I'm 78 and to old to be scrambling around cliff faces but I have always had an interest in Geology. I have been following you for the past 5 years and your ability to instill excitement and knowledge is amazing. Thank you for the time you take to allow me and others to gain an appreciation of the wonderful world we live in.
Echoing a commentator below, I've a while to go before I am 78 years old, but I am disabled by chronic illness and movement disorder. It is hard just to get around my house. I used to be an avid explorer of the world around me, walking all over, reading huge amounts. Now I can't. The videos that Mr Zentner has done, both these outdoors ones and lectures, have made a huge difference to the quality of my life. Really huge. I don't feel nearly so trapped or desperate. I've learned so much about geology generally from him that I've been able to build on it and am now able to follow and appreciate other geology oriented sites, which would not have been possible for me before. Nick Zentner has had such an effect on what my life is like now.
I appreciate so much how much you give of yourself not only for your students but for all of us out here to enjoy as well! I get lost sometimes but have learned so much!!
Nick, I grew up in an academic family. You sir are a natural professor. You have the teaching gene. Thank you for letting us enthusiastic couch geologists tag along.
Oh wow! I just love these field trips, It reminds me of hiking in the hills of Morenci Arizona, I remember my youth and how easy it was to scramble up a 50 ft embankment. I am 77 now and have lost that agility. too many years of office work. But Your great teaching methods astound me. You allow folks to make observations and discuss them. Which often times leads to more questions than one can answer. I love how you become part of the group, and allow all the roaming and discoveries. I can't tell you how much these videos, and kept me sane during covid. I didn't get many projects done, but dang I sure learned a lot, from watching all the 101 classes in sequence, your back porch lectures. I love your cat. Bijou. And sometimes I get frightened because your up so high. Stay agil, those kids will keep you young. I toast to you from every episode, cannot thank you enough.
Cold air drains into the valley overnight then the heat of the sun warms the air from the top down in the morning. We were at ISU at the same time. I was getting my MS in biology. Did some remote sensing mapping of cheatgrass at INL and the Jim Sage range over by the City of Rocks. I hung out with a couple of geology grad students. I think Chris Mecham was a grad student about the time you were there. Anyway, I love the channel and getting reacquainted with geology. I've always loved geology, particularly where it is tied to plant distribution like it is. You are why the students are so engaged. Well done!
Nick is there to instill a healthy sense of Humor in his students. The video darkens at the end as Nick walks out on a precarious spine of rock. Rather ominous for a fade to black.
Gosh , at 64 I would go with you to the ends of the earth , just look at that geology, sir you are a wonderful teacher , engaging, inclusive, letting them talk through what they’re seeing, guiding, presenting options.. thank you Nic
The problem is with these videos is that they are not long enough (I can't get enough of what I'm seeing) and I want to be there mountain goating all over that area. What a story those rocks can tell.
Hey Prof, Love these videos. I think I know more about the PNW than I do about my own Locality. However, In the small town in which I live in Southern England, we have not only the smallest nature reserve in Britain, but the best preserved, Jurassic fossil bed in the country as well. Beaminster Fossil Bed. Folk still find it hard to understand that the trading estate was once the bottom of a shallow sea somewhere around modern day Venezuela.
The geology in the UK may not be as complex as the PNW but you more than make up for in anthropology. I've really gotten hooked on the Time Team/Timeline series learning about so many different civilizations, cultures and ancients there. Our ancient history isn't as rich here in the US. Cheers from across the pond!
Thank you for telling us about this "smallest nature reserve" and the museum. The article "Small and perfectly formed", which came up in a Google search for Beaminster Fossil Bed tells the story well, with pictures.
Thanks for a great hike that I could never do on my own. I love hearing the students discussing what they are seeing and trying to understand what it is.
What a spectacular rocky climb for the kids to be out with an expert in. I love this stuff but have been unable to get out into the wilds in decades, here in the UK, so it's great to 'go with you' virtually, on these outings. It would be good if you could pause at some of the plants, and let us know what they are as you go too. On this climb, the big yellow composites look very much like our 'Eastern Leopard's-bane (Doronicum). I'm a bit rusty, but, if it is that plant, it's only a garden escape here, but a Googling only gives two spots for N America. One is in Labrador, so it could be down your way too. I expect you'll know if this one is a native that you see more widely, but, if you don't see it much, then you might want to show the pictures to the plant section of USGS. Keep them coming! (y)
The student discussion about the adjacent rock color and texture variations was fun to eavesdrop on. If I was there with them, my suggestion would’ve been that the rock has varying alteration and weathering of the same rock formation; some oxidized layers fell off exposing the unoxidized layer beneath adjacent to the weathered rock. I just spent a couple hours walking the rim of Smith Rock @Crooked River Caldera, NE of Redmond, OR. The same scenario is exposed at the Rhyolite Tuff cliff walls; some sections are orange-pink next to green-grey, but it’s all the same formation.
