ROCKHUNTER NORTHWEST

Mysterious Rock, Puget Sound I have not posted for quite sometime, not having had much time - or weather - for rockhounding. But every...

Jasper Patterns, Owyhee country OK, OK, I've been pushing the Owyhee jasper a lot lately on this blog. The truth is, that's ab...

Jasper, First Creek There is a well-known location for agate and geodes in First Creek canyon, on the Blewitt Pass highway north of Elle...

Fossil leaves/needles, Owyhee country Sometimes, when I am in serious rock-collecting mode, I am picking things up on a whim - a flash o...

Owyhee Jaspers revealed One great advantage of a rock saw is that you can non-destructively look inside a weathered rock whose outward a...

Owyhee Jasper For years now, I have been in love with the stunning variety of colors and patterns that jasper can take on. And when you ...

Orbicular Jasper, Skokomish River Somebody stop me. I have made two trips now to the Skokomish River looking for orbicular jasper. To...

Cherry Creek Red Jasper No, I haven't discovered a new type of jasper - the title of this post refers to how I spent most of my day...

Over the past year or two, I have been collecting rocks from a variety of sources - from the deserts of Idaho, to the Pacific coast, to th...

Poppy Jasper, Agate, and....? , Rialto Beach Last year I made a pilgrimage to Rialto Beach, not far from Forks, Washington (aka "Tw...

Succor Jaspers - polished A nice batch of Succor Creek Jasper came out of the tumblers today, which shows you some of the diversity pos...

Skokomish River Gravel Bars I set out this morning on the trail of poppy/orbicular jasper on the South fork of the Skokomish River.  It ...

Petrified Wood, Succor Creek OR Haven't been out into the field lately, but I am still working on the material I collected at Succo...

Succor Creek Picture Jasper I've been home from Owyhee country for two weeks, and am starting to get some of this material polished....

By now, you will realize that my idea of heaven is to wander along local beaches picking up interesting stones and trying to piece togeth...

Succor Creek Jasper I'm home and have had a chance to clean up some of my rocks from Succor Creek.  Wow!  I am delighted to have hun...

Many of the stones I gather are truly "diamonds in the rough," rocks whose pattern and color you can really only guess at until...

Petrified Wood, Puget Sound Every time I open up the tumbler at the end of a polishing cycle, it's like Christmas all over again. Som...

Patterned Quartzite (?) and Petrified Wood, Olympic Peninsula I set out this morning to look for a source of variolites, the polka-dotted...

Owyhee Picture Jasper I had big plans to head back to the Owyhee country in eastern Oregon this fall to search for more jasper. I had bee...