Really sweet of you to take your son on these trips and share your passion with him. If I'd had a dad like you I'd consider myself lucky and look back on those memories fondly; I'm sure your son will as well.
Yes that red Jasper is called Washington Poppy Jasper. Also, and I'm not totally sure but, the black and white stone reminds me of Zebra Jasper. Nice finds.
I'm so glad to find your channel. I live in North Bend and often rockhound the Snoqualmie River from the south fork, mostly the middle fork and down to Fall City. There are so many rock and mineral varieties in this region.
Aidan left the stone on the log that you told him to set it on, dad. I could see it in the background as you were encouraging him to jump the stream. Oh, what a shame and dad, why did you leave that beautiful, jet black petrified wood? Nice trip though. ☺️
Fantastic to find your videos. Subscribed and look forward to seeing whatever your doing. Glad your son took the chance and made it. You knew he could!
The black with the gold streaks in it I have found a couple of pieces just like the one you found. The ones that I’ve found were in the Camas Washougal area of Washington. My biggest piece I found I brought to the Richardson rock ranch and had them cut it because my saw was to small. They told me it was pyrite but it was the first they have seen anything like it. Knowing that I’m sure it’s not that common nice finds guys.
Love the slab with the Marcasite inclusions!!! Very cool fossil leaf imprints too. Its so fun finding petrified wood, thinking of at one time it was a living tree a very long time ago. Thanks for sharing guys! I love the fact that you restored that saw, that looks like a job well done!
Just found your channel and love seeing the stuff you and your son find. The large piece of petrified wood and the poppy jasper Aiden found are both absolutely beautiful.
Awesome man. I live in Auburn between White and Green rivers. Picked up a rockhounding book last weekend and shows some cool spots up by Greenwater. Cant wait to get out there!
Love the jump scene at the end, reminds me of one of my sons. You know that if you share enough advice with kids (as I've obviously seen in your videos), they learn, along with the (fortunate or unfortunate) early development of frontal lobe, making that jump attempt that much more difficult:) Great videos. Thanks for sharing.
Noticed your kids Moab shirt. I found some nice blue agate by canyonlands. But my favorite rockhounding is near the middle fork of the snoqualmie river where I find museum quality concretions.
Ololollolololo!'!!!!!! Oh man.... the cut scene with your son at the end was film making gold! Genius sir... lol. First time at your channel, and I'm also in the Greater Seattle area (right on the water on Alki soecifically, between the point and the main Alki beach). I'm out rockhounding all the time as well, sometimes out jn that area. We should meet and go out together sometime! Feel free to contact me on Instagram at 'the.scum.frog.amphiboles' or on FB at 'Eric Atassa'.
Lol my name is Aiden. I love the beginning 😂 felt like I was being greeted. 9:26 looks like obsidian right? I found a bunch I'm oregon or the obsidian is made from that type of rock.
Man, don’t underestimate your finds dude, they’re beautiful. I like the big chunk of black with the agate bits. And the poppy jasper is one of my fav stones. Oh no way you cut the big one I liked! Ha! Watching as I comment.
Cool video! Thanks for sharing! Liked and subscribed from Bothell! :) PS My favorite rocks are the green ones like Aiden found in this video! Not sure why but I'm just totally attracted to the green color of any object! Lol.
I’m go g this weekend hopefully I’ll find something good. The “agate” circles are veins of quartz poking through. It probably looks crazy on the inside of that piece of wood
@@vugmeister918 NICE! For some reason I seem to find them wherever I go around here. All alone the shores and even the rivers. They are such awesome specimens. A lot of them have hematite throughout too. Shines up beautifully. HH😎🐾
pluecherry7 hey man I'd love to ! I'm mostly a jade guy but there is a park near my hour over on south Seattle (I'm on Alki on the water near the point) that has a ton of large boulders from where I believe is the Cadman quarry. I'm about to finish extracting a huge vein of milky calcite beteeen layers of small botryoidal white crystal chalcedony within one of the boulders. The section is probably like 25x5x20 in.
I live in North Bend and often travel up past Monroe to hound the Skykomish for garnets and gold. I'd be more than happy to team up sometime for an adventure.
