I Found a Land of Sculpted Giants on Google Earth 

I’m sorry to hear of your health condition. When I started the channel I would’ve never imagined it could have a real impact on other peoples lives. Thank you for sharing and watching

@@Desert.Drifter Its like finding a trail of broken pottery and arrowheads, only better because we cant pick them up and disturb ancient artifacts, we just learn and enjoy.

God bless x

Wow. What a wonderful comment. Peace to all.

Poor Eric! I'm sorry for you but is this really your account? Is it hacked? It was started in 2012, but it has only six videos, and all of them was published 10 hours ago? Your public comments also indicates copied things? Just wondering?

I had that experience taking a back road somewhere southern Idaho into Nevada?? (Long story) I think it was the hoodoo-land they used in the movie Galaxy Quest. Saw some really awful bubble-wrap things on Dr. Who lately. (TUBI has classic Who!) OK, back to Desert Drifter....

I had the same feeling when I visited Garden of the Gods, near Pike's Peak in Colorado Springs, CO. I always wanted to take my kids back there and do a short little Star Wars movie. It was so surreal.

Visit Northern Arizona.

Yes, thankfully people have respected it and haven’t trashed it. And it’s so vast, there are many places in it rarely visited

nooo, the best part was a commercial every MINUTE.

Beyond outstanding star photography! ❤

@@Desert.Drifter Where is this place if you don’t mind sharing?

Thank you my dude, that’s a great compliment

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This is the most fascinating place ever. Thank you for stirring my imagination. It looked like another planet.

my wife and i drove by that area last year and i made a mental note to hike it. Now i’m really itching to go. Your videos are amazing.

Agreed!

Bless you both. I am so sorry that you have such pain.

@@joycenaylor4488 Yes. So, so sorry.

My pleasure. Thanks for tagging along with me my friend

Yeah that was amazing to hear it because it looked fresh still .

Silica replacement. They are essentially a natural glass.

Yep u lucky to live in the middle o amazing sw , I can remember falling off a big land bridge and the hight was not safe, actually my oldest brother pushed me off a forty ft Arch hahaha, thought I was gonna b hurt bad or dead at that moment but seems I fell just right the Sand was pilled up in spot I hit back first, completely sunken under sand um thinking I don't even have a scratch, and really bo sand in my eyes or ears that was terrible Luke you think it would b , really should b greatful the LORD maybe arranged that to not kill me ,that was well over 50 yrs ago and I'm only 57 ,that brother did me alotta wrong through the years but he's not getting getting up anymore he got his just dessert I guess,but it's a suspicious suicide that looks like a murderer or whatever reason he was said to b found dead, but I checked that area a few times over few days period, but when his son in law comes to say he gonna look around he's telling me he sees the body with face blown off with shotgun, idk ,u would've seen that and or any evidence while looking before and after, think the planted the body earlier and convenient they found him where I know he wasn't before! Rip billy really started doing better then getting a shotgun death don't seem like something he can do , but he was responsible for a native guys death by 22 caliber rifle in the 90s , never really know what really happened, but he was only in prison for a couple yrs, yep life is cheap,yep the eastern US is Great wilderness areas also but it's always getting more dangerous

I concur, and I had to search for "petrified wood": Petrification (petros means stone) occurs when the organic matter is completely replaced by minerals and the fossil is turned to stone. Generally ranges from hundreds of thousands of years to millions of years.

@@syjwg I wondered why it looked like it had been cut with a saw.

I would like to know why it looks like they were cut with a saw too.

​@@syjwgYes but has to be burried whole and quickly otherwise the tree would just rot away? Those trees were blasted and burried in volcanic ash long before they could rot

@Johnketes54 It's fascinating that sometime in the past, this whole area had vegetation.

Thanks, I’m glad I brought the good lens to snap a few shots

Agreed. Didn't realize how densely packed around Orions belt is... even the darkest night here has so much light pollution.

I thought it was amazing. Even more so to know we (i.e. planet earth) are a part of all that. We can look out at the stars but we also have a place in it.

Wasn't it just!

@@itsme_shanti Yay! Hello, Orion!

That is how they break as underlying soils erode away.

I thought the same.

@@AncientOneFamily. Arrrgh.

You're actually right (or very close). When these trees were alive the area was a vast swampland.

Dad was born and raised in Albuquerque, he really enjoyed Road Runner cartoons.

How did they melt?

