This area looks so beautiful...thank you for the share

@RachelNevada

5 жыл бұрын

It truly is beautiful. Thanks for watching. Planning a mission in the same area, on the other side of the Worthingtons, next. By Freiburg Mine.

Been to Rachel and the folks that own and run this stop are wonderful. If you are in Las Vegas it's worth the 3 hour drive to visit history in the making over the years. Great field day trip from Vegas and also stop at Alamo to stretch out a bit.

@RachelNevada

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! We are happy that you enjoyed your visit.

This is so cool. Great perspective on the filming; really quality work. I’d love to walk this piece of Earth. New item on my bucket list

@RachelNevada

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I am glad you like the video. Getting up there is not easy but there is a trail of sorts from the east.

A team explored the cave in 2016. The Spurlick cave rescue team used this cave for training. Strange things were found at the bottom of the cave.

@joergarnu

5 ай бұрын

I was not aware of that. Do you have a news link? I would love to add that to the article.

That was truly “epic!” What an adventure! I live here in rural NV and that cave is now on my list. You did a fantastic job of film and documenting. Thanks!

@RachelNevada

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I am glad you enjoyed the video. Hope you get to visit the cave soon and get some good photos. There are not a lot of photos available online.

This was breathtaking. Thank you for making this video.

@RachelNevada

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I am glad you enjoyed the video.

Thanks for the cool view. I appreciated the additional links on your site to other explorers that explored the cave. It all looks very exciting :)

Just a great job all around, piloting and videoing. Thanks for sharing this and for posting the other links on your site. Something about caves are fascinating and eerie at the same time. Maybe has something to do with entering the bowels of Mother Earth and the unknown that awaits. What a hidden gem and I'm glad it's so hard to get to. Thanks.

@RachelNevada

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I am glad you like the video. There are lots of hidden gems in the NV high desert.

Nice fly bys. I would have loved for you to dive that drone into the center of the cave.

@RachelNevada

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I would love to fly into the cave, but unfortunately it is high above the desert floor. If I flew into the cave I would lose contact with the drone and the ability to control it. Diving into the cave would certainly possible if you were to hike up to it but I will gladly leave that to someone else. I hear the hike is brutal.

This is never before seen footage of this cave. Nobody has done this!! This is fantastic! Thank you for doing this. I'm going to watch this a couple more times too. Your mission planning is outstanding. A lot of people think you just get a drone in the air and fly it until you're done. No it's not like that. You have to be mindful of obstacles, distances, battery capacity, & weather conditions. The list doesn't stop there, You have to make sure you have enough battery to get back, an often make sure your return trip home is with the wind instead of against it. On that note, the forward portion of your drone was really angled forward! It must have been windy up there and or you were flying towards the target around 30 mph. This is a great job flown by a great pilot. This channel ranks up there with the area 51 rider who also puts out excellent videos, but from ground level. Good job, good job, great job! I'm passing this video out to the rest of my "landing party" who also visited the BLM land around the base near Rachel Nevada. We talked about hiking up there and visiting this cave. The hike is very strenuous, an 8-hour hike. We never did it. I've researched repelling down into the cave. It's risky and when you repel down you have to ascend back up. I'm not that experienced on rope. 🤝 *Hand Shake*.

@RachelNevada

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm too old to hike up there, so flying my drone is the next best thing. I just added a page about the cave to the Rachel web site. I'll add the link to the video description.

@DesertJeff

5 жыл бұрын

@@RachelNevada Yes, age is creeping up on me too. Let's just say I'm well over the hill, but yet younger But I don't draw AARP yet. 🤠

Bucket list hike.

@RachelNevada

5 жыл бұрын

When you do the hike, I would love some ground level photos of the cave for the Rachel web site.

Very cool; thanks for posting.

@RachelNevada

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I am glad you like the video.

Thanks

It's near Golden Arrow.

i like silent video. am tired of music!

@raZyonRL

4 жыл бұрын

You don't think this video would've been better with Lenny Kravitz's "I Wanna Fly Away" blasting the background?! Agreed, silence gives it that Stanley Kubrick stoicism.

