I found these Giant Holes on a Cliff on Google Earth

[@kottuning3294]

The thing that scared me the most was the dog falling in lol. I would never trust my dog walking around this with me

[@the_pov_channel]

After many many years I have learned to trust him. He knows what he is doing

[@michaeltaylor4984]

A dog has 100X more sense than humans. Pup is better off than his human.

[@brianhowe201]

​@michaeltaylor4984 Depends on the dog really... I know one dog that has no sense at all.

[@nefariumxxx]

Frank who does exploring abandoned mines up in BC actually lost his similar looking dog when it ran ahead of him and fell down a deep mineshaft. Fell several hundred feet to it's death and he could not get to it. Sad because many viewers warned in earlier episodes that he should not be taking the dog underground. Also, the water can be very toxic with heavy metals and cadmium... and they will drink it (kidney failure risk). However in this desert pothole video the visibility is much better and it looks like the rock has plenty traction being rough grippy & not a slippery surface.

[@NortHeed]

Exactly what I was thinking. I have to admit that this video scared me a bit.

[@iangalley3464]

If anyone is watching one of these videos and has a fear of him falling in and not being able to get out, ask yourself this, 'If he fell and was unable to get out then how did he edit and upload the video?' Love seeing these amazing finds and I love how you are shooting these videos. Kudos.

[@thecamocampaindude5167]

Exactly

[@ShaneMclane-PrivateEye]

We know he didn't fall in because we are watching the video. It doesn't mean it's not nerve racking to watch. Do you really think anybody actually thought he fell in then read your comment and breathed a sigh of relief? LOL. some of the comments people post are unbelievable.

[@FarSeeker8]

"Found footage"?

[@DIOGENEShound]

That goes without saying. No one goes outside anymore I guess.

[@randyscott192]

I'm really surprised there wasn't evidence of animals being trapped in those holes. Beautiful area. Thanks for sharing!

[@the_pov_channel]

That is a very good point. I definitely looked for skeletons in the inside- nothing. It’s a pretty inhospitable place

[@jamiecurran3544]

I thought the same thing, maybe they could have been used for that and they took the animals somewhere else to be prepared?🤔

[@deathbysnusnu1970]

Animals are smarter than people? 😆

[@catherinesutton5979]

Scary!

[@toddhatten354]

​@deathbysnusnu9670 exactly! I was thinking as he was down in that hole and the dog was watching him. The dog was probably thinking "what has my human got himself into this time."

[@FrancisDrake-q3j]

These features are also on Comb ridge just outside of Kayenta on the Navajo Rez. They are in the middle of no where. You don't get how imposing these are on video. The ones on Comb Ridge have all sorts of bones and sheep carcasses on the bottoms. Usually have fetid water down there too. Anyways, they're so scary cause you KNOW that if you fall in...there's no getting out and if you didn't tell anyone where you went hiking, no one will find you...until they see your bones at the bottom.

[@the_pov_channel]

Amazing. Absolutely insane how nerve racking it was to be next to it. It's a natural prison hole. Or something like a Natural Oubliette or Murder hole which used to be built into castles in medieval Europe

[@CarlinShowalter]

I've been to the area your'e talking about with my friend Martin who was raised on the Rez. We also saw some arches that we camped by that we watched the sun come up in the morning through the center.There are many cool places on the Rez.

[@Jul-66]

@@CarlinShowalter It looks like the same kind of rock in the video and Comb Ridge, the sculpted smooth tan sandstone or mudstone directly beneath the crumbly layer of rock. Other site around the SW where this layer is exposed also show these giant pits.

[@humanbeingfromearth]

Water made them. Long ago cousin

[@hannahpumpkins4359]

We have potholes like this in Chicago streets after every winter!

[@leighsayers2628]

Same in Australia ..busted wheels ..tyres ..front ends ...

[@Dandy_Atheist]

It's caused by the same process, just a smaller scale.

[@Pwnopolis]

Truth

[@Mitzi-2x]

We have potholes in the roads like this in Montreal, Canada. All year round. Great video.

[@DGinNC]

I drove on a freeway in Louisiana that had potholes that big.

[@oldtug]

Am I the only one who feels a sense of panic seeing him standing on the edge and commenting that there’s no chance of climbing out. And, he’s here all alone. 😳

[@georgehenderson7783]

I almost had a heart attack from 5:03 when he was climbing on the inside of the hole! If he had fallen, who was going to get him out? And I was afraid the dog was going to fall into one of the holes the entire time!

