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Where do you live so I can rock hound your driveway?😅

I have found some huge ones over the years and there are many more to be found. Happy Rockhounding!

@@Henry-405 I just watched, so I didn't work up a sweat

@@lorenmerriman8439 I think the Forest Service would have a fit

I've often thought about drilling one big hole right in the center and loading up a stick of dynamite. We could be picking up bits of Thor's Blood from that area for years😂 But yeah, FS won't let me blast.

​@bustedhammer the micro-blasters don't require special permits to use unlike other explosive devices. And the FS crews have been using them to assist in trail maintenance without closing the trail for more than a few yards.

​@@bustedhammerI have a bag of feathers and wedges, and would be happy to assist on a weekend, especially when I dont have any field-trips planned :)

@lorenmerriman8439 that's funny because they won't even let him clear anything that might resemble a trail.

It can get really hot out there on those hillsides, so its a trade off. I like hunting areas most people won't get into, the rockhounding is much better and it shows new rockhounds that not everything has been found

@@Bert-e1j so am I

@OldGuyAdventures Way too cold here to get wet.

Thank you for the identification. I know the Olympics have lots of minerals that most people are not aware of and I keep finding rocks I have never come across before

@OldGuyAdventures I've watched your channel for a long time and I've always been puzzled why you find so many jaspers in the Crescent. There's only one place in Oregon CR I'm aware of that has anything close to what you've found, and clearly you find much more of it on the regular than I've ever seen in a lifetime of exploring. Recently, it occurred to me that while the Crescent is the exact same as the OCR (stratigraphically-speaking), the Crescent is tipped on its side, whereas in OR you still have kilometers of Tyee sandstone to get through to the igneous stuff and the igneous stuff you can find is either intrusives, dike systems coming up through the sandstone, or basaltic stuff that has been faulted and shoved up above the sandstone (e.g. Roseburg, Mary's Peak etc) In Washington, that Sandstone that is still there is practically sideways and shoved upwards (top of Mt. Olympus, Mt.Townsend etc). You get to see the underside of the same stuff we have in Oregon and see what is currently miles below my feet as I type this. Your explorations make me appreciate that much more the awesome places we all call home in the PNW.

@@BP_in_OR From your message I get the impression that your a geologist that has spent a bit of time researching the coastal areas. I do find a lot of jasper, but it wasn't always that way. It wasn't until I pondered how things erode out of the mountains that my discoveries increased. Then it was just a matter of finding a couple guys who were just as willing to walk into some rugged country for a rock. We all learn in school about erosion and how everything ends up back in the sea. What they don't explain is why the majority of rocks at the end of the stream don't match what you see in the upper reaches of the same stream. Once I figured that out, then it became clear to me where I needed to look and with that my rockpile got a lot better.

Thanks for watching! I will have to check out your channel. Happy Rockhounding!

It is always nice to have younger legs out there with ya, the only problem you have to keep up with them. Its great though your getting the younger generation involved

The Teanaway formation has many places to collect Wonderstone, some areas are better than others. When you do find a good area you can get some nice pictures

No I do not have a indoors set up, its way to cold here also to do it outside

You have to go up the Reecer Creek roas until it turns into National Forest road. Stay on the road until you get to NFS 3507 and stay on it until you come to Crystal mountain. The area around the mountain has abundant agates and geodes

@@OldGuyAdventures Thank you so much! I can't wait to go looking around.

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@@bustedhammer Makes you want to go find some

@@wileyann9449 It's getting cold here

@ you’re more on the western side of the state though right? I thought it would be a lot more dry than it is here in the eastern side, but I have to say I have not seen so many people celebrating Halloween like this in decades! Was fun to watch and then we got rain on and off past couple days. Rockhound meeting coming up so I should actually make it this time 😂 Really enjoy your videos! Was wondering since you are closer than I do you ever go into the Olympic coastal area for fossils?

@@wileyann9449 Once in awhile I go up to Murdock beach and search for fossils, I normally do that in the winter when snow in the mountains keeps me out. I used to live in Ellensburg and it as fairly dry there, but here in the Olympics we get lots of rain. I grew up here so the rain doesn't bother me.

@@ElizabethDevlin-c2h The Satsop has good rocks it just has a lack of access to get on the river. I have done field trips in the past, but now I am doing a lot of prospecting, so no guarantee of finding rocks

You have a broken leg? I am not a geologist, I just wander around a lot.

Yes there was a old lookout on top of the hill, we were in the Olympics

@OldGuyAdventures lol, got that, looks like Jefferson ridge up hamma hamma

@@sasquatchcrawlers I don't post exact locations and that's from experience. Not everyone respects the forest and the resource.

@@severedvibrations1211 glad it helps you! Thanks for watching

@@calebdillman8462 it's epidote, lots of epidote in the Olympics

​@OldGuyAdventures wow, that's a lot. We have epidote around the great lakes here in Wisconsin but nothing that size that I know of.

@@calebdillman8462 it gets massive here, I have seen rocks several hundred pounds

So great to get out in the woods away from the hustle and bustle. Quiet. Fresh. Beautiful. What a bonus if you find some good mushrooms or material. Thanks again OG!

@@Henry-405 hard to come up with something I would rather be doing

@@wileyann9449 I come across many rocks that I would like to have tables made with

We parked just below the red top parking area where there is a Y in the road, then walk back up the road towards Red Top about 100 feet. Then head straight down the hill about 300 feet and there still should be some float material under those small trees at the edge of where we were digging. You want to be to the far left of the meadows, right on the edge of the steep hillside that drops right below the veins

I was going to be over there on the 1st October, but the fire kept us out of there

@@OldGuyAdventures My goodness? to the right was sooo steep and the best score was just over the ledge. After that zone we follwed a guly sort down.

@@OldGuyAdventures Right? Hope to see ya here agian next season.

@@laureldunseth8076 Next Spring

Olympic mountains, Washington state

If I can get young people outside then what I am doing is worthwhile. Thanks for watching and I hope you do have some of your own adventures

I have been doing this a long time and I still walk by good material. It seems like I still learn something new each time I go out, which is good then it doesn't get boring. I hope my tip lead you to your own hot spot

Thats right, why break your back when you have a mule

I rockhounded for many years by myself, I enjoy it. When your rockhounding by yourself though you sometime miss good rocks because you are spending more time making sure you stay safe. When others are with you it will be more relaxing and we all do better when relaxe. Hope you get your pick.

Tourniquet* ^-^ Cheers stay safe

Thank you! That is a very nice comment. I don't know if I have enough insight about this subject to create a book, but if I figure something will help others to enjoy this hobby then I will share. Sounds like your dad and you shared some nice memories rockhounding. Every parent should do that for their children, more now then ever.

Been out to Murdock have ya