The Brutally Honest National Park Welcome Video
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- čas přidán 29. 09. 2020
- This is exactly what many national park rangers and administrators would love to tell visitors... if only they could.
How do I know? I asked some.
It's a message that will improve the park's conservation and enhance the visitors' experiences... and their safety. A win-win, with a bit of swearing thrown in for good measure.
It's less about grizzly bear attacks and more about the things that are actually killing park visitors... and killing the parks themselves.
Enjoy.
Favorite sign seen in a wilderness area:
If you go past this sign, no rescue attempts will be made.
Where did you see that sign?
Thats not a warning, its a challenge. Maybe even an invitation.
@mewabe4 courting dangerous situations is not impressive. You're racing towards a Darwin award.
Unrelated to the video, but your comment about the sign reminds me of when the hurricane was supposed to hit Miami last year and the Mayor came on the t.v. and said I gave you plenty of warning and you were mandated to evacuate...if you still choose to stay in your home there will be no rescue attempted. All of our fire trucks, ambulances, hospital personnel, everything and everyone that could possibly come and get you have been evacuated. You're on your own. And I thought daaaamn I like that mayor, preach the brutal truth, bro.
"So turn back... or don't... I'm a sign, not a cop."
It's baffling how many people leave all their garbage behind everywhere tbh, not just National Parks but ABSOLUTELY everywhere, EVEN if there are garbage cans around. Some people seem to be too f*cking lazy to walk literally 5 meters.
If you're happy to carry packaged food and drink to somewhere then it should be even easier to take the empty and therefore much lighter and smaller packaging away with you.
Courts will not punish people for littering, so police don't bother with it, so people litter .
I clean rental cars and it's amazing how many people leave their garbage in the cars. Just about every car has wrappers shoved between the seats or in the little compartments that new cars have every where. I've thrown away hundreds of half drank and unopened plastic bottles in the last two years. Almost every car comes back with crumbs all over the inside and spills around the cupholders and on the seats. Some people even throw food and drinks on the back seats, I don't know why they do it, I don't know why they can't just take care of things. I've spent many hours with a water extractor cleaning spills out of seats and carpets, I'll be glad when I have enough money saved up to quit working there.
kill all humans
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
That hiker walking down the trail into the Grand Canyon in the Kmart sneakers with one bottle of water. Oh, he'll be fine.
Especially dangerous since anyone wearing shoes from Kmart is probably 75 years old!
Sarcasm aside, it depends on other factors, like what trail, how far, conditions, their fitness and abilities. So maybe they will be just fine.
@@robbabcock_ Those would be "New Balance".
*hikers as in plural. I've seen so many idiots in Zion National Park who start 10 mile hikes in mid day when the temperature is 105 degrees with one plastic bottle of water
1989 me and a buddy hiking down the canyon, all the gear and plenty of water. About a third of the way down (south rim) we hear running. 3 teenagers, 2 girls and a boy dressing in t-shirts, shorts and flipflops. No backpacks, no water, no nothing. I call out to them "Hey, where's your water?" Boy yells back "We'll get a drink down by the river." Never heard about anyone dying that week, so I guess they made it out. Or maybe no one bother to report them missing.
NPS Bear warning: When in bear country we recommend that you make noise like wearing little jingle bells around your neck and carry pepper spray bear repellent. How to know if you are in black bear or brown bear territory is by examining their scat. Black bear scat is loose and contains berry skins and such. Brown bear scat is similar except it contains bones, hair, jingle bells, and smells like pepper spray...
That joke NEVER gets old. It is funny every time.
I heard a different version. How do you tell the difference between a black bear and a brown bear? If you run away and climb up a tree to escape and the bear follows you up the tree and then eats you, that was a black bear. If the bear shakes the tree until you fall out then it eats you, that was a brown bear. 😉
:-) :-)
Brilliant. And true.
HAHAHA :)))
People call themselves as "nature lover" while they're throwing garbage around the nature. I live near a mountain, as many of these "nature lover" will hike to the top, and the amount of garbage they throw around doesn't match their title.
So true. I'm shocked how people carry their food and drinks up to a mountain top, just to litter, instead of putting their garbage in the backpack and carrying it down.
They are fake and liars.
Same with animal lover puting a bird in a cage
CORRECTION to #3: Bring an old-school map and compass AND LEARN HOW TO USE THEM. Navigating by map and compass is a skill. Yes, in the old days, boy scouts learned how to do it, but they were given instruction, and they practiced.
I read a story some time ago about people who knew how to read a map and use a compass. They used the compass at the beginning of their hike--by putting it on a car hood.
@@kcanded my belt buckle has never gotten me in trouble, but it has sent me down the wrong path at least once ;)
boy scouts no longer exist...real men affected.
Whatever, I went with a map and no compass and no training, and it only took 3 days for the rangers to rescue me. No practice needed!
Nobody needs that crap anymore. Get a GPS like a normal person.
My sister actually caught a tourist who slipped off a ledge of the Grand Canyon while taking a selfie. Luckily the tourist was a little Asian woman who didn’t weigh much, or my sister would have gone over as well. To this day I wish we had caught it on film! PLEASE, be careful with your selfies!
