Fish are among the most prized fossils, and you’ll collect a bunch of them on our trip to Wyoming’s Green River basin! The 48 million year old fossils are collected in quarries, where the hard work of stripping overburden has been done for us. Our first stop in Wyoming will be at Fossil Butte National Monument, where you’ll see all the amazing fossils the area has to offer. Then we’ll dig for one day in a public quarry, where you will learn professional collecting techniques. Our second day will be in a private quarry, not open to the public. You can reasonably expect to collect a dozen to a hundred fish of different species, depending on luck and how diligently you hammer. Click here for our Wyoming photo album.
As on all our Rockin’ trips, we’ll collect at a different locality each day as we drive across the spectacular scenery of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. We’ll find ammonites, petrified wood, and thundereggs at public and private localities along our route, then have two full days in the Kemmerer fossil quarries. Last year, every person on the trip, including a 9 year old, found at least 100 fish!
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Come along as we go Rockin' Across the Cascades, and you'll explore the way Washington was assembled. Our state contains pieces of ancient sea floor, volcanic islands, fossil-rich sediments, and huge masses of magma crystallized into granites, porphrys, andesites and basalts. At the end of our trip, you'll be able to identify these and other rock types, and will have collected heaps of the beautiful gems, fossils, and crystals they contain.