Bob and I really loved this field trip! So beautiful and we get a kick out of the kids. They all seem so interested and happy. Thank you for sharing Nick. You’re the best!
I think she's right looked like a leaf print layer from when I took paleontology 50yrs ago. Thanks for a fun walk and beautiful scenery with good rocks
I'm similar to Jim, retired and with no background whatsoever in geology. I live in the Blue Ridge in SC so have no familiarity with Washington but I really enjoy both your field trips and lectures. I have to say, I am picking up a bit. I love the enthusiasm. It is addictive.
Thanks nick, I've been wanting to move to ellensburg and come to the campus, I want you as my teacher lol. Being in the field is the best way to keep your students engaged and interested in the work, your the best brother, too bad I'm stuck in kentucky, but I do have the red river gorge so I can at least be out studying and learning about the geology of my area
Wow!! Wonderful nick...i was busy with 93 year old mom-- just sas this up!! Going to enjoy it, right now... thank you for every precious BIT of this...
Amazing place! such wonderful scenery, amazing geology, and a great group of "friends"! =) I so wish I could be out there as well, but current back issues preclude that kind of climbing. Maybe someday I can do that sort of thing again.
@ 9:18 Adult humor 🤣🤣🤣. Absolutely hysterical Mr. Z. Nice camera and outdoor lab work though Mr. Zentnob! Good to see worthwhile field trips with your class.
Another wonderful hike with your geologist friends. How great it must be to be able to read the rocks like that and to know their ages and formations and when different stages occurred. Well done again. Totally enjoyable!
Nick, I somehow stumbled on to your channel. Having graduated Penn State in the 80's with a Geo degree, I was reminded of my days spent out West in field camp. I was hoping for a little lecture at the end on the areas genesis and orogeny. Thanks for making me a student again.
Hey, a local connection in Erin Donaghy! I’m always excited to hear about contributions to geology from Indiana scientists. Which makes me think; I always kinda wondered why people would study at a university hundreds or thousands of miles away from their project area. It always seemed counterproductive to me. Then I did my undergrad research on a drainage basin in Idaho, so I ended up in the same boat lol
Thanks for recording these field trips! i love seeing these formations close up as it’s something I could never do in person-I have major difficulties with narrow trails and steep drops.
What's the gate for? To keep geologist out! Lol Are the grooves from ice sheets? 64* is military scale is used with the 32* Marnier scale used for centuries Been meaning to ask, are trails by users or the state?
Very interesting to have uplift & folding of so many different kinds of sandstone layers. Will larger stones in the sandstone help to identify rock sources?
Appreciate the free geology classes 👍. please do a video about what pushed the granite up at different angles in Wenatchee just south and west of the hyw 28 bridge 🤔. Where the river starts to turn heading to crescent bar
I now know so much more about the geology of Washington State than I do about the state I live in. Now I suspect Massachusetts, very very fine place that it is, doesn't have the incredible geology that Washington does, but I wish that there were a Nick Zentner equivalent locally. I'd like to be able to know a bit more about where I live, apart from the terminal moraine and outwash plain old warhorses of these fragile outposts.
I've wanted to attempt climbing the pinnacles for years. It's an especially lovely view. And to see it through your and the "friends" eyes is a treat! So maybe this is the year.
Seems like that Watson computer could take every geological paper and make an animation of everything that has ever happened to the surface of the Earth.
So are we looking at successive layers of beach sands and turbidites as the relative sea level rises and falls? Fine sorted grains in some layers with less sorted layers containing more varieties of minerals in others? What can this tell us about the distance to the source of the deposits and the speed of deposit? I want to live my life over again and be a geologist now!
Apologies, totally unrelated to this video, but you know how it is when you can't think of something, on the sides of the hills in Yakima river canyon, the hillsides look like they have rips in them exposing basalt rubble, does anyone know what the rip things are called, I think it was covered in a different video but can't find it
Google "Yakima Canyon Notes" for a Dan Mcshane blog post including pictures ( see 3rd picture) Coincidentally, the post also mentions Nick and fans. I just saw this yesterday by chance, while doing a little adakite searching, so your comment had bells tinkling in my head. I also saw a wikipedia page on "stone stripes", but those may be different.