If you like natural agate, go down on the Grays river abd take the fossil creek road till you come out on the river. Check the gravel bars there. We used to bring hoime tons of it when I was a kid.
I see you bring the family. I do the same thing and I was talking to my mother in law. She was saying how she needs to get out more and walk around . Perfect I say come with me rock hounding then she’s worried that she can’t keep up . No problem I can barely walk without limping yea bad hips anyways I go slow cause I’m coming every inch of the beach . Should be fun and she has this cute lil frenchie
You found the Big green . It was save. Usually for paint . The best . Is half clay crayon-ish , that small black could make two dollars , but mixed right you might make silver, Usually with that green stone . The brown stone was pottery clay . The red rock is used for brick . The big black was very Beautiful usually called marble.
Oh right on! I just saw you did the blue candy outcrop a few months ago too! Good stuff out there. Used to so up there and guide some folks up to the spot with Wade or "quartz cowboy" a lot over the past couple years. And that jasper is DEF poppy jasper hah. Good find ! I primarily specialize in nephrite and gold prospecting around here.
by the way the shirt aiden is wearing... I've in before. My Uncle raised 4 kids in Moab. and I still have a cousin that lives there...my uncle's youngest son
I also just subscribed to Zenmaster6. It's a shame the area you wanted to go to was closed but it looks like you still had good finds. I assume all those log jams means that the river sees so much winter flow that everything is turning over all the time? 9:48 that poppy jasper is awesome! I wish we had that on the east side. I would love to see a video about your saw. I just got an old 14" saw myself.
The Cedar River normally doesn’t flood every year because they control the outflow from the dam in the mountains. But this year was bad enough to close Hwy 169 for a week for repairs and it uprooted trees. The last time this river flooded was back in the mid ‘90’s. Yes the poppy jasper was a treat and congrats on your saw!
Unfortunately the iron in it completely rusted just from the gaseous H2O floating around in the air. Would probably have to glue a slab of clear quartz over it when it’s still fresh and then cab it.
Awesome video. Had to subscribe instantly. The black rock looks similar to an Olivine? Not sure. Also may I ask what kind of tile saw that is? Beautifully restored
@@vugmeister918 very cool. Thank you for your time and wisdom. I look forward to watching your videos, glad you got recommended by the TH-cam algorithm. Peace and blessings to you and your family. 💓✌🏿
@@vugmeister918 I sub to Quest for Details, hes in Cali. Hes said before that Serpentine and Jade can be found from Washington to Cali. Good luck, let us know if it is!
The black rock 11:51 may be granite. Try searching 'black granite with yellow veins' . The yellow veins could be sulfur or pyrite with just enough iron to cause it to oxide rusty brown. The light colored inclusions on the outside of the rock may be common opal. Very interesting rock. Good hunting.
That’s a good possibility, I did a little more research, and the Washington mineral council website states that Cherry Creek up by Duvall has black petrified wood with Marcasite; a type of pyrite like you mentioned. This is what I’m kind of leaning towards.
@@vugmeister918 You might try contacting them. The Washington Mineral Council may be able to positively identify the rock for you. Thank you for sharing.
@@vugmeister918 That carbonized wood looks harder...It is striking! Is the whole rock silicified? Marcasite or Pyrite but as neither have been noted from the Cedar R. area, it could be either sulphide until identified. Putting it in with other sulphides in a cabinet collection may not be prudent until you make sure it doesn't 'rot' and exude gases which might affect other crystallized minerals. Good job 👍
Cascade Crest Adventures The only piece that wasn’t totally silicified was the big log at 2:42, which I haven’t cut open yet. I suspect that these where washed out of the Tukwila formation that comprise Swauk and Tiger mountains. Many leaf fossils of the Eocene can be found there. Thank you for the advise on displaying this. I like watching your videos on crystal collecting, it’s challenging for me to figure out where you’re getting them. But if I were to guess, I’d say in the vicinity of The Condor/Hemlock/Porter zone 😉. Thanx again for the advise! I’m anxiously awaiting your next crystal collecting adventure!
