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Hi Darrell, hope you n Lori are doing well. That's at the Ochoco agate beds. Went there during the Prineville PowWow.

That river produces some really interesting and varied material IMO and is my favorite river to rock-hound in the state followed closely by the John Day river. A lot of orange carnelian, some chalcedony and some agates, a lot of chert, quartz crystals, jaspers, some petrified wood and fossil concretions can all be found at spots along that river.

@@BackcountrywithShaughnsounds awesome

The clamp is sold on Ebay and I drilled some extra holes in it to run the threaded stock and wing nuts. I had found that really hard material would cause the spring loaded hinge to lift and the stone would ride up on the blade. The holes and threaded stock allows me to "lock" the spring loaded hinge in place providing a really stable cutting platform for round and misshaped objects. Anyway I have been really happy with the thundereggs outta those beds. Thx for the watch and comment. Have a great week!

@@BackcountrywithShaughn you too,

I have some steak, does that count? Was walking down a river when I spotted what looked like a 2-3 inch thick slab of nicely fat marbled steak just sitting on top of another rock in the middle of the river. Called over a buddy and we were both flabbergasted trying to figure out what was going on where someone would dump a big hunk of steak on a rock...maybe it was bear bait? So we looked around and called out but no one answered so I picked it up and realized it was stone that perfectly mimicked a marbled slab of steak. Someone at the club has slabs that look like bacon they used in a display case at one of the club shows using a breakfast theme. Hope you are doing well!

@@BackcountrywithShaughn Oh man that's perfect! LOL! ⚡🥚🥓 I'm doing all right. Hurt my back, so been pretty slow this summer. Hope you're all good! Cheers!

@@thirstfast1025 So very sorry to hear about your back issue sir, that is definitely a challenge. Hope you are on the mend or working towards it so you can get back out into the world on adventures! Am still upright and breathing over here so that's super good! Thx for asking.

I do like the window and it usually stays clean for around 20-25 cuts but doing a bunch of thundereggs sure dirty's up everything really fast. Yeah, am happy with those more than the big ones I got but will post video of them all polished up once I get em done. Hope you and family are doing well in your new digs sir.

I'll cut it and friends today (work permitting) but won't be able to polish them for another couple days. (just cleaned the 12" LS slab saw) Hoping to get it and a couple of its closest mates done over the weekend!

Yeah I'm forever hopeful that the inside of the next one is gonna be something so profound...like the holy grail or the cure for cancer~🤔😂 I'll cut it today and post the clip after it and friends get polished over the weekend.

@@BackcountrywithShaughn 🤣 I hope it turns out like that as well!!!

Hahaha Yeah, the idea is to be able to get there and back with pretty rocks n minerals. Hoping the extra armor continues making that possible.

Yeah...The armor plates added a bunch of weight down low dropping it over an inch from stock. When I swap out the suspension will add 3-4" lift with 33" tires. The older model Tundra I'd agree but I'd only saved enough to buy the Tacoma without payments. Still am getting 24-25mpg on the highway fully loaded so I don't mind that and the armor keeps me from worrying...also added catalytic converter guard. It's been to some extreme locations in it's short life~😉

Thank you sir, was a fun summer of hunting. Hope all is well up in your neck of the woods across the boarder!

Yup exactly, 25lbs a day plus 1 piece and up to 250lbs a year from blm land. I tell folks to focus on what they're gonna do with it and be choosy. Thx for the comment!

OR....This video is in Oregon, north part of the state between Portland and Tillamook on a river that feeds into the Wilson river. (up beyond the jones creek campgrounds)The water is cold and super clear. Up there I tend to find low quality chalcedony with a few agates sometimes with quarts pockets. Mostly I go there looking for really bright colored jaspers. Sometimes up there the colors of the jaspers just don't appear natural but they are unique IMO so I go back every few years for a look.

Thx for the comment. I'm like JB Pruitt and work as the worlds greatest hand model so I gotta protect these beauties.....actually, the gloves help protect my hands from the sharp edges of agates and jaspers, scorpion stings, cactus thorns and fire ants among other things. Getting cuts while out camping for days or weeks on end can lead to infection so I try to avoid that situation if at all possible, hence the gloves.

That's a good-sized cab for sure. I really like the agate included jaspers myself. Have found some vibrant jasper colors around the Diamond Mill OHV area that feeds into the Wilson river. Above the Jones Creek campground areas before you get to Tillamook.

