GRAND BLUFFS Portland MO Ozark Hippie Camp

see what Ron's looking at guys hang on there's no run he's always looking something amazing so let's see what he's got oh wow a month ago wow all right guys on another adventure here this time we're in Upper Missouri I'm going to a place called Grand Bluff as you can see I got the main man right there Mr Ron Barry's ready to take me up there this is a hit backyard near Fulton Missouri right now guys so we're just gonna go do some exploring and we'll see along the trail today bald eagles you hear them there should be a bunch of them remember we pushed that button yesterday and that uh Nature Center is exactly what they sounded like I see it easy coming down you see okay Ron always has the bright side of everything so you guys that's a good thing [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I'm glad y'all are hearing me breathing that's all they're hearing on the camera [Music] hmm Grand Bluff [Music] s [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] everything [Music] is there going to be another another up okay I was kind of looking at what's the deal with these leaves right here that stay on year round be pushed off by the new growth right that's all that really happens to those I see I just thought they were super tough to be able to hold on to their Leaf over here the abuse on both sides guys this is like a backbone we're walking on right now center right screen we'll see more of it we had another steep section every step is up in this area [Music] I noticed right I didn't want to say but yeah no but we can steadily up last hit again it's been tough oh there's a pretty view of Missouri I'll let y'all look that way for a little while [Music] thank you pretty pretty right man yeah yeah I know these good special spot what's up brother good man I got a YouTube channel called it was our kitty cat for real YouTube yeah that's cool hey I got a pillow hiker here guys early morning high for me yeah to the Grand Bluff State Park yeah what's your what's your first name brother Adam yeah sweet man yes sir and a lot of good piece on the top I've noticed yeah oh yeah and Pat them as soon as I got to that gate pretty much I could feel that you got to get on up here right guys to get the true experience of what's really here you need to come on and up yeah foreign there's not leaves on the trees but even then it's beautiful in the summer time that's just breathtaking yeah yeah it goes to show that you can find beauty in uh really anywhere you live you know in the middle of nowhere it's awesome it's really close by so I got a place in the Irish Wilderness and it goes along good with my Ozark hippie Camp Channel we thank you for for your knowledge and your you know your heart bro I could tell you you just you're saying it man cabin Camp I got a little creek a swimming hole um Mike could take you in a special cave if I got his approval he's got some land down there but we got a world renowned cave down there that that's got the most formations I've ever seen in my life as far as per square inch and it's amazing the first class to the right you get about 3 000 formations hanging down from the ceiling yeah one glance yeah so there's about a couple hundred thousand in there but tell us your favorite thing about uh Northern Missouri here Northern Missouri oh well I've been I've been many many and you know I've been to Germany Ireland Poland Hawaii Texas and what I like about North America is the people you know everywhere else I've been I've like the places themselves and you know the geography or the landscape whatever but here uh this is where I chose to live here because of people everyone here is so nice there's a lot of open-minded people here just despite being red yeah now it's amazing conservative State for the most part but everybody's got a you know liberal heart and liberal mind and let people be who they want to be right Ron Ron is originally from here his his family like his heir to this area man like you can tell us a little history Ron yeah yeah I'm Callaway County is there they settled in 1821 in a place called Garden Prairie they lived in cave the first six months and on Stinson Creek which runs into the evolves Creek then uh there's some tremendous formations there there's some uh rock rocks that are staying 150 50 feet tall that's huge a model yes one single Rock and then there's another one that looks like a helicopter dropped it right down in the Middle with a creek a little bottom plate but it just sits right on top of this little bottom plate it's it's the craziest thing it looks like a miniature Devil's Tower I don't know if you've ever seen a picture of the Devil's Tower up in Wyoming it looks like a miniature Devil's Tower it's about I'd say it's about 70 feet tall and I don't know 30 feet across the bottom maybe so that's huge because I I know that that the summit here at the end of this Trail is 300 feet in the air I read that on the side at the beginning so to think that Iraq is just half that I mean when you're up there one single Rock too brother look around the corner man it's just like it's your private property but I have permission to take the people there especially if I call them one of the guys his name is Dave Layman's and I can get permission to take you out there there's also an Indian burial man you need to hook up with this bridge yeah yeah but this this huge Rock you don't realize