The Addy Roadcut

Materials: Pelosponges, Trilobites, & Brachiopods
GPS: 48.35240, -117.84136
When using GPS coordinates to navigate to locations in the backcountry sites like Google will often make mistakes. Please watch this video before venturing out. https://youtu.be/hQr1l7dnCE4
Tools: Hand Sledge and Chisel
Vehicle: Any
Date Visited: Last visited July 2022
Additional comments: This is an okay ish site for the fossil collector but for the average rockhound you might look at some of this material and be unimpressed by it.
Any Location Updates Since Visit: After visiting and posting the video a viewer sent me a PDF newsletter from the Panarama Rock Club where they discuss the Addy Rd. Cut.

November 2020:

Panorama News LetterDownload



May 2021 Update:
Stopped by the road cut here in Addy in May 2021 to see that the barrier had been removed and grading work has been done, samples are still findable.

July 2022 Update:
During the summer of 2022 I met a friend at the roadcut to look for trilobites or at least the parts of trilobites. From what I can tell most of what I found was the Cephalon portion of based on the diagrams produced by S.M. Gon III on his website.

The collecting site on a wet July morning.
It should be obvious that fossil identification is not my strong suit so I’m not going to be attempting to identify these here. Rather I am trying to provide the images of what I found so that it can help someone else out who knows much more than I do on the subject and to document the finds since there isn’t many good photos of the material.
These images were taken under my microscope.

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