[@the_pov_channel]

😬

[@gwengwen4535]

@@georgehenderson7783Same, my heart stopped when the dog got near the lip, then I was like, that’s one good dog, and he must know it😅

[@mark222b]

Doggo will get him out

[@dr.a006]

What is it Lassie?! Little Johnny fell in the pothole on the desert? Show us where Lassie!

[@SchoolforHackers]

Love the way you ran in a circle to get out of that hole.

[@the_pov_channel]

I was inspired by those videos of the stuntmen who drive motorcycles around the interior of the circular metal cages.

[@1nvisible1]

*Great solution, but you are still one sprained ankle away from eternity.*

[@Dudley-x2c]

I'm thinking the guy has a device to raise the alarm, if he was to slip in. Get the helicopter en route!

[@TheBenNZ]

Wall/ globe of death

[@paynezerfaust4282]

You did a wonderful job, both in your physical exploration and your artistic capturing of the areas beauty. Well done.

[@the_pov_channel]

Thank you that means alot. A return to this place is already something I am thinking about.

[@ruvkyu]

​@the_pov_channel if you go back and find easily recordable chunks of rock coming out of cliff, it would be appreciated if you could maybe find fossils in the rocks that break away from the cliff face. Maybe it could tell us what the environment was like during this places payday where there was probably very large amounts of water. Trillobite fossils would probably be very common along with other shellfish fossils.

[@John--]

This happens from wind and water eroding the sandstone over many years. Really cool to see!

[@jameseddleman6944]

yes, some of it. But actually there is evidence being collected as we speak, of a massive flood that had done this back when there use to be glaciers that came all they way from the poles, down to Texas. Mile high wall of ice, getting hit by multiple impacts from space, the impact event may have taken 100 to 1,000 years and the end effect was that the ice melted in separated sections "lakes" even. So when tons and tons of water is held back by an ice dam, and that dam breaks, the result is a flood that is so utterly massive it shears scars into the land and these massive holes are just whirlpools with ice and rock in it grinding away the harder rock. They say there are 2 "melt-pulses" two great floods, which caused sea levels to rise and we see the evidence of that clearly all around the world. Somewhere over on the west coast, near the mountains, there is a washboard pattern on the scale of hundreds of acres long. Washboard, if you don't know, is a regular, wave like structure that appears on dirt roads after rain washes over it. Water makes regular waves all the time, so its obvious that a large portion of flat land had this massive flood go over it and now its all hills In short, it actually happened fairly fast and maybe all in one day. Look up Randall Carlson if you are interested in knowing more, also he talks about where the real Atlantis is and he's probably the only correct one in the world lol.

[@roystewart4826]

I think your explanations are not up to the mark, what your talking about is a totally different theory it does not work on this scale plus the. Small edge holes in a line and sideways on,

[@John--]

I see what you mean and I agree. More going on here than I know about.

[@maxschmerz574]

I thought about gas inclusions in the rock some million yrs ago as this was under water. Then by wind and water erosion the gas bubbles popped out maybe. But i´m far from knowledge about such things, this just came into my mind.

[@SoonGone]

8:00 I love the different layers of rock in this shot. It looks like the holes are only formed in the darker rock too.

[@the_pov_channel]

Wow, just noticed this. That is truly remarkable.

[@SoonGone]

​@@the_pov_channelIt must be because the darker layers aren't as dense as the lighter one's, right? Or was the Earth wetter in those periods that the darker layers were forming... 🤔 Where's a geologist when you need one?

[@pauldickman4379]

"The holes in the sandstone, caused by a combination of weathering and erosion, are called 'tafoni.' They can be formed in different ways, but often when you see straight lines of holes like the ones pictured here it's because that particular layer of sandstone wasn't cemented together as tightly over the years. The weaker layers allow water to flow through and dissolve more of the rock, resulting in holes and hollow pockets." copy pasted from valley of fire state park website

[@stevesyverson8625]

You nailed it! The red sandstone is weaker than the lighter sandstone.

[@rossmurray6849]

@@the_pov_channel As others note here, the layers of rock are different, but it's not erosion at play. It is rocks dissolving unequally where pools of water form. Only that can explain the perfect symmetry of all the cavities being formed. I presume some layers contain shells from past sea creatures which will dissolve when in contact with slightly acidic water.

[@zachmortimer]

just to put some balance to these comments about the dog. I walked around the canyonlands and its slot canyons with my dogs for years and years. Could stuff have happened, perhaps, did anything bad ever happen, nah. It warms my heart to see you and your dog running around these canyons like i did with my dogs. Keep it up man!

[@the_pov_channel]

Thanks man. Agreed, people have a way of assuming the skill level of my dog based on their own experience. He has been hiking his entire life. He’s got better balance and spatial awareness than I do. Hence I trust him. But I understand why people are concerned and that’s just a human feeling.

