do that anymore. Better to remember than regret not trying.

The dog whining as you went into the mine shaft gave me such an eerie feeling

11:30 my friend, I'll give you some advice: always listen to your dog if he whines and appears nervous, they have much more developed senses than ours...

I used to do this, go to places in the American southwest with my dog, my VW bus, and stay to hike, swim, all alone. There's is nothing more gratifying to my mind, nothing. Thanks for taking me there again.

The drone footage with birds chirping and sounds of the streams is amazing!

Dog is super worried about you.

My sister got married on the Annandale Ranch near Concan Texas. There is a bat cave on the ranch that is famous. Multi millions of bats emerge starting as early as 3pm in late May because it takes them so long to emerge with there being so many. It is an awesome display and the entrance is level with the ground atop a small ridge so you can stand within feet of where they are blasting out. Amonia small of the guano is pretty overwhelming though. Big hawks and eagles hover way up in the sky and then dive through the formations of bats catching one for dinner. The bats will travel nightly down the Rio Grande valley eating bugs along all the agricultural areas.

Give your dog all the love you have, he's obviously bonded with you and that's so special. The two of you are an exceptional team. Keep up the great work. (Please)

I think this channel just may be the best exploration channel on RU-vid. There’s something about the way you do these videos, that makes them so beautiful. The cinematography, the adventure, your voice, no music. It’s all so perfect, it’s so satisfying and beautiful. Please never stop making videos of your travels.

Thanks for the kind words about Bats. They are one of my very favorite animals, and they get a bad rap sometimes.

It is incredible what drones have done, they opened a view of the world not before possible to capture in a safe way. Thanks for the stunning views of the canyon. Take care and be safe always.

Indrukwekkend, ik ben een Nederlander en leef onder de zeespiegel, het is hier plat ,geen bergen . Deze omgeving is zo out off this world . Zo mooi . Dank je dat je ons mee nam naar dit stukje wereld

Man you are crazy for going in there the cave and your poor dog was so scared for you!!!!

Fantastic video. What is your education...and yes you have a great dog. Im 61. When I was 25 I was doing what you are doing with my Border Collie, Max. Enjoy it young man. It goes by quick.

My Aussie was a fabulous hiking dog and protector. So smart!. I always had herd mixes from the shelter, finally had to have a purebred Aussie but from an ethical source. Like magic, went to the shelter and found one who had been waiting for me there for 2 hours. He was about 1.5 years old, taken in as a stray. Had him 11 years, died unexpectedly 7 years ago. I still grieve that best dog in the world who waited for me.

JUST SUBSCRIBED 😊 5/4/2024 I'm 72 and not physically able to do what you do!! Those days are behind me. 🙃 Love the sounds of nature 💦🐦🐾 I've not seen such beautiful rock formations anywhere 😍 BUT I CERTAINLY ENJOY WATCHING YOU on your adventures. Thanks for taking all of along 👍 sweet pup you have 🐾💖 Texas Nana Psalm 91

I’m a little shocked the park service hasn’t brought you on as some kind of ambassador to introduce the rest of the world to America’s beauty.

Omg! Your dog is fabulous. He was so worried about you going into that cave. He's wiser than you! 😂😂😂

If I were your mother you’d get 40 lashes. That was terrifying to watch. You must keep your guardian angel breathless trying to keep you safe. ❤

Adorable little yucca on top of the hoodoo rock :-)😅 just living large up there :-) this is an amazingly beautiful place. thank you for taking me

"Come here! Eat my bugs!" Lol You've outdone yourself. This is so gorgeous. I miss the outdoors--thank you for giving me a slice. Been totally disabled since 2020, and your channel is such a treat. Thank you!

I have never, in my life, seen anything so breathtakingly beautiful! Thank you for sharing this with us.

The drone scenery is so magnificent that it is easy to forget or overlook how that footage even comes to be. And then, how it comes here to be seen. The sandstone footage could be so easily taken for granted. Nice work. All round. Quite an accomplishment for a guy and his dog. He is doing it, y'all.

The beauty of the canyons valley of greenary alongside the river brought tears to my eyes. Your video editing skills and equipment quality are excellent. Sincere Thanks...

