Sept I am on my annual rock hounding trip.
this year I hope to run around Idaho, or and nevada.
I pick up a friend from the east in boise after a few days in oregon . There are a few spot
I missed last year and or could not find. Its going to be interesting. The history of the areas
is fabulous. Crazy colors and patterns are the rocks and fossils.
Hey
this a late entry for my rockhounding adventure last year. It was a long drive to oregon, but the views
of Mt Hood were worth it. The rocks were in my favour. I claimed many containers of common pink,tan opals,black, brown obsidians and some 150 million year old ammonite fossils. really cool to hold something that old in your hands. B-3 a nice 26ft tow behind did well going up and down all those back roads and a few dirt roads. I have started to make some simple jewerly from the stones I have collected and it is a slow process. I had to go home early due to the forest fires, but as we say they are rocks and they arent going anywhere. Till next trip.
Stef
Wow,
What a week. You think Dennis the Mensis was dirty. He had nothing on me.
Each day I set out early with a new adventure in hand. With an empty backback except 20lbs of tools and water and a couple of cliff
bars I set off, sometimes with the dogs and some not, the temp of the day made a difference. If it was hot they stayed in air conditioned
Betty my Rv tow behind.
By the end of every day I was covered in dirt, scrapped from climbing a few cliffs and exhausted. My backpack on the way back to the truck
was around 50-60 lbs with some really cool rocks.
At one local I had to manage a 60 lbs geo into my truck alone in the middle of no where.
I had alot of good laughs and great weather. Managed to wrangle a case of sweetttt peach into the truck on the way back.
Hmmmm
My first time - out - with Betty - the travel trailer.
The Pacific NW as I have found out is rather wet.
The darkness came too soon and with it the rain.
What I did not know was my battery was just about dead.