how big it is until you go down and get on the north side of it and then look up because that's when it's all one solid piece it's amazing how the enormous enormity of it and that's and that's in uh White right over here brother Callaway yeah about 12 10 miles from here okay you go up that's what I say Ozark hippie cam make sure you connect this and we can all I'll make sure you're connected right there and that's his YouTube channel but uh the place I'm telling you about it's up here in Callaway County and you're local so we'd love to take you 903. oh yeah that's me right there brother right there yeah because the cave we just come out of is about 40 foot tall let me come over here and go this that's great and then uh almost 300 000. yeah I see that maybe not quite but it's getting close to 300. hey man you're you're like right at the cusp of like like you're on an essential Road yes sir yes yeah it's been a track man I've been about a year and a half so yeah it's uh what what you do with the camera you know what I'm saying but it's people like you that make it happen though brother so lots of love to you yeah even listen your name on there I'll make sure and stay contacted with you it's on a comment or something yes sir we can all get we would love to take you to this spectacular route have you been obviously yeah this one it was a it was a marker for Lewis and Clark when he went up the river this Mark just it's like a giant Arch kind of like out in Arches National Park now today the Missouri River has moved about two miles west and Hershey Creek runs right along it but at that time Lewis and Clark the river was right up next right next to the marker for everybody it went up and down the river with this Arch yeah and there's a historical marker there that talks about and when the leaves are off you can see it it's about a quarter mile up further than Eagle Eagle Bluff and uh that's a great area too I mean this is a great area but that's a great area up there too and of course the bald eagles Rock Bridge State Park please tell me you've been there in Jefferson City I hate it this is the one you gotta go see man like but when you get there go to the very back and make sure you go down the stairs bro when you go down the stairs there's a cave in there it just it's just it's all Indian bro it's all Indian it's amazing beautiful area yeah but it's and there's a bunch of trails Rock Bridge State Park it's my stomping grounds I've been there many many many times and uh there used to be an Old Mill down tomorrow and there's still the foundations of the Old Mill storage buildings and then on the opposite side there's an old railroad bridge with the floors out of it but there's a huge a railroad Ridge across the Cedar Creek that's beautiful and explored the whole area the creek makes a big U-turn there and I'm going down and exploring the whole area and I guess about three years ago I was exploring and I came across somebody had built is about this tall they built a mud pyramid perfectly shaped pyramid now I have a I do some research and it's very eccentric in his thinking there's a there's a legend that has it that the Knights Templar took what was known as the Delta of Enoch which was a golden pyramid and he took it out into the 112th longitudinal parallel out in Montana and they buried it and they left the Blackfoot Indians to guard it now when John Colter went out there and he was the founder of Yellowstone and actually I got to interview his uh one of his uh descendants who was out there exploring and he was telling me about it and I went and researched it John Colter was the guy that discovered Yellowstone and he was out there he was with Lewis and Clark and they were exploring that area where this so-called Delta Arena course deposited and he was captured by the Blackfoot indians and they told him they'd let him go but if he ever caught him out there again that Kelly well he got out there and escaped they called that cultures run and then when he discovered Yellowstone they call that cultures hell and actually right down here at New Haven Missouri where he came from right down here and you figure all the stuff out just by meeting people yeah yeah I'm not an internet her reading books brother he puts them he puts them together air and climate where we have uh social media and digital yes yes I agree ment yes but a book will tell you the truth yeah and that'll take you places like where you guys are going yeah I'll tell you something else this is true and you can research it out if you want to it's awesome brother my uh my family when they lived in Kentucky Washington County Kentucky Spoons the berries and the Lincolns all lived within about a mile and half of each other he is a link and uh Tom Lincoln lived with the berries uh no not Tom Nancy Hanks lived with the berries for about a few years before she married Tom Lincoln and they married in the very cabin and there's a state park down in Kentucky that has the cabin where they got married and it's got the Lincoln house which was quite large and uh but yes and also Tom Hanks can through the Hank side I'm not really cancer Tom Hanks but he's kin to the Lincoln so the Hank side and I can't do the Shipley side of the berries I uh not the Jackie Gleason no no that wasn't what I was thinking I was thinking about a fellow the name of Michael Luisa he was he used to be a musician for the band it was on an offsuit of