Saddle Mt. Limb Cast Hunting // Rockhounding for Petrified Wood In Central Washington 

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What impresses me most out of your trips is the discretion used in collecting. It’s refreshing to see someone leaving behind material. So many collectors out there (across all “genres”) have a more-more-more mentality. Like you said: how much of one rock/fossil do you actually need? Thanks again for an amazing trip report!

Freeking SICK 😎. I can't wait to make the trip out east 🤤 And you should totally keep a small flat rate box of nice tumblers around for trade 🤷

I Really enjoy your videos. And how humble you are to the earth 🌎

OH MY! ...You totally just reminded me of the nightmare I had 2 nights ago! OK, SO HERE IT IS; I bravely managed to get my clunker of a van up to Michigan from SW Florida. As I come out of the forest and over the bluff... to my shock & horror, I found it absolutely picked clean! Not a single rock was to be had ...not as far as the eye could see! FF >> to today & I find myself busting up laughing. I was tickled pink watching you being a teensy bit indecisive on whether a rock should stay or go. I was completely taken aback by your commitment to making sure that there were plenty of rocks to go around, enough for everyone. The world thanks you, 'my brother friend' ... for making sure as to leave a few rocks up there so the masses are able to share in the joy! Thank you again for creating such great content. *** Did anyone else gasp?? @ ...'' oh and here's an opal'' ..& U chucked it! ...ouch! ...that hurt!

All the blue petrified wood I've seen have been a baby blue/gray and only as a ring around the core. Yours appears to be the core and very rich in color. Rad being an undervalued word really does emphasize how special that casting is. Thumbs up on the little hammer, the handle didn't look to weathered. Always here for more.

I like your digs, and the landscape pics. People love to rockhound because of the outdoors and fun with family and our dogs. thanks from sum of us that can't get out often enough.

Great trip, beautiful scenery! That blue was really something! Wow😮

Happy Birthday young lady. Enjoy your day with your hunny bunny in finding some awesome rocks !

I would love to see your finished projects and see you clean and use acid on your stones. I really enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing. ❤

100% of the material I've tumbled from this location has turned out AMAZING! Takes such a nice polish! The limb casts are my favorite as well, I'm going to have to cut some on The Adventure Saw soon!

Happy birthday to Laika! Always love seeing and hearing her in your videos. Super excited about that blue piece and looking forward to your followup video!

Now that is a cool find. I would've kept the iridescent looking piece too. Looked like it could've had some pretty amazing color inside of it.

Cold day, binge watching your channel. I’m just learning but so excited to visit some sites next year!

Jelly ❤️ I need to get out there soon! Always a great time and a good way to start the rockhounding season. Thanks for the invite lol 😆🤘

Aww, I like the baby hammer ^^

Thank you for the report! At 20 minutes in to this video is the "picture wood" area...rocks that show pictures ( go to the Ginkgo Museum to see what they look like). Also this area has a large array of amazing colors in its wood. The wood is mostly straight grained ranging from small Bic Lighter size to large hard to carry up the hill sizes. The area was not dug much in the recent past 2000-2015? but I was excited to see a ton of younger folks digging it up recently this spring. To find the bigger pieces go over the hill from the road's parking area 50 yards? toward Mattawa and you will find newly dug holes. DIG IN THE almost PURE SAND,.DO NOT waste your time digging in a hole that is filled with rocks. Do not spend much time looking through small pieces as you dig down, use your energy to get deep (4 to 6 feet ), Find a hole that is sandy and half filled in and continue digging it out to one side or the other in fresh sand to save time. The heavier larger wood seems to be deep, this recent trip it was sitting on solid rock. (See my FB page) I kind of say rediscovered this area back about 15 years ago, camping with the POW WOW group, no one had dug there then, just very old holes. I saw where someone had pulled out colored wood and I dug deep and got beautiful pieces out that weekend. I always wanted to let people know, I did not want the facts of the area to disappear. There is tons of wood there, it will never run out. There used to be out houses on the top of the "Camel Hump" back when which are gone. JoelJurasek

Nice finds. My son and I were up there last year and found some nice blues. I’m local to Cda/Spo area and have been all over the regions digs and although everything really good is 2+ hours out, we’ve come to find some nice little nuggets in the area. Love the Lake Life! Rock on ⛏👊🏻😎

Oh wow! The blue agatized limb is really cool!

like me, now, you have enough rocks in the shop that you can get more specific about what you want to pack home!

