Rockhounding the Cedar River, King County Washington

[@darkcrystalmagik3369]

Really sweet of you to take your son on these trips and share your passion with him. If I'd had a dad like you I'd consider myself lucky and look back on those memories fondly; I'm sure your son will as well.

[@misscdog]

I love the respect you show your son by asking his opinions and accepting his answers. Special relationship you 2 have.

[@judyherman5470]

Yes that red Jasper is called Washington Poppy Jasper. Also, and I'm not totally sure but, the black and white stone reminds me of Zebra Jasper. Nice finds.

[@mwilson14]

I'm so glad to find your channel. I live in North Bend and often rockhound the Snoqualmie River from the south fork, mostly the middle fork and down to Fall City. There are so many rock and mineral varieties in this region.

[@diannpowell1077]

Fantastic to find your videos. Subscribed and look forward to seeing whatever your doing. Glad your son took the chance and made it. You knew he could!

[@bonblue4993]

Wow! That is one gorgeous piece of poppy jasper!!

[@pattywpschoonbeck49]

Nice! Thanks! You and your son are great. I’ll bet that encouragement “ you can jump 3 feet” will stay with him!

[@tinker651]

yall are like a mile down the road from me lol! This is awesome! I work along the Cedar River, I'll be looking next time I'm by the shore!

[@GoldenArrow297]

You are great Dad dude. Happy rock hounding

[@SkyWatcher66]

Father-son outing, magic.

[@mitchgillilan]

Love the slab with the Marcasite inclusions!!! Very cool fossil leaf imprints too. Its so fun finding petrified wood, thinking of at one time it was a living tree a very long time ago. Thanks for sharing guys! I love the fact that you restored that saw, that looks like a job well done!

[@vugmeister918]

Mitch Gillilan Thank you!

[@motionsick]

Awesome man. I live in Auburn between White and Green rivers. Picked up a rockhounding book last weekend and shows some cool spots up by Greenwater. Cant wait to get out there!

[@savagesquirrel9828]

Fun to watch. Thanks. Love your smart co-pilot.

[@themacz1671]

Washington has amazing places to rock hound I've found a few cool ones myself thanks for sharing 👍👍

[@Karma861983]

Just found your channel and love seeing the stuff you and your son find. The large piece of petrified wood and the poppy jasper Aiden found are both absolutely beautiful.

[@vugmeister918]

Thanks! I definitely need to get our rock tumbler going again and polish those.

[@Damianwynn2014]

Hey karma how's everything going.

[@ginalanning5303]

Great job with jump Aiden! Now you know you can....

[@lizzymoore54]

Aidan left the stone on the log that you told him to set it on, dad. I could see it in the background as you were encouraging him to jump the stream. Oh, what a shame and dad, why did you leave that beautiful, jet black petrified wood? Nice trip though. ☺️

[@kynanpatterson7385]

Love the jump scene at the end, reminds me of one of my sons. You know that if you share enough advice with kids (as I've obviously seen in your videos), they learn, along with the (fortunate or unfortunate) early development of frontal lobe, making that jump attempt that much more difficult:) Great videos. Thanks for sharing.

[@MichaelJohnson-mo4em]

Cool finds! That leaf fossil in sandstone. It looks like it was used for a campfire. Lends character to it.

[@Hinkdogg]

The black with the gold streaks in it I have found a couple of pieces just like the one you found. The ones that I’ve found were in the Camas Washougal area of Washington. My biggest piece I found I brought to the Richardson rock ranch and had them cut it because my saw was to small. They told me it was pyrite but it was the first they have seen anything like it. Knowing that I’m sure it’s not that common nice finds guys.

[@coriaaquila6488]

Awesome guys! Enjoyed your video in British Columbia CANADA 🍁

[@dougbernick2129]

Nice, You guys found some great stuff.

[@laurieowen8696]

I love your sidekick. He's a real hounder !

[@vugmeister918]

Yes he is!

[@jasonluck7269]

You are the real treasure, you are a RAD Dad!

[@scottwall8419]

Nice agate find! I usually only find agates in those small dense beds on sunny days, walking into the sun they shine bright.

[@josephchroniger4281]

I pulled a blue agate the size of my fist off the cedar. I lived on the river years ago and went daily.

[@vugmeister918]

Yeah it reminds me of fishing with just a worm, never know what you’ll get on a glacial beach or river.

[@fridayfriday3948]

The kid is awesome!

[@toddjohnson1771]

All that petrified wood comes from the Indian coal mine behind the old county shop. They used it to build the rail line.

[@MarlainaAtkins]

Nice poppy! 😎🐾

[@vugmeister918]

Thank you! Aidan has been lucky with those, this was his second one and the first one he found was on the Port Townsend waterfront.

