ROCKHUNTER NORTHWEST

Banded Jasper or...? The beach below my house is primarily sand, esp. during the quiet months of summer, when the surf is at a minimum. ...

Beach Cobbles, San Simeon, CA As I posted back in March, I spent a pretty mind-blowing day collecting on the beaches near San Simeon, Ca...

Misc. Jasper & Agate, Area 54 Some rockhounding locations are in the guidebooks. Others are not, either by the author's choice,...

Peacock Rock, Puget Sound The water along the shores of Puget Sound was almost dead calm today, and the sun was shining: both relatively...

I am slowly working through the rocks I collected in southern California last month, including some interesting jaspers from the Centra...

Brecciated Jasper I'm still poring over the 100 lbs of stones I brought back from California last week (the back of my car riding ve...

San Simeon Jaspers - Naturally tumbled I do a lot of beach-walking around the Northwest where I live, and often find intriguing and wort...

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

Olympic Orbicular "Poppy" Jasper No, I haven't vanished off the face of the earth. Attentive readers may notice that I hav...

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...

Exterior : Raw and Colorless Interior : A  Hidden World of Blue Most of the well-known Owyhee jaspers come out of named sites, wit...

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...

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...

Cayucos Jasper - Revealed Tumbling stones, esp. hard jaspers and agate, takes patience.... and I am not a patient man. So when a batch...