Should take the meter to Rocky Flats in Arvada Colorado. There is a new housing addition called Candelas and it has a "nature preserve" adjacent to it. At least that's what the builder called it... 😂😂😂. Love your videos. Be safe and keep them coming.
was thinking about your suggestions of places to test out your gieger counter and the one place that comes to mind is around the Shirley Basin areas 60 or so miles south of Casper more specificly Pathfider mines. Reason i say there is it was an old uranium mine and might be enteresting area and fairly close to you in RS.
same here, after watching this now i want to get a geiger counter and measure some of the uranium mines i have visited in the past. Another great item to add along with my arsenal of usb-powered travel devices i suppose.
Thanks for another great hidden gems video :). We never miss one and watch every week. Several "hot spots" are knw to be along the scenic drive in Capitol Reef. also a couple of closed mines there.
The Hanging Flume Overlook you went to in Southwest Colorado near the Rimrocker Trail has areas with higher radiation. We did it last year where the Delores and San Miguel rivers meet. Try your Geiger counter there for sure. Uranium mining area.
I do love your channel for the very reason you stated: the quirkier the place the better! As I’ve shared with you before, visiting some of these as I travel more in retirement has just been so much fun!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
there's a uranium lake south of Casper, Wyoming. on the east side of 487. I don't have coordinates. it has a chainlink fence around it with the appropriate signage.
As a young geologist in the 70s I was involved in uranium exploration. We were heading to a prospect area from our base in Billings MT to southwest MT. We had our scintellometer (highly accurate geiger counter) running at a low sensitivity level while driving west on I-90. Between Whitehall and Butte the scintellometer suddenly went crazy. We drove back again in the east bound lanes and it suddenly dropped to almost nothing at about the same location. Going west again the same thing occurred. We noticed that the highway concrete changed to a slightly different color at this location. We drove on and the scintellometer again dropped to nothing about 10 miles south of Butte on I-15, with the same change in concrete color. We deduced that when the highways were constructed in that area the contractor likely used waste tailings from the Butte copper mines for concrete aggregate. These tailings would have had a higher background radiation than other aggregate sources in the region. Having taken several courses on naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) I can assure that that there is nothing unsafe about something like this. People who live in the igneous mountains of the west are exposed to significantly higher levels of NORM than in other parts of the country, and no greater adverse effects have been found there than in low NORM areas.
It’s probably already been mentioned however the Hanford Reach National Monument in Washington State I would think for sure would have a decent reading on the Geiger Counter. A cool area to explore as well, the white bluffs are an excellent unique hike.
Bob Julyan's Place Names of New Mexico is a great resource for place names in that state. I believe he has done other states too. I really enjoy your videos..
Hi Tristan, if you want to use your geiger counter again you should go to St. George in Utah. John Wayne starred in the movie The conqueror in the 1950s. It's a town that had nuclear fallout. Apparently half of the movie crew ended up getting cancer. It would be interesting if the radiation levels are still higher there. Thank you for all your great videos!
You can get some use out of that Geiger counter by visiting the townsite of Uravan, Colorado. Lots of very interesting cold war/atomic age history there. I knew a guy who was employed helping to dismantle the town; he told me that he and his fellow workers would sit on top of uranium yellowcake piles to eat their lunches. He did have a certain glow about him...
That area south of Rangely and White River City are right on fringe of my stomping grounds. I haven't done much exploration of that area but I did map out a route that would take me right to Calamity Ridge. Just haven't done it yet. I'll have to visit the Clyde Dillon site too. The Rifle Arch is new to me. Slightly outside of my normal range but not so far that I'm surprised not to have heard of it before. I'll have to make a point of getting down there. Thanks for the heads up.
HI TRISTAN 👋 INTERESTING ! MOUNTAIN NAMED AFTER CALAMITY JANE ? THE ARCH WAS BEAUTIFUL ! BE SAFE ! HAVE FUN ! ENJOYED 🍨 🍨 🍨 🍨 🍨 🍨 🍨 🍨 🍨 🍨 GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS ON YOUR ADVENTURES 🙏 THANK YOU 🙏
There are old closed off uranium mines in Capitol Reef Natl Park with signs warning of possible higher radiation. Would be interesting to test at the entrance of the mines.
