Thank you for sharing it is impossible to take a wheelchair on these trails and I really miss these views since I've gotten older.My first exposure to college level geology was in 1972 and I've been enjoying your lectures since about 2011. My point is- take it to heart when I say thank you because I am sincere.

At 73, I'll not be making treks like this anymore. I started college as a geology major, switched to math, then computer science so labs were at a terminal and my field trips were to flight test locations, mostly inside a room with lots of computers and displays. Thanks for sharing, and be grateful for profession that keeps you in shapre.

I can only imagine how many dozens of excellent walking and hiking trails there must be in Washington State offering all kinds of interesting and informative geological knowledge combined with the beauty of nature especially when walking along a raging stream as you filmed here. I would say a lifetime of walks! Thank you again for taking us along on your nature trails with your students. It's the next best thing of being there with a great geology teacher to provide insight and knowledge as well as mutual enjoyment. Well done. Greetings from the Train Lord in Australia.

I like the text in the introduction: "Met up with some friends..." That kind of relationship is the best guarantee for a learning experience for both the teacher and the student.

These videos give so much pleasure. We truly live in a beautiful state. Thank you

Nick: thanks for bringing us with you in the field. I completely agree with your comment that going into the field helps the lessons stick that much better. I’m so grateful to virtually tag along.

You created a monster. I love the geology but my wife just loves the rocks. UPS has just delivered her a brand new rock polisher and we are headed to the Prineville Oregon area to see what we can find at the BLM rockhounding sites nearby. I am the guy that recommended the OSMO stabilizer and will take ours on our little trip. Thank you again for all you have done to educate folks. Would love to get the chance to shake your hand sometime and sit in on a class.

When I was in the undergrad years as a geology major (back in the late Pleistocene) we were required to have a hand lens around our neck on any field trip. And any field trip that involved banging on hard rocks, e.g. metamorphics, we were encouraged to also have eye protection. My right eye was saved from a flying splinter of gneiss by a pair of safety glasses. Always good advice for young geology students

Thanks for the wonderful lingering on the river scene!!! I had to move back to San Diego from Oregon and I miss my mountains. Thanks 🙏

Thanks for taking us along with you on a magnificent river trail. Really great seeing the students getting so involved with the various rocks and trying to identify them. Budding geologists everyone.

Greetings from Sweden!

Another great field trip! Fun to tag along - thanks Nick! 👌

A beautiful river and a bunch of fun, different rocks. I am glad that the weather cooperated and that you made this video.

Thank you Nick Another Great field trip time

Once we get past sedimentary and igneous, my cabinet of knowledge about various rock types and what they mean is largely bare. It matters not. For the most part, I'm with Train Lord, and basically just enjoy the opportunity to get out in the hills and mountains, and in this one, with rushing water to keep us company. The essence of a mountain hike in gorgeous country, but with geology! Thanks for bring us along, Nick.

I love these field trip videos... The video quality is wonderful, thanx for showing your equipment....

Thank you for sharing this beautiful place! Love the various rocks and their details. Love the water sounds and watching the water flow over rocks. What a beautiful area. Thank you for taking us with you.

Such a beautiful place Nick, and we just love the kids! We are hoping for a geology major among our grandkids. Laurene and Bob in Blodgett

I think the granite boulders down in the creek are Stewart Mountain plutons while the iron rusted dense green rocks are Pacific ocean mudstones.

Wow I really enjoyed seeing the stream, I love river rocks, all nice and round no edges. I could sit and bust rocks open all day, I had a rock garden when I lived in Arizona, would rely upon my Grandfather to come and tell me what they were. Father worked at a huge open pit copper mine, In Morenci AZ, lived there till I was 15. I love Washington State. Wish I hadn't worked so hard in my younger years, to go out on trails with my son. I am too old now to go on hikes.

Always grateful for you letting us tag along - the field trips do indeed help with the learning experience!

wow! awesome camera work nick! the bit w/ hayden was well done, great moment! on the trail, you wondered about the iron colored bands, red, mixed in, or in all of the rock......mumble jumble w/ other types of rock...........exotic terrenes.....etc............. well........ this was very confusing too me also, until i realized all this chaos in rock........all the tallest mountains, the deepest oceans, is just the strewn wreckage from the object (THEA?) that hit the earth, creating the MOON? These bands, strata of rock, however they name each and every one, i believe WAS FORMED SIMULTANEOUSLY MOON, then solidified, and fractured. i did occur to me folklore of PARADISE did, indeed, exist! except w/ very smooth surface, w/ PURE WATER in aquafers under ADAM and EVE's feet..............until SOPHIA sent the dark star to annihilate paradise. yep! from pdx! met you on psu campus at farmer's market, i was wearing black carhardts, w/ a guitar slung over shoulder, i said "watched you on youtube, I LOVE YOUR SHOW! are we burning the former beings of paradise in OUR AUTOMOBILES? thank you nick for helping me OPEN my eyes to SEE! .........you read it here FIRST!,........BUT DO TELL ALL?........call myself wm. angryfinger 5038970420 weloveyounick

What a great field trip. Thank you for bringing us along.

