you can almost hear the silence there. in the UK there's virtually nowhere where you'll not here some distant background noise. And that panorama of the distant mountains is wonderful. great video
cool video thanks for sharing!! I have always wanted to go there and try to find some trilobites with my kids. and you are right, we have to make the time to do it. thanks!
Cool fossil finding video, just what I was looking for. Would love to find some trilobite fossils like you got there. That's very rewarding to touch and connect with something formed millions of years ago, from life on this planet.
Really cool ! Going outside in the wild is always enjoyable, and setting a goal, whether it's fossil hunting, looking for old bottles or finding geocaches sometimes help finding some ideas about where to go, and keep an eye open.
Thanks for taking us along Mike! I had to subscribe, you look for cool stuff. I look for gold in Michigan and put videos on RU-vid. We have woods and water here :) Thanks again brother.
Looks like you are in California! This stuff is probably from the Pioche Shale and dates back to the Lower Cambrian about 521 million years ago. The trilobites are from the genus Olenellus and they are the very first trilobites to appear in the fossil record.
I don’t know how many videotapes I’ve seen where the prospector does not have the appropriate tools to excavate what they are looking for. Carry a belt with a brush attached with all your other tools. A small bottle of water, also carry able- you may also need to drink
I've hunted for those Olenellus trilobites in Georgia Plains, Vermont, but the Parker slate beds were so picked over, I could not find even part of a head, just a few brachiopods. The old quarry is in the middle of Montcalm's cow pasture and the cattle all came up to me mooing away and making a racket. Two years ago I went to another Cambrian outcrop behind an ice cream stand in Claverack, NY, with the same result and was eaten alive by silent mosquitoes. You're lucky to have a collecting place like that
I always suggest going to the Caesar Creek Spillway in Ohio, also Hueston Woods, Fossil Gardens, and Trammel Fossil Park. All of these are located in Ohio to the southwest.
This is the kind of thing I do all the time and I agree with you that too many people forget just how beautiful things on this planet can be. Great video. Trilobite fossils are definitely on my bucket list. So funny I watch the same You Tube channels you do. The mom and daughter team is Northern Mudlarks and the other one you mentioned is Tideline Arts I think. Look at all the treasure you found. Maybe material for making something for your future films.
Yes you are correct that is the mother-daughter team I watch. I like how they’re so excited just to find beach glass you can tell they’re having fun and that’s what it’s all about. Get out there and find you some trilobite fossil, happy hunting. Thanks for watching
Really enjoyed this video, gave me an insight into what to look for exactly at a site in the UK I'll go to after lockdown eventually ends. And you got some good finds there with some perseverance. The "lost piece" was a cliff hanger there for a while! Subscribed from London suburbs.
Such a fun video! Thanks for making it. I'd love to head out there one day. Some fun, free rockhounding adventures: Topaz mountain in Utah & Garnet Hill in Nevada! Going there next month :)
I was in New York on the highway a few days ago and we drove by a huge shale deposit so i pulled over grabbed some shale and brought home and I found a bunch of trilobites...so cool! Mine looked different though....
I live in pahrump Nevada, and have begun looking for fossils with my little three and a half year old son. Don't really know what we're doing , and so far we've been fossil hunting and just our yard alone. But I believe we've found a few I wish there was a way to attach a picture to these comments so I could show you but I've actually never really commented on a on RU-vid videos until yesterday when I started looking up these fossil finding videos. I wanted to tell her to let you know I really didn't enjoy your video and learned some things too like that we need a brush and water I guess in a proper hammer. As it stands I've been pulverizing things that I think might have been fossils with my black of experience. Again thanks for this video subscribe to your channel I'm going to look at the rest of them:)! Oh one more thing to add, what is driving me nuts about all this.. is that I feel half the time like I'm imagining I'm seeing a fossil and I just it's hard to tell whether it's my imagination or there's actually a fossil
Getting out there and exploring is half the fun the more you do it the more you learn. I am definitely no expert but you can email me pictures and I will gladly take a look at them. Glad you enjoyed the video keep hunting and exploring. Thanks for the sub and watching.
Yes I’ve seen some of the Nicola videos she find some really cool stuff too. I will definitely check out the other one thanks for the suggestions. Thanks for watching
Hi, love the video. Were near amboy where you? ive been trying to find a good place to go find some cool fossils but its hard to find info. I'ed appreciate some more info. Thank you
It's crazy to think that whole area used to be a shallow ocean.....same with Massachusetts and NewYork where I live. I live near Holyoke where the dino tracks are. They are huge tracks big three toes tracks of these long neck species...really neat to see!
There was a hill along Rt.202 in Holyoke where I found some clathopteris fossils in the 1980's that is said to have a significant level of iridium. The best fossils could be excavated from under a ledge, so people were afraid of it collapsing and started complaining though.
Hi all can anyone tell me directions please? My girlfriend and I were out there yesterday off of hwy 40 but we found the sign that says trilobite wilderness area but werent really sure how far in the road we needed to travel
