Spent a good 25 years in the Angeles. A lot of my favorite spots are closed by gates now. Fire danger they say. Love the rift zone on the back side. Some great spots up near Wrightwood. Lots of geology and critters up there.
Great video! Big rockhgound here; wanted to go visit there and Pala for a long time. Again, very informative and awesome video so I'm subscribing. Thanks for sharing!
Seeing this as the Eaton fire continues is saddening. Hopefully the landscape recovers quick as there's still so much for me to learn about the Mountains.
Its historically known to be loaded with Gold and is still producing that AU in palio placer benches and tertiaries throughout the area. Not to mention its absolutely beautiful in this small area of the United States.
Love it man. Excited to see what you find. There was some wicked looking corundum crystals found on the flanks of Jacinto too. I've always wondered about the geology that brought it up. I imagine it's pretty similar.
I appreciate it! And thanks for watching! Didn't know about San Jacinto... might have to check that one out soon! Thanks for the pointer, and the geology of San Jacinto and the Peninsular Ranges is similar to the San Gabriels, but not identical. I'll probably make a video on San Jacinto and the Peninsular Ranges in the near future...
I received my geology degree from Cal State Northridge way back when and the San Gabriel Mountains were at our doorstep. A few times my petrology professor would mention how curiously understudied the San Gabriel's were. Great video!
Ball Glass was headquartered for decades in the San Gabriel valley due to the pure sand deposits (alluvial) that poured out in a fan into the San Gabriel valley. The underlay sand for most of the turnpikes came out of that same area: the sandpit in north El Monte still runs today, often 24 hours. That pure sand is "gold" in more ways than one.
There is a source of emery on SanJacinto. I spent some time trying to find it beautiful dark crystals. I guess the old man kept his secret. I've heard of aqua marine crystals in Landers. Thanks for a great video.
I was fortunate to be raised by a couple of schoolteachers who were also country folk who oriented me to NSEW in the landscape and the meaning of contour maps and range and section from the MDM, etc. and I've often wished I had a geologist along on any given stretch of road to tell me what was going on! Thanks for the "fix!"
Excellent video, as usual. Nice narration and visualization of the story. Only comment is about your analogy "plate slamming into..." More like an inexorable relentless progression than a V8 Mustang slamming into mountainside...
On the same trail you followed, Barrett canyon has some cool rocks too, where graphite was supposedly once mined. You can see the black-stained rocks along the trail not far from the cool cabin with all the stone work. One of these days I'd like to make the scramble up to where they mined the lapis, but its a really tough bushwack from what I've heard.
I just went through there 2 days ago and cleared a decent path. It’s still a steep climb but you can follow the broken leaves. The lapis is kinda scattered throughout the canyon so keep your eyes peeled and best to go the day after it rains so the majority of the rocks are cleaned off so you can better see the blue.
Yes! Didn't mention it in this video, but in Part 2 I'll definitely talk about the other minerals you can find in conjunction with the corundum. Graphite is a big one! Thanks for watching! And I've heard it is quite the tough bushwack indeed.
Lapis is one of my favorites. I spent my youth playing in the San Gabriel’s. Where can I get details where to rockhound for it? Awesome info, thank you.
Just switched over to the TV to watch this on the “ Big” screen! But just want to say that my face literally looked like this 😮 out of pure stoke when I saw this new video on my feed!
As a long time hiker in so cal you just answered a bunch of questions i always had while hiking 👍🏼 over by mt baldy at ice house canyon there are giant rocks that look as if they were bent pretty cool stuff
Solomon coming in with the clutch rockhounding spots. I live in pahrump Solomon, went to tecopa for amethyst by your directions-ish (I went the back way In a low clearance vehicle) 😅
I love the Gabes. Deceptively rugged. One can die in full view of the 210 freeway. Looks like that fire road is north of Cucamonga ? Hang glider peak to Big Tree ?
