 Hello and welcome to the rugged rockhound. It has been a while It's been winter as you can see by the snow around I don't know how well you can see the mountains off in the distance, but there's definitely snow over there But down here in the valley There's relatively little snow and it's cold. It's about 35 degrees out here So I managed to find a small break in my schooling when I was it that I was able to come out and the state actually warmed up enough For this to be possible So I'm taking advantage and coming out this one time. I probably won't be able to get out rockhounding again until April But we'll see. Anyway, we're out here on a road called agate road and if you head back that way along the road, it'll take you to the abandoned town of Cisco and if you go that way about 40 miles you'll be hitting Colorado and we're just down from interstate I 40 and The road's probably called agate for a good reason, right? So we're gonna check out this wash right here This looks a lot like yellow cat the area we did the the cliffs up there So there's probably agate coming out of those but more importantly I'm hoping if we can get down below this unit We might be able to get into the petrified wood layer and hopefully maybe find some petrified wood if we go down All right, this is looking like the stuff we saw at yellow cat look at that It's got the red right in the middle and we also found the stuff that kind of looks like wood But I think it's the a bearite That's been replaced Because because see how the fibrous nature goes like that. So that's not what that's the the bearite that's being replaced You sure you don't want that one right there Isn't that the right size for your vehicle too? Yeah And this kind of a orange brown purple Jasper finally we're seeing a lot of Jasper a little bit of agate here Oh, that's that's pretty early on in there Usually we're getting these little teeny seams of red And once again finding where that Place bear right here. I'm gonna walk right in front of your film. Oh good Yeah, it's kind of a bubbly a little bit of Custodon either Definitely get a lot of Jasper along this Jasper tends to be kind of the brown tan Sometimes red colors Get them all over the place though Now that looks more like petrified wood That might be petrified wood Tim I think I found our first piece of petrified wood Because it's got the squiggly and it looks so different from the other stuff Yep found our first piece found a big piece of the Bear replaced Yeah, it's definitely not very because it's not heavy enough so it's been replaced You can see the ends of some of the crystals there not well formed, but It's a pretty big piece. It's pretty cool. That's pretty nice looking right there. It's all fractured though Color of it kind of reminds me of Sunstone decent color though. Oh Yeah Sometimes wishes comes true sometimes they don't have a little bit of color It's got some red in it Well quite a bit and right in the middle. We've got a little bit of yellowish to purple All right Or a replace beret It's a nice looking stream. Oh, huh? Yeah, that's pretty. I'll keep that. Oh did Tim find his first piece? Let's take a look It's got all the stuff going through it. I really think that's bad you wonder Well, there's no other stuff that's on it like it It does look like it. It could just be layered agate In that shape. Uh, that's a possibility. Yep. I'd say that's a potential That's some potential wood right there Here's some more replaced beret, but it's much better color. It's I got some red in it Getting better. So we're falling the stream. We're up on top now. So Arch is National Park is way in the background there's the Mante Los Sal mountains and I Was trying to get into that river Gorge where it drops in I don't realize how far we were. So we're gonna get back on the road Fall the road down And then try to drop down in from there So we went ahead and came further down the road So we were way back over there just kind of exploring and now we're up here We're above the big wash that we want to get down into to look for wood and now we're seeing a lot more agate Take a look Getting some nice reds in here Looking much better Much better It's now it's everywhere This looks like that one area when we went in the agate and it was just the agate was everywhere Yeah, it's seriously like that other place. We went to where it was just agate everywhere Oh, yeah, it's got similar color to it with the black and then inside you got red and then the black colors But it's just everywhere It's a big chunks of it ugly color, but Big chunks that some of it looks like gypsum big pieces Now you can find one that's just exceptionally beautiful. This was better It's getting there getting some better color now and patterns that one Was pretty red and yellow with the red banding through it. It's really nice or that's There it is. Just like wouldn't we found over in yellow cat. Look at that. Oh, I like that It might be nice. It's got some red Showing through a little bit places So we entered the wash now. So we're parked up on the hill there and we just walked down here So there's agate all over the top And there's another would like a layer of agate down lower and now we're into the Navajo sandstone so the petrified forest member is below it and I don't think it's gonna cut down deep enough here to get to the wood That decent color. Oh look at that fat behemoth of a rock I spy agate. Do you see any agate? Oh, we've got some quartz crystals growing on it That's nice. It's beautiful. Yeah, lots of red Usually some other things That's good See, that's nice The red coming through Okay, so we came down off of where we were looking for agate way up that way and now we're down by the historic Cisco pumpkin Pumping. I can't talk today pumping station along the Colorado River. So now we're down at the Colorado River and we're just gonna kind of hike around and look at stuff and Just have a good time Welcome to the Colorado River in January Your Cisco All right, we are back from the trip. It's actually been about a week or so since I've been back It's winter here. So we have to deal with winter weather And right now it's kind of dry and not too cold So I figured now would be a good time to go ahead and take a look at the stuff we found And we didn't find a whole lot on this trip, but we did find some nice stuff and it was a fun exploration Let's go ahead and take a closer look at these nicer pieces. All right I already I went ahead and put the macro lens on so it should be in focus when I put it right about here and Previously when I've used the macro lens when I move it around it jars it too much So I'm put it on a tripod and this should make a little easier to see stuff Take my glove off so I can Look at these. So this one I found is a nice little bit of botryoodle calcedoni and Really nice I wish there were bigger pieces like that nice This was a nice piece of that Eh jasper slash agate That I found a lot of the pieces were not of this quality And so we didn't keep a whole lot of them But this one was actually quite nice This is a piece of wood. I think is a piece of petrified wood some petrified wood Is kind of hard to tell But it does look like it has some of the texture But it's just an okay piece of wood this This one tim found and this one also might be a piece of petrified wood Once again kind of hard to tell from the outside. It kind of has the texture So I think it is one It's probably more likely a piece of wood than the other one, but Overall color is just not that great, but still it's a piece of petrified wood This was a larger piece of the bearite that's been replaced by agate So you kind of got some crystal terminations going on there. They just didn't turn out the best But yeah, there's so much bearite replaced by agate in that area And this one was my favorite find This is a large cobblestone that would have come out of A conglomerate layer out there And it's just a nice jasper Got all kinds of nice colors and patterns going through it Yeah, I liked this one a lot This was my find of the trip And tim's find of the trip was that piece of petrified wood And there you have it. That's what we found not a whole lot on this trip It was an exploration trip To an area that we just kind of Wanted to give it a try. It wasn't in any book. We just wanted to explore And as is the case with many explorations you sometimes don't find a lot But we still found some nice stuff. It's kind of a neat area and it was just fun to get out again Unfortunately, I've got a lot of school coming up now I'm going to be really really busy for the next 12 weeks. So it's going to be very difficult for me to get another video out Before may but If I do get the opportunity, I'll go ahead and get another video out Otherwise, I hope to see you in may and hope to get back to Making more of these videos hopefully once a week And remember there's treasure everywhere