Rock Hammer Drop & Rescue, Etc.
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- Опубліковано 29 лип 2024
- CWU's Nick Zentner answers the popular question, "Did you ever get your hammer back?" The answer is yes! Viewer Andrew hiked out to the columns, found the crack, lowered a powerful set of magnets down the crack, and rescued the hammer almost a decade after it was accidentally dropped in July 2012. Andrew drove to Ellensburg to return it to Nick on Christmas Eve, 2021. Thank you, Andrew! Tom Foster (1959 - 2020) videos are featured.
After all these years I just realized it’s Professor Nick doing the singing and guitar!
Made basalt wall on my model railroad--Nick because of you.
have to have passion for our wonderful west & geology!!
Love the story on how a young man with a strong set of supermagnets tied to a string got your hammer back. Great
reupload of the best story a humble geologist (and teacher) could ever tell. The rest of the collection of 2MG are just
stupendous to watch , with thanks to the late Tom Foster for those great videos.
That's cool how much sand built up in just several years! That makes the huge piles at the foot of the coulee cliffs make total sense.
Still cracks me up, every single time.....
The event that got me hooked! (I eventually forgave you of the red bowtie!) Seriously though, Nick, I love that you're reuploading these vids, I'm sharing them with friends so that they can travel along with you as I have these last few years. Priceless.
I thought the tie as a fashion choice was a comical distraction… however his information and approach as a teacher is refreshingly unique. As a prospector in California much of what I have learned from him is transferable too prospecting.
And
He’s funny
Just my thought
@@tdiron5277this guy is a one-of-a-kind CWU treasure...no joke.
You must be very young… bow ties have been a well respected part of a man’s attire for hundreds of years..
They are cool and his looks totally fitting in his teaching role….
The bowtie is adorable. I mean, seriously dashing. I'm a fan. 🎀💝
Zentnerds assemble!! A new old video has been posted!!
Great idea putting these clips together.
Impressive this guy found the exact right crack!
I loved when you revealed the rescue of your hammer. Love this series, Tom was a good guy and I'm sorry for your loss. Thanks for resharing them. You are an excellent teacher.
I knew what to expect but when that hammer dropped it's still cracked me up.🤣
Thank you Mr. Zentner, this episode was a real treat.
17 minutes of fascinating two minute geology. Thanks for putting the "Great" in Northwest.
Thanks for putting this series up. If I ever retire, I'm heading to Central Washington.
The hammer drop (and "oh sh_t") heard around the world. Who knew such a random event would inspire so much joy for so many? We laughed, we cried, it became a part of us. It took no leap of the imagination to understand how much that hammer meant to Nick, and was so very rewarding to see it diligently rescued and returned.
Thank you Nick, for your dedication to the joy of teaching. Thank you Andrew, for stepping up to the plate to rescue The Rock Hammer. Above all else, thank you Tom, for bringing Nick to us via your videography... may you rest in eternal peace, dear soul.
Gotta love it, throwback lol, love u nick, my favorite professor, and possibly the greatest geology professor in quite literally the whole world 😁
Amen to that. Love ya Nick
Two words Nick:
WRIST & LANYARD.
Afterthought... make it four...
KINETIC & ENERGY
Love from Australia, the ancient land 'down under'.
We use lanyards allot cos we live upside down, and yes even envy Northerners that stand right side up...
Lucky we are that gravity doesn't repel.
This along with I 90 Rock ,the downtown lectures got me hooked I have watched every thing of Nick’s UA-cam Channel at least 2 times .I look at landforms totally different now I constantly think , how was that formed.
Dude! I love that your intro has you singing and jamming! More of this stuff please! Video it! Out by a fire in the forest! People will love it!
An epic collection of classics, always with a touch of sentimentality. Grateful. ❤
Probably my 10th viewing of the hammer story; I laugh hard every time! And a great resolution!
All of these are fun. 😊
Greetings from Ireland. The fact that you were reunited with your hammer really pleased me tonight. Congratulations. Now I'm only a few minutes in, so I'll go watch the rest of the clip. Goodnight.
My absolute favorite episode! Thanks! I loved the extended eppisodes too! The hammer drop is priceless and a wonderful to be caught on tape. It is priceless that the young man took the effort to retrieve the hammer. These episodes together really tell the basalt story well.
Priceless... A perfect spring ⚒️ ❤ it 10/10. Rusty the Hammer.🤗🤭🫢🫣🤫🤔😡😭🤩🥰
When I saw that fall, that's exactly what I thought I'd do to recover it.