[@HalfWarrior]

Your shadow against the upper part of the hole is a pretty good reference for the size of it.(first hole).Cool stuff!

[@the_pov_channel]

I really enjoyed the shadows here

[@kirkhepburnmiddleagedwhiteguy]

A fantastic landscape to explore and ponder. Dramatic video showing your moving shadows perfectly cast on smooth rock. For a second I was actually nervous that you or Tooie might end up in an inescapable pit, while simultaneously realizing that if that were true I would not be seeing the video.

[@daralee936]

Wow. It would be interesting to see this area after rain... I dont think your dog is being bad, he is warning you that the area is dangerous. Thankyou for the adventure, and stay safe

[@the_pov_channel]

He is a good boy. Keeps me in check

[@CaptRich-bi3gp]

I believe you're correct about the doggo.

[@Miami7]

Fantastic! Gotta say those are high-anxiety-inducing pits. I can picture some major washing machine action during a heavy rain!

[@Google]

An expedition for the books 🏔

[@debraannsage]

Encyclopedia Bertanica 1900 copies

[@lpc9929]

Im am infertile from eating scented candles. The

[@lpc9929]

@AdvancedDarkness how else would the the

[@lesbrooklyn]

@@lpc9929 cloaca

[@Kei.02_]

google gets 27 likes lmao

[@mindy7501]

If you do go on these adventures, make sure you have the tools you need, just in case. And, tell your family and friends where you are. Just a worried friend

[@jefftoll604]

Also be careful of Sand People. They are easily startled, but will be back in greater numbers. And if you meet a crazy old man with a beard in a cave suggesting you go on some wild adventure ...just like your father did, then call police. Remember to get the power converters at Toshi station.

[@the_pov_channel]

@@jefftoll604 Love the idea of Luke calling the police on Obi Wan 🤣

[@the_pov_channel]

yep. thank ya kindly

[@stevesyverson8625]

Not gunna happen. He thinks that he is bulletproof.

[@sharonpeterson6993]

And have a locator beacon device. Some places here in Oregon ( I think Mt Hood climbers) can borrow a beacon device from the local forestry department.

[@stevesyverson8625]

What I really like about your adventure is how you frame your dog and you in the shadow of great shots.

[@VermontScaleCustoms]

Your curiosity lends itself to being in geology and astronomy classes. You live in a great part of the country to study the timeline of Earth's geological history.

[@colingeer479]

As others have said, these were most likely created by rocks swirling around in a vortex of fast flowing water during a deluge. The action of the rock and water behaves like a drill leaving these holes. Truly amazing that animals down fall in and get stuck.

[@ausrabartkute-deviatnikova3817]

Hope, those, who lived here, had some wooden stair ;)

[@ausrabartkute-deviatnikova3817]

And later, after the town dissapear, if some animal would fall in and die, here are birds who eat everything ;)

[@the_pov_channel]

Only problem with this theory is that there weren't any of these eroding stones left at the bottom. I would imagine they would still remain, as sandstone would surely erode away much faster than the circular stone. Perhaps this is a result of the Glacial melt.

[@cliftonbarringer2961]

also we must consider where did all the eroded material go?@@the_pov_channel

[@marcrigor6423]

I think I know the answer. I read that people USED to think it was rocks swirling in rain water, but it turns out, it's caused by sediments and sand (and possibly small pebbles) rubbing. And that same source said that people USED to think that it took millions of years, but it actually takes just a couple of years (I imagine you'd need the right conditions for it to only take two years though).

[@denise20240]

Dude, I was nervous throughout this whole video. Love the landscape, so cool.

[@ronniepirtlejr2606]

There used to be a massive Lake somewhere by this place. It was probably being fed by Springs and Rivers etc.. all of that was probably dammed up by a glacier Leftover from the last ice age. One day the Glacier Dam gave way. It was holding back the water of the lake that may have been 200- 300+ ft deep. We are talking about a lake bigger than the Great Lakes in North America. When it burst free, it cut holes in the ground from high pressure & it also created the landscape of that area.

[@kundudev1449]

I think you are talking about a different region, that's somewhere near Washington perhaps

[@buakawfan333]

Scablands ​@@kundudev1449

[@sandyseale1]

@@kundudev1449 Those holes are made by rushing water .This is an ancient site where there was a lot of strong running water.

