Hiking, Climbing, Shafthouse Defensive Fortress Ruins.

[@buckwheatsofia]

This is the most amazing ruins I’ve ever seen thanks to you. They were incredible builders. Your dog is so pretty. Thanks for a great video!

[@SOUTHWESTSCREEN7]

Thanks for watching! I agree, they built some amazing things. Definitely so far the best one I've been toso far. I recently located more amazing dwellings and look forward to trying to reach them. He's been a good friend. Kinda looks like a dalmatian haha.

[@GrandmaBev64]

These should be UNESCO by now

[@chuckzehnder530]

That's the most remarkable ruin and in unbelievably good preservation that I've ever seen outside of the restructured and stabilized ruins like at Mesa Verde. Thanks for taking this old man along!

[@EdChambers-lh9zl]

Great video man. Most amazing ruins. looking forward to more of your work.

[@SOUTHWESTSCREEN7]

Thank you for watching Ed. I appreciate it. We recently located more cliff dwellings and others in amazing places and look forward to sharing them in near future.

[@robertevans9354]

I don't know who you are or where your at but that is the most impressive cliff ruins that I have ever seen , simply fascinating , as you are too most likely , be careful and good luck growing the channel.

[@HeidiWohlbier]

Thank you ! If not for you and your video no one would ever know about about this great place !

[@SOUTHWESTSCREEN7]

Thank you for watching! I believe it was well worth sharing.

[@leighsayers2628]

Amazing .must have been terrifying times to build these structures on the side of cliffs ..must have been fearful times .. Great video ! From Australia

[@tracymelissa4230]

Thank you so much for taking me where I cannot go. Absolutely incredible! That was so much work and so amazing how they carried everything and built the structures! Love love love this!

[@SOUTHWESTSCREEN7]

Thank you for watching! It really blows my mind taking my imagination to the times when these were built and how much effort was used and applied in attempt to survive.

[@badlandsexplorer3712]

Awesome adventure Partner you have. Love seeing your dog sharing that experience. Stay safe brother.

[@SOUTHWESTSCREEN7]

He's a good partner. Appreciate it man thanks for watching.

[@gilbertaestes945]

Coolest ruins, thanks 4 taking us on the inside! We can now only imagine....struggles, family, love and now only lose and lost! Like the great Buffalo that once ROAMED this great land! Never cut a dog tail! They are born with rail to help balance, like this trip it’s on. Like to see you give the dog breaks 4 water! They have the fur! No for hot sunny hikes. Thanks

[@CWS-h5z]

Thank you for this video of the most intriguing and unusual ruins I've ever seen videos of. Your quiet, understated commentary is also appreciated. What a unique place... to consider how defensively it was built and how precarious their lives might have been is kind of haunting.

[@SOUTHWESTSCREEN7]

Thank you for watching and I appreciate your words. And I agree, its kinda eerie when I'm in those places it's a strange and amazing and enthralling thing. What they did to continue living.

[@PhilipBailey-cl9qi]

Thank you for taking me on this adventure. What an amazing site. Philip - Ohio

[@01Lenda]

Up there with the elk?! Your high up! Stay safe! Enjoyed the video, thank you! 💙🌿

[@TheTrailBlazersAZ]

Great video man, what an amazing place. You are killin it bro keep up the great videos!

[@SOUTHWESTSCREEN7]

My friend I hope you are well. Looking forward to seeing more of yours as well. The wind has been fierce lately but we are gonna keep going out as able. Thank you!

[@neilmartinsr4610]

Xclnt video. Great interpretation and filming. One of the most creative ruins I've seen. Puebloan, maybe? So labor intensive. Not sure how populated that area was, but it must've been hazardous and violent. Thank you for sharing.

[@doctorspockARTS]

Keep up the good work. This is good stuff to relax and dose off to. The longer the better. At least 30min gives you enough time to fall asleep without a loud ad waking you up

[@SOUTHWESTSCREEN7]

Thanks for watching!

[@backyardsounds]

The area you called a fireplace, it reminds me of a smokehouse. They must have preserved meats that way. Great video!

[@rolagzz20]

Amazing ruins and an amazing video, I envy you! I can´t go places like those but thankfully we got you, and we can hike with you and your dog friend. Cheers!

[@SOUTHWESTSCREEN7]

Thanks for watching and glad you can come along. Hoping and planing to continue.

[@systemicxdesign]

Ty for the awesome journey you've provided.... Really was a joy to experience

[@SOUTHWESTSCREEN7]

Thank you for watching. Appreciated. Have a great day.

[@YolandaPullman]

Those timbers in the top of the shaft were probably the roof that's fell down.

[@mariposa5900]

Wow !!!! How did they get those long wooden log's up so high ? Of course they we're Put. There before construction begain ,

[@SOUTHWESTSCREEN7]

I agree there's no other way it seems to have gotten them in there except maybe lowering Them down from the mesa top, which seems unlikely. Perhaps they were used for firewood Or maybe construction plans, but either way is definitely intriguing. ThankS for watching.

[@mrsseasea]

I’m from a tribe from Wa. State….ty for showing this.

[@amberfire2]

Well done! This was a great video, thank you for sharing. One thing, 750 to 1000 years ago I doubt they had guns but were protecting themselves from physical assault and arrows.

[@hermitlifeinthemountainsub9493]

Wherever mounds of dirt were blown by mother nature into this canyon, secrets were buried.

[@q1o1mancow]

great drone shots the wall with the 3 windos below it on the red rock face you can see someone put a date of 1955 it looks like zoomed in,

[@SOUTHWESTSCREEN7]

Thanks for watching! Yeah there were quit a few names and dates on the walls. One of them inside the ruins Said 1920.

