Getting out Weds. for the 1st run of the year........

mike(swWash) · Feb 17, 2015

My highbanker cart is loaded, battery charged up and the sun is shining.
Sal and I are headed to Waddell cr. to see what the flood gods have left for us this year.

Vance in AK · Feb 17, 2015

Looks like you are ready to go!
Have fun out there. It will be a while before we are getting out much around here :sadsmiley:

AlaskaGold · Feb 18, 2015

Vance in AK said:
Looks like you are ready to go!
Have fun out there. It will be a while before we are getting out much around here

With the weather we are having it might be sooner than later. If it stays warm till this weekend I'm dragging out the tools to go find some open water some where!

mike(swWash) · Feb 18, 2015

The creek was a bit higher than expected and our favorite accessible gravel bar had 2 guys running sluices and not much room for us and the highbankers, so we went hiking with shovels, pans and classifiers looking at new prospects. I ended up with 3 flakes and Sal found 1. Quick sampled several likely looking spots but no joy in mudville. A beautiful day to be out, found some good places to pack a sluice when the creek drops much lower.

Vance in AK · Feb 18, 2015

AK Gold, I hope you are right! Good luck if you get out.

Mike, sometimes folks forcing us to look for new places is the only things that gets us to sweeter ground. Looks like it was a fine day for it!Better luck next time.