It’s not hard to see what Tom saw in Nick, so glad the vision Tom had is still bearing fruit, certain he would be proud to see what has been created from the seeds of that early work.
I imagine Tom looking down from high above nodding his head in approval.
Thank you for posting these little gems again, Nick!
I smile every time I see this😄
I can't remember the last time I hiked while wearing a tie! Great work . . .
A hundred years to cool! That's hard to swallow. Aside from that, a great video. ❤👌
Dang it Nick I knew you were going to make me cry! Some of my favorites. Love love love..............
I'm not a geologist, not from Washington, and watching these videos for the first time, and they're fantastic
Love such compilation of memorable moments ❣️💖❣️
Thanks for reuploading these, that hammer drop always cracks me up.
Really great view of the Columbia River just across the River from vantage. On hwy 90.
Wow! Nick actually looks presentable for a change!
Keeping it real, lol love the geology and the presenter!
All the best Jules 💕
Bow tie and 🔨- classic 😂
What intrigues me most is that Andrew "found the crack". How? How long did that take him? A tremendous undertaking, I would say.
That story demands a video in its own right
As I watch, I'm wondering how many sets of keys and other stuff had fallen between the basalt columns. Then your Hammer falls through. Fear unlocked. It was kind of someone to get it back to you.
Very nice collection including the rescued hammer ⛏
Thanks again for reposting this body of video that you and Mr. Tom Foster created.
I love these videos so much - I can watch them for hours. It's so cool you got your hammer back. Great story!
Yay!!! I was wanting to get that hammer. That was funny. Remember that from years ago.
Nice update, amazing how that cool bowtie connects so much. I good name for a playlist would be "Bowtie Videos".
I love these 2 minute geology segments. I use to watch OPB just so I could watch them. Now I binge watch them here on youtube.
Great video Zentner! Didn't know the hammer was recovered, that's awesome. Love all of your videos. Thank you for what you do.
Never knew the hammer was recovered! Thanks Andrew and Nick for letting us know ❤😊 Tom' s legacy will certainly continue to bring enjoyment for years to come.
Bow tie! A couple years from now, there'll be an AI version of you on my phone.. I'll be in Oregon somewhere & ask the app, "How'd that form?"
I would totally use the bow tie app all the time! With gps overlay maps of local geological formations who wouldn't??
'Burque represent!! GJ Andrew! 🎉
Nice to have an ending to the story!
Thank you Nick from NZ for explaining how these things form .
By golly, bet you never expected to see that again!
(Just as an aside, How old is 'Patrick aged 7' these days?)
Yay for Albuquerque hero! Wish there was a New Mexico geology series like yours
Loved every episode. Entrenched meanders was a new one for me! Before the explanation I was looking at it thinking ..."huhhh???
Stopped The African Queen to watch this 1st.
Zentnerds
A hit for sure! gets better every time you watch thank you ALL stay safe
I've been watching these since they originally premiered, on Vimeo, I think. Good to see them back, these were a lot of fun. And they're great little learning vignettes. Perfect for piquing the interest of young people about the processes that made the Earth. Well done. Nice work.
I was thinking of rescuing the hammer one of these days myself, glad to see someone already has.
i knew there was a hammer recovery sequence!!!😁😁😁 Prof Nick, you showed the recovery guy vid at the end of the last class when you were teaching from the auditorium 2021/2022? You also showed all the education appreciation goodies from the special chalks, ribbon candy, art work, coffee mugs, Vinmans geology pastry, and that beautiful little globe, that you had received and used to such good effect!
I hope you realise what a beautiful country you have there Americans.
Very good!
Fantastic audio! Very solid effort.
Still cracks me up years later!
Mistakes happen🤣
There also funny😂
Unexpected 🙃
Made me laugh 🤗
Thanks ☺️
Oooh we have columnar basalt here in Tasmania. Doctors Rocks at Wynyard is a good example, or in Burnie - there's a housing development on top of the columns, overlooking the port, near the cinema.
Magnet fishing for the win!
Binged watched all the Two Min series back then. I stumbled upon them somehow and been a fan ever since. Love the passion you have for geology...keep swinging the hammer!
I hope this gentleman gave you back your hammer and you have it in a safe place.
Sorry Patrick!
thank god you got that damn hammer. One of my favorite episodes was seeing it drop lol.
Love this old favorite with the hammer.
Never gets old.
