Bears Ears National Monument

Jack and Colton are searching for ancient cliff dwellings in Bears Ears National Monument - one of the state's prized gems and one of the country’s most significant cultural landscapes. Experience the power and spirit of this amazing public land as they search for ancient cliff dwellings and explore how Native American tribes lived thousands of years ago!
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[@headlessspaceman5681]

14:40 The tiny corncobs and the pottery shards are all that remain after decades of tourists looting things from this ruin, guys. It's worth mentioning, since you don't mention it. Don't take stuff from ruins, even little broken pottery shards. If everyone who visits these ruins takes one little pottery shard, it will be picked completely clean in three years. Also Richard Wetherill looted a bunch of stuff from this canyon back in the 1890's. Almost all of these ruins were actually full of intact artifacts and/or ceremonial burials, for hundreds and hundreds of years, until we came along in the late 1800s. If you want to see some of the intact pottery that has been looted from this ruin and these canyons over the years, go to Edge of the Cedars Museum in Blanding. It would have been amazing to see all of these artifacts in their original surroundings, but that is no longer possible because too many locals have been looting as a cottage industry and too many hikers have sticky fingers. Oh yeah it's also a federal crime to take any artifact or dig for any artifact of Native American origin on public lands. Sometimes they even enforce it. Overall this is a great video, and you guys have a very respectful approach. Be mindful that others who watch your videos and attempt to emulate your experiences may not have the impulse to be so respectful. In general you should not attempt to enter Native American ruins of any kind. However the Perfect Kiva in Bullet Canyon has been restored and the original wooden ladder replaced and the hiking public is generally allowed to enter it. That is not true of most other ruins in Cedar Mesa, or anywhere in the Southwest! The BLM does NOT encourage hikers to enter rooms in ruins, in fact that is usually inappropriate, and you are also not supposed to camp in them, make campfires in them, dig in them or disturb them in any way, pets are NEVER allowed in or even NEAR ruins (sometimes when you're looking at ruins you're still standing on even older ruins without realizing it), and maybe don't eat your lunch or trailmix or pistachios or whatever in the ruins. I think of visiting a ruin like going to a cemetery. And trying not to bother the ghosts too much.

[@jf8138]

Who is "we came along" sounds like you are trying to blame everybody, for the crimes of the few. Don't take them, cool, but wow, get off your high horse. Preaching just makes you seem like a douche

[@user-ly7np5rm5c]

Thank you. In fact when I go I think I'll just enjoy from afar. But just fantastic just awesome place.

[@richardglady3009]

Thank you for this marvelous video. The visuals are amazing...especially inside the kiva. Having 1 1/3 legs, I am only able to see things like the kiva through the videos of people like yourselves. Thank you!

[@headlessspaceman5681]

11:18 When it rains on Cedar Mesa, the soil mostly does NOT retain moisture. Hence all the crazy canyon-cutting. Try pouring water on a dried out dish sponge and see how much water soaks into it. Yeah, it mostly runs off. Snow, on the other hand, does soak in as it melts. Most of the plant life on Cedar Mesa is fed by snow melt which soaks into the ground and provides moisture into May or June, months after it melts, depending on how heavy the snow pack was. The greenery in the canyon bottoms, willows and Cottonwoods, is largely watered by fossil water, underground springs from ancient aquifers.

[@williambrown3208]

To me Bears Ears National Monument is the best place in all of Utah. I'll take Bears Ears National Monument over most of the National parks.

[@NickandRachel]

Love the hyperlapse! Awesome video

[@RockTheParkOfficial]

Thanks for watching guys!

[@NickandRachel]

@@RockTheParkOfficial no problem. We have a good time making outdoor content as well

[@RockTheParkOfficial]

@@NickandRachel 🙌

[@artblauvelt7140]

Your video brought back memories of the many times I visited Jailhouse Ruin, the perfect Kiva, Green Mask ruin and other places in Grand Gulch in the 80s and 90s. If you love this place then join Friends of Cedar Mesa and support their efforts to reverse the Trump land grab and support the respectful visiting in Bears Ears. The Citadel, Moon House, Balcony House, 7 Kivas and the ruins in Polly’s pasture need protection. Art, Montesano, WA.