Check out Project Rulison while your on the Western Slope. Sept. 10, 1969, six and a half miles south of Rulison, Colorado, a 40-kiloton nuclear bomb exploded in the subterranean depths of the Piceance Basin. Same result.
If your house if made of cinderblocks or bricks you can see if how radioactive it is. I know ther’s Radon but not sure if your Geiger counter will pick it up.
Might be interesting to try the Geiger counter at old mines in the grand canyon,I know there's warning about certain water sources on the tonto bench due to radioactivity. The Last Chance mining district on Horseshoe Mesa has a lot of old mining artifacts, it was copper mining not uranium, but even if you don't turn up radiation there's a lot down there wprth exploring and sharing via your videos. Especially if the park service ever reopens the cave of the domes
I love nothing better than these kinds of adventures! There used to be a working phone booth in the mojave desert. Around year 2000 I read some odd bits on the web about it, but nowhere could I find the location, other than the Mojave Desert, and maybe a reference to Baker, CA. So I started scouring google maps, and the Del Lorme map of the approximate area. Finally I thought I might be onto something! So, along with my son, and brother-in-law (who had a four wheel drive vehicle...I knew we were going well off the beaten path, and likely into some deep sand), we set off ready to hunt for the booth for the weekend if need be. But, we actually went pretty much directly to it, following my hunches, and the tidbits I'd gleaned from the web. We were excited just to find the phone booth, and it was in the middle of nowhere (with the exception of the sand dune like, faint roads that we followed. But the better part came when we found that the phone was ringing. People around the world had also seen the bits on the web, including the active phone number. We answered the phone all night long. A rock radio station from Boston called and interviewed my teenage son. People from Germany called. It was amazing! So I appreciate, wholeheartedly, your channel sharing your adventures, and the quality of the video, and audio. Keep it up, we're watching!
There's a bunch of defunct Uranium mines south of Grand Junction, CO near Natarita and Nucla. It's where they mined the Uranium for the bombs that were dropped on Japan. The (now levelled) town of Uravan is where a lot of miners lives and the first processing of the oar took place. Supposedly it has higher levels of radiation. I've heard that's why they levelled Uravan.
What you looking a Tristan is a well head. Used for sampling and other services of the well. Areas around Moab UT. There are quite a few Uranium mines in the area. Also Pocatello ID is a big mess with radiation.
Geiger counter suggestion. The EBR1 reactor on the INEL site in Idaho, near Arco, Idaho. The first nuclear reactor built which had an incident that killed some workers on the site. I would be curious what the background is there. You can drive right up to it.
Utah is where they got most of the uranium used in the first nuclear bombs and there are many areas where you can get readings in the high 100's cpm. since you go there a lot it could be fun to use in utah. I don't know the exact areas the mined uranium but I know it is fairly common in the state.
I’ve been to the Nevada National security site. The trinity site, apple 2, Sedan crater, Frenchmen flats… all amazing and still mildly radioactive ☢️ 😂. Training of course ✌🏼
The GQ Geiger Counter only counts Gamma radiation and not Alpha or Beta. So your CPM is lower for Gamma when it could be higher for Alpha. You have to spend lots for an Alpha detector. I got the BetterGeiger S-1 scintillator which grabs some Beta and mostly Gamma and it’s wildly accurate. Found out the Carnotite (uranium ore), fossils and petrified wood I collected in Grand Junction is wildly radioactive with over 2000 CPM of Gamma. It’s still not that hazardous as dose over time is important. Guarantee that your hikes in east Utah and western Colorado would have set your Geiger counter off. The Morrison Formation is abundantly exposed there and uranium minerals coat everything there.
Some uses for the CPM meter: 1. If you ever do a video near the Hanford Site, you should use it, seriously. 2. Go to a UFO crash or landing site and see if there's radiation. 3. If you ever find any debris on the West coast from Fukushima, test it.