Kansas called A.D and Michael Gleason I think he's dead man [Music] a very good one too and he played with Carrie Elizabeth okay okay I found it interesting because I also played piano and make music so sweet I was wondering like maybe go on the Internet or Google Michael please well I could be wrong but I think it's okay but checking out use with the band called a d which is back in the late in the 80s early 90s um but he was a great I think he's passed away but I I could be wrong but I think he's passed away but uh and my brother-in-law is a guitarist and a great guitarist you might want to go on the internet Michael Sparks 40 miles 40 Mile Detroit he's the lead guitarist pianos legit though Adam that's a man yeah probably what's therapy to listen to it too man so thanks for creating it bro it's me I don't know I'm Gleason 40 mile detour they back when the code was in play they played it to Charleston uh Performing Arts Center and of course it wasn't in the audience or anything but it was a great place to play in and they got to do nine songs in a row this recording in there it's really really guitars but check out Michael Gleason yeah check up with us sometime man I'm Lance again or hippy they call me hippy on this thing right here but uh Lance and then before I go you mentioned uh it's therapeutic to listen to piano yeah if you ever want to listen to something I play at well I made an album last year and I could share it with you I'd love to hear bro 1G easy see this is why we met him my man I've got a friend that's a DJ and she's starting to create me it's from Colombia hey that's awesome yeah she knows like Colombia the country oh okay she's coming here bro yeah yeah we might have to we might have to throw some ideas off of him and her together somehow yeah and she always she plays the electronic at the EDC type music or EDM that's awesome but she mixes in the jungle beats bro she put some jungle in there though man that just moves the body brother oh man yeah Hannah Marta yeah yeah she's she's awesome but uh she'll be I'm gonna I'll probably end up going to get her or she's gonna get the train from Cali she's in Cali right now she's cutting buds she's Humboldt County girl but that's all she's ever known like whenever she goes from one place she just goes over there but she finished her school a year and a half ago when that's when I first met her and I met her in the Carmen Mexico of all places and yeah I showed up for a movie set one day and she was right there and I'm just down here like this and try to pay I've seen I've seen it from a distance I could see her curly hair but that is all I ever looked at her right because I just don't I'm just not that dude really right as I pull up and my job was to flirt with this girl and I get right up to her and I'm just like I looked up there I was just blown away by our Beauty man I I didn't I didn't think this was gonna happen like that yeah and so my my whole deal was to flirt with her next thing I know we're all gone on dates together she's asking me the dinner yeah yeah it's a major blessing though but Adam good talking with you I know we're gonna cross it was cool quite literally we crossed faster on the trail bro that's why this camera's here man you know I was just he was just standing on a bridge out there it's a Martin National Forest up uh close to the Devil's Backbone yeah and he was just standing there like struck up a conversation with him and we found out and uh where'd you get your schooling from Brother uh the Los Angeles Film School Jim Morrison I don't know if you know yeah a lot of people don't know that the book of poetry that was very deep very deep 1G 1G guys check out it check out his uh his music too for me if you don't mind guys go ahead you're on the computer right now just Google 1G Adam Gleason check out his piano he's got some great mixes going on guys so I'm gonna plug him in right now and uh you know we're all about the goodness so yeah be blessed man much love bro much love we'll see you soon but okay take care man have a good day yeah see man wow small world bro holy cow I'm not stuck a year and a half ago when that's when I first met her and I met her in the Carmen Mexico of all places and yeah I showed up for a movie set one day and she was right there and I'm just down here like this and try to pay I've seen I've seen it from a distance I could see her curly hair but that was all I ever looked at her right because I just don't I'm just not that dude really as I pull up and my job was to flirt with this girl and I get right up to her and I'm just like I looked up there I was just blowing away by our Beauty man I I didn't I didn't think this was gonna happen like that yeah and so my my whole deal was to flirt with her next thing I know we're all going on dates together she's asking me the dinner yeah it's a major blessing though but Adam good talking with you I know we're gonna cross the paths bro quite literally we cross faster on the trail bro that's why this camera's here man some of the best young man that was the center of John Colts you know I was just he was just standing on a bridge out there to Mark Twain National Forest up uh a cluster Devil's Backbone yeah and he was just standing there I could struck up a conversation with him and we found out and uh where'd you get your schooling from Brother uh the Los Angeles Film School Morrison I don't know if you know a lot of people