NuggetN8
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Today me and a friend decided to go to the MF AR to do some sniping. We didn't go the route that most people go. We dumped over from the top of the canyon on the foresthill side to the bottom. It was about 8-10 miles round trip. But anyways.. We got down to the river and decided to go upstream and find a nice spot to begin sniping. We sat out backpacks, shoes, shirts on the shore because we saw a spot across the river that we wanted to check out. We staggered our way across the river nearly falling and going for a little ride a few times. We made it across and found the place we wanted to work. There was a huge rock jammed in a crevice not too far from the shore. It took us about 15mins to get the thing out of there because we didn't have the tools to just pry it out. After we rolled it aside as the water cleared we saw a layer of muck that was glistening with little pickers. I worked the area for a while as my friend waited. (He didn't know how to do any kind of prospecting he was just along for the hike) As the gold kept popping up I was sucking them up with my sniffer bottle. A few times I had to unscrew it to plop the pickers in because they were to big to suck up. I finished up in that spot and climbed up out of the water. We were about ready to cross back over when we saw something black floating in the water going downstream and around the corner. Right then I remembered that the water level comes up at a certain time of day because they open oxbow reservoir. We made our way to where we crossed as quickly as we could and stumbled, tripped, splashed, slid, staggered around in the ice cold water until we were across. The water had come up at least a foot which made it more difficult to get across. We got to where we had set our gear and of all things... His shoes were gone... All that he had left was his socks and backpack. Luckily my stuff was fine which was pretty important because my car keys were in one of my shoes. We walked back to where we had come down and he found one of his shoes in the water along the shore. The other one was nowhere to be found. On top of that, I looked up and saw my sniffer bottle floating down the river... That was very disappointing but I wasn't too worried about it. Somebody will be very happy when they find that bottle of gold. I was more worried about how we were going to hike out of the canyon when he only had one shoe. He took his shirt off wrapped it around his foot put a plastic baggy around that then I found a bungie cord for him to hold it all together. We made it out and had a good time. That's all that really matters. Made a good story too. Hope you all enjoy it lol. =] (Sorry if theres spelling errors.. I typed this on my iPhone.. Darn autocorrect!)
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