I grew up in naches and now drive hwy 12 and 410 5 days a week as an ups driver, great gig considering the scenery. I know both people just after 4 minutes in driving the red truck and white truck! Fun video learning about things i see everyday.
This is great and a long time hope. “Nick on the Rocks” just miles from my home, leading us all on a guided tour and helping to answer questions we’ve asked many times. You gotta love this!
So nice...you even included a digital link to the document. I downloaded to my OneDrive and will totally remember to pull it up the next time I head up Chinook. Thanks for thinking of us amateur Zentners.
Happy 62nd birthday Nick. I'm only a couple years behind you in age but centuries behind in geology knowledge. Ha ha. I appreciate your honesty in admitting your confusion and lack of understanding. One of the many reasons I keep turning in! Look forward to the next great video.
Just a heads up. I had a friend who loved finding and catching rattlesnakes. I asked him where he would look. He told me at the base of road cuts in the rocks. js Looking at the dacite plumes Nick pointed out, I immediately thought "porphyry" and possible gold bearing hydrothermic intrusions above them. Really appreciate Nick posting these videos. I learn so much.
My mom loved the scale and history of rocks while I get giddy with the potential of fresh paper…bet there are those who get chills watching creative videos aimed at exploring deep time along our highways - I think I just joined that group! Thank you Nick.
I met Mr. Campbell before he and his cute daughter moved away from Yakima late 1970's. I studied his analysis of a big slide on the southern ridge of the lower Yakima valley.
Thanks for this video. Roadside geology from you or Shawn Willsey is always a pleasant dip into the geology of regions that without you I would never had the opportunity to look at.
Congrats on the lifetime pass, I bought mine over 20 years ago and my wife and I have enjoyed using it all over Oregon Coast and Cascades and sometimes in Washington State and Arkansas.
touch taste feel old school like me!. I watch over and over till I get it. Nick Rocks ! Thanks for taking your personal time and sharing. I Appreciate you.!
Happy late birthday, Nick! That pass should bring you decades of adventures, if your viewers have our way! We follow you like ducklings after a duck. Your comments and one-sided conversations open our minds to new thoughts, different ways of seeing things. Please take us along on all of your wanderings.
Got my pass a several years ago. Used it on a road trip in 2022 from Indiana around Rainier to the Pacific on the Olympic peninsula and back. Took the same route you are on for this video. Don't recall how many times I used it that trip but Glacier NP and Yellowstone were included. Thanks for reminding me of great memories!! Looking forward to the new A - Z!
Happy Birthday Nick! I am a visual aid learner- a drawling, rough sketch, aerial, or animation. Always trying for a picture in my brain to interpret the data.
I use our lifetime pass as much as possible. Used it recently taking daughter and grandson to Glacier National Park and the Lewis and Clark Experience in Great Falls. I did not have to pay a dime for all four of us at either place.
I have been a fan for about 2 years now since being assigned to the Goat Rocks trail system. Thanks to you I have a basic understanding of the complex geology here, and I find myself enlightening others with what I've learned from you when I speak in terms of rock types and the approx. millions of years it took to provide the terrain we walk on here!
Very cool video. Used to live in Eatonville and cross White Pass on Highway 12 to get to Eastern Washington. Now I live West of Enumclaw off Highway 410. Haven't taken time to drive up 410 past Enumclaw towards Sunrise yet but that would be good to do some time this summer. I hardly know anything about geology but I love it anyway. Always something to learn in Washington.
You've earned your pass. Just keep doing what you do I was never a good student in school 65 years ago. If I would have had teachers like your self I would have stayed. I think you have a knack for keeping the people around you glued to the subject even if they have no idea what the hell is going on form the chalk board in an class room to sitting on a feg en rock on the side of the road. At the end of your story I think now I know. Thank you for your time I means a lot. Keep it coming
Happy birthday!!! Congrats on your Senior Pass, we've used ours across the west along with Alaska, Hawaii, and Wisconsin. For the last 3 years we haven't needed to use our pass at Zion NP as we campground host. Keep going with the Roadside drive, most beautiful country!!! Suggestion, on sunny days maybe try to video of the samples in some shade it might show better. Thanks again!!!