Thanks for the view and comment sir. Much appreciated! Maybe one day i'll edit some more content to post. (just not good at the editing part) The hunt for pretty stuff is truly my favorite part of the hobby...just wandering around remote locations and stumbling upon something really beautiful is very exhilarating IMO. And we get some really interesting and unique silica and feldspar based semi-precious stones out here to choose from and after the years I've been hunting have learned to become quite selective. I've got my trips planned and will be back out in the deserts and forests of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada and possibly northern California this summer to meander the land in hopes of finding something really unique and beautiful, maybe will run into you. (and if you live far away well, there's always the us postal service! 🙂)

@BackcountrywithShaughn That's so cool, Shaughn! I'm looking forward to checking out more of your videos! And yea, Canada is a little ways away. 🍻👍🏻👍🏻

That bridge is where Timber Road crosses the river near Clear Creek. Upstream from the bridge where the river zig zags is an old flood area where the material was pushed into piles and now the river meanders through those piles. Lotsa interesting material that comes outta that river IMO. And definitely the best ORANGE carnelians in my collecton~ Hope that helps!

Thanks for the view and comment Tom. I've heard that many times and have purchased new video editing software that allows controlling the audio gain better than what I previously used. Since TH-cam does not allow creators to repost the video with edited audio track am looking at ways to change out the audio without having to take down and re-post. TBH I never thought anyone would want to even hear the inane comments I make while picking up rocks in the desert. Who knew? 🤣🤣

Sorry to hear of the issues you faced. What I can tell you from the times I've been out there. You have to drive past the gun club and turn right at the rubber tires around the mailbox. When you turn across there, you'll see two homes on either side that put up signs that say private property...in between them is the public access road that transits out to GYP. It is just a tiny dirt road between the two homes fences then around and once you've passed under the power lines you are back in Oregon and at the BLM area. Google maps and such will will take you to a hill on the other side of the irrigation ditch that is the landmark for GYP but not the actual hunting grounds. I can understand the confusion though~ Hopefully you have another opportunity.

Thanks for watching and the nice comment. Yeah, love the Nehalem river for the variety and the hobby sure has picked up since 2020 IMO. I highly recommend the areas on the John Day from Fossil down through Clarno for agate and jaspers. Plus it's a really nice area during the summer to just float on the river~ Have a great summer!

🌮🌮 LOL! I just got back home from Mexican lunch with my mom! The Taco jokes are going down well!

Thanks sir, much appreciated! Getting it ready for this years excursions, added armor plates underside front to back including gas tank and now steel bumper and winch. Finally beat the jeep into submission last summer so decided to get a truck this time for the bed, clearance and towing capabilities. Hope you are well and enjoying spring!

@@BackcountrywithShaughn Haha, it takes a lot to kill a Jeep! A few of my friends went with the Tacoma, and now they swear by it, it's a good, dependable ride! I'm doing okay, had a lot of issues with my computer this year, that's really put a damper on making videos, but I'm looking forward to the summer to get back out and make some more!

@@thirstfast1025 Sorry to hear about your computer. Have you narrowed down the issues yet? If not please let me know the behavior of the issue and I might have some ideas that could help. (I work as an IT consultant to pay the bills)

@@BackcountrywithShaughn Oh, I really appreciate that, but it's mostly resolved now. First my harddrive died (lost a bunch of material I had to edit, plus things like my intro and outro clips, music, etc), so I replaced that. Re-installed windows, and it was working great, but apparently OneDrive was reactivated by default in new Windows, so it quickly filled up and that blocked access to my Outlook e-mail. Just as I was fixing that, my network card updated, update failed, so even though I had internet, computer wouldn't connect. For whatever reason, network card issue resolved itself (after a month of trying stuff like uninstalling-reinstalling the card, downloading the driver onto a USB stick, then finally leaving it alone for a week), and I was able to clear enough off OneDrive to get e-mail working again. Also disabled OneDrive for now. LOL! More a comedy of errors than any serious problems (other than the hard drive crash, that hurt). I hope you get a little chuckle out of that silly series of events tho, all i do now is laugh when a new problem surfaces.😆🖥💥 🔥

@@thirstfast1025 For the future, go ahead and disable sync to Onedrive of your .ost file that lives under your user profile. Typically located here: Users/%username%/appdata/local/microsoft/outlook (there are some slight variations of the location based off the version of Windows you are using) As long as you leave the mail in your online mailbox (Cached mode), you shouldn't need to be duplicating that file up into OneDrive. Hope that makes sense.

