TDW 1315 - The Return To Salvation Mountain

0:03 Welcome everyone. Adam

0:03 the Woo here coming to you from a very

0:05 fantastic place by the name of Salvation

0:07 Mountain. A place that I have actually

0:09 not laid my eyes upon in well over a

0:13 year or two.

0:15 It's my second channel, daily vlog

0:17 channel. It's the Daily Woo and I am

0:19 joined by Jacob the Carpet Bagger.

0:21 YouTube's own Jacob the Carpet Bagger

0:24 and you are from the east coast and when

0:25 you came out to visit me you've been

0:27 hanging out with me for a couple days

0:28 and you will be here the rest of the

0:29 week and you said to me there's one

0:32 place that I have always wanted to go

0:36 Salvation Mountain

0:37 and I said let's go said heck it let's

0:40 go

0:40 heck it I said heck it let's go so we

0:44 are now standing at the threshold of

0:46 Leonard Knight's creation and look at

0:49 this guy coming behind

0:56 He He was rocking. He was playing some

0:56 some music. Slab City is right over

0:59 there. The fantastic Slab City. One day

1:02 I will do a full video of Slab City. I

1:04 will come out here with my microphone

1:05 and interview people. I have been to

1:07 Salvation Mountain before a couple years

1:09 ago with my friend Justin from Live Fast

1:11 on the Adam the Woo channel. You can

1:13 just look up Salvation Mountain. Adam

1:15 the Woo. But I wanted to come back now

1:18 two years almost three years later from

1:21 when I was here with Justin and actually

1:23 see how Salvation Mountain is coming

1:26 along in years and see if anything has

1:29 changed and how well it is being

1:31 manicured and kept up. And we're going

1:33 to go check that out right now.

1:40 Salvation

1:40 Mountain. I love this place. What do you

1:45 got there?

1:47 Brown.

1:48 Brown bread raisin beans. That sounds

1:50 disgusting. Brown

1:54 raisin

1:55 beans. So, basically, Salvation Mountain

1:58 was the creation of a gentleman by the

2:00 name of Leonard Knight, who

2:02 unfortunately passed away a couple years

2:04 ago. And when I visited out here with

2:06 Justin, he was actually sick and he was

2:10 actually, I think, either in a nursing

2:12 home or he was spending time in a

2:14 hospital. My whole original plan was to

2:17 come out here and actually interview

2:18 him. I'm a big fan of people who take it

2:20 upon themselves to create something, to

2:23 actually dedicate their life to

2:25 something. It doesn't really matter what

2:26 their beliefs are per se, but just the

2:28 fact that they are dedicating their life

2:31 to something they are very passionate

2:32 about, that means a lot to me. And that

2:35 is what Leonard Knight did when he

2:37 created this fantastic place. Basically,

2:41 Salvation Mountain is made out of sand

2:44 from the desert. It is made out of hay

2:47 bales. So, this whole thing is made of

2:49 hay and sand and paint. There is enough

2:53 paint out here to cover so much terrain,

2:57 but this paint is so deep and thick that

3:01 it keeps the mountain together. You can

3:04 see how it's clumped together. The paint

3:07 is keeping all of this together. Look,

3:11 it is almost like fiberglass. The paint

3:13 is so layered and thick. And here is

3:15 some of the paint buckets here that they

3:18 are using. So basically you have the

3:20 paint here, black paint, yellow paint,

3:24 green paint, and here are those hay

3:27 bales that make up not only the

3:29 mountain, but also this other little

3:31 area right over in that area. So I'm

3:35 going to walk around this way. I'm not

3:38 going to try to spend too terrible

3:39 amount of time have a too long of a vlog

3:43 showing off Salvation Mountain because

3:45 I've already done that. But this is just

3:47 kind of like bringing you into what

3:49 today's adventure is and kind of an

3:51 update on what is actually happening.

3:53 And you can actually see there's a heavy

3:55 piece of machinery coming in probably to

3:58 maybe move some sand around to actually

4:00 fix some things on the mountain. Even

4:02 though litter knight has actually passed

4:04 on, his memory is still being preserved

4:07 through volunteers and people that are

4:09 either working out here or living out

4:11 here or people who are over living at

4:14 Slab City just over the horizon. So,

4:18 Salvation Mountain hours are from sunset

4:21 to sun. Actually, from sunrise to

4:24 sunset.

