Canyonlands National Park & Dead Horse Point - Island In The Sky Overlooks / Final Day In Moab Utah
Canyonlands National Park
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welcome everyone adam the woo here as a
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recording of this tuesday june 7
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2022
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truck driving by the sun
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is permeating right now it's a warm day
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if i had to guess probably going to be
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mid 90s as it
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peaks in the sky heading to canyonlands
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with my mom and dad we have checked out
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of our hotel here in moab and we will be
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going into another national park
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possibly
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two just
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no real rhyme or reason what we're doing
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however do have to be back in salt lake
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city by this evening so it will be a
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commuting travel day as well as
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seeing some sights i
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and them have never seen
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inviting you that's right
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to join me look
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they say don't stare under the sun but
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if it's on camera
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it's usually okay
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i'm no scientist join me
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shall you and pulling out of town
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noticing this car wash has a very unique
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piece of artwork
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it is a mountain lion of some sort or a
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cougar
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but inside its legs and on its back are
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animals and cactuses
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the tail is a cactus
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and there is a hawk of some sort out of
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its shoulder
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the artist
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not luke not luke and yesterday we went
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to arches national park we thought we
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kind of need to rent one of these type
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of like dune buggy
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items except they do not allow these in
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only cars and rvs and
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trucks and vans
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but you see a lot of these around moab
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people rent a lot of these this is just
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one of the hundred different companies
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that rent them and from this point gonna
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head down this road
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to both the state park and national park
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21 miles and 22 miles
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try to kind of hit both of these today
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stopped to this overlook where get a
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pretty good view of the monitor and
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merrimack buttes
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which are
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right over there by the way
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no fireworks allowed up here
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but those are the two buttes over there
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see a few jeeps down there that's the
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road is drove up up on
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winding around
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a truck going by
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they don't call this well this is the
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road to canyonland but they don't call
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this canyonlands
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for nothing this is a big canyon
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there's those two rock structures i was
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describing that was on that little
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information
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area back there
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it's very quiet quiet out here also
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with the exception of the traffic you
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really don't hear too much
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well besides footsteps
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which i'm about to go over into dead
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horse state point
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dead horse point state park
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one thing i find interesting though
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is there's a sign here that says 10
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minute parking
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we got nine more minutes now we've got
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nine more minutes
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so if anyone wants to take a photo here
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they have 10 minutes to make sure they
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get the perfect photo
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should we just sit here nine more
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minutes
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no
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and this is an open range
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which means
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there are live cows out here the
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opposite
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of the name of the state park
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got this little station here you have to
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go in
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looks like a private vehicle is twenty
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dollars a motorcycle's ten
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we're in a private vehicle so
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twenty dollars
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day use area open from 6 a.m to 10 p.m
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this national park passes are not
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accepted this isn't a national park so
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the national park
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state park
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so if we had a national park pass which
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we
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we don't have one it would not be active
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here this is a state parks uh 20 bucks
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found a little parking area gonna stop
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off at also
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no bikes in this area a lot of people do
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ride their bikes up here in fact
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there's bike racks way out here you
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always see a lot of people
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riding their bikes but visitor center
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and there's an overlook here too
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i'm going to walk up to this ledge here
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i want to get too close
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to the ledge but they do have
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wow
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where's the walk out here huh
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oh my goodness gracious
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now off in the distance our solar
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evaporation ponds
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getting the pot
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ash that is what is down there at the
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bottom of that basin
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well at the bottom of the canyon you
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know what this reminds me of right
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what remember in 2015 you came out to
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california and we drove from los angeles
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or anaheim
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to the grand canyon yeah so that was
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been seven years ago since we were at a
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canyon together
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this isn't quite as massive as the grand
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canyon but it definitely has the grand
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vibes today either we might see
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but we canyon
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something even bigger than this that's
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true we haven't finished today
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but seeing you walk up to the edge of
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this reminding me of when you were
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walking up to the grand canyon in 2015
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kind of took me back to that time seeing
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you walk up and see in the grand canyon
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for the first time yeah
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breathtaking
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it's almost like i'm walking the plank
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i think this might be put here for photo
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op so people could do this yeah it could
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be
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i'll have you here behind me yep yeah
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yep
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oh it went it's gone
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inside the gift shop now not gonna exit
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through the gift shop but enter through
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the gift shop
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i like this one
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we're in the sweet shades and down on
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the lower floor of the visitor center
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gift shop is a desert big horn sheep
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display
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yeah reminds me of big thunder mountain
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you best remove them
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can you see the dinosaur track
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somewhere on this rock according to this
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is a dinosaur
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track
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i'm gonna guess it's probably
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right there
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yes i think that's two
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toes
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okay the three-toed dinosaur oh here you
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know what here's maybe the partial third
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toe over here
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maybe possibly two prominent toes
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oh yeah
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this is the
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dilophosaurus
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model
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maybe that's possibly according to this
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according to that
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and if that is on the internet you know
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it's true it's got to be
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drove a little bit of a ways up getting
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out of the car now at another pull off
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parking spot area
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don't want to get too close to the edge
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though no guard rails no nothing
