Post-flooding Yellowstone Rockhounding Billings, Montana 2022

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I am off on my first summer season post-flooding rockhounding adventure in Billings, MT. The rafting was excellent, the company...even better. While I did find some nice rocks, most of the mud-covered gravel beds performed slightly lower than my high expectations. However, after a few rains come through I think we will be in good shape!
Looking to learn about Yellowstone River agates? This is a publication from 1972 by a man named Paul Fry. This was the very first literature I read when I was learning about Montana agates. It is called "Meanderings of a Montana Rockhound" and it is priceless:
pdf4pro.com/view/meanderings-...
Here is another page with great information on Montana Agates by Jim Landon called "Montana Agate: The Best Catch on the Yellowstone River" :
www.rockngem.com/montana-agat...
For all those asking, I do not sell my rocks. As my supply permits, I do rock trades. So, if you have some nice specimens you think I would like to add to my collection, we can trade via any size flat rate post office box. Or, if you are an artist or have something else you think I would like, that's an option too! Please be patient as I have lots of emails and sometimes miss some. If you are wanting to purchase some Montana rocks, I have listed the Stores below of two fellow Montana Rockhounds KatyDidRocks and Theo Kellison, great friends of mine.
As far as places I rockhound, greater than 90% of the time I utilize PUBLIC fishing access spots on the Yellowstone river. KatyDidRocks has a great book out on all the places us Montana rockhounds like to go on the Lower Yellowstone River:
www.etsy.com/listing/1089523180
While you are there, check out her store! She has some fantastic Montana rocks for purchase.
KatyDidRocks Etsy Store:
www.etsy.com/shop/KatyDidRock...
Also, if you follow Theo Kellison on RU-vid, another fantastic Montana Rockhound, he has an Etsy Store with rocks for sale as well:
www.etsy.com/shop/SticksandSt...
Thanks for following and Rock On!
Best of luck on all your hounding adventures.
#Yellowstoneflooding #riverrocks #riverrockhounding
00:00 Introduction
00:43 Yellowstone River Rapids Billings
01:14 Finding a Plume Agate
01:59 Mud Covered Agate
03:05 Partially Hidden Agate
03:46 Multicolored Jasper
04:46 Agate with Fortification Banding
05:33 Quartz filled Agate
06:02 Finding a HUGE Agate
07:21 Eroding River Banks
08:38 Dendritic Agate
09:39 Finding Aventurine
09:53 Unique Petrified Wood
10:20 River Current
11:15 Finding GREEN JASPER
12:51 Tree Debris
16:33 Jasper Agate
As my supply allows, I sell my finds on Ebay to support my channel:
www.ebay.com/usr/montanarockmom

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@kellyharper367 Год назад

Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: I usually say thank you for taking me on a spectacular rockhounding trip.... but today I went rafting with the family too...been 20+years since I got to rafting with my sons. You have lifted my spirit today. Thanks to your entire family. 🐕

@zannib6 Год назад

That 3rd one is AMAZING!! I live in Yellowstone county so I’m gonna go look around too!! Thanks for sharing! I strongly feel that crystals and many stones are quite healing❤️ grounding and mood lifting!! They are a gift most aren’t open to excepting!

@rogerdudra178 Год назад

Greetings from the BIG SKY. A walk on the shore of the Yellowstone is true pockets full of rocks.

@MontanaRockMom Год назад

My favorite river in the world 🌎 😍 ❤️

@bandilla7317 Год назад

Wow nice place awesome pretty rock.

@tomday5830 Год назад

1:38 in and you have completely smoked every episode of agate angler. Wow, that agate is so full of dendritic that I've never seen! 💯👍

@rogerdudra178 Год назад

That's a nice piece of agate at 7:00 you found. Good score.

@midnightstarr5413 Год назад

Man what a dream place that is!! I wouldn't know when to quit!! And I wouldn't be able to walk out from there that's for sure! You'd have to float my rocks and me out on a barge!! What a place. It's nice to see family time spent doing what you all love!! Keep your videos rolling in. May you always have safe journeys and gorgeous rock finds!