America is truly beautiful and the national parks are criminally underrated. Rather be here than Paris, Sydney or London

Your dog is having a fantastic time. It'll miss all the adventures when it gets old. I wish more youngsters will choose nature and exploring the wild over drugs and misery. The place is totally gorgeous. I wish myself there.

When i saw you picking up the trash left by other's, new you were legit. Besides the quality content 🤝

Yes! Your videos are so calming and inspiring. Great start to my weekend! 🤩

Your determination and bravery in showing the most spectacular places is truly appreciated!

whenever he entered the mine hot spring terrified me, especially without a light. I was so scared he would drop into a submerged vertical shaft.

Some years ago I visited the area of the four corners to see the ancient Anasazi places. I felt very drawn to this places and your walks along this canyons and your awesome drone vids blow my mind. I am a German retired lady travelling round the globe now 🙂. God bless you and may keep an eye on you wherever you go

What a stunningly beautiful area! And the dog is cool!

Another fantastic adventure Keep up the great work and stay safe 👍🏻

A lot of people living on the east coast that have never travelled out west can't quite grasp how vast it is in some places. You could be out in nature and not see another human for weeks. It's no wonder why people end up missing never to be seen again. What a great video!

Nothing better than hiking with your dog, kudos to you and your dog.

ok, there is also an amoeba that can get in through the urinary tract. No Lie. Not only through the nose. Be super careful. I would never go back into that cave in the water. Great video. Wow...all the sunshine. You are blessed to be out there.

So cool!! My dog (passed now) looks like yours, only ginger and white. Never left my side! Love your adventures.

Between you, Desert Drifter and The Trek Planner, I get to explore areas of our country I'll never see in person. I must say however, your drone footage is second to none. I LOVE your dog!

The landscapes in this are incredibly beautiful and your drone work is VERY impressive. If I find you have other posts like this, you have found yourself another subscriber.

... one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen. I'm in southeastern Arizona and I have some idea where you're hiking. Thank you for this amazing piece of film; but please be careful out there.

Would not want to be those slot canyons without knowing weather forecast

I don't know if you'll see this comment but I really want you to know how much I enjoy your brilliant videos. Your filmography just gets better and better! Stunning views of places I can never go as I'm disabled and live in the UK. Thank you (and your gorgeous dog!) for all the adventures you take me on ❤😊Xxx

That’s really beautiful adventuring with your dog like that, the way we did for thousands of years. Truly man’s best friend.

That was brilliant! I remember twenty years ago when I lived on Malta for a year and explored the island obsessively I came upon Gnejna Bay in the north. It features a Death Valley looking sandstone butte that separates two popular bays and so I promptly explored the goat paths and little coves of the butte and I found that the flat-topped butte was honeycombed with caves around its base, some of which had faint signs of smoke stains on their roofs. Then one day I saw, just sticking out of the sand by the water a strange, amber coloured object. It was a beautifully fossilized section of some big rib off of some kind of creature the likes of which is long gone from Europe. Then I realized that both ends still showed the signs of extremely sharp cuts, like a butchers cleaver. I noticed that along both flat sides of the rib there were multiple repeated slice scars. I sat there looking out over the Mediterranean and I realized that, at the very least, this was a relic of at least 200,000 years ago or more, long before Homo Sapiens wandered in. Until the Ice Age ended, no doubt Neanderthals lived in this series of caves as high as up as a castle tower with a view over miles of grassland which the Med has since covered. One night perhaps a woolly rhino or a mammoth had been butchered and with a great deal of precision one of our Neanderthal foremothers had delicately stripped the meat off this enormous piece of spare rib with a stone tool as sharp as a razor and passed it to one of her family, probably saying, "Eat it before it gets cold, and don't wipe your fingers in your hair!" The bone was then thrown down the slope, turning to stone, where it lay until I found it.

I normally do not care for drone footage but the way you do it is so cool keep up the good work

After watching countless caving disasters on RU-vid, I learned that caves, especially mineshafts... are not your friend. Dog agrees. And caves with water? Avoid like your life depends on it. Caves with water AND brain eating amoeba? Holy nightmare scenario Batman.

Those drone views of the canyon is absolutely EPIC and BEAUTIFUL. Love your fur baby. Your dog was really concerned about you going into the hot spring cave. Stay safe!

