Slick Rock Bush Flying - Utah Backcountry Adventures Part 2

That's short, dude. That looks so cool. The F-35 pilot says that was the coolest thing he's ever done. What's up, guys? Before we get into this video, I wanted to give you a quick update. We're Worthy and I decided to bring back some of our limit or run shirts that were a hit with you guys, specifically the Ground Loops one. We also got the six-pack Scudwizer shirt and our brand new design, Bank Me Daddy. So if you're looking for a gift for one of your aviation friends, click the link in the description. We're gonna open the orders right now and we're gonna close them at the end of Cyber Monday, so next Monday will be the end of it. So with that, go check them out and enjoy the video. And good morning, everyone. We're back here, southern Utah, all the red desert. Sun is about to rise in a minute and we are gonna go out and hopefully get some cool shots, huh, Christian? Ready. Yeah, Christian's got all the drones set up and I think you've got some ground cameras, too. So we're just gonna go find somewhere pretty, go film some sunrise stuff and just have an awesome time. The weather's been perfect this whole trip, so let's just hope it stays that way. Let's do it. Trent is gonna roll. It's gonna be a sunrise. Dude, this is just so cool. This wouldn't get old. Yeah, this is, if I lived here, I would just be putting around doing the exact same thing. Should we just land on top of this mesa? Oh, wait, I'm not Russ. That is the OnePlus side with Moab. If you have a helicopter, it's basically, you can pretty much land anywhere. Dude, we could honestly land on some of these mesas, too. I was just thinking that. Ryan, we could totally just land on some of these mesas up here, too. Yeah, you can see tracks of other planes landing on that one. Yeah, I don't know if it's tracks or ATVs, but it looks like most of the ridges, somebody's ridden. Oh, that one was straight tracks, like with a tailwheel. Or a nosewheel, I don't discriminate. Yeah, ATV with a tailwheel. Could be that. All right, we just landed at an awesome little beautiful spot that we're gonna set up some drone shots. Ryan just came in, taxied all the way up to my plane. You can see his tailwheel rut. Turned around, went full throttle, and just piled my plane full of dust because the door was open. I'm like, come on, dude. I was gonna wash his plane when we got home because I got a good wash set up, but that's out now. But what do you think? You wanna get set up and then we'll just do some touch and goes here? And I think there's other ones we can land at, but this one might be the prettiest because you can connect it to those rocks, you know what I mean? ♪ I don't need to be filthy rich ♪ ♪ Rolling fat stacks, too heavy to lift ♪ ♪ I have cars that I don't even drive ♪ ♪ Only find things that a sucker can buy ♪ ♪ All I need is a place to hang my hat ♪ ♪ Tell me what could a rich man know about that ♪ ♪ Waking up at the break of dawn ♪ ♪ When I get back, the girl is gone ♪ ♪ My hands are tied and my shoes are thin ♪ ♪ She'll know by now that's the business I'm in ♪ ♪ Make a little money, make a little money ♪ That's short. Dude, that looks so cool. Nailed it. I might shut down to get a drone shot of my plane sitting up here. I think it's gotta look so cool. All right, that one's awesome. I know you guys probably hear me in videos when I bring someone somewhere new that I can tell pushed it a little bit for them. I'm like, are you shaking? I can tell you for a fact, I am shaking. I'm gonna walk this off. Okay, counting it out, maybe 170, 180 feet for just this like aircraft carrier style landing. Oh, that is so cool. That is where I will tell you the Cub, game changer compared to the Kit Fox, just because I was able to start high and I'm just coming down. I'm not like gonna like come in fast and try to touch down at a certain spot. I'm like, I'm looking at a spot that's not moving. Kind of a elevator shaft down and just smack down, grab brakes, stop. That's fun. All right, Trent's taking off. I gotta run down Ryan. I'll follow that road again. ♪ Make a little money, make a little money ♪ Okay, I got the Porter. I got Ryan, Yellow Cub and Carl. I don't have Green Hall. I'm number three behind Yellow Cub and Carl. That'd be number four. Damn, that's pretty rad. It's not all that short, but it feels short when you're coming in. Like right down there, it's like three o'clock, straight under. I think it would be sick to fly in there. Trent's gonna do one more pass in there. It looked good to me. Did anyone see any like red flags about that? Just that one little depression that he talks about about kind of halfway in us. Yeah, yeah, but that's like a couple hundred feet in. