Post by NorthShore-Rocks on Jan 2, 2009 12:28:51 GMT -5
This is how bwcachick and I spent the first day of 2009! Inspired by those of you in warmer climes who continue to collect and post your hounding adventures, we decided to do a little Extreme hounding in Northern Minnesota! LOL! ;D
We are thoroughly blanketed by snow, so we knew we would have to hunt straight vertical walls. I had a place in mind and we arrived there with the temperature in the upper teens on a gray overcast day.
It wasn't too bad going in. There was a packed layer of snow under the fresh.
The Wall
My Preciousss!!! ;D
A nice little Laker!
Boy does this Laker stick out like a sore thumb! I think it fell from above and landed on this shelf.
Excavating a nice Laker
The sand, clay, gravel mix was froze as hard as concrete.
This will clean-up nice!
A beautiful big red Jasper?
For only being able to search the wall, this was a very productive trip. We'll be doing more Winter hounding soon. Thanks to all of you, it was the first time we've looked for anything other than Agates. There certainly was other stuff to be found! I'll post a follow-up with the rocks cleaned and more of what we found.
Thanks...Steve & Kayla
We are thoroughly blanketed by snow, so we knew we would have to hunt straight vertical walls. I had a place in mind and we arrived there with the temperature in the upper teens on a gray overcast day.
It wasn't too bad going in. There was a packed layer of snow under the fresh.
The Wall
My Preciousss!!! ;D
A nice little Laker!
Boy does this Laker stick out like a sore thumb! I think it fell from above and landed on this shelf.
Excavating a nice Laker
The sand, clay, gravel mix was froze as hard as concrete.
This will clean-up nice!
A beautiful big red Jasper?
For only being able to search the wall, this was a very productive trip. We'll be doing more Winter hounding soon. Thanks to all of you, it was the first time we've looked for anything other than Agates. There certainly was other stuff to be found! I'll post a follow-up with the rocks cleaned and more of what we found.
Thanks...Steve & Kayla