Happy Birthday Nick. Looking forward to purchasing a lifetime pass next year. 410 was one of my favorite drives on my way to see Ranier and Fort Clatsop, and you just let me relive it. Greetings from the Driftless area of western Wisconsin. Love learning on your channel!
Congratulations on your new pass. I get lots of use out of mine. My late father was a geologist, and I have lots of his materials. I will be contacting you to see if you would like them. I enjoy your videos, and I know my father would have.
I grew up in Yakima 70/80s. My Dad fished the Tieton and Nachez rivers in my early years. All the live footage I've seen hundreds of times. And yes all the traffic is legit!
What I like about professor Zentner is the honesty. If he don't know he don't BS his way through it. All his shared footage brings back many memories of drives in the back seat Buick station wagon
Nick, I really appreciate the tour which my brother and I did 10 years ago (great memories), as far south as Chinook Pass up to the Canadian border. My “system” of discovery aligns with yours; intermixing ‘book work’ with field work, enabling The Law of Affinity time to manifest, working with our human “reaching” for better understanding. Thank you for sharing your travels. Cheers from Stanwood! 🍻
Used to drive those two highways every day in Engines 81 and 82 of the Naches RD in '08 and '09. I always was curious about and fascinated by the volcanic rock formations on the district, both sides. I regrettably missed one of the road guide guided tours due to my work schedule - so thanks for doing this! Oh and Happy Birthday!
I've driven that road many times and seen most of the places you show off. I will now have a much keener view of them the next time I travel on that road (prolly next Thursday). Thanks!
Thanks, Nick! What a great episode to get your lifetime pass! I come from the other side of 410 up to Greenwater all the time to shoot at the old rock quarry that's full of columnar basalts... ironically the old Roadside Geology of Washington book suggests going there for those, but you'd benin danger if you were collecting on a nice day, as you'd be down range of the shooting line at the gravel pit.
Happy Birthday and Congratulations on your lifetime pass. Proud holder of one myself due to service connected disability. Wonderful to have. As always a great video even with confusion on what you were looking at. Have always loved this pass.
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Love that drive. Thanks for taking us all along. It's my favorite way to drive from Renton to Yakima and back. Happy Birthday, Nick!
Happy belated birthday Nick. I enjoy learning alongside with you. Although I would have loved to see Fifes peak in all its splendor. I’ll get up there again soon I hope. Great video with more amazing information. I am looking forward to this fall.
Really enjoyed this video and the commentary. Next time I drive up highway 410 I’ll be remembering this video and observing the outcrops with a whole new perspective. Thanks!
I just came back to Fort Sask, Alberta from Utah, If I was alone I would have stopped a dozen times to check out the incredible geologic sites along the way.
Such a wonderfully personal journey of discovery here. Love hearing about your ignorance, and the joy you take in NOT knowing something, because it fills you with questions and drive you towards learning something new. I adore your lectures and other "teaching" videos, but this was a real joy, too. The mix between them is what tells the whole story.
Imagine that i just found this channel, and i was just up in that area on the 4th of july week. Through morton and camped at mossyrock. I love all the different formations that pop up along that way when exploring there. I live in graham, so it's an easy drive for me.
I look out at the second formation that you were at from the deck in the mornings and it never gets old trying to imagine just how it formed. Edgar has a great area to hike up the back and get up close and sit at the very top. This area has so many different formations. The Timberwolf volcano is one of my favorite spots at around 6000’ still. It has some hidden goodies if you know where to look. So many great areas to explore, it never gets old studying just what is around here. Thank you for finally doing a video on this amazing place!!!
Thanks for your show. I graduated college in 1982 with a degree in geology and am retired now but hike this area often. Your information is so interesting.