don't know that guys check out it check out his uh his music too for me if you don't mind guys go ahead you're on the computer right now just Google 1G Adam Gleason check out his piano he's got some great mixes going on guys so I'm gonna plug him in right now and uh you know we're all about the goodness so yeah be blessed man appreciate it much love bro much love we'll see you soon but okay take care man have a good day see you man [Music] wow small world holy cow I'm not stuck that's crazy cool how God does that more people hiking guys look at that being a good man aren't you this is what you're supposed to do guys you see how he's taking a piece of trash out of here you know what I'm saying yep take care good morning thank you good morning Ozark hippie camping y'all ever get kind of get stuck inside I got a YouTube channel that's got all of Irish Wilderness all of what's down South we take the trail me and Ron Berry a lot of times we've been in a lot of caves on there so about three hours south Greer Springs I got a place by Greer Springs yes sir yeah yeah but Ozark hippie Camp man it's uh shows you all this down there and we've he owns 40 acres down there and the locals didn't even know and we were just you're kind of exploring his land one day and he could feel we had a friend named Larry Brown from Columbia he could feel cold air one time so we went back to that same spot and he's like Lance there's a cave up here and I'm like are you sure Ron I said yeah so I start pulling and says come up here and pull some rocks out so we start and this is all on video our first time in this cave and the locals team know this thing existed your your first look to the right your first look to the right is 3 000 formations stalactites just hanging down in this cave it's so full of life and then it's got like a river on the top so it's continually growing like non-stop it's the most full of life cave I've ever ever experienced and we went in several of them there's several back in there but this one was just a gift from he's got he's got a cab I mean he'll nothing real fast everybody's nice yeah yeah and um you could spend uh we've been a week or whatever down that country if you do I'm sure he'll take you out to a lot of there's a bunch of screens Ozark hippie Camp as well yeah yeah both both and that's what my my viewers are like that's really a place I'm like yeah yes I'm saying connected oh yeah yeah just a little further south beautiful area but 11 Point Rivers kind of where that's our major stay but Greer Springs about six miles to my West and then Turner Mill is four miles I'm like on the Turner Mill North Road okay I live off that road right there yeah yeah yes yes thank God yes please please just say you met me on uh the Bluffs and I'll I'll cut you in half on your discount I'll give you a 50 discount I'm not about I'm not about the money you know what I'm saying I do that to keep the bad people out you know what I mean and then we could go into the berry spring cave there's several caves if you look at my last video I love spring I was watching a motorcycle guy back in that area and he stopped at a spot that I've crossed or past 300 times and I was like what's he stopping there for and sure enough he walks down but he didn't he didn't he didn't show what was inside of it but there was a 34 30 to 40 foot ceiling on the first room and then the second room back yeah just a live cave though just completely dripping I mean just fascinating what about you guys where are you from Iowa Iowa nice we got Neighbors from Iowa yeah [Music] forget their last name Ryan and Heidi I don't know their last name man I don't yeah but they they're just corner like they're across the creek from me so I don't really I don't associate too much with them but they seem like good people they raise uh uh the chicken oh he's a horseshoeer he's a major horseshoeer he goes back to Iowa and does a lot of horses up there still for a lot of people but so how far is how far y'all from here then from home four hours okay for another hour awesome what brought you here this is awesome okay okay cool y'all know how to do it right then he'll know he's from here like he's he's actually he comes from the family that link inside he's a Lincoln right he's really a berry but he's akin to Abraham Lincoln like in the lineage that was what 15 yeah the spring comes out of the cave yeah and then it runs down a water it's a waterfall that's a creek that's right goes to it when I got there those all them signs were dilapidated they weren't even yeah and they had written pencil for a trail and point like no and then a year goes by man and the forces they all got it's nice again but that I even took a local there that didn't have been to Turner Mill that's one of the most moving places I've ever visited in my life I mean it's got the water pouring out by the tons but it's at an angle so it's like a Roaring River yeah so you have to hike a peak in 14 000 feet in Colorado to get that same sound I'm all about the side sounds the senses you know it's uh he he's going to tell you a cool spot to go next watch this we're gonna go to Eagle Bluff later but that's over there uh that's near Columbia but Rockbridge State Park if you really want to go see something's fascinating Rock Bridge State Park is years about 40 minutes probably yeah which way towards Colombia just Rock Bridge State Park yes give them a couple of spots local