Slide waters reach the Fraser

[@KyleStansfeld-zi6gc]

It’s hard to believe that this person was the only one that had enough sense to take footage , of a once in a lifetime opportunity. Great job. So amazing. A Geologists dream come true! Awesome nature!

[@fred1418]

This person deserves a medal. Only one actually worth watching.

[@blueman5924]

@Thebirdnerd had lots of good clips too during the event, even if some were from other sources.

[@that0ranger]

Award this guy a DeadCat

[@9morrical]

​@@blueman5924second this

[@cressdiligent]

A medal for that. Wtf is up wirh people .and this slide. Atteibuting all this heroism and 'sticking it to the man' stuff .... how about a few conspiracies while your at it. 'Its the mainstream media' 'its the trendy conservative media' paranoia out there tou all have lost yoyr minds

[@Syrusoo]

Agreed thank you!

[@renaebettenhausen3611]

Forget the tripod, forget everything you WISH you had brought. YOU WERE THERE! You got the footage! Your friends that were not available wish they had been there with you.

[@KyleStansfeld-zi6gc]

Very true, and well said!

[@charlesward8196]

Even without the tripod and the mic muffler, that was good footage.

[@ianwakeling4863]

At least there is no awful music playing as is typical

[@fritz46]

And it is in landscape mode... a rare thing these days!

[@KyleStansfeld-zi6gc]

The footage is great. A tripod would have helped a little, but the footage is fine. It’s really the subject manner! Also the fact that he was there. The media is terrible at what they do., and have no imagination. They would rather talk about fires or housing prices.

[@AxionSmurf]

@@ianwakeling4863 bahaha yeah like something you'd hear in a retail store but 10x louder

[@Tyler-xe6zj]

Somebody get this man a beer a chair and a tripod.

[@two-sense]

And a mic sock.

[@stevecarter8810]

And a massage for that stiff, frozen camera arm

[@JohnAlbertRigali]

Make the mic sock thick enough to screen out the talking.

[@IanCthrwd]

Least he had a telescopic lens and away from the river.🍺🍺🍻

[@MichaelEnright-gk6yc]

Could be edited easily enough

[@340wbymag]

I sure appreciate this video. It is the best I have seen since this slide happened. Everyone is talking about all the damage and debris in the river, but I am seeing a totally different view of things. I see tons of woody debris that will provide habitat for fish, insects, and other wildlife. Charcoal and ash from the fires will provide nutrients to the water for the aquatic wildlife. There will be tremendous scouring to the river bottom that will break up compacted gravels and boulders, providing places for fish to hide and spawn. This is kind of ugly at the moment, but it's just Nature doing what Nature does. Everything will be just fine.

[@MASS1866]

I like your outlook. And agree. Nature will take care of itself. And if it’s had enough of us, it will “ take care” of us too. We don’t need to worry so much.

[@melanie_meanders]

❤

[@bikechickluvs2groove]

Beautifully said!

[@rosewoodsteel6656]

I see dead fish.

[@brendontompa-clinch2306]

100%

[@therussmccurdy2602]

It's cool how the logs forced clear water into the Fraser

[@melanie_meanders]

shows just how hard the debris is to get through!!

[@yougonnaeatthat9889]

Im pretty sure that's ash/charcoal in the water that came from the burnt trees not clear water.

[@RyanEglitis]

Yeah, was all the water from pools that had the few days to settle out when the river was blocked - it had to get pushed out first.

[@richardgambill1737]

I noticed that too!

[@2nd_of_3]

You can see by the landscape that slides have happened here throughout the millennia. The river continues on. Nature has her way in all things.

[@oceantree5000]

The rivers are the most ancient features in our landscapes. It’s pretty crazy. They are tens of millions of years old (at least: for instance, the Amazon pre-dates the separation of Africa from SA as well as the growth of the Andes; it was once the downstream arm of the Congo and emptied into the Pacific!).

[@bmkrocky]

and the old paths of the river are still visible - nature heals itself

[@galeparker1067]

Has suppression of fire activity changed nature's activity? ♥️✌️🇨🇦

[@ElementofKindness]

Yeah, it's hilarious listening to interviewed government officials, and their concerns about the after effects, like the salmon runs, like these haven't been occurring for hundreds of centuries before.

[@dwill49965]

@@ElementofKindness Why is it so hilarious?

[@ReileyU]

To be fair, if you'd spent the time to find the tripod before you left, you might've never caught this event in action.

[@ralphwatten2426]

That's not fair. He did what he did to get the pics. Kudos to FastJeff.