Named after Pluto, the god of the underworld in Roman mythology. Pluto was also the god of wealth because diamonds and other jewels come from underground. (Source: Wikipedia). Think "plutocrat", a term I haven't seen in a while.
When students are discussing what they've learned from you, you are entitled to boast a little. I graduated in 1964 and all of my instructors were absolutely set on their way or you fail.
I remember telling Doc Bentley on the first day of Mineralogy, that I had read "Worlds in Collision" over the summer... His bald head turned red, and he started throwing chalk at me... for the next two years, Sweet Ole Bob would conger up his Amphibolite gods... (don't ask me, that was his thing) and say things like, but Dave thinks the earth popped out of the side of Saturn!
I had an English teacher who decided (probably along with a lot of other people) that The Red Badge of Courage was some sort of analogy of Christ's life. I never saw it, but I sensibly fed that interpretation back on the final exam and got an A.
Based on information found on another website, I think the birds at 11:30 are probably Violet-green swallows. Would any of those who were there at the time like to comment?
I thought the Peshastin Pinnacles were a protected site, & had been closed to the public for just the reason that you are showing in your video...to prevent further damage to the area by rock hunters & climbers? I did enjoy this video though because I am always interested in learning more about these geological features...& I'm really not being judgmental....I just didn't know they were "open." At about 19:29, you walk past what looks almost like a boot-print on the side of the rock, which caused me to wonder if you saw any pre-historic imprints in the sandstone?
I'm 78 and to old to be scrambling around cliff faces but I have always had an interest in Geology. I have been following you for the past 5 years and your ability to instill excitement and knowledge is amazing. Thank you for the time you take to allow me and others to gain an appreciation of the wonderful world we live in.
I really like your comment, Jim. Thank you.
Echoing a commentator below, I've a while to go before I am 78 years old, but I am disabled by chronic illness and movement disorder. It is hard just to get around my house. I used to be an avid explorer of the world around me, walking all over, reading huge amounts. Now I can't. The videos that Mr Zentner has done, both these outdoors ones and lectures, have made a huge difference to the quality of my life. Really huge. I don't feel nearly so trapped or desperate. I've learned so much about geology generally from him that I've been able to build on it and am now able to follow and appreciate other geology oriented sites, which would not have been possible for me before.
Nick Zentner has had such an effect on what my life is like now.
Steep scary trail I probably couldn't hike on at my age so thanks for taking me along.
Thanks for taking us townies along on this tour. The landscape is unique and beautiful.
The kids are so sweet and fun and full of bright spirit. No wonder you love students! So love these field trips! More plz!
I enjoy these field trips. Your friends are good companions who seem to really find geology fun.
I appreciate so much how much you give of yourself not only for your students but for all of us out here to enjoy as well! I get lost sometimes but have learned so much!!
Nick, I grew up in an academic family. You sir are a natural professor. You have the teaching gene. Thank you for letting us enthusiastic couch geologists tag along.
Oh wow! I just love these field trips, It reminds me of hiking in the hills of Morenci Arizona, I remember my youth and how easy it was to scramble up a 50 ft embankment. I am 77 now and have lost that agility. too many years of office work. But Your great teaching methods astound me. You allow folks to make observations and discuss them. Which often times leads to more questions than one can answer. I love how you become part of the group, and allow all the roaming and discoveries. I can't tell you how much these videos, and kept me sane during covid. I didn't get many projects done, but dang I sure learned a lot, from watching all the 101 classes in sequence, your back porch lectures. I love your cat. Bijou. And sometimes I get frightened because your up so high. Stay agil, those kids will keep you young. I toast to you from every episode, cannot thank you enough.
Cold air drains into the valley overnight then the heat of the sun warms the air from the top down in the morning. We were at ISU at the same time. I was getting my MS in biology. Did some remote sensing mapping of cheatgrass at INL and the Jim Sage range over by the City of Rocks. I hung out with a couple of geology grad students. I think Chris Mecham was a grad student about the time you were there. Anyway, I love the channel and getting reacquainted with geology. I've always loved geology, particularly where it is tied to plant distribution like it is. You are why the students are so engaged. Well done!
if not for your field trips, I wouldn’t get to experience this part of America, “the beautiful”. Great group of students.
Nick is there to instill a healthy sense of Humor in his students. The video darkens at the end as Nick walks out on a precarious spine of rock. Rather ominous for a fade to black.