[@Redfour5]

Very interesting. It is sure obvious they were worried about something...

[@jamesdixson6658]

I felt I was walking right with you really emotional for me as you explain the ruins

[@GrandmaBev64]

Absolutely Amazing. Nice to see a site with natural erosion! Very Beautiful. This should be UNESCO too. I love this site. This is a very important site that needs to be memorialized and preserved. Look at the vantage points. This was a whole civilization's defensive structure. They made the entrance so only one person at a time could get through the door, while someone would be waiting above, like you showed, to get the upper hand. I saw that in a documentary about Native African Peoples, who have teeny doors, to semi-underground houses. While a person tries to get through; "Off with their heads" It is a shame that people have to plan their homes this way. Imagine what they could have built if they didn't have to hide?

[@gloommoon9245]

Thank you ❤

[@LeonJackson-dj4re]

Outstanding

[@Sherry-v2r]

Were did the grain come from that was store? Where and when was it grown? I've seen similar ruins on all the southwest videos taken by other people, It seems as though the southwest was a busy area at one time.

[@SOUTHWESTSCREEN7]

We have knowledge we will soon be sharing about where some of the crops were being grown before the Spanish invasion. (Navajo homeland). However after things got complicated and they were building in places like this, I'm sure crops were smaller and scattered out, and likely had to be somehow hidden also. But I'm not exactly sure yet.

[@systemicxdesign]

When I was a kid my parents bought acreage in Kanab Utah and had big plans to put a house on there and all that crap which never manifested although if it did I'd imagine my life would have been by far different

[@systemicxdesign]

Was always super excited to go take a big trip to visit my grandparents and their acreage also in Kanab Utah Utah. Always good fun and it was always so and we had to actually find Indian artifacts all the time. Really super cool

[@systemicxdesign]

Voice to text freaking blows😮

[@systemicxdesign]

Gotta wonder wether the pottery was intentionally put in those places people have found them or just some haphazard Thing?

[@SOUTHWESTSCREEN7]

@systemicxdesign That's a beautiful part of Utah. When I was 18 I had a job. Traveling all over the State for a few months, but I didn't get to do much exploring. I long and look forward to a time I may be able to go back to do some exploring. But I agree, there are a lot of piles of pottery at different sites that have been collected and piled by visitor. It was unclear to me if that was had happened in that small dwelling. Either that. Or the pottery is originally there from being inside the structure. But seems unlikely with the roof falling on it and hundreds of years of dust cover ect. So it was probably placed there. You still in Utah? Thanks for watching!

[@billysgarden-u9s]

does the wood look like drift wood? did it wash up there?

[@ETX8]

Amazing

[@SOUTHWESTSCREEN7]

I agree. Thanks for watching!

[@systemicxdesign]

They place themselves in such a position way up high. They're always on the defensive so the pottery you find all those scattered around and about you think they would do everything they could to see to it that they're presence wasn't known..just a thought. . Not even sure if any of that jibberish i spew made any kund of sense? Oh well lol

[@sovereigncosmicwildman]

It's the Sasquatch people that build those walls

[@billysgarden-u9s]

all of these vids I see about this every structure lookss like they were only these a couple of years. was the Mud Flood and reset the reason they went up high? all are up high and in very remote areas. sitting out a cataclysm in our recent past that has been hidden from us?

[@michelleharrell8452]

Fascinating ruins. But only the Spanish would have guns with bullets. Ancient peoples did not have guns & bullets until the white man came.

[@lisasmith7854]

At 25:06 straight ahead center screen why does that Boulder scream out to me?

[@SOUTHWESTSCREEN7]

Definitely need to explore that lower ledge.

[@michelleharrell8452]

Mochi steps curved into large rocks to climb up rock towers. Do research.

[@rickjankowski7919]

No dogs allowed ln ruins!!@@

[@KevinKerwin-z1i]

Wow thank you very much...that was so awesome to see..we don't know why they built there .but its so cool.. i think they built up because of predators that we don't have today..

[@ericharris197]

These dwellings were built before guns were drought to this continent.

[@SOUTHWESTSCREEN7]

Not according to the tree ring dating. These specific ruins are 1600s and 1700s. They are not Anasazi they are Navajo. However there are Anasazi ruins in these areas which definitely predates the Spanish invasion. Nine tree-ring samples have been collected from this site. Wood species was dominated by juniper with a single sample of cottonwood. All of the juniper samples exhibit metal ax modification. Dates obtained from the juniper samples were inconclusive and only a post-1712 site occupation could be determined.

[@ericharris197]

It's obvious they were hiding from someone.

[@SOUTHWESTSCREEN7]

@ericharris197 yea I agree. Hiding from enemies and who knows what else.

[@stevenrugge6707]

@@SOUTHWESTSCREEN7 What is your source for the tree ring dating of this site? I've been looking online for research papers on this particular site but have not had any success thus far. It really is a fascinating site and clearly set up for defense. I am thinking the loopholes were more for observation of particular areas than for firing weapons out of. The masked positions of the loopholes would allow defenders to move around inside the fortress keeping an eye on invaders without their movement attracting the attention of the invaders below - as the eye is very sensitive to movement. I was struck how from a distance the fortress just blended in with the surrounding rocks and would be almost invisible to invaders, unless someone visibly moving around up there attracted their attention. So job number one of the fortress was to keep the occupants hidden and unobserved, but if found - they were ready for a last ditch fight for survival with their backs literally against the wall.

[@SOUTHWESTSCREEN7]

@@stevenrugge6707 I agree. This is a book that contains the analysis. archive.org/download/defensivesitesof00powe/defensivesitesof00powe.pdf