Russ and Jim's Excellent Adventure
Jul 18, 2014 1:26:27 GMT -5
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Post by nowyo on Jul 18, 2014 1:26:27 GMT -5
Some of you may recall that a few days ago I posted a thread in General Rocks about Cyndi and I finding a new spot for finding interesting rocks. I knew that Wampidy Jim has an interest in some of the rocks we were finding, so after a few emails and a couple of phone calls we decided to head over there on Thursday morning. Cyndi was already taking Thurs. and Fri. off, so she went as well. Jim came down here to the Hacienda del Diablo this morning, and after showing off some of my collection of junk rocks and leaverite wannabes, we piled in the pickup and headed out. On the drive we had a nice visit, and when we had to stop for road construction invited the flag girl to go rockhounding with us. For a minute there I thought she was going to shed that orange vest and jump in the truck, but alas, the allure of the paycheck on Friday overcame her desire to spend the day with such an upstanding group of citizens. Her loss.
After the construction, and a stop at the only convenience store within 40 miles, we turned off the highway at a town I can't remember the name of. We drove down this here road.
Now in that big old dry wash there are a bunch of rocks. In the distance one can barely make out the outline of some mountains. Air has been a little thick down here lately, I hear tell those MacKenzie boys, Bob and Doug, have been having a big old bonfire up in The Great White North. Wish they'd stop it, the smoke is drifting down here and fouling up our scenic vistas.
At any rate to the north and east of that big old dry wash there is this hill.
There are rocks all up that hill and, by golly, down the other side as well. Most of the rocks are either agate, jasper, chert, some kind of combination of all, or green. Quite a bunch of green rocks. Green rocks were the main focus of the day. Parked the pickup, got out, walked about 20 feet, said "here's one" and tossed a green rock over to Jim.
Jim beating the heck out of a green rock.
Yup, that's ol' Seldom Seen Jim. Then i took this picture up a side draw, I swear Cyndi was standing there and bent over to pick up a rock just as I snapped the photo, removing herself from becoming famous on the interwebs.
Just a random shot in the bottom of the draw. Any rock in the photo would be worth taking home, except that you just know that ten feet farther along there is a better one. I'd not be ashamed of any of these rocks, the picture doesn't do them justice.
A shot looking down into the draw, pretty much same comments regarding the rocks.
We found some interesting stuff, saws will be singing for a while now. Cool rocks, agates, jaspers, banded cherts, it's all good.
We found some stromatolites, too.
Oh, and we found some of those green rocks.
Another shot of that same green rock inside on the scale.
Yessir, that's 2328 grams. You all can do the arithmetic as well as I can, and that's a tick over 5.1 pounds. Checked out at 2.97 specific gravity. Just lousy photography of a pretty darn nice chunk of Wyoming nephrite.
Now about the time that I was unloading all this stuff-oh yeah, need a shot of most of the haul.
There is more in the tool box. Ohhh, Yeeeaaah. Hard to tell with that lousy picture, but there is quite a bunch of nephrite in there for a couple hours of messing around.
As I was saying, it clouded up, a thunderstorm was rolling in. Lost my light, hence the crappy pictures. There will be more nephrite photos in a day or so when I get stuff sorted out and checked out.
Had a great time. Sun beating down, obviously no shade around there, sweaty, dirty, bug bit; hell, it just doesn't get any better than that. Do it all again tomorrow if I could.
Now, from my directions and pictures you can all find this place, right? Good. Call me for gps cooords. BR-549.
Thanks for looking.
Russ
After the construction, and a stop at the only convenience store within 40 miles, we turned off the highway at a town I can't remember the name of. We drove down this here road.
Now in that big old dry wash there are a bunch of rocks. In the distance one can barely make out the outline of some mountains. Air has been a little thick down here lately, I hear tell those MacKenzie boys, Bob and Doug, have been having a big old bonfire up in The Great White North. Wish they'd stop it, the smoke is drifting down here and fouling up our scenic vistas.
At any rate to the north and east of that big old dry wash there is this hill.
There are rocks all up that hill and, by golly, down the other side as well. Most of the rocks are either agate, jasper, chert, some kind of combination of all, or green. Quite a bunch of green rocks. Green rocks were the main focus of the day. Parked the pickup, got out, walked about 20 feet, said "here's one" and tossed a green rock over to Jim.
Jim beating the heck out of a green rock.
Yup, that's ol' Seldom Seen Jim. Then i took this picture up a side draw, I swear Cyndi was standing there and bent over to pick up a rock just as I snapped the photo, removing herself from becoming famous on the interwebs.
Just a random shot in the bottom of the draw. Any rock in the photo would be worth taking home, except that you just know that ten feet farther along there is a better one. I'd not be ashamed of any of these rocks, the picture doesn't do them justice.
A shot looking down into the draw, pretty much same comments regarding the rocks.
We found some interesting stuff, saws will be singing for a while now. Cool rocks, agates, jaspers, banded cherts, it's all good.
We found some stromatolites, too.
Oh, and we found some of those green rocks.
Another shot of that same green rock inside on the scale.
Yessir, that's 2328 grams. You all can do the arithmetic as well as I can, and that's a tick over 5.1 pounds. Checked out at 2.97 specific gravity. Just lousy photography of a pretty darn nice chunk of Wyoming nephrite.
Now about the time that I was unloading all this stuff-oh yeah, need a shot of most of the haul.
There is more in the tool box. Ohhh, Yeeeaaah. Hard to tell with that lousy picture, but there is quite a bunch of nephrite in there for a couple hours of messing around.
As I was saying, it clouded up, a thunderstorm was rolling in. Lost my light, hence the crappy pictures. There will be more nephrite photos in a day or so when I get stuff sorted out and checked out.
Had a great time. Sun beating down, obviously no shade around there, sweaty, dirty, bug bit; hell, it just doesn't get any better than that. Do it all again tomorrow if I could.
Now, from my directions and pictures you can all find this place, right? Good. Call me for gps cooords. BR-549.
Thanks for looking.
Russ