Here's the yellow gas funnel thing I show in the video if you're interested: amzn.to/3RODZW7. And I hope everyone has a great Christmas! Cassie, Bowser, and I are just relaxing at home for the holidays, and it's great. What are you up to? Are you going adventuring, or are you relaxing? -Tristan

Geodes are just like humans. You don't know the beauty until you look inside. I enjoy mountains and forests, but the desert has it's own unique beauty. Most people will never experience that quiet solitude you speak of. I enjoyed the beauty of the landscape, the history lessons, and especially that campsite. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

The older I get, the more I love being in the desert. I really crave the stillness. To be in a wide open space and experience complete silence is one of my favorite things in the world. Thanks for sharing this place!

I like how you are a real deal explorer and not a instagram overlander. You value functionality, reliability and actual usefulness over being flashy and outfitting your truck with flashy accessories that you’ll never use/don’t need.

Greetings from Serbia! I just wanna let you know that you have fans (at least 1) even over here!

The vastness and isolation are a magical beauty for the desert.

What's interesting about Lake Bonneville is that it didn't just evaporate. A natural dam on the north side at Red Rock Pass gave way and a huge wall of water (410 ft. high) flooded north into the Portneuf River valley and eventually into the Snake River and Columbia River.

Stunning landscapes in the west desert.

Love this country ! I'm 66 , never been outside the US , never wanted to be anywhere else . We got it all , mountains , prarie , beautiful beaches , desert , rain forest , whatever you love about nature , we got it . If you hate nature and crave big cities and the hustle and bustle , you got it . I'm a nature guy so I enjoy taggin along on your adventures . Thanks again for sharing 👍👍

I get it. The calm. Quiet. Stillness. I crave and enjoy that as well. You described it perfectly as , frozen in time. The no people/noise is what I crave. I'm in Maine so lots of green, animals, water (nature noises) makes me feel the same. Love your videos! Thanks again for another great one

We love the vastness and beauty of the desert too! Full of different colors and a surprising amount of wild life!

My father-in-law worked at Dugway Proving Ground in the mid 50s. We love to visit Utah and certainly enjoy it when we find ourselves in campgrounds or on trails with few or no people. We have learned to get out early in the morning to explore the places we find ourselves in. Now that we are pushing 70 with health issues, we will never see this part of Utah. Thanks for sharing it with us.

The only time I was in that west desert area was some years ago, just south of where you were, coming from Nevada to go to the U-Dig fossils site, a fee-mining area near Swasey Peak that features amazing trilobites. I spent a day digging there and found a good array of them that I still enjoy looking at. Another memory of that day was being surprised by a small herd of the wild horses that came running up behind me on the dirt road near the quarry area. They flew past me and disappeared around a ridge! I, too, love that remote quiet and vastness out there. Long views of empty space give my soul peace.

Window peek looks like a great place for star gazing

A beautiful, peaceful area in Utah. Thank you for sharing. I love hiking and traveling virtually with you every Saturday morning.

I LOVE your videos and will be eternally indebted to you for posting the coordinates of the places you visit. This series looks especially interesting to me as I hope to visit Utah at some point and this type of remote area speaks to me. I also appreciate your grocery store sandwich and not boring us with your $3000 kitchen setup in the back of your $10,000 rig, as seems to be the craze with these so called overlanders. Many thanks!

Looks like the perfect place to get completely away, and spend time meditating, exploring, praying, studying, etc. etc. etc 👍 😊

I love how you absorb the beauty of this area. I was born and raised in Arizona, but lived 35 years in lush green Switzerland. When walking on our little dusty South mountain here in Phoenix I often send a picture it to friends in Europe and I am sure they think how bare and ugly this area is, but not for me. I love the cotton ball quietness of these areas, but the vibrations of the energy where you are.

I'm with you Tristan. I enjoy that type of rolling desert terrain with the surrounding mountain ranges. Also, that campsite was epic. What a gorgeous spot, especially with the sun setting.

It seems that you were nearly speechless trying to express your sense of awe in this landscape. I, too am enthralled when there. Thank you for the beautiful video, the history, and especially for sharing your sense of wonderment.

Not empty to me. Gorgeous colors and stillness! Every trip doesn’t have to have crazy action.

I get what you mean about the desert... it may look desolate, but it has it's own rugged beauty, I love it! The geology is laid bare, which to me is fascinating. I love finding geodes or digging for crystals, or fossils. I was in southern Spain last week and tried to get tickets for Geoda de Pulpi, but couldn't get in.... now that's a geode....

