NeoTokyo
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I got my ass handed to me climbing a cliff out of a gorge yesterday, I am still sore today! lol
First I froze sniping rapids (But that's what I usually do) and then I had to hike up and out of about a 400'+ deep gorge.
My good friends that I prospect with decided to take a "shortcut" up that ended up being near vertical and very loose.
When we got to the top and looked back down we couldn't even see where we had gone because it was so steep, it just looked like a drop off.
Then I dropped my gold pan and had to go back down for it! lol
But I had only gone about 30' up when that happened.
I am a big guy, 6'2" and 370lbs with a 30lb+ pack and I have been nicknamed The Mountain Goat and the Polar Bear by my friends, but damn that cliff killed me. LOL
I didn't feel much like a Mountain Goat that day. Usually I can handle things like that much better but after skin sniping in freezing water that makes you hurt instantly for 5 hours and not having much of a warmup before heading out, I think I was at a little bit of a STIFF disadvantage. lol
Prospecting does a body good.
I am the healthiest 370lbs son of a ***** you will ever meet.
Though I am trying to drop that weight.
I have a gym membership to XTreme Fitness and I have never been this beat leaving the Gym before, I am still sore all over! lol
I always lose a good amount of weight during the summer months, its the winter that kills me and I gain again.
But anyways that's my prospecting trip from yesterday.
Here are some pics of my take that day, I figured I would have gotten a little more but this area has been dredged hard in the past.
I also found a beautiful quarts crystal (With blue clay and pickers under it) that was about 4" long, a pretty neat find but I didn't get a pick of that yet as I gave it to my friends. I will get a pic of it later.
The first pic of the creek is where I found the long nugget and the 2nd part of the creek which is just above the first is where I found most of the other pickers.
The Pan is a Le' Trap pan in case you were wondering about the little gold catching groves.
Thanks for reading.
-Eric-
First I froze sniping rapids (But that's what I usually do) and then I had to hike up and out of about a 400'+ deep gorge.
My good friends that I prospect with decided to take a "shortcut" up that ended up being near vertical and very loose.
When we got to the top and looked back down we couldn't even see where we had gone because it was so steep, it just looked like a drop off.
Then I dropped my gold pan and had to go back down for it! lol
But I had only gone about 30' up when that happened.
I am a big guy, 6'2" and 370lbs with a 30lb+ pack and I have been nicknamed The Mountain Goat and the Polar Bear by my friends, but damn that cliff killed me. LOL
I didn't feel much like a Mountain Goat that day. Usually I can handle things like that much better but after skin sniping in freezing water that makes you hurt instantly for 5 hours and not having much of a warmup before heading out, I think I was at a little bit of a STIFF disadvantage. lol
Prospecting does a body good.
I am the healthiest 370lbs son of a ***** you will ever meet.
Though I am trying to drop that weight.
I have a gym membership to XTreme Fitness and I have never been this beat leaving the Gym before, I am still sore all over! lol
I always lose a good amount of weight during the summer months, its the winter that kills me and I gain again.
But anyways that's my prospecting trip from yesterday.
Here are some pics of my take that day, I figured I would have gotten a little more but this area has been dredged hard in the past.
I also found a beautiful quarts crystal (With blue clay and pickers under it) that was about 4" long, a pretty neat find but I didn't get a pick of that yet as I gave it to my friends. I will get a pic of it later.
The first pic of the creek is where I found the long nugget and the 2nd part of the creek which is just above the first is where I found most of the other pickers.
The Pan is a Le' Trap pan in case you were wondering about the little gold catching groves.
Thanks for reading.
-Eric-
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