Stonerose Fossils // 50 Million Year Old Fossils Just Waiting for You To Unearth Them!

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[@mysticmike9778]

A new Explorer, new friends and repurposing a Dusty implement is priceless. I see a new display case in your future. And above all Thank you

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I would love to have a case of just fossils!

[@joniangelsrreal6262]

Hello to the divine Mrs. Sarah…👏🏼👏🏼 Hello rock Professor…👏🏼👏🏼 Looks like fun…

[@kerickwalters2749]

What a cool job Andy has!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Andy is very knowledgeable and he has a great job!

[@patriciamurray5612]

Stone Rose is definitely going on my list of must-see places. Looks like lots of fun!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It's well worth the visit.

[@oldgamerchick]

Beautiful fossils beautiful State. Great adventure thank you. 🙃☕❤❤❤❤

[@charlenecastaldo3602]

What a fun and interesting outing! Thank you, Jared and Sara.

[@sandmaker]

We have been to stone rose several times in the past. On the last trip the building was very, very small I'm glad to see it has grown. There was one person there who maybe, or may not have been able to identify what you found. There were no Id books . On the last trips we found 12 pairs of fossils. Two were leaves they identified. The rest wete buds and unknowns. They took those and later we got certificates in the mail thanking us for the donations. We still, never found out what they were. We still had fun and our relatives got some stained rocks. I'm sure they are dust by now. If it's not jewelery, it finds it's way into the yard or the trash ben. Keep the coolness coming. Oh, by the way, there was no upper, or middle site just an area about 50x50 feet right off the street and a small cover to sit out of the sun. Be happy, safe and stay healthy. Life is good!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

The site seems very different today compared to what your describing. We had a really good time and will very likely return and look for some different fossils.

[@sandmaker]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding I hope we can go back.

[@Lowellian1]

Without you two we would not likely learn about these fantastic sites! Thanks again!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you! I try to share places that are interesting.

[@TarnishedViking.]

Outstanding!

[@jamesh5460]

The Flower examples are amazing. What a superb display!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Oh yeah its an amazing place.

[@TheAdventureCloset]

We went there for Liz's birthday and had the best experience. Looks like you can say the same. Good people there and fossils galore.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It's a great fee dig.

[@graemero5532]

Thanks for taking us along with you. What a great place. I've never seen anywhere like that this side of the pond.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

This is such a great place to visit.

[@DanFarrar]

Dinner knife is so useful lol. Great episode 👍

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you Dan! Yeah its a fun location.

[@aydamercado6798]

Wow love this adventure!!!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you.

[@Justfollowthecrumbs]

Fascinating, really good explanations too.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I'm glad you liked it!

[@patrickkillilea5225]

That looks like a lot of fun.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It's a cool place for sure.

[@RagnarRocks]

Awesome tour! Thanks man! 20 years ago, when my grandparents lived in Okanogan, I used to drive through there to go fishing at Curlew Lake, never stopped to check out the fossils. Will have to head over there some day! Love the tiny flower fossils!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Its well worth the visit and there's lots of other stuff to do in the area.

[@hockeyrace]

Stellar adventure! I’m not a fossil collector but this episode was awesome. Beautiful specimens 🤯. The educational value was definitely priceless. It makes me want to go look for some fossils now. I’m fortunate to live in a area with a vast amount fossils. We have trilobites, stromatolites, brachiopods, gastropods, cephalopods, bivalve, corals and other neat trace fossils. Growing up seeing these so often, might have made me dismiss the wondrous nature and awe of them all. Guess who’s going out today on a fossil hunt? 😆 Thank you so much for inspiring me to go check out my area. Thank you so much, Jared and Sara, for sharing your adventure. I would love to come and check out this site in the future. Stay Crystal 💫 Mari

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I'm also not much of a big fossil collector but I think that might be due to my lack of understanding of them.

[@garypomreinke5694]

Might put this site on my travel list! Easy access means more digging time.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It's a good location to visit.

[@cj4688]

Excellent video. I’ve been wanting to go there for years. Definitely making a trip this summer after watching this video.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

You will be very happy if you can make it out to Republic for a visit.

[@dennis1954]

I lived within 10 miles from there 30 years ago for a few years. The digging was next to the road and not much going on then. That was in my pre-rockhounding days. I might go through there and check it out when I head to Montana later this year. Route 20 is a scenic road across the top of the state and a road worth traveling on again.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It well worth stopping in, they really are doing great work at Stonerose and its worth supporting it. The whole area along 20 is amazing!

[@SallyMayBaby]

Fun, been there, love to return.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It really is worth a return visit.

[@OzoneFineArtVentures]

Excellent and informative video. Great tips and suggestions for preparation when you go, definitely makes me want to go! Love the loon vomit!!! The little Larch fruit was awesome too. It would be super hard to chose what to keep for sure. Thanks for sharing this, hit the website already, what a great resource. Cheers!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it. The place is well worth visiting.