Check your selfie, before you wreck your selfie!
Glad everyone was safe! :D
I worked part of 2020, summer in a large popular NPS 🏕 location. The stupidity of tourists, campers can not be over stated! 😖
@@DavidLLambertmobile 🤷♂️😑 lol
@Aleksa Kole Hahaha! No, this lady was glad to be able to live to take another selfie...
Solution: STOP TAKING SELFIES! Nobody freaking cares where you've been. You're probably not an influencer. Do you have ANY idea how dull it is for your friends to see your vacation pics?! With your face obscuring half of every picture?! Put the damned phone down and just experience life instead!
It was a 60 minutes interview or something years ago where the reporter was asking a park ranger why they had to change out the locking mechanism on the dumpsters every few years saying,"certainly you could invent a lock that the bears can't figure out?" The ranger replied," Yes but, there is considerable over lap between the smartest bear and the dumbest human."
Excellent
Note to self: If you see a rhino in Yosemite, DO NOT SHOOT IT.
😂😂
TRY NOT TO SHOOT ANIMALS CHALLENGE ONLY 0.00000000000000001% OF PEOPLE PASS
The "Perhaps, when your ready. A nice walk in the park can help." Is more real than most people realize.
Take only photos and leave only footprints
And kill only time.
*take only photos and trash.
@@loganwiss5678 well, you're not really taking it if you brought it there in the first place
@@rianantony i meant trash that was left by somebody else.
LNT.
As a FAST responder. This is all information that somehow people never can get. This information while basic saves lives it's to common for my team and I to find the bodies of missing people 1 or 2 days after they where reported missing because they fell of a cliff or didn't bring water or just got lost and succumb to hypothermia. It's even worse having to then give the bodie to the family and provide the cause of death to be tried taking selfie with brown snake.
@brownwings00 don’t be a dick, he’s providing his opinion.
@brownwings00 Here is a portion of the attention you are carving. Enjoy it.
what dos FAST stand for ?
@F P I thought it was Ironic, and so is this.
@@woltews I would say Face, Arms, Speech, Time, but I think he means Firefighter Assist and Search Team?
When I was a kid I asked a Park Ranger.
"What is the difference between Grizzly and a Brown Bear?"
"If you climb a tree a Brown bear will climb up the tree and eat you ....a Grizzly will just knock the tree over and eat you."
Maybe you mean a black bear? Grizzly bears and brown bears are the same thing.
Oh, and black bears will not eat you.
@@TraceyMush Grizzly's are considered a subspecies, because they are larger and dont feed on salmon.
fair lol
@@TraceyMush They can and do. Come between a black bear sow and her cub? She probably won’t eat you, but you’ll be dead anyway. If a black bear is very hungry and you look like an easy meal? Well, a woman who lived in my area of rural Minnesota was bow hunting for deer from her tree stand when a black bear started hunting her! As the hours went by, it got bolder and finally decided to climb up to get her. Luckily she was able to dispatch it with her arrows. The Natural Resources official let her keep it even though she didn’t have a bear permit, since she killed it in self defense.
These brutally honest videos are great entertainment. Keep it up
Thanks
Math Check ---- 318million people leaving behind 100million tons of anything is 628 pounds per person. I think they factored in every man made object in the boundaries that remains through winter including roads and buildings.
And cool
@@thomashughes_teh It's probably the total amount of garbage generated in the parks rather than the garbage that individual visitors are directly responsible for. That means everything that goes into dumpsters behind the kitchens at every place that serves food, everything that goes in the trash at the administrative offices, and so on. And it probably also includes everything that gets tossed by the maintenance departments, which may include things like old boardwalks and picnic tables, and maybe even pavement and bridges from road improvements.
Agree, do one for car driving
The real video that The Grand Canyon sent me before issuing a backpacking permit was even more brutal. It said that they don't guarantee they will attempt a rescue if you get in trouble and showed paramedics pulling out a guy with a compound leg fracture. This was 20 years ago so I don't know if they still do this but they should.
Haven’t seen the video, but back in the 80’s they had an interesting display of photos of sick and dead hikers placed strategically in the backcountry office.
I've always been frustrated at why you even need a permit to go backpacking (or anything else) at a National Park. Now I understand why they do this.
You think that is bad just wait till you get your first mountaineering/climbing permits. There are no pictures of them rescuing climbers from crevasses, just a friendly joke about collecting the dust of your bones in a few hundred years from the bottom of the glacier. Haha
@@jimbig3997 at least they'll have a mailing address to mail your bones back to. Seriously, it's too easy to get lost in the backcountry.
Back in the 1980s two of my relatives were visiting Yellowstone Nat. Park. After walking around a geyser basin, they were heading back to the parking lot when they encountered a man with a beautiful Golden Retriever with no leash. They pointed out the sign saying “no dogs allowed”, and told him the geysers and hot springs were very dangerous for dogs running loose, but he gave them the finger and kept going down the trail. When they got to their car my family members took the opportunity to eat a snack and have drink before continuing. They were packing up their things when they heard emergency vehicles screaming up the road. The rangers and medics took off running down the trail, carrying gear.