Hitchcock smiles.
I thought the same thing. OTOH, he *did* post this on RUclips.... :-)
The enthusiasm of your students is catching. Individual personalities, inquisitive nature make for an enjoyable video, thanks to you
That last 45 seconds of fiction is just about Oscar-worthy! lol
Thanks for the opportunity to go along 🏞️
These are so fun, Nick! In addition to all the educational value and geological goodness, just pure fun! Such a cool part of the course!
Your students are Bunch of Rock Stars.
Gosh , at 64 I would go with you to the ends of the earth , just look at that geology, sir you are a wonderful teacher , engaging, inclusive, letting them talk through what they’re seeing, guiding, presenting options.. thank you Nic
The problem is with these videos is that they are not long enough (I can't get enough of what I'm seeing) and I want to be there mountain goating all over that area.
What a story those rocks can tell.
Hey Prof, Love these videos. I think I know more about the PNW than I do about my own Locality. However, In the small town in which I live in Southern England, we have not only the smallest nature reserve in Britain, but the best preserved, Jurassic fossil bed in the country as well. Beaminster Fossil Bed. Folk still find it hard to understand that the trading estate was once the bottom of a shallow sea somewhere around modern day Venezuela.
The geology in the UK may not be as complex as the PNW but you more than make up for in anthropology. I've really gotten hooked on the Time Team/Timeline series learning about so many different civilizations, cultures and ancients there. Our ancient history isn't as rich here in the US. Cheers from across the pond!
Thank you for telling us about this "smallest nature reserve" and the museum. The article "Small and perfectly formed", which came up in a Google search for Beaminster Fossil Bed tells the story well, with pictures.
Thanks for a great hike that I could never do on my own. I love hearing the students discussing what they are seeing and trying to understand what it is.
What a spectacular rocky climb for the kids to be out with an expert in. I love this stuff but have been unable to get out into the wilds in decades, here in the UK, so it's great to 'go with you' virtually, on these outings.
It would be good if you could pause at some of the plants, and let us know what they are as you go too. On this climb, the big yellow composites look very much like our 'Eastern Leopard's-bane (Doronicum). I'm a bit rusty, but, if it is that plant, it's only a garden escape here, but a Googling only gives two spots for N America. One is in Labrador, so it could be down your way too. I expect you'll know if this one is a native that you see more widely, but, if you don't see it much, then you might want to show the pictures to the plant section of USGS.
Keep them coming! (y)
The student discussion about the adjacent rock color and texture variations was fun to eavesdrop on. If I was there with them, my suggestion would’ve been that the rock has varying alteration and weathering of the same rock formation; some oxidized layers fell off exposing the unoxidized layer beneath adjacent to the weathered rock.
I just spent a couple hours walking the rim of Smith Rock @Crooked River Caldera, NE of Redmond, OR. The same scenario is exposed at the Rhyolite Tuff cliff walls; some sections are orange-pink next to green-grey, but it’s all the same formation.
Very Nice Field Trip. Thanks so much for posting these.
I'm starting to think BRICE, needs his own RUclips show.
I always miss the livestream! Damn. Hello from Australia.
Don't worry, Robert. This one wasn't a livestream, just an upload. But yeah, I hear ya!
Bob and I really loved this field trip! So beautiful and we get a kick out of the kids. They all seem so interested and happy. Thank you for sharing Nick. You’re the best!
Last time I was there it was to practice rock climbing... a long time ago. Nice area and cool rock! Thanks Nick for bringing us along again!!
Amazing scenery. Looks like a great day.
I loved this Nick. Best field trip so far. I thank the students for sharing their conversations with us. And what an interesting/beautiful place!
I think she's right looked like a leaf print layer from when I took paleontology 50yrs ago. Thanks for a fun walk and beautiful scenery with good rocks
...or it just could be a "foliated" rock. From the age of Foliage
I'm similar to Jim, retired and with no background whatsoever in geology. I live in the Blue Ridge in SC so have no familiarity with Washington but I really enjoy both your field trips and lectures. I have to say, I am picking up a bit. I love the enthusiasm. It is addictive.
Absolutelt stunning landforms in Washington with incredible geology. Its like going on vacation from your armchair.
We are still restricted somewhat in our movements around B.C. so these field trips are a balm to our thwarted wanderlust. Thank you for sharing Nick
Awwww... i love rocks..
