Tuesday Morning Walkabout / Utah's Dugway Geode Beds

[@patriciabock4299]

A Tuesday walk about in the Dugway Geode Beds would be a good day even on another day! Nothing boring about these walk abouts! You are giving us the experience of being there ahead of visits! Knowing what to expect is half the battle won! Thank you so much for sharing such wonderful experiences!

[@sueb9110]

Nice one…loved walking the beds with you and Gypsy! Looking forward to seeing your finds! Thanking you for sharing!

[@camplapidary]

It's my pleasure to share, Sue. Thank you for watching! :D

[@patriciabock4299]

I would follow that cool beetle it was finding some very interesting rocks!

[@camplapidary]

I could make an entire video following that beetle around. Serious. :D

[@patriciabock4299]

@@camplapidary It needs a little go pro camera on it's back :D Would be a very interesting video for sure!

[@midnitesilverrun8631]

Looks like a great place for a rock hunt

[@camplapidary]

It is! A great place to find solitude as well. :D

[@midnitesilverrun8631]

@@camplapidary I could use some of that these days.

[@largent45]

I love the dugway thundereggs! And they are technically thundereggs and not geodes. Thundereggs must have a rhyolite skin around them. Geodes aren't surrounded by rhyolite. They can be any other type of rock. So even though they aren't solid, they are thundereggs, and not geodes. And of all the types of thundereggs, Dugways are my favorite kind! The chalcedony is UV reactive and it glows a pretty intense green! Which is usually a sign of minor radioactivity. And being dugway is in Utah, it might be or some other element that makes it glow that intense green. I would be so happy to just walk around and pick stuff up. I love the layers of rhyolite that's out there! A big chunk of that which can be sliced and cabbed would be so pretty! And it reminds me of the moon or some other planet out there. The landscape and the vastness of it and nobody around you! Just rock everywhere! So pretty! Thanks Marc, for putting up this video for us. It's wonderful! ❤

[@camplapidary]

These geode beds were one of the first places I went once I got the notion of lapidary and rockhounding. I collected many big pieces of the banded rhyolite as that is what really caught my eye at the time. Sliced it up and started learning to make cabochons. I made so many rounds from that rhyolite, like little gas giant planets they looked! I still have a few of those old cabs knocking around, I'll have to pull them out and show in a video. Won't be long I'm sure.. Concerning geodes vs thundereggs, here is my personal weird take on it. I'm sure you are correct... It's just that I don't really care for the word "thunderegg". From Wikipedia: Legend. Native American legend reportedly considers the rocks to be the eggs of the thunderbirds which occupied Mount Hood and Mount Jefferson. Thunder Spirits on the mountains hurled the "eggs" at each other. Now certainly we all know that this legend has no truth to it. So why call them that? Nobody wants to call them Lithophysa either, at least I don't. So, geode it is! Told you it was a weird take.. :D

[@largent45]

@@camplapidary everybody has their own personal preference, for calling them what they want. I just differentiate them by the volcanics or not. Thundereggs being volcanics because they are born in rhyolite, or geodes which are not. And geodes will usually have a crystal pocket in them, where thundereggs will have chalcedony whether completely solid or not. They may also grow crystals on the chalcedony pockets but the chalcedony is the difference and the rhyolite crust. Most ck then geodes because they arent solid. But that isn't the defining characteristic. Whether an egg born from the thunderbird or a lovely rock born from a volcano, I use the textbook description to differentiate the two. That way I know what to expect inside too. And I would very much like to see your rhyolite cabs! Rhyolite can be so beautiful! Sometimes, more beautiful than the eggs themselves! Like in the lily pad thunderegg beds! There is huge chunks of rhyolite that have just a bunch of tiny eggs in it, that when sliced is just gorgeous! It's more popular than the eggs themselves!

[@camplapidary]

"lily pad thunderegg", I know I've seen this material. I might even have some, can't remember. I have photos of every cabochon I ever made and sold. But the old photos are on my old computer which is disconnected and put away. Might have to power it up and find those photos!

[@cargotrailerkenny]

Although I know your dog's a Heinz 57, she reminds me of an mini Afghan Hound a bit now. Such good lil dog. Good work Marc.

[@patriciabock4299]

I would hang that sunrise on my wall! I would have to oil paint it first hehe!

[@camplapidary]

Hey! You joined my channel, Patricia! WooHoo! A new hero to add to the Channel Benefactors Scroll!

[@patriciabock4299]

​@@camplapidary It is great being a member of your channel! I love the videos so much! You got the travel channel beat all to pieces lol. Rockhounding, Camping and lapidary work no one else can match that!

[@camplapidary]

How shall I name thee in the Hero's Roll? Patricia Bock? Patricia B.? P.B.? PBNJ? :D Or something else?

[@patriciabock4299]

@@camplapidary I have no preference lol. I will let you chose! I usually go by my full name I started that when I had to make a KZbin account for a college class I took on Adobe Flash Movie creation. All of our homework was posted on KZbin. I made straight As in that class, it was fun!

[@JnVrockhounding]

Dugway geode beds are on my bucket list of places I want to go. I recently checked off a couple places going to the Yellowstone and bear canyon. You just put this video out but filmed it almost 3 yrs ago? You been holding out on us? Lol.

[@camplapidary]

I noticed you getting to go some cool places, J. That Bear Canyon looked quite inviting to me! While these recordings might be old, I imagine a morning walkabout at the Dugway Geode Beds would look much the same today and or tomorrow as it did 3 years ago. Some places are timeless like that. :D

[@JnVrockhounding]

@@camplapidary yeah I liked watching and seeing an overall view. Helps for when go out if ever. Some of the broken ones you picked up I would have kept. Lol. Bear canyon was great for my first time going. I would love to go back and camp so I could have more time and not feel rushed on others time. There was so much awesome stuff just laying around. I think many places warrant 2-3 trips at least to really get to learning them. Just like you said.