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, that one's a little bit of a rowdy one. Kind of fun though. I'm gonna turn around and let Christian out, do a shot here. That's rowdy. That for sure was rowdy. So what you're saying is, we'll get the Porter in here, right? Yeah, how you feel about that, Nate? You wanna come on in here? Don't think it looks Porter friendly, but I'll come and look. No, it's definitely not. No, I do not advise it. Don't try to drop in while I'm here, anyone. I'm gonna shut down, we'll get set up, and I'll be back in a sec. Christian, what do you think of that one? Well, it's quite the spot. We knew it was landable. I mean, in hindsight, I guess it would be wise to come in without a passenger, but it's a Legend Cub, it don't care. The thing is with this, what you would definitely consider slick, smooth rock, is that it's not all that smooth. And if you look at my tire tracks, I'm like bouncing along, skidding through all this. But 35s and suspension. I touched down right here. Dude, that's short for two people. ♪♪♪ That's rolling. Directly over Trent. He's supporting. We're gonna spin around, take another look at it. All right. We did it. Joe. What's going on? Glad you caught up with us. Yeah, good to see you, man. Yeah, dude. Great fun. What a morning. Yeah. You want to go land at that rock? I'd like to put a wheel on it and say I did, but no. That was one that if I'm full transparency, that first landing was good, but it got my blood pumping a lot to where I'm like, man, I don't want to make a regular occurrence of utilizing my equipment that much. Like I wouldn't go there with smaller tires or less suspension. It was actually fine solo, but with two people that first time, it was like, it got me going. That spot was fun. It sure did look sketch. It looked sketch? Yeah. It might've been a little sketch, but it wasn't bad. It looked awesome for you. My landing with Christian was a little rowdy because we bounced. My second one was much better, but it is not smooth. No. And there's no give to it. It's not like sand. It's like g-g-g-g. Yeah, you're not perfectly coordinated. I'm pretty sure your tires aren't gonna slide at all. You're just gonna flip it. So many moving pieces. Russ is looking for us. He wants to show us some cool spots in the heli that are not accessible by airplane, which I'm like not gonna turn down. So I think we're gonna get fired up, head back to where we're camping and kind of regroup and come up with a game plan. And back at the ranch. Dude, that was a fricking solid morning. That was insane. I'm just still like on cloud nine. Most of the time I'm very conservative, extra conservative. It might not look that way on video, but really I cut it to make it look the most interesting I can. But there's more strips I fly over that I say no to than I actually land on. And today all the ones is like the stars were aligning as far as conditions and I slept great last night. That stuff does matter. And it was like when we stopped at that slick rock thing, I'm like, that was cool. All right, back from our little lunch break. It's pretty nice. Found that nice little sandwich shop. Also huge thank you again to the guys at Red Tail Air or all the people at Red Tail Air for letting us take their courtesy car. They fueled us up while we were gone. Just a great FBO. So if you're ever in this neck of the woods, check them out. But I blew it. I didn't offload all my footage from what was the last video before starting this one. I just figured I had enough room on my SD cards. I was wrong. So all my cameras on the plane are totally full. We're about to head out to Hidden Splendor, a little airstrip that we're gonna shoot some cool shots at hopefully. But I'm not gonna be able to shoot any of my camera mounts or my plane mounts on the way out there. So you guys will have to use your imagination. I'll shoot on my phone, but we're heading to Hidden Splendor. Okay, we just landed at Hidden Splendor. Beautiful spot, but the wind is swirling. And it was like not a very pleasant flight in and very rough on approach. And then like what you just said, we got down and I was like all over. Then you get on this tiny strip that has drop-offs on both sides in your taxi and the plane's going everywhere with the wind. You can't, yeah. It was a lot, huh? Yeah, the landing was fine. And you get on the ground and you think you're safe. And then you look on both sides, you're like, I'm not safe. I would like to be parked now. All right, Hidden Splendor was kind of a flop. Russ is up there filming the Porter. The wind has just been whipping through here. So much so that I think the guys at Redtail might be leaving the Robinson here because they're a little worried about mass bumping. So we're gonna just jump in the planes and try to get out of here before it starts blowing any worse and work our way back to the ranch. So kind of a pointless mission, but still fun. Gotta check off a new one. Never been here before. So back in the air. And Joe is gonna ride with me. First time in my plane. Can't wait. Back at the ranch, safe and sound. Beautiful