Hiking two miles with 65 pounds on your back is alright for the young and foolish, but as I get older I find it harder to carry that much rock. ?Scott and I headed for the Skokomish River today to look for orbicular jasper, and when we found two large boulders of orbicular jasper, we couldn’t leave them behind.

Low water on the Skokomish.

Thankfully, Scott is still young enough to think carrying that much weight is not that big of a deal.

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