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The Rock Hugger
United States
Приєднався 21 вер 2020
Rockhound from Washington State bringing you rockhounding trips, lapidary tips and tutorials. Along with revealing rocks and minerals that I self collect.
#PNW #Rockhounding #Crystals
#PNW #Rockhounding #Crystals
Відео
Rockhounding the Oregon Coast - Cape Meares
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Rockhounding on our yearly Oregon Coast Trip. Had 5 Full days of beach combing and finding all sorts of goodies on the beach. We were able to locate free agates, agates in host, and even some Crystals!! Definitely and abundance of different specimens you can find here. Highly recommend this area for little ones in rockhounding it's a great beach to find all sorts of things and enjoy nature. Wil...
Kid Friendly Rockhounding Red Top Mountain
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First time taking my son Rockhounding and we both had a blast and a ton of sugar! Found some great agate and jasper nodules. Great place to take kids and get them hooked into Rockhounding.
Rockhounding the Columbia River
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Rockhounding the river with my boy found a couple interesting finds. Come along for a fun quick rock trip.
Making Some Quartz Crystal Displays
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Making some unique crystal displays for some of my mini finds. These turned out to be a fun easy way to display single crystals I found this summer rockhounding.
Cutting Open some National Geographic Geodes
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Decided to buy one of these Nat Geo Geode kits that was on sale at my local Target. 2 geodes in this boxed kit meant to be cracked open with a pipe cutter or hammer. Well I'm gonna use my 6" lapidary trim saw to slice these in half nice for my home displays. Fun time with my son out in the shop getting these cut and other fun stuff.
Spokane Crystal Dig with Ragnar Rocks #crystals #pnw
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Spokane Crystal Dig with Ragnar Rocks #crystals #pnw
Teanaway Yellow Hill Agates Jasper and Quartz
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Teanaway Yellow Hill Agates Jasper and Quartz
[winner picked] 2.5k Giveaway - Guess How Many Agates and WIN!! #giveaway #rockhounding
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[winner picked] 2.5k Giveaway - Guess How Many Agates and WIN!! #giveaway #rockhounding
Geode Island - Lake Cle Elum #rockhounding #quartz #agates
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Geode Island - Lake Cle Elum #rockhounding #quartz #agates
Oregon Coast Rockhounding Newport to Lincoln City
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Oregon Coast Rockhounding Newport to Lincoln City
Saddle Mountain Washington Rockhounding
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Saddle Mountain Washington Rockhounding
How to make a petrified wood wind chime
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How to make a petrified wood wind chime
Cle Elum Rockhounding - Finding Quartz, Agate and Druzy combos #RealRockhounding #Prospecting
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Cle Elum Rockhounding - Finding Quartz, Agate and Druzy combos #RealRockhounding #Prospecting
Rock Trades with Outdoor Adventures With Fayde Tublack | iWannaGoHiking & Ragnar Rocks Gift #What?!
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Rock Trades with Outdoor Adventures With Fayde Tublack | iWannaGoHiking & Ragnar Rocks Gift #What?!
Cleaning Up A Geode - Part 1 #Geode #RockHounding
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Cleaning Up A Geode - Part 1 #Geode #RockHounding
Red Top Mountain WA finding blue grey agates and a giant geode 😲🤘 #realrockhounding
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Red Top Mountain WA finding blue grey agates and a giant geode 😲🤘 #realrockhounding
The Rock Hugger - Rockhounding Adventures of 2021 Recap #Rockhounding #PNW #SoMuchFun
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The Rock Hugger - Rockhounding Adventures of 2021 Recap #Rockhounding #PNW #SoMuchFun
Cutting Some Thunder Eggs from Little Naches
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Cutting Some Thunder Eggs from Little Naches
Little Naches Thunder Eggs with Currently Rockhounding and Ragnar Rocks #RAD #Thundereggs #Rockhound
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Little Naches Thunder Eggs with Currently Rockhounding and Ragnar Rocks #RAD #Thundereggs #Rockhound
750 Subscribers Giveaway Winner Announcement. 🤘😲
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750 Subscribers Giveaway Winner Announcement. 🤘😲
750 Subscribers Rockhound Giveaway 🤘😮💎 #rockhounding #withme #giveaway
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750 Subscribers Rockhound Giveaway 🤘😮💎 #rockhounding #withme #giveaway
Saddle Mountain Petrified Wood #realrockhounding I mean it.. real rockhounding! 😎🤘
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Saddle Mountain Petrified Wood #realrockhounding I mean it.. real rockhounding! 😎🤘
Finding Agates at First Creek WA 💎😮 #realrockhounding #thefinders with Ragnar Rocks!!