Spent the holiday relaxing, with our elderly pet who is late in life, thanks for entertainment. I also love the West and the desert solitude. I do miss seeing wildlife in these places when I get out far. I hike the Sierra also and am sadly surprised how I only see a few birds over miles of terrain. I'm sure there is more at night. I imagine 300+ years ago the buffalo, wolves, bears, etc. would have been a sight to see in the West.

Incredible area, so beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

We used to hunt duck at Fish Springs in the 1970s. They had a limit on the number of hunters. Also hunted Chukar to the west in the hill. We collected pine nut cones in the Thomas Range. We did a lot of rock hounding from geodes to topaz a Topaz Mountain. And there are the Trilobite beds. Lake Bonneville drained in a catastrophic dam break at Red Rock Pass in SE Idaho around 14,000 years ago. The flood washed out through what is now he Snake River. Love that area of Utah where I lived off and on as a kid in Grantsville. Did a lot of hunting and camping there i he 1960s and 1970s. Thanks for the video.

I always love the desert , that quiet and stillness, it’s good for the soul…..

I said out loud as I sit alone “thank you God for such beauty”. Thanks for bringing such beauty to us who are unable to visit.

Thanks for the video Tristan! I'm a rockhound who lives in Arkansas, and my channel is mainly about rockhounding in this area. The Dugway Geode pit is an area that has had my interest for a little while, and somewhere that I hope to one day get to visit. Thanks for the video and the tour around the area for this video!

Great entrance shot, your narration while walking up to the camera from a great distance was really cool.

I’m so happy I found your channel today. I am so overwhelmed at the growth here in Florida, rude people, and all the waste and lack of loving our planet. Thank you for bringing this beauty to us….love ❤ it!

That was a great little video. Lots of cool stuff and lots of fun was had. And beautiful landscapes as always.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I find beauty in all areas but especially places I can see for miles and miles, like this place you are at.

You are right! There is a stark beauty to the area. Also, being the only person for miles and miles is, in it self awesome ‼️

White Noise. No idea where I heard it but I use it to describe real Solitude. I experienced 17 days with no human contact in Navada. Saw maybe 3 or 4 vehicles off in distance. It was beautifully insane, wake up one morning and it's like driving down a rough road then stopping, road noise gone, absence of engine running. But ...louder. I had broken my camera earlier or it simply failed, but I wasn't even concerned about getting the shot. I dont know how to explain it or define it. Like so many other commented, the desert is just another form of Beauty. Absence of Judgement allows me to experience it fully. Northern woodlands, oceans. Mountains. Warm fuzzies and a smile stuck on my face. Thank you Tristan for your continued reminder of what is available. May You and Yours have the Best Christmas possible! New sites and Tight lines, Bro.

I think it's beautiful out in these wide open places you show us. I am much more drawn to places like this than wooded places. But to each his own. Thank you for all the great places you've shown

Sitting on top of WINDOW ROCK, would be amazing. I love the absolute vastness, you show. I totally, get where your coming from. Thanks & continue what you do.

Really enjoy your travel and adventure videos! I think it is because of your narration and story telling style. I feel like I’m right there seeing and learning the same things you are explaining. Of course that’s not the case but it shows how real your videos are to your viewers. Thank you!

Thanks for sharing your experience, Tristan! That gas "funnel" could also help prevent damage to the vehicle evap system from a little known cause. Near the top of the fuel filler tube is an overflow outlet to prevent spillage. It connects to the charcoal cannister, which absorbs and recycles vapors which would otherwise escape into the air. Sending liquid fuel that direction quickly starts degrading this function and can lead to contamination of the connecting lines elsewhere in the system, ultimately tripping trouble codes and the dreaded "check engine" light. Not fun -- and many technicians lack the skill to correctly diagnose and fix the issues.

Tristan, I think this was one of your best videos. Like you, I prefer the solitude. Sitting cliffside having dinner and watching the sunset. It doesn't get much better than that.

Your soliloquy on top of Window Rock went straight to my heart. While I was listening to you speak, all I could think was; Yes, I too could spend time up there alone and enjoy the environment and how I enjoy so much what your share with all of us. The West has always spoken to me ever since I went out there on a Boy Scout trip, and I so want to return. Thank you. -Chris 🚙⛰️

Solitude and unknown destinations. 100% my kind of channel. Tristan, you are the best. 😊👍🏻🙋🏼‍♀️

I love the vast open space, relaxing for your mind & soul!

I really enjoyed this. Such starkly beautiful country!

Beautiful country that we have blessed to have in abundance in the country! Thank you for taking us along!

