EricTheCat
Sr. Member
Greetings,
I thought I would share some pics of my finds from my recent agate hunting trip.
First I want to say, be careful out in the heat everybody. I thought I was just fine after this trip making sure to drink lots of water and take breaks. I was wrong and came down with a real bad case of heat exhaustion. Beware that if you get heat exhaustion you become more susceptible to get it in the future especially in the next couple days. My biggest mistake was likely not enough electrolytes. Needless to say I learned my lesson and am adding beverages with electrolytes to my normal trip preparations.
Okay now I will get off my soap box and show you some agates.
The first group I found at one of the Moose Lake area public pits. It is a well searched pit. I was surprised I was able to pull out one pretty decent one in a quick hunt there.
All the others were found in 3 separate private gravel pits (with permission).
This one made the trip!
Moss agate
Nothing huge from this next spot but I cannot complain about finding this many agates in a couple of hours searching! At one point I knelt down to pick up a little agate and before I stood back up I picked up 7 agates.
Some "garden rocks" including some big pieces of jasper, a couple moss agates and one of those basalt with feldspar crystal rocks (I forget the nickname they are given).
I hope you enjoy. Happy hunting and stay cool.
I thought I would share some pics of my finds from my recent agate hunting trip.
First I want to say, be careful out in the heat everybody. I thought I was just fine after this trip making sure to drink lots of water and take breaks. I was wrong and came down with a real bad case of heat exhaustion. Beware that if you get heat exhaustion you become more susceptible to get it in the future especially in the next couple days. My biggest mistake was likely not enough electrolytes. Needless to say I learned my lesson and am adding beverages with electrolytes to my normal trip preparations.
Okay now I will get off my soap box and show you some agates.
The first group I found at one of the Moose Lake area public pits. It is a well searched pit. I was surprised I was able to pull out one pretty decent one in a quick hunt there.
All the others were found in 3 separate private gravel pits (with permission).
This one made the trip!
Moss agate
Nothing huge from this next spot but I cannot complain about finding this many agates in a couple of hours searching! At one point I knelt down to pick up a little agate and before I stood back up I picked up 7 agates.
Some "garden rocks" including some big pieces of jasper, a couple moss agates and one of those basalt with feldspar crystal rocks (I forget the nickname they are given).
I hope you enjoy. Happy hunting and stay cool.
