How to find the Aron Ralston rock | Location of 127 hours in Bluejohn Canyon — Transcript

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1. 0:03i hope
2. 0:04i'm not falling i hope i'm not falling
3. 0:09down i choke as i plummet
4. 0:12lost grip now i'm falling what's up
5. 0:15everybody welcome back to the channel
6. 0:16today i'm gonna be talking about how to
7. 0:17find the aaron ralston rock if
8. 0:20uh you're watching this video you're
9. 0:21probably familiar with the story uh
10. 0:23so i'll spare you the details on that
11. 0:25but it's something i've wanted to do for
12. 0:27a while and on this trip to utah's
13. 0:29camping trip i'm on
14. 0:30i decided to go find it it's out in
15. 0:33canyonlands i knew it was out in
16. 0:34canyonlands
17. 0:36uh but i couldn't find anything on
18. 0:38youtube
19. 0:39or the internet really that was
20. 0:41explaining how to get there
21. 0:43uh plenty of youtube videos of people
22. 0:45who went there
23. 0:47plenty of photos on the internet people
24. 0:48who have found it but i couldn't really
25. 0:50find
26. 0:51details of how to get there so i wanted
27. 0:53to go out
28. 0:54find it myself and then maybe help you
29. 0:56guys out if you're looking
30. 0:57for the rock and let you know where it
31. 0:59is so where i am right now is out in
32. 1:01canyonlands which is where
33. 1:02all that went down and there's a camping
34. 1:05spot
35. 1:05called bj's motel 6.
36. 1:09it's not actually a motel but just a
37. 1:11cool little area near blue john
38. 1:13uh to camp and i'm actually not even
39. 1:15gonna be staying here i'm gonna be going
40. 1:17further on there's a couple other slot
41. 1:20canyons
42. 1:20up the ways a bit that i want to check
43. 1:22out but um so
44. 1:24my first attempt this i actually it took
45. 1:26me two attempts to find
46. 1:28the aaron ralston rock and the first
47. 1:31attempt i thought i could
48. 1:32see the uh go through horseshoe canyon
49. 1:35which
50. 1:36is where the great gallery rock art is
51. 1:38and i highly recommend checking that out
52. 1:39too by the way if you're over here
53. 1:41in this area really uh awesome
54. 1:45old indian artwork on these uh walls of
55. 1:48this canyon that
56. 1:50they estimate it could be up to 2000
57. 1:52years old which is crazy
58. 1:53but so i thought i could do that and at
59. 1:56the end of that hike just keep going to
60. 1:58the end of horseshoe canyon it looked
61. 1:59like
62. 1:59it ran into the slot canyon where aaron
63. 2:02roster was
64. 2:03and how i found that slot canyon because
65. 2:05it's hard to
66. 2:06like i said it's hard to find
67. 2:07information on this on on the internet
68. 2:09but if you search on your google maps
69. 2:10aaron roston rock
70. 2:12it pulls up a coordinate location for it
71. 2:15and you can see what slight canyon is on
72. 2:17and so what i was doing was my location
73. 2:20services work out here on my phone
74. 2:22but i have no service so i just checked
75. 2:25my phone every once in a while and make
76. 2:26sure i was heading
77. 2:27in the right direction towards it but
78. 2:29that
79. 2:30method going through horseshoe canyon
80. 2:32was actually a failure because
81. 2:33when you get to the end of horseshoe
82. 2:35finally it's a pretty decent height but
83. 2:36when you get to the end
84. 2:38you're faced with a 30 foot cliff
85. 2:40leading up to the slide king you can see
86. 2:42the slot canyon aaron rawson was in
87. 2:44but it's just 30 foot up smooth rock
88. 2:47that's just a cliff so there's no way i
89. 2:49could get up there
90. 2:50so i was disappointed hiked back out and
91. 2:52uh the next day i went to
92. 2:54a trail head called little blue john
93. 2:56trailhead and
94. 2:58i figured on the satellite gps i
95. 3:01recommend turning on your satellite gps
96. 3:03it looked like i could just follow that
97. 3:05trail all the way to the slot canyon
