Step 1. Visit Chuckanut Drive after a rockslide.
2. Get private access to the slide zone
Step 3. Search out that sweet fossil, like the one below.
And it's just that easy.
In case you don't recognize the fossil on the side of that boulder, it's a palm tree frond. That rock is so big that its nearly the size of a small car.
Most fossil hunters don't wear orange vests and yellow hard hats when they're hunting. I do though, because I take it seriously.
Truth is, we had a rockslide on Chuckanut Drive near Bellingham. And for work I got to go to the slide area and check it out. I've been selling the story to the media for the last couple days. They love a good emergency. Its not uncommon for our maintenance crews to find fossils in the rocks when they slide off the hillside and onto the roadway. This just happens to be a really big, really nicely preserved fossil. According to some of the other engineers who've worked these slides before, they said that a fossil like this would sell for $5,ooo. To bad it was too heavy to put in the back of my jetta.
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