Rockhounding on the Spokane River
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- Join me for a walk along the Spokane River as I look for some aventurine for the rock tumbler.
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Love this! And not just because you mentioned MEEEE!! 😂 The rock I found was definitely aventurine. I’m glad I inspired you to show us the Spokane River - I’m looking forward to seeing what you do with your finds. Happy Thanksgiving to you too!
I've wanted to make a video showing my full tumble process so these will be for that. Happy Thanksgiving to you as well.
Hi Katy!
Hellooooo! 😊
Received my rocks in the mail from you. THANK YOU AGAIN SOO MUCH. Its awesome that I can watch that video and be like "those pieces are mine" Sits beautiful with my collection!!
Yay! I'm happy you got them!
6:18! Haha! I’ve heard of leaverite but never heard of urbanite 🤣😂 that’s hilarious dude!
Commenting as I go, man 8:08, Benny does this all the time, sets the ones we don’t take, up on something so others can see it. 👌
I love how you half dip, it shows both sides. Sweet!
Oh yeah! 12:05 holy pretty lines Batman!
Dude fun times out there with ya man. Love it. Thank you!
Happy thanks giving mate 👍
Feel free to steal the steal it and call all concrete urbanite! I like setting out a rock or two for people that area likely not rockhounds but just walking the dog or something. Thanks for watching buddy, happy thanksgiving to you as well.
Wow!!! Thank you for the explanation of the way the river flows and where to look. I live a few miles from Lake Roosevelt and the Spokane River. I would assume if it's in one spot, there may be more!!!
Thank you for sharing this ,love your channal ,beautiful place /Im an Australian and Ive just discovered a beautiful river with the most amazing red and yellow Jasper
❤ this video 🤗💚
Very cool! Beautiful rocks and thanks for sharing such great tips. Be safe!
Cool! I would love to get some aventurine. I love blue and green colors. Thanks for sharing the video. This was fun to watch
Thank you for shearing,and warm hugs from Portland Oregon..
I learn something everytime I watch one of your videos. Thank you for taking the time to make and share these
That feels great to hear.
Thanks for the trip, love rock hunting but have no way at this time so I went with you tonight thanks for the ride Have a good life.
Your videos are very informative and educational. Thank you for another great one!😎
I'm glad you enjoy the videos.
I must have subscribed after this one. Thanks for re-sharing.
Great video..I watch and I learn...thanks for that! Cannot wait to get out in the creeks around home in alberta Canada. Spent a lot of this LONG winter watching vids and trying to learn all I can. Your vid on Aventurine was very helpful!
Thank you! Winter is a great time to work on those trip plans.
Good stuff. Hope to see the finished product and your process of these rocks in future videos.
This is an older video but they came out nicely.
Thanks for sharing, interesting stuff.
Thank you for the tips! I’m down in Oregon getting ready to plan a hounding trip at a local river. Thanks for the awesome videos
In the spring time just make sure the waters are low enough to access the rocks. Many of the rivers are pretty high right now.
Ok thank you i'll keep watching.
Awesome thank you for sharing 😊❤️✌🏻💙
I love Kati did! Thanks for the video.
At the rate in which she finds agates she could build a house out of them.
Thank you I'm in that area a few times
A year hi from bremerton
cooooollllll.... this got me excited ngl....im in Seattle and just learning places to go besides the beaches. I've found great beach jasper some sea glass tons of quartz and quartzite my favorite is coal from coal creek in issaqua. i love striated rocks and gemstones I need to find some concretions and some amethyst this summer. but the ultimate prize is a huge thunderegg. thanks for dropping the GPS I'm definitely going there
Wow! Very interesting video! Great finds!
Thanks!
Thank you for sharing
Kid, it looks like you hit the mother load for aventurine...beautiful finds!
Thanks for stopping by to watch, I got tons more videos just like this so you know.
Loved your video. Happy Thanksgiving 😁
Thank you!
So much treasure!
Hey-Hey I think I am number 1000! Congrats! You have a really nice channel, Thats a really beautiful area!
You sure are! Thank you. I really didn't think so many people would enjoy this content but I'm glad they do.
Thank you, loved the video. Just retired and trying to get into a life long dream of rock collecting and knowing what.
I'm glad you liked it. If you go to my channel page and scroll down some you can find a playlist of helpful videos for people just learning about these topics.
Just found your channel, love your rock hounding videos!
Likewise. I see that you just uploaded one yourself!
BORN AND RAISED IN SPOKANE REALLY ENJOYED YUR VIDEO. I AM IN BOISE IDAHO NOW HAVING FUN WITH OUR OWYHEE DESERT STONES!
You have a lot of good stuff down there.
The purple rock is going to polish up nice!
