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ABT Films
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Registrace 27. 11. 2012
www.abt-films.com. Wild west history, geography, geology, paleontology, and stories of modern Kansas. Highlighting what's left of wild Kansas.
Forests of Kansas
A trip through the Chautauqua Hills on highway 160 from Elk Falls to Elk River Trail. Experience scenic views including bluffs, lakes, wooded hills, waterfalls, and more! Learn about the geology that makes up this region, as we discover sandstone formations deposited during the Pennsylvanian Period. Take a detour from typical Kansas into this unique part of the state!
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Explore Barber County Kansas
zhlédnutí 1,6KPřed rokem
Filmmaker Nick Abt and cowboy poet Steve Bryan collaborated to entice you to travel into the back country of Barber County, where adventure awaits!
Lehigh Portland Trails
zhlédnutí 5KPřed rokem
A myriad of ecosystems including cave, lake, prairie, and forest settings await you at Lehigh Portland Trails! This 360 acre public lands in Iola, KS boasts 14.5 miles of trails! See fossils, bald eagles, rock formations, and more!! www.lehightrails.com
Exploring the Arkansas River With Midwest Guided Adventures
zhlédnutí 2,2KPřed rokem
Follow Toby Davis, owner of Midwest Guided Adventures, and I as we explore the Arkansas River in Wichita and find beavers, bison bones, petrified wood, agates, and more!
Lions In Kansas
zhlédnutí 31KPřed rokem
An introduction to the presence of mountain lions in Kansas. Includes a detailed summary of sightings, trail cam footage from across the state, and insight into what the future might hold for cougars in Kansas.
Into the Badlands of Kansas
zhlédnutí 12KPřed rokem
In this video we explore the least known badlands in the United States, the Kansas Badlands! Stretching westward for about 75 miles, the Niobrara chalk beds remain a secret Kansas treasure. Discover Castle Rock, Monument Rocks, Little Jerusalem, and more!
Hell's Half Acre: A Secret Hellscape In Kansas
zhlédnutí 27KPřed rokem
Hell's Half Acre is a rugged landscape in a remote area of Kansas that features a variety of rock formations all in one location! To support my page: www.patreon.com/abtfilms
Cretaceous Fossils in Kansas
zhlédnutí 1,6KPřed rokem
In the badlands of western Kansas resides a husband and wife team of fossil hunters who created a public gallery to display incredible paleontological finds such as aquatic lizards and fish of the Cretaceous Period!
Wild West Kansas: The Medicine Hills
zhlédnutí 15KPřed 2 lety
A documentary highlighting the wild west history and rugged beauty of historic Barber County, Kansas! Learn about the Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty, Twin Peaks, Natural Bridge, and more!
Nico Hernandez: Road To The Olympics
zhlédnutí 4,3KPřed 7 lety
A short film about Nico Hernandez in the days leading up to and following the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
Shhh Kansas is great, but we don’t want cali or colo folks coming out
I work with Rex Buchanan at the KGS. Cool dude. Rural kansas hides many cool geologic features you wont see by staying on I70
@xxDOTH3DEWxx that's awesome! I worked with him on Exploration Kansas, and he has consulted with me on a new project I'm working on. Excited to get that one going!
I hope they repopulate many of the areas they inhabited in former times.
Looks like a great place for some good r.c rock crawling. Im just in McPherson ill have to go spend the weekend in the area. Thanks for sharing.
funny i watch this now. a year ago almost to the day i was sitting in elk city state park, right where that shot is taken at 7:39 . I have picture in my phone from the exact same spot. very cool!
Looks alot like the formations out at kanopolis lake out by horsethiefs canyon
@@WillB.6759 I totally agree!
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Trees and Lone star ticks
Pretty cool but isn't only like 3% of all land in Kansas public so how much of this can you really go to anyway?
@teddycooke8145 that makes a great point. I'd say there are several thousand acres available to explore if you add up Cross Timbers State Park, Elk City Lake, Elk River Trail, Lehigh Portland Trails, Big Hill Lake, Woodrow Lake, and all the surrounding wildlife areas, walk-in hunting, and walk-in fishing areas. I could compile you an official list if that's helpful.
this is awesome!
Kansas is just a little too far for me, I do a lot of hiking in TN, AR, MO, and IL. Hopefully I'll get to do some hiking there soon.
We saw a cougar many times on my Dads farm in Leavenworth county when going out to feed the horses. We did not have a trail camera, but seen it at least twice a week. We had to take a rifle out to the barn for protection in case it charged at us.
born n raised in wichita i miss it with all my heart.
SEK is home for me. Allen County raised. My hometown has elm, oak, and Osage Orange trees that have been around since the civil war. They live on a floodplain that sits below a 30ft limestone bluff. SEK was an incredible place to grow up. The Ozark ecosystem starts in Kansas and extends up the plateau to the east. Ozark hills are truly ancient, they make the Rockies seem young. The land itself feels old. The topsoil is thick and rich. I now live up in the Kaw River Valley in Riley Co. Both areas are beautiful. The geology and ecology are incredible here, but I still long for home.
This isn't too far from I am now, might check it out
I live in Kansas (around the Hays area), and I never knew this place existed. Fascinating video, thank you for uploading!
I saw one just north of Emporia back in 2018/19 while driving around in the country with my wife. She didn't believe me, but I knew what I saw wasn't "a big dog!"
