You're favorite material and location to hound?

[realrockhound]

Thought it would be fun to create a thread to share your favorite location and material to hound. For those that want to keep spots secret, thats understandable. General location or state is fine. I have a few different materials that I love to hound. Moss, plume, jasper, etc. However.... my all time favorite material to hound is limbcast, out in Paulina Oregon. The digging is hard, the heat is brutal, but the payoff is worth it. Here are some finds from the area. But first, a layout of the land, with rattlesnake butte in the distance. 

[Sabre52]

Wow, tough question. So many after fifty years of hounding. Top 5 sites for me: 1. Hunters Valley, CA for poppy jasper 2. North Cady Mtns in California for moss, plume and geodes. 3. Dryhead Agate in the Pryors, Montana 4. Baker Ranch T-eggs, New Mexico. 5. George West, Texas for agate and pet wood. Another really great site was Big Sandy Creek, Indian Valley, CA for Stone Canyon type jasper and poppy jasper.

[perkins17]

This is an interesting thread! Mine is a Lake about an hour drive from me here in Washington. It is almost completely untouched by other rockhounds and the beaches look like the ones on the great lakes. You can find Quartz, Quartzite, Petrified wood, agates that look like teepee canyon agates, Jade, and all manner of unidentified tumblable stones. At least 3/4 of my tumbles are from there. It is MILES of beautiful gravel beaches. It's a rockhounds paradise! 🙂

[hypodactylus]

Those limb casts are really neat!

[hypodactylus]

I can't say that I have rock-hounded too many places, but I am quite fond of looking for rocks in the Silver Island Mountain Range (Western Utah) [Click for larger]:



While some may find Utah's West Desert a bit boring, I think it is quite beautiful.

Sample image of what might be found out there (shown wet) [Click for larger]:

[realrockhound]

Jan 28, 2022 12:40:40 GMT -5 hypodactylus said:

I can't say that I have rock-hounded too many places, but I am quite fond of looking for rocks in the Silver Island Mountain Range (Western Utah) [Click for larger]:



While some may find Utah's West Desert a bit boring, I think it is quite beautiful.

Sample image of what might be found out there (shown wet) [Click for larger]:

Now thats what i'm talking about. Really nice colors in that stuff. That stuff looks like it would create some really nice cabs. Beautiful countryside as well. 

[MsAli]

That is some fantastic limb cast!

[aGates]

my favorite place is 1st creek location hunting agates and geodes primarily a hard rock game with 2 and 4lb sluggos and gads. i have some thrilling memories of finding head size geodes and to this day my largest speciman extracted from basalt whole sits in a display case inside my modest home. i lauhj with my wife the other day. i says what type of person will bring the outside inside? we say together WE ARE! God has giving me many good things but non bettwr than a wife who wants to dig with you saturday and dance with you sunday.

[RWA3006]

Nephrite in Wyoming and coprolite in southern Utah. Can't get enough of going out and finding stuff. The quest beckons and I must obey.

[brybry]

Jan 28, 2022 12:56:04 GMT -5 realrockhound said:

Jan 28, 2022 12:40:40 GMT -5 hypodactylus said:

I can't say that I have rock-hounded too many places, but I am quite fond of looking for rocks in the Silver Island Mountain Range (Western Utah) [Click for larger]:



While some may find Utah's West Desert a bit boring, I think it is quite beautiful.

Sample image of what might be found out there (shown wet) [Click for larger]:

Now thats what i'm talking about. Really nice colors in that stuff. That stuff looks like it would create some really nice cabs. Beautiful countryside as well. 

Super awesome cabs & tumbles, 😉

[Fossilman]

Montana moss agate/Yellowstone River in Montana.. Obsidian/Glass Buttes, Oregon..

[vwfence]

I guess my favorite would be down in Burro Creek Arizona and with thousands of acres and lots of floods you never know what you will find > Lots of agates and jaspers for sure and pastlite

[lunker]

Montana moss agate in the lower Yellowstone and anything else cool I see there.

[brybry]

For me, I live in a state that pretty well sucks for any real hounding. Ask me in 5 years and a half dozen or more rockhounding trips under my belt.