What is great about these videos is they are purely made for the love of educating. He doesn't seem to be making money off of these. Thank you for your time, nick.

Beautiful scenery Nick. Thanks for sharing it with us. Please thank your long suffering wife for her patience.

Thank you for taking us along. We would never have seen this (these) unique landscape(s) without you. Thank you!

Back in 2017 my husband and I went to the top of that cinder cone. It was an amazing trip. I was 60 at the time, and had never visited that area of Oregon before. We saw the Obsidian flows the next day, and Crater Lake the day after. Your video brings back wonderful memories. My husband passed away last year. Your videos keep his memory fresh for me.

Last time I was here was 1988. There were herds of ground squirrels that looked like chipmunks. Very cute.

This episode of Nick From the Field brought to you by... the Golden Hour! Great job getting there in time for that enchanting light :) I too, have good memories of Lava Butte... albeit a bit sad. It was the one and only road trip my husband and I would take together. We stopped there, on our way home to California, after attending a funeral for a friend at Deep Lake, WA. Although I had hoped that trip would be the beginning of many more, together, it was not to be. He died only a few months later (26 years ago). Thank you so very much, Nick, for sharing this particular hike. A little sad, but grateful for the memory.

@smithcon

2 жыл бұрын

Very sad, so sorry for your loss! This is a good reminder to the rest of us never to take time for granted. Thank you for sharing, and I hope you have found peace and resumed travels in the ensuing years.

@marinangeli3250

2 жыл бұрын

@@smithcon Thank you, Greg :) I had 17 wonderful years with Scott, before I lost him... he was a real homebody and it took me all those years (and the tragedy of losing our friend in Washington) to get him on the road. It was very hard to lose him, but I have healed, for the most part. Resuming my travels here in the west, within months of his passing, became a kind of therapy for me. Thanks to Scott, I now know Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Wyoming, California, Nevada and Montana much better than I probably would have. Thank you again, Greg, for your kindness.

Memories of my dear wife and I doing the climb years ago. Thanks, Nick.

*SOMEWHERE TONIGHT* someone in America got stuck in an in-law's living room watching vacation videos of Gatlinburg or perhaps of a gift shop selling dinosaur souvenirs (manufactured on the Pacific Rim) located in a region not known for real dinosaurs. *IN CONTRAST* I spent part of this evening fascinated by yet another Ned Zinger Production, curated to once again teach me some geology I did not know. Thank you, CWU Geology Department. *BTW* (before you rat me out to its Chamber of Commerce) if you're in Gatlinburg do not miss the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

@DanSpotYT

2 жыл бұрын

That was me that got stuck watching those videos. But worse. They were vertical videos. The Smoky Mountains are definitely worth a visit though!

Thank you, once again, for taking us along with you to these wonderful, unique places. And a special Thank you! to Liz, and your friends, for letting us join you all!

Bend area is awesome! Thanks for letting us tag along!

It’s like an Impressionist painting come to life.

Thanks for this tour Nick. Aside from the paved paths and observation points, it looks like the land that time forgot.

Thank you Sir, and thank you to your wife and friends for having us tag along.

Thank you Nick!!!! Love Nick from the field!! Keep the videos coming. Zentner Nation says...."You gotta love it!!"

Several years ago I and my son did a flight from sun river airport around newberry, we saw the large caldera with the two lakes inside, the large lava flows, and obsidian flow, also what looked like hundreds of vents all around the main caldera. Very memorable view from a light aircraft.

I was there doing a Nick-inspired trip two weeks ago with my son. Glad Nick had fairly clear skies to see the surrounding area, we weren't so lucky, but still cool to see it all. If you are in the area, other stops to include are McKenzie Pass west of Sisters, Lava River Cave (if you can get in due to wait times) and Lava Cast Forest. Lot of other things as well if you are into geology and rocks, easy to spend a week or more just exploring. In looking at maps, Google Earth, etc., I am thinking Newberry and the rest is a rift/fault series of volcanics that parallels the Brothers Fault zone immediately to the north, and possibly related to clockwise rotation of Oregon. Love to see more evidence to see if I'm right or spewing nonsense out of my face like a cinder cone (haha). Thank you Nick for taking us on your vacation.