They later heard that the retriever had chased after something and jumped into the “pond”. The man jumped in too, to try to save his scalded dog. Neither survived.
Damn. I heard a story similar to this, where the dog escaped from the car and ran to a hot spring.
ROFLMAO!! Natural selection at work. 💪
Sad about the dog
Absolutely brilliant! I still remember getting calls from people asking whether it was SAFE to take a newborn into a national park! Or are there snakes, or insects! They were always so outraged when we said that national parks were dangerous places full of wild animals! Most people seemed to think a national park is just like a shopping mall just with more trees!
What did you tell them in response to their outrage?
Your story has holes. What's wrong with taking an infant to a National Park? Instead of explaining the POTENTIAL hazards you would attempt to scare them away by saying they're dangerous places bc there are some wild animals? And then they "always" became "outraged"?
That's why I hate 99% of humanity
Like Wayne ⤴️
@@jbird7782 You Do? But you don't even know me. Thanks!
Went to Yellowstone, didn't die.....winning!
Went to the Grand Canyon, didn't fall in. So I've got that going for me.
Been to both of them :p
@G Sav ummm....I exist, therefore, I am
Been there 3 times (once backpacking for 3 days) and saw those thermal pools and bubbling "mud pots" and they were scary to think about. Heard about some guy who was out near one with his dog that fell in somehow (but I thought dogs would be able to sense the danger bc of the hot ground near them), so naturally the dude tried to save the dog. God-awful and horrible consequences. Doesn't take long for water that hot to boil the flesh right off your bones. Don't know if it's possible to remove the remains.
I went to my school, which is the most dangerous national park, didn't get stomped by elephants, winning!
I'm a hick. I live in a wetlands, with black bears. I always carry bear spray or my Walther 9mm. I have had to use my spray twice, never the gun. I am aware, I make noise, never leave garbage.
I honestly feel like the bear spray would generally be more effective at "convincing" a bear to leave you alone than a 9mm. But to be fair, I've never even held a real gun.
Hicknopunk. This video isn't directed at those who know how and what to do. It's for the soy drinkers and green hair folks who want to pet Smokey the Bear.
Zach I would say your right but for the fact a gun makes a lot of noise it's not going to hurt the bear tho 9mm won't go thro a bear unless you hit it in the face now it's really mad.
The ignorant ones who still knock the 9mm lmao.
is 9mm effective for black bears? I thought it couldn't penetrate and liable to make them angrier
Mandatory. I wouldnt even mind if someone put an illegal screen at the entrance just to show this to the tourists.
oh my god the carving into the rocks. i was in southern utah about 2 years ago, and in all the caves we visited, dozens of people had scrawled their names into the stone. almost every single cave we went to. horrible. people who do that sort of stuff should really re-think their life choices.
Like the ones who take smiling selfies at Holocaust sites, for example....somehow we have failed to teach our people respect. It becomes more endangered, over time.
Well in a few decades or hundres years these gravities will be interesting historical artifacts
why are you bitching about people scrawling their names into a bunch of random stonewalls?
@mewabe4 No i have never done that, what i wonder is what kind of emotional attachment you have to a bunch of stonewalls
@@MrKrusten What type of asshole you are doesn't mean you're not still an asshole.
I've helped lost people find their way back to a main road. They had compass and actual paper maps, but no idea how to use them together. They'd never tried navigating with them and just brought them in case they got lost. Well, they got lost only to suddenly discover they're clueless on what to do with their compass and map.
100% accurate if you can’t enjoy nature responsibly and properly you should stay in a city
And that is what I gladly do.
*bears and other woodland creatures don't actually care what your political stance might be or your declared gender choice might be...if you get in their way you are at risk of getting seriously messed up...those deer that look so placid and tame can KILL you in less than the blink of an eye if you threaten their young or get too close to them...and bears will just consider you a tasty snack wrapped in nylon and other textile blends*
@@scottmantooth8785 exactly some dude playing golf in Estes park had an elk cut his kidney straight in half. It is astonishing how many people don’t use common sense and think that it’s ok to get up close to all kinds of wild animals. It’s sad how many then turn around and blame the animal. Often killing or moving the animal. Sometimes it is necessary to euthanize animals with bad habits which humans caused.
Sometimes you can do everything right and nature will still ambush you. In 1967 my sister was on a vinyl raft floating down the Merced River in Camp Curry, Yosemite. A large dead tree fell across the river about six feet from where she had just passed. Better than television.
Been through the Boy Scouts, learned survival training from my dad who fought in Vietnam, have read and re-read survival books (Dave Canterbury's 4 volume Bushcraft box set is a must-read), gone on numerous camping trips, and even I exercise extreme caution going into the wilderness.