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just want to
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take in this majestic view
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interesting thing i read
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once wow articles i've seen a common
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mistake a lot of people make is when
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they're taking photographs
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they don't notice how close they are to
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the edge
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you know so someone will be taking
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pictures
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and they take a step forward
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and it's it
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is a real problem so
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definitely if you're taking a photo
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stand in one spot notice how far i am
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you're very you're very you're treading
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wisely over to another parking area i
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think this is the main point there's a
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camper van
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right there rentals
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and this
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vehicle has dinosaurs on it
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also a spot where you can put fresh
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water in there
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this is the dinosaur van dinosaur mobile
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pterodactyl
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now we're getting down to the good stuff
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this angle
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colorado river down there
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colorado river winding around to there
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as well
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really getting good view of this canyon
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through here
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yeah this is the
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this is the point
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dead horse point
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the overlook
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at least they had these things around
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because
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grand canyon they don't have very much
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of these things like this that's true
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some parts of the grand canyon they do
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have
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stuff like this but there are some areas
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where you can just walk right out to the
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edge
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now this is technically not canyonland
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national park
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canyonland would be on the other side of
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these canyons so i'm kind of curious to
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see
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what it'll be like over there
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and also somewhere around here
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was the climactic scene
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where they drove off the ledge
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i'm stalling for time because i forgot
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the name of the movie louise
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louise
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thelma
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thelma and louise there we go we'd get
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it eventually
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need the sunglasses out here it's bright
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and there are lots of paved trails from
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the parking areas to get up to there's
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some of those gnats
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not as many nats as the other day when
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we're out at the other park
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these are little tiny nets
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little tiny one those were kind of big
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yeah these are different different breed
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of gnats
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and on the way out went back inside
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the visitor information area and gift
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shop and asked
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about where the thelma louise spot is
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and they said you probably can't get
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there unless you have a four-wheel drive
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it says i'm not driving a four-wheel
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drive you don't have a four-wheeler
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i'm just going to go off this guide map
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where i was at the point
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overlook i was kind of in the right area
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here's the arrow
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showing where it was pretty neat a
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little movie history out here all right
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on this road
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the sign that's blinking says watch for
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cows on the roadway
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all right big the foot we got to watch
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for cows
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now approaching the canyon land sign
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clearly i was not the only one that had
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the same idea to walk up here and
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document this for posterity
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united states department of the interior
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national park service
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camera post for when you need a helping
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hand
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someone has placed a rock
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on the camera post
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and another entrance station here
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the price is same as it was to go in
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arches yesterday
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because this is a national park private
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vehicle
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thirty dollars
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canyonland
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this just shows the distance of some of
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the landmark or overlooks i should sign
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definitely want to go over to grand view
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point that sounds like it'd be pretty
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amazing 12 miles
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upheaval dome is 11.3 miles also a
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campground and green river overlook
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all right this is as close as i'm going
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to get to the edge there's basically
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like a bush right here another bush
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right here
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but i'm just going to i'm kind of this
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is as close as i'm going to get there
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there are there are no what'd you say
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mom there's a row going down in there
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what did you say before that please
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don't go no closer i'm not going any
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further than this this is this is as
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close as i'm going
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even this the even this is a little
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kind of uneasy feeling
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but this definitely the other spot
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was pretty spectacular this is like a
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little more spectacular simply because
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of the layers you see
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of the canyon from this angle and where
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we were before
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was over that way over there that was
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the state park this is the national park
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side
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yeah there's a road down there wow i
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just felt a bug in my ear
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it was like a bug was like
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we made it to canada
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yep the 75 year old woman made it
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i got a show where i perch my camera
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right here in this tree
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i like the challenge of finding a place
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to put a little mini tripod all right
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there's some motorcycles down there
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on that dirt road
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i'm not sure why those motorcycles are
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making that noise though
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it's the type of motorcycle it is
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boy there's a lot of gnats around me
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right now
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now there are a bunch of different areas
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to canyonland the one we're going to be
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traversing around is called island in
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the sky
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but it's it's massive area but the one
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we're going to be going around island in
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there's a flower blooming
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out of
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cactus
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that's neat
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and this is a very popular trail to get
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to this arch it's about a third of a
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mile this at about three tenths of a
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mile a lot of people on this trail
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going this direction
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there's even a park ranger up here that
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said those desert flowers are called
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prickly pears
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prickly pear is that what you call them
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you see prickly pears okay the path is
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continuing and i'm starting to see the
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arch
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from here it was called mesa arch
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off in the distance
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it's a little bit of a hike
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see what it looks like
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up here a little closer down through the
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window
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as it is referred to
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wow look at this look at this
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oh my goodness now from a distance
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i thought that this you could stand
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underneath it but do not stand
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underneath the arch because it that last
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step
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the first steps of doozy
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oh my gosh there's also signs
