We're lucky to live in such a time when great teachers like Myron are able to educate us in the comfort of our homes for free. "Lucky" barely touches it--thousands of generations of humans looked at the living rock we stand on and regarded it as timeless and immutable, which we know to be false--it is entirely dynamic and, indeed, *alive.* Thanks so much, Myron.

Myron drops a video, and I drop everything I’m doing to watch. 🥞

Retired science teacher here. These lessons are wonderful in every way. Smooth, comforting tone, and available to novice and advanced alike. Really enjoyable. Mahalo nui.

I grew up a bike-ride away from Red Rocks. The Bear Creek runs through there--ice-cold melt-water that lower down becomes a venerable cottonwood riparian corridor, much like all the mountain streams feeding the great Platte and Arkansas Rivers to the east, the Rio Grande to the south and the Colorado River west. Great place for kids, although now the suburban sprawl represents a sad, poorly regulated detriment to the Front Range of Denver. But what a treat it is, 60 years after riding my bike in the summers around the town of Morrison (near Molly Brown's summer bungalow!) to now hear Myron's explanation of how the great Morrison Formation came to be, and how Red Rocks amphitheater is astonishingly older than the Front Range of the modern Rocky Mountains, looming over 14,000 ft behind. Thank you, Myron--I can't tell you how meaningful your video classes are. And those introductory photos of Colorado are really gorgeous.

That was sneaky Myron.... About to go to bed. Had to get a beer and sit back and learn... Thanks mate!

What a pleasure it is to go on these visual and informative journeys with you! Absolutely magnificent! Thank you!

Myron, I'm a young (relatively; I'm just 27!) Canadian living in Saskatchewan. I've so loved your videos and on location things you show and teach us. I live in a somewhat transitional area between the phanerozoic basin and the precambrian shield. It's mind bogling to think of the history of the rocks around me. Some are upwards of 3 Billion years old. I stop to think of the history they have endured. The archean. The birth of life on our planet. Id often find myself firmly planting head in the rocks and my mind imaging the world when they were formed. These videos and what you show us has had such a profound effect on my present life. I've even been considering returning to school to pursue an education in geology. Thank you. From the bottom of my heart. I look forward to your next video eagerly.

You are the BEST geology professor I ever heard !! Thanks for educating to all of us.

I am a simple man: Myron's dulcet tones in a new silky smooth upload cause me to watch the video, enjoy the video, and upvote the video. Simple!

I lived in Denver for a dozen years and I loved exploring the geology of Colorado. I knew the basics about the area, especially Red Rocks but you really expanded my knowledge on the whole deep history. Absolutely wonderful - as usual!

Best geology content on the internet - absolutely amazing. Thank you so much Myron!

Your work is amazing and your presentation is so personable. Warm greetings and best wishes from the west coast of Ireland 🇮🇪🇺🇸

Okay so this one of my favorites so far. Explained so much about one of my favorite drives in the whole country. Thanks Myron. ❤

I genuinely wish more of my teachers would have been more like Myron.

I always look forward to your geological excursions, they never disappoint.

I've never been more excited to make some observations!

Howdy, Myron. Welcome to the Front Range! I live near Boulder and would have offered you a little Colorado hospitality had I known that you were passing through my area. As you know, there's a lot of geology piled into our Centennial State, and isn't it a sad irony that one human life is so short. I'll never get to see it all, but videos like yours help greatly in extending my time here. At the end of each presentation, I'm always curious to see where you'll take us on your next exploration. Thank you, and I'll see you then.

2 minutes after posting. I’m watching. Go Myron, Okay, why was only a few thousand feet red?

Greetings from Boulder! As a local rock climber, I’m so thankful for your videos. I’ve found a lot of evidence of petrified streambeds in the arkose of the Flatirons- long snaking tubes

Myron is a “rock” star! I live in Denver, and love his clear explanations of the beauty I see around me every day.

I should make everyone I hike with on the front range watch this before hiking any of the hog-backs, or canyon trails in the area. I was at Garden of the gods back in February, and was just mind blown at how such a soft sandstone conglomerate can be so old, and yet so soft that I can pluck little clasts from the rock with relative ease. Sometimes, if you're lucky, you can go just a few miles away from the hogback and see coal beds and limestones with leaf fossils and petrified wood, which really drives home the fact that there were really marshes and swamps and beaches here with the mountains. I highly recommend stopping at Marshal Mesa if you ever visit Boulder, you can see these coal and limestone formations right out in front of the rockies. . It’s really amazing how you connected so many locations together to explain just how all this fits together, and didn’t just tell people how there once was an ancestral rocky mountain range, but showed it so people could see it for themselves. Now I’m curious how you'd show the laromide, and subsequent uplift of the front range, which I only sort of understand at a hand-wavy level.

A video from our beloved Myron Cook is always a great way to cap off a day. Thank you for all your hard work! edit: And you start off in Red Rocks!! So glad to hear youve seen a show there, Id love to myself one day!!!

I feel just as fortunate to watch your videos! Thank you!

a masterful explanation Myron. Thank you

Thanks Myron, born and raised in the Morrison area but now live between the Grand Mesa and the Uncompahgre plateau. You have helped me understand some of the different geology in this area. Thanks.