[@N324F]

Yes. Sometimes, you are not set up with a pro kit

[@podunk_woman]

​@@ralphwatten2426I believe he's paying a compliment

[@dlwdaddyo1]

Pretty good for no tripod! Why didn’t the local authorities not put some dynamite in the slide earlier to clear the way?

[@ralphwatten2426]

@@podunk_woman Oh...never mind-

[@stevebooth2788]

“Wish I brought my tripod!” 😂 Thanks for documenting this. Nice work!

[@gregknipe8772]

It’s not that hard to hold still, not use telephoto, and NOT PAN.

[@mothmagic1]

Bugger the tripod, you gave us a view of events that we were not there to see for ourselves so thank you.

[@debbie6298]

Note, the ring of trees on the other side of the river, is a debris drop, from a whirlpool, when the river once had a massive flood from a similar occurrence a very long time ago 😮

[@blueman5924]

I was wondering days ago, how that little island was formed. thanks.👍

[@dustbunny3824]

I did wonder what that was. Thanks for letting me know.

[@paulsmallriver6066]

Thank you

[@dragonseyepictures9425]

I, too, was wondering what formed that shape. I thought it may have been an island from when the land was higher.

[@dewindoethdwl2798]

I’m trying to imagine the scale of river to create that whirlpool. Staggering.

[@anja2716]

Thank you for NOT filming vertically. Breath of fresh air.

[@GaryMilner]

So true! Stinking guys on the helicopter giving footage to the media filmed vertically.

[@anja2716]

@@GaryMilner RIGHT? I could not believe that.

[@nnonotnow]

You're in the right place at the right time! The only one I've ever seen that caught the start of it entering that River

[@analogdaniel]

This is fantastic!! Thanks for sharing this. I teach geology and earth science and will be using this to teach stream flow and catastrophic flooding in the fall. Super job

[@DanielFCutter]

Is this catastrophic flooding?

[@analogdaniel]

@@DanielFCutter yup

[@youtubeSuckssNow]

Dan Hurd made a good video on the effects this had on the Frasier.(not much of anything)

[@stephenharper8935]

Thank You for that video! Once in a lifetime... I'm in Chilliwack so I am seriously happy you caught that video.

[@UnreadyPlayer]

Thank you for being there to record a historical event and just let the whole thing play out. No unnecessary commentary or excessive movements.

[@davidchristensen6908]

Thank you for sharing this video. Not a lot of image of this event. This is one of the better videos

[@raincoast9010]

So many opportunities to record this amazing event and they blew it!

[@fritz46]

The helicopter footage of this was about 10 seconds long. And in portrait mode.

[@michaelkhoo5846]

Many thanks for this, great footage, thanks for sharing! This reminded me of 10 year old me damming up little creeks with rocks and then knocking the dam over, and watching the water rush away.

[@kalenragen1106]

Best footage yet, better than chopper vids even.

[@KyleStansfeld-zi6gc]

They call the Fraser, “The muddy Fraser” i think today, it became muddier! Great footage! It was the perfect place to see how it was affected by the flood of the Chilcotin River!

[@Contricez]

We also call it "The Mighty Fraser"

[@KyleStansfeld-zi6gc]

A name it deserves. That’s one huge river. Kind of scary whe you get close, especially in the canyon

[@the_quaint_gypsy]

Have no idea where this is or what caused it, but awesome to watch

[@KyleStansfeld-zi6gc]

To @the_quaint_gypsy. I don’t know where you’re from.,but this is British Columbia Canada. It’s the Fraser River where the Chilcotin River meats it. The Debris you're seeing is from a mass slide up the Chilcotin River, up stream. The slide blocked the Chilcotin River for days, and finally broke through. As you ca see the Fraser is very muddy. Most rivers that flow into the Fraser are beautiful clean waters. The river is always muddy! As one comment said. It’s also called the mighty Fraser, cause it’s a huge river. You don’t want to fall in.🤣

[@the_quaint_gypsy]

@@KyleStansfeld-zi6gc Thanks. I am down in very southern California USA. Nothing about this appeared in my news feed at all so thanks for the information.

[@RosaGamboa-u1f]

Mother Nature is incredible. Remember, We need Mother Nature. Mother Nature doesn't need us.

[@deee1979]

She would be a lot better off without us.

[@mothmagic1]

Both of these comments are so true and it would do us well to remember that point. Nature has many good ways of showing us just how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things. This is just one of them.

[@jimross898]

Great footage. Thanks!

