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Shawn, saw this one a little late. So great to see you and the family. We loved your vidiographer. And WOW what a wonderful geology lesson, rocks to the left, rocks to the right. Thank you so much for this geology lesson full of family, love and laughter.
How fun! In my whitewater days I loved that kind of run in our whitewater canoe. On one trip to Yellowstone we were tired of our normal drive. I found on the map a dirt road that went all the way through to where we wanted to go. This was in the late 70s. We knew nothing of the Payette. It was a wonderful drive. I've always wanted to know more of this river and valley. Thank your family for me for sharing their outing. I loved your daughter's geology lesson! Thank you very much.
2:29 - 4:00 That looks like SUCH a blast, especially for the kids! I've never been rafting and I don't know at my age whether I'd be fit for it, but you can't beat the fun and the scenery.
That was super fun. And quite a contrast in what I was just watching. As of this post Iceland had another fissure open up about 5 hours ago, as predicted in advance. People are already starting to flock around it. Amazing.
so if you click here at 7:48 you will witness a Willsey girl rapidly crystallizing and solidifying her skills in water, she is a gem of this Gem State with polish I have been along this HWY 55 corridor for many years and live in Caldwell where the College of Idaho is, 35mi South of Payette
7:47 Your daughter cracks me up. This is probably how every geology student is the first day they walk into the classroom. "Rock. Far out." "Some more rocks. Cool." So what do you call this specimen? "I call it a rock." Well done. So what is the Idaho Batholith made of? "Rocks." Okay kid, you're a natrual.
Thanks for the geology lesson. The North Fork is one of my favorite places to fish and have often wondered about the geology of it. My ancestors were some of the original settlers of Cascade when they moved from Van Wick as it was flooded to build the Cascade dam.
Looks like a lot of fun, although I don't think that we'll be doing that when we visit Idaho next month. The rivers here in my part of Wisconsin are very tame for the most part, some are very shallow with a lot of rocks in them.
Any lessons about the hotsprings or adventures up around Crouch Idaho & the geothermal features of the area Sir? Very neat to see this section of the river by way of water thanks for sharing such magnificent beauty of the Idaho mountains, safe travels & happy trails Mr. Willsey!
@@shawnwillsey I will Mr. Willsey thank you very much for responding I'm really interested in why so many hotsprings in that area & what if any corresponding activity from the movement of the Yellowstone Caldera, or is it possibly from a different type of seduction zone or fault lines in the area that maybe more dormant volcanoes in the Idaho Batholith?
@@shawnwillsey Notice that I didn't know the exact name of the mountains NE of McCall either. Hoping to run into you on the Salmon someday so I can get some free Geology answers.
[QUESTION]--'Tessa' in your tour segment you touched on humans "holding onto rocks" would those be concrete-um rocks? . I was a concrete mixer driver hauling the construction material for making man-made rocks. fastenating!
6:45 Rainbow Bridge is its colloquial name. Okay, I see you got the name in there. One other detail - that's concrete, not cement. Seems like a differentiation a goelogist would like to make. Concrete is about 4% cement.
Shawn, at 4:50 when you say "a slower cooling rate" to form these larger crystals, what range of time scales could it take for magma to cool and become granite with larger crystals vs smaller ones?
That was great Shawn 👌 This visualisation of Idaho is not what I expected ! Awesome looking area & the elevation was something that I didn't expect 👌 It's almost the average height of mountains in Australia !
