wWe are riding in our Jeep Wrangler and we are headed to the painted hills which
is right outside of Bend, Oregon, about an hour and a half away. It's a really
special geological site so follow us as we take this journey through the painted hills
we found the Painted Hills
hHey guys we made it here to the Painted Hills. They just appeared out of nowhere
amongst this beautiful landscape of greenery and walking around gonna do some hikes let's go
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this landscape is just unreal. it's so quiet out here too there's like nothing out here
it's just hills amongst hills so this earth here is like the color of clay.
it's like being on mars.
zabriskie point death valley eat your heart out!
this is what i'm talking about look at this the striations on these
rocks and now we're gonna go to this overlook over here so that we can see
an aerial view 4x4 recommended roads are not well paved
driving through the painted hills is like taking a journey back in time to millions of years ago.
the colors and striations in these rocks began to form 35 million years ago when pumice and ash from
volcanic eruptions in the cascade mountains. It traveled 100 miles east and settled over the area
the colors come from a combination of elements which arrived when the volcanic ash fell
including aluminum, titanium, magnesium, iron and more.
i love all these wildflowers.
painting the hills.
i just want to know why this is not a national park
so one thing to note here is that you cannot hike in these areas it's off limits you can
only hike on the actual trails designated for pedestrians so all of this is just preserved
also we are here in mid-june so this is what the weather is like it's about 60 degrees this is
high desert so we've got layers on and it is unreal it's so gorgeous.
this is a nice easy hike for everyone in the family.
Bronco versus Jeep which one guys comment below!
this is called the painted cove trail and you can walk right through the painted
you can get up close into these terra cotta colored hills
it's just so cool that you can walk right in between them
oh by the way guys if you're liking this video be sure to hit the thumbs up button
and subscribe for more travels so it says here that water is the ultimate sculptor and
created these formations and the clay colors darken after the rainstorms when soaked.
So it says here that the lavender gray layer is the highly weathered remains of the rhyolite lava
flow so another fun fact is that 33 million years ago this landscape was a forest now it is not
got a little break in the clouds guys just listen to how quiet this is
we hope that you get a chance to take a journey back in time and visit the beautiful painted
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