Well 7 months later this video shows up in my feed. Very nice to see your content, your adventure. Thank you for sharing. Hope you & baby girl is doing amazing? 😊

Those pieces are so small. It's ok we don't want the area inodiated with visitors. We'll keep the big pieces to our selves.

Thank you for taking me back to years gone by.

You are correct about ants brining things to the surface. I’ve picked up (small) peridot and garnets from ant hills in New Mexico. Your videos are very informative. Thank you for posting them.

Where is Cam Verde? What state?

Petrified wood is a fossil of an ancient tree and thus protected on federal lands. Be careful where you hunt!

Good agates ! To far for arizona pet. Wood for me but only 500 km to queensland agate creek to fossick for banded agate .

If I wasn't living so far away , nord eastern🎉Australia, I would love to get some of this amazing pet. Wood .

Thank you for the adventure. This reminded me of my first trip to B.C. . Road was washed out to the good stuff. Didn't find much but white agate. With nice patterns. The layers of ash and rock may be pyroclastic flows. The green stuff may be high pyroxine ejecta. Seems there was a lava cap on the hill behind you. You mentioned magnesite the rock you chipped nearly fits that description. Good luck .

At 4:38 that was a fossil when the dinosaurs walked on it. Is it a marine fossil?

You sound like me when I collect rocks. Thank you for being selective and not hauling away everything you find. The tiny candy rocks i like to tumble and drill for beads.

I was in Arizona in latter 1960's, but not in petrified wood locations. Was in greater Phoenix; only got to a rock shop, Hodson's, where there were large sections of awesome Rainbow petrifled wood in large rectangular fish tanks filled with water. Had never seen anything like this before. Might have read an article on this type of petrified wood in The Lapidary Journal, c. 1967/1968. Enjoyed this video. Keep on hunting rocks & making videos. Its' the only way I hunt these days.

Old Disabled House Bound Dusty Rusty Rockhound here: I've been there several times over the years. It's really fun and satisfying rockhounding in that area! Keeping an eye on the weather and taking proper emergency prepping for desert conditions survival a must.

Family comes first.

Do you have any GPS Coordinates to the area you parked? By chance.

I am so glad to see another video from you!! I know you had a little outcrop (baby), so you have a good excuse but I still miss your adventures. Stay awesome and take care of yourself (and that tiny rockhound).

To bad you didnt show us the woods cleaned off & wet. Then you can really see the beautiful colors. ✌️🇺🇸

Thanks for the nice video, content, and information! 🙏 A tip that might help you going forward to help you work smarter, not harder with your hammer: hold the hammer at the bottom of the handle. This will create more force on impact with the chisel. This is why hammers have long handles. They're not meant to be held up by the head. I hope this helps you get more bang for your buck! 😅

Congrats xx

Youd love my petrified would collection i even have some with claw marks on them and some decent color to them as well

I want to visit here, from Ohio, need map.

How much further time and mile wise is the opal? Cuz I made it to that spot u we’re at (I think) I was just past the creek few more miles. Clay wall looked familiar. On my book it said that was the opal spot- but people later told me it’s pastilite. So I’m wondering if u know how much further the opal is cuz my map look close but u know it’s always seems much longer…it is truly a wonderland, looks like it was professionally landscaped huh! And best Easter egg hunt for rock rounders ever! I’m heading back up tomorrow! Hope to make it further out this time with 4wd!

How much further time and mile wise is the opal? Cuz I made it to that spot u we’re at (I think) I was just past the creek few more miles. Clay wall looked familiar. On my book it said that was the opal spot- but people later told me it’s pastilite. So I’m wondering if u know how much further the opal is cuz my map look close but u know it’s always seems much longer…it is truly a wonderland, looks like it was professionally landscaped huh! And best Easter egg hunt for rock rounders ever! I’m heading back up tomorrow! Hope to make it further out this time with 4wd!

Nice! U just convinced me to broaden the types of stones I use

Is this for a job? Cause i want this job.

This winter I was on 40 acres of a friend’s land that had mounds of the rainbow petrified wood showing. I brought some larger pieces back with me to Lake Havasu. I left many many many smaller pieces there. It felt like it was an old forest being exposed. I am a neophyte so I could just be making stuff up lol. I kept saying to my friend I’m sure this is petrified wood, but I’ve never seen petrified wood this colorful. Are used to go hunting petrified wood with my parents up by Zion, and that would look totally different . A found wood with the Cambian layer, but I also found a larger piece and when I say larger football basketball size that I swear as bark. I’m 80% sure of what I have. Would you be interested in a video call to look at what I have and possibly going to the location.

New to your channel 😊 very awesome, wife and I was just at the petrified forest last month, didn't realize how much history there is, wow learning a lot , thankyou and be safe out there 👋

I was told it was illegal to take petrified wood from Arizona. So I was told wrong?

Great Job!!

Most excellent!

where do you get the blanks

are the ring blanks solid or do you run the risk of sanding past the silver coating

the straw thing is awesome great video

Hiiii Lauren :) I’m traveling alllll the way from Australia to cottonwood and would love to explore this spot. Would you be interested in doing a collaboration and exploration together? :) Josh

Make him work on it!

congrats on the little one. what a wonderful trip you will have. can you tell me a location from dry beaver creek to scamp verde that would be fun for 2 newbys in their 80'' s with some wornout body parts. no hills. been married 62 years and still enjoy getting out together. good health to you and your family.

Just found your vid on Roku KZfaq. Congratulations on a video with brains! I scrolled through a couple of rockhounding YT vids made by guys who've never made a video before, and didn't know much about rockhounding or geology. Have read about Burro Creek, but never been there. A little more research would have helped the filming. Enjoyed the views of the tuff layer. Was happy to see you using chisel and 3 pound hammer to remove pieces. So many YT vids show collecting with tools like carpenter hammers and screw drivers. Keep up the good work.

Really wonderful video with excellent information--one of the best I've seen! Well done!

Hoy Moly....... that's one pail if interesting ! here in Southern Ontario Canada . . . we got zip :'( thank you for posting, I'm subscribed now

Very cool! Cheers from East Coast, Canada.

I will be coming that way in March where is a good place for a beginner to look

That was a good bit of treasure you picked up that day☝️🙂 good video, Thank you.

Where is this from Camp Verde town?

Really cool to see the source of these classic pseudomorphs!

Welcome back

Welcome back :)

Can you tell me the location? Hunting looks great (and fun).

Glad to see you back out and rockhounding is a great way to relax because it is important for you to have me time.

Belated congratulations! KZfaq moves my subscriptions down on the list and I missed your new videos. Then because of the unfortunate passing of my wife right after Thanksgiving but we did get great news that my daughter is expecting her second son the end of May depending on when they schedule the C-section. Keep up the great videos when you can and God bless you and your family.

Oooh! You found some really nice ones!! So glad you got your boots dirty and pockets full of rocks again!😄🙌🏼🙌🏼 Thanks for coming out! We had fun!