Rimrock Lake Thundereggs // Returning to Rimrock Lake For Round Two

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

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[@rockfishdad]

The whimpering at 19:30 had me busting up. :D Mirrors my exact anxiety when rock hounding and finding something huge and amazing, but not wanting to carry it out. hahaha

[@sandmaker]

What a fun place. Duds are better than no duds. I'm shocked someone brought back a cut thunder egg and espically that big. I guess they were giving back. Sara was doing pretty good too. Keep the fun coming. Be happy, safe and stay healthy 😷⚒

[@sachaCS9]

Love your commentary, I would struggle to not take more too. *lol*🙂

[@406findings]

I would of grabbed that thunderegg at 2:49 the same way it looked very firm 😅

[@joniangelsrreal6262]

👋👋 hello folks… Happy to stop by…🍺

[@hockeyrace]

Wait…..what? I was thinking you were going to show the bigger ones cut too 😭😭. LOL Great adventure 👍 Great trip back. All of the different varieties of minerals was neat to see. Thanks for taking us with you! Stay Crystal 💫 Mari

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I wish! The really big one is far too large for any saw I have access to.

[@pamelapilling6996]

So neat. Thank you for sharing.

[@patrickkillilea5225]

Looks like a really good time.

[@lisac5287]

Fun video!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you!

[@dustinfindsrocks]

Those rotten thunder eggs look very similar to a lot of stuff I find in Missouri. I’m betting that rusty looking material is limonite pseudomorph after marcasite or pyrite some kind of iron mineral for sure 🤷🏻‍♂️ That calcite looks exactly like what I find here. Probably glows cool colors under blacklight. Most of what I find glows orange. Very cool spot. Took me a while to finish up this video but I’m glad I did. Your videos are always entertaining and I often learn things. Keep up the great work guys 👍🏼

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I always seem to learn something from your comments! :D

[@KatyDidRocks]

Fun to see you go back there! :)

[@lisad5256]

Was there today on my kayak. As the water is pretty high right now, was able to get a good size egg and hoping to cut it open soon. All the people jumping off the bridge (80f today) wondered what I was doing, floating in one spot messing with the wall 🤣 Thanks so much for pointing this spot out. Had been here many times swimming and camping, and never thought to look for thunder eggs. Youre my favorite youtuber!!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Now that sounds fun! Rockhounding in a kayak on a nice summer day sounds fantastic

[@therockdad1]

On my list grate video

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It's a fun spot.

[@MelShip82]

Every time I'm at Rimrock or Little Naches I hope to run in to you guys. 😀 I mostly go for recreation as I live close by. I discovered pet wood in the hills behind my house and quickly became hooked on the hunt for more.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

We do head out there a few times a year so who knows when our paths will cross.

[@TarnishedViking.]

WOAH!! Awesome finds! 🤘👍

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you!

[@RagnarRocks]

Oh man! I love the one with all the quartz crystals! I hope some of the larger ones have epic quartz pockets!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I know! I've had some okay luck cutting some of them as well.

[@leonalbert4319]

It`s always great to see you go back to a site again to get a better look at the material, I definitely wont be going there not because of the gamble on the material but I don`t trust myself to negotiate that bank I`ll look some where else for thundereggs, Thanks for another great video see you on the next one.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It can be a little sketchy for sure.

[@rachaelb9164]

I kind of like the idea of returning cut rocks to the location they came from. You don’t always want every rock you collect so it lets other rock hounds know what’s inside the rock.

[@manisteerocks7092]

Whaaaaattttt????I'm so gunna wanna go here when I come out!!! Ok..I had to hit pause..I'm nicknaming that.."bubble butt" thunderegg....the way u grab it just makes me laugh!!. 19:20...omg...

[@tracyu3580]

I would have liked to see that one you placed on the stump, under the microscope. I have see cut items at time out in collection areas, too. But that one was a big surprise. 😄

[@patriciamurray5612]

The pieces I have, which are chunks and a couple halves and quarters, I dug out of the side of the hill or found loose near where Sara was but further around the side of the hill. The water was much higher by the time I got out there (last year) but I did get some pretty stuff I think. I also think the charcoal gray sparkly stuff that surrounds some of the cores is very pretty but you can't polish it because if you do it no longer sparkles! I'm pretty sure some of my pieces do have veins of common white opal and blue chalcedony (or chert) as well as agate. No crystals though.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It sure is an neat area, I think with the eggs I collected here I have some good examples so I don't really have plans on going back but time will tell on that I guess.

[@ninaforsyth5126]

I know walker valley is pretty far for you but would love to see you head there!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

We might try to make some westside stuff happen this summer.