Happy 5th Birthday to Lika!🤗 She's beautiful! I really appreciate all the information you put into your videos. I have never been to Saddle Mt. but will add it to my list for sure! 💯✔ And it's fun to watch you and Sarah working together. In my opinion, y'all are a great couple exploring this beautiful world. Thank you for sharing it! Side note: I want to hear more from Sarah!🗣 she seems to be the nearly silent partner, but always finds some beautiful pieces. (Lol best shot in today's video- Sarah sitting on the hillside with Lika while you worked!😂) Thanks From: "Rock Bottom" in Ohio✔

Just learned what a limb cast is. As always thanks for the video learned something again.

Sweet! We were just there this weekend, thanks to one of your previous Saddle Mountain videos!!

I can’t wait for part 2 !!!!!! 😎

Wow, the pet wood is cool 😎

That blue limb cast is a rare, beautiful pc. Has anyone else found one like it and reported to you?

Awesome finds! Great vid👍👍

Ya gotta love those accidental finds, That blue agatetized piece looks promising, I`m looking forward to the second video thanks for the new video on saddle Mt, I`m planning a trip there myself soon. 😁

just got back from saddle mt. didnt find any blue but we did find some cool stuff. thanks for the location. you're awesome!

Some of that stuff you left would make great giveaways for you. Great video.

What a really good trip for you, Sara and your furry rockHOUND. Happy birthday. Woof. Lots of really good finds. They were mostly about the size of pieces we take. You looked and found some beautiful pieces. Sara seemed to find some good ones too. Keep the goodness coming. I can't wait for the clean up. Be happy, safe and stay healthy 😷⚒

Nice video my friend!! Thank you for sharing!! Happy birthday Laika!!

Fascinating area. Worlds collided and stirring it up! Happy birthday Leica! ❤️

This is awesome. Will you be showing us how you cut it? Super curious!😊

Site B is where I took my friends from RI to look for tumbler material. It was great!!! Wish I could load a pic.

Nice finds. I wanted most of what you discarded. Lol

Can't wait to check out Saddle Mountain and collect some of that gorgeous petrified wood. I absolutely love the blue one you found, we will definitely be looking for and hoping to find even one piece of it. Looking forward to seeing your next video and seeing it all cleaned up. Will be seeing your project when it's finished? I hope you have another piece of blue, the one in the front towards the left that you held up near the end looked like it might have some bluish color too. I guess we'll see.🤩 I also love it when Laika talks in your videos, I don't think it ruins it. Happy Birthday 5th Laika! It's great she got to go rockhounding on her birthday. Thanks for sharing Jared & Sarah!✌🤠

Enjoyed it The blue is real cool.

Thanks for taking us with you to such a beautiful place. I look forward to the next part, and hope to see a little section of that Blue limb cast polished. Blue is the best colour 💎 Give the wee dug a clap for me 🐾

There's a lot of the blue limb cast at the blue forest in Wyoming ❤

Oh what a dream place here, I love it. Great finds holy crap. Thanks for this video, very informative too. I haven't been digging or used a rock hammer yet, now I'm inspired too! Thanks for bringing us along with you! I hope we get to see it again! Happy 5th Laika!

Great stuff man! Love the blue limb cast, and it’s always nice to find tools. I love petrified wood, our favorite place to go is Hampton Butte I’ve bee lucky enough to find some great dark green petrified wood there!

I've never seen blue wood like that. That is certainly worth a return trip. I hope you remember where abouts you found it. I love the limb cross sections a lot. I have found some of my nicest ones in the washed ballist on roof tops. I wonder if that Estwing was a Jr. model for kids? I've not seen one that small either.