@reneewilbur4340 Год назад

Prettiest jasper I ever seen!

@hockeyrace Год назад

Great Episode! Love your channel. Women rockhounds 🤘. Hehe. Such gorgeous finds! So glad you kept that green one with the weird chemical makeup! Can’t wait to see what that looks like when you cut it. It looks sort of gemmy. Gosh, I wish I lived near the Yellowstone. Such stunning agates and jaspers. I LoVe the Jaspers! Impatiently awaiting your next cutting episode. 😩😊 Stay Crystal 💫 Mari

@tsamoyed Год назад

Looking for rocks is one of my favorite past-times! We drive all over the place just to find different and unique minerals and artifacts!

@lpatrick357 Год назад

Oh my! That jasper at 4:00!!

@MontanaRockMom Год назад

That jasper was my favorite find of the day!!! I should have rinsed it off better. It has several quartz pockets with yellow agate banding around them, just incredible!

@leslyeschoenhuth1107 Год назад

* Fabulous first find.. Your first Jasper was Amazing. So many colors & they look like inclusions.. WOW.. Can't believe all the HUGE Agates.. Cool..

@treasurelife6922 Год назад

The jaspers look so southwestern in color and that agate at 9:20 is so defined. "I'm going to cut it", if rocks could hear, I bet that rock was terrified. Glad your back Kim.

@nicholasnewton6775 Год назад

Ooh la la goodies goodies goodies. I love watching your Kate videos with my daughter. She's from miles city originally so we are itching to hound on Yellowstone

@IndusRiverRock Год назад

Thanks for beautiful sharing 😊

@patriciamckean4186 Год назад

Such a wonderful day back on the yellowstone. Want to kayak and hunt beauties too. Our local rivers have sand bars. Going rocking in U.P. this fall. Planning and packing my tools/backpack. Maybe a day at Lake Michigan. Ohh...soooo...green!!! So glad the river is safe finally.

@j.ericswede7084 Год назад

That Green Jasper is the most beautiful Jasper I have seen found on the Yellowstone. Great find. Thanks for sharing your Adventures. Keep Safe on that river and watch out for the underwater branches and logs.

@grandmakellymcdonald Год назад

Very cool! 🌺❤️👵💕

@cynergy4 Год назад

It's nice that the flooding turned over some yummy new material for you! A nice positive spin on things. The agate will look spectacular cut! Great video, thanks for sharing!

@thegatesofdawn...1386 Год назад

Greens and blue greens are beautiful! Yellowstone is not the only stone on that rainbow of colored rock river! Great place for treasures.

@maryhernandezwalker1528 Год назад

Sweet rocks 🤩

@lisamanrique1770 Год назад

OMG! Those are some extremely nice looking and very nice sized agates!! What a great day that was!

@FoxyGirlWonder Год назад

That green is a real beauty. The last green I found and thought was jasper turned out to be a gorgeous deep green agate on closer inspection. What a thrill!

@gwynnfarrell1856 Год назад

I can see why you love Montana! Your whole family can enjoy a day at the river. So much to do and so many fantastic rocks! Thank you for sharing the fun.

@gloriagarrison8055 Год назад

Very homesick in Cincinnati. All the best

@tanekarnes5260 Год назад

You found some really nice stones😃

@geneturk4242 Год назад

Good to see you again great video

@anneallen2690 Год назад

Awesome finds

@LIVINSOUTHFLORIDA Год назад

Outstanding finds ! Such a great video, you’re a wealth of knowledge 👍 Great Job Kimmy

@dmozonnersepicoutdooradven3524 Год назад

We have done some videos on Nevada agates, cut & polish. Thanks for the video.

@yelenalastovkina5681 Год назад

You are super productive! You find those beautiful colourful rocks nonstop.Just amazing !

@paulsherbert4105 6 месяцев назад

I bet I saw at least 100 more agates and she just passed right over amazing spot to find agates. Thank you Jesus.

