 Hello and welcome once again to the rugged rockhound today. I'm up at Glade Park It's up on the plateau behind the Colorado National Monument and here is the road I was on it's a nice gravel road So you can easily take a car up on this one However, there's a better spot to park off a little further that way It's a little further north coming in where you're closer to where I'm trying to get to over here And I'll show you once we get better view But it's some some hills and cliffs where you got some good layer exposure So up here in my book it talks about petrified wood And I would expect an area that has petrified wood to also have some agate and jasper And sure enough I just looked on the ground really quickly and I found this little piece of agate Not very good, not good color, but it is an agate. It does let light through it if you can see that I don't have the macro lens on right now But yeah, so I'm excited. It's a small strip of BLM land in between private property So on the east side of the road, this side over here, you do not have much space before you hit private property However, on the west side you have quite a distance The private property boundary is down there in the valley So you have a nice space here where you can hopefully find some stuff And then over here I spotted some hills that look like a good place to hopefully find some good exposure So yeah, that's what I'm looking forward to. Petrified wood, possibly agates and jaspers And of course, here are the GPS coordinates to where I parked And this is the GPS coordinates to where it's good to bring car But if you have a higher clearance vehicle, there's a better place to park just down the road that way Coming in Okay, I'm just coming now to the edge right here where you can see And do you see that exposure? Kind of the nice hill exposure right there That's where I'm hoping to find some more stuff, maybe petrified wood And maybe down in the stream bed if I can get down there We do have some thick brush in a few places, but we'll see I was just coming down this hill and I saw this Now, usually when it's white like that and then you can see some color change into it Yeah, like right there, sorry, let me hold that better That's usually an agate, so that is probably an agate I'm going to take that home and cut it open and see what it looks like on the inside And I'm seeing a little bit right here too Oh, well here's one that's kind of exposed Yeah, see that's an agate That doesn't have terribly good color, but it is definitely an agate Here's this little agate nozzle cut open, fractured right there Oh, oh, look at that Wait a second, I didn't see anything up there that looked like that Look at that That is a nice agate, wait a second Okay, so you haven't seen it yet in the video But at the end I kind of talk about how I probably won't come back out here Because I didn't find a whole lot This is worth going back out there for I think I'll be going back up there looking for these nodules like this These little agate nodules Yeah Wow, look at that That is neat I'm on this little road right here, so this is probably somewhere you could park too Um, look at that That's a thick piece of agate right there Right in the road Colors aren't good But it's agate Good indication that we could find some interesting stuff here This agate really is all along here There's another nodule Once again, this one doesn't look very good, I won't take that one back Oh, we got another one up here Okay, that one looks a little better I'll take that back and cut it open I cut open this little nodule and it fractured on me and Yeah Not great So this is the place I recommend parking here As long as you've got enough clearance to come up and over that little spot right there See, we couldn't do that in my car So I just had to park it up there a little ways If you've got higher clearance, this is the better place to park right here Kind of cool, you can see down into Glade Park And then you can see off down into the Grand Junction Valley, there in the distance But this is what I was going after over here This is what I was looking for So you can see in that direction a hill And along the south facing slope of the hill So off in this direction You got some nice exposure and it goes down quite a ways If there's petrified wood in this area like they say You'll find it at some point probably going through these layers Because I think this exposes most of the layers that are up here in this spot So yeah, that's where we're headed Remember, over in that area, private property after like 50 feet So probably not the best to go that way Come off here to the west side And we got quite a distance before private What a pretty area Yeah, some nice exposure here Definitely has the look of some layers that you would expect to maybe have Petrified wood in them So yeah, we're gonna just kind of work our way down through the layers as far as we can Oh, let's hope we find something good Oh man, what is that? Looks very different Huh, it's a bunch of red agate And funny bands That's interesting If that stays together, maybe I can take that home and cut it open That is really cool looking So I washed this off just so we could get a closer look at it Looks pretty much the same as it did when I was up there But yeah, you can definitely see that cool structure in it What used to be barite replaced by red agate Something interesting I wanted to point out You see this agate, this low quality agate It's coming from this side and none from this side Which makes me think there's probably a fault going right through here So we've got different layers on this side than this side Which also explains why there's different vegetation Now I'm back in the area where I'm getting the low quality agates There's another one I'll take that one back too Cut that open Yeah, there's a number of them Here's this little agate nozzle cut open Oh, I guess I didn't have any agate in it That's too bad The fence much sooner than expected Either I've come further than I thought I have Or that's an older fence and is not part of the property boundary Either way it's supposed to jog back this way at some point So we'll keep going this way just to be safe And then hopefully cut down a little bit But yeah, so far no petrified wood Here's another one of those nodules Yeah, I'll take it back and cut it open Hopefully they're good because otherwise they're all going to come out Yeah But yeah, you can see This stuff here Here's this one cut open I'm not holding out for much, it feels kind of like limestone Yeah, or mud Yeah Not much A little bit going on right there, kind of like a miniature septarian Here's this one cut open Feels like clay And it's pretty much clay Kind of like a miniature septarian Okay I've come down quite a ways And for the last quite a while I have found pretty much nothing Nothing really worthy of note or anything different than what I've been finding And no more of that red agate So I'm thinking because the private property is probably not too far off now Because I've actually come down quite a bit That the layer with the petrified wood, whatever that is Is maybe due to a fault, multiple faults in this area Because I already guessed that there's a fault between the stuff on this side and the stuff on that side There may be multiple faults going one way or the other And if that's the case, then there's a good chance that