How about checking for radiation at Escalante Desert near St. George, Utah. This is where John Wayne and other cast members were reportedly exposed to radiation during the filming The Conqueror (1956 film). Many actors later died from cancer due (reportedly) to this exposure.
Your GMC Geiger counter is an instrument designed to see very low levels of radioactivity which are not life threatening. The chart you show has 2000 counts per minute equal to 1.30 mrem per hour which can be abnormal but not dangerous. If you want to see some normal things get a Coleman lantern mantle and hold your instrument against it.
Hello Tristan, there are 2 different places that I know with some natural radioactivity.... plus many beautiful hiking... The first one is in Capitol Reef NP, UT!!! From the visitor center, take the road southbound, drive some miles, and then, on the left of the road, there is a hike to do and a radioactive sign at the trailhead saying that it's dangerous to stay in this place for more than 24 hours!... The second one is on the east side of Las Vegas, NV... Eastbound of the Frenchman mountain that looks over the Nellis Air Force base... On the east of the mountain is the Rainbow Canyon with some of the oldest surface ground of the whole North America. It is a unique hidden place. You could find on the internet a USGS report talking about this radioactive activity there... And BTW, many great hikes to do there... I did these hikes, and I don't glow in the dark!!! (I mean not yet ...)
Agree with John's observation. I wonder why they didn't plug and abandon the well many years ago. It's a conduit for contaminating the reservoirs above the fracture zone. I'm glad Triston did his radiation test.
Great video😊
Goos stuff MrT
You r the best part☺️
again a great, interesting video !😊
Thank youTristan! Interesting!🐎😀🇺🇸🌏🚙
Super adventure with you...
Very cool video great story
Great video, Tristan. Thanks for sharing, as usual. 👍
Thank you,this was a very interesting video🙂
Thanks, Tristan! Your adventure videos are "TOP NOTCH"...!
Thank you! I appreciate the tip!
Yes you are so right. It's always about the journey. My channel is my journeys in faith. Just starting
Great video again. Love your choice of music. Very cool.
My sisters collect antique glassware and use a Geiger counter to check for Uranium glass.
The stories are interesting.
LOVE your videos sir! I live vicariously through you.
really liked the drone video of the arch, and the views in general, nice video, thanks Tristan...
Good stuff! I enjoy the odd stuff that isn't over run with people.
This exploration was great to the hubcap on thee pole
Bless you, your wife, dog and family and may health happiness and joy follow you
Great video! Your monologue at the end is GREAT, it belongs in a book.
Should take the meter to Rocky Flats in Arvada Colorado. There is a new housing addition called Candelas and it has a "nature preserve" adjacent to it. At least that's what the builder called it... 😂😂😂. Love your videos. Be safe and keep them coming.
Thanks for that info as many parts of NV have been used as test sites.
I'm like you, I like the quiet, lesser known places. There are some super cool sights out there!
was thinking about your suggestions of places to test out your gieger counter and the one place that comes to mind is around the Shirley Basin areas 60 or so miles south of Casper more specificly Pathfider mines. Reason i say there is it was an old uranium mine and might be enteresting area and fairly close to you in RS.
same here, after watching this now i want to get a geiger counter and measure some of the uranium mines i have visited in the past. Another great item to add along with my arsenal of usb-powered travel devices i suppose.
Thanks for another great hidden gems video :). We never miss one and watch every week. Several "hot spots" are knw to be along the scenic drive in Capitol Reef. also a couple of closed mines there.
Measure your granite countertops or natural red brick
Southwest Utah!
You could test your Geiger counter along Coldwater Creek near St. Louis MO
The Hanging Flume Overlook you went to in Southwest Colorado near the Rimrocker Trail has areas with higher radiation. We did it last year where the Delores and San Miguel rivers meet. Try your Geiger counter there for sure. Uranium mining area.
Moab and SE Utah area has lots of old uranium mines to use your Geiger counter at.
Another great video. Thanks for sharing. I know they mines uranium near Riverton. Some cool quiet country around there to explore as well.
I like the arch better than a mountain climb thanks for he views
id use that tester at any old mine site you come across
Checkout the St. George -AZ strip area with your Geiger counter. Those areas were downwind from all the nuclear testing done in Nevada on the 50s-60s.