As you hike from Sunrise on Mt. Rainier, out to the Fremont lookout, there are several of those dikes sticking up from the slope below the trail, in what to me seemed to be a granite slope. The day I hiked that trail, of course the fog and clouds had settled in, so the view of the dikes, was quite spooky, because of their seeming out of place. But, even to my untrained eye, I knew they were out of place, and appeared to be of a different eruptive nature.
Another thing, I am so happy to see that even a experienced geologist can struggle with figuring out some of these rocks! Your honesty is so inspiring to this novice armchair fan of geology! I am always fascinated with these videos following your various adventures. And I’m very, very grateful for your efforts! So awesome!! 😃👍🏻👍🏻
Happy birthday! May you have years of exploring as many National Parks as you want to. Thanks for all you've done, and continue to do for all of us stuck in the rest of the country.
I studied under Professor Campbell at YVC 1972 - 1974. Currently working on research around Union Gap. I have found numerous strand lines that formed as Rattlesnake and Ahtanum Ridges were still being thrust up as anticlines. I have mapped ancient lakes that were no more than 100 feet deep when the anticlines rose faster than the Yakima River could cut Union Gap. These strand lines are over a 1,000 feet above valley floor. Yakima River got backed up by Basalt dam half way through the 'Gap'. Konnowac Pass was an overflow for this ancient lake. Today it's a 'wind gap' while Union Gap is a 'water gap'. I have also mapped high water for ancient Lake Lewis that filled and drained many times as Ice Age Floods backed up at Wallula Gap which never got over 1,250 above Sea Level.
As Nick was exploring the 410 byway, I was - at that precise time - hiking / camping atop the outcrops of Bearhead Mountain … another fascinating volcanologic formation within the greater ‘ghost volcano’ story of the High Cascades. Thank you Nick !!!! Rjork from Oregon
Watched this with the auto- generated CC and the buzz of passing vehicles is captioned as "applause" much to my amusement.
Also Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday Nick. I enjoyed this video and appreciate the return to more geology-focused content. Thanks for everything!
I grew up in naches and now drive hwy 12 and 410 5 days a week as an ups driver, great gig considering the scenery. I know both people just after 4 minutes in driving the red truck and white truck! Fun video learning about things i see everyday.
Yep, i get you, I appreciate you and I thank you for bringing us along, ya young whippersnapper…💙
Im camping on hualapai mt az with my dog. We found a spot that got 1 bar. Thanks nick!
I went on that tour in about 1977, I still have my map book. I am now 73 yrs old
Love how you show your own learning process. Not afraid to reveal that you don't know it all
Happy belated birthday, Nick!
Happy birthday! I am picking mine up soon!
This is great and a long time hope. “Nick on the Rocks” just miles from my home, leading us all on a guided tour and helping to answer questions we’ve asked many times. You gotta love this!
So nice...you even included a digital link to the document. I downloaded to my OneDrive and will totally remember to pull it up the next time I head up Chinook. Thanks for thinking of us amateur Zentners.
Good stuff, TYVM. Happy Birthday fellow Geezer. I love the roadside Geology puzzle, more plz. Be careful in the distracted driver zone.
I like everything about this channel. Love the learning.
❤thank you, Nick and Happy Birthday!
Welcome to the lifetime national parks pass club. Got mine last year. Happy belated birthday!
Thank you for doing this Nick.
Happy birthday Nick, I hope you had a great day.
Happy 62nd birthday Nick. I'm only a couple years behind you in age but centuries behind in geology knowledge. Ha ha. I appreciate your honesty in admitting your confusion and lack of understanding. One of the many reasons I keep turning in! Look forward to the next great video.
Just a heads up. I had a friend who loved finding and catching rattlesnakes. I asked him where he would look. He told me at the base of road cuts in the rocks. js Looking at the dacite plumes Nick pointed out, I immediately thought "porphyry" and possible gold bearing hydrothermic intrusions above them. Really appreciate Nick posting these videos. I learn so much.