@@vugmeister918 Those leaf imprints are very nice to find intact in/on sandstone rather than the crumbly shales. Good job there! They can be hard to find in situ let alone in float. Looking for the contacts between layers where hardrock occurs might disclose items more interesting than not. The contacts allow conduits for increased silicification. (But I bet you have read something like that by this point in your research.) The magmatic upwellings of the inland sea volcanoes covered swamps and trees; where hitting the salt water, making zeolites; where becoming vesicular, filling with enriched silica gel making the beautiful carnelians we enjoy. But then there were the crystals...and Condor Was one of those places portrayed...before it lapsed to wilderness.
Really sweet of you to take your son on these trips and share your passion with him. If I'd had a dad like you I'd consider myself lucky and look back on those memories fondly; I'm sure your son will as well.
I love the respect you show your son by asking his opinions and accepting his answers. Special relationship you 2 have.
Yes that red Jasper is called Washington Poppy Jasper. Also, and I'm not totally sure but, the black and white stone reminds me of Zebra Jasper. Nice finds.
I'm so glad to find your channel. I live in North Bend and often rockhound the Snoqualmie River from the south fork, mostly the middle fork and down to Fall City. There are so many rock and mineral varieties in this region.
You are great Dad dude.
Happy rock hounding
Nice! Thanks! You and your son are great. I’ll bet that encouragement “ you can jump 3 feet” will stay with him!
Wow! That is one gorgeous piece of poppy jasper!!
14:00 my favourite bit! Heck yeah! Dad n son adventure times!
Aidan left the stone on the log that you told him to set it on, dad. I could see it in the background as you were encouraging him to jump the stream. Oh, what a shame and dad, why did you leave that beautiful, jet black petrified wood? Nice trip though. ☺️
Fantastic to find your videos. Subscribed and look forward to seeing whatever your doing. Glad your son took the chance and made it. You knew he could!
Washington has amazing places to rock hound I've found a few cool ones myself thanks for sharing 👍👍
Amazing finds and the saw is awesome. Like the cuts you made with it !! Really enjoyed. Glad your son made the jump :)
yall are like a mile down the road from me lol! This is awesome! I work along the Cedar River, I'll be looking next time I'm by the shore!
Fun to watch. Thanks. Love your smart co-pilot.
Great job with jump Aiden! Now you know you can....
The black with the gold streaks in it I have found a couple of pieces just like the one you found. The ones that I’ve found were in the Camas Washougal area of Washington. My biggest piece I found I brought to the Richardson rock ranch and had them cut it because my saw was to small. They told me it was pyrite but it was the first they have seen anything like it. Knowing that I’m sure it’s not that common nice finds guys.
Awesome guys! Enjoyed your video in British Columbia CANADA 🍁
Love the slab with the Marcasite inclusions!!! Very cool fossil leaf imprints too. Its so fun finding petrified wood, thinking of at one time it was a living tree a very long time ago. Thanks for sharing guys! I love the fact that you restored that saw, that looks like a job well done!
Mitch Gillilan Thank you!
Just found your channel and love seeing the stuff you and your son find. The large piece of petrified wood and the poppy jasper Aiden found are both absolutely beautiful.
Thanks! I definitely need to get our rock tumbler going again and polish those.
Hey karma how's everything going.
Awesome man. I live in Auburn between White and Green rivers. Picked up a rockhounding book last weekend and shows some cool spots up by Greenwater. Cant wait to get out there!
Love the jump scene at the end, reminds me of one of my sons. You know that if you share enough advice with kids (as I've obviously seen in your videos), they learn, along with the (fortunate or unfortunate) early development of frontal lobe, making that jump attempt that much more difficult:) Great videos. Thanks for sharing.
Cool finds! That leaf fossil in sandstone. It looks like it was used for a campfire. Lends character to it.
ive pulled hundreds of pounds of very high quality petrified wood out of rivers in WA, love it.
I love your sidekick. He's a real hounder !
Yes he is!
Nice, You guys found some great stuff.
I pulled a blue agate the size of my fist off the cedar. I lived on the river years ago and went daily.
