Kilika
Full Member
'Group Hunt' for 2
What a great weekend! Thank you TNet for making it possible.
Met up with 49'er and spent the weekend exploring and detecting on the eastern side of the state. Hit a couple of parks the first day, pulling up clad. But the best part - hardly no trash! It was great!
Next day spent looking for a ghost town, hitting a few more parks, and winding up at a great beach site just in time to get rained on. Well, the rain didn't last long, but by then it was getting late, so off to a nice dinner with his lovely wife. (The beach has great potential, can't wait to go back)
The last day was just about the most perfect day of MDing I've had yet. The weather was perfect, not too hot, no rain, a little breeze to keep the bugs off
(Not to mention the good company ) We went down along the river, across from an old power plant, massive bedrock sticking out into the river. Tried some crevice hunting, but being inexperienced with my new GMT, wasn't too sure how to interpret the signals I was getting. Went upstream and eventually found two old mines. One was huge, but on heavily posted private property, so no go. 
The other was small and looked like it was dug into ? shale?, the ceiling and walls full of cracks. So we collected some cool samples around the entrance, and headed down to the river to do some panning. Used our detectors to find the black sand concentrations and we both came away with a few flakes of gold!! No snakes and no bears all weekend... perfect. Oh, yeah... and I found a gold chain with a pendant along the river on my way over the mountains. (HAD to stop for a MD'ing fix 
) So plenty of great finds for the weekend, but the absolute best part was meeting 49'er and his charming wife Carol, who are truly kind and generous people. We spent the evenings going over maps and books and research material and I don't know how his wife put up with us! Also, they're both jewelry makers and have quite a partnership creating beautiful peices together! All in all, a treasure hunters' ideal weekend, and I'll be happy to hunt with 49'er any chance I get.
So, all you west-siders, don't be uncertain about heading EAST... there's plenty of good places to hunt (and the weather's fine
)
Kilika
What a great weekend! Thank you TNet for making it possible.
Met up with 49'er and spent the weekend exploring and detecting on the eastern side of the state. Hit a couple of parks the first day, pulling up clad. But the best part - hardly no trash! It was great!
Next day spent looking for a ghost town, hitting a few more parks, and winding up at a great beach site just in time to get rained on. Well, the rain didn't last long, but by then it was getting late, so off to a nice dinner with his lovely wife. (The beach has great potential, can't wait to go back)
The last day was just about the most perfect day of MDing I've had yet. The weather was perfect, not too hot, no rain, a little breeze to keep the bugs off
(Not to mention the good company ) We went down along the river, across from an old power plant, massive bedrock sticking out into the river. Tried some crevice hunting, but being inexperienced with my new GMT, wasn't too sure how to interpret the signals I was getting. Went upstream and eventually found two old mines. One was huge, but on heavily posted private property, so no go. The other was small and looked like it was dug into ? shale?, the ceiling and walls full of cracks. So we collected some cool samples around the entrance, and headed down to the river to do some panning. Used our detectors to find the black sand concentrations and we both came away with a few flakes of gold!! No snakes and no bears all weekend... perfect. Oh, yeah... and I found a gold chain with a pendant along the river on my way over the mountains. (HAD to stop for a MD'ing fix ) So plenty of great finds for the weekend, but the absolute best part was meeting 49'er and his charming wife Carol, who are truly kind and generous people. We spent the evenings going over maps and books and research material and I don't know how his wife put up with us! Also, they're both jewelry makers and have quite a partnership creating beautiful peices together! All in all, a treasure hunters' ideal weekend, and I'll be happy to hunt with 49'er any chance I get.So, all you west-siders, don't be uncertain about heading EAST... there's plenty of good places to hunt (and the weather's fine
)Kilika
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