[@kundudev1449]

@@sandyseale1 still don't understand how rushing water makes these holes, what's the mechanism, I've been to few other places where water does rush similarly and I found holes like these but can't imagine the mechanism how that happens

[@ronniepirtlejr2606]

@@kundudev1449 the Rushing water is mixed with sand in the shape of a underwater tornado it moves around in supersonic speeds under the water during the deluge. Look up

[@TalRohan]

Those are literally water worn, there are similar looking examples in limestone in the banks of rivers here in the UK but the biggest ones are only maybe 5feet across. the water gets in to a crack or slight depression and starts to turn, then gravel accumulates and gets spun round by the water slowly grinding the walls away.... All of those dinks and divots are just places where gravel fell out of the silt as the hole wore away.

[@benevolent_gorilla7421]

The amount of water you would need to create holes of this size is astronomical. I wonder if this lends credence to the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis?

[@philipgwyn8091]

@@benevolent_gorilla7421 A lot of water or a lot of time. Geology has 100s of millions of years to get something done.

[@cerberus6654]

This was brilliant! I am so impressed you go to these places and share them with the world.

[@anonym8593]

Dog POV: Why is my human staring at holes all morning?

[@grobadongguk]

Just the thought of being trapped in one of those is absolutely terrifying!

[@johnniek8845]

Correct

[@YOYO-510]

Apocalypto

[@jeil5676]

You can find these same formations around niagara falls. Once you get some sand in hole caused by water erosion, the sand can swirl around without being pushed out by water as its heavier. The hole gradually gets wider and deeper and more larger rocks get swept inside by water and grind away, mostly at the bottom because rocks sink.

[@roystewart4826]

Totally different from that theory thes holes are not symmetrical they are more like boiling mud or rock with sir bubbles but who knows scientists just guess like you and me but because they have letters they expect us to believe theory is a wonderful thing.

[@MalachiFrazee222]

You missed out an epic thumbnail for this. You could've drew octopus arms coming out of the hole, and with text titled, "Sarlacc Pit Found!"

[@ElectricUniverseEyes]

@10:51 yes. The smaller pits are etched out by secondary filament arcs from the primary excavating the focal point. The smaller pits happen very quickly. The material would have to be wet while a dramatic atmospheric storm was rolling overhead (most likely in antiquity).

[@vebnew]

Thanks for let me tag along: just another place I'll never go - - - but I would have loved to have gone when I was younger

[@debe.1868]

Awesome 💯. Had to mention @3:48 the sky above you and your dog that the cloud above you is very interesting, the shape of a square with rays of light at 2 side's. Really exciting videos. The areas of the west are just fascinating. Thanks for documenting places that are rare and special.

[@MatLadroga]

Imagine living in a hole and only seeing the sun and stars but never seeing what anything looks like outside of the hole. 😮

[@-Awareness]

Plato’s Cave comes to mind…

[@the_pov_channel]

Amazing thought experiment. So is the life of one of those trees. btw - when laying on the bottom of the hole, the view looking out was a perfect circle of blue.

[@rebeccamccormick7988]

These are magnificent

[@cliftonbarringer2961]

sounds like a story line for a creepy movie

[@willywonka7812]

That's America

[@janayhair4972]

Brother, I love these videos so much! I’m adventuring vicariously through you right now. Keep ‘em coming!

[@friederikehansen7858]

Nature is stunning….. you are so gifted to find those beautiful places and share it …..

[@the_pov_channel]

Thank you. Nature is amazing and healing

[@rzella8022]

@@the_pov_channel But scary that you go alone; hopefully you tell someone where you are, just in case.

[@renehill3351]

You too can go in nature lol

[@friederikehansen7858]

@@renehill3351 oh I do…..

[@Dako108]

The shadow play of you and pup on the rim of the hole in the rock is amazing!

[@mtacoustic1]

Arches National Park has many inclusions like this; one right next to the 'Delicate Arch' featured on Utah license plates.

[@rolandberglas6080]

It looks like a other planet! Thank you so much, that we can go with you and you bring us, to this nice and special place👍

[@glennevans2566]

It looks similar to the bottom of river beds. Rocks get stuck in low depression areas and spun around creating holes.

[@JR-tc9xm]

right. this is just a larger scale version.

[@oldskoolbeats1989]

Except there's no rocks in the holes?

[@blakescott2817]

Well Done! Great subject, Great editing, and music! I can see your channel taking off! Really well done!

[@zigmogcreator]

So glad you got to video that trip of something not previously possible.

[@MCtravler]

I loved how right from the beginning your dog trotted on up ahead of you, right up to the hole, and stood there waiting for you like he knew exactly what you came to see!

[@adambowen5620]

That place is beyond beautiful. Thank you for taking the time to document this amazing work of nature for all of us viewers!

[@thehairywoodsman5644]

those are potholes, like you find in the be d of a river. where the current eddies the water bores holes . a lot of water used to flow across that rock your walking on ..