Its amazing that theres so much land with no people. 🦌💌❤️🙏👍

Appreciate those drone shots following your SUV 🚙 the technology available to regular people is amazing

As someone who is clausterphobic the wide open desolate places give me great calm. My wife doesn't understand.

Thanks Tristan for another great year of fantastic travel videos. Your epic landscape cinematography has taken me to places I would have never gone. Have a great Christmas and successful New Year.

Hands down the best action travel KZfaq channel that I follow. Thanks for the amazing videos and interesting places.

Just found this channel. I love that you include geological and historical info. So many travel type channels leave this stuff out. I'm especially interested in the geological stuff. Like the ancient shores of lake Bonneville. Yes, the wide open desert country is like no other. Something about seeing a vast piece of the world, and yet having silence and solitude. It's truly sublime.

I do agree on your attitude that everything is so still out there and most of all amazingly beautiful. The desert is my place to be as well.👍

Hi Tristan, your description of the amazing beauty of nature, the boundless expanses, and the amazing landscape really resonates with me! I share the same feelings and couldn't have articulated it any better! Thanks!

Very nice intro scene. Network ready. You're framing is very nice on many of your shots and the subjects are beautiful with great story telling.

Ohhhh, a new serene place of Utah to explore for myself. I'm like you , I crave the quiet desert spaces. The beauty, vastness, and stillness are unbelievably amazing.

That looks so awesome! That is exactly the kind of spot that inspired us to get our camper in the first place. Hopefully someday soon we'll be able to head out west. So glad you share your adventures to inspire us. Super jealous and love getting to experience this through your lens while we wait. We have lots of beautiful green around here, but like you, I think we'd find that stunning.

Thank you for saying Nevada correctly. Always good to see your videos. Merry Christmas.

I can tell he loves the vast "western" scenery and I'm with him. I love alpine stuff just as much, but at the same time, there's something about the "high" desert stuff that some people get and some don't. I feel I could go hiking with this guy and we'd be on a similar wavelength.

My first time to watch one of your videos. How peaceful it is. I'm subscribing. :)

Howdy Tristan, thanks for another fun video. The siphon you showed us previously works great with my Ram 2500 …I put the 5 gallon gas can on top of my tonneau cover and by tilting the can I’m able to get most of the gas out.

My most memorable West Desert experience occurred in 2008ish. Due to weather conditions being favorable for a population explosion of jack rabbits, we watched at night while the owls swooped upon their prey, the rabbits. Some of the owls had a wingspan at least as wide as my vehicle. It was an unforgettable site seeing these birds of prey soaring & flapping their wings as they swooped down to lift all sizes of jack rabbits & effortlessly carry them off. I LOVE the desert too & agree with your assessment of how the world stands still where you are. Just the sound of the wind & an occasional critter or bird.

My life feels like places like that and I do find beauty in it.

In my younger years, my uncle was a high school and college football coach and in his off-season, he travelled all over West Texas and into New Mexico. He always referred to those areas as a God-forsaken wilderness. I had been exposed to the Great AMerican Desert when I was about 10 or 11 years old and I was always fascinated by it and loved all the beauty of it all. Every time my uncle went into a tirade, I’d have to leave the room and get somewhere where I could revisit my memories of the desert and I’d just shake my head why trying to understand his mindset. Just a little something to raise a little chuckle from you and your channel members. “Ol’ Scooter” down in East Texas…

I love the beauty and vastness of the desert, I see why you love it so much.

Just keeps getting better👍🏼 thank you!

Im 61 yrs.old I solo road trip too i have the Jerry can for gas haven't use it yet.thanks for the idea.😊

I totally agree, i LOVE the desert. I live in Vegas, and i love exploring the area. Great job on this video, music, editing. You hit a homerun.

i enjoy the desert mostly on my dirt bike but your right the stillness and solitude are awesome.

Interesting place. Thanks again for sharing!

For some of us, it's great to be alone in a lonely place. I've enjoyed the backcountry hikes at Chaco Canyon on numerous occasions where that solitude is readily at hand. Here in Oklahoma, there's a place called Gloss Mountain State Park which is simply a small butte where one can climb to the top and enter another "mini-world". Very cool. Love your videos, many thanks for posting them. BTW, love your drone shots in this video.

The drone footage is stunning!!

Inspirational. Thanks my friend.

...to me too. What a glorious treat to find real solitude.

Like those kind of scenery places ...like deserts ...beautifull 👍

Love your striking silent landscape.

One of my favorite places as well. It's tough to beat the peace found in the west desert.