Inspired, retired, we bought an SUV and are on a road trip in Western Colorado when this came out, and i left my Geiger Counter at home 😖
We are going to camp at Rifle Falls on our way to Moab in a couple weeks. Can’t wait to check out these places
Uranium mine areas have
Areas that will show up as green or other colors. Uv lights..
I do love your channel for the very reason you stated: the quirkier the place the better! As I’ve shared with you before, visiting some of these as I travel more in retirement has just been so much fun!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
i agree, he goes off the beaten path a little bit and it makes for a better adventure, i try to do the same when i can.
Hanford research area north of Richland Washinton may produce some interesting readings for your new toy.
19:25 Going to off the beaten path sites is what I like most about Tristan’s videos. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thanks! 😁
There are areas in Capitol Reef and Moab that you should be able to use the Geiger
Two other test sites are in Nevada, One near Fallon, Nevada (Project Shoal) and the other near Rachel, Nevada (Project Faultless).
White Sands in NM would be interesting to see if it has a higher reading
Neat video! I would have also expected more radiation. The hubcap is a super appropriate memorial.
It's the well head. Probably where they extracted the gas to see if it was radioactive.
there's a uranium lake south of Casper, Wyoming. on the east side of 487. I don't have coordinates. it has a chainlink fence around it with the appropriate signage.
You might try the geiger counter at a museum ship? There were several that were "capable"...
As a young geologist in the 70s I was involved in uranium exploration. We were heading to a prospect area from our base in Billings MT to southwest MT. We had our scintellometer (highly accurate geiger counter) running at a low sensitivity level while driving west on I-90. Between Whitehall and Butte the scintellometer suddenly went crazy. We drove back again in the east bound lanes and it suddenly dropped to almost nothing at about the same location. Going west again the same thing occurred. We noticed that the highway concrete changed to a slightly different color at this location. We drove on and the scintellometer again dropped to nothing about 10 miles south of Butte on I-15, with the same change in concrete color. We deduced that when the highways were constructed in that area the contractor likely used waste tailings from the Butte copper mines for concrete aggregate. These tailings would have had a higher background radiation than other aggregate sources in the region. Having taken several courses on naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) I can assure that that there is nothing unsafe about something like this. People who live in the igneous mountains of the west are exposed to significantly higher levels of NORM than in other parts of the country, and no greater adverse effects have been found there than in low NORM areas.
Wow! I learn so much from comments. Thanks so much
Huh, fascinating! Thanks for sharing!
For looking at radiation levels might I suggest Atomic City Idaho, and the land around the top of and along the Moqui Dugway in Utah.
It’s probably already been mentioned however the Hanford Reach National Monument in Washington State I would think for sure would have a decent reading on the Geiger Counter. A cool area to explore as well, the white bluffs are an excellent unique hike.
Bob Julyan's Place Names of New Mexico is a great resource for place names in that state. I believe he has done other states too. I really enjoy your videos..
If you in Nevada maybe the project faultless site.
Hi Tristan, if you want to use your geiger counter again you should go to St. George in Utah. John Wayne starred in the movie The conqueror in the 1950s. It's a town that had nuclear fallout. Apparently half of the movie crew ended up getting cancer. It would be interesting if the radiation levels are still higher there. Thank you for all your great videos!
I watch your channel specifically because you go to cool places that can be reached in a stock Jeep Liberty or similar vehicle.
That Dillon guy was loved to be remembered for so long.
You can get some use out of that Geiger counter by visiting the townsite of Uravan, Colorado. Lots of very interesting cold war/atomic age history there. I knew a guy who was employed helping to dismantle the town; he told me that he and his fellow workers would sit on top of uranium yellowcake piles to eat their lunches. He did have a certain glow about him...
That area south of Rangely and White River City are right on fringe of my stomping grounds. I haven't done much exploration of that area but I did map out a route that would take me right to Calamity Ridge. Just haven't done it yet. I'll have to visit the Clyde Dillon site too. The Rifle Arch is new to me. Slightly outside of my normal range but not so far that I'm surprised not to have heard of it before. I'll have to make a point of getting down there. Thanks for the heads up.