[@RockTheParkOfficial]

Yes! Protect our public lands. Use your voice to supportive parks and public lands.

[@TheCalPH]

Donated to them when they were building the Education Center; need to visit someday and see my name up there. Glad to hear they're still fighting.

[@1234dvarela]

18:10 Much Respect

[@virgilhomer7449]

I like it

[@headlessspaceman5681]

11:35 Those are coyote tracks, NOT ringtail. For one you have prominent toenail impressions. The tracks are small but so are juvenile coyotes. Ringtail tracks would be smaller than that, and would look to the untrained eye a little more like cat or skunk. Do you know what cat or skunk or coyote tracks look like?

[@elliswoodall407]

Well Done

[@RockTheParkOfficial]

Thanks for watching Ellis!

[@elliswoodall407]

@@RockTheParkOfficial You are WELCOME Rock the Park.

[@josedelarosa8835]

Information given could have been researched better. They keep saying the ruins are thousands of years old making it believe they are 4, 5 , 10 thousand years old. Although there is evidence of habitation from thousands of years in the area research put the construction of the ruins between 1,200 and 700 years ago. I understand the need for excitement for entertainment purposes. However, they should stay within factual reason.

[@lyleyazzie4649]

Leave it alone its Navajo land

[@josedelarosa8835]

Cedar Mesa and Bears ears national monument is not within the Navajo reservation

[@headlessspaceman5681]

6:12 "Archaeologists believe that ancient peoples used these dwellings to get away and relax." Um, no, archaeologist don't think that. These are primary domiciles, and the place of every-day work such as weaving blankets, sewing together rabbit fur cloaks, making pottery, and grinding corn. YOU are using these places as a way to get away and relax. Also shelter from rain is not so important in a place where the annual rainfall is 8-12". You're in a fucking desert! Shelter from sun in summer and shelter from cold in winter would be far more important! Both of which south-facing cliff alcoves provide nicely. The low angle of the winter sun provides a lot of passive solar warmth in these alcoves at 6k' above sea level. Also these ruins pretty much all date to 700-1000 years ago (1000 CE-1300 CE), not 3,000 years ago. Are you guys just making stuff up? Using garbage archaeological guidebooks from 1910?

[@randygerdes]

Thanks! My sentiments too.

[@headlessspaceman5681]

12:50 You guys might be interested to know that those overhead pictographs which are so visibly displayed are a way for the families who lived there to identify which clan they are from. Even today one indigenous nation like the Hope, for instance, have dozens of individual family clans. You are required to marry outside your own family clan. So it would be super-helpful as you were travelling and looking for a spouse, to immediately be able to identify suitable potential partnering family clans from a distance. You guys are obsessed with the "spirituality" of these ruins, but for my money the people who built them were more obsessed with sex than spirituality, just like most people are today. Keep an eye out for lots of dicks and vaginas in ancient Native American petroglyphs and pictographs. Of course for some cultures around the world, sexuality is equated with spirituality. The physical, visual evidence is that the Anasazi had sex on the brain. Maybe that means they were super-spiritual...? Except that those three clan signs all look more like defensive shields implying some kind of militant statement or existence.

[@shanemisael7401]

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[@brooksrafael5246]

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[@shanemisael7401]

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[@shanemisael7401]

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[@brooksrafael5246]

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[@cerulean999]

Not Positive, but I thought I saw you tromping on cryptobiotic soil. Learn about it, refrain, and teach it. Keep on truckin.

[@danamalloy]

This is sacred landscape. You should not make videos that encourage more attention and visitation to this fragile area. Enjoy the experience but don't promote it.

[@allanpeterson3358]

Totally agree with you!

[@rb30athorn]

Trump waunted to open that area to mining, Biden saved it!