@cynthiaschwartz559 Год назад

Beautiful finds, I was just out in Montana and did some Rock hounding on the Yellowstone, found a beautiful green color agate, nice petrified wood, and awesome color Jasper. I has so much fun . My car is full of Montana rocks. Heading home to Wisconsin.

@oozywound Год назад

you always find the best stuff!!

@mitchgillilan Год назад

Awesome!!! Great post flood finds!! I love those montana agates so much. The big agate at 5:30 looks like an ice cream sandwich! Thanks for sharing your epic trip down the river 😎

@Angelogemstonesfossil.72 Год назад

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@nhrockaholic6038 Год назад

Amazing finds! Any one is good, the whole bunch, WOW!

@sandmaker Год назад

What a beautiful rafting trip. I'm glad you were able to have a few rock gathering sorties. I loved all the rocks, but I'm partial to the jaspers and wowza on the green one. Thanks for taking us along, it was a fun trip. I can't wait to see a few cuts. Be happy, safe and stay healthy 😷⚒

@juliomorales4154 Год назад

Beautiful place up there ty for sharing

@lolajo2850 Год назад

What awesome finds, Kim! Looks like the family had a lot of fun.

@savagesquirrel9828 Год назад

Lovely rocks. Nice day with your family. SO good to have a boat. Thanks.

@Mz.Stephanie Год назад

That jasper was amazing!!!

@shelleycorp9707 Год назад

Wow iam blown away how much amazing colors n awesome rock Montana has thank you for sharing

@Cliffwalkerrockhounding Год назад

Some nice chunky ones today, that river is so full of good stuff.

@wyodino6245 Год назад

Love that green Jasper. Looks like another great day on the river. Thanks for sharing MRM.

@suzannemorris7907 Год назад

Hi Kimmy , great video love seeing the family . Wonderful finds, what an awesome day . Love the blue Jasper 💙💙

@stevemace1725 Год назад

Green jasper good one

@joaomarcos7394 7 месяцев назад

i loved agate is very beautiful this rock there are unic

@graemero5532 Год назад

You find the prettiest rocks. subbed

@clentonweston8839 Год назад

Whoa maaan! This was one heck of a day for rafting and rock hounding!!! Montana has the largest Agates from what I have been seeing. Love your videos. Keep them coming. I learned a great deal from you and Theo.

@thesearcher118 Год назад

Incredible finds. Thank you for sharing.

@reneewilbur4340 Год назад

Cool little layered one looks like an alien! Lol

@elleisme8565 Год назад

Nice stuff!!!

@scottowens1535 Год назад

That was a pleasure to wach and the rocks and spectacular! Gives the we need a bigger boat line a new meaning 😉

@anniegironne8444 Год назад

Nice ride on the Yellowstone river. Great jasper, especially the green one. Glad to see you again.

@charletedwards8690 Год назад

This is my first time to watch you and I love the rock hounding. The red and green jaspar are my faves

@MontanaRockMom Год назад

Welcome and thank you for watching! Green Jasper is my favorite to find!!!! Especially a deep green, or green with blue hues...

@IndusRiverRock Год назад

1:35 so beautiful 👍

@GrandmaBev64 Год назад

Nice! After flooding, brings up great treasures! Happy Hunting!

@largent45 Год назад

Such beautiful finds! And so many of them! Wow! Montana is gorgeous and the yellowstone river is wonderful for the whole family! What a fun day! Thank you for sharing!

@georgezink8256 Год назад

I’ll take it home if ya don’t want it , Lols God bless thanks for sharing

@kathleenbognar6414 Год назад

WOW...I am glad to see you back on the hunt!

@dustinfindsrocks Год назад

Always such a good selection of things to cut there! I can’t wait to see Drogon eat some of those 👍🏼

@darrinwilliams5715 Год назад

Nice big agates. Great hunt and a good video. Right on rock mom.😎😎

@stonedpicker5627 Год назад

💎 ROCK MOMS ROCK 💎

@erickillg811 Год назад

Do you know how lucky you are to have a river so filled with gigantic agates. Oh my goodness I need to make a 12 Hour Dr. over there.

@MontanaRockMom Год назад

Best river in the world to me....I love this river.

