Rock hunting!!!

[TallulahGreen]

Yesterday I went rock hunting...

..We went up to some little creek and hiked all up and down it allll day long and found so many awesome crystals!!!!!!!

I wish I could give you each one of my rocks...cause they are so cool.

Anyone want to have a really awesome time get together some really good friends..bring your pot of course..and go rock hunting, or shit just hang out in the wilderness all day.

..but crystals are realllly freakin' awesome. It is so neat that you can just go into the wilderness and find such amazing things.

Can't wait to go again...I mignt be going to the coast next weekend to go Agate hunting.

...I'm gonna put most of my crystals in my rock tumbler and shine them all up pretty and hopefully be able to make some nifty jewelry out of them, or just put them in random potted plants..either way...crystals and stones in general are totally sweet.
..and giving them away of course, especially to my mom..since when I was a kid I picked all the crystals off of our garden rocks and totally ruined them.
:)

:hippy: :hippy: :hippy: :hippy: :hippy:

*waits for poison oak to appear all over me*

[Inferius]

Yesterday I went rock hunting...


*waits for poison oak to appear all over me*

LoL
Too bad it's not like chicken pox...

How do you know if a rock has crystals inside?

[JaggedEdge]

Hell yeah, now your talking! I love rock hunting, I haven't done it recently but have a shit load of rocks in storage as well as a bunch of indian artifacts I've found in West Texas.

I've found 30+ arrow heads, about 15 scrapers, and -10 other tools. I also found shrapnel from a bullet at an old historical market where there was once a trading post for the westerners...

As for rocks, I have quit the collection. I wish I had pictures... I'm very proud of my collection, but it is all at my moms house right now.

Some of the stuff you find could be worth decent money. I found a broken geo'd that is huge and the guy I talked to said it's probably worth over $400.

Out of curiosity.

After you went home, did you notice yourself watching the ground a lot while you walked?

Sorry, my dad is a geologist and I guess I caught the bug at a young age. This thread got me all excited though. :thumbsup:

Edit:

Post pics of some of the best ones you found. I want to see them. I'm glad you had fun, fellow rock hound.

I'm going to have to grab my rock tumbler next time I'm at my mom's house too...

[TallulahGreen]

LoL
Too bad it's not like chicken pox...

How do you know if a rock has crystals inside?
Actually....they aren't necassarily inside...they often are just right on the rock...or thats all they are..is just a crystal. However, geodes(I can't spell that word)...I believe the crystals are inside? I'm not an expert on this stuff..but the rocks are pretty distinctive in coloring and stuff. I found some rocks that I broke in half yesterday and they are pretty sweet inside.



Hell yeah, now your talking! I love rock hunting, I haven't done it recently but have a shit load of rocks in storage as well as a bunch of indian artifacts I've found in West Texas.

I've found 30+ arrow heads, about 15 scrapers, and -10 other tools. I also found shrapnel from a bullet at an old historical market where there was once a trading post for the westerners...

As for rocks, I have quit the collection. I wish I had pictures... I'm very proud of my collection, but it is all at my moms house right now.

Some of the stuff you find could be worth decent money. I found a broken geo'd that is huge and the guy I talked to said it's probably worth over $400.

Out of curiosity.

After you went home, did you notice yourself watching the ground a lot while you walked?

Sorry, my dad is a geologist and I guess I caught the bug at a young age. This thread got me all excited though. :thumbsup:

I would love to see pictures of your collection, that geo'd sounds absolutly amazing! I am planning on joining the Rock and Gem club around here. My boyfriends mom is in it and apparently they go on field trips to go find different kinds of rocks.

I am such a stone freak...I also found some sweet ass Jasper yesterday too.

..and yes, haha...from staring at the ground allll day long walking normally was kind of a challenge.

I love rocks...

[TallulahGreen]

I will post pictures ass sooon as I find my camera.

It's been weeks since I have seen that thing.

[higher4hockey]

im an old bottle fan myself...

[JaggedEdge]

Will do, this thread will prob get a bump in a month or so lol.

You need to meet me out in West Texas next time we are out there. Hunting for arrow heads is even more exciting than rocks, at least in my opinion. I actually usually are looking for those first and just pick up any nifty rocks I find along the way.

