Ben Cartwright SASS
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No hunting in MA on Sundays and the hurricane is supposed to hit later tonight so decided to head out to check out a new river.
Checked out one of the state forests, I saw on Google Earth what looked like a nice river and hear there was a campground as well.
First check the river and saw an extremely swift flow of water, and we haven't had any rain lately. The picture is below, I saw alot of bedrock.
The access is very steep and the water is deep. Then drove to the campground and found a small brook with a medium flow of water. I didn't see any bedrock and decided to check several areas with a pan. My wife would look at the stream and see some sand on the surface and say "pan here, there is sand" I told her I wanted to work around the rocks, but she insisted I work the sand. I had to, to humor her, didn't find anything not even garnets in the sand.
I had my jacket turned inside out since it is hunters orange on the inside. I then put my car keys in the pocket, can you see where this is going? anyhow the pockets have snaps but they face forwards when the jacket is inside out. I dug one test hole and didn't find anything in 4 pans, a few very small garnets and minimal if any black sand. I then went to a larger rock and started digging under it, did 3 pans and decided to take my jacket off. As I put it on the rock I realized that my keys were MISSING. I called my wife and told her I lost the car keys, 5 miles from the nearest house. Evidentally there was enough room for the keys to fall out of the pocket even though snapped as I leaned forward to pan. I immeadiatly started retracing my steps and as I got to the last place I panned, down under the water I saw the plastic scan cards sticking up in the water, only the top half of them, I couldn't see the keys but reached down and grabbed them, MY KEYS!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW LUCKY I WAS TO FIND THEM! What are the odds I would find them!
I am still shaking from how close I was to disaster!
Checked out one of the state forests, I saw on Google Earth what looked like a nice river and hear there was a campground as well.
First check the river and saw an extremely swift flow of water, and we haven't had any rain lately. The picture is below, I saw alot of bedrock.
The access is very steep and the water is deep. Then drove to the campground and found a small brook with a medium flow of water. I didn't see any bedrock and decided to check several areas with a pan. My wife would look at the stream and see some sand on the surface and say "pan here, there is sand" I told her I wanted to work around the rocks, but she insisted I work the sand. I had to, to humor her, didn't find anything not even garnets in the sand.
I had my jacket turned inside out since it is hunters orange on the inside. I then put my car keys in the pocket, can you see where this is going? anyhow the pockets have snaps but they face forwards when the jacket is inside out. I dug one test hole and didn't find anything in 4 pans, a few very small garnets and minimal if any black sand. I then went to a larger rock and started digging under it, did 3 pans and decided to take my jacket off. As I put it on the rock I realized that my keys were MISSING. I called my wife and told her I lost the car keys, 5 miles from the nearest house. Evidentally there was enough room for the keys to fall out of the pocket even though snapped as I leaned forward to pan. I immeadiatly started retracing my steps and as I got to the last place I panned, down under the water I saw the plastic scan cards sticking up in the water, only the top half of them, I couldn't see the keys but reached down and grabbed them, MY KEYS!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW LUCKY I WAS TO FIND THEM! What are the odds I would find them!
I am still shaking from how close I was to disaster!
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If you have to cut the chain, you can always put your lock on, or so I have heard.