[@blueman5924]

I would think that any trout lounging in the pool at the mouth, felt it coming down from a km away. Great capture sir ! 👏👏

[@matthew3136]

Turn left! Turn LEFT!!

[@jakel5801]

Oh yeah, they definitely GTFO there 😂😂😂

[@basukisugito8929]

You got better footage than any of the videos I seen from helicopters

[@HeartlandTuber]

What an invaluable video for documenting this slides aftermath. Don't worry about the sound, it adds to the realism.

[@sandraberube641]

Oho ooo yes Mother Nature is like wow wow ooo looking 👀 at this Fraser canyon see all the logs 🪵 floating in the water 💦, glad to be very safe, bless us all, from Dalhousie NB Canada 🇨🇦, 💦🪵💦🙏🙏🙏💜💜👍👍

[@psoon04286]

There’s several bottlenecks down the river that should be interesting to watch. The slide brought down a hellava lot of tree trunks

[@ianwakeling4863]

Many thanks for the great footage. Right place and timing. This footage i would say needs to be archived somewhere for future references. Amazing to be able to watch it. Thank you. UK

[@willyboy6126]

Great footage, man! To see such power of the surging water with all that debris, is something one doesn't see everyday. Thank God it's making its way in a much less catastrophic manner than first feared. Still damaging enough, affecting buildings, indigenous sacred grounds and not to mention the spawning salmon...hope that will get helped along. ❤

[@grahamlawson5691]

Fantastic. Thank you, that is nature in action, at its finest.

[@zombre_9206]

Great timing! This is what we all wanted to see. Thank you for posting

[@Amanwalksn2abar]

Tripod or not. That was some excellent videography! Well done! 👍👍👍👍👍

[@peterpelly5756]

One of the best videos yet, thank you!!

[@josephastier7421]

Thank you for taking the time and doing the work needed to share this scene.

[@santodiaz-ed4iw]

Que espectáculo, es una maravilla el paisaje y el video felicitaciones soy de Argentina muchas bendiciones

[@shauncorless8965]

There's gold in dem der hills ,😊

[@fastjeff6]

@@shauncorless8965 the amount of disturbances to our traditional sites down in these areas is already too much. The people rafting down the Fraser stop at these sites and haul away artifacts all too often. That particular area is very significant to our people and we do everything we can to make sure it’s a protected area. You can see where a machine tried to cut a road across, it was digging up so many ancestral remains we had to stop it as soon as we could.

[@barrymarootner504]

Nice work fastjeff6. No need to apologize for the wind and everything else. Great video my dude.

[@CatCrazyFamily]

EPIC video!! Thanks for sharing and taking the time to be there!!

[@NickErickson-g9w]

Never been so bored and excited at the same time

[@jamessmelcer616]

Great work brother !!👏👍❤️😁❗️

[@bikechickluvs2groove]

Beautiful video! I hear our ancestors drumming and chanting ;)

[@amandasmith7212]

Am I really hearing the drumming or is that just in my head?

[@MichelleL1st]

Wow. Amazing video. Such incredible power. This is why you don't mess with Mother Nature.

[@stenovitz]

Though I'm living far away from state of affairs here, YT suggested me this on monday 5th August about lunch time. Since I a couple of days ago found the very exact spot of the land slide, consequently intermediate 'barrage' and subsequently breach - and learned about the original habitants naming of the area and something that has been going on since before ancient human history, and then the many very fine helicopter recordings and strange picture of something from late 90ies added '24 refinement, this has been just soo stimulating to me as a geography nerd sine 5 years of age. My condolences to those who have lost their houses (and maybe homes, too?) to the brutal natural acts of nature ❤ Thanks for the vivid living pictures ❤ Greets from Denmark

[@view-ing]

Thanks for posting! Was hoping someone got this shot. Great job without a tripod.

[@snafutube]

Was by the Fraser south arm near Steveston where it enters the Salish Sea today (Thursday 8 Aug) … I’d wondered if we would see any debris here, I’d been looking for the past couple of days, it finally got here today … I was by the river bank for a couple of hours this afternoon and debris was floating past at a steady rate the whole time …. An unusually quiet day for shipping, today!

[@podunk_woman]

This is the video I've been waiting to see

[@baldyetichronicles]

Perfect view. Thanks for heading out there and sharing.

[@jeffandbernadinecostello1146]

Good for you to have made the effort to be there in time to see this. Envious I am. A nice piece of history for you. And yes, a steady hand in the ever present wind there. Greetings from Prince George.

