Once again Chuck, Becky and I headed up the Cispus River to East Canyon Creek chasing the elusive jasp/agate.

Gorgeous Day on the Creek

This is classic creek walking, with low water levels and crystal clear water.

I met Chuck and Becky in Randle and it took us another 45 minutes to reach our jump off spot.

Preparing for the hike.

We had to hike down a previous rock slide to reach the creek.

The slide left it’s imprint on nature.

This slide should have produced some nice material, but the only thing of interest was a green boulder with green crystals throughout.

Could this be epidote?

Once we reached the creek we started upstream, and it didn’t take long to find some nice white agate nodules.

A pretty nice chunk of white agate.

Hiking this kind of creek requires strong ankles and good balance. ?We had to traverse a monster log jamb, but after that it was clear sailing. The creek was interspersed with gravel bars and monster boulders.

Smaller boulders between the gravel bars.

Monster Boulders

There were some interesting trees, crazy root systems, and some wildlife I did not expect to see.

Water can cause weird tree growth.

Water monsters OH MY!!

I have something in my eye.

By 2:00pm we were ready to head back to the road, so I pulled out my GPS unit and using Backcountry Navigator plotted a route to the road and our transportation.

We did end up finding a few pieces of jasp/agate, jasper, and lots of small gray agate chips. ?This trip was all I could have hoped for though, because of the beautiful country and great friends.

Thanks for joining us.

chasfire