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The Desert Speaks
Utah's Slick Rock Country
Season 19
Episode 1907
Host David Yetman and his brother, Geologist Dick Yetman, take a geological road trip to Southeastern Utah’s Colorado Plateau. After hiking through an ever-changing slot canyon named Canyon X and the aptly named Kodachrome Basin State Park, they take an eerie trek through Goblin Valley State Park where the mysterious entrada rock sculptures known as “goblins” surround you from all angles.
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Host David Yetman takes a trip to the pueblos of the Sierra Madre.
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Host David Yetman travels to track jaguar movements through Eastern Sonora Mexico.
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Travel through the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and Quitobaquito Springs.
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Travel around the Puna, the high-elevation plains of Chile’s Atacama Desert.
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We trace the Atacama Desert Trade route from the Pacific coast to the Chilean Andes.
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In Chile’s Atacama Desert people have lived for thousands of years in a land without rain.