[@Trash-Castle]

These could have been eroded by Wind. Most formations in the west are wind formed

[@weldenjon]

Indeed! That entire sandstone formation was initially carved from some cataclysmic flood that may have occurred during the melting of the last great ice age. Now wind and rain/snow continue to shape the landscape. What an interesting and beautiful place! Thank you so much for sharing!

[@cribbsprojects]

Great video. Nice geological features. What comes to mind is the materials in the hole area was more soluble in water. For example halite or salt. You can see from the holes eroded in the strata that some parts or more subject to erosion than others and the sandstone has veins of some sort of mineral.. carbonate?

[@Tabascosause]

Good videos. Keep traveling and exploring the world. Wish you the best and have faith you'll make it far.

[@jennifermunds20]

WOW, once again you are SO Amazing with ur drone videography, Bravo dude👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@ilonahesseling4821]

Everyone one of your videos is fascinating. But what I love most is your deep respect for nature as for the ancient people, that honors you. But this video also made me smile. I paused it at 0.02, it was as if I were staring at a baby elephant complete with trunk and head covering. 😂😂😂Don't you think?

[@SR-fx5sm]

Really great video. Its simple and theres no excess talking or loud music. Your music choice is perfect, helps give the sense of serene mystery of such an alien looking landscape.

[@why67152]

There is NO way I would stand on the edge of that hole like he did! Crazy...

[@DREWSLENS]

The Trek planner sent me 💥

[@elliepascoe5954]

And me😂

[@joeglennaz]

I’m sorry for my long post. It’s just so important to me. I read stories about families that die when they could’ve been rescued at the push of a button having a personal locator beacon one last tip what I do with my ACR unit is I take the hand strap and loop it through my belt loop I attach it to my person rather than throw it in my backpack or clip it to my backpack. The reason is is my backpack comes off goes over a cliff I get separated from it or even if it’s 20 feet away but I have a broken back and can’t move, the beacons gonna be do me no good. If anyone reading this anytime in the outdoors, please consider something like this. If it doesn’t save your life, it might save life of another person you come across out there.

[@velvetvideo]

your circle-run to get out of that hole was clever. I was a little worried about your safety there.

[@KimberlySparks-wr6bh]

Did I miss it somehow Or did you say where you found this? I also get very nervous about how close you get to some things. LOL I love seeing these places that you go in and look at. Awesome!

[@Martin-ef4xh]

Not worried about him, just his pooch!

[@RobYoung-x7r]

He will not tell you. Keeps it to himself. I've tried.

[@DTE_YN4L]

My left ear really enjoyed that intro 🤝

[@martinrhoads6168]

Reminds me (but on a much smaller scale in basalt rock) very much of potholes found at the Interstate park between Minnesota and Wisconsin. Formed by glacier water and sand swirling around and around to form potholes. Made naturally over time.

[@the_pov_channel]

millions and millions and millions of years. one spec of sand at a time.

[@DrewishBear]

Nope, instantly by lightning..millions and millions of volts

[@probbob947]

Another thing to note is that these structures can only form when the ground beneath gives an escape path for pooling water, else eroding water would have also carved out an escape path and you wouldn't have a bowl. You can see lots of holes in the rock sides, so the ground in the whole area is probably cracked or a bit porous.

[@Creekstain]

Right before you showed the moki marbles ( concretion, shaman cerimonial stone ) there were some Moki steps in a sloped rock face. It was a route they would use. Little holes in a line so you can put your foot in the hole and walk up the rock face.

[@user-kl8xy9cv8n]

Time stamp?

[@RobYoung-x7r]

Adjacent rock features make the moki step idea only wishful thinking.

[@carolnorton2807]

Your drone work is very good. slow, smooth, no blurring .Thank you for your expertise.

[@susannebrunberg4174]

What an incredibly beautiful place! I assume it's sandstone? Pretty scary hole, a little too big... I was afraid that you would fall down and not be able to get up. Would never dare to go so close to the edge. Please stay safe! And tell your friends where you're going! Just in case

[@stevesyverson8625]

It seems that he is content to do all the hard work and let others speculate about his discoveries and report back.

[@VelhaGuardaTricolor]

2:40 Do you think one could potentially run the walls in circles in order to escape it? Like a wall of death type of thing.

[@SailorGreenTea]

11:45, I liked it

[@gnifrusdniw]

Those holes are formed when once there was a large river there which picks up stones when in flood, some of those stones end up in small holes and the flow of the water rolls the stones around in the hole creating a bowl and leaving marbles that were once the stones. The sheer size of the holes gives an indication of the volume of water that once passed through the area. Beautiful country you have there 😮

[@vetinaalvarez4004]

Looks like a native water source or pool when it rains !! 😊

[@philc8575]

These are the most interesting geological features I've ever seen!! The tiny ones with the spherules on the lattice grid work are unlike anything I've evere seen. I did take geology in college. ... Thanks for sharing! Subbed!

