A New Area From An Old Map

[@Akira_781]

Your guys’ acclimatizing has been impressive to see! Thanks for taking us along on your journeys! 💚🍻☮️🇺🇸

[@mikeladley5149]

Utah is one of my favorite States with it's geology, beautiful National Parks, and serenity. As far as altitude acclamation, the key is to the time you spend at various altitudes. It may be 30 minutes or 40 just sitting/resting until your body adjusts. Training yourself requires more time at those particular altitudes you seek. Thanks for the vids. 💪

[@troydean5702]

Wim Hof would be a guy whom i would suggest to increase your breathing health and that in turn can over all effect your health head to toe. Cheers you guys. Very glad to see you borh happy and healthy doing things you love and sharing them with the rest of the world.

[@Mike-br8vb]

Great video guys! Looks like Jasp-agate to me. Thanks for showing the power of the ant at the end😂

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

That little ant was trying to windsurf, I think.

[@Mike-br8vb]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding 🤣

[@Rockin_in_Kentucky]

Awesome video! Keep looking and some amazing stuff, I'm sure of it.

[@savagesquirrel9828]

Love the limb cast. I hope you find more. Thank you.

[@mitchgillilan]

Nice jasp agates and crazy awesome limb cast!! Must be fun having all this new terain to scout! 🎉

[@DanFarrar]

It must be really cool to have all these new areas to explore and investigate. Fun adventures you three!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I love it!

[@charleslupica]

The whole area from the hills east of Cedar City to miles east of Panguitch Lake have agate and other microcrystalline rocks just about anywhere you look. I often collect similar stuff along the first road after the lake (east). I have yet to find an area out there where I would say, “wow, this is some good stuff.”, lol. But, it’s fun to go out looking. I’m currently tumbling some stuff from Agate Hill (and east).

[@goldcambodia]

Good admin!

[@Harkart59]

I Liked the ant bit😂 That limbcast could be a nice surprise. Fun video.

[@NathanLarin]

Awesome finds! It never ceases to amaze me the differences in rocks in different places throughout the world.

[@BrienWood7.3]

Wow... what a great place to explore! Love the new area and hope you guys are having fun!

[@gator83261]

When I was stationed in Colorado Springs, it was known that it takes several weeks (and more) to get acclimated to the altitude, but it takes only a short time to lose it. If you took a week or more of vacation at a lower elevation, they gave you about 3 weeks before you had to do morning PT & running with the regular group again. So you’ll get used to it, eventually.

[@merricasem1964]

The Lavic Siding area in the Mojave has been known as a great site for jasper and agate since at least the 1940’s if not even early and it still is an amazing site!

[@66bigbuds]

Lake michigan is covered in jasper. Red, black, and yellow. But good agates are rare. They do exist there though. Some boulders of red jasper over 200lbs are easy to find but hard to run off with.

[@LezBeRockin73]

😮 that 🐜 Enjoyed your adventure as always. Thank you for sharing 😊

[@largent45]

Boy, i would say they are abundant! Some of the pieces you were picking up, looked like presliced slabs! And as they were not technically jaspers as we commonly think of them, but jaspers are chalcedony that is heavy with inclusions! Thats jasper! And when you find a jasper that has translucent parts, we call that a jasp-agate or jagate, or any number of other names. But the commonality is the jasper with translucent parts. Im fairly certain that several of the samples you chose to bring back would fit that description as would most of the ones you chose not to bother taking with you! So whether its agatized jasper, or a jasp-agate, back in the 70's they didnt have these catchy names and if it didnt have bands and wasnt completely translucent, whether colored or not, which is what we considered an agate, its a jasper! So the book isnt wrong. Its just outdated. Too many new terms to categorize rocks into these days, that they didnt have back in the 70's. And when you say it isnt jasper, its chalcedony with inclusions. Well that is what jasper is. But it was a great video! When you can go out to a location and not bother bringing a bucket, because you can afford to be picky and although there is so much to choose from, there just isnt any quality pieces worth collecting! Far cry from Washington where if you found anything, you brought it home! Lol! Thanks Jared and Sara, for the information and just how abundant this stuff really is out there! ❤

[@RnFfishy]

Walking daily for about 30 minutes or so will help you acclimate faster. It's very much a use it or lose it type of thing, so a little bit of daily exercise will help tremendously on building and maintaining acclimation (if you are not already dong that). That cast is pretty interesting and good sized. Hope to see that back onto a future episode for an update, very cool!

