Ah a sweet young bear! I'll bet your kind voice made him or her not so afraid of people. Thanks for a geo-walk... A big tree the size of those you showed us, died a few years ago on our property near you. We left it for another year to make sure it was dead. When we cut it down for winter stove wood, we counted her rings = 60 yrs old. When it died suddenly, the trees right around it shot up, thriving. We say this "Mother" tree gave up her life so the young ones around her could thrive and grow. A few yrs later those young trees adjacent are now as big as she was. Bless her...

My Dad worked for UW geology department in the seventies. I've been all over Washington in a jeep you make sense of all the different terrain we traveled. Baja to Bc I always wondered why up and down the west coast we ran into similar terrain that we were used to seeing here. It makes sense to me now. Nick for President. Thanks for sharing.

what I take away from all of the trips you are taking and sharing with the world is, *never stop learning* (I mean, it takes an effort of will to think you know all you're ever going to know and stop anyway, but, it always helps to have that shown to you, by someone else. Thanks Prof!)

Wrestling blackbears ... gneiss!! I miss the northwest terrain, thanks for bringing this ruggedness to our doorstep... stay safe from the fires and smoke

This video will be important to watch again (with colored pencils)! Super dirt riding road, and better to see it now with geology eyes. I'm glad you were alone, and saw the bear, it's a lovely area. I always remember Charlie Mason when I hear 'Swakane biotite gneiss.' Looking forward to fitting more pieces together. Thank you so much.

"Just me" as stated in the beginning will do for me! This Professor is a good balance of science, education, a dose of humanity and a great sense of humor ! The rest of the highly educated guests are OK, by any means, I am just below their level.

Hi Nick... Mike here ,,Im putting a story about all the video that I watch the past years ..And I mean a lot of them ,some twice or more ...from you ..And learn a lot .it all good and some amassing ...I have you to thank for ..you will be the first to c it private first ..thanks for everything Nick ,looking forward to the next video ...

Every video of yours that I watch I want to just run out and become a geologist 😅. Thank you Mr Zentner for all that you do and for taking time out of your life to share your passion with us.

Indeed, these kinds of videos may well be helpful over the winter - and I'm not a geologist, just an interested spectator to Zentner explorations.

This is gorgeous to me I love these Rocks! Of my beautiful Washington State. I’m always homesick watching your rambles Nick! Swakane Gneiss in the Canyon & a Black Bear what a day! Not to worry Nick. You are doing fine job articulating the information from my standpoint as a total novice!

Thank you Professor Zentner.

The developing story of the movement north is fascinating, thank you.

Hi Nick. Thanks for making my mind more rhan a jellied waste. And I'm from Georgia where not too many people think about such things as you present.

I’m very excited to watch this fall and learn about exotic terraces! Thanks for getting ime excited about rocks in my 75 year on this big rock!!

Totally candid and enjoyable to watch and learn. Calling it Little Black Bear Canyon now. I think he might have desired those planters peanuts..brought to you by.....

As a child, my father took us to see the new Rocky Reach Dam. On that trip he pointed out the Entiat landslide that crossed the Columbia, and backed up the river. I as a child was impressed with the quartz veins. There was also a place where we stopped while northbound on the west side of the river. It was where the rocks were chilled by cold air coming from some unaccessible caves that he knew about. It was in a road cut with the rocks between the road and the river. Very refreshing on a road trip before cars had A.C!

The genius behind the madness, some mad man along the road breaking rock with a small hammer. Colored pencils, fruitcake, German chocolate cake, you got to love it! Thank you, Nick Zentner ALL stay safe

I've said it before... you know it's a good day when a video from Prof Nick shows up in the feed. And, today was better than good... Frustrating for me that I'm stuck in Ohio for the foreseeable economic future, but so happy that you are taking us along on your explorations. And, I'm also happy you and the bear parted as friends. Thanks!

I will be honest I can't always understand every thing in your videos but I am fascinated with what I do understand. I take part in the Wenatchee Christmas Bird Count many times and have walked up that canyon to count Birds. I am also a big fan of Itchy Boots and I agree with you about what you shared. She is an amazing person.

I laughed so hard when you asked if they drivers knew what they were driving through.

I was camping in the River Of No Return wilderness in the middle of nowhere Idaho. Seriously the most remote location I’ve been to. Walking along the river, I was noticing the colors of the stones - dry in the unfiltered sunlight they looked like pastel blue, lavender, and pink granites. I noticed a piece of what looked like burnt wood. It was heavy and I thought maybe it was shale, because it looked like it was composed of layers. Each layer was carbon grey to black with tons of pyrite flakes which were heavy when I panned it but too brassy to be gold. It did have a granitic pattern to it too, maybe it’s a chunk of gneiss with biotite! It was absolutely the only rock like it on the river, and not rounded by erosion of any type so I guess someone brought it there, maybe to pan it like I did. Have you ever seen a gneiss with pyrite or even mica distributed through it?

