Subscribed, liked, shared ! Beautiful video ! Excellent soundtrack to go with the stunning fossils... Few years back at "Shark Tooth Hill" in Bakersfield, CA, I found a Megalodon tooth that caused quite a stir. You have to pay to dig there and there was a group of folks working on their masters in paleontology from UC Berkeley that were a tad miffed that some dummy like myself could be so lucky, but that's all it is... luck. Pretty cool find and the docent offered me $80 for the tooth, but it's priceless as far as I'm concerned.
Thank you!! That's crazy! I completely agree with you though, its all luck! And the sentimental value of a rare find like that definitely outweighs its worth in my opinion.
Thank you for posting the coordinates! I finally found some! I went shortly after you posted this and got all the wrong rocks. Like you said, once you get an eye for them, you cant miss them, if you find the right spot. Same with the calcite onyx! I am curious, how can you find these all around the Wasatch range? are you looking by elevation or a certain kind of rock? Or is this just years of hiking and exploring and knowing the spots? My kids were about dead (or so they thought) when we hiked to this spot.
Glad you found them! Most of my experience comes from following the old rockhounding guides. The first book I bought was the Utah Gem Trails book, and I found a bunch of spots that way. I found the fossil shell location by complete dumb luck as I stumbled on that spot while hunting a few years back. When I went back the next year to explore, I found a few spots up there with the fossil shells.
I took a trip to Loafer trail yesterday to look for these fossils, I was on the trail for 4 hours searching, I found 6 that I thought would be good candidates but I cut them all open last night and got nothing. Im wondering if I didn't hike up far enough? I brought my 6 year old and we only made it about a mile up the trail. Still came back with other nice specimens but no fossils unfortunately
I have found the shells in the hills surrounding the trail between the 1 and 3 mile points of the trail. It takes a bit of bushwhacking to get up into the hills to find the shells. It took me a while to get an eye for them, and I have cut plenty I thought for sure were gastropods that turned out to just be rocks. Good luck!!
I’m old & have mobility problems, so watching you- I van vicariously find cool things like you! Subscribed
Glad to have you along for the ride!
Vernal has awesome fossils as well.
Love to rock/ fossil hunt! Thanks for sharing.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing
Man those are so cool. Never knew those would have fossils in them. I need to take a trip up to Nebo. Thanks for the great video
How fun!!!
Subscribed, liked, shared ! Beautiful video !
Excellent soundtrack to go with the stunning fossils... Few years back at "Shark Tooth Hill" in Bakersfield, CA, I found a Megalodon tooth that caused quite a stir.
You have to pay to dig there and there was a group of folks working on their masters in paleontology from UC Berkeley that were a tad miffed that some dummy like myself could be so lucky, but that's all it is... luck.
Pretty cool find and the docent offered me $80 for the tooth, but it's priceless as far as I'm concerned.
Thank you!!
That's crazy! I completely agree with you though, its all luck! And the sentimental value of a rare find like that definitely outweighs its worth in my opinion.
Thank you for posting the coordinates! I finally found some! I went shortly after you posted this and got all the wrong rocks. Like you said, once you get an eye for them, you cant miss them, if you find the right spot. Same with the calcite onyx! I am curious, how can you find these all around the Wasatch range? are you looking by elevation or a certain kind of rock? Or is this just years of hiking and exploring and knowing the spots? My kids were about dead (or so they thought) when we hiked to this spot.
Glad you found them! Most of my experience comes from following the old rockhounding guides. The first book I bought was the Utah Gem Trails book, and I found a bunch of spots that way. I found the fossil shell location by complete dumb luck as I stumbled on that spot while hunting a few years back. When I went back the next year to explore, I found a few spots up there with the fossil shells.
I took a trip to Loafer trail yesterday to look for these fossils, I was on the trail for 4 hours searching, I found 6 that I thought would be good candidates but I cut them all open last night and got nothing. Im wondering if I didn't hike up far enough? I brought my 6 year old and we only made it about a mile up the trail. Still came back with other nice specimens but no fossils unfortunately
I have found the shells in the hills surrounding the trail between the 1 and 3 mile points of the trail. It takes a bit of bushwhacking to get up into the hills to find the shells. It took me a while to get an eye for them, and I have cut plenty I thought for sure were gastropods that turned out to just be rocks. Good luck!!
@@utah_rockhound thanks for the info, I will definitely try again
I can no longer hike with the onset of MS but have been a rockhounding since I was a kid. Do you sell on a website?id love to get one or two of these!
Unfortunately I don't sell, as rocks collected on public land (which is the majority of what I collect) can only be collected for personal use.
I’m headed down from Canada next week, are you headed anywhere that a random Canadian could follow you to?
Not a dude and not a serial killer…would just be fascinating to wander along with you =}
lol, unfortunately no, I won't be getting out again until the end of September. My next 'rockhounding' will be at the Denver Gem Show!
@@utah_rockhound …bummer!
Coordinates would be great 😊
Read his video comments... should be easy to locate
39°57'00.2"N 111°38'29.2"W would be the general area to start looking. They will be scattered all throughout the hills along the trail.
Are they agatized?
No. The shells are calcite in limestone I believe.