[@MarlainaAtkins]

@@vugmeister918 NICE! For some reason I seem to find them wherever I go around here. All alone the shores and even the rivers. They are such awesome specimens. A lot of them have hematite throughout too. Shines up beautifully. HH😎🐾

[@Snappy-ut4bj]

So cool. That leaf looks like a cottonwood!

[@bertokeson533]

I live in Hobart and hit the cedar a lot. Tons. Of clear agate with banding in there.

[@Pork-Zombie_Puke]

I'm always on that river. I'm in maple valley area Ann's always looking for a partner to go hounding with

[@traviscallahan7178]

Awesome! I live on May valley road and am finding alot of petrified wood in tibbits creek. Where on ceder are you referring?

[@williamsullivan1349]

Noticed your kids Moab shirt. I found some nice blue agate by canyonlands. But my favorite rockhounding is near the middle fork of the snoqualmie river where I find museum quality concretions.

[@vugmeister918]

Very cool, I know the spot on MF that you speak of.

[@maryjaynemay4214]

Terrific show! Those round pieces of petrified wood look like burls. Especially that large one. I'm sure of it.

[@dawnsalois]

the green one is the treasure of the hunt! looks like cool jasper or almost jasper you can find in the Oregon Troutdale formation!

[@seeharvester]

@Josey Wilds Looks like jasper to me. Conchoidal fracture?

[@crinkly.love-stick]

@@seeharvester it's Jasper. I find them everywhere around where I live. It's not common to find one that bright of a green, though.

[@Rookie_Rockounding]

14:00 my favourite bit! Heck yeah! Dad n son adventure times!

[@jjbentley9]

As a rockhound you should like both lol. Hunting for menirals and fossiels. 😁

[@user-ud3qn3yb1o]

I really enjoy your videos

[@vugmeister918]

Thank you 😊

[@scurvymcdiggle2741]

its hilarious, i watched the video you referenced erlier today. cool adventure from a rentonian

[@scrotex6592]

hell yeah man, i’ve got some amazing jasper and agates from the cedar

[@bequakynskagroupie3751]

Oh right on! I just saw you did the blue candy outcrop a few months ago too! Good stuff out there. Used to so up there and guide some folks up to the spot with Wade or "quartz cowboy" a lot over the past couple years. And that jasper is DEF poppy jasper hah. Good find ! I primarily specialize in nephrite and gold prospecting around here.

[@MountainJohn]

Hey thanks for watching my video about the Cedar River! Go friend me on facebook, my name is John Komiski. I'll send you tons of places to find great stuff!

[@vugmeister918]

I really need to get a Facebook account. I now have an instagram account linked to my KZbin account if this helps.

[@MountainJohn]

Hey sorry I didnt see that reply. I moved to Texas in August. Man, I really wish I could go carnelian hunting you with and Aiden. That looked super cool. Having lived in WA for 12 years, Id only ever found 1 that looked that cool while beach hounding. If youre ever in Texas, I can point out some spaces for you to hunt. But Id love to contact you further, maybe via phone. I did months of research and found amazing spots almost nobody knows about. I'd be totally cool sharing all my treasured spots with you and ayden to journey to and see and hunt some amazing finds. How can I reach out?

[@michellepernula872]

Nice finds. Fun.

[@richardtaihitu6157]

take your child hiking in the outdoors 👍🏿 steady

[@corkkyle]

9:48 is a beautiful chunk of orbicular jasper. Will tumble into a nice piece!

[@adamakapuppy8921]

ive pulled hundreds of pounds of very high quality petrified wood out of rivers in WA, love it.

[@thegatesofdawn...1386]

That rock looks like a bell pepper.😅

[@mrsseasea]

13:26 he forgot his rock on the limb back there

[@AG-6969]

Dude, your trophy of the day was that leaf fossil!

[@treasurehuntingscotlandmud9340]

enjoyed the video

[@horse2503]

I’m go g this weekend hopefully I’ll find something good. The “agate” circles are veins of quartz poking through. It probably looks crazy on the inside of that piece of wood

[@ABDULLAHkhan-fx1lr]

Nice hobby

[@shellymorgan9044]

I love the green rocks.

[@vugmeister918]

Me too!

[@Ozbawky]

Jade?

[@vugmeister918]

Green Jasper.

[@RallyWrex]

Lol my name is Aiden. I love the beginning 😂 felt like I was being greeted. 9:26 looks like obsidian right? I found a bunch I'm oregon or the obsidian is made from that type of rock.

[@vugmeister918]

It’s deceiving but it is carbonized wood.

