DJI Phantom Pro 3 4K Footage - The Apache Trail - Superstition Mountains Arizona

[Mosby]

You can watch this in 4K!

[Adsos Letter]

1. Amazing. I wonder what old Jacob Walz(sp?) would have to say?

Good demonstration of just how rough the Superstition's are. IF the Dutchman left a mine in there (or a stash of Spanish/Mexican gold) it's easy to see why no one has found it.

[deathrind]

2. Very Cool...

Beautiful footing, the stability is amazing!

[Skeeter Barnes]

3. I enjoyed that thanks for posting the video.

[passiveporcupine]

4. That was so beautiful

And this is why I wish I could fly. To be able to fly through places like that, completely unreachable by ground vehicle...even to live in an isolated and unreachable area except by flight would be awesome.

[burrowowl]

5. BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

K&R!

[padfun]

6. In 1980,

a friend and I hiked back Fish Creek for about 8 hours. We ran into only one person. A man that was trying to live back there but was hiking back (returning) as he didn't have food. We gave him a meal or two and we both went our ways.

The road to get to Fish Creek was a dirt road, or at least was back then. We stayed back there for 3 weeks and then hiked back to the road to meet my brother for supplies. We had failed in our assignment so were ready to go home.

What were we doing back there? We attempted to grow pot. It grew and fast, but before the second set of leaves came, all 50 or so plants had been chewed up by insects and had no chance for survival. The soil is rich there when you add water. And we spent time daily hauling water from the creek up to where our plants were.

I never considered it a failure though as it was 3 weeks of the best time of my life. I am 60 years old now and not in shape to do something like that again. But I still treasure those memories.

[hunter]

7. Roosevelt Dam, before it was rebuilt and expanded about 1990...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt_Dam

That's the way I first saw it.

Dams like this are yet another bad idea of the twentieth century... eventually they must come down.

By design, like this one in California:

San Clemente Dam teardown work begins; completion expected by end of month

https://twitter.com/VFisher45

Carmel Valley >> After 94 years, the San Clemente Dam is actually, finally coming down.

Last week, Granite Construction workers began tearing down the old dam on the Carmel River using a hoe ram, a kind of giant jackhammer chipping away at the concrete and reinforced steel structure.

http://www.montereyherald.com/article/NF/20150804/NEWS/150809940

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Clemente_Dam

Or by "natural" causes or neglect, at unexpected times.

Dams will become one of the more terrifying legacies of 20th and 21st century civilization. When our civilization becomes a little ragged, warn your descendants not to live downstream of dams

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This message brought to you by the curmudgeon dam-hating Hunter.

The rest of the video was lovely!

[Mosby]

8. in Arizona, that ship has sailed.

Arizona needs the dams for water storage, flood control and hydroelectric power.