Dawson forest in Dawsonville GA. US Military nuclear power site. Lot of forest service land for exploring and lot of water falls. Cheers
Thanks for sharing this. Super cool. Really enjoy your videos. You should visit Pocatello or Soda Springs to see very high background radiation.
HI TRISTAN 👋
INTERESTING ! MOUNTAIN NAMED AFTER CALAMITY JANE ? THE ARCH WAS BEAUTIFUL ! BE SAFE ! HAVE FUN ! ENJOYED 🍨 🍨 🍨 🍨 🍨 🍨 🍨 🍨 🍨 🍨 GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS ON YOUR ADVENTURES 🙏 THANK YOU 🙏
The uranium mines in the Capitol Reef area.
try some uranium mines to test...
Very interesting. Now I'm going to have to purchase a Geiger counter to measure those uranium mines out near Cassidy Arch in Capitol Reef!
It’s the curiosity of the channel which seems to drive you and that’s why you have devoted followers. Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
I appreciate the kind words. Thanks for watching!
There are old closed off uranium mines in Capitol Reef Natl Park with signs warning of possible higher radiation. Would be interesting to test at the entrance of the mines.
Nevada.
Place the Geiger counter instrument on the well head fixture to get an accurate measurement NOT on the ground 20 inches away.
Well head
Maybe check Mt St Helens or Yellowstone NP with your radiation detector.
Check out Project Rulison while your on the Western Slope. Sept. 10, 1969, six and a half miles south of Rulison, Colorado, a 40-kiloton nuclear bomb exploded in the subterranean depths of the Piceance Basin. Same result.
If your house if made of cinderblocks or bricks you can see if how radioactive it is. I know ther’s Radon but not sure if your Geiger counter will pick it up.
Might be interesting to try the Geiger counter at old mines in the grand canyon,I know there's warning about certain water sources on the tonto bench due to radioactivity. The Last Chance mining district on Horseshoe Mesa has a lot of old mining artifacts, it was copper mining not uranium, but even if you don't turn up radiation there's a lot down there wprth exploring and sharing via your videos. Especially if the park service ever reopens the cave of the domes
Interesting…..
Well, at least you won't have to read by interior car light tonight.
Use your geiger counter at high elevations. Less atmosphere to absorb radiation from the sun.
I love nothing better than these kinds of adventures! There used to be a working phone booth in the mojave desert. Around year 2000 I read some odd bits on the web about it, but nowhere could I find the location, other than the Mojave Desert, and maybe a reference to Baker, CA. So I started scouring google maps, and the Del Lorme map of the approximate area. Finally I thought I might be onto something! So, along with my son, and brother-in-law (who had a four wheel drive vehicle...I knew we were going well off the beaten path, and likely into some deep sand), we set off ready to hunt for the booth for the weekend if need be. But, we actually went pretty much directly to it, following my hunches, and the tidbits I'd gleaned from the web. We were excited just to find the phone booth, and it was in the middle of nowhere (with the exception of the sand dune like, faint roads that we followed. But the better part came when we found that the phone was ringing. People around the world had also seen the bits on the web, including the active phone number. We answered the phone all night long. A rock radio station from Boston called and interviewed my teenage son. People from Germany called. It was amazing! So I appreciate, wholeheartedly, your channel sharing your adventures, and the quality of the video, and audio. Keep it up, we're watching!
Test Acid Canyon in Los Alamos, NM. Other places would br thermal springs...it's freaky what can bubble up from the core.
There's a bunch of defunct Uranium mines south of Grand Junction, CO near Natarita and Nucla. It's where they mined the Uranium for the bombs that were dropped on Japan. The (now levelled) town of Uravan is where a lot of miners lives and the first processing of the oar took place. Supposedly it has higher levels of radiation. I've heard that's why they levelled Uravan.
What you looking a Tristan is a well head. Used for sampling and other services of the well. Areas around Moab UT. There are quite a few Uranium mines in the area. Also Pocatello ID is a big mess with radiation.