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Finding Agates at First Creek WA 💎😮 #realrockhounding #thefinders with Ragnar Rocks!!
Cutting some Saddle Rock material an unexpected find! 😮 #rockhounding #pnw
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Cutting some Saddle Rock material an unexpected find! 😮 #rockhounding #pnw
Castle Rock Rockhounding Wenatchee WA #rockhounding #withme
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Castle Rock Rockhounding Wenatchee WA #rockhounding #withme
Finally made it out to the lakes (after seeing this video a few years ago) and didn’t find this exact spot but found a nice big deposit spot of various colors with my rockhounding kid on his birthday after going to a concert at the gorge with the fam. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you guys found something interesting, that's awesome 😎
@@TheRockHugger one previous hole that my one kid was poking around in had a solid opal bottom of the yellow green stuff amazingly solid large probably 100 plus pounds. Lots of the black even with some flash to it.
@jaredmitts5203 I've heard there some cool blue opal there too, my buddy found some when he was fishing with his daughters. Definitely some goodie out there. Cheers
Yep.
Have you been on mt Hull near Okanogan?
No I haven't but will definitely look into it! 😊🤘
@@TheRockHugger I'm thinking on my property up there..Rocky outcrops , stream bed coming down off Mt. Top lake
Great video. As I do some gold panning, I'm amazed at the agates and such that occasionally show up. My grandson and granddaughter are interested in the panning, but I'd like to introduce them to some of the other more colorful stones they can polish and develop on my machines. Is there an informational trail to eastern WA opals, agates, etc? The other Grandpa is in Cle Elum and they are over there often. Thanks, and be careful out there. Bruce
NICE
ORE.
THE LITTLE BIG KID.
BEFORE I FORGET- I NOTICED THAT YOU SENT ROCKS TO FAYDE AND RAGNAR. THEM I AM ALSO SUBSCRIBED TOOOO. IT IS A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL.
BTW- WE ARE DISABLED SENIORS AND WE WERE SO VERY BLESSED TO GET STRONGER/HEALTHIER TO MAKE IT TO FIRST CREEK IN ELLENSBURG, PART O OUR CLAIM.
OH, MY GOODNESS-IS THERE ANY MOUNTAIN LEFT AT REDTOP MTN. HEHEHEHE.
just had to watch again. BTW, IT SURE APPEARS THAT YOU HAVE ELLENSBURG BLUE. AS A MATTER OF FACT, I BELIEVE CHRIS AND ANDREW OF OUTSIDE HAVE FOUND ELLENSBURG BLUE IN / ON RED TOP. BLESSINGS UPON YOU AND YOUR FAMILIA!!!
Thanks for watching, the blue is similar and just as cool as the eburg blues. One of my favorite places to find agates and geodes.
💕💕💕 thank you bro
Happy to share 🤘❤️
Are there rattlesnakes at Red Top Mountain?
Most of the land Central Washington and East are known to have rattlesnakes out this time of year. But I've been there five or six times and I've never encountered a rattlesnake.
Would this be stable enough to put on a keychain? That top loop area.
If you add a swivel to it to attach to the keychain. That would probably help it keep shape and not twist the wire.
Great video. I live in Kent, WA, and am just getting into rockhounding. It looks like a lot of fun.
Love that blue agate!!!!!!
Thank you for watching 😊 it's some really awesome agate to find. Even cooler to cut 🤘
Are you coming to the 2024 rally in liberty this year and prospect for adventure will be there and we’re doing some hunting on Sunday
Nope I'll have to miss that one unfortunately..
I would love to take my so. Here on Friday. But I have no clue what road or where that is. 😔
Download the Google maps for offline mode. Search red top lookout, it should have good directions for those FS roads.
Wow. I too found so many of these along the Columbia River!
Wow
Where is this
Central Washington near Cle Elum.
Is that red top material?