Hi, amateur hunter here.. I am in an area that funnels down to bedrock.. Very close to me is a gulley. 1 side, crumbling rock.. On the other side, the same, except downstream.. There is a wall of rock that is at least 40 feet high. Smooth surface, like it punched up.. Then it goes down under water, and re emergerges under a dam. From there, very little bedrock is exposed, until you hit the rapids area. A tidal area.. Everything there is shoved down into a bend in the river.. Question - if this is a fault line area, are there gems waiting to be found? Location - southern Maine. Lots of quartz, and mica here. Thank you, and enjoy your hunt
Lay person with lots of exposure to geology, yet I was never quite certain the transverse ranges were. Not that here in Los Feliz I live on the rolling hills of one of them I hike frequently - the Santa Monica mountains. The upper more parts of the eastern edge in Griffith Park clearly formed under water. Very interesting information about my own back yard! Los Angeles
Good video! I was pretty concerned that your video would be more invitation than geology information. From the photo in the opening scene, it looks like a handful of yards of material have been removed since the last time I've been there😢
Slight correction at 2:39 it's hexavalent chromium that gives a purple color. Trivalent chromium is a vibrant green. Amazing what varying levels of electrons do to metals, huh? Btw hexavalent chromium is the most toxic valence state of the metal, and is a fume hazard during stainless steel welding Thanks for the vid
You can only find Lapis in Cascade Canyon. Nothing has been found in any other area. All you need is to stop by the local ranger station and pay for a dig permit. Then you can rockhound in any area that isn’t a registered claim. You can find rubies along the dirt road just before the opening to Cascade Canyon. You will need to take the Stoddard Peak trail. Stay to the left after you park and follow the path that cuts across the little field to the opposite hillside. Then just follow that dirt road until you see a giant bolder that fell out the side of the wall like in the video. That when you know ur around the corner from the opening to Cascade Canyon. There are not specific sites to find lapis, it’s literally scattered through the whole canyon so you really have to be vigilant. If you want to find Rubies, try to go around dusk and take a UV light. If you see little orange glowing specs, those are rubies. It’s rare to find any that are “ring stone” sized, but there is a lot of tiny ones inside the host rocks.
For those that don’t know, when hiking to Cascade, the ruby deposits are just before the opening for cascade. There isn’t an actual mine that was dug so if you are looking for a giant hole in the ground you won’t find it. There are very small deposits of Lapis randomly up and down the crevice of the mountain. Be patient and diligent if you want to find pieces. You will not find rubies in the actual canyon… the corundum, or “rubies” as I said is before the opening to Cascade Canyon. If you go after dusk with a UV light, you will find them. Just look for the orange/red glow under the UV… good luck and safe hounding.
There is NO Lapis Lazuli in the San Gabriel’s. Learn your true history ! There is an even rarer gemstone ONLY found in 1 canyon up there with an official name of Lapis Lazurite. It is the only place known to have this type of gemstone. It is made up of lapis lazuli and pyrite Chrystal’s and recognized by the GIA. I should know I was friends with Sedley Pecks grand daughter . Been prospecting gold and gemstones in those mountains since 1970.
Look up Stoddard peak trail. That is your starting point. Follow the trail that goes across the lower valley to the opposite side and follow that dirt road all the way to Cascade Canyon.
You’re giving lots of information that seems unprovable but it does make a good story. I know a place in Mt baldy that has lapis. You know probably know too. We should keep it quiet
The more I learn about our true cosmology, the less I fall for what someone tells me that someone else told them. Rainbows are angels and resets happen every 400 years. Hang on to your rocks hounds! Things are getting close to crazy. I don’t have bad words for this creator, he only knows what he has been taught and told. Southern California will be under water again soon. This is an electric and frequency realm. Be kind and generous to all.
It is illegal to harvest anything from a national forest. please leave the forest alone. And by the way, Cascade Canyon is completely overgrown. You may be able to penetrate 10 or 15 feet from the trail., and that's it.
Non of what you are saying is true about Cascade Canyon. I was just there two days ago and cleared the path. Further more, there are two separate claims on Cascade and the road leading to it that was founded in 1872. There are expositions each year leading to this area for both research and rockhounding. There are certain rules about how much you can take and what kind of digging tools you’re allowed to use, but sir, spreading false information in hopes of detouring folk from “ruining nature” isn’t the proper way to educate. Everyone has Google at their fingertips. All you need is a simple personal dig permit from the local ranger station and you can take whatever you find that doesn’t already have an existing registered claim on it… so u should definitely do ur research first… but it’s not illegal. Just saying…
Geologist here, complimenting you on this video. Really great presentation. You got my sub.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate the compliment from a fellow Geologist. Thanks for watching!
