Fire Agates and Tarantulas | Rockhounding California
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- Join me near Mesa Verde, CA where I head out to rockhound in the middle of nowhere again. I stumble across a shocking amount fire agates, botryoidal chalcedony, thundereggs, and more.
By more, I mean tarantulas bigger than my hands. You can hear them when they walk.
Location information included in the video!
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I was there and loved rock finding
Find any tarantulas too? 😬
Always gotta give a 👍 anytime a you tube channel gives the location of finds
Thanks for keeping up with the channel! Yes, I know how annoying it is when videos say the location is “Southeast California” 😤
Tarantulas, snakes, ant lions, velvet ants, tarantula wasps, wind scorpions, scorpions, killer bees, etc... All found in abundance in the desert south west! Too bad you couldn't get to the Hauser or Rainys Well geode beds, they are worth visiting. You still found some great rocks by Coon Hollow camp! If you are ever out that way again you should try and rockhound in the Lavic area off of I-40, west of Ludlow CA. It produces some seriously awesome materials. Check out "Socalrockhound's" channel for more info of that area. The beautifully amazing desert sunsets and sunrises that we often enjoy are natures advanced payments for the sometimes brutal harshness that we must endure during the blistering days and frigid nights that we are out there rockhounding, prospecting and mining. Thanks again for sharing your journey and adventures with us!
Thank you so much for all the detail in your comments. Seriously!
What I’m looking to do is compile a list of places to return to from recommendations on my channel, and loop back!
I’ll check out Socalrockhound too 😎
Thank you for the solid directions to the area you collected. Thumbs up, and a subscription from my wife and me.
That’s awesome, I’m glad the directions were helpful. If you’re up for a hike, head towards the mountains just East of the spot.
I get a feeling there’s gotta be some really cool ones more off the beaten path!
Wonderful finds Griffen! I’m too old to get out there and hunt for my favorite stones ( of which include agates ). Thanks for taking us along with you as you rock hound, son. 😊
Thank you! Eventually I am hoping to start giving some of my finds away on the channel. I’ve got more than enough agates, geodes, etc for one person lol
So cool to see the tarantula 🕷 Wow so many amazing agates out there. What a great area to rock hunt ! If I ever get to to CA I will be checking it out. Nice finds😊
Do me a favor and get to the Hauser Geode Beds since I couldn’t! Right down the dirt road.
Thanks for keeping up with the channel, I think that’s so cool 🙏🏻
Thanks for sharing this with us Bud, love it. So different from what I'm used to seeing here in New Zealand.
Aw man, your geology in NZ is beautiful. I’m going to get there one day and fly back with a 100kg suitcase of rocks lol
Great stuff! All my years in the desert, never seen a tarantula. Rattle snakes, yeah. You got some great rocks! And some fire 🔥 TFS ❤️
Thanks! And double thanks for keeping up with the channel! That tarantula completely caught me off guard. We’ve all seen them in pet stores and stuff, but this thing was a creature rather than a bug lol
@@ThirdPlanetRocks I like to follow fellow western hounders. You didn't visit much in Arizona, did you?
@@icatz I edit/upload on a bit of a delay. Had to visit some friends/fam in LA before returning to AZ.
I think you’ll like where this channel is headed 😎
Fantastic finds!!!
Thank you! I wish my video skills were a little better at the time I recorded this.
I’m gonna be giving a bunch of this material away on the channel soon!
Man, only desert rockhounding I've done so far is in Oregon. Anxious to try everywhere in the US West of the Rockies, to be honest. Pro tip with tofu: always press the water out, cut into one inch chunks and marinate before frying. Will be delicious every time. :D Love the encounter with the tarantula.
That’s exactly what I did actually! I pressed it between my hand and a plastic plate, though… there’s certainly better ways when you don’t live in a car 🤣
@@ThirdPlanetRocks - yo, I'm impressed with that technique! Well done. 😆👍
I dont know why I feel compelled to tell you this But I recently discovered canned tuna in extra virgin olive oil. I travel and eat alot in my truck, so Im hoping you may enjoy it as much as I do. Trisquits and tabasco and Im set. Mesa Verde is crazy but freakin beautiful
Mesa Verde feels like a town from a Grand Theft Auto game lol…
Unfortunately I can’t do tuna. I used to work in a nursing home where we served liquid tuna to residents and that ended that one for me 🤢
@@ThirdPlanetRocks OOOOHHHH yeah that would do it for me too
Aww man, I was just out there
Hey man it looks like your next stop may be Arizona. I know of a great spot for you In Parker AZ right over the border if you wanna check it out.
Aw man, I record on a delay so I’ve already hit lots of spots in AZ - in NM now. These take me 4-6hrs to edit each, so I try to maximize how many locations I can hit while editing at night.
@@ThirdPlanetRocks no worries bud. You are a trooper to Rockhound all day and edit the videos all while living in your SUV.
Be careful they have jumping tarantulas
Fun for the whole family! 🤠😂
In the spring I pick morel mushrooms, lots of morels in the northwest. Do you want to join us ,we pick huckleberries also with international companies. Very profitable and lots of fun in the mountains in remote places. You would have fun and we could use some partners.
That sounds cool, I’ve got some friends that pick morels in Wisconsin around April/May. I’d be interested but it’s not looking like I’ll be around the NW till later in the year
@@ThirdPlanetRocks were are commercial pickers working with international companies. Your friends pick natural morels. We pick burn morels. We pick thousands of pounds every spring. Good pickers make about 300 to 500 dollars a day.its a serious job. Check out (foods in season )that's one company we work with.
@@meganmclaughlin9056 whoa that’s way cool! I didn’t realize about the scale of it. If I ended up out there, that sounds like a fun idea for a video 🍄
@@ThirdPlanetRocks yeah man there Is hundreds of millions of dollars worth of gourmet wild mushrooms that are wild harvested in the northwest every year .they get shipped all over the world. Morels ,pine mushrooms, lobster mushrooms, king bolete,truffles .we pick alot around Mt st Helen's and Mt Rainer in Washington state.its really beautiful. My friend has a agate claim.his name is Tate. He is in Arizona at his booth in quartzsite.
What do you do with them? Can they be polished?
They take a polish really well! I am working on putting together a saw setup right now. It's a bit... bootleg. I can't wait to cut them.
I was just there last month and found similar agates. Did you find any that have fire in them?
I think I may have a couple with some slight iridescence to them, but they’re some of the bigger dirty ones.
Unfortunately I didn’t see any obvious green flashes when I was out there.
I’ll come back to this comment a while down the road after I can get everything cleaned!
Most of the surface pickings have a coat of desert varnish that hides the true color of the agate. There is a lot of material out there. Most of it won't have much color, but there is definitely fire agate with flashes of color out there.
@@mikecarroll2323 Yeah, I agree with you - I think cutting to the center of some of the larger ones gives the best chance at finding “fire” within them
Oh there’s fire there. You just have to know where to look.