[@StephenJanzen-b5q]

You may already know this, but in my experience hydrating yourself a few days prior to going into a high altitude situation will help. That extra oxygen in the water is the "aid." Continue to hydrate while in the upper elevations. Also, drinks with a lot of electrolytes are excellent...Gatorade, orange juice, etc.

[@deborahellenberger7153]

I am so excited for you to have so many new places to explore. Loved the ant bonus video. 🥰🥰

[@GeologyDude]

It does take a while to get used to the higher elevation. But after a few weeks you should be fine. Thereafter, you should be relatively fine for most elevations--unless: 1) you become a couch potato, 2) you go to an unusually high altitude when you were used to only low altitudes, 3) if you go on a vacation to low elevations, you may need to have a couple weeks to get used to high altitude again. Note: I lived in Denver for four years. I would regularly climb 13K to 14K mountains when younger, but the first Colorado hike back after visiting 1000 feet elevation Minnesota always kicked my butt. Note: if you plan to be in the sun outside for many hours, wear very dark sunglasses to protect your eyes.

[@dalefagan3023]

We call that Jaspagate

[@glenncombs3471]

Agasper? 😅😂🤣

[@66bigbuds]

The plus is for new records. People have hauled away tons of good agate material from lake superior shoreline.

[@appleatchaadventure7664]

You will acclimate to the higher elevation over a relatively short period of time. I had the same problem when I moved from 500 ft above sea level to 4500 but it was all good after a few months

[@dyannejohnson6184]

I imagine it would cut beautiful….thank you re: fracturing

[@jimhutchison3435]

Another great one! You may get bloody noses as well because of the low humidity.

[@dyannejohnson6184]

Small Fractured pieces tumbled make amazing wire tree” flowers”

[@tobiasfrey2793]

My girlfriend and I call that stuff jaspagate. x) It's just so much in between the two. I agree, it can be really hard to differentiate between the two, and then there's also still chert which can complicate things even further. I guess if you want to be super precise about it, you'd need to look at it under a good microscope, since chalcedony has a fibrous microcrystalline structure with mostly parallel crystals while jasper has grainy, more chaotic microcrystalline structure (in the past, the two have been regarded as basically the same thing, just one with more inclusions and one with less, but newer findings show that they're actually a little more different than initially thought; that's at least my understanding of it, I only somewhat recently learned about that differentiation myself).

[@paulblack1799]

You were really close to Agate Hill, did you stop by? Low quality stuff but lots of it. Float or dig, your choice. Whole hill of it immediately west of this point on Casto Canyon Rd. 37.785800, -112.339200

[@dyannejohnson6184]

I like your teaching ability

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you.

[@RockyMountainBear]

I got a little pocket-sized oxygen boost canister as a joke for a friend who was visiting from Texas. I thought it was a total gimmick, a funny gift, but they said it actually helped breathe a little better at high altitude. It may have been some kind of placebo effect, but it might be worth a try, just until you've acclimated.

[@aidankeller1717]

Definitely not a placebo effect. It's harder to breathe at higher altitudes b/c of the thinner atmosphere (aka - there being less oxygen in the atmosphere for your lungs to draw in), so a canister of oxygen is super helpful for people whose lungs haven't adjusted to the higher altitude yet. That's why hardcore mountain climbers will bring oxygen masks w/ them on their ventures. You (unintentionally) made your friend very happy 😆

[@ssteele1812]

Agate, Jasper, Chalcedony, "Chert"... it's all Microcrystalline quartz or SiO2, like you said. lol I would call all of that stuff you brought home Agate except for the one with just a touch of translucency on the edge. I'd call that one Jasper. Some of the stuff you found looks like what some people call Plume or Mossy Agate. I've never been able to tell the difference. Don't even get me started on "Gem Chalcedony" that looks like chalcedony with literal moss in it.

[@graniterunner5129]

There is a locality in Sicily, Italy, Giuliana there they call it Jasp-Agate...looks pretty similar...cool stuff

[@tott3457]

Great video!!!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you.

[@glenncombs3471]

I find both opaque picture jasper and chalcedony with the same color patterns in the same areas in NE Washington.

