Agate Limb Casts // Rockhounding in Central Oregon at Congleton Hollow
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2022
- We went to this location at pretty much the perfect time. The weather was spectacular and we had some excellent finds.
In the future, we will certainly be returning to this location for another visit as the area is vast with plenty of area to explore.
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Congleton Hollow is one of my favorite locations! My first time there I dug in one of the dry creek beds and had beginners luck. I found multiple larger pieces, the best of which was a 9 pound piece of root that is mostly solid with pink and white bands. My largest piece, a 25 pound log with a Quartz crystal pocket, I cut and polished and donated to the Rice Museum because it was better than what they had as an example from that area. As always, great content. Thanks again.
It's a very intriguing location for and the larger things and eluded me but maybe if we go back again this fall or next spring and spend some more time there I can find something that's a complete round.
That's a great find and even better cause now everyone can see it and enjoy it at the Rice Museum.
Was that piece you donated downstairs before the remodel after the flooding? I have a vague recollection of it along with like two other pieces if my memory serves me right...I probably have pictures or video of it somewhere in my files?🤦♂🤦♂ hahaha
@@BackcountrywithShaughn I'm not sure. I think it was about 5 years ago or so. I didn't know about the flooding/remodel, so hard to tell.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding maybe do a video on rice museum sometime?
The cellular replacement with agate is WOWSA. Nature is awesome. Lika says "you made is cool hole for me". Lika says "don't lick rocks 😜 "!
The hat is perfection.
The farther you head out away from where everyone goes the better..... ( a late friend of mine used to talk about Rattle Snake Bute ( might be just their name for the area, but it's around Congleton Hollow,) the whole area is quite picked over from what I understand, especially closer to the parking and camping areas......so look into a utv or atv, and check property lines as they found barbed wire fences out in the middle of nowhere ( like 3-5 miles away from parking) I have not been there, maybe some day before I die, but this man was very knowledgeable and trustworthy. ( worked with and for him for years, as I had with the rest of the group he hunted rocks with.)
Another day in Paradise…
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Sending love and light to all…
👋 Sarah
Thank you!
Here I can see and understand the difference between petrified wood and limb cast! You are a rock hounding erudite !
Pretty material in a seemingly random location! I wouldn't even know where to start digging! Love it when surface collecting pays off!
We do plan on going back here and exploring the area some. It would be nice to find an area where its concentrated.
Ya similar to the kind a stuff we find in our neck of the woods.
Cool.
My son and I spent the night out there. He's 8. We walked and scraped around a little for 8 hours in 90 degrees. Found couple good 1-2 lb pieces..all kinds of colors. Pet wood, opalized wood of all colors.
Awesome spot. Not a soul out there!
Great video as always.
Found the largest piece of limb cast found yet there.its a 6 foot hollow log limb cast with purple amethyst in the hollow .its by far my favorite find
I would love to see some photos of it! :)
Thanks for taking us along. Cool finds
I'm glad you liked it.
Thanks for the info this is on our to go to places!
I might just head up there tomorrow!
Good luck!
I had zero luck the one time I hit Congleton, guess I should try again some day!
I think it would be worth a return trip for you.
Definitely need to go there! Now on my list🪨🏕
It's a good place to stop at. Also vast open space to camp at.
Nice jared
Thanks for showing me Congleton Hollow and the casts that can be found there.
That’s true I’ve never seen a fully agatized piece that has the texture. Good find.
love this!
Thank you!
Nice one! I'll be around in the area soon as well (gonna go digging for some green petwood with my girlfriend at Hampton Butte). Last time there I also found a part green, part pink limbcast and I already thought that was something very special, hehe. I'll make sure to check out Congleton Hollow as well!
I hope you have a good time down at Hampton Butte looks like the weather is pretty nice down there.
Cool spot. It goes on the list. Maybe next trip. I did find a few similar but very small at smokey butte.
It's a good location and I feel as though we are just scratching the surface of it.
You did well. Lots of completely agatised limb casts. Once again Sara and Mica did good job too. It takes a team to try different techniques. Keep the goodness coming and don't forget to stop anlong the way and check out the view. Be happy, safe and stay healthy 😷⚒
Those were really some beautiful little limb casts. They werent huge, they werent even medium sized, but what they lacked in size, they make up for in coolness. The colors are gorgeous! Ive never seen a pink limb cast before! And they very much retain their wood characteristics. The bark texture and grain look. In pink chalcedony! Awesome! That is a cool location! Not somewhere that i could go, but definitely a cool location. I will have to see about sending my daughter and her fiance' to fetch me some pink limb casts! Thank you Jared and Sarah and of course, Laika. She has a cute dog butt! And she is smart enough to not lick rocks! Good girl!
