vanursepaul Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 Follow the ghost trails!!!! be careful going in there those roads can change quickly if there has been any water running Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Lunn Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Good luck Mitchel! I will be making the nine hour drive from SoCal in a couple of weeks. Show me a few nuggets for inspiration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted October 14, 2017 Author Share Posted October 14, 2017 On 10/12/2017 at 12:26 AM, vanursepaul said: Follow the ghost trails!!!! be careful going in there those roads can change quickly if there has been any water running Don't you remember I saw you flying to the Fox one time and you were going 3x too fast for the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted October 14, 2017 Author Share Posted October 14, 2017 Two days and two big crystals to show for it. Not my idea of a good time so far. I've got half day tomorrow and Sunday ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanursepaul Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 That's the reference for my earlier post : When you let me go past you said i was l gone when you came over a hill I was like a ghost. PS that was the fastest I made that trip to the Fox 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jennifer Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 1 hour ago, mn90403 said: Two days and two big crystals to show for it. Not my idea of a good time so far. I've got half day tomorrow and Sunday ... Best bet in my opion for large stuff would be spending the entire time out in Sawtooth, sleep out there in your truck. When I was there in July (I spent a month out every day all over the place), my detecting partner pulled a 1.3 ouncer out and NUMEROUS others, I found a few as well... lots of non hit ground out there around the corner from the old house..... It's not how much you make, it's how much you spend and a drive from southern cali to Rye Patch has already put you deep into the negative into a place where you have to find big / numerous gold just to get to zero... Come to AZ, even if you find the same amount you're finding in Dry Patch, at least it cost you a lot less and you didn't freeze your dingly bits off at night. Jen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mungass Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 Ha ha freezing ones dingly bits is right up there with finding no gold . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jennifer Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 1 hour ago, kiwijw said: LOL Depends who you got to cuddle up to at night. WOW a 1.3 ouncer. Nice. You got a photo to share with us Jen? Good luck out there JW Well considering he's no longer detecting there, and his info isn't in the picture, I doubt he'd mind. Jen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted October 18, 2017 Author Share Posted October 18, 2017 Well ... I'm back! Jennifer's advice would be well heeded. The areas I hunted in Rye Patch were very hammered. I did a lot of research before I went. I identified some old push areas near where gold has been found for years. There is a reason why there are no claims on property. There was very little gold to start with and it didn't seem to have any that I and my friends could find. There were others in our group of 50 that did find gold. The largest nugget I saw was 4 grams and the same guy got a 3 grammer at 18 inches. Everything else was smaller. There was one unique piece that was a small fully faceted crystal with about .4g of gold around the bottom of it. I don't have a picture. I would like to have bought that piece. About 1 PM on Saturday I actually put my friends on a spot that still had some little nuggets between all the dig holes. I was using the 19 and one nugget my friend found could not be heard with the 19! (.1g) I had to leave and still had the skunk. It was time to set up for the dinner. Things were late and I got in a relic trip where I found a copper nugget with my 3030. Felt a little better but still a skunk in my book. Sunday I went to the Eugenes and met a guy who showed us some places to hunt. There were lode claims and nothing placer. Still had a skunk. By the time I got back to the Saturday patch there was only two hours of light left before I had to drive all night to get back home. About 20 minutes after I got there I broke the skunk. The slight little sound was a .2 gram nugget with the 14. Finally ... after several days and multiple trips I had a nugget! (Last year I had 5 nuggets on this outing for about 2 g.) The group that followed a prolific leader who knows the area well found many nuggets. My friends ended up with a couple each. Everyone worked for them. There are no easy nuggets on that side any more. Mitchel 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrbeatty Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 That's a bummer Mitchel. Damn stuffs sure getting scarce! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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