I left UNC Greeley Colorado, 1993, so, this information boils in my mind. The twists and turns to shift the geology, well, well, well.

Beautiful little canyon you took us to this time Nick. But then, you take us to all beautiful and amazing places. I can hardly wait for "our" home viewing classes to begin this year. I've learned so much. Can't possibly thank you enough.

thanks so much for sharing! I am from the East Coast and I love to travel and see different places online. What an amazing place!! Cheers

It's fascinating. Thank you for bringing us along on these journeys. If these conversations were only available from the most serious and accomplished geologists, I would have passed on learning more. Seriously.

Learning isn't necessarily a comfortable experience. That's perfectly fine. It helps, in a way, to see you get off in the weeds, because we know we're not the only ones, lol. Thanks for another wonderful video. I mean, there was even a bear! :)

The sparkles showed as well as the layers. You explain so well. I can't tell you the number of times I've driven through there, not knowing what the rocks were. Thanks.

I drive the Orondo side every time and I keep seeing the gneiss. I love the rock on the Orondo side maybe one day you’ll speak on that side.I love all the outcrops that are pushed to a 45* angle with layers of quartz. Mi. Post 173 to 178 I think is the stretch I am so curious about. Love your work, thank you!

Thanks as always for another field trip Nick! Swakane Canyon is dear to my heart. I have taken the Swakane Canyon road in the past, and you can travel all the way to Cashmere if you keep going. Depending on the time of year, you may find a wildflower that is pretty rare, Thompson's Clover, and you may also find Indian Pipe in the more sheltered spots.

The Earth is incredible. Thanks Nick! 🙏🏼

Educational and beautiful. These videos. The areas are just spectacular. Quiet and bears lol. Awesome stuff.

Nick, I love this format, nothing wrong with pushing outside one’s comfort level!

Thanks for the previews out in the field which are beautiful. Prerequisites for Baja BC. Can’t wait!

It is so cool to get to watch as you puzzle out what you've read as you look at what other geologists have written about. Thanks for sharing beautiful scenery, interesting rocks, and new places with us.

Glad you able to enjoy some wildlife. Seeing a bear is always cool. You said some of it was found way down in the Sonoran desert? Interesting , very interesting.

Thanks for the interesting walk and rock samples. The views are striking to this flat lander..

In weathered terrain like this you really need a light sledgehammer to get into some unaltered material

THANKS FOR HELPING US THINK ABOUT FUTURE WEST COAST AMERICANA'S GEOLOGY. ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO, I ATTENDED A PUBLIC MEETING IN NEWPORT FOR OREGON TSUNAMI PREPARATION. IN ATTENDANCE WERE NUMEROUS OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY & STATE GEOLOGIST. I ASKED THE LAST QUESTION, AFTER THE MEETING. I WANTED TO KNOW WHEN GEOLOGIST WERE GOING TO DO MORE RESEARCH ABOUT WEST COAST INTER-CONTINENTAL PLATES MOVEMENT & EXOTIC TERRANCES.

I like to see these outside places to, can’t get enough. Thanks Nick, I love you and goodbye.

Thank you, bear grappler.

Gary & Darryl were wonderful, thanks Nick. Talking about terrains maybe even from Europe. From time so ancient we cannot at this time even conceive how it arrived, the consensus seems to be broken from much larger pieces of the same type. And how the devil was it moved, travailed, from there to here. I have even seen pieces of Victoria Island West or North of Friday Harbor with sure roots from Australia. Looking at how earth crust movements happen, the time involved in transport shows varied and unknown clumps of rock never to have seen sunlight before Nick's hammer showed the sun on it's face for time periods so long to see Darryl and Gary now so old seeming but the rock showing age well and never looking old. With a story our mind can picture. Thanks Prof.

Gorgeous canyon and interesting episode. On the trail of exotic terranes!

Came for the wonderful geological content, left with an Itchyboots reference.

Wow what a ridge as your camera scanned. I love that country! Thank you for all you showed us this summer!

Nick, the wrong canyon incident makes me like you even more!

Different conclusions keep us awake and thinking

Thanks for the itchy boots comment, and for getting me to follow her amazing adventure. I was hoping you would meet, but not this time. I mention you often on her channel, especially when I see interest in geology.

"Do these folks know they're driving through the Swakane gneiss?" They would if they were gneiss people. Be a gneiss person; follow Nick!

This area looks similar to the local terrain , vegetation and rolling hills of inland Orange County, Ca.

Yup. I can see the Swakane Canyon in the Mohave. Thanks, Nick for another fun geohike! 😀 I doubt black bears will bother you--you are their size! Not snack sized like Patrick.

Excellent area to hike and enjoy. So....next summer Nick...Me, Ferdinand Marcos, Fly'n Sand Tigers, and Exotic Terranes.

Thank you Nick for doing these series for us. :D

I think these are great! I learn as you learn. And it's nice to see the info "in situ." Makes it easier to connect the geological dots.

Thanks, Nick!

