It's a free country, you can do what you like! It's a beautiful country i like to hike. I'm hanging with Nick, he's a really cool guy. He show's me his country. I see and i like!
Thank you Nick, for taking us townies along on these trips. It is a real treat to be able to have a look at the local scenery. It makes your excellent lectures come to life even more! These mouthwatering landscapes enhance the urge to go and visit the beautiful state of Washington! Greetings from Zeeland, The Netherlands, a flat piece of clay and sand, surrounded by water. It has its perks, but boy, those mountains, hills and valleys of yours sure caught my eyes! And then the geological history of it all... Fascinating!
Beautiful! We love it just like you and the kids! Love the balsam-root wildflowers! First I've ever seen. You sure make me love my new home state! Been here 15 yrs and always too busy to explore...
Interesting. Was at Columbia River- Tom McCall reserve (Rowena) on Friday, and the lupine was not yet that far along as it is here. Balsam about the same. Love that agate from wind River! All the white bloom in the orchards make for a very different color palette in the images. Beautiful spring day!
Very near where I live. The camera resolution and color are very good on this camera lense and looks just like in person with no foreshortening on the view and looks much like it would to the eye. Good job. The next canyon east is Nahahum-sounds Nahaum and to the left 50 ft above the road is a mud silt deposit from the great floods. I am sure it made it to Leavenworth but the Icicle glacier probably stopped it just short.
Living on the SE coast, mountains are such a novelty to me. You've brought some beautiful views that make me almost want to move west. Actually, I was seriously thinking about it until my husband reminded me of the winters I'd have to endure. Regardless, thank you so much for sharing your wonderful state with us. I'm also impressed that your neckerchief matches the flowers!
Thank you for bringing us along! Also Thank you to the Townies for not jeopardizing the ability to continue these, by following the guidelines we have been asked to adhere to.
How I wish I was there. Not enough mountains. Only the mid-Florida ridge and a heck of a lot of Karst topography. Could the quartz spoken about be bull quartz which can be associated with gold? Beautiful hike!
@@markcollins3418 I have done some spelunking in my time at UF. I live very close to Blue Spring where a lot of divers go year round. A balmy 72 degrees everyday.
"Spelunker". What a silly label for people who engage in an adventurous and dangerous activity. The word root is Greek, so I guess we can blame them. I've been in caves across the Appalachians, but mostly in southern Indiana, mainly because it's closest (still 300 miles away). There's a lot of secret places beneath those unassuming little hills! If you have an interest in caving, check out Derek Bristol's UA-cam channel, especially his work in Lechuguilla cave in New Mexico.
Nick, did you have the magnetic sign on your car? :D Nice hike; beautiful day for it. My knees are happy to watch the video but I still wish 1400 of your closest friends could have come, too. Thanks for including us online!
With such steep slopes and so few trees, I would expect soil erosion? Has the area been logged? So many beautiful areas of WA and OR appear to have been.
Eidrith, Not much precipitation around Cashmere and most of what you are seeing up close in this is south facing, so it is naturally open and grassy with scattered ponderosa pines.
What a beautiful place. I'm glad you mentioned the slack water sediments on the valley floor, I was wondering about that: Ancient lake bed?, Why is that valley floor so flat? Also, I'm curious about the various angles of the uplifts there. Why do some seem to be almost at right angles to others? That's unusual.
Hi, michael husar. I think the environment (south-facing high hillside) is wrong for the Willamette valley gumweed, which inhabits shallow marshes, wet prairies, and coastal wet meadows. I think Ryan C has nailed it: balsamroot.
Close guess - arnica and balsomroot are two different plants, but the differences are subtle to the casual observer. Arnica grows here as well, but in shadier spots. Foliage is not so silvery (hirsute) and the plants and flowers are over all smaller.with greener foliage.
Slightly offtopic, I'm guessing the native woods were clearfelled, and the random scattering of pines is what has managed to reestablish itself since. So the flowers are opportunists.
