A Google Earth Find Led Me to This Hidden Cave

So for today's adventure, I found this last week on Google Earth, and it seems to be this little hole in the ground that might be a cave or something else. I don't think it's a mine or mine shaft, but it looks small enough that I can go inside of it. I'm finally going to see what this cave is. After I found that place, I spent a lot more time on Google Earth exploring out here and found a couple other places that I'm going to check out along the way. I have no idea what we'll be finding today, but it feels good to be outside again in a quiet juniper and pinyon tree forest. I have the rest of the day open, ready to explore whatever there is behind me. It could be anything. But it just happens when you're just like so excited about a place and you're just like, I just want to get out and go hike. But I'm so glad you're here today. Thank you for watching the Trek Planner, and let's get going. On this adventure, I hiked nearly eight miles, moving in and out of trees and carefully stepping around cactus, not really knowing what I would be finding. But when I least expected it, everything changed. This is one trek you're not going to want to miss. I think I'm going over here first. There's these cliffs. I'm going to walk along. Not too close. Be safe. But that's my plan is to kind of hike along these cliffs and just explore my first couple of GPS coordinates, which are over here. And then that cave is at a different location, which I'll also be hiking to. So a lot of hiking today. Is that something? Probably not. Oh, wow. This is quite the view. Holy cow. Whoa. Huh. Just taking this in. Never seen this place before. It's like beautiful and mysterious at the same time. Like I've never, never seen this view before. I don't really know too much about this area. I really don't. Um, I don't like find a place to do tons of research, have all these notes and stuff and narration and scripts and things and everything planned out like a, like a documentary. This is just real exploration. So I'm just trying to explore. That's, that's the only part of my videos. This is just us hiking and that's it. Anything else is, uh, just any little tiny pieces of things that I've learned along the way. Um, but mostly it's just us hiking. Um, but it just happens when you're just like so excited about a place and you're just like, I just want to get out and go hike. But, um, um, I was filming and I saw this like low to the ground creature, um, that was very red. I saw it come up. Like, I just saw it caught my eye. Just kind of come up and go this way. I glanced up right when I saw it go up and like, Oh, getting ready for this adventure today was a kind of fun. I almost forgot my camera. Um, but I do have a checklist now that I use, um, to make sure I don't miss anything. 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Maybe not here, huh? Look at that view. Wow, look at the edge of this thing. I guess I don't know what I was expecting. Just, yeah, beautiful view. After hiking to my first GPS coordinate, it's now time to hike to the cave. Alright, so I've been hiking for a good 25 minutes or so. And I think I have about two and a half miles. I'm just hiking through this stuff like this. Can't really see much of what's going on. It's really quiet. Really quiet. But I'm trying to find anything that looks interesting. I just can't find anything. Oh, look at this. What I saw. So pretty. Look at that. Wow, that's beautiful. Just hiding right here. It's been a long hike, over four miles. I'm finally going to see what this cave is. I have no idea. I hope it goes down to some secret Egyptian tunnels or something. But, uh, I don't know. We'll find out soon. After all that hiking, I finally arrived at the cave. Oh, that looks deep. Oh, yeah. I don't think we're down there. Keeps going down there. This rock looks so unstable. How it keeps going down. Yeah, like turns down and you can't see because of the light or the dark. And the light. But it goes down there and it curves like that. Well, I don't know if I should go down there. It just looks so rocky. I think I was standing on some rocks over here and they're like teetering. So you look at this rock right here. Show you what I'm talking about. Yeah. Imagine if that twisted over crushed me. Ah, it's just too far down on this side. I know. Disappointing. It really is for me too. I'll have to come back with ropes with somebody. Ropes. Because I just don't want to get down there and be like, oops, can't get back up. I have like some paracord, but not that long. It's just enough to like tie a tarp down and stuff. Kind of disappointing, huh? After the cave, I spent a good amount of time hiking around exploring anywhere I could. And that's when I found something. Oh my gosh. So, um, um, but I came over here and I see this one fall, but this is, this is interesting. This is interesting. Oh my gosh. Right on the edge of this. Okay. I think I have an idea of what these are. See this right here, these little grooves. So there's two, this one goes out little circle right there. So, Oh my gosh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Oh my gosh. There's two. Okay. So there's two of these things. Notice how, um, can you see that really good? Yeah, you can hold on. Let me check my camera. This is the best part. This is the best part. I'm so glad I came over here. Cause I was, uh, uh, just thinking like, dang, this, this is not as fun as I was hoping it would be as I could express to you guys. But look, look at this. Okay. So there's these two circles. One's a circle. There's a dot in the middle where that, uh, lichen, lichen is in this big, long carved out, uh, canal goes all the way to this edge. Then this other one right here goes like this circle the dot in the middle. For my understanding, these are petroglyphs. Very, very old. Look at the lichen. So very old. They grew on top of those. And this takes forever to grow. That was the highlight of this whole trip. Uh, so I think I know what those are and it's only because they watched this presentation from years ago done by a Utah researcher. I think, um, his name is Steve Schaefer and he's done a lot of, you know, archeological stuff and research. Um, so he talked about, these are called water glyphs and I think there's been actual studies done on them. Um, and I think how you look at it is that there are these long lines carved on usually flat surfaces that face up a long line with a circle and with a dot somewhere in that. And that kind of gives you a good reference point to where a spring or water source would be. That's kind of what I'm remembering right now. Um, and so I did look down those and they pointed me straight to this Canyon down over there. And this other one pointed just a little bit to the left to this other Canyon. So I'm kind of wondering like who was up here and needed that information, you know? Um, obviously they look so old, so incredibly old, many, many, many centuries old. I mean, they're all but gone. I mean, they're practically disappearing, but wow. What a, what a surprise. I'm so glad I came over here. Like I was literally just thinking like, ah, go check out this cool tree right here. See that tree and then, uh, head back. But I decided to come over here. So, wow. Yeah. I got a long ways back to my car. I think over three miles now. Oh, it's just so interesting. That cave led us there. That thing found on Google earth led us to that water glyph. Thank you so much for hiking with me today. If your favorite part was that petroglyph click subscribe. If your favorite part was that cave that we didn't get to go into click subscribe either way. Thank you so much for supporting my channel. It means so much to me. And just remember I'm out there right now trying to find our next big adventure together and I'll see you on the next trek.