[@christianriddler5063]

Air bubbles, giant ancient flood, mud become rock, erosion kill rock, release air. Giant hole in ground, yes.

[@philc8575]

@@christianriddler5063 Don't think so. Rock harder than the ground spinning from current passing over it, causes eddy current which spins rock creating circular holes.

[@christianriddler5063]

@@philc8575 Eddies cause many hole? No, many many hole on side of rock, only in certain layers of rock. Finer rock no hole! Big flood, mud become rock, air trapped in rock, erosion kill rock, air released, giant hole and small hole in rock.

[@philc8575]

@@christianriddler5063 Everytime I've seen round holes in rocks in rivers, there's been a perfect round rock in the hole!!

[@christianriddler5063]

@@philc8575 No hole rock, only big hole, air make big hole in mud, mud become rock.

[@jeffreyparish2542]

Nice!...nice background music too...what is it? I love that these days a person can earn a living filming things like this and totally enjoy it the whole time.

[@kryptofly]

I remember seeing a special on PBS about Niagara Falls, and they went to an old area that it had flowed over hundreds if not thousands of years ago. Same type of formation. But in the holes were hundreds of perfectly round stones, left high and dry. When Niagara was in that area, the stones were spun by the water in depressions until they carved the hole. Once Niagara moved on elsewhere, the holes and the stones were left behind. Something like this might have happened here. There might be stones under the dirt at the bottom. There wouldn’t need to be very many to carve it….

[@rosskstar]

Natives long since used them for trebuchets

[@DrewishBear]

Nope. Cylindrical cavities are caused by lightning strikes attracted by the concentrated negative ions produced by falling water. Your theory makes sense but is outdated as lightning has been observed instantaneously creating them many times.

[@ANO-.-NYM]

@@DrewishBear Lightning does not have the power to make a hole that big at once. Dunno where you got that information.

[@DrewishBear]

@@ANO-.-NYM sure does bud, not sure what lightning is where you are from but it’s pretty powerful here..also when this occurred there was likely solar activity that greatly intensified the lighting discharges

[@ANO-.-NYM]

@@DrewishBear Do you believe in flat earth? Lightning does not make holes like this. Highschool classes will tell you that lightning erosion looks like fissures and broken boulders. It super-heats water in rock into steam and blasts it apart. This definitely isn't lightning.

[@ho0t0w1]

I enjoyed it very much, I'd love to check it out myself sometime! You and your dog are both pretty brave 😂

[@ryangilbert6452]

I get the sense these holes were formed by wind... Some kind of persistent vortex of abrasive wind, maybe funneled into this specific location due to terrain features. Super cool, thank for safely returning with the footage. I hope you have an in-Reach.

[@gregorymerritt2528]

I guess the wind creates perfectly aligned holes in rocks

[@leviwhatever6192]

Close. It's actually the dissolution of minerals from within the soft sandstone caused by microbe/water solutions.

[@christianriddler5063]

@@leviwhatever6192 Nah. Only the heavier material has holes in it which would indicate that it is air bubbles formed in a massive flood where huge amounts of material was moved around by the water.

[@leviwhatever6192]

That isn't how it works. Geology rocks!

[@drewpackman2929]

You are correct.

[@toothpaste1958]

Interesting that the small holes in the vertical surfaces are located in the dark colored bands of stone and there don’t appear to be any small holes in the light colored bands of stone. Two different kinds of rock?

[@TheJTTaylor000]

Whirlpools from a great flood caused the holes. They’re are all over Washington State and Oregon.

[@elizabethpaints]

That video absolutely terrified me! I think those holes made Chewy nervous too. Great videos....just super scary seeing you so close to the edge. I hope your Mom didn't see it 🥺 On the other side, it is fascinating to see the extraordinary structures nature makes with rain and wind. But wasn't that whole place under water at one time?

[@bign1667]

3:34 the dog walking freely 🙈 omg gave me shivers up my spine worrying about your dog

[@werk62]

Yeah, that part made me clench. I would never let my dog near a hole like that if I didn't think I could get them out if they went in.

[@stefanholmstrom68]

A "giant's kettle" (Swedish) or a "bad spirit's churn" (Finnish). You can sometimes find them quite hig, on the side of bedrock (granite) formations on places where melted water has twirled under the ice during the ice age. In some places there is also a rock inside, beautifully round. The "side holes" in ths video are of course really special.