Thanks nick, I've been wanting to move to ellensburg and come to the campus, I want you as my teacher lol. Being in the field is the best way to keep your students engaged and interested in the work, your the best brother, too bad I'm stuck in kentucky, but I do have the red river gorge so I can at least be out studying and learning about the geology of my area
Wow!! Wonderful nick...i was busy with 93 year old mom-- just sas this up!! Going to enjoy it, right now... thank you for every precious BIT of this...
Amazing place! such wonderful scenery, amazing geology, and a great group of "friends"! =) I so wish I could be out there as well, but current back issues preclude that kind of climbing. Maybe someday I can do that sort of thing again.
Interesting going back to this after the recent video with Randy. We’re all learning
Way to short a hike for us townies, but appreciate the time you have shared with us. That was a beautiful park, I could have hung out there all day.
top bit of filming. Cheers Ned.
Reminds me of the rock formation in the original star trek, where captain Kirk battles the Gorn captain. 😂 (Paramount studio back lot).
OMG!, Absolutely. Nerd alert : )
Vasquez Rocks is in California. It is a similar tilted and block-fractured sandstone.
@@wiregold8930 thanks. I was wondering.
I wonder about why they tilted. (Compression or extension). And the ages. I guess I can look it up now.
Fascinating. It's just off the pacific crest trail.
@ 9:18 Adult humor 🤣🤣🤣. Absolutely hysterical Mr. Z. Nice camera and outdoor lab work though Mr. Zentnob! Good to see worthwhile field trips with your class.
What an amazing place! Thanks for taking us along :)
Another wonderful hike with your geologist friends. How great it must be to be able to read the rocks like that and to know their ages and formations and when different stages occurred. Well done again. Totally enjoyable!
I love looking at y'all looking at stuff.
Beautiful place. Thanks for sharing with us.
Those Swallows were having a fit just before the 12-minute mark, must be nesting nearby.
This (and other videos) show some truly tortured topography - spectacular scenery.
Best field trip so far!!!🤗🥰👍
Nick, I somehow stumbled on to your channel. Having graduated Penn State in the 80's with a Geo degree, I was reminded of my days spent out West in field camp. I was hoping for a little lecture at the end on the areas genesis and orogeny. Thanks for making me a student again.
Hey, a local connection in Erin Donaghy! I’m always excited to hear about contributions to geology from Indiana scientists.
Which makes me think; I always kinda wondered why people would study at a university hundreds or thousands of miles away from their project area. It always seemed counterproductive to me. Then I did my undergrad research on a drainage basin in Idaho, so I ended up in the same boat lol
Nick getting artsy fartsy with the fade out.
Thanks for recording these field trips! i love seeing these formations close up as it’s something I could never do in person-I have major difficulties with narrow trails and steep drops.
Thanks for sharing. Another great trip 😃
Train boy - they're following you, Nick! :D
What a great opportunity to teach map and compass,
Did you see the tree that was sticking straight out from the rocks (sideways)? That was amazing!!
Perhaps I will stop by. On my way to Leavenworth WA tomorrow, Leavenworth area could be a show all by it self.
What's the gate for? To keep geologist out! Lol
Are the grooves from ice sheets?
64* is military scale is used with the 32* Marnier scale used for centuries
Been meaning to ask, are trails by users or the state?
Train boy! :) :) :)
I thought the same thing...before he said it!
Thanks -- my first geo field trip in ten or twelve years -- depending on what you would define as a field trip.
💥👌
Very interesting to have uplift & folding of so many different kinds of sandstone layers. Will larger stones in the sandstone help to identify rock sources?
Appreciate the free geology classes 👍. please do a video about what pushed the granite up at different angles in Wenatchee just south and west of the hyw 28 bridge 🤔. Where the river starts to turn heading to crescent bar
Quartzite ! Like my local hills in Birmingham UK, Ordovician (maybe) Quartzite ! But with some bentonite and clay !
At 23:23....Nick you sound like me hiking. Great spot to f a d e to black :)
Dangerous. Vertigo. Brave.
I now know so much more about the geology of Washington State than I do about the state I live in. Now I suspect Massachusetts, very very fine place that it is, doesn't have the incredible geology that Washington does, but I wish that there were a Nick Zentner equivalent locally. I'd like to be able to know a bit more about where I live, apart from the terminal moraine and outwash plain old warhorses of these fragile outposts.
What supurb views! I like to think that Gizmo makes this walk look more dangerous than it is.
I've wanted to attempt climbing the pinnacles for years. It's an especially lovely view. And to see it through your and the "friends" eyes is a treat! So maybe this is the year.