Wonderful little journey ... my brother used to climb mountains (including some ice climbing) .... his first climb was Mt. Whitney, but he eventually got bored of the Sierras, so he and his climbing buddies ventured north to the Cascades for their climbs .... one day they climbed "Bachelor" ... they were going to go up to Mt. St. Helens, but they got word that it was snowing up there ..... Mt. St. Helens blew up a couple months later. I'm going to make sure he sees this video!! I have loved the study of geology for MANY years -- ALL of your videos have been so informative -- we live on the "Newport-Inglewood" fault -- it moves every now and then, thus the reason for my love of the study of geology and my brother's love of mountain-climbing!! Thank you SO much for doing these for those of us who love geology, but whose bodies gave out -- a "couple" of decades ago!!!

This is all very similar to the Iceland volcano which I had open as a live stream as I watched this. Similar shape cinder (or tefra) cone developing. Lava streaming out, mainly from the top but with break outs at different points around the rim and even from the base. Splatter. Different types of lava, depending on chemistry, temperature, gas content, the angle/speed it flows at (which seems to change the cooling temperature as it pools) and weather. Sometimes glassy lava. Sometimes rough texture lava which pushes into piles like Butte. Slowly forming a shield volcano. You see lava tubes develop over days and holes where they collapse. Patches of white rock where it degasses. I didn't see any solidified lava lakes in Butte, but I can imaging them underground depending on the topology of the mountainside it sits on Iceland seems to be a hotspot that feeds from the spreading ridge under the sea. Erupts at different locations for a few hundred years then goes to sleep for a few hundred years. A new cycle just began. Something similar might explain the variations and chemistry. PNW has both as well as the Cascade subduction story, but I didn't think they were that recent.

@donnacsuti4980

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I also follow the GutnTagKZread site love his honest coverage and explanations fascinating to watch all the changes. Also beautiful videos

Once again welcome to Central Oregon. Your video's have sparked my wife's interest in geology and now as we travel we see the areas via a different perspective. I remember visiting Craters of the Moon in Idaho and compare them to our lava field here in Central Oregon. They are similar but yet they are each have unique characteristics. Keep up the good work.

Wow! Beautiful sunset and landscape!! Thanks for sharing some of your memories with us Nick.

That view of Mt Bachelor with sun setting beside it was spectacular Nick! 👍

Wow. That's a pretty spectacular sunset. You can see the haze from the smoke, though.

@snuugumz

2 жыл бұрын

Funny you should mention the smoke, just as i was thinking ‘wow, even the smoky haze looks good in the setting Nick is showing us.’

Thank you for this video. In a difficult time in our lives, my husband and I were able to join you on your tour of this spectacular volcanic landscape, listening to you tell your geological and people stories and enjoying the view and especially your good company, absorbing fascinating tales of how the land was formed. My husband was delighted to hear that there are lots more Nick Zentner videos.

That is such a dramatic scene even for someone who doesn't know exactly what they're looking at. Thanks Nick!

Well, we finally made it here! I watched this video more than a year ago, but today we finally were standing right where you shot this from! We also drove to the top and walked the rim. Such a GREAT day and all thanks to you sharing geology with us via KZread. Thank you!

Thanks Nick for another great video. Of a landscape I’ve never seen.

I grew up in Flagstaff, AZ, which is known for an extensive volcanic field. The most recent cinder cone, Sunset Crater, erupted around a thousand years ago, and definitely affected the puebloan villages in the area. In the area, there are many cinder cones, which went off at approximately one thousand year intervals. I would not be surprised to see another pop up in my lifetime, kind of like Parícutin in Mexico.

Thanks for the hike and the information. Look at that cinder cone. I’m glad I wasn’t there when they were going off.

Thank you Professor Zentner. It has.been quite a while since you’ve shown us a cinder cones.

@lizj5740

2 жыл бұрын

I remember the popcorn cinder cone that featured on one of Prof. Nick's videos (or perhaps it was a link in the comments).

This fits beautifully with what is currently happening in Iceland. Thanks Nick, so appreciate your wanders. Cheers from Oz.