4:25 Basically, don't hang out here in the

4:26 middle of the night.

4:27 Do not want to hang All the vampires.

4:29 All the vampire vampires. The vampires

4:31 could come out at night.

4:33 They rise from the sand.

4:34 They the sand vampires. So, just look.

4:37 Look at how awesome.

4:38 Salvation Mountain Junior.

4:40 That Oh, yeah. Look, there's a little

4:41 teeny Salvation Mountain. But just look,

4:44 look at that. That is awesome.

4:58 And I apologize in advance for the wind.

4:58 It's very windy out here in the desert.

5:01 So, if you cannot hear it, please bear

5:02 with it. I apologize for the amount of

5:04 wind. Look at this car here.

5:15 Very cool. Lots of vehicles out here. A

5:15 boat. Very, very cool. What I really

5:18 want to show is inside of this mountain.

5:23 Of course, the most famous thing that

5:24 people always refer this to is the movie

5:28 Into the Wild. That kind of gained

5:31 popularity in the status quo in the pop

5:34 culture community, the mainstream, if

5:36 you will. If you've ever seen the movie

5:38 Into the Wild, Leonard Knight was

5:40 actually the older gentleman who's

5:42 actually in the movie. He didn't even

5:44 realize they were filming.

5:46 He was in they didn't tell him.

5:47 They real I mean, he was filming, but he

5:49 didn't realize they were making a major

5:51 motion picture. Of course, he got

5:52 probably a waiver to be in that. And a

5:54 lot of the scenes were actually filmed

5:56 right inside.

5:57 Threw him a few buckets of paint to

5:59 right inside of there. So, let's go

6:02 inside.

6:03 Let's go inside Salvation Mountain.

6:21 This is really cool. Lots of artifacts.

6:21 People come out here and leave Bibles

6:23 and pictures and notes to Leonard here

6:27 at Salvation Mountain.

6:34 You can see here the hay. So, it's all

6:34 made of hay and paint.

6:44 They have some signs there saying no

6:44 climbing. So, this is my favorite part.

6:47 This is my favorite part of Salvation

6:49 Mountain. Right over in here. And look

6:52 at this. Here is a here is a homage to

6:55 Leonard Knight right here. So, here is

6:58 an homage to Leonard Knight.

7:13 Look at how awesome this is. This is

7:13 incredible. And there are actually

7:15 pictures and video of Leonard when he

7:17 was alive scaling as an older gentleman

7:20 was scaling the tops of these, climbing

7:22 around in these rafteres type pieces of

7:25 wood.

7:26 These aren't trees, I don't think. I

7:27 think these are like pieces of wood.

7:29 Like

7:29 they're pieces of Yeah, they're pieces

7:31 of wood with the paint locking them

7:33 together right there.

7:40 And see, originally they were going to

7:40 keep building on. Leonard had this whole

7:43 dream of making it this massive place.

7:44 And of course, he passed away before it

7:46 was actually finished. But you can

7:47 actually see all the hay up there, the

7:50 unfinished hay, the unpainted hay. Oh

7:53 yeah, look at this. A picture of Leonard

7:55 right there. That is awesome.

8:00 So there you go. There's Leonard Knight,

8:02 the creator of Salvation Mountain.

8:12 Very cool.

8:12 Just look at this. This is awesome.

8:28 See, that is super super cool. And this

8:28 is like a weave of colorful artistic

8:31 goodness. You can see the paint starting

8:33 to break apart. So basically volunteers

8:35 will now come in and they will reglue

8:38 that with paint to make all this a

8:40 little bit more solid.

8:51 So pretty cool. Okay, so you were going

8:51 to be filming a video for the Carpet

8:53 Bagger channel. Probably won't be up for

8:54 a week or two. No.

8:55 But subscribe to the Carpet Bagger. Go

8:58 watch my old video. Just look up

9:00 Salvation Mountain Adam the Woo. You can

9:03 see when Justin Scard and I came out

9:05 here. You can see what it looked like

9:06 then. Thanks for joining me in this

9:08 unedited vlog, a vlog I do every single

9:10 day. Please subscribe. Check down below

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9:14 in the next video. Goodbye.

TDW 1315 - The Return To Salvation Mountain

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