Petrified wood is also easy an plentiful to find. My dad knows of one location which I've been to once. It is desert, but used to be part of ocean eon's ago. It is a great place to find fossils gallore embeded in nearly ever rock. Mostly small sea creatures, but when you take into account how old they are. Very cool.

I don't have good spots around I live, but every time I go to visit my dad an them, we have a ball with the hunting.

I'm glad you found some pretty and interessting rocks. Keep up the hunting.

The thing I love about it is what you find changes so dramatically depending on where you go.

Lol, I'm sure a lot of people think we sound like complete dorks. :hippy:

[TallulahGreen]

Will do, this thread will prob get a bump in a month or so lol.

You need to meet me out in West Texas next time we are out there. Hunting for arrow heads is even more exciting than rocks, at least in my opinion. I actually usually are looking for those first and just pick up any nifty rocks I find along the way.

Petrified wood is also easy an plentiful to find. My dad knows of one location which I've been to once. It is desert, but used to be part of ocean eon's ago. It is a great place to find fossils gallore embeded in nearly ever rock. Mostly small sea creatures, but when you take into account how old they are. Very cool.

I don't have good spots around I live, but every time I go to visit my dad an them, we have a ball with the hunting.

I'm glad you found some pretty and interessting rocks. Keep up the hunting.

The thing I love about it is what you find changes so dramatically depending on where you go.

Lol, I'm sure a lot of people think we sound like complete dorks. :hippy:

Dorks we are not! :) We just appreciate the natural beauty.

The whole time we were crystal hunting yesterday..one of my friends who was with us, well he didn't really know what he was doing, he thought we were just going to go on a hike.

He totally freaked when we actually started finding crystals..his immediate reaction was "WE COULD MAKE SO MUCH MONEY SELLING THESE!"..and I just went off haha...it's not about the money!!!!! It's so much more than that...

..It was a lot of fucking fun though...except that we were walking through a creek and I was wearing jeans..but I said fuck it and got soaking wet haha.

I can't wait to go again!! I love rock hunting..it's so awesome...just being out in the nature. We were totally in the boonies..it was on private property too...haha. Oh well though..we were chill, didn't leave trash or anything...just got really stoned and searched for rocks.

[JaggedEdge]

lol yeah, the best stuff usually is on private property. We sometimes get promission from the owners depending on how hick their property seems. No sense in getting shot by some crazy hill billy for trespassing.

It's really suprising how little money you can make off of rocks. Most of the crap we find isn't worth much but is still plenty worthy of being kept.

We usually find Jasper, geo'ds, calsite (sp), fossils, indian artifacts (chipped flint), and than your random smaller rocks that polish up nicely.

I once found my moms birth stone and took it to a jewler to cut and mount in a ring. They make great presents.

My g/f thinks I'm a bit of a dork for my fasination with rocks. lol, but I have to agree with you on the natural beauty point.

[friendowl]

around here people smoke all the damn rocks
thats why i hike

[stinkyattic]

im an old bottle fan myself...

I'm a cellar hole raider! New England is great for that.

But I also like fossil hunting. MY favorite places are the beaches in Nova Scotia (red sandstone, primitive plants), and the gorges around the Finger Lakes in upsate NY (shale, marine plants and trilobites).

[higher4hockey]

stinky~im an old foundation digger. the road i grew up on was settled way back when. (way before the civil war, matter of fact the bucktails came from my neck of the woods, but anyways) there are a lot of old foundations at the top of the road that are a blast to dig around in. ive found some neat stuff, just this spring i found a great bottle that was apparently some crazy docs cure all, and it still has the product in it!

[stinkyattic]

lol.. have you tried it? :D
I'm near Old Deerfield, and cellarholes around here date back into the 1700s, but they are pretty well cleared out because the history of the place is no secret. You'll see guys wandering around cornfields with metal detectors every spirng, and it's not unusual to find arrowheads either, or REALLY old pottery shards in the Deerfield River. I've found both English china and Indian pottery around here, which surprised me because I was not previously aware that the local indigenous peoples were potters at all.
Anyway, cool. My favorite bottles are those tiny little cobalt-glass jars about an inch around and not very deep, that ointments came in.. they make fantastic nug jars! very unique!

[ericwt]

Rock hunting is cool, It is amazing all the beauty the earth can create.

[geonagual]

Glad you had a great time...there are not many things better in this life than spending time in the wilderness and enjoying and experiencing all that it has to offer.:)