Quartzsite - 2014

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Thanks ! Will look for your future efforts .

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Video is herky jerky right now, I'll try later. Might have something to do with the majority of the country snowbound and burning up bamdwidth.

Brian,
I wasnt questioning copyrights, just how they were taken. The glider guys fly out of the Plomosa area and we see them all the time. I have tons of pix from my RC heli around where we camp, but nowhere else. IMO, thats really the only way to project the scope of that event.

Either way, this aint Hollywood. Nice job!

Excellent. I'll keep that in my archives for when the 'what is Quartzsite' question comes up.

SCVJeff wrote:

RWDIII wrote:
Well done
I found the music distracting
No mention of Tyson wells and the Bradshaw trail
The Patton army camp was at Bouse,not Quartzsite

That's what I thought, but apparently allot of the training was done in and around Plomosa Road. There are occasional relic hunters sweeping the area that still find things.

We are all correct.Training was held theoughout the desert From Indio
To Needles.Patton did not need Tree huggers permission
however the Camp where they lived was at Bouse

Thanks folks for your constructive criticism!

I honestly have no I idea how the aerial shots were taken as they were submitted by the contributor with no questions asked or offers of information. I admit that I hadn't thought about using a contributors photo being an issue. The photo could have been taken with an RC aircraft, a powered hang-glider, airplane, or even on a balloon I suppose... I won't be using aerial shots again!

I edited the black spot into the video accidentally when I edited out excessive movement I'm sure. I asked my wife to view the finished video and she didn't notice it so I left it which is an obvious error.

As far as the Patton info, here is the response I received from the BLMs Yuma Field Office regarding the Plamosa Road archaeological site...

Brian,

Hi, I'm Tom Jones, the archaeologist here in the Yuma Field Office. There is not a lot known about the Quartzsite signage that appears in the photo that you referenced in your previous e-mail. There are two possible explanations, however. The first is that it was constructed by soldiers associated with Camp Bouse during WWII. The placement of aerial markers was quite common during the training exercises for WWII and the proximity to Camp Bouse favors this explanation. This explanation is also favored because the amount of aerial training during the Patton years was more extensive than in subsequent years. I tend to favor this explanation.

The second explanation involves a training exercise called Desert Strike that took place immediately west of the signage during 1964. A recent survey of the flats adjacent to the signage documented about 300 individual tank tracks, of which about 250 date to the 1964 activity. They were able to document this because the tank tread width changed between WWII and Vietnam. Due to the extensive use of the desert north of Quartzsite during Desert Strike, there is a thought that this could be related to that exercise, but Desert Strike was exclusively a tank training exercise, so, again, I lean toward the WWII Patton exercises associated with Camp Bouse.

I haven't done a lot of research in this area and if I turn anything else up, I will let you know.

Have a great day,
Tom Jones

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Thomas Jones
Archaeologist
BLM - Yuma Field Office
2555 Gila Ridge Road, Yuma AZ 85365

RWDIII wrote:
Well done
I found the music distracting
No mention of Tyson wells and the Bradshaw trail
The Patton army camp was at Bouse,not Quartzsite

That's what I thought, but apparently allot of the training was done in and around Plomosa Road. There are occasional relic hunters sweeping the area that still find things.

Since you asked for critique...
There is a couple seconds of black around 2:40. It looks like there was a clip not inserted when this was rendered?

Other than that it's nice! Did you get the aerials from the powered glider guys?

Thank you, very good.
Never been and I guess will never get to go so seeing your video was great.

I pretty much agree with all of the above. Very good job. Not too long, not too brief. Quite informative. You even gave a good sense of the terrible traffic.