I'm not sure whether this area was ever cleared, but it is right on the margin of where Ponderosa pines can live. You'll notice that downriver to the east there are almost no pines. And even in this area the trees grow mostly on the cooler, moister north-facing slopes. Anything south-facing will struggle. It's damn hot in the summer here, with hot winds off the CRBs blowing up the canyons.
The Columbia Plateau from the Wenatchee /Stuart range east is semi arid. The vegetation you see is pretty much the natural native plant mix. Not many trees at the lower elevations, and Wenatchee is only about 600 feet above sea level. Fortunately this area did not get subjected to heavy livestock grazing as happened in some other areas after European settlement so we have native vegetation.
Like several folks are saying here, south sides of hills, just not many trees. My grandparents grew up in this valley, early 1900s. Pretty sure none of these hills we're discussing here were ever logged; alot of old family photos going back to 1920s and 30s do not show much/any changes to tree density as seen current day. Just the occasional big ol' ponderosas here and there.
10:49 ”Free country”. When watching videos like these, both from the US, the UK and some other countries, I’m struck by some of the lack of freedom that the videographers have to be careful about. They have to think about who owns the land, and know whether or not the path they walk on is a public path.🤔 Here in Sweden 🇸🇪 it is much simpler. As long as the land is not someone’s back yard, you can walk wherever you want, pick mushrooms and berries, swim in a lake, and even fish from the seashore. 😊 But I suppose our geology is not as exciting. Our volcanoes died many hundreds of millions of years ago. 😄
I would really like to see the types of people watching these and the ones that journey to these locations are are surely not the types to trash a place. I hope. Come on guys, do better!
It's a free country, you can do what you like!
It's a beautiful country i like to hike.
I'm hanging with Nick, he's a really cool guy.
He show's me his country. I see and i like!
Nick's bandanna coordinates perfectly with the flowers.
I can’t tell you how nice it is to see everyone without mask on. I miss seeing faces so much. ♥️♥️
So beautiful. I miss hiking around Cashmere terribly. Best childhood a kid could ask for. Thank you for taking me back.
Thanks for taking us along with you Nick.
Thank you Nick, for taking us townies along on these trips. It is a real treat to be able to have a look at the local scenery. It makes your excellent lectures come to life even more!
These mouthwatering landscapes enhance the urge to go and visit the beautiful state of Washington!
Greetings from Zeeland, The Netherlands, a flat piece of clay and sand, surrounded by water. It has its perks, but boy, those mountains, hills and valleys of yours sure caught my eyes! And then the geological history of it all... Fascinating!
Wow, beautiful landscape.
Beautiful! We love it just like you and the kids! Love the balsam-root wildflowers! First I've ever seen. You sure make me love my new home state! Been here 15 yrs and always too busy to explore...
Sweet mother of Marigolds! Awesome sh#t!(Sorry Patrick)
Haha
Those are balsamroot flowers.
@@ryanc9432 Thank you.
Thanks for sharing this Nick. Geology apart you sure live in a truly beautiful part of the world. Scotland is too, just not quite on the same scale.
Your beautiful country has its own geology to share with the world
Thanks for sharing these places with us.
beautiful spot! thank you for sharing with us. =)
The subtle differences between a montane view in America vs NZ are very interesting, thanks for this.
What a beautiful day for this!
What a spectacular view! Thanks Nick.
Interesting. Was at Columbia River- Tom McCall reserve (Rowena) on Friday, and the lupine was not yet that far along as it is here. Balsam about the same. Love that agate from wind River! All the white bloom in the orchards make for a very different color palette in the images. Beautiful spring day!
Another gorgeous field trip! Thanks for taking us along as always!
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you.
Lovely view & scenery. Thank you for sharing so many wonderful places, information and stories. :)
Great scenery. Mountains look awesome. 😃
Love these gorgeous field trips, good for Washngton tourism also.
Just beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
It was fun imagining the ice age flooding you were describing on the layout of the land. Thank you for inviting us!
He did a whole hour on this area last summer, long before he started the A-Z series.
@@larrygrimaldi1400 oh great, I'll look for it. Thank you!
I Googled Hay Canyon and Teanaway. Switch to satellite and zoom around. Fun poking around at the hills, especially. 🙂
Well played that man. Helps gives me context of the geography all the way over there from all the way over here.