@seeharvester

2 жыл бұрын

"Silence is Golden."

very nice

@ 5:55 On the right side of the screen, there is something shiny. It could be a reflective rock and it probably is. The object enters the frames second before this. It is seen for quite a few more seconds. I have some questions if I may ask. When you fly your DJI, are you using the screen on your mobile device? Or are you using goggles? I've been thinking about getting goggles but not sure if it's worth it. For some reason, I seen the thing you have a Phantom 3 advanced? That's what I have 3 access gimbal Super duper slam duck, home run camera whatever it has on it..

@RachelNevada

5 жыл бұрын

I looked at the object in my stills. It is a light colored rock. The lighting, partial shadow, makes it stand out more. I use a tablet on my controller. I find goggles disorienting. And I fly a Phantom 4 Pro. I actually crashed it to the tune of $240 in repairs on my last flight. Just got it back today. The distance and altitude change from the spring where I launched to the cave is pushing the battery. I had to cancel auto-RTH on every flight. The last flight it was a bit windy and I ran out of battery about 1/2 mile before I got it back to me. Crashed into some trees, but was able to hike up the hill and got it back.

@DesertJeff

5 жыл бұрын

@@RachelNevada That was a real sinking feeling. I've done this before. Thank you for your time invested in this video.

How did you orbit the cave so smoothly? Are you using the DJI app or are you using Litchi? this is also an interesting video when you speed up the playback speed 2x. The cave just kind of pops out of nowhere.

@RachelNevada

5 жыл бұрын

I use pre-planned missions with Litchi. With a tool called "Virtual Litchi Mission" you can fly the mission in Google Earth to get an idea of what it will look like. Still, I find myself flying every mission about three times, with some tweaks in between. The drones also have some quirks, so you never get the same exact result twice.

@DesertJeff

5 жыл бұрын

@@RachelNevada I've been thinking about purchasing Litchi. 25 bucks. Not expensive, but I may purchase it and do some experimenting later on in the year as fall and winter approaches closer. Did you have radio contact with your drone all throughout the mission or did you lose contact and you just waited for it to come back. That's scary. I've seen people do this on KZread. You send your drone off on a long distance mission and it disconnects, it's gone flying it's mission. You wait, you wait some more, and eventually reconnects when it's coming home. Pretty dang awesome, but yet scary at the same time. DJI has got this drone technology down pretty good. It would be interesting to look at your flight log.

@RachelNevada

5 жыл бұрын

@@DesertJeff Litchi is definitely the ticket. I could have done hardly any of the missions published here without Litchi. On this particular mission I did not lose contact with the drone. The problem with the drone (not Litchi) is that pre-programmed gimbal pitch angles do not work when the controller loses contact. I have flown various missions where I did lose contact, but that requires some careful planning to set the gimbal pitch to an acceptable average before you lose contact. For that reason I have modified my controller for larger range. One mission where I lost contact was the Sanderson Mtn mission. You will notice that the gimbal pitch is constant for the entire mission.

@DesertJeff

5 жыл бұрын

@@RachelNevada Thank you for your knowledgeable tips!

where dose cave go too

@RachelNevada

2 жыл бұрын

The cave is a giant natural sink hole. As far as I know there is no other exit.

@aircraftsandamericanadvent269

2 жыл бұрын

@@RachelNevada ery nice thanks

Doesn't the military post this as a restricted fly over zones, to shoot downs drowns trespassing?

My uncle and my family were some of the early people in the cave besides the indians that live there before. The blm drops in via heli once a year to check things. They stole the original log book. Access is either side of the range however its not for the timid weekend hiker. The ropes are not just left. Its a tied in rope / metal ladder to drop into the cave. Before webhad to down climb on a rope.

@RachelNevada

Жыл бұрын

If you have any photos of those early explorations please email me at webmaster@dreamlandresort.com. Would love to add some historical photos to our Rachel web site.

dosent look man made

@seeharvester

2 жыл бұрын

That's because it's not.

Oh yeah lol....I seen that the first time round and now that's all the last bit to completely verify everything I've found...gotta love Pythagorean 🤣🤣🤣 numbers don't lie...plus people don't believe you anyways when you tell em the truth🤣🤣🤣