[@gomergomez1984]

Very cool but also really weird with all those small holes in the layers, almost looks like burrows.

[@the_pov_channel]

Right- you would think they would make great shelters for animals, but except for a couple species of birds you almost never see that

[@christianriddler5063]

They are air bubbles, all that rock was once mud in a giant flood, it was must have been an extremely fast and massive flood of water and mud to capture so much air below the surface. Over time the mud settled around the air bubbles and turned to stone. The air remained until erosion liberated it. Who knows how long ago this flood happened but one thing is certain, it must have been devastating.

[@CarlDiedrich]

These holes can be deadly! A friend lost her two dogs in a water filled hole. The dogs drowned. Also two out of state visitors ended up dead in a hole on the rim of Grandstaff canyon near Moab. Beware!

[@carolina_girl3484]

Nolan you freaked me out when you jumped into that hole. I almost could not watch this video!!! 🙂Glad you made it out so easily

[@Retr0racin]

Many of these in eastern washington ( the Potholes) they were caused by massive floods.

[@henryortega8893]

Hi, where in WA? I would like to see them. I live in Spokane.

[@Retr0racin]

​@@henryortega8893 A couple hours from Spokane along the Columbia river, pretty close to where I-90 crosses the river and by the gorge amphitheater. Google Frenchman Coulee. That's a good place to see, it was carved out by the floods. Dry falls just a few miles north are cool too.

[@ElectricGeology2025]

Like I said in an earlier video. Lab experiments conducted where rocks and stones are placed between electrical nodes and a current is run through the rocks. The rocks become electrically etched leaving rounded bowl like craters while at the same time leaving spherules welded onto the surface. Consider isotropic and anisotropic plasma etching and welded tuft.

[@the_pov_channel]

Sheesh. That's above my pay grade

[@ElectricGeology2025]

@@the_pov_channel perhaps, but it does happen and can be reproduced in a simple garage experiment. The above method is how they bore holes in circuit boards with precision depth, location, and width.

[@DrewishBear]

Nailed it. This is the work of lightning! ☝🏽

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

The amount of voltage required to do this is significantly higher than what lighting can deliver, and it would have turned into glass if it happened that quickly. I think it's water erosion, going down through cracks in the rock like they do in glaciers, although over a much longer timeframe. This also fits with the dried mud soil found in the bottoms of each of them. You can see potential new holes forming in layers on the mountainside above them.

[@ElectricGeology2025]

@@dashiellgillingham4579 but I do agree that it was much more than just everyday lightning that did this. Could have been lightning energy boosted by a Miyake style Solar Energetic Particle event or basically a Carrington Event times 80. Putting it somewhere around 10^38 ergs.

[@ram_fes]

This is the happiest dog in the world! Another great job!

[@rustymugg9658]

I am amazed by your fearleas bravery. Thanks for sharing your adventures. What if that's a water worn cross section of a pertrified giants flesh. Possibly, the holes could be vascular paths and other bodily orifices. Maybe the giants flesh was infested with worms. 🤔😒

[@norml.hugh-mann]

Dumbest thing I ever heard

[@2007bmpgti]

I live in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. We have lots of rivers. I can go to Moulton Falls and see these exact same formations in granite - granite is way harder than sandstone. You can watch the process of how they’re made; water and sand/grit/rocks swirl around for millennia and create holes. The area you’re in is clearly a path for water, maybe from younger dryas, maybe earlier.

[@GODZILLASixxSevn]

I have to be honest. I know your being careful but Your dog running around the edges makes me nervous. Slips in he/she not getting out

[@rustysalmonella7681]

1:41 I think these are concretions, which can form in a few months or years. Quicker than you’d think. Ones of a larger scale could be the origin of certain holes in that area

[@GeoEstes]

These are potholes, albeit very big ones. They're formed by a biofilm that slowly eats the rock, and also makes the hole able to hold water. After a rain, it's common to find ponds in these holes that contain brine shrimp (sea monkeys). The ones I've seen aren't quite as big as this, but they were also in granite, so perhaps it takes longer for the biofilm to eat away at it.

[@ZexGX]

no. these are caused by rocks caught in a small indentation in sandstone getting swirled around by water/wind over a long period of time. this area is a desert and very inhospitable and the surface is sandstone.

[@GeoEstes]

@@ZexGX Well, I'm not going to argue with you about it. Look it up for yourself.

