Kristin: All righty.
Good morning from pretty close to Lake Powell.
It's a surprise to me that Lake Powell is close to Horseshoe Bend and Antelope Canyon.
I didn't realize.
As you can see, I'm just not a spatially aware person.
Anyway, I watched as two people got stuck in the sand over here yesterday.
I tried to help push them out, but we needed someone to come tow them.
So my only hope right now is that I can get out of here without issue.
Woohoo, let's go hiking.
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Hey guys, I'm here with Mike Henrie.
And today we're gonna go on a little adventure.
Where are we going?
Mike: We are going to a place called White Pockets on the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument,
probably one of the still secret places that we like to go that most people do not know
about.
So it's a great spot.
Kristin: Awesome.
I'm really excited.
All right, let's go have an adventure.
Mike: Sounds good to me.
You gotta remember this was flat and it was all an ocean bed.
So all of this white, these white grid shapes and everything you're seeing were the top
of the ocean bed, and the water drained outta here.
And then you know in the desert when it rains really hard and then it gets hot and it cracks,
that's what they think happened here.
Kristin: Super cool.
Thanks to the rain yesterday we have some puddles here to make this even more interesting
than it would've been.
Mike: Way more.
Kristin: Wow, this is an awesome alternative to the wave.
Thanks for the idea.
Mike: You're welcome.
Kristin: It's great.
I can see why you like it out here so much.
Mike: Yeah, it's a great spot.
Kristin: Wow.
Look where I am right now.
So there's some tadpoles in here in this little puddle that just appears when it rains, but
it's what kind of frog?
Mike: I don't know the exact name, but they're a...
Kristin: Some kinda frog.
Mike: Some kinda frog.
Kristin: And they can lay dormant for 15 years, was it?
Mike: Fifteen years.
Kristin: Fifteen years if there's no rain, but today, well last night, they got lucky.
The really cool thing about this, well there's a lotta cool things, but one of the really
cool things is how big it is.
I mean, there's a lot to explore, a lot of parts of this look completely different from
the others.
It has its own like mini waves in it.
I like the bubble-like stuff.
I don't know what to call it.
Mike: Yeah, so all of your pentagonal shapes if you notice have the small pentagon shapes
and then the bigger cracks almost form another pentagon.
So you've almost got a double-tier of those shapes.
Pretty cool sandstone formations.
Kristin: Well, there's nothing in the world like this.
I can say that without certainty, but I think it's true.
And it just like...it goes on forever.
This is the Grand Escalante...the Grand Staircase-Escalante that we're in?
Mike: We're on the Vermilion Cliffs National.
Kristin: We're on the Vermilion Cliffs right now.
I do this in every video, I never know where I am or what it's called.
But just the colors and the way that the landscape continues to change and just undulate on the
way out there, it's just otherworldly.
How many times have you been here?
Mike: Over 200.
Kristin: Over 200 times.
Mike: And I've probably taken 50 photos today still.
Kristin: Yeah.
Well mostly, a lot of 'em were for me, but.
Yeah, this is pretty special.