grayfingers
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Post by grayfingers on Nov 25, 2013 13:14:16 GMT -5
Killer rocks! That is great you found this one where hundreds or more had gone before.
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Tommy
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Post by Tommy on Nov 25, 2013 13:22:15 GMT -5
Damn Scott you blew my cover – I’ve been telling people that Eva and I had to schlep those 100lb of rocks 5 miles over rugged peaks and through deep sand valleys – up hill both ways.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2013 14:22:53 GMT -5
Damn Scott you blew my cover – I’ve been telling people that Eva and I had to schlep those 100lb of rocks 5 miles over rugged peaks and through deep sand valleys – up hill both ways. In the snow, backwards............. I think it's more amazing that those stones were untouched after 50+ years of heavy rock hounding traffic. I wonder how many times Mel parked there and walked right by them?
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LarryS
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Post by LarryS on Nov 25, 2013 15:28:29 GMT -5
Jakesrock Don use to wear T shirts with that color pattern back in the 1960's. Bet his closet is still full of them!
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Post by Pat on Nov 25, 2013 16:53:35 GMT -5
That's an unusual rock. All kinds of things going on.
@shotgunner, can you decipher how it came to be ? It's history?
Should mention that it's a real beauty , too.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2013 17:00:55 GMT -5
@shotgunner, can you decipher how it came to be ? It's history? Once upon a time............... Pat - any description I try to give will be a true fairy tale. .................. and to all a good night.
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 25, 2013 17:06:36 GMT -5
Yup.Probably walked right by that one many times *L*. The Cadys are really funny. I parked at pepto bismol hill and camped with a gang one time. Walked right out of camp to poke around and went up a small hanging canyon not that far from camp. Turned out the canyon had porous looking nodules full of the finest moss agate I've ever found out there. Lots of matrix on the outside but when cracked open each had a lens of wonderful moss. One was big enough I got about thirty pounds of good moss from its center. Got food poisoning from a bad subway sandwich that trip so went back on a later trip and damned if I could find that same canyon, even knowing about where it was. Different light, looking a different direction or what ever, totally frustrated that I couldn't get back in the same spot because usually I can go right back to a place, even years later....Mel
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elementary
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Post by elementary on Nov 25, 2013 22:23:43 GMT -5
Damn it and tarnations - what a stone!
I just let Scott know that I'm hitting the Cady's in late december. I had a great time running around with scott but it was more show and tell and less me roaming the back hills and seeing new sites.
Hats off to Scott for running a great weekend. Happy to have helped the bit I did, but I really would have loved to have gone.
The Oxnard show was a great time for me and picked up some great info and some fun stones, but when time permits, I'll post the photos of the pieces. (I did buy 80 pieces of specimen dino bones for my class - blew their minds!)
Lowell
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Post by nowyo on Nov 25, 2013 22:58:33 GMT -5
Great stories and pictures from all of you, but that last rock of Tommy's and that cab are just cooler than the other side of the pillow. Gonna get my butt into that country one of these days.
Russ
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Post by rockjunquie on Dec 1, 2013 17:56:46 GMT -5
Just spent the better part of an hour reading through. I so wish I could have come. Looks like a rockin' time was had by all and a good haul, too. Some of those rocks are really spectacular!
Next year, I am going to the mountains out here (Appalachians)for some camping in our favorite spot. Last I was out there, and before I was into rocks that weren't already cabs, I noticed some interesting rocks in the little river running through the holler. I'll get some pix and rocks and see what y'all think about them.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2013 20:26:43 GMT -5
Tela, we might do another trip soon! You're invited. Bring DH too!
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Post by pghram on Dec 2, 2013 13:07:04 GMT -5
What an amazing trip!!!
Rich
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2014 0:44:34 GMT -5
I am cutting stuff in earnest to be sure I am prepared for Quartzite. This stone once cut looks like this inside
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2014 18:35:37 GMT -5
here is some yellow plume I cut today. It's not all plume and it's not all yellow! rockpickerforever, this is the giant stone Bob carried out for me.
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Post by 1dave on Jan 27, 2014 1:31:43 GMT -5
More spheres? Your life is all mapped out!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2014 11:06:18 GMT -5
Accept, tonight starts high school baseball season for me. I umpire baseball, plus I start a new job today, plus soccer is coming.................
crap and I bought rocks in Quartzite too!
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