[@patmayer7222]

Watching from watersmeet,Michigan,....tnx for this vid,,,epic footage,,,like mutual of Omahas wild kingdom,,,...dooooood!,,,, pat&family.❤

[@martinemjt]

i think this just solved the mystery of the ogopogo, waterways where used to carry logged wood! i can imagine when this travelled in town, you got out of the water!

[@sixstringedthing]

Mesmerising to watch, and fascinating to see how the landscape around this confluence has been shaped and scoured and re-shaped by similar events over geological time scales. The water goes where physics dictates, nothing stops it, so many amazing geological features are the result of water + time. Also quite awesome to see the slide push all that unturbid water out into the Fraser ahead of it like a giant spearhead. Fluid dynamics writ large, there's a LOT going on here. Wonderful footage mate, thanks for the upload.

[@psoon04286]

This is a spectacle worth heading out to see with your own eyes. Thanks for sharing👍🙂

[@bobsobie678]

You need a life, seriously.

[@gogrape9716]

The earth suffered from constipation for a week then took a huge dump !!!

[@mikejoz]

Finally, someone who knows how to hold and aim a camera.

[@randalc6118]

Greetings from Drayton Valley Alberta Canada. Use to live in chilliwack and boy is that going to mess up the Fraser River. Thanks for the great footage, much better than the news channels ❤

[@youtubeSuckssNow]

Well it's less water than spring runoff. Just a bunch of logs, but even then it's virtually nothing for the size of the Frasier. Dan Hurd made a good video on what happened down stream.

[@mikesorensen5228]

And here we see the peloton rounding the corner into the Frasier as Branch Armstrong takes the lead.

[@heathermacneill3854]

This is historic! Thank you for filming and sharing.

[@robbwhitewater]

Great footage! Thanks for documenting this!

[@robertbate5790]

Thanks for catching this. Heard so much dramatic expectation, it was actually quite tame. I heard that it was less than the snow melt, so hopefully not too much property damage ect. ♥️🙏🇬🇧

[@hugodesrosiers-plaisance3156]

That actually looks very much like a flashflood would. Cool footage!

[@mikefabbi5127]

Nick's going to be pissed Relic stole all his logs.

[@myrachurchman5013]

Excellent, thank you for posting.

[@banielsen]

Great job! This was the one angle I’ve been wanting to see and you covered it well!

[@shirley4726]

Great footage, mother nature in all her glory!

[@richardgambill1737]

That was AWESOME!!! I love mother nature's shows

[@melodeev5487]

Good for you for capturing this footage! After all the "doomsday scenarios" that were screamed out all over the news this is terribly anticlimactic.

[@MAPP1010]

Thanks for filming this! Awesome footage!

[@PlanetEarth3141]

Elk Herd Crossing River: 🦌 Elk 1: Is that a log jam headed toward us? - Self Aware Elk Elk 2: Run away! - Monty Python Elk Elk 3: Game over man! - Bill Paxton Elk Elk 4: Aaarrrrggg. - Sea Pirate Elk

[@josephastier7421]

Every taxidermized elk head has the same expression: "Is that a gun?"

[@PlanetEarth3141]

@@josephastier7421 😄😄🤪

[@Icanlogonnow]

May not seem like much at a glance but this is a once in a lifetime event. On this scale at least. Lucky to be there to witness it. When the dam built up from the slide, its hard to imagine a lake going from 100m deep to well over 1000m deep in days and then unleashing itself.

[@robertslugg8361]

With modern communication, these events really come as no surprise. It will be here, any day now. ;-) But, looking back at an event like the Columbia River being blocked by a landslide 700 years ago, imagine how the Natives down stream in the Portland area reacted first to the insane lowering of the water level as the Sandy was the only major tributary feeding it at that point before the Willamette confluence. I imagine for awhile that there was even a battle between the Willamette and the Columbia to determine which way the water actually flowed. I am sure the Salmon were going "wait, what?" After that new "normal" was adjusted to, then the water overtops the "Bridge of the Gods" and the huge lake behind it starts to flow downstream. I am not sure if geologists are in agreement how that event took place, except that it likely came without warning much like how the original landslide too came without warning. And that it was about 0.01% the magnitude of the Missoula flood that preceded it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_of_the_Gods_(land_bridge) Over in Iceland they are experiencing a series of eruptions in an area that erupted about 1000 years ago. The area that it erupted in back then left a long series of cones, so in our heads we construct a single event which leaves this evidence. But since December we have witnessed 5 eruptions, and each cycle both buries and adds to the cones from the last event. We are waiting for #6 to start any day now (my money is on Sept 15th) and who knows which of the earlier cones will survive it and remain for the historical record, or eruption #7, whichever comes first. It is events like this which usually jog the brain of a scientist somewhere, who then takes a step back, looks at the geography and suddenly realizes, "this has happened before, and on a completely different scale." Very few things get where they are without a story behind them. Anyone who finds this interesting should look up the Nick Zentner geology lecture series from 8-10 years ago. There is a lot of hidden history as to why things are and also "how they got here."

