Chilly fingers, frost in the pan--but gold too!! At long last. . .Warning: this is a long post.
March 27, 1999 at 21:28:59
I just couldn't stand it anymore so I loaded the 4X4 with all the grub it could hold, all the prospecting paraphanelia I could fit in the back, and headed for the hills. To say the trip was interesting is to use the tepid power of understatement. I picked Montana today because British Columbia has had the heaviest snow pack in about 50 years and I just couldn't bear the thought of ending up like good old Jerry Taylor. So I headed South instead of West. When I arrived at my secret prospecting location, the place was posted up the wazoo with no trespassing signs. So I had to drive around like a madman to find the land owner and ask his permission. After running into a snowstorm at about the three thousand foot elevation, taking several dead-end roads, introducing myself to two or three hundred cattle, talking to the wrong rancher, and finally finding the right rancher--that just happened to have three blood thirsty, crazed dogs guarding his house--I finally got permission. He simply said, "Sure, just make sure you close the gates"! So, only thrown off my prospecting plan by about an hour, I headed into the golden hills. When we arrived at the site, I was in such a hurry to get to the mother lode I almost took a header going down a steep hill. You must remember that I have been suffering from prospecting deprivation syndrome(hereafter referred to as PDS)since last September!! PDS is no laughing matter. A fellow prospector of mine is still in intensive counselling due to a nasty incident where he broke into the Zoo, in December, at night, and began detecting nuggets amongst the lions in their climate controlled, warm, soft earthed enclosure!(The nuggets, sadly, were later found to be organic in nature.) Seriously though, I decided to slow down while going down the hill and arrived safely at the bottom. I saw a formation I had never seen before--it was a whole bunch of rocks jammed into what looked like a volcanic matrix of some kind. I'm no geologist, so I don't quite know how to describe it, but the rounded rocks,
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