The Whistler Springs Thunderegg Bed // Rockhounding in the Ochocos

This was an interesting site to dig at, and although we found some nice thundereggs I felt like we somewhat lacked a direction when we were on-site. Now that we have cut some of these thundereggs I feel like I have a much better understanding of the location and I look forward to the day we can return.
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[@patriciamckean4186]

I like the reviews of places. Updated Information is always appreciated. Thank you Jared, Sara and Lika. 😊

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I'm glad you liked it, and thank you for being here watching.

[@DeeDeeDIY]

Good info for those wanting to go there. As always, thank you for sharing.

[@curtd7117]

Absolutely yes, beautiful things can come in small packages!!!😊

[@BrienWood7.3]

Some of those are pretty nice... love the thunder eggs.

[@Mike-br8vb]

Thanks!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Oh my gosh, thank you very much for the donation.

[@Mike-br8vb]

@CurrentlyRockhounding absolutely, thank you for your teaching and information. This hobby is expensive, and you're providing people with cheap alternatives and diy options that help the masses. Your website also has so much information, you've done the research and provide it to the community. 🍻

[@Mike-br8vb]

Great video! I think Sara is right that what you pick up is just luck when it comes to quality. I really like the eggs you've shown polished, but the ryolite heavy one is bunk. Blaze orange for safety!

[@sandmaker]

I think you did pretty good. It was fun and instructive. Thanks for sharing.😊

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you!

[@gator83261]

Those are all cool.

[@brianholcomb940]

Merry Christmas, Jared and Sara! Awesome video and amazing eggs! Thanks for sharing!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Merry Christmas!

[@BackcountrywithShaughn]

Thanks for the post sir, much appreciated! I love that bed due to the oddities I've discovered myself. I've found three completely different thunderegg and agate forming events there myself. There are two rhyolite formations separated by about 7-9" of very dark earth at around the 4' deep level. The top rhyolite formation yields thundereggs that have some black fortification banding and greenish rhyolite, the deeper formation has yielded eggs (mostly cores) that are blue, red and orange inside. Which is why I keep going back, am desperate to get a completely formed egg from the deeper event where the blue red stuff sits. The cores I've found are just over 4" across the diameter and are some of my most favorite specimen. Anyway, thanks as always for sharing your adventures and knowledge. Merry Christmas to you and Sara!!!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you so much for the insight into the location! I really hope that we can meet up there this coming summer. Merry Christmas!

[@BackcountrywithShaughn]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding Agreed, big blue/red eggs for the win!!! and Merry Christmas to you and yours as well sir~

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Very cool, I hope you guys go back bc it looks pretty promising!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I think a return trip would be really nice.

[@collllroossk]

Thundereggs are amazing! It's a shame there aren't any around my area, it is great vicariously visiting all the collecting sites with different eggs through this channel!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Sounds like it's time for you to take an Oregon vacation!

[@spetkovsek57]

I've been there multiple times as it's a nice camping area with an outhouse and only a mile from the Mt. Hood club claim. So, I can hit two free dig places on the same trip. I've managed to find a few softball sized egg, but they are few and far between. My largest was a seam through a big chunk of Rhyolite that I was able to cut right through the seam and get two nice halves of Moss Agate. It's about 10 inches long. Yes, going in Sept. you will come across the hunters. I just stay in the digging area and make lots of hammering noise so I don't sound like a game animal.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Softball sized eggs from there would be outstanding. Maybe someday you could break them out for a video? :)

[@BackcountrywithShaughn]

That seam piece you showed me is quite unique if you ask me and looks really nice IMO. Because of the piece you showed I was tempted last time there to dig downwards into that rhyolite shelf on the left side of the road looking uphill to see if I could find some seams but spent almost all my time on the other side getting down to the right level. (found a hole then dug 2' deeper and then sideways) Me and my friend dug around a full 5 gallon bucket digging from around 9am till around 3:30pm with a couple breaks to make breakfast and lunch. Not a ton of eggs for the time when compared with what it was like at Richardson's but still got some great stuff. Merry Christmas!

[@ResortDog]

Once a site is published, it got hit by non rockhounds out to sell the material as rough too often. A friend had his newly found little jasper ledge razed by strangers with a back hoe on a weekend. Left quite a mess and only taking it to sell would make it worth that effort and expense. Abundance is "if you get any you are ahead of the game" for rarer than dirt minerals.

[@ocklawahaboyrocks]

I went there the last afternoon of my visit in 2022. I found it similarly confusing. In an area like that, it's impossible to know if a hole will lead to eggs or if you're chasing someone else's wild goose. I collected very similar material to you but it all still sits in the box. Maybe this weekend will be the time to cut it.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I look forward to seeing some of your cuts from it!

[@shurpie8232]

Have you ever slabbed one of those? Seems like it would be nice because you can see through. Or would they just crumble..

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Generally, I don't slab things up a lot since I don't really make cabs at all.

[@brucevanderzanden9638]

I agree with your thoughts on this site. Our rock club will not go to this location.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Yeah its a hard one.

[@tombsandtemples]

Phre heaven brother 0:53 0:57

[@notinmanitou]

Do you have blaze orange clothing and hats to let hunters know you are not a deer? Here in Michigan, every year some trigger happy hunter ends up shooting a person by mistake. Lika too should have an orange jacket.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

We normally have it with us, but didn't on this trip.

[@kerickwalters2749]

What an egg-xemplary dig 😅 okay enough of the egg jokes

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Ha!

[@nicholaslarsen-en5yd]

I honestly think some of those were planted there and they're not natural to that area anyway or maybe they are and they've been altered.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

What makes you think that? I can assure you that these were not planted.

[@nicholaslarsen-en5yd]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding I don't mean any disrespect. I can just tell.

[@nicholaslarsen-en5yd]

And I can't remember your exact words but I remember you saying something like there's no geological trail to follow and that's probably why some of the things that don't make sense is because people put them there

[@richardblair1161]

As a local central Oregonian, I live right next to the ochoco's and I have found some rather odd things here both on my land and at dig sites. I do not believe those to be planted but rather a small cache of something found at that site that differs from things found in the past 50 years there. I'm finding things on my own property that are quite confounding it appears I'm finding rocks not indigenous to central Oregon and it's going over 24" deep that these occurrences are happening. Rather odd findings indeed that I've come to find out most of it I can't say here as I'm still waiting on analysis.