Hello, I watched your video and noticed the rocks you were checking out looked like rocks I just saw in Whitewater Canyon near Palm Springs California. You made a reference to SoCal in your video. This canyon also has the San Andreas Fault running through the canyon. I have some pics and rocks to share. I enjoyed your video greatly. Thank you.

I'm not positive, but it sure looks like... the bear went over the mountain; to see what he could see... (Possibly he found a better rock sample)

I love that so many Zentnerds watch Itchy too!

Hey professor good to see you!

It’s a well known fact that Swakane gneiss is an excellent paper weight.

Nice biotite gneiss professor! I have something I believe is similar just across the road from my apartment called "glimmerskiffer". It's a somewhat metamorphosed greywacke with mica in it. Sometimes the sheets are obvious, but sometimes it's metamorphosed to the point where the dimensions kind of get intertwined. If you go just a bit further south from here, it starts to host almandine garnets and it looks more like proper gneiss. Maybe this is from a higher degree of metamorphism? I live just south of Stockholm, Sweden. Also, love those thick milky white quartz veins. I bet there's gold in them thair!

Bought a geology field guide from a ranger station near Pilchuck, saw your name in the acknowledgements section, very cool!

Thank you, sir. Be well!

"Do these folks know they're driving through Swakane gneiss? I don't think so..." ha!

Very gneiss episode, Nick 👍😜

Oh, tell Noraly, ringing rocks in Black Eddy PA too! lol

that is a huge amount of rock Nick and to think it will fit in your Baja movement. great story for sure

Thanks so much! Wish you weren't out there alone! Have you ever heard a squatch?....don't laugh. Bears are scary, scarier is mtn lions. ❤

Thank you professor.

This gneiss seems to be on one side of the Entiat fault. Further north and west the same rock would be found on the other side of the same fault and about 30 to 40 miles away. It was a wild ride so to speak. Further reading a paper from 2018 by Sauer,Gordon,Miller and others : Provenance and Metamorphism of the Swakane Gneiss: Implications for incorporation of sediment ,etc . It is the latest paper on this particular gneiss and way over my head.

Collecting rocks, since Sunday I've been to: KY, W VA, VA, Maryland, Delaware, PA, NY, PA and New Jersey. All your fault, I use to just sight see! lol Headed for NH and Vermont too! ha

Yeah I think I've seen the same rock in the foothills west of Yosemite

Good Morning, Professor. I am surprised I found you seconds in.

Just drove that route last week from Methow Valley and Wintrope.

Thanks for letting us tag along again as you grapple with the idea of how to explain to some dimwit like me Baha BC!!! Already trying to read a little and watch your previous works (a second time) in preparation. Hoping for clarification(?)

That’s beautiful!

If I had another life I would be a geologist. Unfortunately I was a music major and mediocre one at that I also watch Noraly. She went thru Burke Idaho. My dad lived in Burke in the 1930s as a child. Lots of hard living there at that time. Used to be big mining in Burke. Now a ghost town.

Just drove that route from Metow Valley and Winthrop.

Clinozoisite is a member of the epidote group.

Possible we can get hand samples of both the Swakane Gneiss and one from the Mojave Desert for that future episode? Piercing points would be great to see both samples physically side by side allowing the viewer to guess which is from where, even if only for the casual similarities before comparing and contrasting the two scientifically with what is known of each sample from testing and dating, that potentially connects each of them to a specific place and time.

Just give the bear the peanuts and back away

I'd sure like to get copies of those field guides

Yay!! Another field trip

Every time you use bad language, you need to make a deposit into Patrick's scholarship fund!😁 Patrick, you are amazing. Seriously, the scenery is so beautiful, I forget to listen to the educational content. Thanks and keep 'em comin'.

Sunday? Man I knew i was behind but...

I guess if you've seen one Swakane gneiss you've seen 'em all.

Looks like very few have joined us on this geol. hike.

That bear was after your planter's nuts!

excellent!

Biotite gneiss, same kind of stuff that makes up the Blue Ridge Mountains where I live. Edit: although the protoliths for our gneiss down here are granitic/igneous.

Your heiyah when your hammer strikes reminds me of the hai karate commercials of our mutual college days. In December do you cry yuletide!?

Yes at 26:08 ... reflections/sparkles

VERY GNEISS

Hi Nick , I always thought that there were lots of rattlesnakes in them thar hills , especially this time of year. Was I wrong? Be safe ,buddy !

Going towards my old FedEx route

Rattle snake country

that's a lot of Mica, especially since it's all so uniform it had to form all at once Mike is a clay mineral right? basically it's silica mud that's been smashed...., hmmm

Another super cool video Nick. Could you say the outcrop across the hwy is slightly banned or not?

All that beautiful volcanic rock. The way things are at Yellowstone with all the harmonic tremors increasing daily, you might have fresh ash or lava rock to inspect. It would be super cool if it was a basaltic eruption, not so much if it's a rhyolite....I love these excursions you go out on, I'm glad someone is out there doing their trade.

Hi-ya !

Just took that 97 hwy, great views.