Happy belated birthday Nick. I hope you have many many years to get value from that seniors pass.
My mom loved the scale and history of rocks while I get giddy with the potential of fresh paper…bet there are those who get chills watching creative videos aimed at exploring deep time along our highways - I think I just joined that group! Thank you Nick.
I met Mr. Campbell before he and his cute daughter moved away from Yakima late 1970's. I studied his analysis of a big slide on the southern ridge of the lower Yakima valley.
Happy belated birthday Nick! 🎉 Thanks for more fun and learning. ❤
I need a good "hy-yah" rock breaking every now and then. Fifes Peak
Happy Birthday! 🎈
Thanks for this video. Roadside geology from you or Shawn Willsey is always a pleasant dip into the geology of regions that without you I would never had the opportunity to look at.
Congrats on the lifetime pass, I bought mine over 20 years ago and my wife and I have enjoyed using it all over Oregon Coast and Cascades and sometimes in Washington State and Arkansas.
touch taste feel old school like me!. I watch over and over till I get it. Nick Rocks ! Thanks for taking your personal time and sharing. I Appreciate you.!
This guy could explain anything about any subject and terrific personality
Happy birthday deer professor, many happy returns of the day, congratulations on your Lifetime Pass!
Congratulatioms Sir. Nick🤗 is always good to learn about Rocks, even when is like a "rollercoaster"😅
This Episode brought you by the Natches Ranger Station! Gotta love it & Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday, Nick!
You are so good at what you do! You inspire me! 💕
Thanks for another great video and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Happy late birthday, Nick! That pass should bring you decades of adventures, if your viewers have our way!
We follow you like ducklings after a duck. Your comments and one-sided conversations open our minds to new thoughts, different ways of seeing things. Please take us along on all of your wanderings.
Got my pass a several years ago. Used it on a road trip in 2022 from Indiana around Rainier to the Pacific on the Olympic peninsula and back. Took the same route you are on for this video. Don't recall how many times I used it that trip but Glacier NP and Yellowstone were included. Thanks for reminding me of great memories!! Looking forward to the new A - Z!
Classic. Probably my favourite type of video, thanks Nick. Congratulations on your 62nd!
Happy Birthday Nick! Once again, thanks for taking us along, its always interesting!
Happy Birthday Nick! I am a visual aid learner- a drawling, rough sketch, aerial, or animation. Always trying for a picture in my brain to interpret the data.
Two videos in one day! You are being very generous to us today! Thank you!
I use our lifetime pass as much as possible. Used it recently taking daughter and grandson to Glacier National Park and the Lewis and Clark Experience in Great Falls. I did not have to pay a dime for all four of us at either place.
Belated Happy Birthday, Nick! Enjoy that pass!! I'm looking forward to seeing the adventures to come.
Happy Birthday!
I drive this route several times a month. Great to know what I am passing.
Beautiful outcrops!
And a very happy birthday to you, Nick! Many years to come! ❤
Thank you for sharing! ❤
Nick dropping the F bomb 😂
Love these videos keep it up please
I have been a fan for about 2 years now since being assigned to the Goat Rocks trail system. Thanks to you I have a basic understanding of the complex geology here, and I find myself enlightening others with what I've learned from you when I speak in terms of rock types and the approx. millions of years it took to provide the terrain we walk on here!
Very cool video. Used to live in Eatonville and cross White Pass on Highway 12 to get to Eastern Washington. Now I live West of Enumclaw off Highway 410. Haven't taken time to drive up 410 past Enumclaw towards Sunrise yet but that would be good to do some time this summer. I hardly know anything about geology but I love it anyway. Always something to learn in Washington.
Happy 62nd birthday Nick !
Fabulous area you live nick. Hope to one day see it. All the best..