@stonedpicker5627 Год назад

I’M JEALOUS!!!!!

@terrylschumacher-levy5150 Год назад

So glad you're back! Missed you girl 🤗

@MontanaRockMom Год назад

Thanks friend 😘💙

@kevinunger433 Год назад

First find. Awesome

@OregonRocks Год назад

I want to Rockhound this area so badly. Such a beautiful place to go discovering and with the recent floods its unveiled so many wonderful gems. Between you, KatyDid, and Theo, those finds would be a highlight in our rockhounding career. Great job, love the video and thank you for sharing. 2:30 chalcedony is amazing and 4:38 blue agate, such an amazing color. 6:11 just speechless, that has to weigh at least 8lbs!!! 7:57 banded blue chalcedony, just amazing, i couldn't ask for a more amazing day of rockhounding.

@MontanaRockMom Год назад

Thanks Oregon Rocks...and your state is on my rockhounding bucket list!

@OregonRocks Год назад

@@MontanaRockMom That's awesome, your state is on ours as well. We have pretty decent agates, but those Montana agates are just a different species 😀

@tedkellison2598 Год назад

The wormwood at about 10:01 is fantastic!

@BreakOutOfTheAlgorithm Год назад

Those were some amazing finds. Looking forward to seeing them cut up. Always enjoy watching The family adventures. Thanks for bringing us along. 👍

@grokeffer6226 Год назад

Welcome back. You Rock!!!

@Debbie4729 Год назад

Man,those are gorgeous! What a great outing you had!

@Ken_G. Год назад

Yay!! Kim's back!! Glad to see you're doing ok. Looks like that was a great day on the river, as always. That weird one with the green nodules looks like it might be some sort of volcanic ejecta (I love that word). Altered tuff (there's a word for that I can't remember) with chlorinated silica vesicles, similar to galaxy stone. Or something else completely.😁 Love to see it when you cut it open.

@MontanaRockMom Год назад

I'm pulling myself back together, finally! Volcanic ejecta!! Love it. It's a very pretty stone 💚

@debrabettcher884 Год назад

Hi Kim, So happy to see you again! You found some beautiful pieces. Glad you and your family had a good time. Hope you get some nice rains to wash away some of the silt left behind from the flooding. Looking forward to seeing you and Chopper soon!!🥰

@MontanaRockMom Год назад

Thanks Debra. 😊 💙

@nicholasnewton6775 Год назад

@@MontanaRockMom have you ever been hounding in Washington state?

@MontanaRockMom Год назад

@@nicholasnewton6775 Not too much... my sister lives in spokane, so a little bit there locally....

@nicholasnewton6775 Год назад

@@MontanaRockMom oh yeah you gotta get further west over near cle elum find that elusive Ellensburg blue. On west side of the mountains we have red and carnelian agates as well as purple amethyst

@MontanaRockMom Год назад

@@nicholasnewton6775 a nice purple amethyst would be on my list 💜💜💜 ... one day I'd like to hunt the lava fields outside of the Columbia basin flow...maybe find some vugs filled with crystals 💎💎💎 (on my bucket list for a find)

@margaretsouayah2597 Год назад

The plumes in that first agate are amazing! WOW!

@grandparocky Год назад

Beautiful rocks!

@RiskyVentureMinerals Год назад

Killer finds! What a treat!

@MissyKrystal Год назад

When I was a kid out hiking with my grandmother on the north fork of the Clearwater river prior to Dworshak dam going in, we found a 2 pound garnet. We had it cut. It produced 7 - clear garnet stones and one middle cut almost 200 carrot it has a 1 centimeter liquid center. Its probably one of a kind. I live on the central Oregon coast now, when ever I see a big agate I am careful to not cut into the heart of the stone in hopes of finding another liquid center.

@agatebeauties Год назад

Amazing finds! Thanks for sharing

@oaktree3 Год назад

I really love your videos! Rockhounding and deep sea dive videos are some of my favorite things to watch. And that agate at 8:00 totally reminded me of a deep sea creature I saw the other day on a live dive feed! Those vibrantly colored jaspers were also amazing. Thank you so much for taking us along.

