Just a little day out wandering around---few more pictures
Oct 11, 2014 23:16:54 GMT -5
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Post by nowyo on Oct 11, 2014 23:16:54 GMT -5
Well, that's sort of true, and sort of not. There is this area we've been hitting some this summer that has been yielding some nice material. Wrote about it a little in the "Russ and Jim's excellent adventure" thread. Well, Cyndi and I were over there a while back and I wandered down a section of the draw none of us had explored yet. In the course of my clambering around on the walls of the draw I looked down and saw this big green rock. Said to myself, "Self, that there looks like a big ol' hunk of jade". Clambered and slid on down there and grabbed ahold of it and it didn't move. Gave it a healthy smack with my hammer and it rang like a bell. Decided that the next time I was over there I'd get that thing and bring it on home. Well, I'm sure a lot of folks on here can relate, that rock sitting there has been in the back of my mind for the past couple of weeks. Today we went back over there and got the dern thing.
What I spotted
What it was. The rusty metal to the right is an old station wagon. Front clip is gone, no emblems visible, I'm guessing an early sixties Ford. Thought I took a picture of it but it wasn't on the camera when I got home. Been there awhile, it's half full of dirt and rocks and there is a Russian Olive growing in the back of it. Never know what you're going to find out in the boonies.
The rock was solid, green, and smells like nephrite to me. Loaded it up and hauled it out of there.
And here is my hauling tool. Kid's sled we picked up at KMart a few years ago just for this sort of thing. Being plastic it actually slides along pretty good. In this shot I'm almost to the road, and a hundred yards from the pickup. That big green rock collected a few smaller friends along the way. This journey started a couple of bends down the wash.
Almost to the road, spotted what looked like a decent rock. Picked it up, laughed and took a picture right there. Never know where you're going to find a decent rock. Six feet from the road always works for me. Picture is dry, and dirty, right where I picked it up, but it's a pretty darn nice chunk of Lysite agate.
Green rock is in the pickup.
All these pictures are kind of washed out and don't show color well, the sun was really bright and I was too lazy to fool with the camera settings. I don't have a good scale that will weigh that rock but the bathroom scale says it weighs 58 lbs.
As part of the same little jaunt, we went to get a hunk of coral that Cyndi had found on an earlier trip. Forgot to get a picture in the field, but here's a shot of it on the bench in my "stupid room". It weighed in at a shade under 20 pounds. Beverage container for scale.
Then, we drove to another spot we had checked out briefly once before.
By this time it was clouding up, supposed to rain tonight. We did find some decent stuff here, I'll post some more pics tomorrow when I get it all unloaded and rinsed off. Nothing spectacular, but just enough small pieces of nice stuff to make me want to go check it out again.
I guess the worst part of the whole trip was that after I'd dug out that green rock I went poking around and found another one, about the same size, with better color and I think it's a better stone. For now I'm just storing it in situ but I guess we'll have to go over there again. Darn the luck.
Thanks for looking.
Russ
What I spotted
What it was. The rusty metal to the right is an old station wagon. Front clip is gone, no emblems visible, I'm guessing an early sixties Ford. Thought I took a picture of it but it wasn't on the camera when I got home. Been there awhile, it's half full of dirt and rocks and there is a Russian Olive growing in the back of it. Never know what you're going to find out in the boonies.
The rock was solid, green, and smells like nephrite to me. Loaded it up and hauled it out of there.
And here is my hauling tool. Kid's sled we picked up at KMart a few years ago just for this sort of thing. Being plastic it actually slides along pretty good. In this shot I'm almost to the road, and a hundred yards from the pickup. That big green rock collected a few smaller friends along the way. This journey started a couple of bends down the wash.
Almost to the road, spotted what looked like a decent rock. Picked it up, laughed and took a picture right there. Never know where you're going to find a decent rock. Six feet from the road always works for me. Picture is dry, and dirty, right where I picked it up, but it's a pretty darn nice chunk of Lysite agate.
Green rock is in the pickup.
All these pictures are kind of washed out and don't show color well, the sun was really bright and I was too lazy to fool with the camera settings. I don't have a good scale that will weigh that rock but the bathroom scale says it weighs 58 lbs.
As part of the same little jaunt, we went to get a hunk of coral that Cyndi had found on an earlier trip. Forgot to get a picture in the field, but here's a shot of it on the bench in my "stupid room". It weighed in at a shade under 20 pounds. Beverage container for scale.
Then, we drove to another spot we had checked out briefly once before.
By this time it was clouding up, supposed to rain tonight. We did find some decent stuff here, I'll post some more pics tomorrow when I get it all unloaded and rinsed off. Nothing spectacular, but just enough small pieces of nice stuff to make me want to go check it out again.
I guess the worst part of the whole trip was that after I'd dug out that green rock I went poking around and found another one, about the same size, with better color and I think it's a better stone. For now I'm just storing it in situ but I guess we'll have to go over there again. Darn the luck.
Thanks for looking.
Russ