Chinook Pass Outcrops

Love how you show your own learning process. Not afraid to reveal that you don't know it all

This is great and a long time hope. “Nick on the Rocks” just miles from my home, leading us all on a guided tour and helping to answer questions we’ve asked many times. You gotta love this!

Happy 62nd birthday Nick !

I like everything about this channel. Love the learning.

My mom loved the scale and history of rocks while I get giddy with the potential of fresh paper…bet there are those who get chills watching creative videos aimed at exploring deep time along our highways - I think I just joined that group! Thank you Nick.

Love it when you’re on the road, in the field, following those guide books. More please.

This guy could explain anything about any subject and terrific personality

Happy late birthday, Nick! That pass should bring you decades of adventures, if your viewers have our way! We follow you like ducklings after a duck. Your comments and one-sided conversations open our minds to new thoughts, different ways of seeing things. Please take us along on all of your wanderings.

Welcome to the Geezer Club of America, Mr. Zentner...best part is the secret decoder ring.

Thanks for the vid, and thanks for the link to the PDF! More goodies to read.

You pose some fab questions...never got past a baSIc understaning of an "andesite," just past in/extrusive granites, so I am reliving everything that I used to miss on exams...THANK YOU, though, for a beautiful trip and some cool formations. I especialy loved seeing the volcanic/"granitic" breccia...reminded me of holstein cows!

Two videos in one day! You are being very generous to us today! Thank you!

I studied under Professor Campbell at YVC 1972 - 1974. Currently working on research around Union Gap. I have found numerous strand lines that formed as Rattlesnake and Ahtanum Ridges were still being thrust up as anticlines. I have mapped ancient lakes that were no more than 100 feet deep when the anticlines rose faster than the Yakima River could cut Union Gap. These strand lines are over a 1,000 feet above valley floor. Yakima River got backed up by Basalt dam half way through the 'Gap'. Konnowac Pass was an overflow for this ancient lake. Today it's a 'wind gap' while Union Gap is a 'water gap'. I have also mapped high water for ancient Lake Lewis that filled and drained many times as Ice Age Floods backed up at Wallula Gap which never got over 1,250 above Sea Level.

Such a wonderfully personal journey of discovery here. Love hearing about your ignorance, and the joy you take in NOT knowing something, because it fills you with questions and drive you towards learning something new. I adore your lectures and other "teaching" videos, but this was a real joy, too. The mix between them is what tells the whole story.

touch taste feel old school like me!. I watch over and over till I get it. Nick Rocks ! Thanks for taking your personal time and sharing. I Appreciate you.!

I just came back to Fort Sask, Alberta from Utah, If I was alone I would have stopped a dozen times to check out the incredible geologic sites along the way.

Nick, I really appreciate the tour which my brother and I did 10 years ago (great memories), as far south as Chinook Pass up to the Canadian border. My “system” of discovery aligns with yours; intermixing ‘book work’ with field work, enabling The Law of Affinity time to manifest, working with our human “reaching” for better understanding. Thank you for sharing your travels. Cheers from Stanwood! 🍻

Thank you for doing this Nick.

This is great! We've driven Chinook Pass so many times! I'm 70 now and having fun learning the geology of this area. Thanks

It's great to have that pass. Your whole car full of people gets in for free. Just show the pass and your driver's license. I used mine at Crater Lake with Aussie friends last month. ...and a belated Happy Birthday!