Yeah most of it, sometimes I'll throw some jasper in there too. Or whatever I have sliced that's around the same hardness.
@TheRockHugger excellent. What kind of saw do use?
@nicholasnewton6775 Covington trim saw 6" model. Works great for these 3" or smaller nodules. However I've cut a few bigger ones just had to roll the cut. I bought it in 2020 when they were about $650. Not sure what they're going for now but I got it new and it's been a trusty little saw.
covington-engineering.com/equipment/trim-saw-6/
@@TheRockHugger awesome thank you for the information
Swift creek agate attaches to the host like that first one you showed in this video. I have some nice agate finds from swift creek this year.
Ive never dug at red top, just surfaced hunt. Seems like a place where a fella has to dig would you agree or disagree?
Depends on the spot but yes usually digging, no more than a foot down is most spots and your gonna hit hard rock that's been broken over time. Busy open those chunks of basalt and ryolite and you'll find some goodies.
@@TheRockHugger awesome thank you really appreciate it
Beauties
What brand of saw are you using?
Friend I can’t afford a lapidary saw tho 🥲☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️
???? I want to drill into a stone but not through it. It looks as if that drill would leave a center core. Can that be broken out? Michigan Mike
Generally the core will break and stay in the center of these bits when drilling.
@@TheRockHugger Thank you
Happy to share 🤘
Thank you
My best luck has been down at green canyon where the creek comes out of the canyon have found some nice agetes there!
I'll have to check that spot out, thank you for sharing.
Ive spent a lot of time on Red Top years ago. With the best finds being the cavity filled agates. That once polished look like opals, with a hollow center of cristals casting light back into the blue. Mistakingly people think they can find Ellensburg blue there. But there is only a very small chance of it. Being they got there from washing on the shore of an ancient lake. You can find it as a cemented layer of gravel that time has now mostly washed away. But it is very odvios once found.
beautiful necklace thanks for providing a video
Nice
Saddle rock is not an easy climb, most first attempts people make usually end in disappointment. If you follow the trail up the back side theres some very cool crystalline type rock near the top
Yeah there's mostly seams of quartz presented near the top of the saddle. I've also heard of some people mentioning dog tooth calcite as well but have yet to see any myself.
Looks great but doesn’t look comfortable to lay on the chest/neck.
Beautiful!
Rockhounds 🤘
What bits do you use and what is your source?
Amazon search JINGLING 3 mm 1/8" inch Diamond Hole Saw Core Drill Bit
The ones I got before were made by joiner but these are what I'd buy now if I need more. 🤘
JINGLING 3 mm 1/8" inch Diamond Hole Saw Core Drill Bit
Thanks everyone. I knew Could count on the lapidary community for great help.
Rotation day Rocks!!
Love your channel 👍🏻😃
Wish more people would get out of the cities and into nature more. We may have a more mentally sound society. I live in Indiana so it is flat land and corn fields for as far as the eye can see. If I were fortunate enough to live near the beauty you do I would be out as much as possible. Smart taking protection with you also.
It's beautiful out here and yes always good being safe as well. Thanks fo watching.
WA state for the win !
Language young man. I’m done, thought about watching a new person, it won’t be you because I just don’t want to hear language that’s unnecessary. Good luck to you.
Bye Felicia 👋
What cool stones or crystals did you guys dig into in that kit if you can remember that is. I seen the description and it was posted in November of 2022. 😊
Most of these kits have a mix of quartz crystal and sometimes amethyst. Then usually a few dalmatian jasper, some aventurine, and some random agates.
if you spent less time on Dave's danglers ( and took the product out of the box so people could see what you're referring to ) and more time showing us the drilling , it would be better.
You're welcome?
If you dont like people digging out from under tree's you wont like Hansen's creek
I hiked all over the area looking for signs of Ian remains. Never found anything. His family deserves closure. Very sad story.
Hoping the family finds closure, it's definitely sad. Definitely just wanted to bring some awareness.
Crazy part about the ian eckles going missing happened a couple days before my best friend and I took my 9 year old daughter on her first big rock hounding trip. I hope they find him so his family can have closure finally. @TheRockHugger
Also found a rare one... with water inside.
I've found allot of the blue agate,... best when it's low tide
What r u sailing them in?