I’m 49 now but when I was 18 I went with an Elder named White Dog to this cave. Over 2 days we harvested over 2000lbs of guano. We watched the bats leave on their migration south first then harvested! Ah good times

Your drone footage is amazing, you feel as if you're flying through those rock formations to the point that I actually felt a bit dizzy. Your four-legged friend is the best travel companion you could ask for, thanks for posting these awesome videos.

Around 13:35 when you spoke of the aemba (idk how to spell it). My father at 8 year old had something similar in a pond in Tennessee. This was 1970s. It went in one of his ears, ate the inner ear went to his a part of his brain. He has a sheep skull and had to have alot of reconstructive surgery. He almost died and he had to take penicillin (which he is allergic to causing him to almost die twice). He is 58 now and suffers with speech, hearing issues and a lot of other health problems. I think he is partial blind in one eye. I dont know much about him but i do remember this from child hood.

Your drone footage and how everything is put together is on another level! Subbed!

... another excellent video - being over 70 , thanks for the non-music footage ... safe travels ...

Dude actually found literal Batcave.

I loved your video. These rock formations have always fascinated me. Thanks so much for the drone footage of these rocks; at 78 and will never be able to hike like I did as a kid, watching your video was so fun for me. It was as if I were right beside you.

So enjoyed this . Thank you for the idea spot . Loved seeing the drone footage of the cliff slides . The eroded shaped columns almost reminded me of families and elders standing wathcing over the lands.

You have the best sound track. Nature! Just beautiful. Thanks for taking me all over these beautiful parts of the world from the comfort of my home. I have traveled places through you. You are amazing.

Such a cool journey into the wilds of Arizona! Thank you for sharing!

Thank you for sharing the beautiful video footage. What an adventure exploring all those caves with your caring dog.

Thank You so much for taking us places with the drone, that most of us will never see. The hot springs and the waterfall are beautiful and amazing. Skal

YES! No horrible music! Much appreciated.

This is hands down your best filmed video !

Amazing channel. Give that dog a hug for me. I lost mine a few months ago after 18 incredible years. The world's most magical animals. Having a dog is the most amazing experience I think a human can have.

Thank you for inviting us along! Hard to describe it!!

So beautiful. Thanks for taking me with you!

Did I hear a rooster crowing at 15:59 mins. ?? Awesome footage. And appreciate the 'no music' , so to hear the Natural. 👍

Thank you for letting us go on the adventures with you, as a young girl I along with my sister would spend all day climbing and exploring caves in the mountains of West Virginia. I agree it is so refreshing not to have music playing in the background. Enjoying the sounds of nature is music to my ears!

Thanks mate, I enjoyed that. it had good production. Did you edit it yourself? I particularly liked the drone footage. It didn't have music over it so I could experience the ambience of the environment and it felt like I was walking with you. Good work. Subscribed

So beautiful and emotional to travel into the distant past and imagine the lives of the people who lived there. Thank you so much. XOXO

Your dawg really said don’t go in there haha

that amount of incredible nature spots in the USA is mind boggling. I would be exploring it at any occasion possible if I lived there

I love every second of this video ❣️ You have done a great job & pray that you & ur pup stay safe out there. Thanks 4 sharing ur adventures 🙏🏼😃

Found your channel yesterday! I am hooked! I look forward to the next one. I think i've seen ten episodes so far. I've been bingeing, lol. Your channel is amazing, relaxing to watch and just beyond words. Thanks so much for sharing your adventures ❤

This is better than NatGeo, without background music, lots of information, and of course amazing visuals... great! I love this! 👌

I was in awe the whole video! Thank you!! All of your commentary was so interesting, the footage was stunning, the pup is perfect. 😍

Also, your drone footage doesn't make me sea sick!! Lol This is literally one of the best nature videos I've ever both seen and heard!! I'm grateful!

That was a cactus decomposing.

This is one of your most amazing films especially the location and your use of the drone ( watching from London). Thanks for making these amazing to watch look forward to more.

I just returned from the Grand Canyon and a trip out to Nevada! Looking down at the Grand Canyon from my airplane window, I was so curious and wished that it would be possible for me to explore all the cool canyons that were observable from above! Your videos are so wonderful to allow me to do this! I am just a little too old to be able to do what you are doing! Thanks for adventure through your lens!!

i would truly like to thank you for taking the time to make this and other videos. amazing quality, amazing true sounds of nature. i appreciate the experience.

