Today the boys and I did an rock hounding outing to an area about 75 miles east of Bend called Glass Butte. This is an area where there are veins of obsidian (volcanic glass) everywhere all different types and you are free to collect whatever you find. We wanted to go now before it got too hot. It got up to about 78 degrees F today so still pleasant.
Here are a few shots of pieces we collected including standard black obsidian as well as some mahogany obsidian. See the size of the one chunk we found. It was actually bigger but I had to knock some pieces off to make it small enough to carry.
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