Spent a good 25 years in the Angeles. A lot of my favorite spots are closed by gates now. Fire danger they say. Love the rift zone on the back side. Some great spots up near Wrightwood. Lots of geology and critters up there.
guess they werent wrong about the fire danger part lmao
Fire danger they say..
Great video! Big rockhgound here; wanted to go visit there and Pala for a long time. Again, very informative and awesome video so I'm subscribing. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! Thanks for the support, I really appreciate it, and I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
Seeing this as the Eaton fire continues is saddening. Hopefully the landscape recovers quick as there's still so much for me to learn about the Mountains.
Seeing one of the only nature refuges nearby on fire like this has been devastating.
Its historically known to be loaded with Gold and is still producing that AU in palio placer benches and tertiaries throughout the area.
Not to mention its absolutely beautiful in this small area of the United States.
Love it man. Excited to see what you find. There was some wicked looking corundum crystals found on the flanks of Jacinto too. I've always wondered about the geology that brought it up. I imagine it's pretty similar.
I appreciate it! And thanks for watching! Didn't know about San Jacinto... might have to check that one out soon! Thanks for the pointer, and the geology of San Jacinto and the Peninsular Ranges is similar to the San Gabriels, but not identical. I'll probably make a video on San Jacinto and the Peninsular Ranges in the near future...
I received my geology degree from Cal State Northridge way back when and the San Gabriel Mountains were at our doorstep. A few times my petrology professor would mention how curiously understudied the San Gabriel's were. Great video!
That's awesome, hope you enjoyed Cal State Northridge! Thanks for watching the video :)
Great post!!
Now its all on fire 🔥
Ball Glass was headquartered for decades in the San Gabriel valley due to the pure sand deposits (alluvial) that poured out in a fan into the San Gabriel valley. The underlay sand for most of the turnpikes came out of that same area: the sandpit in north El Monte still runs today, often 24 hours. That pure sand is "gold" in more ways than one.
Interesting, thanks for sharing! And thanks for watching!
There is a source of emery on SanJacinto. I spent some time trying to find it beautiful dark crystals. I guess the old man kept his secret. I've heard of aqua marine crystals in Landers. Thanks for a great video.
Oooh, interesting! Thanks for watching!
Grew up hikinh these mountains and always heard stories of this. Very cool video, thank you!!
Thanks for the video Solomon.
Thank YOU for watching! My pleasure!
Wow! That was good Solomon!
Thank you so much, and thanks for watching!
I live in the Southern California basin. I really enjoyed this episode and am looking forward to the second part 😁
Thank you so much for watching!
GREAT STUFF GO" SOLOMan!!!
Thanks for watching and for the support!
I was fortunate to be raised by a couple of schoolteachers who were also country folk who oriented me to NSEW in the landscape and the meaning of contour maps and range and section from the MDM, etc. and I've often wished I had a geologist along on any given stretch of road to tell me what was going on! Thanks for the "fix!"
Thank you for watching!
Excellent video! Subbed!
This video should be required education for all Californians
Thank you so much! I really appreciate the support and I'm glad you enjoyed the video :)
Awww thank you so much! And thanks for watching :)
Very nice indeed!
Thank you, and thanks for watching!
Thank you that was very informative
Thank you so much, and thanks for watching!
Excellent video, as usual. Nice narration and visualization of the story. Only comment is about your analogy "plate slamming into..." More like an inexorable relentless progression than a V8 Mustang slamming into mountainside...
Thank you, and thanks for watching! And fair enough haha
I like your discernment😁
This is very interesting to know. And to think it's still going on right now. Thank you.
Thanks for watching! Glad you found it interesting :)
Great video
Great stuff. I’m a former 24 year resident of SoCal but don’t remember anyone ever giving me marvelous info
Thank you! I'm glad you found the video useful and enjoyable, and thanks for watching!
Amazing video!
Well explained! Not much rockhounding up here in SF. Do the mountain pass mine next
Thank you, and thanks for watching! Mountain Pass may or may not be coming soon... haha
On the same trail you followed, Barrett canyon has some cool rocks too, where graphite was supposedly once mined. You can see the black-stained rocks along the trail not far from the cool cabin with all the stone work. One of these days I'd like to make the scramble up to where they mined the lapis, but its a really tough bushwack from what I've heard.