[@Locs-Canada]

Ever consider publishing your own maps? By now you have a great compilation of sites.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

All the information is up on my website.

[@Dr.AculaMD]

Some of the Utah gold stories talk about how the gold was found in a place that isn't common for gold. That place is the basalt. From clear up north in the uintahs all the way south along the old spanish trail. Next time, take a metal detector and search through that basalt formation.

[@11Evalone]

1st piece he picks up I think is cool! Haha wait, come home with meee! lol Ending made me chuckle xD

[@kzbay1685]

less atmosphere at higher elevations to block uv rays possibly account for higher than 10 ratings maybe.

[@anthonysitalo]

Some geologist stated Jasper was colored Chert. Your thoughts please. Love your channel and videos. Thank you for sharing

[@paulblack1799]

Be sure to stop in Panguitch and see possibly the last Rexall Drugs and Radio Shack in the same store!

[@Mike-br8vb]

Radio shack!? Man, I used to love going there as a kid. Too bad they closed down😢

[@geoffjohnson6555]

Pro tip: I just call everything jasp agate here cuz that way I’m pretty much always right lol

[@mindseyeproductions8798]

You should do a small collection of “the ultimate boring rock specimen collection “

[@AxcelleratorT]

I'm guessing Spinal Tap had something to do with that UV indexing thing.

[@jonathanrood3548]

This piece looks amazing! 13:40 I wonder if you are under selling this place?

[@Rotrat2171]

Are you guys ever gonna go to some micro mineral localities?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

1000% YES! We already have and those videos are coming! They just take longer for me to make as it requires image stacking photos...etc. I love some micros minerals and Utah is the perfect place to be for a lot of them.

[@aidankeller1717]

It is now August 6th.... have you cut the ends of the supposed limb cast yet? Also, that ant seemed to be carrying the wing of a Sphynx Moth (also called a hummingbird moth). They are my favorite kind of moth!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I did cut the ends off and it is a limb cast.

[@TheRogueRockhound]

The UV index goes to 13 plus AND its not logarithmic...

[@jimedgar6789]

Did Jared say "acrosst"?

[@christies4963]

how I feel every time I go rockhounding listing to people who say "turn left at the old McDonald's".... can I just get a lat and long?

[@troydean5702]

A solar flare might be 10 plus?

[@bjurney85]

The stuff looks similar to the stuff in that same area to the east of that in Casto Canyon where people call it “agate hill”. It seems it’s more abundant at agate hill (kind of a misleading name as it’s mostly chalcedony though). I have a book from 1979 from the Utah Geological and Mineral Survey that has a bunch of spots that I have never seen mentioned anywhere else. I would be happy to send you locations from it that you can look into, is there an email I can contact you?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I'm pretty sure I have that book your are talking about here. You can always email me at [e-mail]

[@robsarabia]

Is it jasperized agate or agatized jasper 🤔

[@robsarabia]

Ant with a sail video😅

[@jimedgar6789]

PAIN-gitch ! Forget the "u"

[@66bigbuds]

It took 2 weeks for me to adjust to the elevation at elpaso texas 10,000 ' and Im from 60 to 150 feet in elevation In Michigan.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Where were you at Guadalupe Peak is the highest point in the state at 8700'?

[@66bigbuds]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding we were told by our drill instructors that we were at ten thousand feet.

[@66bigbuds]

Maybe they lied

[@dyannejohnson6184]

How nice…no matter what kind of mineral…my poor backpack would be overloaded

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

You gotta collect with purpose.

[@TheRogueRockhound]

Seeing places like this really make all of those Agate-based channels seem kinda silly

[@diamondpeakproductions]

#AU there…

[@OneOfAMineRocks]

Utah eh? Well watch yer back in the outback mates! ✌️😎👉❤️

[@ronrowe8168]

Boring and negative video

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I find it hilarious that you think your opinion matters to me even the slightest bit.

[@ronrowe8168]

You do this to get opinions and mine certainly counts. Grow up

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

@@ronrowe8168 Wrong again, you're a nobody with an invalid opinion that means nothing at all.

[@Rich_N]

Boring and negative comment, Ron. Move on and find something else.

[@BenPetty5]

Great Jasper site 37.55808, -113.59369 I would like to see a video there need a 4x4 though

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you!