Really neat to see the cleaved rocks! I have some heavy rusty rocks, too. Ingalls is one of the prettiest creeks. (Cricks to some of us) 😁

Wow! Stunning! Thank you so much for sharing this with us! So dramatic and beautiful. Just makes me think about how different that all was 95Ma! You have opened my eyes! Thanks again. Peace and Good Fortune and Good Health to you and yours!

There have been 2 fires in the area in the past 27 years. The Rat Creek fire of 1994 brushed through this area. In 2014, the Hansel Fire swept over Ingalls Creek. Fire damage is still visible, some scars resulting from firefighters trying to contain the fire boundaries. That year over 1400 wildfires burned greater than 386,000 acres in Washington State. The Ingalls/Peshastin Creek area is still a beautiful treasure in the midst of desert and dry terrain.

I enjoyed that walk, I'm not tired at all ...

Isn't that the best place?! It is just so full of beauty and interesting nature. ❤

Mate, I just love these field videos.

Wish Illinois had someplace like this to roam, a few areas in very southern and northern parts, but 98% has nothing. Really cool to see bedrock with imbeaded stones that never melted in.

Very nice to have been able to come along on this wonderful hike..via utub and months after. Refreshing. Breaks open a rock, "I don't know what this is".

The beautiful terrain is really something that is for sure. But Mr Hollywood did an awesome cameo there...way to go Brice! LOL

What a beautiful place!

Nymeria here. THANK YOU!!!!!

Absolutely wonderful I'm very much enjoy these hands on field trips Professor Zentner. THANKS YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING.

I loved my field classes in Astronomy, which were weekend overnighters. We had motorized equatorial mounted Celestron telescopes. We would piggyback mount our SLRs to the telescopes and get wonderful photos. This was back in the days of Kodachrome. I sure miss field trips.

The largest most splendid colored huge timber rattler I have ever seen was up Engals Creek fishing in the 60's for dolly vardin, the best tasting fish ever.

You are blessed with some beautiful wilderness in your part of the world. we would give anything to have such clean, clear, pristine water sources here in Australia. Imagine camping beside such a creek for a week...bliss, tranquility. Thank you for sharing this with us.

YEAH NICK>>>>>THANKS PROFESSOR !!!

Thanks for the wonderful jaunt.

How grand to have beautiful spring weather for exploring!

Much enjoyed and thanks for the video

I'd have a gold pan in that creek!

Just beautiful. Thank you Nick You rock!

Looks like a nice place to pospect

Never knew that trail head was there Drive by it on hwy 97 all the time Thanks

It was fun playing ''name that rock'' and listening to the interplay on identification (I got a few of them right). The last few minutes in the creek was wonderful - thanks, Nick! It's so nice to ''go on a hike'' without getting winded, and the students are good companions!

Beautiful beautiful river, thanks for getting up close with the rocks. Super duper.....ya gotta love it.

Really nice country Nick. Thanks for this outdoor class.

Thanks Nick, beautiful place, interesting rocks very enjoyable

Thanks Professor Zentner

I'm sorry I know we are suppose to be interested in the rocks, but those flower steal the show.

Beautiful nature! Just fit for watching on the Sunday morning

Thank you for taking us on the adventure. It feels so good to be out & about again. Very interesting rocks today. How old is the zeolites surrounded by Mt. Stewart batholith? 10:37 The same age, because the zeolites form as a secondary mineral in the batholith? Some of the rock seem to be high in iron minerals in the rock formation? Are those rocks a little extra heavy? On the Oregon Central Coast we find rusty lava flows, because they have so much iron in the lava. Red flows on black & covered with black lava. There are some in high sulfur, making them yellow. Seems to be special places mixed this way.

Beautiful. I think my toes got wet! When I'm with you on these narrow rocky trails, I always feel like I'm gonna stumble, as I'm a two-left feet person... plus I'm a trail maintenance sort, so I wanna rake stones out of the path, and move twigs n snags... Love, love you sharing your production equipment, big help there, and the sheer awesomeness...

The water looks surprisingly cold. I want to keep the flowing creek on a loop for relaxation. Thanks for all you're doing Nick. I love you and wanted you to know in case students aren't allowed to say it.