When he said to bring a paper map and a compass, for the love of all that is holy, make sure it's an accurate and up to date topographical map (laminate that shit or treat it with wax to waterproof it, btw), a compass that is reliable and you've personally tested PRIOR to the trip, but most of all, KNOW HOW TO USE THEM!!! Do you even know what azimuth is, and how to adjust for it? No? Then you need more education before you try to use a map. Do you know how to navigate by stars and the moon? How to tell how much daylight is left by using your hand? What approaching weather various clouds indicate? Have you learned the 5 Cs of survival? What about woodland first aid? What do you do if you or someone in your group gets impaled by a widow-maker and now has a sucking chest wound? Do you even know what a widow-maker is, and where to look for them?
There's so much about wilderness survival people don't know they don't know. Sure, most trips will be enjoyable and safe, but someone has to make up those statistics. Could be you, or it could be a stranger you happen across. It's incredibly important to educate yourself, but also remember the best teacher is experience. It's one thing to read how to make a fire and control it, but it's a very different thing to do it yourself. Also, anything you can practice at home before practicing in the field, do it. If you mess up at home, emergency services are minutes away. Mess up in the wilderness, and help could be hours, days, or even weeks away in worst case scenarios. That said, might be worth the few hundred dollars to get yourself a personal transponder. Those things are pricey, but they could save your life.
None of this is to scare you away from enjoying the outdoors, but rather to help you be prepared so you can fully enjoy the outdoors and not become a death/injury statistic.
The regulations and permitting for backcountry and some extensive day-use trails is surprisingly lax considering what can be risky activity people are undertaking. Many federal and state governments are there to ensure the park isn't overburdened, but safety ultimately rests on the shoulders of those entering the wilderness. Good summary of the situation regarding that many don't even know what needs to be known in order to ensure high levels of safety.
Basically... the less you know, the shorter your trip should be
One essential rule of camping or long-distance hiking the video missed: Let someone know where you're going, as precise a route as possible, and when you expect to be back.
I was in a 6 man apartment during my undergrad and one of the roommates was a Geology student who spent his weekends in caves. He would always pin a message on the board in the kitchen with information such as what cave he was exploring, what time he expected to be back and a list of phone number of people to call and what info to give them if he didn't return by that certain time. We never needed to make that phone call, but I always thought it was smart of him to do that.
Ugh, none of this should even need to be said. The older I get the more I loathe my own species, it's sickening!
I know!
I'm 50 now and i really wonder how I'll reach 80 without going on a killing spree :D
I'm with ya Eva, it's one of the reasons I don't own guns!
@@heethn ah, you sound like a smart man!
Like the saying goes: The more I know people, the more I love my dog.
@ not just my dog but any animal
"Bring a map and compass"
You have to know how to use them. Most people think they do but actually don't. For example many people think a compass points to true North but in most places it actually doesn't.
True, and the witchy thing is that declination changes depending on where you are, and also over time. A good orienteering course is imperative for anyone planning to go into the back-country, particularly into areas with no trails or where there is still snowpack.
heh with how fast our magnetic poles are moving yea >__>
Totally ignoring the compass, I was trying to explain how to get to a point someone asked for, while showing them a map, and they didn't seem to understand how to read the road, mileage markers, or trail heads, on a map with a legend, that only covered about 10 miles of roadway.
@@adamgtrap Yep. This does not surprise me. Sadly, I don't think many people at this point have any real literacy with maps, unless maybe it's Google Maps. This is part of a general, alarming trend of many people not having skills or experience they need in the outdoors. So many people are needlessly at risk because they lack basic outdoors skills.
For most survival cases the difference between true north and magnetic north isn't that much of a concern unless you are walking really far between landmarks
"This place could kill you!" was my first thought seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time.
i lived in yosemite national park, i was an employee at the grill, one day off i decided to swim in the merced river by housekeeping camp. it was a terrible idea to cross the current, no one got hurt but i definitely has a panic attack thinking i was already dead lol
ha ha, current go woosh
yeah, seriously, be careful, glad you made it out
Went swimming in the Niagara River about 8 miles upstream of the falls. Current was I believe around 6 to 8 miles per hour. Stayed near shore but it's a fast current. My great Uncle, a park ranger used to swim regularly across that river near that point.
I was expecting a sarcastic and sassy video full of dark humor. All I found is a legit safety video that should be mandatory for everyone to watch before entering a park. Still a good job
Another thing to remember in bear country. When tenting, try to not go to sleep in the clothing you have prepared food in. It can be an attractant for bears
Yellowstone: very true. Never go during the summer... the park is huge but gathers a very high concentration of assholes that drive rented RV’s or it’s their first trip. I was stuck for over an hour by a 5th wheeler that failed to navigate a turn into Old Faithful’s parking lot. I didn’t know about #7... that’s really sad.
Not surprise. Far from people mostly, no interruption, nice scenery and when you go your body returns back to nature.
@@primusn9870 If by "returns back to nature", you mean "your body is found a day to a week later depending on how you fell or otherwise offed yourself, your body got once-overed by the local wildlife, and decomp set in before some sorry bastard from the Parks Department had to go fish your body from wherever it was so that your next of kin can be notified from the fingerprints/dental records, and all the while the sweet smell of rot from likely being in the hot sun is enjoyed all around", then sure.