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walking in saying stay off this arch do
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not climb
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up on this archway look at that
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yeah look at this
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whatever you do
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don't look oh my gosh there's like i
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can't believe there's not like a railing
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here saying don't go any closer than
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this because
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yeah if you were in a hurry and you're
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like i'm gonna go get underneath the
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arch that would be bad
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that would be real bad all over there
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it's just steep drop off
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this is
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so dang cool
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look at that view
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impressive kind of wrestling on the hike
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back
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over here in the the shade this tree
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you said these are little pine cones i
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would think so because that's where all
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the seeds are
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see you look at them real close
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those fall off
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see oh yeah and that's the seed to make
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more pine trees
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that's the way
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pine trees are oh you make more pine
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trees and drove up the ways a little bit
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more went back to the car
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arrive now at the overlook of the orange
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cliffs
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again i know i'm reiterating what i said
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but
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so what
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green
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oh the green content to it because of
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the grass i guess the greenish tint oh
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so down here
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the different layers i was saying about
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different you know all the different
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layers all the way down the canyon
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and the different colors too you got the
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brown beige green
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and i've now made it to the pinnacle the
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farthest point
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to this parking area at the grand view
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lookout area
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here's a big tour bus rolling through
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here
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they're gonna have trouble finding a
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parking spot
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i'm going to say that they're they're
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going to have trouble finding a parking
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spot i agree we we
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we drove around for a bit to find one up
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i think this i think everybody else
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parked in this bus parking over here
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that's a possibility campers over there
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all those campers are in the bus parking
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yep and grand view point is just down
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here at the end of this walkway 300 feet
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from where i am going to be quite the
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overlook
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a grand overlook
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as they call it
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now there is no railing there over here
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a little bit of this wooden fence
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go over the side
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oh my gosh
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now this is an elevation of 6 000 feet
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so a little over one mile up
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from this point and because it is the
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far end where the road just kind of
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stops in the parking area
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you really get a more expansive look
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than some of the other viewpoints
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this is as far as we can go
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replace this fence here just so we know
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that this is the stopping point the end
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of the trail the end of the dusty trail
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do not drop your phone don't you drop
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your phone
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well i guess you know this isn't quite
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there so you got a little dramatic drop
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a much more dramatic drop there
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lots of different layers
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in fact
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speaking of layers look down there so
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even that down there would be a
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spectacular canyon on the sound
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and it's hard to tell because i'm zoomed
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way up but even those little spires down
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there
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are probably hundreds
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of feet tall
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all scattered through that bottom canyon
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we zoom out just to show how far down
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that is
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or even out there even more
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is there some kind of a building down
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there that's like building
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a building
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near the oh yeah
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is that it might be let me zoom in
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trying to figure out what that is it is
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a is a building if that's a building
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then the perspective of just how far up
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we are in comparison to that ant-like
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looking building
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or a vehicle
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i didn't notice that that's way down
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i'm getting a national lampoon's
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vacation moment where chevy chase he's
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in a little bit of a that's the thing
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okay i saw it let's go
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the thought that's in my mind right now
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is
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of course believing in god and believing
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what the bible says about the flood of
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noah's day how many tons
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of water
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did this
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when it receded from here
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and all of the
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tectonic plates shifting
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this is showing some of the landmarks
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that are way down there and the height
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of them so the totem pole
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is 305 feet tall it's the tallest
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feature in the
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in the basin and that's right there in
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the center of the screen way down there
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so it looks like
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miniature from up here but it's actually
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300 feet tall which is you know 100
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yards of football field heights
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another rock up
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there teetering on top of a
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piece of stone
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and from the past it looks like there's
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some dinosaurs out here
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roaming around connecting with this road
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to help head back up to salt lake city
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here at the connecting road a little
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prehistoric creatures
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tell me which way to to go
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well that's
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i don't know if they really tell me or
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not but that's my interpretation they're
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saying go that way go that way and in
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order to get back to salt lake need to
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fuel up four dollars
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90 cents a gallon
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self-pumping
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gas nozzle
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get back on the open road back to salt
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lake it's been a fun couple days here
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in the moab area
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i'm being watched by surveillance camera
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right now and this is kind of an
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appropriate spot to do the outro
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here at this sign with some of the
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names here you got moab nine miles the
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other direction
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and moose jaw bluff
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zion
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and this old church
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that i showed on the way in a couple
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days ago
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it's been a fun couple days down here
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and that's gonna do it for
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today
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from the moab area
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still going to be in salt lake city for
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a little bit longer
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heading back up there for a series of
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days do some things around salt lake you
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know ogden
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some of the other areas provo utah those
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sections
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thanks for watching i really appreciate
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it i'll see you in the next video it is
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bright and sunny out here and not a
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cloud in the sky
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gonna get some road trip snacks i fueled
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up
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i'll see the next video
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vlog
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that's bright
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it's over