I just went through there 2 days ago and cleared a decent path. It’s still a steep climb but you can follow the broken leaves. The lapis is kinda scattered throughout the canyon so keep your eyes peeled and best to go the day after it rains so the majority of the rocks are cleaned off so you can better see the blue.
Yes! Didn't mention it in this video, but in Part 2 I'll definitely talk about the other minerals you can find in conjunction with the corundum. Graphite is a big one! Thanks for watching! And I've heard it is quite the tough bushwack indeed.
Very cool
Thank you, and thanks for watching!
Very nice video.
Thank you, and thanks for watching!
Lapis is one of my favorites. I spent my youth playing in the San Gabriel’s. Where can I get details where to rockhound for it? Awesome info, thank you.
Thank you for watching! I'll share all the details of how to get there in Part 2 of this video, coming out on Sunday (January 12th).
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Just switched over to the TV to watch this on the “ Big” screen! But just want to say that my face literally looked like this 😮 out of pure stoke when I saw this new video on my feed!
Thank you hahaha! And thank you for watching!
Is the rubies of gem quality
As a long time hiker in so cal you just answered a bunch of questions i always had while hiking 👍🏼 over by mt baldy at ice house canyon there are giant rocks that look as if they were bent pretty cool stuff
Awesome, glad I could help out! Thanks for watching!
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Solomon coming in with the clutch rockhounding spots.
I live in pahrump Solomon, went to tecopa for amethyst by your directions-ish (I went the back way In a low clearance vehicle) 😅
Preciate it! Oh nice! Hope you found some cool stuff :) And thanks for watching!
I love the Gabes. Deceptively rugged. One can die in full view of the 210 freeway. Looks like that fire road is north of Cucamonga ? Hang glider peak to Big Tree ?
Bravo........the whole name off the range........Los Padres national forest........it the one of the large parks......in u.s.....cheers
Thank you
Thanks for watching!
Hi, amateur hunter here..
I am in an area that funnels down to bedrock..
Very close to me is a gulley. 1 side, crumbling rock..
On the other side, the same, except downstream..
There is a wall of rock that is at least 40 feet high.
Smooth surface, like it punched up..
Then it goes down under water, and re emergerges under a dam.
From there, very little bedrock is exposed, until you hit the rapids area.
A tidal area..
Everything there is shoved down into a bend in the river..
Question - if this is a fault line area, are there gems waiting to be found?
Location - southern Maine. Lots of quartz, and mica here.
Thank you, and enjoy your hunt
Wow, Im right here and never knew! And Im a rockhound.
Yes! You should definitely hit up Cascade Canyon! Thanks for watching :)
Rhodonite in San Bernardino.
Lay person with lots of exposure to geology, yet I was never quite certain the transverse ranges were. Not that here in Los Feliz I live on the rolling hills of one of them I hike frequently - the Santa Monica mountains. The upper more parts of the eastern edge in Griffith Park clearly formed under water. Very interesting information about my own back yard! Los Angeles
pronouncing the r in the middle of Bernardino sounds weird to this local. Great content.
Haha I'm a Vegas/Ohio local so apologies for the mispronunciation, thanks for watching!
Good video! I was pretty concerned that your video would be more invitation than geology information. From the photo in the opening scene, it looks like a handful of yards of material have been removed since the last time I've been there😢
I was hoping it would be invitation but this is much better
Thank you for watching! It looked like the boulder near the deposit recently fell, maybe due in part to that?
Slight correction at 2:39 it's hexavalent chromium that gives a purple color. Trivalent chromium is a vibrant green. Amazing what varying levels of electrons do to metals, huh? Btw hexavalent chromium is the most toxic valence state of the metal, and is a fume hazard during stainless steel welding
Thanks for the vid
Oh wow thank you for clarifying that! And thanks for watching!
awesome...! I want to go too! is it ok? to go to S mountain and start finding gem stones? or Do I have to get some kind of permission(is it free?)?
You can only find Lapis in Cascade Canyon. Nothing has been found in any other area. All you need is to stop by the local ranger station and pay for a dig permit. Then you can rockhound in any area that isn’t a registered claim. You can find rubies along the dirt road just before the opening to Cascade Canyon. You will need to take the Stoddard Peak trail. Stay to the left after you park and follow the path that cuts across the little field to the opposite hillside. Then just follow that dirt road until you see a giant bolder that fell out the side of the wall like in the video. That when you know ur around the corner from the opening to Cascade Canyon. There are not specific sites to find lapis, it’s literally scattered through the whole canyon so you really have to be vigilant. If you want to find Rubies, try to go around dusk and take a UV light. If you see little orange glowing specs, those are rubies. It’s rare to find any that are “ring stone” sized, but there is a lot of tiny ones inside the host rocks.
