Lytle Creek Calif.

[Derek752]

Anyone familiar with Lytle creek ? I live in Ontario, Ca. and was wanting to go there with my XP Deus and search for the elusive gold.

HH.

Derek

 

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[Hoser John]

A sea of spent bullets/trash.....................John

 

[wecoyote]

What John said.
I grew up in Riverside, CA and many of those spent bullets were mine.
Panned the area some back then, found some flakes but nothing to write home about. Maybe the Deus will find it.

 

[Hard Prospector]

Have done some sluicing in there and found mostly fines(along with coyote's bullets and shell casings) In addition to working the creek be attentive to where you begin to see lots of quarts float bleeding down into the drainage or what appear to be crusted auriferrous gravels over-head and swing up into those areas. Way less trash and you might even get lucky and score a specimen.....Good Luck

 

[rodoconnor]

I've also sluiced D/W'd and dredged Lytle Creek and actually did OK, but to Metal detect ,I think you'd have to be a glutton for punishment.

 

[wecoyote]

(along with coyote's bullets and shell casings)

Bullets yes, shells went home with me (except for the few lost) for reloading.

 

[RussCA]

I'm not sure about Lytle creek but if you go father up the 15 into cajon pass I have heard of people finding gold down by the old route 66. I actually found a small flake in a piece of quartz right in the side of the road once

 

[nate s]

The Texas cut Hydraulic mine at the bottom of the canyon has good bedrock in some areas.They claim to have found a lot of gold there.I dont know if its private property or not,maybe somebody knows.I know there is fine gold in the tailings.

 

[H-2 CHARLIE]

I spent two Saturdays up there and I got poison oak real bad the second trip ... look out , no gold not even a flake

 

[atomicscott]

A guy I know has a claim near middle fork area, even HE doesn't work it much anymore. Detecting there really sucks with all the lead bullets!

 

[MrLee]

I'm not sure about Lytle creek but if you go father up the 15 into cajon pass I have heard of people finding gold down by the old route 66. I actually found a small flake in a piece of quartz right in the side of the road once

Russ is correct, the area is known as Blue Cut, and is right up against the train tracks along a bend off old rt66. I as well as others have found gold flakes there. The stream is fed by several tributaries from both sides of the 15fwy.

As for Lytle, forget about it. I've been up too many times and skunked every time, even way back to the end of the dirt road on the GPAA's old claim. The overburden is said to be 50-100' deep, so unless you're planning on doing a gold show for A&E with major equipment you're probably not gonna find much.