IdahoPeg

What great gold, beautiful scenery, and amazing wildlife shots! I’ve yet to see a mountain lion...seen their tracks etc and “felt” them nearby while out; your cam pic sure caught their wildness!

That’s some nice gold! ?

What a beauty! Congrats to your buddy....hope there’s more where that came from!

Wow. What a trip.....thanks for taking us along on the great Alaska adventure!

Thoroughly enjoying your pictures and narrative! Thank you for taking the time to share these memories!?

Congrats! Great detecting?

I’d call that a GREAT weekend! Thanks for sharing!

You’ve had a heck of an adventure! Thanks for taking us along. ?⛏

Yes, you are the God of Rye Patch! What a great haul for such a short time....I spent a week there early this summer, and didn’t even find half that much! Great job Rick!

That is some serious gold on that Bonanza bench!?

I have so many of these blue scrub pants from working at the VA hospital, I’ll probably be wearing them when I croak! ?

He says “amazing feeling of joy” uncovering any nugget....how true! Amplify it a zillion times if you found a whopper I bet!

Dang, could you imagine what that would be like? To find something so awesome? Incredible!

Hi Mitchel....re the rig, yep it’s nice to be comfy in the boonies!?

Steve, that’s right! I remember you used that pic in an article, and yes, I do remember meeting you but you were surrounded by your fan club so couldn’t chat much lol!

Yes, it does look bigger, but it’s very porous “sponge” gold. If solid, would’ve been twice the weight I think.

Cool find! Interesting how the nickels found their way there too.

OK, so not really a BIG adventure....I just like the title!? I decided the Zed needed to get out and play, so we headed to northern Nv for a week...skipped my usual Rye Patch, and hunted 3 other areas instead. My 1st bit of gold was from Placerites, a sassy piece: Got a dink at Sawtooth, then moved on elsewhere. Had a couple skunked days but still enjoyed the scenery: Even found me a cool high desert hood ornament lol! Ended up with over a quarter oz, including a rough beauty of 3.9 grams about 12” deep: Wanted to meet Steve at the Nugget Shoot, but had to head home to meet up with some loggers up by my cabin. All in all, a great trip!

Thank-you Steve! This is a very informative and helpful article. You are a really good writer, by the way??

Awesome Find! Congrats! ??

Was about 2hours into a skunk the other day, so I decided to head back to the main area I’ve been working this summer. There’s some sage and brush adjacent to the rock piles I had been moving....time to investigate! Pulled out a large sage and got the Monster in there...hit a good target right away! Nice little beauty: I proceeded to pull out more sage and rake aside the bed of needles and pine cones. I cleared a small area around a skinny little pine tree. I did leave that one clump alone to the left of the tree, as there is a HUGE anthill thing built up into it and I didn’t want to disturb them and get carried off into the hills by an angry army of ants lol! What a fun little area! It was like the skinny pine had shed gold lol.....here’s that afternoon’s Monster and drywasher finds. I got about the same amount the next day by scraping, detecting, and puffing the area some more! ?

Love the story and pictures! Must have been a wonderful time, for sure!?

Looks real purty to me! ?

Wow great job! That’s a really nice collection! Congrats??

Wow, those are beauties!