3 Coal Mine Canyon Arizona

Paleomanjim · Aug 11, 2023

GFields · Aug 11, 2023

Awesome!

jambros3 · Aug 11, 2023

I love it

… the music goes well

W5CI · Aug 11, 2023

Great Video and Music.

DaveS · Aug 11, 2023

Really cool video, although a bit long for my tastes. So, it's called Coal Mine Canyon but there was never really a strip mine there, right? It looks too natural. I love the cows hanging out nearby.

Paleomanjim · Aug 12, 2023

DaveS said:
Really cool video, although a bit long for my tastes. So, it's called Coal Mine Canyon but there was never really a strip mine there, right? It looks too natural. I love the cows hanging out nearby.

Thanks everyone. Its an awesome area and seldom visited, probably because it cannot be seen from the road. I used Google Earth to find the dirt road leading to the Canyon as it just appears to be a flat Mesa from the main road. There is coal in the sedimentary layers, you can see it in the video and much of the coloring comes from the coal and iron oxidation. Not enough to mine though. I'm not into meditating but if I was this would be the perfect place to do it, nature at its finest!

W5CI · Aug 12, 2023

A great video, I Loved it and would love to go see it. my question is how did the OP get permission to fly there.

AzJT · Oct 22, 2023

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Are you Navajo? How did you get permission to fly there if not?

AMann · Oct 22, 2023

AzJT said:
Are you Navajo? How did you get permission to fly there if not?

A good reason for the importance of respectfully checking the land ownership status and rules prior to entering an area…

Coalmine Canyon Rules & Regulations | Coal Mine Canyon

coalminecanyon.navajochapters.org

AzJT · Oct 22, 2023

AMann said:
A good reason for the importance of respectfully checking the land ownership status and rules prior to entering an area…

Coalmine Canyon Rules & Regulations | Coal Mine Canyon

coalminecanyon.navajochapters.org

This is how our hobby gets ruined.

AMann · Oct 22, 2023

AzJT said:
This is how our hobby gets ruined.

Not really- it just takes some research and flying responsibility. You’re lucky you live in the western US, there is so much open public land out here with so few restrictions on flying drones.

…but also, people should keep in mind that public access to special places like this that are currently open to visitors can get shut down. It happened at one of my favorite places to go on the Rez when I was younger and they closed it due to vandalism. Not saying flying there was such a horrible thing to do, it’s just that people need to check in and get permission before going and doing stuff somewhere belonging to others, public or private.

AzJT · Oct 22, 2023

AMann said:
Not really- it just takes some research and flying responsibility. You’re lucky you live in the western US, there is so much open public land out here with so few restrictions on flying drones.

But that's the problem. A lot of drone pilots are not doing their research. That's why I said that this is how our hobby gets ruined. This is why we keep getting more and more restrictions put in place.