[@twoplanetlife7969]

So many fossils, such a good time!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Oh yeah!

[@twoplanetlife7969]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding Yeah! Nice video!

[@bobbimorris1819]

Thanks for sharing this cool and interesting video!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you.

[@CharlestonFossilAdventures]

Ahhh another fossil video! Thanks as always for the tour of the west coast sites. Paleobotany is an incredible field of study…so much can be learned about our planet’s past climate at sites like Stone Rose. Glad you kept the insect wings! It would be hard to choose which three to keep at the end of a day’s work there. 🧐😍

[@sonyaalgosaibi5840]

fascinating! thank you for making this video

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I'm glad you liked it.

[@mariemoss2475]

This was so interesting, thank you 👍💞

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I'm glad you liked it! It's a great place to visit.

[@paigelee6321]

Very cool I’ll have to go check this out never knew of this shop before , interesting stuff awesome ,thank you for sharing 💙😊

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It's well worth stopping in for a visit.

[@gregderksen1996]

That’s so cool! Makes me want to go check out some of the shale beds we have in our area to see if there’s any mementos from the distant past! Great vid!

[@largent45]

That was a phenomenal video! It looked like so much fun and you came back with some awesome fossil keepsakes and memories! The tour was amazing and educational, and the chance of finding something new is amazing and to have your find named after you, is just...Wow! Everybody there seems super knowledgeable and nice. That was just a wonderful video and an excellent suggestion for fossil fanatics like me! Thank you for taking us along and showing us a new fossil collecting site, thats in my own back yard and much easier digs than the green river site, etc. I wil, have to check it out! Thanks!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Wouldn't that be fun to find something new and have it named after you! I'm glad you liked the video. :)

[@denisthemineralist4033]

Wish I had known about that place when I lived up in Washington. That looks like awesome fun! And fairly easy work for some good fossils. I'm going to have to pin this on my map for my next pass through there.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It's well worth the visit!

[@shirleyrichards2514]

I would love to go to the site and see shop/museum 😊

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It's a great location!

[@theruggedrockhound]

This looks like a fun place! If I manage to make it up that way sometime, I will make sure to stop by and check it out.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Oh yeah this is a great location.

[@valsummers5330]

Very cool

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It's a really good location.

[@charlesfrederick7074]

Very cool thx :)

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you!

[@ocklawahaboyrocks]

That's pretty cool. Fossils are still definitely just a minor interest of mine but that's a great way to dip your toe in the water.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Yeah the educational aspects are very worth it.

[@prestonandritsch]

How would you recommend isolating and reducing the size of the fossil and their host? We have some pieces from Stonerose and looking to extract smaller pieces from the pieces we brought back

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

You can cut them with a trim saw or tile saw, but some people prefer a chisel for the natural break, but that is risky.

[@DonohueLabs]

I was wondering when/if you were going to check this place out. Glad it looked to be worth the trip. Was it your first visit?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I think its very worth the trip. This was our first visit but not our last.

[@BackcountrywithShaughn]

I'm working right now, really! hahaha

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

The video will still be here for when you're done with work!

[@BackcountrywithShaughn]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding Thanks I was joking though cause I was at work...but watching the post anyway~ 😲🤦‍♂doh! haha

[@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644]

that looks like a great place to spend a few hours. Did I hear right that they only let you take 3 fossils?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Yes, you get to pick three of what you find to take home.

[@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding That would be difficult for me to do. However, it might be a blessing in disguise just to reduce the poundage I would carry away.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

@@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644 Sometimes less is more! I would rather have 5 really nice things than buckets of stuff I will never see.

[@InUteroKDC]

Other than fossils, have you rockhounded the Republic area?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

We have done some rockhounding in that area.

[@InUteroKDC]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding I keep trying to find info as to where to go around Republic and what rocks can be found, but I’m not having much luck. My kids have turned into rock hounds and I want to help them experience that joy- I just need pointed in the right direction 🙂 I love your channel. I’ve been watching your videos in amazement and just trying to become more knowledgeable. Thanks for sharing the experience!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

@@InUteroKDC You should check out the map on my website when you have a chance.

[@InUteroKDC]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding I will do that, thanks!

[@InUteroKDC]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding Great website! Thanks again!

[@dustinfindsrocks]

This is why sedimentary rocks are the coolest 😂 JK igneous is cool too but you just can’t beat fossils. Just my opinion 🤷🏻‍♂️ Where I’m at the fossils are so old it’s almost like a window to another world. I love the stories rocks tell us.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It really is cool to think about the way the world was when this lake was full of life.

[@Juni-Kuni]

Shout out to my homies Greg and Ruby!!!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Great guy and great dog!

[@Amanda-yf7vj]

Too bad you only get to keep 3 of them. In kemmerer you keep as many as you want

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

That's not an issue at all really.