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Ganes Creek Trip
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Brian in AK
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Jack,
This year I'm going to take a Hotshot and a 14"DD. Last year Tom K. did very good running the 14" in relic mode. Another important thing is a good digging pick. Here's a picture of my homemade unit. I'm pretty happy with it but I'm going to trim a little off the sides of the shovel end so it's easyier to carry.
Regards,
Brian
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This year I'm going to take a Hotshot and a 14"DD. Last year Tom K. did very good running the 14" in relic mode. Another important thing is a good digging pick. Here's a picture of my homemade unit. I'm pretty happy with it but I'm going to trim a little off the sides of the shovel end so it's easyier to carry.
Regards,
Brian
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alienbogey
New member
That pick looks good to me. I used the Wombat pick from Doc's Prospecting up at Ganes last year.
I won't be going this year. Decided I just can't afford the time/money.
I'll be cheering you guys on, though.
I won't be going this year. Decided I just can't afford the time/money.
I'll be cheering you guys on, though.
Brian in AK
New member
I'll be there the first week.
Here's last years gold.
Here's last years gold.
Lee - MI - MI
New member
Related but may be a new thread.
Is there any thing published or on the web that would show the various areas in AK that would have pretty good odds of finding the yellow stuff with a detector that the typical tourist may visit?
In our list of things to do when we retire we have a motor trip to Alaska. Probably with a camping rig of some kind. Currently a 5th wheel and pick up truck.
Although we want to get our share of sight seeing and stuff in, I would desperately like to get in some gold searching if anything is along the way or that we could work in to our daily overnight camping.
My wife and I would probably travel with one or two other couples and I would be the only one with a metal detector. I don't want to get everyone else ticked at me for my obsession. I could very easily spend all day with headphones on but...
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Lee
Is there any thing published or on the web that would show the various areas in AK that would have pretty good odds of finding the yellow stuff with a detector that the typical tourist may visit?
In our list of things to do when we retire we have a motor trip to Alaska. Probably with a camping rig of some kind. Currently a 5th wheel and pick up truck.
Although we want to get our share of sight seeing and stuff in, I would desperately like to get in some gold searching if anything is along the way or that we could work in to our daily overnight camping.
My wife and I would probably travel with one or two other couples and I would be the only one with a metal detector. I don't want to get everyone else ticked at me for my obsession. I could very easily spend all day with headphones on but...
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Lee
Lee - MI - MI
New member
Are you sure this is real?
I have seen this same picture claiming to be from about three or four different states including a town in Michigan about 20 miles from where I live.
Check this out. http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/txsnake.asp
I have seen this same picture claiming to be from about three or four different states including a town in Michigan about 20 miles from where I live.
Check this out. http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/txsnake.asp
Brian in AK
New member
Lee,
Here's a place to start your research.
http://www.recminer.com/
http://www.akmining.com/mine/recsites.htm
Another good resource is the Alaska Gold Forum.
http://bb.bbboy.net/alaskagoldforum-viewforum?forum=2
In my opinion May and June are the best months to visit, it's usually dryer and the mosquitos and Winnebago are not out in full force yet. If you want to include some fishing July / August would be better for that.
Regards,
Brian
Here's a place to start your research.
http://www.recminer.com/
http://www.akmining.com/mine/recsites.htm
Another good resource is the Alaska Gold Forum.
http://bb.bbboy.net/alaskagoldforum-viewforum?forum=2
In my opinion May and June are the best months to visit, it's usually dryer and the mosquitos and Winnebago are not out in full force yet. If you want to include some fishing July / August would be better for that.
Regards,
Brian
My friend in Utah E-mailed this to me and said that it was recently killed at Wendover, Utah. The old Army Air Corp location on the Utah/Nevada border.
It doesn't surprise me that it could be possible because often snakes, like other critters, go in cycles. The worst 'cycle' I ever encountered was in 1969. May 4th, as a matter of fact, when my brother Ed & I were heading out to do some ghost town hunting.
Headed west on the old dusty road that was originally a freight and wagon road from a hundred years earlier wwhen the Transcontinental RailRoad was built, I was nearing Monument Point. For about two miles I had been driving over what my brother thought were 'sticks' in the road. There was a rock outcropping on the right that went up to higher ground, and on the left it was just sage brush slowly sloping to the old RR grade and then off ot the Great Salt Lake a short ways off.
I was moving along at a good 45-50 mph and taking out as many 'sticks' as I could and recall my brother commenting to "look out for that big stick ahead!" I responded, you mean the one that looks like a limb? "Yes," he replied and I then asked, Do you see any trees? "Ah, No." he came back with and I said there ain't no trees and that ain't no limb.
By that time I was about 3 seconds away and the tail came out of the sagebrush just as the head was about
It doesn't surprise me that it could be possible because often snakes, like other critters, go in cycles. The worst 'cycle' I ever encountered was in 1969. May 4th, as a matter of fact, when my brother Ed & I were heading out to do some ghost town hunting.
Headed west on the old dusty road that was originally a freight and wagon road from a hundred years earlier wwhen the Transcontinental RailRoad was built, I was nearing Monument Point. For about two miles I had been driving over what my brother thought were 'sticks' in the road. There was a rock outcropping on the right that went up to higher ground, and on the left it was just sage brush slowly sloping to the old RR grade and then off ot the Great Salt Lake a short ways off.
I was moving along at a good 45-50 mph and taking out as many 'sticks' as I could and recall my brother commenting to "look out for that big stick ahead!" I responded, you mean the one that looks like a limb? "Yes," he replied and I then asked, Do you see any trees? "Ah, No." he came back with and I said there ain't no trees and that ain't no limb.
By that time I was about 3 seconds away and the tail came out of the sagebrush just as the head was about
Lee - MI - MI
New member
Don't have time now but will check them out later.
I am hoping that my CCW permit in MI will be recognized by ALL the states soon so I can carry out west for critters like that snake, etc. without worring about breaking the law.
Right now, we're limited for some unknown reason.
I want to try nugget shooting out west soon. (MXT)
It would be quite difficult to detect while slinging a rifle.
Jim
Right now, we're limited for some unknown reason.
I want to try nugget shooting out west soon. (MXT)
It would be quite difficult to detect while slinging a rifle.
Jim
Jeff in MI
New member
If you ever want to see the rare Michigan rattlesnake, I know a place that is infested with them for some freak-of-nature reason. There is little town/ lake in Lapeer County, and is named Otter Lake. All around that lake, you easily see the Michigan rattlesnakes. I can verify that because I have bee there several times, and have seen them every time I have been there, and I have never seen one anywhere else in MI, and I travel a lot around the state. The rattlesnakes are little, about 13 inches max length. That is small compared to western rattlesnakes, but it is normal for this type of rattlesnake. With a little caution, you can easily pick them up. I believe they are a protected species. I have no idea why they are so common in this one particular area, but it is very cool to see one. This area, Otter Lake, is very odd. There have been television specials on it, because it only covers a few acres, and I have been told that in some areas it is over 300 feet deep!! If you ever decide to go there, they have a nice campground and great fishing.
Brian in AK
New member
$2500. Here's their website. http://www.clark-wiltz.com/
thats one big snake, but the picture makes it lok larger than it already is. ive got a friend thats a professional photographer, and i showed it to him. he said by holding it out close to the camera like that, it makes it look alot bigger in the picture than it already is. no doubt it a big snake, but as i said, the picture can be decieving.