flight, man. Yeah, it was actually really nice. It was kind of like- Bumpy at first. A little squirrely getting out of there. Like no one was very happy. And I heard the Porter guys like not wanting to go back in to pick up some of the guys. And there was that talk that they might have left the R44 there just because they were worried about mass bumping. Yeah. So anyway, awesome day. Gonna grab some beverages and some food and hang out and kind of figure out what we're doing tomorrow. Boys, what's smoking over here? What are you guys making? Moose? You guys, you're moose? I'm moose. Oh, what? Jalapeno wild rice sauce. From Ontario. We smuggled those in. You did smuggle them. I did. You didn't declare that? I did not. Oh my God. We're in trouble. What makes you say we're still not in Canada? This might be Canada. Yeah, it could be. Is it happening? Oh, that looks insane. And good morning, everyone. It is what we're planning to be our final day. Ryan and I were planning on just getting up and pinning it home, but then Russ had texted us all and said you guys want to go do this rope swing. I have no idea what they're talking about, but it sounds fun, so that is the plan. We'll see how that goes, and then after that, hopefully we can work our way home. I just don't know if we'll run out of daylight and have to find somewhere else to stay for the night, but that's how it goes. We're living right now. I'm just gonna say it. This is wild, dude. Not gonna lie, when I heard rope swing, I thought we were going to the river and doing a rope swing into a river. This is not that. I'm scared of heights, man. Me, as of 10 years ago, would have never done this. After what he just did in the helicopter, I'm like, it couldn't be any scarier than that. Yes, sir! Okay, that bothered me. I'm backing up now. If you were scared flying in the Porter with Ty, then Ty would be scared of jumping off the cliff. I mean, I trusted you, bud. Just like you trust that rope. I just didn't feel it, like, holy cow. It was terrifying. Come on. Highly recommend. The F-35 pilot says that was the coolest thing he's ever done. My heart rate, it's at 100 now. It was 93 down there. It was so awesome. When he came up, you could see the quivering, the tail wheel passes just like quivering. Just from the adrenaline, it made mine. It was so awesome. Guys, this is the end of it for me. It was a lot of fun, man. You too. A lot of fun. Safe travels home. Yeah, Jack. Good meeting you, man. Dude, great meeting you. Sir, it was a pleasure. Yeah. Fun trip. Absolutely. What a blast. All right, we are finally done here at this ranch. Thanks again, Red Tail Air. Those guys, again, if you're ever in Moab, look them up. Great FBO, and they also do all their air tours. Good people. But now, Ryan and I, we're gonna be bucking a headwind, so we'll probably be staying low because we're talking like 40-something knots up at the, you know, 12,000 foot level. So we're gonna stay low and just start working our way home. And hopefully we can beat sunset within like about five and a half hours. ♪ I may be looking, but I'm not looking to settle down ♪ ♪ I wanna go a little further out ♪ Have a good one, Russ. Thanks again. Yeah, sure will. It was an honor to be with you guys. That was such a good time. Can't wait for the next one. Likewise. ♪ I keep looking, it's not so bad ♪ ♪ But lately I've been feeling that ♪ ♪ It's dirty when the water's flat ♪ ♪ But out beyond this little pond ♪ ♪ I see the ocean water waving back ♪ ♪ And it's waving at me ♪ ♪ I wanna go ♪ I'm home. You're home? Yes. That was a solid one. That was a super, super fun trip. I have a lot to tell you about. I didn't jump on the rope swing or go on the rope swing. Haley heard about it and I sent her a thing and she was not a fan of it. I know, I was like, you're gonna do that? It's a commercial operation. I'm sure it's safe. It is safe. But as you guys saw, I kind of wussed out. But man, what a trip. There's too many people to thank for this whole thing because all the guys that came together from like Christian, Ethan, that whole crew, Chris and Tristan shooting cool stuff, the guys at Red Tail Air being awesome and being so supportive and hooking us up with that cool ranch to stay at. And gosh, Russ taking us out and setting up the rope swing thing, it was just awesome. So anyway, Haley's got plans for us tonight. So I'm literally gonna push the plane in and run into town, go do stuff with our nephew and her parents. And yeah, before I wrap this out, I wanna take a second to give a huge shout out and thank you to my friends over at Squarespace for being such a longtime supporter of this channel and making it possible for me to take the time out of my schedule and put the energy into making these kind of videos. And it's because of your guys' support that they're even able to get on board, so thank you guys too. 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