That piece reminds me of the Wyoming Blue Forrest material.

Nice Estwing!!

That is a Sweet haul!

Love Saddle Mountain.

Awesome and great finds! Thanks for taking us along! And im with you! ive never heard of or seen a blue limb cast from saddle mountain before. Super special!

It's really cool to see how different the Petrified Wood is in Washington versus where I hunt here in the deserts around Las Vegas Nevada. I believe the soil and the heat are the biggest factors. I'm finding some amazing extinct coral feet from where I'm finding Petrified Wood. That in itself I find is really cool you know. Which came first the Coral or the Wood? I just love the history of the past in this desert. Deserts have a voice and boy do they tell a great story. Great finds there and another great video!!!

Happy Birthday Laika! 🎂 🐶 Give her a big scratch behind the ears for me!

Cool place ! That estwing looked like a pretty old one with the green handle?? The one I have with a green handle was old when I got it in the late 70s . Keep rockin!!👍😎

Happy birthday to that beautiful dog of yours !!

Ellensburg, about 40 miles away from your find is known for its rare blue agates; the blue agatized pet wood you found may be blue calcedony similar in chemistry to the Ellensburg Blues. It may be worth checking out its value by contacting Carlson Brothers Jewelry in Tacoma.

Happy Birthday Leika! Can you here the shouting as you set that Opal on that rock!

Happy Birthday 🐶🎂😊💙.,

👏👏 “in my dreams”…. love the trip video today … Spring is in the air…Happy 5th Birthday 🥳 🐾🐾🍺🍺

Very nice I like that blue one awesome 😎

Love this, cant wait to see the next one and amazing blue!! Give Laika a big Birthday hug for me!!

I live way down in Texas. Had to get away from the snow after I fell and injured my back one time too many. I was born and raised in Idaho. I would love to buy small pieces I saw you tossing away 🤗. As I am retired now and just learning to tumble stones I find on the road I live on. I also have found many great fossils here from the Cretaceous as well as some Eocene Periods. Texas was under water more than once. So it's all marine animals here. If you would be willing to send me some of the rocks you find. I would be happy to pay. As I will probably never get up in that area again. Love watching your videos. I often drool over your finds. But, I have found many nice specimens. I would just like to get some rocks from close to home I could polish or just keep as they are. Have a great day. PS I am retired now which is another reason I don't travel. It's a bit too expensive for me. 🙃☕❤❤❤❤

woo! extra video this week!

Oh man! It would be tough not to leave with 500 pounds of material there. We have yet to go to Saddle Mountain, but it's on the list. Good day you guys!

Awesome, jealous here~ Thanks as always for sharing my friends in Spokane! I wanna hike down the slope of the north side towards Royal City...it's steeper so am guessing its less travelled area and possibly has some casts sticking out? Looked like a really beautiful day to be out hunting. Will chat soon~ Oh and Happy belated B-day to Laika!

I forgot my prybar up there last September, surprised you didn't find it LOL, maybe someone else here did. Definitely need to go back up there this spring or fall.

Playing with acid is always fun! I’m looking forward to seeing that. I have been playing around with muriatic acid… with some awesome results! We won’t talk about the horn coral fossil I thought was silica that turned out to be calcite 😂 blue limb cast is totally rad dude 👍🏼

Was working in Yakima this past weekend. Wanted to try and sneak up there but didn’t get a chance. Given how high the winds were, it was probably for the best!

Looking forward to you cutting that big orangish pink hunk on the left. It looks very similar to a piece I found at Quincy Lakes. If you remember, I brought it to Spokane and showed it to you at the Rock Rollers event. #JaredBlue

Idk if you've heard of it before but my fav tool for digging rn is a rogue ho, it's like a shovel but it's like a ho, really thick shovel head turned sideways like a ho. Great for digging into hillsides and works great for scooping out stuff like that over hang you were scooping out at 11:24 or so... I'd def look into it, my fav tool by far... And I've love to show you the stuff I got out of there this spring a lot of totally cool stuff, bunch of limb casts, some of it was random pieces that looked like nothing I hit with the sandblaster and found out they were badass limb casts

I bought a few pieces of limcast petrified wood off Etsy that looked very similar to what you found. Very cool!

