Goldwasher
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- May 26, 2009
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Hangtown and I brought Aufisher down to our claim. I talked them out of bringing their bazookas and we tested my new powersluice. I scored an old sluice and hopper from a guy on craigslist ....FOR 80 BUCKS. I've plugged some holes added some rivets, and legs (thanks Hangtown
) and most importantly I have thrown in some Goldhog mats and they are pretty sweet so far. We didn't bring a pump down I have some pipe stashed down in the canyon so we grabbed it and I was hoping we would be able to use it and some hose to run the spray bar but, we will need more pipe. Until we lose water volume and run a pump. We cut a notch across some bedrock I found decent color on and a nice picker last year, I wanted to sample a cross section of the stream bank to bank. We figure we ran 15 to 20 buckets yesterday we didn't count...duh. Today we ran 9. We found a better drop in the bedrock today and flaking bedrock. I picked a nice little piece out of a crack that looks like Pacman. We got another little round plinker that stayed in one spot in the scrubber mat from like the second bucket on. We fell about three feet short of hitting the other side, but, we seemed to increase the size of gold and amount as we moved over. We will know more later. My son who turned eleven last week made the trip down the first day, with his own pack and he carried the pipe down. I showed him how to use a screwdriver to properly work on a creek...and tried to set him up to find and pan out his first color on a creek...he got skunked
. But, as he pointed out last night at our fire when we were figuring our bucket count..."I fed most of them". We saw a garter snake swim up the creek...and a couple week old Diamondback....and Hangtow saw a big 'ol bullfrog.I We recovered some very very fine gold so I have to do a blue bowl run still the pics are after a run through the desert fox. Hangtown wanted me to keep the take I am saying that I will be handing a vial over to Aufisher when I see him in April
) and most importantly I have thrown in some Goldhog mats and they are pretty sweet so far. We didn't bring a pump down I have some pipe stashed down in the canyon so we grabbed it and I was hoping we would be able to use it and some hose to run the spray bar but, we will need more pipe. Until we lose water volume and run a pump. We cut a notch across some bedrock I found decent color on and a nice picker last year, I wanted to sample a cross section of the stream bank to bank. We figure we ran 15 to 20 buckets yesterday we didn't count...duh. Today we ran 9. We found a better drop in the bedrock today and flaking bedrock. I picked a nice little piece out of a crack that looks like Pacman. We got another little round plinker that stayed in one spot in the scrubber mat from like the second bucket on. We fell about three feet short of hitting the other side, but, we seemed to increase the size of gold and amount as we moved over. We will know more later. My son who turned eleven last week made the trip down the first day, with his own pack and he carried the pipe down. I showed him how to use a screwdriver to properly work on a creek...and tried to set him up to find and pan out his first color on a creek...he got skunked. But, as he pointed out last night at our fire when we were figuring our bucket count..."I fed most of them". We saw a garter snake swim up the creek...and a couple week old Diamondback....and Hangtow saw a big 'ol bullfrog.I We recovered some very very fine gold so I have to do a blue bowl run still the pics are after a run through the desert fox. Hangtown wanted me to keep the take I am saying that I will be handing a vial over to Aufisher when I see him in April
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Was a weekend to remember full of good times with great people. Thanks again fellas ill be looking forward to the next trip