that they need to go to minus the private property we'd love to take you as a private property there's a 150 foot Rock but okay you tell them a local spot here huh but make sure you walk to the you'll get to the back and you'll look down you'll look down and it's uh here straight down here I'd love to go down there that's what you're thinking to yourself well at that same particular spot there's stairs that will lead you down so make sure you go down there yeah make sure and then take your little flashlight there's nothing not a big cave but there's you know a decent well it's a 14 mile cave whenever you go through it all but you can only go through just a tiny portion because you gotta get in a canoe and it's oh my God yeah it's one of those but it's Rock Bridge State Park man you will love that one and then Eagle Bluff as well if y'all go to Eagles left we'll probably see you there we're going to take his neighbor there later this guy loves to hike in the last few years I've just kind of put everything yeah yeah pretty much and just lifting him up man he's such a good song you never know that guy right there he started off as a rural mail carrier right kept on saving some money saving some money we started buying some farms around here we partnered with the person and he saw that they they were uh they were about to is in the 90s when the farm price just cratered you know and he just loved far and that's why he moved to this area as a farm and and lo and behold Ron went up to the banker and was like man I wanna I kind of want to help these his name was Lloyd is I want to help these people out man I kind of feel like I need to what do you want to help I want to buy their farm and do this for them and do this he's like oh man that'll never work he said the banker time said man that's no wrong that's not a good idea I told him three times now it's not a good idea 20 something years later 4 000 Acres together they farmed often not a good idea dude yeah so God isn't he would never know he's been blessing for me too but that cave if y'all come down to the Ozark hippie Camp his cave is full of your energy like full um there's there's different planes out there you know we there's there's a spiritual plane called the etheric plane there's there's planes that we can't see with a human eye or the human brain right I went into this cave I'm sitting in there one little area just by myself this time I don't really go in there a lot by myself but I just heard like 10 and 11 year old girls laughing just the purest laugh you could imagine like just Purity you know and uh another time Charlie and Shannon heard the same type of the energy is just so pure in this case I can't explain no you can't you can't yeah guess what man you got two more heels all the way up solid all the way up you don't stretch the facts so I was like man yeah I know what I'm about to get into it is over there where I live behind that like McCormick Lake there's a dam and then you could go up and see this View this guy took me up there and I like to smoke a little pot and things smell some roses on occasions and long story short man he uh he just keeps going and then he hits the hill and I mean I've already I'm ready to just take a break that's my first hike with him right now I'm getting ready to stop but I just grabbed my little pipe and I get up I take one puff and I just keep going up the hill with him but he beat me up there of course but dude yeah [Laughter] and what's your name brother you think so Jim cool I'm Lance man they call me hippy on YouTube and your name Delilah Lori and Tracy cool man certainly a pleasure they're from Iowa Ron so thank you for helping them out did he tell you about the Pinnacles too in the Pinnacles in that area oh never mind yeah yeah yeah I know you'll love those spots Rockbridge phenomenal we'll have to come back we've been all through southern Missouri cool at Turner's Mill I remember it's a heck of a trip yeah well with the road with the drive yeah yeah we've got pictures of it see y'all remember the middle of nowhere at least you got that right yeah pyramid on to leave him alone I had one neighbor in the very back back there where I live five miles of me has 10 people operations I get over here that's right and I get over here we're going to his house and there's someone gets right on my ass [Music] back to the real world Ozark hippie camp yes ma'am take care Lori yes thank you very much my pleasure yes y'all too and I'm gonna take one quick picture of you both of you right there that's awesome thank you guys thank you peace thank you yes sir Jim took up a bunch of these Irish immigrants and took them down into that area and they settled and they were living there really good until the civil war broke out and then all hell broke up it's a bad area to be around here and so anyway I'm gonna let you get yeah pleasure talking with you we'll uh we'll look up your site yeah down the road we might be getting met me on the Bluffs and I cut it right in half for you you guys ton of trails Big Springs over there too that's true Ron because I didn't I I didn't know what we're gonna do I I don't have I don't have nothing planned like I just didn't notice so yeah that's super sweet man super sweet and maybe we'll see him at Eagle Bluff you never know I hope they go to that Rock Bridge man I really hope they that's cool they're all hiking together man I thought that was cool yeah