Geiger counter suggestion. The EBR1 reactor on the INEL site in Idaho, near Arco, Idaho. The first nuclear reactor built which had an incident that killed some workers on the site. I would be curious what the background is there. You can drive right up to it.
Utah is where they got most of the uranium used in the first nuclear bombs and there are many areas where you can get readings in the high 100's cpm. since you go there a lot it could be fun to use in utah. I don't know the exact areas the mined uranium but I know it is fairly common in the state.
A drinking fountain for Nuclear Soda, of course.
I’ve been to the Nevada National security site. The trinity site, apple 2, Sedan crater, Frenchmen flats… all amazing and still mildly radioactive ☢️ 😂. Training of course ✌🏼
Those are killer green-mirror shades you wear. You could be working at Slim's Used Car Lot with those.
The well hole cap to keep the radioactive gas underground.
The GQ Geiger Counter only counts Gamma radiation and not Alpha or Beta. So your CPM is lower for Gamma when it could be higher for Alpha. You have to spend lots for an Alpha detector. I got the BetterGeiger S-1 scintillator which grabs some Beta and mostly Gamma and it’s wildly accurate. Found out the Carnotite (uranium ore), fossils and petrified wood I collected in Grand Junction is wildly radioactive with over 2000 CPM of Gamma. It’s still not that hazardous as dose over time is important. Guarantee that your hikes in east Utah and western Colorado would have set your Geiger counter off. The Morrison Formation is abundantly exposed there and uranium minerals coat everything there.
I wonder if there is any natural springs around that site and if that water may be radioactive. 😊
And you've been glowing ever since ...
Some uses for the CPM meter:
1. If you ever do a video near the Hanford Site, you should use it, seriously.
2. Go to a UFO crash or landing site and see if there's radiation.
3. If you ever find any debris on the West coast from Fukushima, test it.
I love the quirky lesser known spots that aren't quite so instagram famous and crowded with people!!
How about checking for radiation at Escalante Desert near St. George, Utah. This is where John Wayne and other cast members were reportedly exposed to radiation during the filming The Conqueror (1956 film). Many actors later died from cancer due (reportedly) to this exposure.
Any place the Chinle and Morrison formations are exposed. Which is all over your favorite place places in southeastern Utah.
Those arches are not magical,they are miraculous!
I'm curious about the beaches on the west coast since the Japanese power plant fiasco. The sand could be radioactive
Moab glows at night. Try your radiation meter there.
Your GMC Geiger counter is an instrument designed to see very low levels of radioactivity which are not life threatening. The chart you show has 2000 counts per minute equal to 1.30 mrem per hour which can be abnormal but not dangerous. If you want to see some normal things get a Coleman lantern mantle and hold your instrument against it.
Hello Tristan, there are 2 different places that I know with some natural radioactivity.... plus many beautiful hiking...
The first one is in Capitol Reef NP, UT!!!
From the visitor center, take the road southbound, drive some miles, and then, on the left of the road, there is a hike to do and a radioactive sign at the trailhead saying that it's dangerous to stay in this place for more than 24 hours!...
The second one is on the east side of Las Vegas, NV... Eastbound of the Frenchman mountain that looks over the Nellis Air Force base... On the east of the mountain is the Rainbow Canyon with some of the oldest surface ground of the whole North America. It is a unique hidden place. You could find on the internet a USGS report talking about this radioactive activity there... And BTW, many great hikes to do there... I did these hikes, and I don't glow in the dark!!! (I mean not yet ...)
Favorite part… the view through the arch. Just beautiful! ☺️
Any mine can be tested though I know you don't frequent mines. Exposed rocks in landcuts.
According to the Clyde Dillon website the inscription on the block under the pole reads “We will always love you Clyde”-Flo (his wife)
I missed that! Thanks for the info
It’s called a well head. They are valves that control the gas/oil coming up from below on the drilled pipe. Love ur stuff!!
Agree with John's observation. I wonder why they didn't plug and abandon the well many years ago. It's a conduit for contaminating the reservoirs above the fracture zone. I'm glad Triston did his radiation test.
Thanks for the info!
Do not open the valve folks, no bueno.