 Hello and welcome to the Rugged Rockhound. Today, I'm joined with my father who is making his way over from the vehicle and We are heading up Stewart. Sorry, Stewart falls. We're gonna be hiking up the Aspen Grove trailhead up toward Mount Tupinogos. So the trail goes that way up there. That says Stewart Cascades. That goes off that way. We're not going that way. Tupinogos Trailhead. There we go. There you can see we are just above the small resort town of Sundance. That's the parking for the trail. We're just hiking it on the Swiss banks. Nice day. All right, we took the wrong trail. We were on the lame horse trail. That's the one. Hello. Hiking up and We see moose. It's not often you get to see two moose. Made it to the first waterfall. Forgot to do this further back. But I wanted to show you where we were headed. So we are headed into the Talus. It's just barely visible over this little ridge. That is where we are heading. That is where the fossils are. So up here, it's natural to find wild raspberries. Made it to the second waterfall. We passed the waterfall, the second one. Looking out over the valley down towards Sundance. Educate us on the plants here. What are we looking at here? Elder berries. Elder berries. It's pausing for a rest under the one tree here. I'm just looking back that way. All right, now that we're further up right there, as you can see is where we are headed. That is where we're going to look for the fossils. We are almost to the Talus slope. Just a short hike and we're there and we'll be looking for fossils. Okay, made it to the Talus slope. Put my sunglasses on. It's bright out here. And here we are. We have cliff it's coming off of. I don't remember exactly which unit up there it's coming from. If I find out I'll put a line on this. So you can see it. But this is the area. So you're gonna have a mixture of your quartzite slash sandstone unit. That's higher up. That I talked about in that other video one else on the other side of the mountain. And the age period here we're talking about. We're in the Paleozoic. So we're talking about the three to four hundred million year time period up to about two hundred million years. At the very top of the mountain you'll get up to the Triassic. And you can see some limestone right through here and then it changes up to sandstone and quartzite. This is where we're supposed to be looking. This is where I remember from a long time ago. We got some ripple marks on that rock. So could be a shoreline slash river running into the ocean. All right, I found the first piece and unfortunately the GoPro doesn't do good for close-ups. Hopefully you can kind of see what's going on here. All right, so we've got a bunch of little crinoid stems all through it. We've got some nice corals there. There's a bryozoan right there. It's not a very good one. There's much better ones up here, but at least it's a start. Right next to that one up held pulled this one out. There we go. We got a nice little clamshell right there. Another one there. And a few other things through it. As I was heading back to grab my pack with the hand pack in it, I came across this nice big one. There are all kinds of fossils through there. So, I've seen here. Mostly small things. We've got a coral right there. A bunch of crinoids. This probably used to be a clamshell and look it filled in with calcite crystals. Pretty cool, huh? Yeah, mostly that's what I'm seeing. Just a bunch of little things on this one. My dad found his first one. There it is. We've got a nice little clamshell and a crinoid. Okay, getting a little better. We've got a nice bryozoan right there. The crinoid. A little better. Still looking for the good stuff now. While I'm on the hunt, just thought I'd show you how it looks from up here. That road lake is just over that ridge. My dad. These places where probably used to be some kind of clamshell filled in with calcite. Quite pretty. You'll find a nice one to keep. Yeah, a pretty nice one. Look at that. Nice little calcite crystal pocket. Yeah, let's see if I can get that kind of in focus. Back it up a little bit. Not on this side too. Some pretty lines on that sandstone right here. And more pockets of calcite. A big one over here. That probably wasn't a shell. It was probably just a hollow void. That form somehow. That is some pretty cool looking limestone. Sometimes just the natural form of the rock is beautiful. Okay, broke it down. I managed to keep that. Nice. You can see how this probably was a brachiopod right there. I mean, it probably was too and filled in with crystals. Look at that piece. Some of the calcite pockets get pretty big, don't they? I like to get a fresh one and then I'll break a rock open. Not something that's been weathering. All right. Here's a bigger piece that has some nice stuff on it. It's got some kinds of things there. Got your clamshells, crinoids, got a few corals, some bright zones. What kinds is this? If you see anything in this picture that you can identify, if I haven't, leave it in the comment. There's a bright zone right there. Now that is an interesting thing right there. Huh, it's like a big, oh, like a burrow or something, that filled in with calcite. All right, want to just take a minute and talk about the area. This is a wilderness area. It's a beautiful area, and we want to keep it preserved. So in wilderness areas, we don't go and dig holes in the ground looking for minerals. Now, just take stuff off the surface, and that way you preserve the natural beauty. As I go along, I haven't been seeing much on the dark limestone, kind of the dark gray, but this one is a really nice gray zone on it. Huh. I might want to try and get that one out. All right, my dad came down, and he found something interesting right there. Take a closer look at that, and see if we can identify what that is. It's very shiny and black. Probably some kind of shell, but take a closer look. We managed to get it off. We'll go ahead and take that home, and we'll get a nice close-up of it. If you get too much vertigo, it's pretty steep here. I hold currents here. It's really pretty through here. Okay. Found something maybe worth taking. This black limestone has some nice crinoids in it. If you remember, there was one I showed from a previous video. This must be where it's coming from. And there's the crinoid there. It comes through right there, you can see it. And then there's another one right there. And see if we can't get at least one of these out in decent shape. There's quite a few in there. What I might be able to do is when I have equipment cut and polish. Okay, well, I'm going to go ahead and keep that. And I think down the road I'll try and polish it up. A really nice slab out of it. Look at that. That. That's cool. That came out. We're popped out. Still more there. Put that way first though. There we go. And that is the end of our rock counting adventure. We are going to head back now. It's getting later and it's warm. Getting low on water and things like that. So we're going to head back down. So I am going to, instead of doing the video where I show the stuff afterward, instead I'm going to take pictures close up but it doesn't do good video. So I'm going to take some pictures and that's how we're going to end this video. So enjoy the pictures and we'll see you next time. Okay, we were hiking down the trail and we're down below where I was thinking and look what we came across in the trail. Look at the size of that clam. Beautiful.