Utah's Best Hike

[Music] does anyone else love Taco Bell as much as I do bean burritos Kato soft taco beefy Fritos ooh crunchy tacos beef supreme chalupa I'm in Utah in a random town on i-15 going south from Salt Lake City I'm headed to one of the most special places in the world to me which is southern Utah I dressed burrito hot frito taco frito it has Fritos in this hike that we're going on called the subway only 80 people are allowed to do it every day so they have limited permits and they give them out in a lottery even if you could chosen then you get to do the hike and we got lucky and we won the lottery we've got a permit and now I need a map [Music] okay I got mouths oh gosh at that time to eat borders put the maps down in and bring it on in I'm trying to find it's almost bedtime but there's a ghost town about abandoned places that is just so haunting and I just love it I'm excited for tomorrow I've never been inside of these really really narrow canyons so pretty excited to go explore but for now bedtime [Music] [Music] [Music] all right this is a giant Canyon and really what we're standing on right now is a huge slab of rock and when I say huge I mean like hundreds of kilometers long look at us if you were to follow this slab of rock a little bit more southeast from here you would get to the lowest point which is the Grand Canyon this huge slab of rock gets called the Colorado Plateau has lots of little canyons has a big Canyon the Grand Canyon but it has lots of other little canyons one of them is Zion Canyon which is the canyon we are hanging out in right now actually technically were right next door to Zion Canyon in kolob canyon anyway these are all canyons that tell the story of a slab of rock that has been whittled down over millions of years by erosion we are descending into the valley that has been cut out by the water and we're actually gonna go into a little canyon a very narrow canyon that is a very young canyon meaning it hasn't been cut very wide and you will see why [Music] [Applause] [Music] chicka Bow Wow [Music] it's technically backcountry here meaning there's no official trail no markings you just create your own adventure which is [Music] okay this is slippery it's good this one's super solid okay I'm good I'm good famous last words [Music] so these big walls of rock you can see are full of layers tons of layers layers layers layers layers layers all of these layers in the rock tell a little story of what was happening on the earth in this area at some point millions of years ago youtell used to be in the ocean under the water and then it wasn't and then it was and then it wasn't and then it was so every time the ocean would rise he would bring a new set of minerals and sediment into this area and it would that would become the new bottom of the ocean in this area and then the ocean would go away for a little bit and that sediment would settle and solidify and eventually turn into rock so what you get is this story that's etched into the rock layer by layer by layer and it's just beautiful water starts to get you doing okay back there oh I'm not don't worry I'm not worrying about you and eventually with enough water and flooding going through these cracks in what was once the solid rock you get something that looks like this the canyon we're going to is it much younger canyon it's still in the process of being widened what that looks like I guess we'll find out very soon we're about to get into this Canyon [Music] that's where it all begins right here this really narrow cut out in the rock is cut up by this water and now every second that this water runs through here it cuts it a little bit more in a million years Union [Music] [Music] [Music] here's the big caveat though not all rocks erode equally they erode in different ways and on different timescales and that I think is really important as soon as we get into this Canyon we'll see why [Music] oh my gosh Wow Wow Wow Wow so like I was saying not all rock layers erode equally the majority of Zion the thickest part of the sediment is what's called Navajo Sandstone which is really really hard to erode right underneath the Navajo Sandstone is this Kayenta stone more of a mud stone or silt stone it was deposited before the Navajo Sandstone and it was a much more silty muddy thing and it erodes a lot easier and so these formations you can see this happening frozen in time where the Navajo Sandstone is resistant to being eroded but the Chi enta right underneath it is getting more and more eroded because it just reacts so much more to water and that's why you get this crazy circular feel to this formation which is why it's called the subway like a tunnel so I want to tell you about the tripod I've been using it's a brand new tripod is actually not even for so I'm just using the prototype from peak design big design is makes this bag this bag I've been using for three years they came out with this tripod and I'm like wait I kind of had thought of them as like a bag making company and like suddenly they're making a tripod okay so they sent me this tripod I've been using it a lot and have really held off on giving thoughts on it until I really used it well I've been using it and I freaking love it like I love love it it is tiny so many amazing little tactile features that allow me to move it and adjust it in really natural ways and yet it's really light and it fits in the water bottle compartment of my backpack I love the plate that it comes with this little square plate that you can use on the tripod and then you can put it on the little peep clip I've had the pig clip forever but I've never actually used it because I've always had a Manfrotto plate on the bottom of my camera so I'm really into it and I'm gonna be using it now for everything and no longer you're gonna be using my Manfrotto tripod just sad Pete told me they wanted feedback and any critiques or downsides only thing I can think of is if they have like a quick-release plate that I could put on like my gimbal and stuff so I could use this plate and like quickly put it on my gimbal as well or put it on other things like mount it that would be amazing wish the plate that the complaint on the bottom could screw on and off with like a hand screw instead of an allen wrench I don't know these are tiny things I'd like to scrape in the bottom of the barrel here to like come up with feedback but the reality is this is an amazing tripod so tripods not for sale yet because it is in the middle of a Kickstarter camp is the cheapest now that it will ever be so if you go pre-order it now it'll be cheaper there's carbon fiber and there's aluminum and I've got the carbon fiber which is feather-light if you lumina ms great - it's just a bit heavier and cheaper see it's like the perfect travel tripod it really is like for the type of filmmaking I do nimble lean like I just need something that's solid but small and this is this does it so thank you peak design for making a beautiful tripod thank you for sending me this tripod thanks for sponsoring this video your turning around we're headed back down subway [Music] you [Music]

Channel: Johnny Harris

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Id: 6AeZTFOrmaw

Length: 14min 18sec (858 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 16 2019