I just love your enthusiasm for geology! I truly enjoy learning from you, Professor Myron! I don't know if you're actually a professor, but it's like having your own personal geology teacher watching these videos 🤗

Thank you again. You're the best teacher I've ever had!

My goodness. What a story over time. Thank you.

Myron Cook and Nick Zentner geology lectures on the same morning. It's already a good day.

Mountains recycle! Now cover all that with trees and you get my beloved Blue Ridge. Come to the east, please, and check out the road cuts here, or Natural Chimneys, Endless Caverns... It's crazy fun!

While you blow our minds, I find it wonderfully soothing when you present us with your trusty little tree on your whiteboard. Love your presentations!

This blew my mind Dr. Cook. I am going to have to watch it a couple more times for it to completely soak-in. I grew up on the west side of Denver, along the hogback wondering how it was formed and how the red rock formation fit in geologically and it has never been resolved for me until now with your explanation, so thank you for that! I hope you had time to visit Dinosaur Ridge, just a few miles north of Red Rocks amphitheater while you were there. There are dinosaur footprints fully exposed along the roadside on the rock walls. It too is a spectacular site to see and just a couple minutes drive from C-470 there. I have also been fortunate to see the areas of southern Utah that were once the great sand dunes you spoke of. Also a site to behold. Now it all is starting to make sense to me. Thank you once again for helping make sense of something so complex as this for my small mind.

The living earth is such a beautiful thing to behold.❤

My favorite KZfaq show starts off in my very own back yard. I do have to get up in Myron's neighborhood to take a look at the Big Horn Basin first hand. Thanks Myron for your work.

I'm glad you mentioned the Flatirons. I've been staring at them out the window from the beginning of the video. I've heard of the Fountain Formation, but never realized it's so old.

It's great fun to have you shine a light on our amazing home. Helps me see and feel the magic of our Mother Earth and our very fleeting existence. 🙂

Myron, you inspire me with your beauty. Also the Rock formations and their absolute stunning beauty. Thanx

Thank you for the wonderful interpretation of the rebirth of the Rockies. Earth's History is so exciting when one learns the language of the rocks.

Woohoo a new video I have been waiting to hear my Bob Ross of geology! Especially since it's on mountains I don't have any of those here in Florida lol

When Bob Rocks drops a video, I drop what I'm doing to watch. Thank you Myron, these videos give me a sense of calm I oft lack in my hectic life.

Myron you are the best. Thanks for all the work you put into these videos, from the driving, to the drone work, the editing must take a long time. Your hard work and enthusiasm is a wonder. Nothing to "fault". Thank you.

Thank you Myron! That filled in some blank spots in my understanding of the Rockies and the Ancestral Rockies!

The joy of seeing the past through your eyes is a great joy to me. Thank you really isn't enough to say.

This was a great little lecture. I saw Peter Gabriel at red rocks a few years back before the concert. I went and looked at all of those dinosaur tracks in the area. Anyway, the concert was amazing the sound of the surroundings. While the concert was in progress. There was a lightning storm in the distance that added to the amazing experience.

My lucky day when I discovered this Channel and the explanation of this Great World and our Beautiful Mountains and how they formed. Thank You, Myron !

Now I want to drive all down the Rockies, snaking back and forth to see all these amazing sights and sites!

Thank you, Myron! I love having a deeper understanding of the landscapes that I hike through!

This has become one of my favorite channels the last few years ❤ Myron

After unexpectedly coming across this channel on Saturday morning, I binge watched these videos all weekend for my days off. It's Sunday night, and I know I'm going to be talking to my coworkers like I'm some master geologist all of a sudden tomorrow at work. 😂

Great story, thanks for all your work Myron.

I always like to set time aside to really follow the narrative Myron builds. I always learn something new 🙏

Blowing my mind with every video. I will never look at the Colorado Rockies the same again.

I feel very fortunate as well, this one was exceptional and it shows in your smile. Many thanks!

Thanks, Myron, for this amazing class. What enchanted views! I live in Brazil and I'm always enjoying your videos.

holy cow... my mind is officially boggled now... that was fascinating! I love the way you teach... on the ground, in the field, from the air and pulling it together on the whiteboard! Thank you!

My cousins live in Roxborough Park. I’m always so jealous with the beautiful scenery they have in their backyard. Excited to learn more about it!

This is a very timely video, as I hope to make my first visit to Colorado later this year. I'm so looking forward to seeing this landscape.

I live in Broomfield, just east of the Flatirons. I really enjoyed watching this video. Thanks so much!

Thank you so much for educating me on the red rocks. I always wondered how "The Garden of the Gods" was created. I was thru the tree back in 1987 with my family. I was only 15 then and absolutely enthralled with them. Love your white boards.

I love your videos and your enthusiasm for all the geology, your appreciation of the beauty of Earth. Thank you for these videos.

I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this "field trip". I only wish that I had seen it years ago when I took a trip to Colorado. And, I loved the John Denver reference. Thank you so much, Professor Cook!

