The Oldest Bedrock in the North Cascades | Nick on the Rocks 

Oh sweet! A new episode! Glad to see Nick at it again. CWU alumni and PNW resident here!

Thank You Professor Nick. This is very Gneiss! 🙂

Nick, I hope you don't mind but you are introducing students in Connecticut to geology through these wonderful stories

Thanks to Cascade PBS for bringing this series to light again. Well produced and…the talent is very good. He may have a future in communication! Thanks Nick.

Thanks to Nick and his team for this beautiful introduction to this mind-blowing "move" of bedrock !:-)

Maybe the best episode yet! Beautifully conceived and executed, and photographed in perfect bluebird conditions.

These are classics. This is what I first started watching when I found Nick Zetner.

Yay! A new Nick! Something else I didn't know.....best animation I have seen for that move, too!

Excellent! So nice to have Nick back on the rocks. The scenery is spectacular. I really enjoyed the transport map showing the route traveled by the gneiss.

You and your co-creator have these productions NAILED !

I really enjoy this feature hosted by Nick. I don't have the luxury of much spare time so it's hard for me to get through his own channel posts which are usually over an hour, so this has been a pleasant surprise since I first became aware of it, holding Nick in such high esteem as I do. Cheers.

Awwww, loved the squeak of that little creature.

THE most beautiful scenery, but the hook is that it originated in northern Europe. Like, what?!? Zircons, sandstone metamorphosed into gneiss, tidbits for the curious to learn about. (Nice music too btw) Love these!

These videos are awesome. Stuff like this I never knew about, right in our backyard.

Thank you for the deep knowledge of Yellow Aster Butte. The hike will never be the same for me!

Love this new set of “Nick on the Rocks”!! Nick has matured and evolved from the original series and the video is stunningly beautiful! Thank you KCTS and Nick!! ❤❤

Fascinating story! But the music finally got to you, Nick! We just can´t win them all!

Great job, Nick!! Go glad to see you have walking sticks! I l love mine so much!

What about the gold out there at Yellow Aster Bute? There's a bunch out there! I see you're at Twin Lakes and I was very curious about all the gold and jadeite there. Particularly along the back side of Goat Mountain there. It's all along those quartzite layers, especially by those glaciers and permanent snow fields.

0:15 expected Nick to start singing "the HILLS are alive, with the Sound of Music........"

Wow, these videos are just so well filmed and produced. Really good work. 👍

Been there many times but I never knew that bit of geologic history. I'm glad you got up there. It's one of my favorite hikes.

outstanding thank you ALL stay safe

Love this guy. So informative and funny.

I'm glad Pbs are running these but I really like the college lectures he does. Sadly I've exhausted that series already.

I live on 40 acres right on the US/CA border at 4,000' in North Central WA about 110 miles due east of Yellow Aster Butte (above Molson). Recently, I dug a 400' trench for installing underground power cable. I dug up many wonderful large boulders, a few of which sure look a lot like this metamorphic rock. I washed them off and stood them up as part of a retaining wall because they look so unique. They are rounded quite a bit, so they likely traveled here via a glacier.

Yellow Aster Butte has been on my travel list for years as a fan of serpentine soils!

Yellow Aster Butte looks exactly like the Lake Vicente basin.

this episode is gnise

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They should call him Rock Steves

cool video but sound is desyncd!

Mountain went viking

Ah! another Swedish immigrant! Ya sure yabetcha!

That area has been discovered and is crowded with hikers all summer, even mid-week. Nick must've paid them all to get out of the camera view. But don't be fooled, it's a zoo up there. The USFS even went so far as to declare it to be a "blue bag" zone since there's nowhere to dig a "cat hole," and the human waste problem has become extreme. Be forewarned if you think it'll be anything like what this video falsely implies.

Only thing I learned is you can fabricate any timeline you wish in geology, as long as it's long enough to never have to be attempted in a lab, you can add as many zeros as you want, and some more! Now get back to your Mason pose before the helicopter arrives to lift your tub off the trail. 🤣