That's awesome DG and should be a great trip for sure. I will be in that general area myself in July for a trip to Juntura, Owyhee canyons, Succor Creek(Leslie, Board Corral, Long and Three Finger Gulches) and then when am bored with all that fun am off to the Ochoco Forest to dig a new hole for some cool red/blue thunder eggs~ Unfortunately, the river shown at the end of this video is much farther north from the rest of the video up on the John Day outside Fossil, Oregon. I stopped there to wash the "trail dust" off and cool down after a hot trip on my way north and west across the mountains. The creek is really nice at Succor Creek and definitely a cool place to camp down in the canyon IMO. You can also camp along the Owyhee river itself at a few spots on the way to the larger more popular reservoir campgrounds and boat launch. Should be a whole bunch of awesome memories for you and your daughter to share the rest of your lives!

​@Backcountry with Shaughn we'll have to check out those other canyons you mentioned, as well. Our road trips always include agate hunting, or some kind of mineral because it takes us to the coolest places. Last year we toured 14 of our western states starting in California. Looked for Montana agates and probably looked right at them and didn't know. We're used to our beach agates here near the boarder with oregon. But we did find a lot of plate agate (thanks for the video of you cutting those), druzy and botryoidal in Nebraska's Oglala National Grasslands. Spent a couple hours at the Fairburn agate beds in SD then again, might have looked right at some and didn't know. Then we eventually ended up at the Davis creek obsidian mine for some rainbow obsidian. My daughter wants to start our trip in the eastern oregon area first. It'll be nice to actually spend unhurried time. We're only touring Oregon this year. The eastern canyons, then working our way towards Prineville. Looks like some promising spots around there and central Oregon. Limb casts of blue and green, some opalized. Thundereggs, etc. It'll be fun. Watching your videos has shown me how to spot the rough a bit better than I knew before. So we shouldn't come home empty handed. And I just ordered some canvas backpacks like you use. Better than using our nylon camping packs. Thanks again for the vids! Edit: also, along Leslie gulch road is an offshoot called Dago Gulch. There's a large blue-green outcropping up there that looks intriguing, at least on google earth. Any idea what that might be? If not, I'll let you know. Darrell.

@@DG-kq8zf I think I know exactly the mineralized spot you are talking about off Leslie gulch road but gotta be honest, am usually just driving down that road to the reservoir to wash the dust off so haven't hunted any of those particular canyons/draws. Definitely check out that formation though, there are some really amazing materials to be found out there~ One year I'm going to rent a houseboat and just float around that reservoir stopping and hiking up canyons to see what kinda goodies can be found. On the west side of the reservoir there is more goodness in some known and not so known spots as well. Virtually all BLM land from Vale on down to the water~ I have to say, i've never had to replace my canvas backpack in all the years i've been hunting so am happy for choosing canvas and adding a couple stitches in the straps just for safety sake. In wet or dry whatever the conditions, it's held up and carried the pretty rocks back home for me. Tons of stuff to find outside Prineville as well, batcave jasper near the reservoir, thundereggs all over different spots in the Ochoco forest, Hampton Buttes off Hwy 20 for green or red pet wood or even glass butte for more obsidian. Anyway, sounds amazing and wish I had more time off available to spend more time wandering around finding pretty places and materials!

@Backcountry with Shaughn ok, then. I'll just have to let you know what I find down there. It's all about the hunt, after all. 🙂 we went to Chapman's Gem Museum today to look at all the geodes, agates, minerals etc because we never thought to look at the rough side. We only looked at the cut/polished sides. We have even a better idea now. This will be our best hunt yet, I'm sure.

Oh yeah! Nice, I super love that river for the material that comes out. One of my two favorite rivers for goodies in Oregon. The other being the John Day~ Thanks for the view and comment. Have a great rest of your week!

@@BackcountrywithShaughn ive heard so many good things about the john day , if i can ever pry my self from this one its definitely one ill check out

@@pnwagate Thanks for the comment jg&m, much appreciated. From my experiences floating from Fossil down the river and hiking up a few canyons I've found a ton to explore and is just a super relaxing way to spend a couple days IMO. I personally believe that it is worth a trip over if you can shake free~

Hello and thanks for stopping by to say Hi.

Great idea! Thank you for sharing sir, hope you have a super day~

Thanks for your comment sir, much appreciated! I find the whole area from Vale through Nyssa and down to Homedale along the snake river to be quite beautiful and also helps that it's chock full of pretty stones~ Wishing you well out there in the great state of Montana!

Hi Jeff, unfortunately am still waiting to take ownership of a truck that was ordered back in August so don't think it'll be this year the way things currently stand. Maybe get out to check out more of the southern end of that area next Memorial Day depending on work and weather?

Thanks for the view and nice comment. I appreciate anyone who loves pretty rocks n minerals, hope you have a great weekend!