Yeah it reminds me of fishing with just a worm, never know what you’ll get on a glacial beach or river.
the green one is the treasure of the hunt! looks like cool jasper or almost jasper you can find in the Oregon Troutdale formation!
@Josey Wilds
Looks like jasper to me. Conchoidal fracture?
@@seeharvester it's Jasper. I find them everywhere around where I live. It's not common to find one that bright of a green, though.
The kid is awesome!
Nice agate find! I usually only find agates in those small dense beds on sunny days, walking into the sun they shine bright.
You are the real treasure, you are a RAD Dad!
As a rockhound you should like both lol. Hunting for menirals and fossiels. 😁
Noticed your kids Moab shirt. I found some nice blue agate by canyonlands. But my favorite rockhounding is near the middle fork of the snoqualmie river where I find museum quality concretions.
Very cool, I know the spot on MF that you speak of.
take your child hiking in the outdoors 👍🏿 steady
Terrific show! Those round pieces of petrified wood look like burls. Especially that large one. I'm sure of it.
its hilarious, i watched the video you referenced erlier today. cool adventure from a rentonian
Dude, your trophy of the day was that leaf fossil!
So cool. That leaf looks like a cottonwood!
Father-son outing, magic.
Ololollolololo!'!!!!!!
Oh man.... the cut scene with your son at the end was film making gold! Genius sir... lol.
First time at your channel, and I'm also in the Greater Seattle area (right on the water on Alki soecifically, between the point and the main Alki beach). I'm out rockhounding all the time as well, sometimes out jn that area. We should meet and go out together sometime! Feel free to contact me on Instagram at 'the.scum.frog.amphiboles' or on FB at 'Eric Atassa'.
I live in Hobart and hit the cedar a lot. Tons. Of clear agate with banding in there.
I'm always on that river. I'm in maple valley area Ann's always looking for a partner to go hounding with
Awesome! I live on May valley road and am finding alot of petrified wood in tibbits creek. Where on ceder are you referring?
Lol my name is Aiden. I love the beginning 😂 felt like I was being greeted.
9:26 looks like obsidian right? I found a bunch I'm oregon or the obsidian is made from that type of rock.
It’s deceiving but it is carbonized wood.
Your son found everything good!
Man, don’t underestimate your finds dude, they’re beautiful. I like the big chunk of black with the agate bits. And the poppy jasper is one of my fav stones.
Oh no way you cut the big one I liked! Ha!
Watching as I comment.
Cool video! Thanks for sharing! Liked and subscribed from Bothell! :)
PS My favorite rocks are the green ones like Aiden found in this video! Not sure why but I'm just totally attracted to the green color of any object! Lol.
Thank you
I really enjoy your videos
Thank you 😊
I’m go g this weekend hopefully I’ll find something good. The “agate” circles are veins of quartz poking through. It probably looks crazy on the inside of that piece of wood
Nice poppy! 😎🐾
Thank you! Aidan has been lucky with those, this was his second one and the first one he found was on the Port Townsend waterfront.
@@vugmeister918 NICE! For some reason I seem to find them wherever I go around here. All alone the shores and even the rivers. They are such awesome specimens. A lot of them have hematite throughout too. Shines up beautifully. HH😎🐾
9:48 is a beautiful chunk of orbicular jasper. Will tumble into a nice piece!
That rock looks like a bell pepper.😅
I have so many of those green rocks! I think they’re beautiful but I have no idea what they are. I’d love to know once you identify it :)
Well I’m no expert but I can say for sure it’s quartz. I’d say green jasper but it has slight transparency along the edges of the cut.
Or just simply a piece of green chert. Blue chert with swirl marks in it is found over in Beaver Valley, another Washington local in Jefferson County.
Nice finds. Fun.
enjoyed the video
I love the green rocks.
Me too!
Jade?
Green Jasper.
Nice hobby
I found at softball size chunk of carbonized petrified wood with a droozie quartz vein at Cherry Creek, looks similar to a few pieces you found there
love finding fellow WA rockhounds! I'm up in monroe, if you're interested in finding some "cadman blues" i'd be more than happy to help you out!
That’s great! We’ve heard of and i I’ve seen on google satellite where that quarry is, but never pursued it because I thought it was private.