Yes I love this kind of video! I really liked the stripey one you tossed at the 12 min mark. I'm fascinated by coloured rocks! I'm also fascinated by the cold. We are getting roasted here right now! Please be sure to show us the tumbled result?
It's often really cold here, I'm just waiting to get buried in snow. I plan on show the full tumble of these since in a few days my current batch will be done.
Great vid😀
Thank you
Went up there yesterday and picked up a bunch of fun rocks. Might try the other side of the river at some point.
Those are really pretty!
Thank you!
Great video hopefully you will post more.
I'm posting more all the time. Hit that subscribe button.
Surprisingly captivating
Thank you
Can we see the tumbled adventurine or jasper somewhere?
This was loads of help!!!!! I know exactly where to look now! FYI the Cedar River by Maple Valley was the highest and fastest I’ve ever seen. Found some almost lime peel colored rocks which were so cool. After the river falls back down I’m gonna be sure to be one of the first to hit the banks, you should come out!!
Awesome! I don't make it to the westside much but ill announce when I do and maybe meet up with some of Y'all.
Currently Rockhounding imgur.com/gallery/pOrL19k here’s some pics of the green jasper i found there, thought it was aventurine at first
A mile and a half? I'm old and fat and I'd walk that without a second thought. But then I grew up on the farm and walked two miles back and forth to school every day-uphill both ways!
If you ever get back there and can find it, I'll buy or swap that purple banded rock you tossed back. (11:30) It's right handsome.
You forgot the three feet of snow 🙄
@@stephenfowler4115 Ha! Really, I did walk a mile to school and a mile home. Part of it was a really steep hill. It was mighty slippery walking down that hill in the winter. I remember walking to school in WAY below zero. In a blizzard. Not in the summer though. Then we just fought wolves LoL
I like Katy too.
Cool thanks.. I’m in Spokane as well.
We have lots of great spots around here.
I am on the Western side of WA and love hitting the Chehalis and Newaukum rivers....great jasper, some agate. Of course, like you say, you need to get to the gravel bars that are harder to get to so the lazy hunters don't get there. I am a lazy hunter but as long as the way is flat I can get there LOL
I've never been to those spots but I hear from people that good things are being found out there. If you put in a little effort you can find some really good stuff.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I go out into the river when it is low, just scoot along searching. Feels good on my old back and I am searching where most people do not get to. Otherwise I just fall in anyway so why not LOL?
Oh man, I am seeing tons of aventurine, or at least the color and luster that you're passing up. Painful watching you put some of those pieces back, but hopefully they'll still be there whenever I'm able to make it over. These vids have been a real motivator to get in shape!
You sure are! When you got a 1.5 mile walk back and you only want rocks that will be suitable to rock tumble you gotta be selective with what you take. When you make it out here just hit me up, I wound be happy to show you a spot or two.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I have finally reached the point where I am being more selective in my searches. If I cannot tumble or there isn't slice-able pieces, I leaverite. But I am one of those that likes anything that sparkles so I pick up things with lots of mica and crystals just to sit and stare at for hours, hypnotized.
Thanks for the info! I'm looking to check this area out shortly. Where do you park at? I used to live near this spot, on the other side of the river, so I know exactly where I would park and walk. But i don't feel like crossing the river if I don't have to ha.
My uncle helped me find some garnet very exiting
Urbanite. Lol. Enjoyed the video and hope to get out there once the pandemic is mitigated. Thank you!
Solo rockhounding is the perfect activity for this time.
Currently Rockhounding sure is. That’s why I started up again. Haven’t collected rocks since I was a kid. Now I have a tumbler and am researching geology and minerals.
I'm going to find this spot!
It's a good spot to walk to on a sunny day. Let me know if you need any directions beyond what is in the box below the video.
I love green rocks. I mostly find darker green jasper where I live, but I love the hue of that adventurine. Now I want some. Also, that purple rock was awesome. You didn't spot any agates while you were there?
There is virtually zero agates in the Spokane River.
would you recommend going around march?? also, do you do tumbling jobs? if so how much?! i wish i could tumble my own lol
The water is low now, I would go now! I've actually gotten out of rock tumbling since making this video.
have you been to bowl and pitcher on little Spokane river. I'm going today to see what's there
I have been there countless times! Its a nice park with a number of interesting things to check out.
Omg I find those out here in Massachusetts and I new it was something so I grabbed some yea I’ll dig threw my collection make a cheesey video on it lol I’m horrible
I don't know why but u look crazy familiar. Do u and ur wife often hound around the NW?