Pretty amazing, at 8 min. in on your video, you picked up a piece of wood I dug out and left while digging in that lower pit Sat this past week. What are the odds of that? Already have a ring and a nice cab set in silver from this past weekend from that pit with nice colors but your blue find is great!

I believe I have a piece of the blue. It's small (approx 1"x1"). I collected it at site B. I actually was looking at it in the sunshine a couple days ago, thinking how pretty it is. I will try to send pic.

No, i've never seen blue agate on Saddle Mountain. Brown, Tan, Orange, Red, Yellow and Black along with the green opalized bog material. Great find!!!

Totally laughed at the cam-am shout out, and I hope they sent one to your P.O. Box. I am going to attempt to get some nice color Sunstone in Oregon and some jade and hopefully diamonds in Wyoming.

Forgot to mention or ask a question. In my recent research on opals. I read that opal is usually associated with radioactive material. I just can remember the name of mineral. Have you learned if that area is radioactive?

Wish I had AWD. I'd like to find some limb casts for a project. Especially blue!! Definitely blue. I've never seen anything like that!

I will be one of the fools there mid June. Looking forward to it.

Looks like Azurite and Malachite for the blue and green piece.

Absolutely enamored by that blue limb cast!! Excited to do some work on my material today myself, got some stuff bought from the Polka Dot mine and Richardson's, plus a bunch of Bigg's Picture that me and a friend mined out. Let me know if you have an interest in some Bigg's material if you don't already have some, definitely have a LOT of it and we're pretty sure we're the only ones who know where the vein is currently!

Are you gonna polish up the end of that blue limbcast? 🙂🙂🙂

What kind of acid do you use for dissolving the calcium?

I wish you would have kept the irradescent rock!! Was it not have to your standards? I was sure you would have kept it! It was stunning !

Someone claimed on my vid of Saddle that they found fire opal in the big pit. Also, it's surprising how poorly the size of that pit comes across on video. Really need a wide shot with someone in it to drive it home. Blue piece looked great, bet it will be even better polished!

Would a mini van make it up there? 😆 My daughter wants to find petrified wood, and I came across your video trying to decide on where to go.

Way different than the Arizona petrified wood I grew up with. Might head over there in a couple weeks, how far up Rd R can I get pulling a toy hauler?

Any thought about what mineral gives your agate its blue color?

Hammer find 😀I have found one last Thursday, on a fossil hunt. Not branded but bigger (which obviously means better 😁). And had it not been for a little crab nodule (only 3-4 inch but detail is sweet... so far 5 hours of prep and may be half way there), it would have been find of the day.

If you’ve cleaned with muriatic acid, I’ve seen where the opal/what CC didn’t dissolve, turn a similar blue color. But seems superficial. I can’t say if your piece is exhibiting the same, but some of the blue on my pieces faded after being resoaked in acetone and based out water. I dont know if it’s a reaction with chemicals in the water, or the container, or the rocks and wood itself.

That blue limb cast is amazing! I’ve never seen that before either. We recently found purple agate that looks like it has peach alien blobs inside. I don’t know what it is nor have I ever seen it. Wish someone could tell me!🤣

If you tumble those limb casts t it can remove a lot of the crud from the outside. Even better if you make a few strategic cuts first. I recommend a UV 45.

thats a masons hammer .a brick layer in other woords.

We find a lot here in indo

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Just saying I love watching your adventures.. but I cringe when you throw beautiful specimens back.. as a person that love hounding but doesn't have the funds to travel across county to go to these amazing sites..I would gladly pay a little for those scraps!! Lol... your amazing and I've learned so much from your videos..

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I was told 25 lbs a day??? You're allowed to collect up to 25 pounds plus one piece of petrified wood per day with a maximum of 250 pounds per person per year.