@@LabTech41 Agreed. Damn, if I was going to go out that way I’d make sure it was into a thermal feature so no one would ever find me. It’s like someone that jumps in front of a train... you screw with that engineers life and make everyone else late because you’ve decided life isn’t worth living.
@@JimAllen-Persona Death rarely leaves no impact.
@@JimAllen-Persona If by 'thermal feature', you mean 'volcano', then sure; that'd do you nice and quickly with no body to recover, but that's a VERY painful last moment.
If you mean hot spring or something like in Yellowstone, you're just looking at 3rd degree burns on 80+% of your body, followed by the kind of pain that'd make you wish you were dead as you're air-lifted to the hospital and they try to save your life. Worst case, they succeed, and you spend the rest of your life as a disfigured freak in constant pain; best case, you die a couple days later from the septic shock that'll occur as your skin loses the ability to hold back even the simplest infections.
I really like how accessible America's national parks are but I really hate how accessible they are, way too many people crowd them and all the nice obscure ones get found out and filled with pricks.
unfortunately, the fleas go with the dog.
From countless visits to many national parks in the US, I've learned that it's always the attractions with the least amount of walking needed that get crowded. Even just by a few miles longer hikes often become suddenly less crowded. The long routes, especially anything above 10 miles, I've often found empty even in the most busy seasons.
Americans are lazy. That makes it easy to predict them in crowds.
@@DragonKhan2000 the problem with even the longer trails is parking, I went to the adirondacks a couple weeks ago and I got to the Trailhead at 430 in the morning for a 13 mile hike and I got the last spot in the lot because there were so many people camping out in the lot.
@@DragonKhan2000 Also most don’t get up early. We did Yellowstone but got out and about at sunrise. Very few folks up before 9.
@@douglasadams6115, totally. I usually enter the more popular national parks at around 4am. :D
I never forget hiking in the Devils Garden (Arches np) in total darkness. What an experience.
I've noticed some folks can be incredibly ingenious at showing how stupid they are
Pack it in and pack it out. Be prepared. Plan your journey as if no one can come for you if you run into trouble. Be self sufficient. Seems like common knowledge but it can save your life.
If it only takes one moron causing a stray spark to burn down a forrest, that forrest has been unnaturally protected from fire for way too long. Clear away the years of accumulated fuel and do controlled burns so that when fires happen, they don't end up destroying everything.
Trees, flowers, and basically all plants help balance the CO2 in the air and nourish the soil. So burning it solely to avoid wreckless people from burning it worse is not really the best solution. *Banning people, not smoking & putting out camp fires.* Are more realistic solutions. We do controlled burns out here but a forest system is wayy beyond me so i wouldn't touch it🤷♀
@@eddytheengineer This fuel would give off CO2 as it decays anyway, and some forest ecosystems actually require fire to be healthy (for instance, some plants require activation by fire to grow). You can't expect something that has evolved with fire from natural sources having always been in its history, to suddenly do well when we start putting every fire that happens out.
@@pyrobreather1 No plant needs activation by fire to grow as far as I am concerned. However places like the boreal forests of canada, northern russia and parts of scandinavia have certain plants which spread their seeds by developing cones that release the seeds when beiing burnt. Also some trees and plants have fire resistant bark. These mechanisms ensure that a forest can redevelop after large forest fires but by no means are the forest fires are needed for ensuring a healthy eco System unless parasites have killed the majority of trees only leaving a "dead" forest.
@ You seem to have the impression that controlled burns automatically eliminate all deadwood. They don't. In fact if they occur at a proper schedule, they will tend to eliminate only the smaller diameter debris. You also don't have to burn all these areas at the same time. Again, these systems evolved to deal with naturally occurring fires, so some plants depend on there being occasional fire...so "protecting it" from ever burning will damage biodiversity. Controlled burning both serves this function and protects against full blown Forrest fires which would cause much more damage.
@@christianklampfer4746 Many species of pine and shrubs require fire to break the resin barrier of their cones to free the seeds. Prairies need to be burned or well grazed to aerate the soil and clear debris. This is the "activation" Caleb is referring to. The Rockies, especially the central Rockies, are not in as wet of a climate as the forests you are referring to. A lot of it is "burn and turn" climate so to speak.
Hey if a grizzly comes at you, just step slowly back saying "nice grizzly, nice grizzly". I saw it on the Simpson's and Homer is a woodsman.
Is that the same Homer that launched a rabbit to the other side of the forest with his skillfully made trap? That was impressive!
@@JedForge well yes but that was part of his plan to send it by air mail to Marge to cook it.
Reminds me of the episode that Homer got his ass plowed by a zoo Panda.
I camp hosted one year. Part of my job was to inform people not to feed the bears. So what did they do? They fed the bears even more. Same with the fire ban at the time. People would take out burning logs and throw them onto the ground litter or back onto the wood pile. Had one camper tell the ranger that I had given the camper permission to start a fire. He got a fat ticket.