Ive driven through SE Kansas -- it's absolutely beautiful and has a feeling of peace embedded in the land.
north east kansas is also quite beautiful with lakes, forests, and the rolling flint hills
The biologists are wrong IMO, they still say the same thing about Northern Missouri, and yet they are spotted at a high level in the last 3-4 years
I live in the area, and am blessed to have a family ranch here of several thousand acres. I’ve spent my life hunting deer, turkey, and quail in these woods. Solid post oak timber for miles. Beautiful area. Wouldn’t trade it for anything.
Smoky Valley Ranch sounds like Hidden Valley's new ranch dressing flavor
@genghisdingus hahaha the new smoky paprika ranch flavor.
I have friends and family in front range in Colorado. They have cameras and post the videos on Facebook.
I’m not a rancher but I can’t help but root for the bears and cougars.
Scat identified in Douglas County
Kansas blows, I can't wait to move back west again
I saw two cougars following the river east of Arlington in Reno County when I was a teenager in the late 1950's. No one would believe me and tried to tell me they were probably dogs. I was old enough to know the difference between a cougar and a dog.
Great. Now tell us about Kansas's 8,600' tall mountain range.
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Need a channel like this for Nebraska!
It feels kind of bad that pretty much every beautiful place I’m Kansas is privately owned land. It’s so hard to go out and explore without trespassing and I would never want to do that!!!
I KNEW it was considered bad lands!! I had to go out there to fix some oilfield tanks. We only had physical maps at the time and I loved being out there. I love Kansas. You’re opening my world view of Kansas and I am so happy to realize there is so much more then before. All with fantastic drone footage!
I KNEW it was considered bad lands!! I had to go out there to fix some oilfield tanks. We only had physical maps at the time and I loved being out there. I love Kansas. You’re opening my world view of Kansas and I am so happy to realize there is so much more then before. All with fantastic drone footage!
I strongly dislike the state and the SEK area after spending a number of my years there. I am far away now, but you have presented the area in a beautiful and informative way. I am quite familiar with the blue blazes and recognize those spots. High quality video and voiceover. Great work!
@thermodynamical5635 thank you, I really appreciate that! I moved out to Kansas from Florida and somehow fell in love. I really like the quirky charms, diversity in geology, and the wild west history. I wonder if I was born here if I would feel different. Maybe it takes an outsider to fully appreciate the reality of how cool it is here.
@@abtfilmskansas Totally fair. Also, if you originated in Florida, I can see why the humidity is not even close to phasing you. And yes, there is a rich history full of cowtown and cowboy lore over there. If you ever want to switch things up and try your hand with documentaries further West, Colorado or Wyoming really knock Kansas's socks off with all of the above and more. Your skillset would do great. If you ever go back to the overlook above the elk river (post Oak Self-Guiding Nature Trail), do the short trail underneath the overlook. It may or may not be overgrown. Have a look upward on some of the more cliffy spots and you'll see bolts. If you ever feel brave, there exists one of Kansas's very very few climbing crags you can try your hands at climbing or rappelling locally. One more weird unique thing out there only in SEK. We got absolutely sick of the ticks though.
The Gary Haller trail in Johnson County runs along the side of a cliff that has something like a 100 foot drop when you look over the side.
Topeka has several unconfirmed sightings ever couple years, and 20ish years ago, my neighbor caught a mountain lion on video in our backyard!
These are fantastic videos.
@@christopherbartel thank you so much! More is on the way!
Feral pigs might also be attracting predators like cougars/mtn lions.
Kansas has like no forest. And the small amount that does exist is mostly private property. I lived there for a short time and I'm a big outdoors camping person and it was not that great there. If you like forest go to Oregon, Washington, Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, any of the most northern states pretty much.
A fine video. Many parts of Southeast Kansas like this are comparable to the Ozarks but without all the excess tourists. I like to hike there and I guess I hope it kind of stays rather unknown.
Great video. I used to live in Emporia and the flint hills area is another video that should be made. A great place to start would be the bazaar cattle pins on the turnpike then to the tetterville area. Also the road from Matfield green to strong city is spectacular.
As a former resident of Matfield Green, I 100% agree. Especially in the fall!
Broccoli? 1:19
I used to live in Coffey county and the people 2 houses down the road used to keep one in a pen in their backyard. I also saw one lying next to the highway in the median, when i went back to see if it was dead it was gone. That was in the early 2000s
It is the Broodwich, forged in darkness from wheat harvested in HELL'S HALF ACRE, baked by Beelzebub, slathered with mayonnaise beaten from the evil eggs of dark chicken forced into sauce by the hands of a one-eyed madman, cheese boiled from the rancid teat of a fanged cow, layered with six-hundred and sixty-six separate meats from an animal which has maggots for blood!
Sumner , butler...too
Dude your channel is amazing. Incredible cinematography
@mistaajones thank you my friend! Would it be helpful if I also shared some maps? I saw on another comment you were interested in camping in the fall and winter.
@@abtfilmskansas maps would be awesome! or even just specific location names like trails, parks, etc. of where some of the footage is taken. i believe one you mentioned was elk river trail (15 miles point to point) which i've checked out and is on the list!
@@mistaajones may I have your email? I'll send a bunch of maps!
@@abtfilmskansas just sent you one to the address on your website
thanks for this. i got some places to check out this fall and winter - my ideal time to camp
KANSAS RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I've gotta explore this place myself. I can't spoil myself watching the video, I have been looking for some woods to explore here for a very long time!
I live near Manhattan and I’ve seen 2.