@@frightofurlife very adventurous and interesting! thanks!
Like the 1994 quake...the 1971 Sylmar quake did the same thing.
Thank you, and thanks for watching!
"Double-plowed?!" "Pasadena Erogony?!" I thought I was watching an innocent geology video.
Hahaha... thanks for watching!
I've lived in the Transverse ranges my whole life.
I was surprised to hear that there was lapis lazuli in this area. I thought lapis was only found in Chile and Afghanistan.
Where is the Solomon’s outdoor adventures intro😭
Hahahaha that's vintage SVA... changed it up a bit now hahaha... thanks for watching and for the continued support!
For those that don’t know, when hiking to Cascade, the ruby deposits are just before the opening for cascade. There isn’t an actual mine that was dug so if you are looking for a giant hole in the ground you won’t find it. There are very small deposits of Lapis randomly up and down the crevice of the mountain. Be patient and diligent if you want to find pieces. You will not find rubies in the actual canyon… the corundum, or “rubies” as I said is before the opening to Cascade Canyon. If you go after dusk with a UV light, you will find them. Just look for the orange/red glow under the UV… good luck and safe hounding.
Great PSA, and thanks for watching!
It’s not a gemstone but I’ve found crazy fossils after the fires years before
goody I live close
Peace.
Indeed.
There is NO Lapis Lazuli in the San Gabriel’s. Learn your true history ! There is an even rarer gemstone ONLY found in 1 canyon up there with an official name of Lapis Lazurite. It is the only place known to have this type of gemstone. It is made up of lapis lazuli and pyrite Chrystal’s and recognized by the GIA.
I should know I was friends with Sedley Pecks grand daughter . Been prospecting gold and gemstones in those mountains since 1970.
Idk how I could tell but I could tell you got your degree at UNLV too just by watching this. It’s giving igmetpet final
Idk how you could tell either hahahaha but yes I am indeed a UNLV alum! Go Rebels, and thanks for watching! Did you have Arya Udry for IgMetPet?
Wereabout is the area were you filmed this video at send me the exact location please i want to go hiking there san gabriel .
Look up Stoddard peak trail. That is your starting point. Follow the trail that goes across the lower valley to the opposite side and follow that dirt road all the way to Cascade Canyon.
I'll tell you guys where to hike and all of that in Part 2 :)
You’re giving lots of information that seems unprovable but it does make a good story.
I know a place in Mt baldy that has lapis. You know probably know too. We should keep it quiet
"We should probably keep it quiet" right after leaving the locality in a comment that will stay forever. Interesting
@SamSeth Mt Baldy is a big mountain. Even if I shared the turn off it would be difficult to find. 🙂
10:29 found the somali haha
this...didnt age too well
Too bad most of these areas are closed due to fire activity and careless human activity.
Petrified wood
Quartz is sap. Where you find quartz, you’ll find gold
The more I learn about our true cosmology, the less I fall for what someone tells me that someone else told them. Rainbows are angels and resets happen every 400 years. Hang on to your rocks hounds! Things are getting close to crazy. I don’t have bad words for this creator, he only knows what he has been taught and told. Southern California will be under water again soon. This is an electric and frequency realm. Be kind and generous to all.
It is illegal to harvest anything from a national forest. please leave the forest alone. And by the way, Cascade Canyon is completely overgrown. You may be able to penetrate 10 or 15 feet from the trail., and that's it.
Karen’s everywhere
Non of what you are saying is true about Cascade Canyon. I was just there two days ago and cleared the path. Further more, there are two separate claims on Cascade and the road leading to it that was founded in 1872. There are expositions each year leading to this area for both research and rockhounding. There are certain rules about how much you can take and what kind of digging tools you’re allowed to use, but sir, spreading false information in hopes of detouring folk from “ruining nature” isn’t the proper way to educate. Everyone has Google at their fingertips. All you need is a simple personal dig permit from the local ranger station and you can take whatever you find that doesn’t already have an existing registered claim on it… so u should definitely do ur research first… but it’s not illegal. Just saying…