Can testify! Me and a grandson hiked the far out trail in Arches. We were prepared with lots of water and still made it back to the trailhead with a mouthful left! It's serious, especially in the desert, take way more water than you need!
It's those Taiwanese poachers killing all the Rhinos in Yosemite that really get me mad.
This should be mandatory before entering any park.
Should be required viewing for every entry into a park.
Just the fact that this video didn't cost $50 million dollars to produce is one reason to like it.
We need a similar video for BLM land (Bureau of Land Management land). We get the same carelessness from people.
Oh another - and much EARLIER - meaning for BLM. Waddaya know! But the cautions to "be prepared" can apply to 'BLM land' in America's cities, too!
@@michaelshapiro1543 God Bless America.
A lot of camping sites I've been to even provide "bear lockers", large steel cubes set in or above the ground that are meant to store all your tempting snacks.
Thee problem is that there is a large overlap between how stupid people are and how smart bears can be, which makes that these are too hard to understand for a lot of people.
You need to clarify that not all hunters are poachers, national parks allow hunters to conserve the wildlife.
"Conserve" lmao
@@nunliski if there is a diseased population they can have hunters hunt the diseased animals so that the disease doesn't spread to all the other animals.
Nunnles Like a Conservatorium. Or a conservatory. Or a jam conserve.
Squirrel population was out of hand in my neighborhood. They got scruffy looking and a bunch died. Think squirrel with half its hair missing lying dead next to your house. The population rebounded. I took action. Every 5 years I would trap (and eat) ten or so squirrels. During the 25 year period I did that, the squirrels all looked healthy. That is what wildlife conservation means.
I don't know of any national park in the US that allows hunting. State parks, forest service land, blm, yes. National Parks, no.
I own a copy of Deaths in Yellowstone. "Those animals out there aren't wild, right? You would just let wild animals run around people like that!"
Yeah. Don't read the section on death by thermal feature after a big meal.
@@curiousgeorge4608 I learned with clarity that if you get so much as one leg 12 inches into a hot pot you're dead. That dude who dove in head first? Youch! Maybe you get out but shock WILL take you.
Own a copy of Death in the Grand Canyon. Fascinating read!
#5 is a good tip. I always check the weather ahead of time and i always bring some sort of jacket and wear appropriate foot wear. Cross trainers are nice but if lose your footing you can easily snap your ankle.
Not hiking, just looking and walking, and still heat stroke about did me in very quickly in the Grand Canyon.
Randomly appeared on my feed...glad i watched it..
I was told by a ranger at Yellowstone national park that some people think all the animals are kept in corrals and barns at night. Then they are let it out in the morning for our viewing pleasure.
I love the part where he goes "please dont kill yourself just please we have too many of those"
I'd like to also add, if you don't want to lose your pants in the Grand Canyon, don't bring them.
Ok so this probably requires some explination. There are a lot of negative reviews for the Grand Canyon claiming that they lost their pants. There is no explination as to how they lose their pants, they just do. It's probably just people trolling, but it's funny.
I've been in favor of banning private automobiles from national parks for decades.
Solid and sincere applause. Actual information, presented without preach or cringe. This isn't a family movie. That isn't kind old Baloo.
It is something of a shame that we have adult humans who actually need to be taught that bears and fire bad.
Good point. I used to love the national parks, but haven't been to one in 30 years. All these damned ignorant people now turned them into a overcrowded noisy polluted mess. I miss the days when there were less people and they were truly respectful of each other and the environment.
We have a hiking trail that leads up a waterfall gully to a restaurant on the top of a hill. On weekends ppl go up it as fast as they can, in their hundreds, trying to run it...dodging the bikes coming down it...in their Lycra and running shoes...and carrying Bluetooth speakers playing loud music.
A true wilderness experience.
Let's all hike up to the coffee shop in the national park...
Go off season. Start early in the day. Go past half a mile
@@solooverland3666 Damn right. After my dad took the 8 of us to Yosemite in August of '67 when I was 15, every trip since, with friends or my own family, was made in pre-season spring. Even the Valley is relatively devoid of people and insects. The rivers, creeks and falls, however, are gloriously fat and obnoxious.
The Park Service should show this in their visitor centers.
here in NH, so many people have to turn out if someone is missing. Worst is if someone goes on a hike and doesn't "sign in", as is recommended for many mountains here, so that someone can check to see if everyone came down that went up. The paper map is so important. Friend was lost for a day, when her phone died. In NH there are so many spots without coverage, you won't believe the people from out of state that get MAD there is not coverage everywhere....but also don't like to see cell phone towers ruining the view.
I have taken a few long-distance backpacking trips in wilderness back-country. Maps are good, but you can also (1) download map apps that work with GPS and help pinpoint where you are, (2) carry a satellite communications device that will include comms, navigation or both, and (3) carry portable battery rechargers. Most of these devices are now small and light enough to carry for even ultra-light backpackers, and they can definitely help when you are miles from cell service. Of course, people have to inform themselves and then spring for the tech -- which sadly, people often don't.
Idiots!
