Awesome Desert Peak, Hike, Bike & Scramble for 3,000' | Green River, Utah

[@Southwest_Trailblazers]

Another great video Karl!

[@papajon62]

Another unique location. Thanks for taking us along and Merry Christmas 🎄

[@KarlDeckerPresents]

Thanks for watching and Merry Christmas to you as well!

[@Sewcrates]

Did this on my motorcycle a few years back. Amazing, fun ride. The river is very unique because it flows INTO this canyon. Where you turn off the highway is the TOP of the canyon. The river flows into the green river a few miles down. This is some of the most desolate and empty land you will ever see. The river was a lot deeper when I did it, we were worried about swamping our bikes.

[@KarlDeckerPresents]

When I was researching the trip I too noticed the river direction, I guess the river was there first and cut through the Mesa as it lifted? How else could it possibly go like that, didn't just decide to start cutting through the side of Mesa, crazy. I almost gave up on this trip, it was a miracle I found such a friendly place across nowhere else was like it. The road itself, where across the river, was super deep! No way would I risk the E=bike and $2,000 worth of camera gear. Everywhere else was sketchy, deep and fast. I literally couldn't understand how it could possibly be so friendly in that one spot right at the end of trail Canyon. Seemed like less CFM's than everywhere else, but, getting through the brush on the other side was a major shitter, lol. Russian Olive trees!!!

[@piotr-lt4zz]

Great adventure to a remote landscape! Merry Christmas.

[@KarlDeckerPresents]

Some of these desert venues feel like space walks, LOL. Where no man has gone before and nobody is coming to save me. I pack very cautiously, and try to consider any and all pitfalls when I'm as far as that trip took us! Sure was cool!

[@speed_of_a_human]

Nice climb, looks epic!

[@KarlDeckerPresents]

I'm glad you liked it! It's a tough one, but worth the effort.

[@lesliealys]

Randy and I are watching your newest Mt Elliott adventure on Christmas morning here in Colorado. We have been subscribers for years. You are the BEST adventurer ever, and your videos are also. We love going with you vicariously to all of your adventure zones. Many thanks and Merry Christmas!

[@KarlDeckerPresents]

I thank you so much! It is so cool that you have taken this journey with me and we have gone so far, seen and done so many amazing things. Few really understand true breadth and depth of these wild adventures. I'm glad some do. I'm putting the $ toward a couple new small cameras. Merry Christmas to you!

[@kentkippes5773]

I love how you show in detail where you are at, how you get there and the different angles with a drone, etc. I will never get to go but as a geographer it's so cool to this. We didn't have this availability years ago. Thanks Karl

[@KarlDeckerPresents]

One thing I get so annoyed with, KZbinrs doing some awesome hike and Only using a POV style shoot. There is no context and no matter how cool the trip, the video sucks. . . I love providing that context so you can truly join me and appreciate exactly where we are and what we're doing! Glad you could come along!

[@jiggystardust]

Karl's the kinda guy that would be into that little ledge and maybe a cool little sneak. Should be fine. Merry Christmas!

[@KarlDeckerPresents]

Dam Straight! I love that S#!T! Thanks for supporting me for all these years! It's been a wild ride, merry Christmas

[@markmark2080]

Merry Christmas Karl, love how you use GE and Drone views to take us there 'like a bird'...Love seeing all these cool places that I missed in my younger days... Cheers

[@KarlDeckerPresents]

Thanks for watching, I really like using the drone to reveal the 'unseen'! and truely show you the context of a place! you're always welcome to join me.

[@philhurst9053]

“Super loose class two”, There is a lot of that in the Utah desert. Beautiful video! Thanks

[@KarlDeckerPresents]

Yeah pretty much the whole thing, or worse lol, you have to find the right line, and it’s all loose rock. Thanks for joining me Phil, Cheers

[@lynnnorthrup8914]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Quite the adventure and you pulled it off. You're in a class by yourself!!!! 😯😯😯😯😯👍👍👍👍👍

[@KarlDeckerPresents]

Thanks, it was a great adventure, I can't wait to get back out there in the spring with some greenery to go with that brown, I think your jeep could do it. I met an old timer while searching for a river crossing and he told me when Spring irrigation starts the river goes way down! I bet you'd like that trip.

[@dougschwamb9653]

That's still part of the Bookcliffs, right? Where's your Dollar Store waders? That snow covered rough and rocky stuff makes me nervous, never know when a gotcha rock will bite ya. This video was fun, looking forward to the next one, thanks Karl.

[@KarlDeckerPresents]

The waders sure would've been nice for this one. I do my best to tiptoe around the snow, avoid the holes and getting wet rubber on my shoes! Still, just that brittle desert rock has gotten me a few times. . . Glad you could join me, Brother Man!

[@huskerhank9896]

I often admired thus point going to and from the San Rafeal Swell but never thought about trying it. For about 30 years I made monthly trips to Grand Junction so of course I spent quite a bit of time in the Books. Although I considered myself a seasoned veteran of bad rock through my exploration of the San Juans the Books were in entirely different league. A lot of solid rocks "held" in place by soft shale. Absolutely nothing offered a reasonably safe hand or foot hold. While I enjoyed the thrill of route finding and climbing and accepted that bad "luck" (usually errors of route climbing or over confidence in my abilities combined with under estimation of the level of difficulty) it is entirely different to depend on "good luck" to somehow succeed or even survive. Speaking of epic have you ever tried Factory Butte. Very distinctive but I can only imagine the quality of the rock. Looking it over with binocs always made me cringe. Sounds like a winner!

[@KarlDeckerPresents]

This was a total wild ride, but Factory Butte is something else! I do want to push up as far as is reasonable but the reports I read about gettin over the crown at the top, No Can DO, LOL I had a GPS bread crumb trail going for this and SO GLAD. It was late and that last bit was tricky and windy. Running back down the GPS guidance really sped things up and with no stress of cliffing out! Some use tech and become soft and some use tech to go farther. I try to be the latter.

[@MikeR-ig5bw]

Wow is right! Had me smiling the entire time. Did the vehicles you passed on your bike get there via a different route or did they cross that same creek?

[@KarlDeckerPresents]

They had to have crossed the creek, which was really surprising to me, though. I was totally grateful because they left nice tracks in the snow! The creek did look scary deep at the crossing, with icebergs, I think it got dug out in the creep bed because it was a really steep exit, but somehow they did it.