[@Pants4096]

Fantastic footage! Thank you for sharing it with us!

[@kcountrycorvettes]

Who really cares if he didn’t have his tripod ? Who really cares if we can hear the wind ? This footage is incredible. Can’t get much more raw than this. Thanks for posting it.

[@PlanetEarth3141]

Only people like you like raw footage this raw. The rest of us with intelligent could do better with mere ears. 😊

[@kcountrycorvettes]

@@PlanetEarth3141 You mean “intelligence” right ? Something you’re lacking

[@PlanetEarth3141]

@@kcountrycorvettes 😄🤪. That trick always works and fast. Patterns of thought, not so much. 🤔

[@metaltiger5091]

Thank you for the video ….. very interesting how the two rivers merge, it really is a great visual of how the surface water blends with, I am sure there is a lot of turbulence underneath that surface.

[@stevenbrucci]

Great video!! I'm glad you left your tripod behind if it would've taken more than two minutes to dig it out! :)

[@2nd_of_3]

This video deserves your THUMBS UP 👍 DO IT!

[@henrybohn1304]

Great work guys. Glad it wasn't 50 feet high. Did you notice the pressure wave out front of the debris!

[@5ayes12]

best video of this chilcotin-fraser confluence thanks and hope y'all are doing fine

[@barbrice721]

I just subbed and the number didnt change. Was waiting to see this footage. Thank You.

[@sandy7299]

Thank you for the videos of this event, very interesting

[@markmark2080]

Great job of capturing that action, Thanks for posting.

[@cmahar3]

Very cool! Nature is formidable.

[@ElementofKindness]

Boy! The sawmill downstream is gonna have their hands full. 😄

[@joshbrooks5326]

Glad it was interesting, glad it was not disastrous. Have Fun, Be Safe.

[@dough1968GMC]

You just witnessed a once in a lifetime event! Great work!

[@cryptoalchemist369]

Thank you for sharing!

[@komakafox4207]

Nice footage, thank you for sharing!

[@wadecartwright4277]

Well you're doing more than the news does thank you😊

[@peggynulsen1365]

Outstanding footage. Thank you for your effort. I hope the damage does not affect the salmon life cycle.

[@davidpetersen1]

Great vantage point!! Impeccable timing! One of those, "wish I'ld been there to see it" moments for sure. I find it striking that many other places around the planet (granted with a much higher population density) that witness these types of raw natural power would be crowded with locals, whistling, yelling and in general making yahoo out of it. In NA we get a well framed long shot, wind noise and a wish for a tripod. 🤣✌🏼

[@wtpauley]

more log debris for the Salish sea...

[@two-sense]

But the salvagers will make some good money for once.

[@stanfordgibson]

Amazing footage. Thank you for making it happen.

[@slowvoltage]

🙏🏽 thank for catching this 🙏🏽

[@derekcourt425]

Best video yet of the overflow. Well done. The Helicopter video was too close, too tight and the only one Global showed. I rafted years ago from Chilco Lake down to the Gang Ranch on the Fraser. Awesome 6 day trip. I was hoping someone would have drone video of the logs and water boiling down Farwell Canyon......

[@sherylbryant3534]

Well done, thanks for catching this event!

[@garyfrancis-ns3kq]

Tremendous power of the Mother Earth, is the ground shaking?😮 Thrilled with that sense of eon's worth of gravity on the riverbank. Prayers for those affected by the landslide!

[@milner_905]

Great video. There is so much debris and timber. Wow.

[@eligebrown8998]

It looks like logs headed to the mill. Great video.

[@BrakerOfStones]

I think it’s cool towards the end where now you can see where the water current goes from the river

[@joyfullone3968]

Amazing video. Good thing it happened during daylight!👍👍👍

[@wretchedslippage3255]

I put my son to sleep an hour ago and he has this little Owl lullaby thing. It plays music for one hour.. I'm sitting scrolling YT and see this. I watch it and gpddamnit the second those logs his the Fraser the Owl stopped

[@dustbunny3824]

Very good capture. Way better than most.