[@nanettebarling1222]

You didn't take the black wood! Bummer! The green looks like Jade.

[@cptchumknuckle]

I found at softball size chunk of carbonized petrified wood with a droozie quartz vein at Cherry Creek, looks similar to a few pieces you found there

[@regenacooper3930]

It looks like obsidian that we find in Oregon.

[@amr8457]

Cool video! Thanks for sharing! Liked and subscribed from Bothell! :) PS My favorite rocks are the green ones like Aiden found in this video! Not sure why but I'm just totally attracted to the green color of any object! Lol.

[@vugmeister918]

Thank you

[@Cannalilly61]

Black one might be kimberlite diamonds

[@karapoole4070]

We have calcite/chalcedony mix here like that black stuff you found.

[@vugmeister918]

👍

[@tinamitchell8735]

You found the Big green . It was save. Usually for paint . The best . Is half clay crayon-ish , that small black could make two dollars , but mixed right you might make silver, Usually with that green stone . The brown stone was pottery clay . The red rock is used for brick . The big black was very Beautiful usually called marble.

[@robertsnyder5149]

If you like natural agate, go down on the Grays river abd take the fossil creek road till you come out on the river. Check the gravel bars there. We used to bring hoime tons of it when I was a kid.

[@vugmeister918]

Thanks for the info!

[@billywhitehorn6397]

and yes that is poppy jasper

[@Rookie_Rockounding]

Man, don’t underestimate your finds dude, they’re beautiful. I like the big chunk of black with the agate bits. And the poppy jasper is one of my fav stones. Oh no way you cut the big one I liked! Ha! Watching as I comment.

[@julierogers8011]

Nice

[@edtherockhound9944]

Hey are you the squirrel the guy? I didn’t know you where a rock guy like myself oh cool and cool video you find some keepers

[@edtherockhound9944]

I see you bring the family. I do the same thing and I was talking to my mother in law. She was saying how she needs to get out more and walk around . Perfect I say come with me rock hounding then she’s worried that she can’t keep up . No problem I can barely walk without limping yea bad hips anyways I go slow cause I’m coming every inch of the beach . Should be fun and she has this cute lil frenchie

[@vugmeister918]

Squirrel guy? No. Rock guy? Yes.

[@edtherockhound9944]

@@vugmeister918 sorry no disrespect.

[@horse2503]

Green is jasper

[@michellepernula872]

Wow you found a green bell pepper and a ted potato for dinner!

[@leah8904]

I have so many of those green rocks! I think they’re beautiful but I have no idea what they are. I’d love to know once you identify it :)

[@vugmeister918]

Well I’m no expert but I can say for sure it’s quartz. I’d say green jasper but it has slight transparency along the edges of the cut.

[@vugmeister918]

Or just simply a piece of green chert. Blue chert with swirl marks in it is found over in Beaver Valley, another Washington local in Jefferson County.

[@allencolvin4320]

Cool to find the petrified wood, but I see mostly "love stones"

[@negativex6026]

At first glance it looks like to me is a rock that's been used for a fire ring.

[@billywhitehorn6397]

by the way the shirt aiden is wearing... I've in before. My Uncle raised 4 kids in Moab. and I still have a cousin that lives there...my uncle's youngest son

[@pluecherry7]

love finding fellow WA rockhounds! I'm up in monroe, if you're interested in finding some "cadman blues" i'd be more than happy to help you out!

[@vugmeister918]

That’s great! We’ve heard of and i I’ve seen on google satellite where that quarry is, but never pursued it because I thought it was private.

[@pluecherry7]

@@vugmeister918 it is private, but the parking lots where they pour their gravel arent :)

[@bequakynskagroupie3751]

pluecherry7 hey man I'd love to ! I'm mostly a jade guy but there is a park near my hour over on south Seattle (I'm on Alki on the water near the point) that has a ton of large boulders from where I believe is the Cadman quarry. I'm about to finish extracting a huge vein of milky calcite beteeen layers of small botryoidal white crystal chalcedony within one of the boulders. The section is probably like 25x5x20 in.

[@jens2739]

I'm tryinn to find fellow rock hounds to swap info with too. Hard to find people I'm in lake stevens

[@mwilson14]

I live in North Bend and often travel up past Monroe to hound the Skykomish for garnets and gold. I'd be more than happy to team up sometime for an adventure.

[@scrotex6592]

also found a huge pet wood stump!

[@MACorrupt]

The green one looks more like green Jasper than aventurine what do you think?

[@vugmeister918]

Yes, I agree. Green Jasper seems to be the consensus.

[@mr.johnson6988]

The black is jet.