I fell in love with geology in 1980. Thanks for bringing that wonder back...

I used to bike ride to Red Rocks from Denver in the 1960s as a kid and look at the formations. I did have an interest in geology back then. The dinosaur tracks on the east side of the Dakota hogback to the gneiss and granite on Mount Morrison behind the amphitheater. Someone tried to put a tram up Mt. Morrison once and a rock bed and a rail sticking out was left of that effort. I have a couple of ancestors that lived in the Morrison area herding sheep in the late 1800s. Thanks Myron! Brings memories!

Been watching and listening, enjoying and learning from these videos for a while, but it just struck me (GenX'r here) that the kindness, peace, and pace of his voice reminds me of Mr Rodgers. Thank you Mr Cook.

The spectacular beauty of the opening scenes; the grandeur of the formations; the John Grisham novel type exposition of the hows and whys (ok that's excessive; lol) and lastly the warmth and sincerity of the presentation are kinda heartwarming. Many thanks for chipping away at that mountain of ignorance in all of us!

I wish I had teachers like Mr. Cook as a youngster. Sadly, they're quite rare. Keep up the great videos!

I love opening youtube on my computer to see a video of Myron ready to watch!

thank you for visiting!

Many thanks Myron, you make geology and rocks come to life! 🇦🇺

I live very close to Red Rocks. I had to watch. The geology around this area is fascinating.

Wonderful host, intriguing geology, beautiful scenery! Love this video!💕

Love, love, love these journeys in geology. Thank you Myron!

Observations! What a great word. 👀🔎💡

Absolutely amazing. I never thought of Red Rocks that way. Just admired them. Wow, that was thought provoking. Living in a Denver 'burb, I'm pretty familiar with these rocks. So glad you made this video, Myron. Thank you.

great presentations! You are a wonderful geology teacher

I love your videos! You don't just highlight oddities you explain how to interpret them and that is what I love to learn

Enjoyed walking through millions of years of the Rocky Mountain range! Equally enjoyed the art / drawings of the past.

Thank you Myron for yet another insightful video.

My aunt took me to the Garden of the Gods back in 1985. I was very impressed by what I saw. Unfortunately I wasn’t into photography back then. So I have to enjoy your video to see them again.

Myron, I just got back from a trip to Yellowstone and we are currently staying 10 minutes away from Garden of the Gods so this video really came out at the perfect time! You are an amazing lecturer, I really appreciate all of your videos.

I truly did enjoy this lesson about the Ancestral Rockies. I really liked geology classes in undergrad and now regret not getting at least a minor in geology. It's been one constant love since childhood that I'll keep enjoying the rest of my days!

great video, keep up the amazing work!

Myron, thank you so much for all the wonderful geology lessons that you share with us!

I dropped everything, went and got a beer and some peanuts to snack on and enjoyed the presentation, as I felt like I was in the field with Myron. I've been to several of those places, great pics, overview and white board work. It's great to see if presented so artfully. Thanks!

Myron, please forgive me for commenting before watching the entire video. I find it compelling that you have gone into so much detail in explaining a question I asked in one of your earliest videos. I feel like you are talking directly to me. Thank you for that. I lived between eagle and Glenwood for ten years in the 70s and 80s.

Wow❤keep going ... another beautiful video

This series sheds light on the difference between looking and seeing.

Loved this video! I was so pleased that you included the Eagle basin.

Thank you. A wonderful explanation, as always. I have spent a lot of time in these red rock areas, as well as the rest of the Rockies. You are a national treasure.

Every time I see your videos I am always humbled by how old our Earth is. I remember visiting Monument Valley, and then the Pacific Ocean for the first time and I always remember how small I was and how ancient these places are. Your videos perpetuate that fascination and I am so grateful to you for sharing your knowledge with us.

Always a pleasure!

yep... gonna be a good day. rock doc uploaded.

This drone footage is incredible

I watched this TWICE to further enhance the journey you took us on Sir. Excellent content. Lifelong learner enjoying the education.

This is continuing geologic education for me, heck Myron’s lectures are more informative than my undergraduate earth science courses! Thanks Myron!

Thanks, Myron.👍

Myron, you also inspire us with your beautiful videos, just as much as those mountains do. Thanks again for what you give us

Love it! I grew up in the Montana Rocky mountains and always wondered how they where formed. Sometime I hope you will do a video of the area of the Bob Marshall wilderness. Thanks again for your wonderful videos.

Thanks for another wonderful video, Myron. Boy it's really tricky picturing the complex sequence of events and processes that lead to today's landscape. I feel that the combination you do of field work observation and white board diagrams is a good complement. And, naturally, when I told my wife I had another of your video's she said "Oh boy, it's Myron, what's he got for us today". Many thanks, Myron, not only for the education, but the awe and wonder you capture in your terrific photography and narration. I'm giving you a thumbs up, and, hmm let's see, how about 3 happy faces. 😀😀😀

And I feel fortunate to be able to learn from such a knowledgeable teacher, whose videos are stunningly well made. (Just to tag onto your two ending sentences.) thank you so much, Mr. Cook!