Absolutely breathtaking! If I wasn't so old I would love to see these places! I did some of this kind of thing on horseback in my youth. Back in1980 I was out on a horse trek and discovered a wagon wreck in a small canyon. It was really cool too because everything was still there. The skeleton of the horse was still in the harness, a great deal of the bones were missing though, but the spine and ribcage were still there. The wagon was torn up and all the things that were in it were still there as well. It looked like there was once an old road that wound around this little canyon but the road sort of just got slimmer and slimmer until it was no more. Maybe the wagon driver was trying to turn around when the wagon and horse went over the side. There was no sign of human bones but lots of human belongings. That was one of the coolest things I ever found on one of my horse camping trips! I love your videos very much and very happy that you don't use a lot of annoying music!!!

At minute 3:00 the rock that appears looks like a rock called "La Cadireta" on the Montserrat mountain in Catalonia, Spain. Great work, thanks!

Beautiful & interesting terrain & exploration. Thank you so much for sharing. 😊

Incredible detail you've incorporated into your channel, just discovered it. Great job man

Thank you, Nolan for sharing the awesome bat cave with us all! I appreciate bats because they keep the mosquitoes in check. Years ago, I accidentally stepped on a baby bat in our accommodations at SalmonCon in North Bend, WA. My husband and I slept in a converted silo which a bat mother had a nest in the ceiling. A baby fell down to the floor and I stubbed it with my toe in the dark. We had a bat expert on the premises so we brought it to the bat guy to take to a facility to care for it. The baby was so cute and I let it grab hold of my finger and took a photo. It lived for a week but was apparently sick and eventually died. I didn't want them to kill it to find out if it had rabies or not. I never got it so it maybe was just weak and couldn't hold on to its perch. I'm also a spelunker so I'm not afraid of bats or the dark. I wanted to add that your drone videos show us vantage points we would never see any other way. Totally AWESOME footage! 😁👍

I am not sure where this was filmed, but I used to fly on business to Flagstaff, Tuscon and Phoenix a lot and would look at similar terrain from the air as we flew relatively low on the commuter airlines that flew to and from Flagstaff. There were many times I looked at the canyons and wanted to hike into them, although I would wear snake boots that went up higher on my leg than the op. What surprised me about this video is that even traveling far away off the "beaten path", there are still the effects of humans. This was one of the best filmed and edited videos I have seen. I live in the Ozarks, and we have some similar terrain.

With those dogs barking off in the distance you’re lucky either you or your dogs aren’t attacked on your hike.

This looks so much like the painted desert, i just wish he said more in the description. This was a phenomenal treat. Since being disabled I've not been west since 2017. Absolutely gorgeous views. Where are these hot springs and area at? Let me be clear i don't want to visit the spring. I just want to see if I've explored that canyon and just missed this particular area. It's so grand out there.

It looks so remote there but I heard dogs and a rooster in the distance. We love and appreciate you and your exciting videos! 😊 Please be careful sir.

I can appreciate the deep sense of solitude from frequenting such places. I imagine it must fill you with awe and wonder, when you alight upon little pockets of history. Thank you for your content!

Loved the drone footages and just pure raw content! It was a relaxing video to watch.

Absolutely love your videos. I cant get out and hike anymore and watching you go to this amazing places is very cool. Keep up the great videos. What is your dogs name ?

need to buy a flashlight for those mine swim sessions

I just discovered your channel, I love it! I like outdoor hiking, but I'm not interested in mountains, dangerous walls, I never thought of challenging them by climbing them, because man can always lose, rock is harder than our body, too many people die every year climbing the Alps (I'm Italian). Stay away too, please, use your drone to take your eyes higher, it's the same thing in the end. Btw I like your video for the wild and mysterious nature you capture. Smart idea not to put any soundtrack, because silence you recorded is worth much more than any music, strangely deep and magical. Maybe I wouldn't have ventured into that pond in the cave, the water is so dark and you didn't even tie yourself to a safety rope (or at least it doesn't show). And then the scrambled eggs, the dogs smelling some perfume, the wild horses approaching curiously. Wonderful America, exciting video, I shake your hand.

Spectacular scenery! Thank you for taking us to places we will never get to in person.

These Videos are Awesome! Keep it up!

Your videos remind me of how much I need to go on a hike! Great job and awesome drone footage.