Thank you Nick! Watched many of your "evening classes" in WA. Grew up near Salem but lived now 48 years near Mammoth Mountain and the Sierra Nevada, the Owens Valley -- Mono Lake system and the Long Valley Caldera are inspiring just as first looking out from the top of Lava Butte as a young kid. Your gift of teaching and observing is a treasure!

That was the most unique landscape that I have ever seen. I've seen mostly flat lava flows in New Mexico, but nothing as dramatic as this.

@leswoodburn5764

2 жыл бұрын

Colder and wetter but Iceland has lots of similar landscapes.

This episode of Star Trek geology brought to you by planet cinder cone …this is very 😎 exotic ! Thanks CAPT Zinger ! Wow.. to see this for real is amazing! Good job nick ! Thanks

Thanks for taking us on your vacation. I have not been to Newberry Volcano Monument. It was amazing to see.

There is an astounding beauty in that landscape, but your timing of the lighting when the sun was going down really added something.

This is spectacular. Wow! Walking on a breached cinder cone. I thought of the air corn popper. Thanks for sharing your walks with us, Nick.

I really appreciate you taking us townies on your vacation. I hope your wife doesn't mind us following along. We didn't ones ask if we are there yet or say I need to go to the bathroom.

Thanks for the nice walk Nick!

Thank you again for some recliner geology 😉 This looks “otherworldly” especially with all the odd shade of green, yellow and silver plants!.! Thank your wife for her long suffering and patient self. ☺️

Absolutely enchanting landscape. Thank you for sharing it on sunset. Love your You Tube channel, lectures and all the programs Nick!

I also have memories of Bend (a couple of really good breweries/brewpubs) and a walk on that same path towards Lava Butte (looks like they have re-paved it since then!). That was nearly 20 years ago now, with my late wife. I live in Ontario, Canada (quite a way from this locale!) and worked as a Cartographer at a University Geography Department but geology and vulcanology (and brewpubs!) have been a particular lifelong interest of mine. A trip "out west" to British Columbia, Canada and south through Washington State, Oregon, California and Nevada was like a dream come true. Camped at Newberry Volcano and toured a rather long lava tube in the area as well. Interesting (and totally understandable) why the lava flows pushed out of the base of the cone as it is basically a rather weak heap of loose volcanic cinders and not a composite structure. Good times needing good boots!

I love this area! I didn’t even know these volcanic fields in Oregon existed until planning a road trip last year when I discovered Newberry nat’l monument whilst looking at google earth. Quickly became my favorite stop on the trip. Hoping to transfer to CWU in a year or two!

@douglasscott5623

2 жыл бұрын

Be sure to walk the lava tube all the way to the end, then shut off your flashlight. Nothing like it.

I grew up close to an even larger volcanic complex: the Medicine Lake Volcano in Northern California. Has all the same features as Newberry. The northern flank of the Medicine Lake caldera is designated a national monument: Lava Beds. Another worthwhile area to explore… and there was a mild steam eruption from Glass Mountain on the NE rim in 1921!

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! Thanks.

Nick -- THE area that got me interested in geology, albeit late in life, was the eastern Sierra and Long Valley in particular. As a teenager my family owned a condo in Mammoth Lakes and we skied there every winter weekend for two years; and although I knew that it was an area of volcanism, I didn't know until some 40 years later just how volcanic it was -- and I was floored at what had been beneath my feet that whole time. If you make that field trip every year down there I would gladly volunteer to provide transportation for a few of the Geo. 210 students you take down there. I would have an absolute blast, especially accompanying THE best college instructor in the West. Just sayin'.

Fascinating and impressive. One can't help but imagine what it was like when this went down, in spite of being able to witness the events in Iceland atm. The forces of the Earth are mind boggling.

@sharon94503

2 жыл бұрын

I've been watching the Iceland volcano for 156 days now. Amazing to watch. This here must have been awesome to see.

At 13:00...What a view.Thank you Nick.

Lava butte was a result from Paulina, Newberry caldera. Lava river caves were the lava tubes that fed this "fissure 8" of Central Oregon. There are several buttes that were formed from Paulina

What a treat! Thanks for taking us along.

been here many, many times. lived in bend, oregon for more than ten years. awesome place to go .... except when the volcanoes go off !!!!! forest fires not fun.