@@andreg1165that’s the BIG question

@@jackienatale5205 what do you think? After great wars and resets they tried to delete history is a start huh

Antidiluvian cities.... Well!! could be 🤔

MUD Fossil University channel is good for petrified remains Ther re many melted buildings all over the world Ancient cities

Bingo.

Definitely remember that song.

_It felt good to be out on the range..._ That song often entered my mind while working vendor routes over all of Northwestern AZ.

Thank you very much, that means a lot. Really honored and humbled so many people join me for my ramblings in the desert 🏜️

fr desert drifter is the best of them all!

The old formation with coal looks like an old river boat!

@@Desert.Drifter dude Roger Spurr alias Mudfossil Univerzity speak about what you find... he is here on youtube and he make video on you already i think :)

Did you find any pumice or ash in the different layers of soil?. If your near the Petrified forest than it would explain a lot of what your finding, this region was a giant inland sea and marshes at one time.

I don't think it was a flood I don't see any small cable rock Round Rock or any other rocks in the ash piles that are there you can tell the distinction between the ash and the small layers of sandstone

@@haroldsprayberry9937 Agreed, but then how do you explain the petrified wood/logs being imbedded and protruding our of the side of the hills? I’ve been to the Petrified Forest numerous times and you can clearly see that the are was once a large swampy region. You also can see rock formations and boulders/stone layered within the hills and in the washout areas. Would love to go to this area and and study the different sedimentary layers.

Seems like this may have been part of the great inland sea that was in much of the Southwest.

Could those formations be tufa?

The southwest is a surreal landscape, no doubt about it. Thanks for watching!

Petrification can and has happened in only hundreds of years and less. There is no reason it has to be millions of years. It was most likely formed during the great flood.

Thank you, Pete. 👍🏼

Awesome thanks!

Thanks for that information. I got reamed by some guy that claimed a 2 yr old would know that limestone sees no volcanic activity. It was so hostile I quit watching but I did a lot of reading and found "no volcanic activity in the southwest limestone terrain" to be inaccurate. Lots of volcanic activity to this day. Fascinating. I had the opportunity to see some of it 1st hand. 😊

It's doesn't spew Ash though.... Ash occurs in lava.

@@itsme_shanti it’s called a pyroclastic flow consisting of solid lava pieces, ash, mud, and gases

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I was looking around for Fred and Betty, but never saw them

Yes, me too!

With ya.

My thoughts are that (1) music is unnecessary. And (2) while it didn’t detract for me, neither did it contribute. Others may differ. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying

The odd shaped stone forms are somewhat reminiscent of the Maury on Easter Island. Ancient Giants staring into the distant view, blindly. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying

@@jackvoss5841 I think that the music has been edited perfectly for the videos, nice and light in the intro and drone footage, and completely absent when speaking. It’s never overwhelming

You can tell that it was a wetland because the logs are shattered crosswise and shed all their outer bark when they fell. The land looked so different during that time. Imagining it gives one a sense of _isekai._

Or a seriously big turd from a humongous dinosaur!

It absolutely is. It's a huge grave yard. Remember from lion king,.. the Disney cartoon.. elephant grave yard. And this tells me that dinosaurs didn't roam millions of year etc ago. This is surface and exposed. And was insinterated. People are responsible for it. I can't wrap my head around what he just drifted to find on that size scale.. yet. But it's profound. Tell me I'm coo-coo ca-chew and way off because I'd think exposing their timelines, by someone not bought off and paid to say whatever fits into their agenda and control of content and corruption.

remember kids, if it looks like a thing then it must be the thing sheesh

@@rickc2102 it is a thing. But why is the thing on top of the ground? The excuse for lack of finding dinosaurs skeletons been because they are buried below or feets. And not all piled up and incinerated.

@@user-zc8mk7mm7w We dont need to tell you that you are coo-coo ca-chew. People are responsible for an area to be incinerated and buried in volcanic ash? A Disney cartoon brought you to this belief? Just watch the video and marvel at it's beauty and hope that no other human goes there and carves their name into a rock.

Bingo.

Hiking in extreme areas really helps me understand what our ancestors faced as they attempted to survive in new environments. Imagine you’re walking through this area and you’re like “okay I need to boil some drinking water.” But, no wood. Also no water. 💀

Thank you my friend

I appreciate that!

The stars were hard to beat. Thankfully I had a moon that didn’t rise until late into the night

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More like millions of years!