98. 3:07that aaron rawson was in
99. 3:08and that's pretty much what i did you
100. 3:10start out and
101. 3:12maybe about i don't know 30 minutes of
102. 3:16really easy hiking you
103. 3:17run into your first little bit of canyon
104. 3:20earring
105. 3:20and it's nothing too tricky uh you ought
106. 3:22to be able to get through it pretty easy
107. 3:24and then it's easy hiking from there all
108. 3:26the way
109. 3:27uh to the slot canyon really you're just
110. 3:29walking through
111. 3:31regular dirt like this sandy dirt that's
112. 3:34at the bottom of all these canyons
113. 3:37and uh yeah just follow the direction of
114. 3:40the canyon and
115. 3:41keep an eye on your dot just to make
116. 3:42sure you're not turning the wrong way or
117. 3:44anything
118. 3:44and there's a few canyons that break off
119. 3:46of it but i'm pretty sure they're most
120. 3:47of them are all dead ends so you
121. 3:50it's pretty hard not to follow this
122. 3:51canyon all the way to the
123. 3:53the aaron roston rock and once you get
124. 3:56there it's pretty obvious that you've
125. 3:58come
126. 3:58across it because of that uh iconic and
127. 4:01famous
128. 4:02s log that's wedged in the top of the
129. 4:05slot canyon
130. 4:05and so you'll see that and then you can
131. 4:07okay yeah i know i'm in the right place
132. 4:09and then you do a bit of canyoneering to
133. 4:12get through
134. 4:13to the actual rock and you may miss the
135. 4:15rock when you get i know the first time
136. 4:17i went through i
137. 4:18just passed right by the rock and i
138. 4:20thought of myself i was like
139. 4:21is that it but i couldn't tell because
140. 4:23there's a ton of other boulders
141. 4:25in the same area and a lot of other
142. 4:27rocks wedged in there with a lot of uh
143. 4:30logs and sticks and so it doesn't look
144. 4:33quite like it does on the movie or even
145. 4:36in a lot of the google images that
146. 4:38you'll look up
147. 4:38of the of the rock location so i hiked
148. 4:41all the way to the end
149. 4:43of the slot canyon and i recommend doing
150. 4:46that anyway it's
151. 4:46incredible canyoneering through this
152. 4:50these tight squeezes and turns through
153. 4:52the slot canyon
154. 4:53it's really really beautiful it's like
155. 4:56um
156. 4:58it's like if antelope canyon is walking
157. 5:00through a museum
158. 5:02this is like actually being there in the
159. 5:05stuff that
160. 5:06that you're looking at in the museum i
161. 5:07don't know if that makes any sense but
162. 5:08it's really
163. 5:09it's really cool really authentic you
164. 5:11just feel like you're you're out there
165. 5:12in the middle of nowhere it's just you
166. 5:13and this
167. 5:14slot can just really cool experience you
168. 5:16get to the end and it opens up in this
169. 5:18great view of the end of horseshoe
170. 5:19canyon
171. 5:20and uh it's i could see where i was the
172. 5:24day before
173. 5:25and um really cool view nice little
174. 5:27cliff you can see where some people had
175. 5:29rappelled off of it
176. 5:30uh but yeah then i went back through
177. 5:33came to the rock again and this time i
178. 5:36compared a lot of photos or the
179. 5:38i screenshot a photo of ian roston next
180. 5:41to it
181. 5:41and so i was comparing it i compared a
182. 5:44lot of the rock on the
183. 5:45on the side of the slot canyon with the
184. 5:47photo and i finally lined everything up
185. 5:49and was like oh this
186. 5:50is it this is crazy and pretty cool to
187. 5:52be there
188. 5:53where it all went down i mean i'm not a
189. 5:55fanboy of aaron rossen or anything i
190. 5:57haven't read his book i saw 127 hours
191. 5:59love the movie
192. 6:00and i really love the story of survival
193. 6:04that it is
194. 6:05but uh yeah just a really cool
195. 6:07experience being there okay so
196. 6:09this is the round i took from salt lake