Working in construction I've been spoiled by the waterproofing gods. Since my job is right after concrete is poured but before its backfilled has graced Me with some amazing gifts. The amount of amazing stones that get used as backfill kinda hurts. Most people that see me with my magical lil water bottle and my rock hammer usually just stop and watch me with the most hilariously confused look. And then once they muster up the courage to ask me what I'm doing then my fun begins. I love being able to just show what beauty is right underfoot that most people will never even notice. My new personal favorite saying is "of all the Rocks I could be addicted to, I think these are probably best."
ANYONE STILL READING:: Anyone in OR or WA know any good places to go dig some obsidian, that's legal? Have some projects coming up that some hand dug obsidian would be perfect on.
We do travel around quite a bit.
You can dig Obsidian at Little Glass Butte in Oregon, I have a video on it.
Hey there..im enjoying your videos and learning quite a lot thanks. But I live in Massachusetts and would like to watch someone out this way rockhounding..do you know any youtubers from Massachusetts or Newengland??
I'm glad you have been enjoying the content but I don't know anyone in your area.
i look for aventurine all the time i live right next to the spokane river
Hi! I'd like to check that location out, however I don't have GPS or GAIA app. Can you give basic directions?? Trailhead name walk east or something?? Thank you I enjoy your videos
You should be able to plug the gps into google maps and then trace the location back.
Do you know any good spots in the okanagan region?
Yeah there's tons of good places to go. Unfortunately right now the ground is frozen in many of the locations since they're higher in elevation.
So what size tumbler does the pouch carry?
What exactly are you asking here?
I've always wanted to find aventurine I've only found a little that was not native to my area
We have it in abundances over, people just look at it as a leaverite.
I’ve found cool rocks in other places found fossils near the river too
The area has lots to offer and the leaf fossils you found are pretty fun as well.
Yep there’s no shortage of rocks and fossils in in the Spokane river
I can’t believe you actually saved one
What do you mean?
@@CurrentlyRockhounding you threw away so many I would love to have
Just found your channel and I'm loving watching your content! My grandpa used to be a park of the Yakima rock hounding club. I just started getting interested in it. I've been trying to do a lot of research and I had no idea you could find aventurine and jasper in Washington! Is there a good book that you could recommend to learn all of the minerals and gems I can find in Washington? Most places I see online only mention agates, petrified wood, and fossils. I look forward to watching more of your videos and learning new things, happy hunting!
Thanks for checking my channel out and I'm happy you enjoy it. One of the very best books that you can get for Washington is call Gem Trails of Washington, you can find in on Amazon for $18 I think and its worth every penny. In fact if you goto my main channel you will see a playlist that I started about getting into rockhounding that might help you some. You live in one of the very best states for rockhounding, we have so many good things here its hard to know where to start. Let me know if you need any advice or tips on where to go.
Ever find any arrowheads?
I haven't found any but I also don't really look. Perhaps I will.
You ever find any cool arrowheads over there
I have not, but then again its really not something I look for.
Got your densities reversed my friend, basalt is typically about 3.0, granite typically runs about 2.75.
That is true when working with pure solid samples but around here the majority of the Basalt is rather porous and less dense. At least that has been my experience in testing samples.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Hahaha, I have to admit, the piece you picked up was awfully vesicular.
@@thirstfast1025 I appreciate you chiming in on my videos. I've been learning a lot from your comments.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding My pleasure! I'm enjoying your content!
5:14 missed agate and calcedony xd
Sometimes you miss some.
👍🤞😃
Is this Spokane river in Washington?
Yes
I met a crackhead with a giant box full of I think amethyst...lol one was the size of a football ..edit :it must have been the aventurine
Sounds stolen. What city did this happen in?
You must have a larger tumbler.
Or do you break into smaller pieces before tumbling?
I had a large tumbler but I have since sold it and gotten out of tumbling.
I live here....lots of, what my Grandmother called, "Indian Sex Stone".
"what's an Indian sex stone, grandma?"
"it's a fuckin rock."
Mirabeau Point Park is cool. 👍🏻
I do have a decent rock collection, including some great old bedrock.
also, after watching the vid....I was way wrong! I showed this to my wife and she said "where is this and how much is a rock tumbler?" 😄 I said "I'm going to guess somewhere near Seven Mile (we great up in Nine Mile, so I know that stretch of river just looking at it) and I don't know, let's price check." 😄
In the description of the video I also say exactly where its at.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I saw that and thank you! my wife and I grew up here and I love that area! It's cool to see the stones i didn't know about and overlooked, so thank you for the information!
I have some if you are interested in more. It’s turquoise green. 2-10 lb pieces. Getting rid of part of my collection. Email me or Facebook. To the rockhound in this video.
You can drop me an email at currentlyrockhounding@gmail.com
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I’ll send you an email when I get home. I’m driving right now.
Urbinite lol
Hahaha, I'm glad my attempt at humour didn't go unnoticed.