AMEN!!!

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Beautiful! Is there a “Nick’s Guide to a Geology Road Trip of the Pacific NW?”

I agree. I kind of wish he would put their websites in here... or, the people he talks to put their links in here when they read these.

@@MrLeatherman23 websites mentioned could be searched for and put in these comments by commenters or the people get filmed an know Nick could post their sites here when they find the video... adding fan websites to the related Nick videos would be nice to see.

If we had more science teachers like your physics instructor and Nick, we'd have a much better crop of scientists. So many get turned off so early, that they never find out how cool this stuff is until years later...

I wonder if we had the same physics teacher 🤔 He also wouldn't allow bananas in the classroom.

A duckbill hammer, used to break the bead. Big rig had a flat and the tire guy forgot this after changing the tire.

@@glenncourtney4876 My thought exactly. I was raised in a family Goodyear dealer business. Did many of those road calls myself.

Can confirm.

That’s not what Rapakivi means in this context. “Rapakivi texture is developed in granitic rocks, and involves the mantling of alkali feldspar ovoids by a rim of plagioclase, usually of oligoclase composition, together with the growth of two generations of both alkali feldspar and quartz.”

@@BlGGESTBROTHER en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapakivi_granite

Hi, Sabr. I hope we "see" you in the next A-Z series.

@@lizj5740 count on it

Same complaint here in the Northeastern US. Not surprising since Scotland and the Northeast have some considerable chunks of geologic history in common - until that pesky Atlantic Ocean opened up.

I get the impression that much of Scottish vegetation was affected by the choice to bring in sheep... the history of castle building and an effort to limit the ability to build... castles and ships... I have seen a video of a trebuchet built with a large Douglas fir that was grown in Scotland... Douglas fir is native to the Pacific Northwest and now it is cultivated around the world and gets huge... Saw a canoeing video up the loch that is in that rift valley (Loch Ness) and the hills look very PNW in cover as to green... A difference in the amount of human choices and the amount of time industrial humans have been making those choices... West of the Cascades and East of the Cascades vary a lot in the levels of vegetation the rain/rain shadow allows to grow... a lot of the land privately owned / publicly managed in Western Washington is oriented toward lumber production...

If you do not mind the comparison, Nick reminds me of Huell Howser, SoCal’s much loved local historian of people, places, and things California, “California Gold”. So folksy and the friend you miss because time and place.

So true. My younger self spent 30 years hiking and backpacking both slopes of the North Cascades. Mind-altering panoramas aplenty. These days, Washington Pass will have to do, not that I'm not complaining.

Nice

You can't touch this.

Granite is *terrible* for that, it falls apart a bit more with each fire.

@@nevyen149 It would be outside dressing and shouldn't get too hot but I get you. Do they make countertops out of it? My grandpa bought slabs of stone that is quarried near Grand Coulee dam, not sure what kind of stone it is.

@@brianlhughes They do make countertops, but I'd bet there's a prolonged heat warning. Regardless, even a countertop which can take a hot pot isn't the same thing as a stone in a fire place or camp fire ring. Trust me, from experience, granite will not take repeated fires. We had a fire ring against a granite boulder, and over the course of a few years, it slowly disintegrated.

He does have an Instagram account, though: instagram.com/northwestviews/

@@daytonlights-peterwine468 Yeah, but I avoid using anything associated with Facebook. Thanks though.