What a beautiful overlook. Perfect timing on the flowers. Thank you for sharing with us.
You sure did hit the flowers at the right time, beautiful! Thank you Nick for another enjoyable, geologic video!
What a pretty day! Thanks for posting this.
Awesome stuff! Great to see students out there to learn and enjoy nature!
Gorgeous country, and lots of interesting geology staring you in the face.
Thanks Nick, thank you very much
Very near where I live. The camera resolution and color are very good on this camera lense and looks just like in person with no foreshortening on the view and looks much like it would to the eye. Good job. The next canyon east is Nahahum-sounds Nahaum and to the left 50 ft above the road is a mud silt deposit from the great floods. I am sure it made it to Leavenworth but the Icicle glacier probably stopped it just short.
Very enjoyable So different than the dense forests here in the Blue Ridge.
Gorgeous day!👌
Thats a great view of the countryside and the snowy mountains. It would be better to see them in person.
THAT VIEW!!!!!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, Nick, for showing us more of the beauty of our earth and all of its incredible layouts.
Nice how it went out. You're getting artistic.
Fade to black...
Gorgeous scenery.
Thanks for sharing the beauty & the science behind it.
Just gorgeous!! Hey, Nick!! Good to see you out on the trails!!!
Wonderful field trip, Thanks for taking me -us along. I found it on google maps....good directions
Beautiful.
Beautiful scenery! Love these field trip videos.
Hey, you match the flowers. Nice
Thanks for posting
Living on the SE coast, mountains are such a novelty to me. You've brought some beautiful views that make me almost want to move west. Actually, I was seriously thinking about it until my husband reminded me of the winters I'd have to endure. Regardless, thank you so much for sharing your wonderful state with us. I'm also impressed that your neckerchief matches the flowers!
It's so beautiful.
I envy that agate. So cool.
Nice bandanna match to arrowleaf balsamroot. Ggorgeous day!!
Thanks for the invitation Nick! Happy to join you.
Hello Nick and Friends
Thank you for bringing us along!
Also Thank you to the Townies for not jeopardizing the ability to continue these, by following the guidelines we have been asked to adhere to.
Lovely scenery! Thanks for bringing us along.
How I wish I was there. Not enough mountains. Only the mid-Florida ridge and a heck of a lot of Karst topography. Could the quartz spoken about be bull quartz which can be associated with gold? Beautiful hike!
Karst topography? Ya gotta love it. Always ready to don the ol' coveralls and do some karsting. Need a wetsuit in Florida, though.
@@markcollins3418 I have done some spelunking in my time at UF. I live very close to Blue Spring where a lot of divers go year round. A balmy 72 degrees everyday.
"Spelunker". What a silly label for people who engage in an adventurous and dangerous activity. The word root is Greek, so I guess we can blame them.
I've been in caves across the Appalachians, but mostly in southern
Indiana, mainly because it's closest (still 300 miles away). There's a lot of secret places beneath those unassuming little hills!
If you have an interest in caving, check out Derek Bristol's UA-cam channel, especially his work in Lechuguilla cave in New Mexico.
@@markcollins3418 Will do. I been in some caves along the Blue Ridge and Skyline. I agree about the word spelunking.
Stuart Range looks amazing
Nick, did you have the magnetic sign on your car? :D Nice hike; beautiful day for it. My knees are happy to watch the video but I still wish 1400 of your closest friends could have come, too. Thanks for including us online!
It's so pretty behind you. Been watching a Selitzia video trying to get more inside on the YHS.
It's a geode of geology students congregating near Cashmere (where my father grew up).
Hello from Mountain View, CA (where I work)
With such steep slopes and so few trees, I would expect soil erosion? Has the area been logged? So many beautiful areas of WA and OR appear to have been.
Eidrith, Not much precipitation around Cashmere and most of what you are seeing up close in this is south facing, so it is naturally open and grassy with scattered ponderosa pines.
Much of the canyon burned some 25 yrs ago. It was a huge fire that went up past Leavenworth.
*TIP* my YT defaulted to 480 resolution but I was able to bump it to 1080. Thanks for the post, Nick.