@MontanaRockMom Год назад

A live dive feed, how cool!!! Thanks for watching Laura!

@PK-oy4fe Год назад

The raw chalcedony is beautiful

@msrandijones Год назад

I guess it is time to venture out of Oregon and go to Billings Montana!

@annettasessions4214 Год назад

So happy to come across your YT page. I also am a rich hound mom😃 Beautiful adventures😉

@gemstonejudy5900 Год назад

Those were some fantastic finds!

@brianazmy3156 Год назад

One amazing find after the next.

@dougzirkle5951 Год назад

Hope to see some of these finds sliced open in future videos!

@vickielester5624 Год назад

So glad to see you back! Was getting worried.

@kastah Год назад

I LOVE LOVE Jasper❣❣❣

@IndusRiverRock Год назад

0:44 wow 😳

@kylaabegglen1275 Год назад

Awesome finds! All of that brightly-colored jasper.🤩 The amazing agates and petrified wood. My goodness, that was a great rockhounding trip! We're the mosquitoes bad? Probably a silly question.😐 Thanks for sharing Kim!✌️🤠

@MontanaRockMom Год назад

We had a nice breeze going so luckily the bugs weren't too bad. Usually it's those dark black flies that drive me insane- those bites hurt! I had a full bottle of 100% deet just in case!

@LiuverHodelin-bw6og 10 месяцев назад

Saludos desde Cuba, realmente asombrosas sus aghatas, es usted una chica suertuda, p bendecida que Dios bendiga a Los Estados Unidos.

@nicolagraynewzealandrockho8976 Год назад

Great video, beautiful finds. ❤️❤️❤️ Really loved those Jaspers. That river is really beautiful too, looks like a fantastic day out. Really liked that Aventurine too.

@MontanaRockMom Год назад

I am starting on a quest to collect all the different aventurine colors we have here. So far I have been told there is aqua-green, blue, peach and strawberry!

@nicolagraynewzealandrockho8976 Год назад

@@MontanaRockMom that sounds amazing. I would do that too. Hopefully you will highlight them in a video ❤️❤️

@pennyholley4539 Год назад

So missed your content and you!!!! Hope you are doing well! Amazing finds!! Especially the beautiful jasper!!

@8621Charro Год назад

I simply cannot BELIEVE how easy it is to find agates and pet wood there!! I LOVE watching your vids, Kim...keep them coming!

@silverback5033 Год назад

Hello MRM, well what a day you have had, a bit of fun on the river, a couple of stones, watched a couple of floaters go by 😜 and a few more stones. Ok, that first jasper was a killer piece, then some more nice pieces, then that green, Jasper, then a petrified wood, then those yellow & red jaspers at the end, just stunning. It is amazing to me to so many different varieties & colours in the one place, you a very lucky to have access to so much beautiful material. ( yes, I’m damn jealous) 😂😂. Another great video, even if it left me a bit envious. Looks like you had a great day Kim. Keep Safe & Keep Rockin PS. Forgot to mention that moss agate, 🤬, that is another killer piece. Shane

@MontanaRockMom Год назад

Thanks Shane

@janiehand2954 Год назад

Some beautiful rocks, especially agates. Chopper sure has pretty fur.

@Darrenbenavides8 4 месяца назад

Bro I love your channel but when you leave the petrified woods behind I wanna cry cause their so good

@MrTurtleMontana Год назад

As a born & raised Montanan, who is now transplanted in Michigan, you gotta sell me that Jasper you found at around the 4:00 minute mark! Or maybe do a swap? I'm so mad that I wasn't a rockhound growing up! We hunted antler sheds, but not agates! 😭

@michaelschmitt2131 Год назад

So jealous! Planned a trip and it ended up being 2 weeks after the flood so got skunked on the river but got some cool ones!

@gingermackeen5741 Год назад

Welcome back, Kim! Missed you! The piece of pet wood with the holes I would bet had boring snails in it at one time. It looks just like the driftwood here in FL with them.