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My buddy insisted you can't get decent agates within 50 miles of a city, but I found a killer one right outside the Portland city limits.
He said all the good spots get picked clean, but after 3 trips to the same gravel bar on the Sandy River, I pulled out a 2-inch moss agate with perfect banding.
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blair_chen816mo ago
Totally get where your buddy is coming from, it's a popular idea. But like jake747 hinted at, people drive right past good stuff all the time thinking they need to go far out. The Sandy is a perfect example, those gravel bars get fresh material every time the water rises. That moss agate find proves it, congrats by the way, sounds awesome. Sometimes you just have to be the one to look a little harder or more often in those closer spots everyone assumes are tapped out.
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jake7476mo ago
Honestly that's a common rockhound myth. I read a blog post about urban agate hunting that proved it wrong. People just overlook spots close to home.
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elliot_roberts6mo ago
My local park has a gravel path that's given me three nice pieces of jasper this year. It's like @jake747 said, we make up stories about where the good stuff has to be. I see it with foraging too, people will ignore the dandelions in their own yard to buy greens at the store.
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