I feel like I am there hiking! How nice! I loce these short tours! It is considerably higher elevation there so 97 gets very dangerous with lots of accidents for commuters in the winter and early spring.

@Rachel.4644

2 жыл бұрын

Impressive! I've been in the area several times but haven't walked the paths. Looking forward to that! I appreciate your perspectives and reminiscences, and Liz's support. 💖

wow I am impressed that you climbed Lava butte in that heat. I have been there and it is a beautiful butte/cinder cone

I’m from Australia where the term “butte” is not used very much if at all, but I was taught at high school what a butte and a mesa were and both were described as steep sided flat topped hills , mesa being bigger and butte smaller, which were relics of eroded plateaux. I find it interesting that in your part of the US, with a early French influence, that such a round topped hill as shown in this video, is called a butte? I love these videos though. I have had a life long fascination with geology and minerals and these videos are great. Well presented, knowledgeable and yet leaving some unsolved features to foster further research.

Thanks Nick!! Very cool 🤗

This video is so cool! We just don't have stuff like this on the SE coast. Thank you, Nick, for sharing this with us.

wow!!! temps AND-- the great butte!

Took my kids to Shoshone Ice Cave outside of Twin Falls ID. It’s a lava tube. In old days people used to ice skate inside. And they also harvested ice for their ice boxes.

Last time my wife and I were there ,3 years ago, you couldn't see the mountains to the west. Smoke was so bad we had to cut the hike short.

Such a great class and great time to learn about geology. I loved the class with you and Steve

Beautiful sunset!

Messy lava there, mostly basalt there then?!? The completely different looks, at part of the same Newberry volcanic system..., wow!! Awesome!!!😃💫

Outstanding video in many ways - thanks for this one, in particular!

My home is built on 1 ma lava flows, the geology down at Plenty River is interesting, the basalt overlies Silurian mudstone etc. This video was very interesting.

Pleasue to walk with you. I appreciate the question and not the answer. Your voice and the scene allows for a bit of deep completion. I value geology as it asks questions concerning the world move through.

Idk why I haven't been here yet but now I will make a point to go there soon.

It must have been a labor of love to build those trails, considering how hard it must have been to chop through hardened lava.

Got to visit here in June. Absolutely amazing and also hot.

I'm from Nevada and I went up to Oregon for my wife's family reunion. I got about as far as Yakima couldn't see a thing and the smoke became unbearable. I wanted to get to Ellensburg but maybe next time.

My hubby and I climb that, for the very first time on April 26, 2021. I live it there. Miss being there in person.! It wasn't sunny for us, this past Spring. We both enjoy the hike there. I feel so sorry for tons of people living in Washington state and Oregon Coast areas, when the Cascadia subduction zone gives way very soon.! The Cascadia subduction zone will have a 9 or higher that a 9.0 megaquake is coming very soon.! My name is Amy. I have been watching sesmic graphs mondays through Fridays every week. We didnt feel no quakes there, at the molten lava lands.!

What a gorgeous time of the day.

@jamiboothe

2 жыл бұрын

also the trail has had a lot of repairs

There is a noticeable increase in vegetation on the flow compared to the younger Obsidian Flow.

Wow! Great video. I used to live out here and always loved to learn about the stunning Newberry caldera..

Remember Hawaii in 2018? All them fissures opened up and blew out lava. Same thing happened here but in a larger scale. Large cinder cone buttes all around Paulina

Would have loved being in your science class. You make geology exciting. Reminds me of Mr. Fry in 1976.

Either I missed this when it came out, or I watched it on another computer. Great stuff.

beautiful sunset. thanks for the tour and stories

I would imagine the mechanisms for the lava breaching the base is much like water invading an earthen dam, except here the viscosity keeps it from compromising the entire slope/impoundment

🎵🎶The evening sun is shining like a red rubber ball🎶🎵

(I am from Bishop and still here. I am surprised i never ran in to you. I have seen many a show at the Gorge and know your Town and most of Washington quite well. I have a friend at Clear Lake by the wildlife trek. Enjoy your channel, thank you.)

I have been here a lot many years ago ,time to revisit thanks Nick for the walk

Thanks Nick... here in Sacramento Ca it's 87° degrees and smokey, I'd rather have the heat! Thanks again for sharing your travels.