Bird guy here. Early in the video you can hear Horned Larks vocalizing. Your small wading bird is in the genus Tringa; could be a Greater Yellowlegs (my initial guess), or a Lesser Yellowlegs or a Solitary Sandpiper. The waterfowl seen the closest look like American Coots; not sure about the more distant ones, but I suppose they could be coots as well. We gotta get you more magnification: a longer lens might be heavy and expensive, but think of the viewers! 🙂 Your tiny-Tristan-dwarfed-in-a-huge-landscape drone shots always remind me of Caspar David Friedrich, an artist in the late 1700s/early 1800s who was part of the rise of German Romanticism. Friedrich would have loved your videos. As do I! Thanks.

Harsh country but beautiful epic content greetings from South Africa

Very best wishes to you, Cassie and Bowser for a magnificent 2024

I grew up in Colorado and my family did a ton of driving throughout the west. My favorite was when we headed south toward the Great Sand Dunes and New Mexico. I loved the endless expanse of desert in Arizona and Utah as well. We would drive for miles, and see no one. The big blue sky would light up distance mountains with shadows and sage. It’s such an empty calm feeling; impossible to describe to others. Not everyone understands it.

it cleans the body and soul to be at places like that, and you are right most humans just dont get it

Another fun and interesting video adventure. Your descriptions of and reflections on the area were completely wonderful.

Beautiful! I could see spending many days and nights in a place like this. Love your videos!

This is a great video. About 14 years ago, I drove through that area. I was driving the Lincoln Highway from Reno to Salt Lake. I loved that area and would like to go back and do some camping.

i love this area, it's truly peaceful. i feel like a real American when I'm boondocking out there. God bless you and your family, Merry Christmas ❤

What an awesome part of the country!!

I live in Ohio but from Los Angelos and I think I’m supposed to live in that area! Lol! I totally agree that the stillness and being able to see vast distances over quiet beautiful mysterious lands has to be such a great privilege. I wish I had your job. Lol Keep up the great “ Work”??? Lol I am vicariously living the dream.

Your drone video-ing is amazing

I love the forest and the trees so much but there is something about the solitude of the bare mountains too ! Again you took me somewhere I may never get to go but if I get the chance oh boy I will do it !!!!! thank you !

Excellent video. I would also love the peaceful landscape out there. It didn’t slip past me how sharp your dad was dressed to go out digging in the photo! Thank you as always! Merry Christmas to you, Cassie and Bowser!

After hearing how you feel about the remoteness and natural beauty of the desert it reminded me of an experience I had as a young man,(I am 76 now), I was traveling cross country with my parents from our home in Florida to California in the early 1960's. We had stopped to visit Carlsbad Caverns and we were at a high overlook.From where we stood large expanses of desert were seen. There was another traveler looking at the same view that we were and she commented to my Mother saying "Isn't that Beautiful"?! And so as not to sound rude, my Mother agreed. But later when we were alone she said to my Dad,"Can you believe that she thinks that is beautiful"? It was years later when my parents traveled in retirement that she came to see the desert the same way that woman saw it and she realized how beautiful it is. The desert is something that most people who grew up in the eastern part of the country have to learn to appreciate. I have lived in Utah for well over forty years now and, like you I like the mountains but I also love the desert and have spent much time with father and my wife in the west desert. I have a brother who still lives in the east and he is convinced that the mountains of Utah are devoid of any trees. And I am sure he probably thinks even less of the desert here. I am not inclined to change his mind or anyone else because like you I also like the lack of people in these areas. Their loss...our gain. GREAT VIDEO. Thank you.

As a native Nevadan I absolutely love the desert. Nevada is very similar to western Utah and it is wonderful!

WOW Tristan 🤩 my kind of adventure. So right, some just don't appreciate the beauty. Loved the adventure and looking forward to what's to come 👍

Magnificent! What a treat to be able to share your experience in this amazing place! I have never been to Utah & it is on my wish list (short version). What astounds me (to some extent) is that there is a road through all of it. Maybe it was constructed when people were doing some mining in the area? Glad it was there!

You're the real deal, brother. I love the desert too.

Ex Salt Lake resident who has many fond memories of the west desert. Best part of this segment: Seeing Tristan with his folks. Always endearing.

Having been born in the northwest mountains of New Jersey and living most of my life in the lush green of northern Kentucky, I get sick of green. The absolute vastness of Utah and most of the west just gives me such utter peace. It’s stunning and the voids do not fill me with already, but more curiosity about what lies down each valley and mountain. Thanks for showing more its beauty!

I loved watching u look for Geodes!

I get it ! Thanks for your videos. My wife and I pick places to go from your videos.

The Pony Express National Museum in St Joesph, MO is def worth going to to if your interested in the history of it!

Great video! The quiet of such a beautiful place is very special? Thanks!