A lot of the big stuff I have seen from the area is mostly broken, its still neat but lacks a lot of the definition that you see in the smaller stuff. Of course the prize is a large full round. It's a pretty good location so long as it hasn't been raining. Any car can drive in.
I never knew Oregon had such cool rockhounding areas until watching uploads from this channel. Awesome!
Oregon really is an amazing place to rockhound at.
Nice stuff! I have a dishwasher and have put rocks in the silverware basket and just left them for three or four washes. It does pretty well. Thanks for your efforts.
Limbcast are amazing! Somewhere on our mountains here I've come across a area with some. Of course I was young and thought I would always remember where. Big mistake! Now I keep a notebook. Hopefully I find it again. Thanks Jared your finds are cool!
Central Or is full of both recent and older volcanics; Congleton is in the Clarno formation and roughly 30 million years. The casts are from and in the pyroclast tuff so some do pick at it, I just hike and look. Nice finds!
I didn't quite understand what a limb cast was but after your explanation these things are the coolest! A silica cast of what once was a tree, how amazing is that. Mother nature is something else.
It really is cool to see. Other things can be cast as well. Example something similar happen here where a basalt flow covered some logs and casted them but later what filled the void was more basalt which now means there basalt casting.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding wow that is just something else. Mother nature is so amazing.
Very cool adventure. And very cool material. Definitely like limb casts. I’m envious that you get to ‘hound in the forests. Thanks for taking us along. 💎
That was a fun hunt. Right on Jerod.😎
Thank you!
Nice material. Beautiful location. I learn something in every one of your videos. I look forward to the next one.
Thank you!
Beautiful limb casts! 🤘☝
Thank you!
Beautiful finds! I’ve watched some of your other limb cast videos from Saddle Mountain, and always appreciated the idea and creation of a limb cast, but WOW - this site really reveals the details. It’s so easy to imagine that carbonized wood being replaced with silica and displaying all of those knots and wood grain. From an “outsider’s” perspective, I think I would visit this spot before Saddle Mtn!
If I could only pick one place to go between the two of them it would be this location.
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Thanks as always for sharing your adventures sir, lady and pooch, very much appreciated! Looked like an excellent day out hounding. Ima big fan of limbcasts and rootballs in general and really love the pretty pale pink limbcasts from there. Got a couple small bits myself but nothing bigger than like a silver dollar with some decent digging. I've seen some pieces fist sized and a little larger in some other folk's collections from there but that's it. Thanks again, hope you have a super rest of your week~
I think this is a location worth going back to. I really want to find some larger pieces that are full rounds but don't we all want that.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Totally agree, there is something very beautiful about limb casts and particularly good colorful ones. (am partial to the pink myself ..😉.) really would like to get back out there sometime in the next year but am currently in the process of negotiating a new mode of transport and so hoping to be back at it very soon either on new or rebuilt wheels~
Some very cool finds for sure!!!! I'm very keen to see how the hot bath method of cleaning goes, there is a channel on here called the mineral explorers and he mentions he uses a similar process for getting iron stains from various quartz crystals
I have tried all kinds of things with that there's just some really stubborn bits on them.
Awesome!! Those are really cool. I have always wanted to go to Congleton hollow area. I live on the west side of cascades in OR. Just went to Prineville area recently and found really nice jasper deposits. I saw that green rock too, it's definetly volcanic, and I even found green jasper mixed in some of it. Makes me wonder if it's copper based? Central Oregon is so vast.... it's really just a rockhound paradise!
Central Oregon keeps calling me, in continues to be amazing each time we visit.
Sweet I've been looking for a new spot with limb cast
This is a fun location for them.
like when you do these more remote , less crowded locations. Thanks!
I also prefer locations like this.
I have used Red Devil lye to clean old glass. I wonder if water and red devil might work? Melted silica is Melted silica ... maybe? You guys have some specimens that maybe you could sacrifice in the name of science. Love your adventure and I hope that I can make it to that spot one day.
Hmmm I might do just that!
Can find stuff like that around here but not as colorful
Hey I know distant travel isn’t your thing but you would loveeeee Nethers farm in central Ohio east of Columbus. Ohio flint is my states state gemstone for a reason. It’s gorges and Ms. Nethers is a wonderful person. I plan on going back this year
I would love to come out there but gas prices are well, not going back down anytime soon.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding I feel the pain on that one
@@CurrentlyRockhounding just means I have to send you some.
I have found a few around hear, but not as nice as you and Sara have.
Lets be honest here, it was mostly Sara finding the good stuff on this day! :)