[@treasuresunderfoot7876]

I wonder if the brown is Limonite over Chalcedony or Agate 🤔

[@chrisreinhardt5843]

Hey cool shout out by jtv about you and fire obsidian!!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I saw! :)

[@TheAdventureCloset]

The scenery sure makes up for the tough pickings on the eggs. Hoping those monsters have some goods inside though. Your camping setup is great btw.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It's a pretty simple setup but we've been happy with it so far.

[@ocklawahaboyrocks]

Gosh... probably another 4 feet or more of water when I was there. All of that gravel you were walking on was underwater. That does look like fun though.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It seems like this place has a narrow window of access.

[@mtonjum]

You got me so curious to know what is inside those big thundereggs! Does your local rock club have a big enough saw to cut them? Thanks for the video! 😁

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Me too! Unfortunately the really big one is too big for my local rock club to cut.

[@BubuH-cq6km]

now what would a Thunderegg hunt be without some Thunder❓🤷🏼‍♂️

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Ha!

[@ericclayton6287]

Indeed, half a thunder egg.

[@gregderksen1996]

Those trips are the best kind of trip. No fees lol! What time of year is usually the best to head there? Late spring early summer?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

The end of fall before the snow fly and as soon as the snow melts so that you can have at it with the lowest water possible.

[@largent45]

That was a crazy big thunderegg! I cant wait to see that sucker cut and polished! There was some super cool material there. I cant believe the different variety of material, all in one place! Very unexpected! even those eggs you cut were all very different! i thought they were super cool. Maybe one of these would be a good candidate for cutting out the core and polishing it so that its a solid, polished core? Its hard to tell what the cores are in these without cutting them. They vary so much! Very cool video. The lake and views are spectacular! Thanks for sharing your finds!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

The variety found here still has me kind of wondering about the geological history of this area.

[@largent45]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding Thats a good point. It is so diverse, something unique, had to have happened, in its geological past, to have that wide variety of minerals deposited there.

[@houndofrock]

That last piece in the matrix is pretty sweet. What's the matrix of the calcite piece you found? Might have to venture that way very soon.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I think from the time I filmed this until now the water level has gone up a lot and much of what I showed is now under water.

[@houndofrock]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding booooo. Maybe after a few weeks of heat and less rain.

[@theruggedrockhound]

Interesting formations! Too bad they don't have much in them, but still really neat to learn about them!

[@GIBKEL]

I have been killing it with petrified wood and I imagine a forest underfoot. You just never know what you are walking upon…. but it helps to have a clue. Even found a fossilized bone near the same formation. Very very strange, very very interesting! Love this old earth and what it can reveal. Had the great opportunity to take some courses from David Alt at the U of Mt. He was definitely one of the best professors I ever had. He taught me how to think, on just about everything, how to think about catastrophic events and how they shape us in small ways and the big; he really opened my eyes on how to ask the question.

[@TinkerinWithTim]

Celadonite?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Are you talking about the green rocks?

[@TinkerinWithTim]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding yes

[@derekclement7323]

Those sandstone looking ones are like the ones I find here in wyoming lately , pretty cool. Found a motherload of agate this last weekend too. But I'd be getting a multi purpose ladder to get to those good ones up higher lol. They looked like good ones for sure. And use a hammer drill if you can .. not sure on rules there ... anyways cool video ..

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Unfortunately we can not use a hammer drill on public land.

[@derekclement7323]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding huh ya that sucks. I thought they considered it as a hand tool still, the cordless ones at least...

[@cliffmiller1021]

I didn't notice, but did you mark the tops of the ones you pulled out of the wall? Also did you notice the level of the location off the wall they came from? I'm curious as to what differences are in the levels of where they were found in the wall, vs the minerals in them. I know you track a lot of what you do. Nice to find a prelude as to what to expect after a cut! Minus the liquid sunshine, that looked like a nice location to travel through.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I did mark them with a sharpie so later I could cut them correctly. I didn't mark where they came off the wall but now that you said that I likely should have.

[@lisad5256]

How do you know how to cut them, in relation to how they came out of the wall? Can you help me understand why that matters and how to decide how to cut if known?

[@cactusmann5542]

Ive seen a place with rocks like this, also had spheres too, but i think those were concretions, with hornblende inside...

[@robcappa]

This is old video, maybe you have learned this buy now, but in the fall, early winter, there is very little water in this area

[@-CBA-]

thunder eggs was a term used by native americans funny how it has also been repurposed and made to mean something else just like everything in our history

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

What did it mean?