[@norml.hugh-mann]

​@@ZexGXdesertification is a process... most north American deserts were not a few thousand years ago

[@chackiejan3353]

@@ZexGX That is one way holes can form in general, but that's not how these holes formed. Formation of potholes in Southern Utah have been studied and are formed through a combination of: water dissolving minerals that cement grains of sandstone together; abrasive winds that help smooth out the stone; and geomicrobiological processes where biofilms on the rock and endolithic microbes within the rock slowly eat away at the minerals that bind the sandstone. It may be an inhospitable desert to us but water-filled potholes are great places for bacteria to live in. Even extremophilic microbes can thrive in worse conditions.

[@ZexGX]

@@chackiejan3353 yes, abrasive winds

[@ipdavid1043]

just subscribed ....enjoy your google venture..❤

[@IrwellPete]

Roger Spurr of Mudfossil University YT is going to love this when I tell him. Geology is ancient biology, there are mountains of evidence.

[@akowboyshippielife7405]

I’ve told him about the channel!👍🤠

[@stevesyverson8625]

Geology is the study of the earth not biology.

[@maximilianvangrevenbroek]

Super cool! Especially with the shadows, they make the holes look alienlike and scary.

[@averywatlington5263]

The wonders of our planet, so cool!! And what are the chances of a tree, one tree to be there?

[@the_pov_channel]

Truly amazing. Might be the loneliest tree in the world...

[@Tkidddd]

​@@the_pov_channelan island is never lonely

[@theshoreys4741]

I like to imagine the journey that seed took to get there

[@Aptster1939]

Yours are the best! Excellent explanations, very skilled drone flying. And now I know Tui!! This place is very quizzical

[@ElectricUniverseEyes]

My brother, the marbles, the holes, the cross-hatching and pinching of material, everything.... ALL has been recreated in the laboratory. Electric Discharge Machining (EDM) is a real thing. Myself and several other experimenters have recreated many geological phenomenon using high voltage discharge on earth material.

[@ElectricUniverseEyes]

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[@overland.viking]

What a freaking awesome video!! That place is incredible.

[@BeYeSeparate]

Thought I heard the Star Wars cantina for a sec, should have looked around a bit more. My highly unqualified guess is possible cavitation from Deluge runoff. Continents simultaneously rising while seabed's formed / sank would cause the type of runoff that would easily make those holes, Grand Canyon, the "Missoula flood," and everything else we see. Anyways, beautiful place, thank you for sharing!

[@stevesyverson8625]

I like everything that you said! Missoula Flood and cavitation from water flow alone without erosional scouring. Back in the good old days of 1983 when the Colorado River overflowed the spillways of both dams containing Lake Powell and Lake Meade. There was massive damage to all spillways and intensive repairs of 30’ deep in both dams. All it takes is air bubbles to destroy concrete and steel. Cavitation! Thanks my friend

[@ElectricGeology2025]

To answer your question at 10:50 min., YES! It's electricity. Massive electric discharge, not just ordinary lightning we see today, but something catastrophic like during the Great flood.

[@Blvkwvlf]

Would be kind of cool if you talked more about the little things around you. For example, at the end of the video you were stepping on these white things that look like large roots on the ground. What are they? Are they roots or rock? Fossils?

[@WilliamCooper-l6f]

More proof of the global flood during Noah's age. I like to take seeds with me to plant along the way. There's always the right seed of a plant that will survive in your area. When I lived along the coast, I would scatter western palm seeds and date palm 🌴 seeds. I also planted bananas 🍌 around fresh water ponds. If we all hiked and planted seeds, we'd have a nicer home for ourselves.

[@Ze0th]

The aerial photos with all the little holes in the rock makes it look like a huge piece of a ancient coral reef.

[@steve-uq5tl]

You’re way too casual with your dog, why did you let him go close to that hall? If he fell in there’s no way you’re gonna get him out. You need to be more concerned about your dog

[@terrigoodman1689]

I so enjoy watching your videos. Though I must say- I bet those who love you a lot get very freaked out when they see some of the risks you take. Now I get it, I was kind of wild myself when I was young and I took a lot of risks too. But I get worried for you and almost have heart palpitations knowing that if you fell you'd be in a VERY bad way. And then I say "Terri, obviously if you're watching this video he didn't fall. LOL... but I sure PRAY that you remain vigilant and safe. I worry about your dog too. But I shall continue to watch and enjoy your adventures. 🤗😊😉🙃

[@mimipeters9349]

Im always in awe of the beauties and mysterious geologies of our planet. You have an unusuale drive for the seem ingly impossible. So remote, top of and end of the world places.

[@kc2sc]

Lol... I was literally going to comment about the 127 hour vibe when you said it😂. Cool video

[@sleepyburr]

The most intriguing thing about this to me is that even here, there are plants growing. I wonder how old that tree is.