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Doug, I was indeed writing about the boulders in the field off Kanan Road. That rock is thoroughly weathered, so much so that you have to work your way into the interior of the rock to find the nicer specimens. I did work in the roadcuts a bit with my 3 pounder (baby bubba). It's hard, all right, but also I didn't find much in the roadcuts during my outing. BTW, I forgot whether I mentioned it before, but Kamloops, British Columbia is the type locality for ferrierite. I don't believe the zeolite from that locality fluoresces. The dacciardite from Kanan Dune Rd should not be overlooked either. It comes in nice micro specimens, and it's a pretty rare zeolite. What is surprising, to me at least, is that I did not have much luck in finding the common zeolites from the boulder field or the roadcuts. All right, if we really want to design a scope to long for–it should have two binocular viewers so that two people could view at the same time, and a monocular or binocular for film or electronic image collecting, which could be saved in a high-resolution format to disk, or perhaps better, directly to an optical, multi-sessioned disk. The set up would require a high-resolution monitor, as well. Or maybe a Scanning Electron Microscope with EDXA and X-Ray fluorescence capability would be nice. I wonder why I always wind up with ties and bottles of scotch for Christmas? Nathan