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[Phishisgroovin]

It really broke my heart today finding this poor rock and not being able to bring it home and give it a nice warm bath in oil complete with a 20 inch diamond saw massage.
Snow was too deep to carry it, back (spine) too damaged to carry it without damaging it more.
Had to leave it, hope its there next time i go when the snow is gone and it can easily be dragged to the road.

There is about ALOT of money i had to walk away from dragging my bottom lip....

[hummingbirdstones]

Nice rock!   

Looks like you need a "Packlithic" of your own to do the hauling for you!   

[Phishisgroovin]

i think i may host a rockhounding trip with members here on the forum over to the claim.

there was one HUGE boulder with veins of quarts that looked cool and would have made a killer yard rock
Many more rocks i thought were serpentine, but Frank says the one may have actually been jade now.
It was fractured so i left it where it was.

[Phishisgroovin]

i picked up that last one, put it in a spot to pick up later on the way to the truck.
I forgot to go pick it up lol
there is an epidote outcropping way up high on one of the hills in the area. this whole area is full of serpentine of different grades and sizes.

[Redwilder]

I go to Red Top pretty much once a year in early September and have been wanting to start expanding my time in that area to hunt for other materials nearby. Any tips on where to venture for the jade (or other materials for that matter)?

[lithicbeads]

Teanaway ridge had very nice jasper loose in the soil but now it is part of a resort development. The teanaway river  forks are the jade spot. There is jade and grossular garnet in addition to the jasper shown in this post. I read a geology dissertation once that referred repeatedly to jasper deposits in canyons on the ridge south of Ellensburg. This is a very big area. One of the beast places for crystal plates in the olden days was Frost mountain which is south of town also. It has an excellent road ( or did) once things dry out.The quartz crystal plates are in the soil. Many years ago I hiked to Frost mountain from the south , quite a distance. At one point a four foot wide quartz vein crossed the hillside I was on and it was vuggy with crystals. Lots to be discovered in that area.The ancient dead rock hounds of Washington hounded on the land that is now the Yakima firing range and raved about it. The Boyleston mountains lie to the south of I-90  and up against the river. They are formidable and the old train line was famously steep and difficult. One of the pet wood locations was Badger Pocket  in a fairly low area there.