Peg's Summer Gold Trip

[IdahoPeg]

Well I'm back from my California gold trip.....was a bit under the weather with a summer cold that turned into a sinus/cough thing that lingered the whole time! Argh! Anyway, took a day off early on and rode the quad to this beautiful view of the N Fork of American River:

But on to the GOLD! Spent a lot of time playing with the Monster at a nearby hammered hydraulic pit, working bedrock areas like this:

Found numerous small nuggies chipping away at the fissured areas, including this nice 1st one using the larger coil, which I love by the way! :

However, I was eager to get out with the 7000 and went back to the American Hill area where my buhzillion dollar machine found me THIS!:

Hmmm...the Monster was killing the Zed, until it redeemed itself in a wash finding me this nice 4.4g speci! :

I had a nice time in CA detecting with Mike B. , Chet, and others, but since not feeling well decided to start heading home with a stop in Rye Patch to experience the solar eclipse at one of my favorite places:

And I was rewarded with a beautiful 2.4g eclipse nugget:

Here's a better pic:

Thought I was the only idiot out there in the heat, but ran into 2 gals, Carol and Janna who had Gold Monsters so we detected together a few hours....Carol got her 1st Rye Patch nugget! Then I ran into Rick and Rudy who as you know from Lucky Lundy's recent post, found a fantastic 1/4 oz nugget. The guys were very generous with their time and gave me some nice tips! 

So no big lunkers for me, but I had a great time with some great people, and ended up with just about a half an ounce of beautiful Calif(Monster, 2300, 7000) and Nv(11 pieces on left w 7000) gold, along with a very special Troy oz silver Prospector coin given to me at the Goldhounds meeting by El Presidente Mike B! 

Till the next hunt! Cheers! :-)

[phoenix]

Nice gold Peg and terrific photos 

[LuckyLundy]

Peg,

You had a great trip and that is a prize of a Chevron from Rye Patch!  Your coil and technique are paying off.

Rick

[Rod K]

Looks like you had a great trip and ran into some nice folks. Congrats.

[~LARGO~]

Great job, Peg!  And here we thought it all had been cleaned out!  

Thank you for proving us differently! 

You earned every BIT!

~LARGO~

[flakmagnet]

Hi Peg, I am sure most of us would agree that
a Rye Patch chevron piece is the equivalent of a lunker in anyones book.
Nice job!

 

[strick]

Outstanding Peg! That chevron nugget is perfect. Beautiful pictures as usual...Please share your finds from florida as well.... you obviously know why your doing!!

strick

[Glenn in CO]

Great Pictures! Great Finds! Thanks for sharing your latest adventure!

[mn90403]

Very well done.  Your chevron is quite a prize along with all the others.

I spent a day at Rye Patch on Tuesday and have nothing to show for it.  I left about 4 PM but I had spent the night there near the burn barrel when I got there about 2 AM from Wyoming and the total eclipse there.

Mitchel

[Steve Herschbach]

That's awesome Peg. Great gold and great photos - you are living the dream!