I knew they were flying because I looked at the license plate okay okay and now the best part okay I keep telling you that yeah I believe I trust you right you know that man I was just trying to work my my gut up to get up the hill oh we'll have it easy we go down that's fine I taught them the story about Grandma Vista you taking me [Music] it's ready to take a break and just get my breath and this guy just takes off all right man he beat me up there ah that was a couple years back this trail goes on and I'm taking a little ways there's nothing really it just stays up just on the top okay right we're gonna go down what do you got here anything anything significant Old Homestead okay looks like a foundation I see something yeah yeah oh okay okay yeah this whole area right here growing up now this is all kind of a flat area on the top too you're right made a good spot to yep where'd you tell those people to go to well that's a problem Eagle Bluff and Rock Bridge yeah I told them about that was a backbone too it's not you know it's not far oh you're right yeah oh yeah that'd be cool if they go to the that they would be moved if that was that a pond too huh so those two people don't have no dogs she noticed this yeah but I'm just saying it might be the cat print okay they're pretty fresh though man of course of course [Music] ah look at the Missouri guys well I got a new subscriber on the trail today Gleason Adam Gleason yeah no that was the band A.D you said what were you asking him right yeah but we um wow wow I see I don't know you had some DJ in me brother let's go yeah is that not the lookout [Music] thank you we'll kept talking about painted rock too okay okay [Music] that's it Iowa City okay I don't know much about Iowa any trees over there at all beautiful Farm three three parking along the Mississippi River tight key that was named for zebulon's height who discovered wow the no correlation to Colorado right discovered yeah new page going north was his last what was what was his last name then like oh it was okay oh [ __ ] Ron you all right yeah right what a look here man there's a bluff over here too guys oh that is the grand Bluff I see I see well Darkness all right guys here's a underneath this tree I'll try to zoom in for you I think they call it modern day progress there's that nuclear facility right there nice look at the Vantage points guys a lot of Farmland down there on that Missouri so that's Farmland on the Missouri River so that's a beautiful area yeah some of the richest farmland in Missouri I were pulling up to the Scenic Overlook guys of grand Bluff State Park got run over there checking things out right now you know Ronnie's Never Gonna Miss A View vantage point if you remember where we that road made a 90 degree turn well that's where it comes down is that where we walked across the river over there no okay that's further up that way but you know we went there oh yes sir I see that's where it comes out everywhere yes sir yes sir [Music] to get to here guys and this is Grand Bluff uh she's a whole series of them just like that I see it beautiful man Rick C lived across the river s meaning somewhere over in that area but he lived over that beginning yeah in fact as you can see you can see right up through there that's the end of the island into the island right right through there one branch goes that way that's the part that we walked across and of course that's the main branch going on the south there where the shipping and I'll go all goes we walked across to Tate's Island because it was in a dice better yep across across the Missouri that day guys we put that video out you could check it out right there right I got the link right here guys but then a couple of weeks later CNN actually did a a story about crossing the Missouri River uh by foot pretty cool even after we did those so what we got here Lewis and Clark Wednesday 1804 we made 14 miles today the river continues to rise the county on each side appears full of water and William Clark 1804. and they stood right where we're standing at that time the river was different the river came right underneath us you see so it moves the river will gradually move with time it just what it does I don't know we don't know how but it's what it does it says from the overlooked the scene spins 20 or 30 miles up and down the river of 1804 had a wider Channel than today it talks about being against the bluff foreign height of 300 feet guys from the overlooked Landscapes offers a fascinating view of Ozark uplift and the Missouri River Valley a special reward for all Hardy enough to make it and actually if you went up to the top you go it's actually 400 feet 300 feet from here I see it's another 100 feet I see right let me get a picture of you this way around right quick let me just get a steel shot with that Missouri yep sir and then one more I like the bluff right there too Ross brother yeah yeah mainly there it is perfect guys oh wait right there's a great picture thank you rod e all right guys we're fixing to wrap things up here at the Grand Bluff unless we just we might have another Vantage Point up top we're going to stop maybe give you but for now where the other people were saying that there we might take another look I just want to say thank y'all for joining us guys I look forward to seeing y'all on the trail soon take care [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] Missouri [Music]