You've earned your pass. Just keep doing what you do I was never a good student in school 65 years ago. If I would have had teachers like your self I would have stayed. I think you have a knack for keeping the people around you glued to the subject even if they have no idea what the hell is going on form the chalk board in an class room to sitting on a feg en rock on the side of the road. At the end of your story I think now I know. Thank you for your time I means a lot. Keep it coming
Happy birthday!!! Congrats on your Senior Pass, we've used ours across the west along with Alaska, Hawaii, and Wisconsin. For the last 3 years we haven't needed to use our pass at Zion NP as we campground host.
Keep going with the Roadside drive, most beautiful country!!!
Suggestion, on sunny days maybe try to video of the samples in some shade it might show better.
Thanks again!!!
Happy Birthday Nick. Looking forward to purchasing a lifetime pass next year. 410 was one of my favorite drives on my way to see Ranier and Fort Clatsop, and you just let me relive it. Greetings from the Driftless area of western Wisconsin. Love learning on your channel!
Congratulations on your new pass. I get lots of use out of mine. My late father was a geologist, and I have lots of his materials. I will be contacting you to see if you would like them. I enjoy your videos, and I know my father would have.
Thanks for the vid, and thanks for the link to the PDF! More goodies to read.
I grew up in Yakima 70/80s. My Dad fished the Tieton and Nachez rivers in my early years. All the live footage I've seen hundreds of times. And yes all the traffic is legit!
What I like about professor Zentner is the honesty. If he don't know he don't BS his way through it. All his shared footage brings back many memories of drives in the back seat Buick station wagon
Thanks, Nick! For sharing this video! Followed through this video, very interesting! Always learning!
Nick, I really appreciate the tour which my brother and I did 10 years ago (great memories), as far south as Chinook Pass up to the Canadian border. My “system” of discovery aligns with yours; intermixing ‘book work’ with field work, enabling The Law of Affinity time to manifest, working with our human “reaching” for better understanding. Thank you for sharing your travels. Cheers from Stanwood! 🍻
Can't give you enough thumbs up for this video, LOVE IT.
Used to drive those two highways every day in Engines 81 and 82 of the Naches RD in '08 and '09. I always was curious about and fascinated by the volcanic rock formations on the district, both sides. I regrettably missed one of the road guide guided tours due to my work schedule - so thanks for doing this! Oh and Happy Birthday!
Love it when you’re on the road, in the field, following those guide books. More please.
I've driven that road many times and seen most of the places you show off. I will now have a much keener view of them the next time I travel on that road (prolly next Thursday). Thanks!
Thanks, Nick! What a great episode to get your lifetime pass! I come from the other side of 410 up to Greenwater all the time to shoot at the old rock quarry that's full of columnar basalts... ironically the old Roadside Geology of Washington book suggests going there for those, but you'd benin danger if you were collecting on a nice day, as you'd be down range of the shooting line at the gravel pit.
The shot of Mt Rainier was as clear as the mud flow. Thanks for the tour.
Happy 62nd birthday!
Happy Birthday and Congratulations on your lifetime pass. Proud holder of one myself due to service connected disability. Wonderful to have.
As always a great video even with confusion on what you were looking at. Have always loved this pass.
Love that drive. Thanks for taking us all along. It's my favorite way to drive from Renton to Yakima and back. Happy Birthday, Nick!
Neato drive~I would love to do it to retrace Nick's stops on today's video. So scenic, on the ancient steps of ghost volcanoes.
Happy belated birthday Nick. I enjoy learning alongside with you. Although I would have loved to see Fifes peak in all its splendor. I’ll get up there again soon I hope. Great video with more amazing information. I am looking forward to this fall.
TY PROF NICK I LOVE YOUR ADVENTURES
Really enjoyed this video and the commentary. Next time I drive up highway 410 I’ll be remembering this video and observing the outcrops with a whole new perspective. Thanks!
I just came back to Fort Sask, Alberta from Utah, If I was alone I would have stopped a dozen times to check out the incredible geologic sites along the way.
Happy Birthday Nick.
Such a wonderfully personal journey of discovery here. Love hearing about your ignorance, and the joy you take in NOT knowing something, because it fills you with questions and drive you towards learning something new.