This truly feels like home. I freaking love this state. *At approximately the 10:00 mark when your student makes the comment about it looking like gabbro...that's exactly what I was thinking. The Mt. Stuart batholith looks strikingly similar to the Snoqaulmie batholith. Check out Bandara mountain which is approximately 10 miles east of North Bend. USFS 9030 and 9031 has amazing blue agate and the granite/diorite sits above an outcrop of limestone and andesite. There are also a couple of dacite exposures in the area along with a minor amount of serpentine. There is also rhyolite and sandstone along with metachert zoning. The geology is crazy and confusing, but always fascinating.

Have you ever read the book the night the mountain fell .... great stories of gold miners in this particular area ... I recommend it 😊

Great content. Parts of it reminded me of a Hamm’s beer commercial! Thanks Nick!

This ZENTNERD GEOLOGY TRIP I've been on for over a year now just keeps gettin better and better!!!

Thanks for another great trip to visit places in Washington I’ve never been… virtual field trips seem almost as fun a real trips.

Tons of iron in this rock and i lost it you sir are hilarious thank you for the field trip

The white mineral at the 14:50 mark could be magnesite since it often an alteration product of serpentinite.

The quarts could be related to orogeny, at the solidified granit was fractured and water building the quatz veins coming from water perculation or upflow from the subducting plate.

Thanks for a beautiful walk in the mts. Wish I could do that.

Another great trip! Thanks. Thanks also for the tech product information :)

Ingalls Creek is a lovely Geologic Knife. 👍🏽

Love your style, nicely filmed and presented.

"Rock licker proof." "We'll see about *that*."

👍🏼👍🏼 hiking that trail this week! 😄❤

Its heavenly there!

You can see xenoliths in the granite rock in Brisbane City Hall

The Saskquatch surely does wear sunglasses... well on a can of Kokanee Beer he sure does !! lol. Cheers from Naniamo BC. !!!

The most beautiful scenery. You are so lucky to live in the PNW. Do you ever run into wildlife while hiking? Bears, lions?

I love it! Rock Licker Approved. I would love to come out and go on one of these outside adventures, unfortunately I live near Tulsa, Oklahoma. Most of the rocks out here consist of granite, rhyolite and gabbro. There's a ancient divergent boundary about a mile from where I live, the side of the outcrop "soil" has been eroded and there's some amazing geological formations. Oklahoma State University Geo students are out here all the time doing their studies. It's pretty cool watching them work.

Incredible sights. I miss that area!

Beautiful place

I so miss the hunt .

With regard to the red stained rocks it’s possible you underestimate the amount of hard rock interstitial water present, in particular when the hard rocks come closer to the surface and microscopic fractures begin to occur

In some areas, where there is iron deposits, there could be gold. Seen that in Nevada.. actual gold and iron mixed.

Wow! Beautiful!

Looks like there was a forest fire went through there and the forest has recovered.

I think maybe the rusty zones record the passage of fluids through the larger fractures in the rock?

Sasquatch takes special-order XXXXXL sunglasses.

We love these trips so much, thanks for bothering!

Thank you!!!

With your mic and gizmo, James Spencer @ basic brewing would love you.

I am wondering if that iron/rust rock is a submarine volcanic exhalite ? Are there sulfide metal deposits, pyrite, galena, sphalerite in the Ingalls ? Also, that hike cooled me a bit sitting here in Tucson. Cheers, Mark * * *

Its called experience

The Siskiyou mountains in southern Oregon has very dark green, smooth almost oily Serpentine. Is that formation part of the Ophiolite formation?

Nick: Maybe you should consider making some videos about hotels and such in your region? Because especially the international audience might want to fly in and stay in places you recommend. There may be tourist traps people should avoid staying in.

Im a computer scientist, not a geologist. I would love to have taken some geology, especially after watching your videos.

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when is the next feild trip??? dont care where its going . i wanna go! and it looks like a lot of Leaverite.

Every time we go to Ingles creek we encounter rattlesnake

When I'm up by little naches there's tons of iron staining to the point the soil is redish

Where's your hand lens?

27:44 Is that all glacier melt water or is that some kind of temperate rain forest? 🤔😊

@Nick Zenter I just was looking at the great earthquake in the pacific northwest about the movement in the north west. the question about why its moving clockwise northwest with a 2 week break episode. now im no expert but what about the san andreas vault pressuring the west part causing the east part to move more slowly and due the movement couldn't it be simply movement intervals from the san andreas vault moving on the cascadian vault line especially since the west part of the san andreas vault is moving north while the east part moves south. doesn't this explain the clockwise movement ?

Sasquatch Bryce is funny.