@@vugmeister918 it is private, but the parking lots where they pour their gravel arent :)
pluecherry7 hey man I'd love to ! I'm mostly a jade guy but there is a park near my hour over on south Seattle (I'm on Alki on the water near the point) that has a ton of large boulders from where I believe is the Cadman quarry. I'm about to finish extracting a huge vein of milky calcite beteeen layers of small botryoidal white crystal chalcedony within one of the boulders. The section is probably like 25x5x20 in.
I'm tryinn to find fellow rock hounds to swap info with too. Hard to find people I'm in lake stevens
I live in North Bend and often travel up past Monroe to hound the Skykomish for garnets and gold. I'd be more than happy to team up sometime for an adventure.
If you like natural agate, go down on the Grays river abd take the fossil creek road till you come out on the river. Check the gravel bars there. We used to bring hoime tons of it when I was a kid.
Thanks for the info!
What is the name of the Park you mentioned. Aidan Great job on Jumping the creek, just remember you never know what you can do until you try. Larry
It’s a county park, but I don’t remember the name.
@@vugmeister918 Oh Ok Thank you, Great Video
All that petrified wood comes from the Indian coal mine behind the old county shop. They used it to build the rail line.
Hey are you the squirrel the guy? I didn’t know you where a rock guy like myself oh cool and cool video you find some keepers
I see you bring the family. I do the same thing and I was talking to my mother in law. She was saying how she needs to get out more and walk around . Perfect I say come with me rock hounding then she’s worried that she can’t keep up . No problem I can barely walk without limping yea bad hips anyways I go slow cause I’m coming every inch of the beach . Should be fun and she has this cute lil frenchie
Squirrel guy? No. Rock guy? Yes.
@@vugmeister918 sorry no disrespect.
13:26 he forgot his rock on the limb back there
You found the Big green . It was save. Usually for paint . The best . Is half clay crayon-ish , that small black could make two dollars , but mixed right you might make silver, Usually with that green stone . The brown stone was pottery clay . The red rock is used for brick . The big black was very Beautiful usually called marble.
Oh right on! I just saw you did the blue candy outcrop a few months ago too! Good stuff out there. Used to so up there and guide some folks up to the spot with Wade or "quartz cowboy" a lot over the past couple years.
And that jasper is DEF poppy jasper hah. Good find !
I primarily specialize in nephrite and gold prospecting around here.
It looks like obsidian that we find in Oregon.
You didn't take the black wood! Bummer! The green looks like Jade.
Cool to find the petrified wood, but I see mostly "love stones"
by the way the shirt aiden is wearing... I've in before. My Uncle raised 4 kids in Moab. and I still have a cousin that lives there...my uncle's youngest son
We have calcite/chalcedony mix here like that black stuff you found.
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The green one looks more like green Jasper than aventurine what do you think?
Yes, I agree. Green Jasper seems to be the consensus.
I also just subscribed to Zenmaster6. It's a shame the area you wanted to go to was closed but it looks like you still had good finds. I assume all those log jams means that the river sees so much winter flow that everything is turning over all the time?
9:48 that poppy jasper is awesome! I wish we had that on the east side.
I would love to see a video about your saw. I just got an old 14" saw myself.
The Cedar River normally doesn’t flood every year because they control the outflow from the dam in the mountains. But this year was bad enough to close Hwy 169 for a week for repairs and it uprooted trees. The last time this river flooded was back in the mid ‘90’s. Yes the poppy jasper was a treat and congrats on your saw!
Thanks for the subscribe!
Wow you found a green bell pepper and a ted potato for dinner!
and yes that is poppy jasper
What's rockhounding without at least one wet foot?
Nice
Black one might be kimberlite diamonds
what ever came of that pyrite pet wood? would love to see some polished.
Unfortunately the iron in it completely rusted just from the gaseous H2O floating around in the air. Would probably have to glue a slab of clear quartz over it when it’s still fresh and then cab it.
Petrified wood and opal wood I've found in yakima valley
Awesome video. Had to subscribe instantly. The black rock looks similar to an Olivine? Not sure. Also may I ask what kind of tile saw that is? Beautifully restored
Thank you! The lapidary saw is an old 14” Gem King that was manufactured in Portland Oregon. The black rock is carbonized wood.