I adore your lectures and other "teaching" videos, but this was a real joy, too. The mix between them is what tells the whole story.
Brilliant drive, thanks.
Happy Birthday and welcome to the American the beautiful senior pass group
Imagine that i just found this channel, and i was just up in that area on the 4th of july week. Through morton and camped at mossyrock. I love all the different formations that pop up along that way when exploring there.
I live in graham, so it's an easy drive for me.
Happy Birthday Nick! Many happy returns of the day. What an interesting video. Thank you for taking us exploring!
I can't believe you're on Chinook Pass! It's as though you are following my son and I around! We were just there last week! Gorgeous area!
Happy birthday Dr.. Hiway 410 is my favorite road to transverse the cascades
Thanks for the field trip Nick, great variety along 410!
Beautiful! Thank you Nick.
I look out at the second formation that you were at from the deck in the mornings and it never gets old trying to imagine just how it formed.
Edgar has a great area to hike up the back and get up close and sit at the very top. This area has so many different formations. The Timberwolf volcano is one of my favorite spots at around 6000’ still. It has some hidden goodies if you know where to look. So many great areas to explore, it never gets old studying just what is around here. Thank you for finally doing a video on this amazing place!!!
Dude.. we need to get you to New Zealand... This is our gig!
Noooo! You have your own geologists and hobbits.
Happy Birthday Professor Zentner
Yay!! Congratulations on your pass. I'm going to get mine as soon as I decide where I want to go and get it🤠 Very interesting video. Thank you
Thanks for your show. I graduated college in 1982 with a degree in geology and am retired now but hike this area often. Your information is so interesting.
Thanks for the video Nick. I always enjoy them.
Breccia...💞Happy birthday🎉Nick!!🎶😁My hubby should get that pass too...
Oh man have been waiting for this one. One of my favorite drives in Washington
As you hike from Sunrise on Mt. Rainier, out to the Fremont lookout, there are several of those dikes sticking up from the slope below the trail, in what to me seemed to be a granite slope. The day I hiked that trail, of course the fog and clouds had settled in, so the view of the dikes, was quite spooky, because of their seeming out of place. But, even to my untrained eye, I knew they were out of place, and appeared to be of a different eruptive nature.
Another thing, I am so happy to see that even a experienced geologist can struggle with figuring out some of these rocks! Your honesty is so inspiring to this novice armchair fan of geology! I am always fascinated with these videos following your various adventures. And I’m very, very grateful for your efforts! So awesome!! 😃👍🏻👍🏻
Oooh, I just drove through here, mostly for the geology sight-seeing!
Thank you for taking us along! I enjoyed it!
Happy Birthday young man
Nice yeti mug! I have the same one in the same one in the same color! You are clearly a man of great taste, Nick.
Road trip!!!! A part of WA i need to explore🎉
Happy birthday! May you have years of exploring as many National Parks as you want to.
Thanks for all you've done, and continue to do for all of us stuck in the rest of the country.
I studied under Professor Campbell at YVC 1972 - 1974. Currently working on research around Union Gap. I have found numerous strand lines that formed as Rattlesnake and Ahtanum Ridges were still being thrust up as anticlines. I have mapped ancient lakes that were no more than 100 feet deep when the anticlines rose faster than the Yakima River could cut Union Gap. These strand lines are over a 1,000 feet above valley floor. Yakima River got backed up by Basalt dam half way through the 'Gap'. Konnowac Pass was an overflow for this ancient lake. Today it's a 'wind gap' while Union Gap is a 'water gap'. I have also mapped high water for ancient Lake Lewis that filled and drained many times as Ice Age Floods backed up at Wallula Gap which never got over 1,250 above Sea Level.
As Nick was exploring the 410 byway, I was - at that precise time - hiking / camping atop the outcrops of Bearhead Mountain … another fascinating volcanologic formation within the greater ‘ghost volcano’ story of the High Cascades.
Thank you Nick !!!!
Rjork from Oregon