 Hello and welcome to the rugged rockhound today. I am with a good friend right here. Who's this right here? This is Trevor from Utah Rocks. Of course, go always go check out his channel. We are heading out past Fontnell Reservoir. We're gonna hit Highway is that 311? Something like that. We're gonna head out that way. We're going to the blue forest petrified wood Okay, we made it out here. Here. We are at the location What is this location again? It's blue forest. Blue forest petrified wood. All right excited I've never been out here. We're hoping to have a good day out here as you can see we've got some clouds coming up on us It might rain on us. That's fine. As long as it doesn't downpour It does then we got to get out of here because it'll turn everything to clay and the roads will be bad, but Great day. I love the overcast temperatures perfect for rockhounding. So I'm really excited to get out there I've already been looking on the ground There's a little bit of petrified wood right there for you. Not very pretty But he's telling me there's tons of wood out here everywhere. We're trying to find the good-looking wood It's not this ugly wood, but it's apparently everywhere. I saw that immediately. So And you can see where people have dug pits everywhere Got my stuff got a bucket some water and the spray bottle some digging tools and he is already way out there Walking around so I'm gonna have to catch up to him. We're out here looking around So as you can see here's this ash layer very colorful Almost like a Wonderstone type thing which it's commonly happens with ash when you get hot waters going through them So this ash layer is where the pieces of wood are and as you can see it has been really dug in this area So I think the goal for us is to find a spot Where there's been a little less digging And see if we can find some of that blue wood. You can definitely see there's lots of little chips of wood everywhere There's a little bit of the wood just little chips of it all over the place Well, you can see that but there's little chips of the wood You do kind of see them all over It's a bigger piece Yeah, I think this stuff will be very pretty Want to give a bigger piece of this All right, so give us your two cents on this all right, so This is a spot where you can see somebody's been doing a lot of digging This right here is some of the cast that you'll find around the wood I'm not seeing any actual wood here though I'm wondering if we might want to find a different spot on this piece over that way Okay, yeah, nice So this is the cast that you'll see around the wood you'll have link layers and layers of moss or whatever that is goes around the wood and then in the middle is where you'll actually have The wood itself. It's interesting. So this this is an environment that is very wet for a moss to grow around if that's what it is And then of course this this wonder stone looking stuff is the volcanic ash layer that buried it Allowing it to be preserved Here's some of the blue Chastonium stuff So we want to get that blue Chastonium or agate or whatever people want to call it In with the wood. Is that just like a vein of it then? That's probably getting to the wood So like you can see how it's. The shards of it That's pretty. Yeah It's quite pretty Look at that. Yeah Neat. All right, so Utah Rocks told me to dig down several feet to get down to where the layers supposed to be I Think I'm down there now. So We'll start filming in case I hit anything All right, I had to dig out more dirt to kind of get down there better got a big rock right here Gotta move. I don't know if it's what it probably isn't but I don't know But I did find a few little pieces that came out Kind of right about this level right here I got this piece right here so Just kind of the rind of it and again kind of the rind of Piece of woods. You can see this nice Botryodal Chastonium right here. All right Got a few pieces. Let's keep going coming Of course, it's windy too Hopefully you can hear me It should expose things on the surface. I know that in a place like this Most things on the surface will have already been pegged But with the rain Walking a little bit Digging over there Wanted to kind of get away from where most of the digs work on this Looks like a rim piece of it or it could be just a vein See a little thing here And a piece of wood right there Sure, that's oh, yeah, that is the wood Well, that's pretty nice to keep that one Okay, that's not really cool. It's the branch. Look at that It's where the branch works. It's really cool. Getting my stuff My digging tools from where I was digging and I ran into Utah Rocks on the way And I told him about a spot that I had started finding these nice bigger pieces like this Here on this side of the bush and over there And he confirmed what I thought this would be a good spot to dig and see if we can find some bigger pieces So I'm gonna so I grabbed all my stuff brought it back and we're gonna start digging See what we can find. We're down here and we're gonna start digging through this Found a few See if I can spray them off and get an idea if there anything or not You can see a little bit of agate poking through there. This might be something This is a nice thing much there. Looks a little bit right there Hard to tell Okay, I don't really know. We'll keep digging down in here for a bit Now that has got to be some wood Yep, that's definitely some wood Okay, I think we're getting into it. That's wood and that's a piece of the actual limb There we go That's what I want to see I was going over this way not getting a whole lot came back this way right here Just pulled out this thing It's definitely wood Well, this one that looks good. It's kind of the outer edge of it again. Oh, yeah, this one too See that there. I Kept digging that way and I got a lot better So we got this nice big piece right here. You can see a nice round Piece of wood going through that and let's take a look at this thing That is definitely a branch going right through there look at that and I think that's a piece too right there, but I have to clean them off a little better But yeah, those two are exciting and let's keep digging that way. That looks like a little one right there That might be a piece. There's a piece right there Area I dug as you can see as I dug it. I kept just throwing the dirt back where it already