197. 6:10city it's about a five hour drive
198. 6:13to east utah out here in canyonlands and
199. 6:17uh you'll have service the whole way
200. 6:18until probably right here
201. 6:20this is when i lose service on 24 but
202. 6:22this is still paved
203. 6:23it's not the dirt road yet now when you
204. 6:25turn off of 24 take that left
205. 6:28this is when it becomes a dirt road with
206. 6:31the sand dunes on it but
207. 6:33like i said nothing too bad there and
208. 6:35that'll take you straight to
209. 6:37the great gallery rock art and that hike
210. 6:41and so originally what i thought i could
211. 6:43do is
212. 6:44continue along this hike after
213. 6:48the great gallery rock art and just hike
214. 6:50to the end
215. 6:51and then enter the slot canyon from the
216. 6:53air
217. 6:54but right here is a dead end
218. 6:58so that's like the 30 foot cliff to get
219. 7:02up into the
220. 7:03slide canyon i couldn't do it so what i
221. 7:05did was i went and i parked
222. 7:07at little blue john canyon trailhead and
223. 7:10that just leads you through this really
224. 7:12easy hike through this canyon
225. 7:14all the way to the aaron rosston boulder
226. 7:17and it's
227. 7:17not too difficult and it's pretty easy
228. 7:19to just follow the main
229. 7:21trajectory of the canyon there's a few
230. 7:23turn offs but
231. 7:24if you follow the the wider trail
232. 7:28that leads through the main part of the
233. 7:30canyon it pretty much takes you straight
234. 7:31there just
235. 7:32stay left there's a few turn offs that
236. 7:34might lead back up
237. 7:36uh blue john canyon in a different
238. 7:39direction so just stay left and that'll
239. 7:40take you all the way to aaron rosston
240. 7:42uh rock but if you keep your
241. 7:45phone on with your location services you
242. 7:49will have location services and you'll
243. 7:50be able to see your dot on the map
244. 7:52and you can follow it straight to the
245. 7:55aaron rosten rock
246. 7:56so nothing too difficult and that's the
247. 7:58method i would recommend doing to get
248. 8:01there
249. 8:01uh okay one thing i forgot to mention is
250. 8:04that
251. 8:05to get out here to the blue john canyon
252. 8:09horseshoe canyon aaron rossenrock area
253. 8:12you have to drive down about
254. 8:1330 miles of dirt roads
255. 8:16and i mean it's nothing too intense
256. 8:19there are some sand dunes that you have
257. 8:21to pass which can feel a little bit
258. 8:22sketch
259. 8:23but any vehicle ought to be able to do
260. 8:26it um
261. 8:26you don't have to have four wheel drive
262. 8:28or anything there's signs that say roads
263. 8:30may be impassable and if there's
264. 8:32it has just been a storm maybe they are
265. 8:34but i've never had any problem and i
266. 8:36always take
267. 8:37the cheapest rental car i can get which
268. 8:39is
269. 8:40usually an economy car this one uh this
270. 8:43trip it's a chevy malibu
271. 8:44and i've had no problems but yeah it's
272. 8:47just a lot of
273. 8:48dirt roads out here and it makes access
274. 8:50a little bit more difficult
275. 8:52but honestly i like that because
276. 8:55it keeps crowds down and uh you know if
277. 8:59something's
278. 9:00hard to get to not many people want to
279. 9:02put in the effort
280. 9:03or the work to get there and then the
281. 9:06people who do
282. 9:07get to have it to themselves like today
283. 9:09i have not seen another
284. 9:11living soul it's just been me out here
285. 9:14which is
286. 9:15perfect that's the way i like it but
287. 9:18yeah just something to keep in mind
288. 9:19the uh the dirt roads nothing to worry
289. 9:23about them
290. 9:23[Music]
291. 9:25and it stacks up like the problems i
292. 9:26don't want to get the catch up i just
293. 9:28want love
294. 9:28sick of being sad i'm feeling washed up
295. 9:30what is happiness what's up with that