-Don't kill yourself in our national parks.
-Don't tell me what to do!
Lol
This is spot on. When I worked the Parks, we had several sayings. "The people have arrived...and they left their brains at home." Another was that our job was to "protect the people from the property and the property from the people."
As an outdoor education guide I love this video. So many people are so greedy when the come to any wilderness. They expect that because they pay for a licence or for access to wilderness areas, think they are owed something. As a fishing guide our clients think it's ok to abuse the wildlife and take what they please. Just nasty the way people treat the wilderness.
This is required viewing for everyone entering National Parks!!
I used to be in charge of the fire on family camping trips. Brushed the dirt clear, dug a nice pit for it, kept it small, but the best part was putting it out. Let it burn down after making breakfast, then pour a bucket of water on it, stir it around with a trowel and then turn the dirt underneath over the remains. Not only were no embers getting out of that treatment, it leaves a nice clean spot for the next people.
Wanna know what's funny? As a gold prospector my dad and I would always pick up trash on our hike out of the river.. 3miles back to the car and fill up a couple bags of trash.. Now heres the funny part... We would get dirty looks by the park rangers when they would see us with the bags of trash and even seeing us pick it up in the parking lot. These same park rangers would take pictures of the trash in the parking lot that blows out of the packed dumpster that was only dumped once a week. Having the parking lot full of trash was there way of regulating the river, keeping up with budget and making the average hiker/fisher/prospector look like the bad guy so they are more needed.
Seeing 3 of them hike up 4 miles then hike back 4 miles with 1 bag of trash each maybe 3 times a year... We would do it every weekend after digging all day..
They also built a foot bridge 3 miles up river and the wood they used was found to be toxic to the river so they chopped it up and decided to toss it into gulch about 50 feet away where all of the poison oak is... Thinking no one will go over there..They literally tossed toxic wood (coted with an oil) into a gulch hidden by bushes and oak... Guess who found it and with 10 people hiked all of that wood back down in 2 different trips? THE PROSPECTORS.... The ones the rangers hate.. The ones who actually pick up trash.. And guess where we left that wood? RITE BY THE FULL DUMPSTER where it sat for about 2 weeks....
Liberals: "You know you're destroying the river doing that.."
me: " :D "
Do continue these Doug, they are so much bull's eye!
I love your videos. Now I love them even more after seeing you use the CARROT weather app. Well done, meatbag.
When I worked in Yellowstone a tourist asked what time the animals are let out of their cages in the morning. I suppose if asked, he probably didn't really think it was a zoo, but he certainly didn't understand what it was. Other tourists seemed to think that we knew where all the animals were all the time and that if only they asked the right question, we could tell them where they were guaranteed to see a bear or a wolf.
That safety message was AWESOME! Couldn't have been more clear, thank you.
Just drove through Joshua Tree NP and was shocked at how many desert tortoises I saw squished on the roadway ... They move pretty slowly so it's not likely they ran out in front of a vehicle. More likely someone wasn't watching the road or was distracted driving and ended up killing those beautiful endangered creatures...
I went off-roaring in JT. Only vehicle for miles and no cell service. The trails are hard to follow because there are so many that cut in and out of each other. Had to follow common sense (looking for power lines) to finally get out before it got dark.
@@vanessagreen9637 Loved JT can't wait to go back and stay a while. Just driving through didn't do it any Justice...
The map and compass is the only way when the cloud and tree cover, and the surrounding rock in a valley cuts out all RF signals. But they are not easy to use without training and practice. Orienteering is a skill and we did it a lot in the boy scouts of old.
Straight forward, just fact, no political correctness, no hypocrisy. Exactly what the world needs.
This should be the official National Park required entrance training video...
1:41 I wouldn't call that perverted. It's very insensitive, sure, but for completely non-sexual reasons.
@@RanchDressingPop-Tarts Point taken.
I would certainly call it perverse, if not perverted.
He should've had his PT belt on.
Now remeber when you go to a national park to wear a necklace of fresh salmon, it repels the bears and you wont have to worry about them.
Your statement is dangerous, and irresponsible. The salmon used in anti-bear necklaces also needs to be locally sourced, else the bears recognize your attempt at trickery and deceit, then eat you purely on principle.
dude these videos are comedy please keep them coming I really enjoy these!
It's nice if people don't think they can stand at the top of waterfalls and then they fall in and death is 100% for sure. Great video. It should be shown to visitors before they can spread
out through our parks. We are very concerned about the deaths of bears in Yosemite. Cars of distracted drivers aren't expecting bears to cross in front of them.
This is awesome. We just took a tour of the NPS in the Rocky Mountains and it was incredible. Everyone needs to follow these rules.
Ah yes, when I go to a national park, I always bring about 700 pounds of garbage to leave behind
Only 700lbs?....oh my friend we gotta boost those numbers that’s pure amateur right there.👍👍👍🤣🤣🤣🤣
You are now one of my FAVORITE channels !!! Hilarious !
To be fair, in self defense you can kill a bear.