[@bequakynskagroupie3751]

Ololollolololo!'!!!!!! Oh man.... the cut scene with your son at the end was film making gold! Genius sir... lol. First time at your channel, and I'm also in the Greater Seattle area (right on the water on Alki soecifically, between the point and the main Alki beach). I'm out rockhounding all the time as well, sometimes out jn that area. We should meet and go out together sometime! Feel free to contact me on Instagram at 'the.scum.frog.amphiboles' or on FB at 'Eric Atassa'.

[@mr.johnson6988]

Petrified wood and opal wood I've found in yakima valley

[@stephenrothwell8142]

It's calcopyrite. Good video

[@WilliamThatdetailguy0]

You forgot the petrified wood on the log

[@sgtsuperhate9796]

Found a fossilized turtle skull out of river rock landscaping

[@Lolatheiyatola]

Always look for a very flat end. Petrified wood always has that. Mostly

[@donkeyrokman]

What's rockhounding without at least one wet foot?

[@johnnynephrite6147]

what ever came of that pyrite pet wood? would love to see some polished.

[@vugmeister918]

Unfortunately the iron in it completely rusted just from the gaseous H2O floating around in the air. Would probably have to glue a slab of clear quartz over it when it’s still fresh and then cab it.

[@michellepernula872]

Frozen green bell pepper?

[@robe1716]

Awesome finds, I. Just now started digging in our creek on tiger mountain. The water moved so much material.Hope I find as much cool stuff as you did!

[@vugmeister918]

That’s awesome, I hope you find something. Tiger Mountain has leaf and clam fossils.

[@scrotex6592]

Vug Meister and blue agate 🤐

[@kimberlydlapp3441]

And amber I hear...

[@larrymays5413]

What is the name of the Park you mentioned. Aidan Great job on Jumping the creek, just remember you never know what you can do until you try. Larry

[@vugmeister918]

It’s a county park, but I don’t remember the name.

[@larrymays5413]

@@vugmeister918 Oh Ok Thank you, Great Video

[@debbiee6535]

That looks like Jade

[@camelliahanna722]

I loved the leaf fossil! You should check out stonerose fossils!

[@vugmeister918]

Glad to see you like the fossils!

[@nanettebarling1222]

That fossil had been used for cooking or something by fire.

[@onaldtidon4009]

Maybe that is meteorite wow jackpot

[@Yaxchilan]

Looks like marble but what do I know

[@dunnsdiaite8085]

Awesome video. Had to subscribe instantly. The black rock looks similar to an Olivine? Not sure. Also may I ask what kind of tile saw that is? Beautifully restored

[@vugmeister918]

Thank you! The lapidary saw is an old 14” Gem King that was manufactured in Portland Oregon. The black rock is carbonized wood.

[@dunnsdiaite8085]

@@vugmeister918 very cool. Thank you for your time and wisdom. I look forward to watching your videos, glad you got recommended by the KZbin algorithm. Peace and blessings to you and your family. 💓✌🏿

[@asrulaziz2619]

The black is the wood fossil

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I also just subscribed to Zenmaster6. It's a shame the area you wanted to go to was closed but it looks like you still had good finds. I assume all those log jams means that the river sees so much winter flow that everything is turning over all the time? 9:48 that poppy jasper is awesome! I wish we had that on the east side. I would love to see a video about your saw. I just got an old 14" saw myself.

[@vugmeister918]

The Cedar River normally doesn’t flood every year because they control the outflow from the dam in the mountains. But this year was bad enough to close Hwy 169 for a week for repairs and it uprooted trees. The last time this river flooded was back in the mid ‘90’s. Yes the poppy jasper was a treat and congrats on your saw!

[@MountainJohn]

Thanks for the subscribe!

[@ginamanso]

This is too cool! Is there anything to be found in Green River?

[@vugmeister918]

Not sure, but it’s possible.

[@rhaven50]

No poppy rock cut

[@vugmeister918]

No we never cut that one.

[@rachelbenoliel3624]

Where on cedar river is this area? I haven’t had any luck along the River in my area except a very small banded agate

[@vugmeister918]

Rachel Benoliel Maple Valley Hwy

[@negativex6026]

Some kind of sandstone 🤣😆😂

[@BootsMcGee3]

13:59 credentials? I have 2 grown kids happy and well adjusted. Unsolicited advice for any interested: What i learned from adventuring with the juvenile of our species is that reason often dispells fear. Ask what they are worried about happening when hesitation takes more than a little encouragement to overcome. They often can talk thru the worries to their natural conclusion. So your feet get wet, what will happen? Will you drown, if you fall, no you wont be swept away, why, because its shallow. Scared of something else, dad's here, i got you if you need help. 😉we need more confident critical thinkers.

[@8gbusby]

should i be scared?