@@vugmeister918 very cool. Thank you for your time and wisdom. I look forward to watching your videos, glad you got recommended by the TH-cam algorithm. Peace and blessings to you and your family. 💓✌🏿
Always look for a very flat end. Petrified wood always has that. Mostly
This is too cool! Is there anything to be found in Green River?
Not sure, but it’s possible.
At first glance it looks like to me is a rock that's been used for a fire ring.
Awesome finds, I. Just now started digging in our creek on tiger mountain. The water moved so much material.Hope I find as much cool stuff as you did!
That’s awesome, I hope you find something. Tiger Mountain has leaf and clam fossils.
Vug Meister and blue agate 🤐
And amber I hear...
I loved the leaf fossil! You should check out stonerose fossils!
Glad to see you like the fossils!
It's calcopyrite. Good video
Frozen green bell pepper?
hell yeah man, i’ve got some amazing jasper and agates from the cedar
You forgot the petrified wood on the log
Where on cedar river is this area? I haven’t had any luck along the River in my area except a very small banded agate
Rachel Benoliel Maple Valley Hwy
Some kind of sandstone 🤣😆😂
Green is jasper
Found a fossilized turtle skull out of river rock landscaping
The black is jet.
Looks like marble but what do I know
Nice wood specimen at 4:22, 5:47 I think maybe Serpentine or Nephrite Jade. Google testing Jade. Great fossil.
Thanks will do, that would be awesome if it’s jade!
@@vugmeister918 I sub to Quest for Details, hes in Cali. Hes said before that Serpentine and Jade can be found from Washington to Cali. Good luck, let us know if it is!
jasper
The black rock 11:51 may be granite. Try searching 'black granite with yellow veins' . The yellow veins could be sulfur or pyrite with just enough iron to cause it to oxide rusty brown. The light colored inclusions on the outside of the rock may be common opal. Very interesting rock. Good hunting.
That’s a good possibility, I did a little more research, and the Washington mineral council website states that Cherry Creek up by Duvall has black petrified wood with Marcasite; a type of pyrite like you mentioned. This is what I’m kind of leaning towards.
@@vugmeister918 You might try contacting them. The Washington Mineral Council may be able to positively identify the rock for you. Thank you for sharing.
@@vugmeister918 That carbonized wood looks harder...It is striking! Is the whole rock silicified? Marcasite or Pyrite but as neither have been noted from the Cedar R. area, it could be either sulphide until identified. Putting it in with other sulphides in a cabinet collection may not be prudent until you make sure it doesn't 'rot' and exude gases which might affect other crystallized minerals. Good job 👍
Cascade Crest Adventures The only piece that wasn’t totally silicified was the big log at 2:42, which I haven’t cut open yet. I suspect that these where washed out of the Tukwila formation that comprise Swauk and Tiger mountains. Many leaf fossils of the Eocene can be found there. Thank you for the advise on displaying this. I like watching your videos on crystal collecting, it’s challenging for me to figure out where you’re getting them. But if I were to guess, I’d say in the vicinity of The Condor/Hemlock/Porter zone 😉. Thanx again for the advise! I’m anxiously awaiting your next crystal collecting adventure!
@@vugmeister918 Those leaf imprints are very nice to find intact in/on sandstone rather than the crumbly shales. Good job there! They can be hard to find in situ let alone in float. Looking for the contacts between layers where hardrock occurs might disclose items more interesting than not. The contacts allow conduits for increased silicification. (But I bet you have read something like that by this point in your research.) The magmatic upwellings of the inland sea volcanoes covered swamps and trees; where hitting the salt water, making zeolites; where becoming vesicular, filling with enriched silica gel making the beautiful carnelians we enjoy. But then there were the crystals...and Condor Was one of those places portrayed...before it lapsed to wilderness.
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It looks like a green bell pepper🙂
Wow your right, never saw that.
That fossil had been used for cooking or something by fire.
That looks like Jade
Maybe that is meteorite wow jackpot