In Alaska you are allowed to kill a bear that is attacking you, but also by law, you are required to gut the bear and skin it and turn it in to the state.
Are you Captain Obvious's sidekick, Deputy Duh?
I am lieutenant logistics
So the message of this video is: Humans are the most deadly animal, even to themselves.
Now let's all pet the extra- large kitty cat!
The sort of people who NEED to see this video are never the ones who do........
Wait 318 million people leave 100 million tons behind, that is more than 300 kg per person. I don't believe that.
I don't know where your are from but based on your choice of kg I am going to guess you aren't from the US. Being from the US, I didn't even question that statistic. Even after I looked up the kg to lbs ratio. I looked into it and found that the majority of the waste comes from a combination of the park operations and visitors. Park operations will account for a lot of the heavy waste as they are most likely buying in bulk and will include heavy items that needed to be scraped. Here's where I found the information: lnt.org/research-resources/waste-in-national-parks/#:~:text=Each%20year%2C%20over%20100%20million,sources%20(Pierno%2C%202017).
This by far is my favourite “public announcement “ type information video!!!!!! Are you sure I didn’t write this? Humans and their stupidity! I really wish all information videos were this direct. Stop treating humans like they have common sense and treat them like the idiots they are 👏👏🤪👍🏻
My brother and I, from the UK, were near the start of an amazing road trip exactly two years ago, over 58 days (camping 49 nights of those), we visited Grand Teton, Yellowstone, Zion. Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Canyonlands and Arches National Park, as well as many other amazing places. While the vast majority treat the areas with respect, we saw a large number of incredibly dumb actions by visitors and some of the eforts to get selfies were staggering in their stupidity. An incredible trip.
I worked at Old Faithful Lodge the summer of 1991. A drunk guy, who worked in the park, hit a buffalo with his car. Said car was a small two door hatchback. Car died, buffalo walked off with a limp. So yeah, buffalo are big and fast, not big and slow. Give them a wide berth. Or if for what ever reason you cant, let them know your there. Talk to them, whistle a happy tune. but don't run. They like chasing things. I'd like too say use your common sense, but I think that is in short supply these days. Oh and read the signs and follow the rules, and you will have a great time.
I lived near yellow stone and people are always getting hurt and sometimes even killed by Buffalo. I don't know why but for some reason people think they're friendly and can get right up to them
People die from cows. I have no idea what somebody has to do quickly for a cow to want to kill them. I'm sure if they survive the cow, they try it on the buffalo.
@@orlock20 hmm, yeah, probably any large animal. People tend to have more sense around cows. I think the people that are mauled/killed around buffalo probably have never been around cows either.
@@orlock20 Sometimes they don't have to do anything for the cow to want to kill them. I almost was killed by a cow when I was working at a nature center back in the 1970's. My crew was cleaning the barn and someone left the door open and a goat came in. I was closest to the goat so I wrestled him out. Next thing I know I'm up against a fence corner and an angry Highland cow was going at me with her horns. My coworkers heard my screams and beat the cow off with a shovel. Turns out this cow had a history of attacking people for no reason. Rumor had it she had been abused at one time. That's how she wound up in the "petting farm". No, I don't go near cows or anything cow-like with horns. It's also why I am not a vegetarian.
Lol if only you could be so brutally honest with people.
Any plans on doing one of these for people staying at hotels? Because I can think of a few things guests should know... lol
When I was in Glacier I heard this story of this mom that thought bear spray was just like bug spray. She ended up spraying it all over her kids to "repell bears" lol
The biggest hazard in my area are rattlesnakes, because they like to sun themselves in the middle of the trail and stand their ground when accosted. A lot of people get bitten by stepping into strike range while trying to shoo them away.
I almost can't believe people try to "shoo away" a rattlesnake, but people are stupid. Maybe wearing some tall boots would help to protect people, although I don't know how high they can strike.
4:48 That would be 318 kg trash per person-year. A garbage math I'd say.
Do the search and rescue teams inform you guys about the staircases?
Khidr,
That comment made my eyebrows arch 😕
The staircases are super strange. Some are clearly very old.
@@juliecasey5473 ,
...and very, very creepy
Still remember the safety brief got when worked out at Yellowstone for a couple of seasons, in particular the Buffalo. See the thing about Buffalo is their top speed isn't anything to write home about, BUT they can accelerate like nothing else...meaning (as we were told) that if one starts running at you, by the time you've turned around to run away it is already on top of you. It was stressed Do.Not.Bother.The. Buffalo, they're super docile and chill animals but if it has a mind to it can and will hit you with the force of several NFL linebackers.
Extremely well presented with excellent props. There should be similar versions for every other country n the world!
Also, for the love of all that is natural let's start clearing out the underbrush again. Forest management departments have all come out saying that we have to do this. By doing these cleanup efforts fires will not be nearly as severe. Plus it would make it easier and way more enjoyable to hike in the forest!!
That would still cost a massive amount of money. But it's better than nothing.
Here before this goes viral.
Love it, hope the video will go viral
Not to mention all those Missing 411 folks who went off hiking alone or got separated from their group.