I've been obsessed with basalt columns after a trip to Iceland and I get so excited seeing them around WA and OR! Thanks for doing so many segments on it, I didn't know about pillow basalt or how petrified wood came to be! Also, glad you got your hammer back, what a fun story!
I first saw them at age 13 when moving from Washington DC to Seattle Washington. We came across them in Oregon. Dad was taking a back road through Oregon to Yakima Washington during the move. Mom and I saw the basalt columns and our mouths dropped open. That was in 1962. My life long curiosity about basalt began then. I still wonder at these features. Now I live among them in Central Washington.
My first experience with basalt columns was when I visited Devils Postpile in 1960 or so, when I was about eight. I was amazed and entranced to see such structure emerge from the interplay of cooling, geometry and the chemistry of lava. It looked like magic.
I love this stuff! I lived in Hawaii back in the 70's and as a kid I use to explore all the lava flows. Just getting out there in nature teaches so much about life.
I've stood on basalt columns. Really neat!
You two were like peanut butter and jelly My favorite, Love Two Minute Geology!
Huge loss We lost a great being to our planet, An Ambassador to my newfound love of Geology. My Dad got me Started working for the UW Geology Department in the 70s. My Favorite memory was the Camp at Leavenworth and a bunch of college kids who were super cool to me and rock freaks! didn't grasp the Magnitude of the Mission as a Greenhorn.
Thank you very much you are Blessed People!!!!!!!
😮 this is the piece of info I have not seen!
This explains the polygonal stone walls in South America !
My theory
I love your song Nick! I found a bunch of fine metal near the continental divide.
There's an old wives tale among prospectors that certain things form where there's heat present? (Such as the Yellowstone super volcano 🌋) I also saw a lot of gravel present and it seems like fine gold likes gravel to me?
Up the hill from me was some of that orange looking stuff I believe you called pillow basalt? I noticed that ants had taken over the whole side of the hill?
Another theory about the gold is that it came from a major impact in the Pacific ocean because it's not always true but many times gold is bigger out west and decreases in size as you go east. It's not always the case, but the gigantic nuggets seem to like west coast states and Australia?
I appreciate your videos and find them fascinating. Thanks for your hard work!🎸✌️
Sorry Patrick.
Kentucky River has similar uplift and entrenched meanders. Where I earned my Geology degree. Ordovician Age.
Brilliant. Petrified trees most compelling.
That's awesome!! I wondered if you ever got your hammer back, this is so cool!!
Love your videos, Nick. Great content and a great teacher. I can't wait for the next upload of the Downtown Lecture Series. Just a few more months!
🥂 to you and Tom. Some fine videos with that team. Informative, funny and digestible. Something even us "young people" can get into. And all about the ice age floods!
that hammer story makes me laugh everytime you reference it :-)
This had my husband laughing. Thank you Nick!
That’s great. Thanks for re uploading these gems.
Oh yea! All in! with Professor Zentner. Every video. (Well, allot of them.) And sometimes, Just sometimes, I can follow those young (or old) "experts" that Professor Zentner brings along. Gold for me. Just Gold. Every "minute." I'll tell ya. Oh yea! ~ from New Hampshire. (but then my son is dating somebody from Seattle. Mmmm) Whew!
Love the humor! Such a great video!
At the start of the video I was saying to myself. "You be careful where you drop that hammer, it might go bye bye" and then .... Yep, saw that coming. 🤣
Bow tie!
Really cool, Nick! You're never too old to learn something new and for me it was "entrenched meanders" which I had thought were entirely due to the river cutting down. Now you know we have entrenched meanders of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon in Arizona. I grew up in Eugene, Oregon, but did you know that Skinner's Butte in the center of the city has an outcrop of pillar basalt? I was wondering whether it might be the remains of an ancient volcano or part of the lava flow you talked about in this video? By the way, glad you got your rock hammer back!
Nice finish. There's a pair that'll beat a full house.
Thanks Nick!
Funny, I was thinking today that NZ's avatar should be that hammer.
Great show.
Moral of the story: when hiking over the top of basalt columns, always keep your smaller valuables well secured.
I have a blue handle rock hammer like that one, I put a lanyard on mine long before I saw Nick lost his... the blue ones have holes in the handle that paracord can used as a lanyard... but I haven't been on top of the basalt columns yet.
GREAT SHOW
Lol I have thought of that hammer many times over the years! Glad it was rescued.
Did you do a presentation lava tunnels such as those outside of Bend Oregon. The south ice caves? My brothers and I explored these tubes many times during summer vacations. Love your content and presentation style.
Thanks Nick, you're to funny.