Rockhounding 101: What to Look for on Your Next Adventure!

Here is what to look for: Anything that looks good to you! If you like a rock, add it to your collection!

I really love it when you guys do the show and tell to help us rookies how to learn the different rocks

Thank you for your wealth of knowledge, your channel takes away my stress. Your amazing hobbies makes us the luckiest subscribers! Thanks

9:11 You should keep it..Raw Amber looks like this, when you find it (ungrinded). If it was very light, than bingo :) If you grind & polish Amber it looks amazing. Fits also to the wood you found.

We call Chalcedony rocks “Kidney stones.” My mom from Louisiana started it when I was a rock collector at a young age and now my kids say it 😂

I can't believe how diverse this location is!

I can't get enough of this channel! I do quartz hounding in Connecticut and want to travel to Lake Superior so bad!

I live in Cincinnati (almost exclusively limestone and shale) and I’m sooooo jealous of the variety you have (though I imagine you lucky Great Lakes people are jealous of our treasure troves of trilobites)

I love how you quizzed us throughout the video! I’m new to rockhounding and this was so helpful! ❤

I stumbled upon this channel and it brought me back to when I was growing up there was an elderly couple who lived right across from us. For time they kind of became our adoptive grandparents. The elderly man taught me so much about rocks and their names. Also tumbling, polishing and cutting them open. It was so fascinating. He even took me to rock shows. Like literal rock shows with actual rocks. He'd shop for knew rocks to buy that he can cut open. And I got to pick out a grab bag of rocks! I still search for rocks till this day! Anyways, it's fun to see people actively in this hobby! I'm a new subscriber! 😄

Hello! I think in 8:16 is hematite, 8:37 is diorite, in 6:56 it´s a water agate, 12:00 wonderful!!

I have some friends I've been trying to get into rockhounding, I need to share this video with them. In WA state where I'm based we also get a lot of agate / chalcedony and jasper so this is a great reference video. Thank you for making it, and fantastic finds!

Love your videos! I have been collecting rock for at least 50 years😊 My grandpa use to take me when I was really young. 50 years later and I am still walking with my head looking down for cool rocks!!

Ariel so fun watching and hearing your excitement and your enthusiasm for the hunt so many great finds so glad you have someone with you to make you safe and to enjoy the hunt with thank you as always for inviting us along

I've been collecting all my life and didn't really know what they were, I just love rocks. Of course, I did go to a mountain once where there were crystals and have buckets of them and get agates from the beach. I see now that I have jasper in my collection and hundreds of others, I'm going to have to learn what they are. I have collected rocks in every state I've lived in, lol except Minnesota. I was there for 4 years. I have rocks from Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Washington and now Oregon. I'm going to go Obsidian and sunstone hunting in the spring.

What a cool rock adventure and love the rock identification class. Thanks to you and rachel for the fun.

Jaspers are my favorite type of rocks. I even named my bearded dragon jasper lol.

I forgot to mention how much I love the new theme song 😁.

I don’t know how you ended up in my algorithm but I’m so glad you did! I’ve always liked rocks and my son has inherited that from me, so now I want to take him rockhounding and learn more about the rocks in our area! (We’re in NH so I’m hoping to find more than granite 😂)

We have printed those books at work. Both are good reads!