That one outcrop had some interesting lines or groves in it, not sure what to make of that?
Whoa
PINNACLES
Geology is keeping your nose to the ground. Don't look up unless, the racks are above your head.
Mils - 6400 is a military arc measurement - more resolution than360
6400 mils in a circle for accurate artillery aiming!
State Park great place for rock climbing it is.
Seems like that Watson computer could take every geological paper and make an animation of everything that has ever happened to the surface of the Earth.
maybe it's too busy playing Jeopardy and chess...?
Pushed upward nearly vertically.
So are we looking at successive layers of beach sands and turbidites as the relative sea level rises and falls? Fine sorted grains in some layers with less sorted layers containing more varieties of minerals in others? What can this tell us about the distance to the source of the deposits and the speed of deposit? I want to live my life over again and be a geologist now!
"... I don't know, either !!!"
Hey Nick, beautiful area. What is growing down in the valley. Rows of apple trees?
Apples and pears are the predominant orchards. The fragrance fills your car as you drive through the valley.
Mils are "milliradians". Useful for accurate distance estimation.
I think the 64 degree compass was in mils. 6400mils in a circle.
I like how stable your video is.
CLINOMETER ? I wonder from pure curiosity what sea layed down this sandstone and what epoch?
Is that strip of jumbled rocks seemingly cemented together, could that be lahar leavings?
Any comment on the series of earthquakes of the coast of Oregon Apr 29. Precursor to a Cascadia quake?
Looks like a herd of cats. No offence Bijou.
Apologies, totally unrelated to this video, but you know how it is when you can't think of something,
on the sides of the hills in Yakima river canyon, the hillsides look like they have rips in them exposing basalt rubble, does anyone know what the rip things are called, I think it was covered in a different video but can't find it
Google "Yakima Canyon Notes" for a Dan Mcshane blog post including pictures ( see 3rd picture) Coincidentally, the post also mentions Nick and fans. I just saw this yesterday by chance, while doing a little adakite searching, so your comment had bells tinkling in my head. I also saw a wikipedia page on "stone stripes", but those may be different.
I'm familiar with the term Igneous... what is Plutonic?
Granitic Magma coming up and solidifying while deep under the surface. Under mount Rainier is a huge pluton of granite and granodiorite.
Large bodies of un erupted igneous rock, usually grano diorite. Like the Stuart Range, and the Yosemite.
Named after Pluto, the god of the underworld in Roman mythology. Pluto was also the god of wealth because diamonds and other jewels come from underground. (Source: Wikipedia). Think "plutocrat", a term I haven't seen in a while.
i see your flock shed its mini burkas
A Silva ! Don't anyone use Bruntons or are they too exepensive ?
Google them. VERY expensive.
sci-show has a video called things discovered by licking things, i havent watched it
In your Geology 101 lectures you would not allow your students on camera but here you are. What is different?
Clearly there is massive erosion on these outcrops
When students are discussing what they've learned from you, you are entitled to boast a little. I graduated in 1964 and all of my instructors were absolutely set on their way or you fail.
I remember telling Doc Bentley on the first day of Mineralogy, that I had read "Worlds in Collision" over the summer... His bald head turned red, and he started throwing chalk at me... for the next two years, Sweet Ole Bob would conger up his Amphibolite gods... (don't ask me, that was his thing) and say things like, but Dave thinks the earth popped out of the side of Saturn!
I had an English teacher who decided (probably along with a lot of other people) that The Red Badge of Courage was some sort of analogy of Christ's life. I never saw it, but I sensibly fed that interpretation back on the final exam and got an A.
21:13 looks like water formed "nodules".
Based on information found on another website, I think the birds at 11:30 are probably Violet-green swallows. Would any of those who were there at the time like to comment?
As I have them nesting in my eaves, I can confirm Violet-green swallows. They have a distinct call, and pretty appearance. Cheers, Prof : )
@@kurtschnuit3544 Thank you!
careful for the rattlesnakes up there! i used to rock climb there.
I thought the Peshastin Pinnacles were a protected site, & had been closed to the public for just the reason that you are showing in your video...to prevent further damage to the area by rock hunters & climbers? I did enjoy this video though because I am always interested in learning more about these geological features...& I'm really not being judgmental....I just didn't know they were "open." At about 19:29, you walk past what looks almost like a boot-print on the side of the rock, which caused me to wonder if you saw any pre-historic imprints in the sandstone?