the petrified wood Might actually be further up the road or further back down the road Now this, it's a little bit of the conglomerate But look at that red in it, there's red agate mixed through it in between the pebbles That's interesting So there's some of the red agate I'm now back in the spot where I found the red agate piece I'm going to just kind of search this area Work my way up after I've searched down here And if I find anything else I'll bring you in Otherwise maybe I'll find something up on the top So I got down on this pile really close And I found these So this has a little bit of red agate right there and there And then this is a piece of it but really dark And definitely has a shape or structure to it Maybe it's replacing bearite, kind of like the Cisco and Yellow Cats stuff Look at that Look at the structure on that It's tiny but it's really cool Yeah, I'd say it's probably replacing bearite A little bit more of the red agate I think I see a piece right there Ooh, now that looks like some calcite in that one I'm not seeing so much red in that Let me put those down really quick I see another one right there Yeah, it's like little bearite balls replaced with red agate That's similar to what you get out at Cisco and Yellow Cat Now that I've started seeing them I'm beginning to see them quite a bit There's another one right there Yeah, okay, this stuff is pretty abundant It's just pretty small mostly Hard to spot Some of them are really cool There's another one I'm not so red that one But you can see the pattern, it's the right pattern There's another one It can be a little hard to spot You gotta see that structure because they're not always red I think I may have found one that's a little bigger Oh, cool So, look, it's coming out of the purple layer Well, and the gray layers Yeah, the first one I found was like that So it's occurring probably all through these layers Just in small amounts here and there Yeah, there's another one Yeah, not a very good one Oh well, would you look at that That's interesting Hmm, hello Alright, looks like it's calcite Get up here a little closer I'm gonna have to get my handpick out Yeah, that's calcite So I dug into it So there's like little veins of calcite going through it And this is that main one that was poking out It's kind of cool And here's some other ones That came out of it So interesting Not the quality of calcite I'd be interested in But it's just kind of a cool little thing That's also here Okay, this spot seems to have a little bit higher of a concentration on There There There What's that? Yeah, I'm starting to see a lot more of it sitting around That one's a really cool right there That's a good one That's a bigger chunk Not great, but it's bigger What, is that more of it? See some stick out Maybe they're encased inside some of these things that look like mud balls I washed this off so we could take a better look at it Look how cool those are It's like a little desert rose Of barite replaced by agate This one's kind of cool because it was a little clear up there You can see some light coming through it a little bit Sorry, let me hold it better, there you go Cool That's a decent looking one right there Cool Another one Cool There's another one right there by it Yep, they're more abundant now that I'm coming up further Closer to the source then Okay, there are a lot of these So this could be fun to come out, they're really small They're not amazing, but they're still fun So here we go Looks like a little mud ball, but you can see a little bit of it poking out So I wonder if most of these Are actually that So this is the bowl area where I'm finding it It seems to be coming out in these layers right here So you could probably find it all through this So this is a cool little spot I'm just parked up there, so Here's the GPS coordinates to this spot Just so if you want to come out here and look for this cool Agatized barite It's not as good as Cisco and Yellowcat But it's a good option when it's too hot down there Up here it'll be much cooler Another one of those white ones Kind of like I found down there Not as good, but still kind of white And I'm walking back to the car So I went up the hill the rest of the way I didn't see anything else up higher up on the hill That was of any interest to me So I'm heading back to the car I would say this is a good place to come out And stop if you're coming up here for some other reason Like to go camping or if I find some petrified wood Then I would say this is worth stopping at Take a moment and go get some of that Agatized barite Pretty cool But I don't know if it's really worth coming out by itself Anyway, let's go further up the road Toward the campground See if we can find something different around there Okay, I'm further up the road now Mud Springs Campground is right there It's closed right now, they're doing construction on it Yeah, so it's right there, you might be able to hear something Everything on this side is private And I'm worried that maybe the wood is coming from those layers Sorry, yeah, it's coming from those layers And that would be unfortunate because that means that when the book was written This might not have been private and now it is I don't know Whatever the case But if there's wood down here That's going to be difficult, it is very covered in vegetation So this might be quite a challenge I don't know I'll walk down there a little bit and see if I can't find anything But if I don't find any good spots to really look Then I'm going to head back and go back north and try that area instead See, this doesn't look like a good place for petrified wood So, yeah I'm not seeing any hope here Let's go back down the hill and see if there's some better options that way Well, here I am at the last place I'm going to check out So I've come down a fair ways This is a spot I saw on the way up Where it's just an old ATV road And we'll just see if there's anything around here that looks interesting If not, we'll head out and call it a day But let's give it a try I found two little stream pebbles that are probably part of a conglomerate layer And they might be red agates or jaspers Yeah, I think they're worth taking home and at least cutting open Cool Here's the spread stream pebble cut open Eh, not much Probably won't have much in any of the ones either Eh, oh well Well, there's some of that agate again That low quality agate, just like that layer So we're still in the same layers Unfortunately, probably going to find the same stuff Another stream pebble, a little interesting Maybe worth cutting open So maybe if you get lucky in the stream pebbles Part of the stuff that's part of the conglomerate layer That might make something Other than that I'm not sure there's a whole lot more out here To find I went up this little road a fair ways And kept looking for stuff Didn't find anything different than what I'd already shown you So I'm heading back Looks like the one area that I found earlier on With the little red agatized agate replaced barite Is kind of the thing to find up here The petrified wood, either it's a spot I just missed And didn't see, or it's on private property Oh well, that's the way it goes sometimes But yeah, I'm glad I found those little barite clusters A red agate, because that made the trip worth it Anyway, that's all for this one Hope to see you on the next one Remember, there is treasure everywhere