Very different (it seems to me) from the current Iceland volcano. I've enjoyed your encounters with Randy Lewis, and often wonder about his perspective on something - in this case, instead of "Where were the villages?" I immediately think "What stories did the natives tell themselves about this?"

Great presentations of Oregon Nick! I love listening to your passion of geology and mineralogy, because it matches mine. Since you nicknamed me (pun not intended😄) “Spreading-ridge John” You made me grin when you mentioned YHS with Cape Mendocino together yesterday. I’ll be @Newberry with my RV this coming weekend. I look forward to your next study hike. May I suggest teaching about what the present stratovolcanoes will look like after the next ice ages are over? Mt. Thielsen, Mt. Washington and Three-Fingered Jack, all spired core remnants gutted by the last ice ages. They would also teach about the inner plumbing of volcanoes.

Fascinating!

That area looks like Sunset Crater in the San Francisco Volcanic Field in Arizona. Sunset Crater is very young, not yet a thousand years old. The lava flowed out of the base of Sunset Crater like this one apparently did.

Thanks for videos Nick very interesting lectures on geology or history of americas

Hope you got to go to Benham and Dillon falls to see the flow edge and some beautiful falls created by the diversion of the Deschutes. Gotta love the geology there ! And gorgeous to boot. So miss it. Thanks for braving the heat NZ!

Hard to believe that this and all the other parasitic cones in the area are on the slopes of Newberry Volcano. The real mystery in the area is the source of the tuffs and ignimbrites along the slopes of the Deschutes right in Bend. If someone has mapped it all and dated it, I would love to know more about it but there's precious little info on it.

I liked it. Thanks professor. Great!

Forty five years ago my Brother in Law and I stopped there and walked from where we parked off into the lava field over the very jagged treacherous maze of lava formations winding back and forth for almost an hour. We got to the top of a rise looked back and saw the car within rock throwing distance. It took as much time to return.

Thank you, Nick! So happy I found your site. Love geology. Always took kids on geological vacations.

Beautiful, Thanks for showing us all.

What a beautiful walk, thanks for sharing Nick!

I would like to know Who, How, and When the asphalt path was made on the lava flow and cinder cone. Did they use a wheelbarrow to move all that asphalt? How did they make the original path?

@bagoquarks

2 жыл бұрын

Very stroller and wheel chair friendly - very considerate.

@treebeard8475

2 жыл бұрын

@@bagoquarks and it’s a thin path considerate of nature. Imagine being able to actually be outside in this space being in a wheel chair. You can’t go on many outdoor adventures on a whim when disabled.

By the way, on the younger Hawaiian islands, especially here on Maui, we have lots of cinder cones. So, it’s a not like what you said about Hawaiian basaltic flows always being relatively benign. They really aren’t always calm. There have been quite explosive eruptions. Recently, work done by USGS on Kilauea on the Big Island has documented very explosive events dictated by the groundwater level and the level of lava in the magma chamber/ lava lake. The cinder cones here on Maui (those that are left to be seen) seem to me to be a late phase of volcanism. For example on Maui, they are found in the center of the old eroded Haleakala cone or along rifts on its flanks. The cinder cones, especially here, are very easily eroded, geologically speaking…..especially littoral cinder cones, described originally by RV Fisher. That is why it’s difficult to find old cinder cones here (and everywhere.).

I know nothing about this but love your videos, now I'd like to go to Bend Oregon to see this. This looks like super heated mud to me, just an observation.

Beautiful time of the day to be there. Thanks for the hike as I didn’t do it last year when I was there. But, on your recommendation From class I did hike to the top of the Butte for a fantastic view of 360*. You could definitely see where the lava reached in the surrounding area.

The best part about you learning new things is that you generously share it with us 🤗🙏

Thank you for the interesting hike. Was there in my teens now in my 70s. Nice signs. Spent time in Owen's Valley and White Mt when my husband doing research there . Stayed at the research station beautiful area. Saw the smoke in the sky there looked pretty if you don't know what it's from. We've got lots in Calif now.

Mount Batchelor shows up as a very, very hazy silhouette on the horizon. In general the Cascade stratovolcanoes appear to be a bit too far away with the level of the visibility on that day to be seen easily.