Thanks for the view and comment, much appreciated. I love that area for a number of reasons. Will make another visit next year to that area and hopefully post more videos of this years travels soon~ Have a super day!

@@BackcountrywithShaughn you welcome my friend 🤗 okay sure i will be waiting for your more amazing contents 🤝🤝✅ please be connected to my channel also ✅🤝🔔🤗💟

Thanks again Kyla, am very fortunate to have been able to put together a nice mineral collection alongside the rock collection. Its like having a museum in the house and I find myself spending 10-20 minutes every other day just admiring the beauty of those minerals. The glass cubes are usually seen in clothing stores, I purchased them from a place that resells retail display stuff and they are exactly what I wanted for some of the display. (now I need good lighting!) haha. Thanks again for the view and comment, hope you have a great rest of your day and week ahead~

Thanks Kyla for the view, comment and compliment, very much appreciated. When I found this chunk sticking out of the ground out at graveyard point I almost lost my mind and am very grateful for the piece. I cut it into four virtually equal size chunks and polished up the faces of each one. It's truly a one of a kind plume agate and provides me a wonderful memory and representation of the material from out there. Lastly, IMO it's just darn pretty to look at? Thanks again and have a nice day!

Yes, there are a variety of attachments you can apply to do the work, please wear breathing and eye protection as silicate dust causes sever lung issues. I use the angle grinder for shaping yard sized stones before the wet angle grinder to polish myself but you could do most of it with just an angle grinder. Check out Kevin Nix channel or Paul the Rockhound, they both use angle grinders to polish in some videos!

@@BackcountrywithShaughn thanks dude 👍🏻

Hi Will, thanks for letting me know. Sorry for the delay in sending them but i've been out n about the deserts finding pretty stuff and not home very much. I packed it so long ago I'd forgotten what I put in there...if I remember it was a mix of slabs(hope those arrived intact), random rocks (plume, etc agates), a couple little thundereggs. If you cut the eggs on a tile saw or lapidary saw, please make sure to cut along the longest seam around the egg for the best presentation of the stuff inside. Anyway, just wanted to show my appreciation for you sending me that box of agates earlier this year, was great to add those to my collection! Please let me know if you have any questions and will do my best to give/get you the answers. Have a nice week sir~

That's really awesome, thanks for sharing! Hopefully it didn't/won't rain and get sloppy out there for ya!🤞🙏 I went out there a few years ago about 11pm at night right after a rain and the mud seriously caked the interior of the jeeps wheel wells and if I'd been a much more passive driver the vehicle would've gotten stuck but went Baha till I was on top of a hill then camped for the night. The next day had to knock down the dried mud in those wheel wells just to turn the steering wheel. The place is also getting claimed up by private parties so if you're ever gonna get a chance to meander those hills and find some nice stuff it'll be sooner rather than later~ Thanks again for the comment!

nice, we are headed out this coming week!

@@BackcountrywithShaughn those places should stay open to the public . The blm has had many letters and people log complaints . It's supposed to all be open to public except mineral claims . Agate wood and Jasper and obsidian was never on the list on Oregon .

It's my personal favorite and one of only two major waterways that I really enjoy going back to again and again~ Thanks for watching and commenting! Have a super day~

Wow, thank you so very much for the view, comment and super amazing kind words. I cannot express enough how much I appreciate that.👍 We're all on the earth for just a short period and I just wanted to share on here a little slice of my time, adventures and passion for beautiful places/people/things/rocks/minerals related with anyone who's interested.🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Yes absolutely correct a better camera is/was in order so I picked up a GP8 in January that does 4K video quality and have taken quite a bit of video this summer so far with it. Now I just need to meet someone who's passionate about editing and posting videos like I am about the rocks! haha You prove again that the hounding community on TH-cam is full of really excellent people. Thank you again, super appreciated, hope you have a great rest of your week!

@@BackcountrywithShaughn Thank you my friend. Best wishes to you and yours, in all that you endeavor in😎👍

Hey Larry, not far is relative. It's an 8 hour drive from my house outside Portland to GYP. Unfortunately I should tell you, commercial interests have stepped in and claimed virtually everywhere I have ever hunted in GYP and they use heavy equipment to strip out all the pretty stuff leaving nothing for future generations to enjoy. (Unless you buy it from them) The days of walking around finding pretty rocks seems to be quickly coming to an end in the interest of making a dollar. Folks are claiming up everything everywhere that I love to hunt rocks. If you have a chance get out there soon before it's all closed to the rest of us on OUR PUBLIC LAND.