One of the Most Beautiful Places I Have Been—Hocking Hills State Park
hey everyone we're not in michigan today we're in ohio we're at hocking hills and specifically cantwell cliffs so this will be a family vacation my son brian's with me of course nancy's here and my daughter and her family are going to join us tomorrow so here we go this is really cool it really is we just got here and i'm impressed this is all worthwhile already some steps that go down here all right we're going down sorry shouldn't have the backpack on this is called black hand sandstone it's 350 million years old a lot of cool stuff growing in the walls here lichens and moss and ferns sticking out there's some honeycombing up there the weathering of the sandstone i think this is probably one of those places where you just can't capture it all on film but this is really really impressive i think brian's about six feet tall so you can kind of use him as a scale just how big this place is so we just walked down there which means we're now at the bottom which i believe means we have to go back up at some point because that's where we parked how you doing nance one member of this hiking party is not enthusiastic about the going back up first so we're going over that way next well we just accidentally went the wrong way that rim trail that goes up there it's a one-way trail takes you back to the parking lot which is back that way so we're back down here we're taking the cliff bottom trail now either way brian the weathering pattern and stuff they call it honeycombing is really interesting more over here this place is huge i don't know if you can even see brian over there for scale he's walking across underneath the waterfall for our second location now this is called rock house and we haven't seen it yet but it's apparently the only true cave here at hocking hills so [Music] very easy this is rock house this is a quite impressive we're going in so so i read that native americans and bandits and all kinds of different people use this for shelter over the years and up here we have some little uh holes in the thing here and they use these for cooking and baking they'd make a fire and heat up the rock and then bake stuff in here uh [Music] there's another way i think there's bats in here but what i've been seeing are pigeons in here now so all right the rest of the gang has arrived so this is alice and david and joe hey joe say hi so uh david uh you're gonna need to explain your attire oh this is my adventure gear okay so uh so this is uh what i put together for geology field camp and my grad research so okay now i called it a scarf what did you call it it's a kaffiya it's uh it's what they wear in the in the middle east it's uh it's there's a sandstorm today [Laughter] all right we're prepared so uh i actually have used it in a sandstorm [Laughter] all right so off we go [Music] [Music] are you having fun joe joseph will be testing the acoustics in the cave yes so this is called ash cave because when it was discovered they found a pile of ashes underneath here that was 100 feet long 30 feet wide and three feet deep and there's various theories about why the fires were built here um nancy's standing by pulpit rock which is actually used for sunday services and they use this for its acoustical qualities [Applause] uh really pretty path here we're heading to cedar falls now [Applause] say hi joseph um there's more volume of water coming over this falls than any other falls in the area and it's called cedar falls because early explorers mistook the hemlock trees in the area for cedars so it's fun just got done with lunch and then there was a thunderstorm so we sat in our cars for about an hour waiting for the rain to pass but bro it's nice out now we're all ready to go man so we're standing in front of devil's bathtub and david why don't you tell us how this forms so this is a structure that's called a pothole so what happens is it starts off as a small depression worn away by the water but then uh some rocks or pebbles get caught in it and as the water flows down it swirls and ends up becoming like almost like a drill it grinds away at the uh at the stone and it grinds down so that's actually probably a pretty deep pit with stones grinding up the bedrock nancy pulled out her umbrella for this part oh oh so oh oh my god don't you coming up the old man's cave itself right here crossing this cool bridge so hi i got ya now oh you're coming one of us oh we've been walking a long time and joe has found his favorite thing he's got a water bottle for our last stop for the day this is called conclus hollow and it's so far just sort of a serene valley so we'll see what it has to offer up ahead somebody's almost conquered out this valley is so pretty that you miss that there's there's big rock walls right back there some here but you're never going to see them in the video this is called the grotto [Music] where's daddy this place makes you feel like you're a little tiny insect that cliff is really really tall so oh ah this is so here if you want to see more rocks from ohio you can click on one of these videos here see some flint ridge flint that i picked up and tumbled
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