dug. I didn't have to dig very deep We got some rain coming. I've been Sitting here and it's been raining a bit It looks like we might have heavier rain coming I'll go see what Utah Rocks wants to do since it's his vehicle and These roads can get pretty darn slick out here when it gets really muddy Okay, made it back to the vehicle with all my stuff came out here to see how he did in his spot It's looking pretty good. So I found I don't know if this is a root or what See how it goes through here. I'm gonna get home and clean this up. That looks cool. Yeah, I think that is a root and then I Think these are all roots probably but You see this one here and falling apart, but that looks nice though a lot of That looks pretty there's a lot of a lot of roots today And then is this like a larger piece so that's That's the one that I thought was a log so I looked at this and I was like that is a log But it was actually the end of the cast Somebody else already came I got the love somebody already got the log You got the roots Well, you did pretty well still those are really nice-looking That's I would have to say you did better than I did today All right, Utah Rocks, what'd you find? Well, so you had a good idea just walk around and see what we can find since it's wet out here And I just walk by this hole and look down and there's a piece of pet toilet right there. That's a nice one, too Yeah, look at that fine. All right, pull it out. It's not too bad You found that one in the hole and I came up here just looking on the surface and look at that Got a nice little piece there. It's just sitting right there Yeah, I found something the surface right here. Let's take it out and have my tools. I think Yeah, it's just Little branch on the edge Well decent branch This area is proving to be pretty good. We've already picked up a few other pieces and here's another branch going through the rug Looks like he's hit something. I just got into a cast and some roots a little bit right there Yeah, so we'll keep digging these out But once you hit the cast once you start hitting the hard stuff That's when you know just keep going till you get to where it is and then you just keep following the hard Yeah, that looks like a piece right there Yeah Keep digging this out. All right, you get that out and I'll go get my stuff. What did you find while I was gone? So Still digging it out. I think I'm still getting into it. I think this is a cast right here I have a few looking good. You got some stuff right there. A few good-looking things here But I'm gonna go find my own spot to dig and we'll come back Later. So I was around picking up a few pieces And back here and he's got Little bit of a log going there that he's been pulling some pieces out. Nice walk and while I was away What did you find? That's a nice piece. It looks like it might have Well, this is the main trunk. This would be the bark. I mean a insects burrowing through it That one right there on the surface Nice branch going through that rug. It looks like it goes over them going through the middle of that All right, now that we've got a good one, let me take a close look at that. I can tell you it's not sap Yeah, because sap doesn't break like that. I think it's calcite. It has yep. There we go. That is absolutely calcite We're back at the vehicle. The sun is shining. The rain has passed and we're getting out of here We enjoyed the rain. It was nice and cool. The temperature was perfect for us Right and overall found a good hall. There's my bucket There's his bucket plus those right there and that's really nice So we both did well I like this place. I will definitely be coming back here sometime. All right Okay, I am back home from going rock hounding with Utah rocks out to the Blue Forest Formation in Wyoming It was a heck of a lot of fun and I got everything cleaned off So let's go ahead and take a gander at all this stuff Oh, I was gonna spray it off to make it a little easier. Here we go Look at all of this Sorry Get it all sprayed Okay So I liked this piece a lot Beautiful a lot of these it's like a A branch or sometimes logs that are encased in this Right here, which seems to be a mixture of the unit itself Which is you know ash and clay with calcite So the yellow I've noticed in these ones like this is yellow calcite filling in empty spaces after the courts Came in and filled in like right here. You got this nice bubbly or botry a little chalcedoni And these branches are hard to see the beauty of them without them getting cut and polished So that is something that'll be down the road when I can do that Um But yeah this outer stuff because it's a lot of calcite I'm gonna take a lot of these pieces and try dissolving some of that in calcite Sorry hemorrhagic acid, but I got to be careful not to do any that have the yellow calcite because I don't want to lose that Uh, this piece was really nice Really cool Lots of good pieces But yeah, the problem is is you just can't quite see everything because of that That thin layer of white calcite that's all over so I do want to try and get that out right this is cool Look at that yellow calcite there more yellow calcite in there This is really beautiful stuff I definitely want to get back out here. I loved this one got a nice little branch right here where it forked I like that one Yeah, just a lot of cool stuff and of course The pride and joy Look at that thing And I didn't find that I did not find that this This was gifted to me by Utah Rocks So I want to give a huge shout out to Utah Rocks For giving me such a nice piece. This is a piece he found on a previous venture And I can't believe he gave it to me. It's amazing. Oh, yeah, look here on the back Look at that yellow calcite right there Ah, that's beautiful And he just you really can't see it when it gets cut and polished Oh, it's beautiful. So go check out his channel. He's got some of these cut and polished So you can really see what it looks like go give it a check out Eventually though, I will get it cut and polished. So once again huge. Thank you to Utah Rocks for giving me such an Awesome piece. Thank you so much. We are definitely going to be going out there again as well as other places So stay tuned. We're gonna we're gonna head out to some more places and see what else we can find I really hope you enjoyed this episode and remember there's treasure everywhere