Thanks, "Ned".
What a beautiful place. I'm glad you mentioned the slack water sediments on the valley floor, I was wondering about that: Ancient lake bed?, Why is that valley floor so flat?
Also, I'm curious about the various angles of the uplifts there. Why do some seem to be almost at right angles to others? That's unusual.
that looks so much like the south island of New Zealand
Nick certainly likes these high up places.
The real reason he's a geologist is so he has an excuse to tramp around in the rocks. :D
Fabulous view. How long is the trek up there?
Kiss that lone fir!
Looks hot outside.
That's an incredible camera! No camera shake! Did You call it Gizmo? Is it a small steady cam? I"ll look it up.
Do you do independent tours for armchair geologists?
Fucking Majestic.
Beautiful scenery up there in the mountains.
Is your gadget a DJI pocket?
In Illinois we call those Yellow flowers Dandelion! 🏵 😆
They are called balsamroot
@@ryanc9432 Thanks, Ryan C. I was wondering what they were. Do you know what the purple spikes are?
@@lizj5740 Probably Lupine.
@@wiregold8930 I think you're right, having checked "lupine in eastern Washington" via Google. Thank you.
Lice the background
Did he color coordinate his COVID mask with the basalm root?
I believe those are "Willamette valley gumweed"
Hi, michael husar. I think the environment (south-facing high hillside) is wrong for the Willamette valley gumweed, which inhabits shallow marshes, wet prairies, and coastal wet meadows. I think Ryan C has nailed it: balsamroot.
Found it!
Thank you! What are those flovers? Arnicas?
Hi, minna finland. They are balsamroot, and the occasional purple spike is lupine.
Close guess - arnica and balsomroot are two different plants, but the differences are subtle to the casual observer. Arnica grows here as well, but in shadier spots. Foliage is not so silvery (hirsute) and the plants and flowers are over all smaller.with greener foliage.
Slightly offtopic, I'm guessing the native woods were clearfelled, and the random scattering of pines is what has managed to reestablish itself since. So the flowers are opportunists.
I'm not sure whether this area was ever cleared, but it is right on the margin of where Ponderosa pines can live. You'll notice that downriver to the east there are almost no pines. And even in this area the trees grow mostly on the cooler, moister north-facing slopes. Anything south-facing will struggle. It's damn hot in the summer here, with hot winds off the CRBs blowing up the canyons.
Low tree density also due to Cascade range rain shadow effect.
There also was a large wildfire 25 yrs ago that scorched the canyon.
The Columbia Plateau from the Wenatchee /Stuart range east is semi arid. The vegetation you see is pretty much the natural native plant mix. Not many trees at the lower elevations, and Wenatchee is only about 600 feet above sea level. Fortunately this area did not get subjected to heavy livestock grazing as happened in some other areas after European settlement so we have native vegetation.
Like several folks are saying here, south sides of hills, just not many trees. My grandparents grew up in this valley, early 1900s. Pretty sure none of these hills we're discussing here were ever logged; alot of old family photos going back to 1920s and 30s do not show much/any changes to tree density as seen current day. Just the occasional big ol' ponderosas here and there.
What camera are you using?
He uses his iPhone 10 hooked to a stabilization Gizmo... he developed his skills and methods in the Nick at Home episodes.
@@ACheshireCat2001 His skills are a work in progress. Sometimes you can hear him arguing with the Gizmo.
i thought cashmere was in india
10:49 ”Free country”. When watching videos like these, both from the US, the UK and some other countries, I’m struck by some of the lack of freedom that the videographers have to be careful about. They have to think about who owns the land, and know whether or not the path they walk on is a public path.🤔 Here in Sweden 🇸🇪 it is much simpler. As long as the land is not someone’s back yard, you can walk wherever you want, pick mushrooms and berries, swim in a lake, and even fish from the seashore. 😊 But I suppose our geology is not as exciting. Our volcanoes died many hundreds of millions of years ago. 😄
I would really like to see the types of people watching these and the ones that journey to these locations are are surely not the types to trash a place. I hope. Come on guys, do better!
agate