December update

We know everyone is very interested to know how we did out at our secret and potentially new claim we are calling “1000 holes”. This is a tertiary bench placer John and I found a few months ago and just last month found old ground way up out of the creek....

Reading a stream

This was sent to us by a good friend and is very informative on how to read a creek and river. Worth reading… Reading A Stream This is an extract from a book written by Matt Thornton. It is really informative and covers just about everything you could think of...

Looking for high bench placers

We wanted to share some research we have been doing on a particular place we believe has some virgin ground. This began as a story told to one of our friends about when this man was a child (nearly 50 years ago) his grandfather took him to… a particular creek...

AMRA meeting with USFS

We had a productive conversation with the Stanislaus NF/USFS over road closures.   Two days ago, we had a lengthy discussion with District Ranger Jim Junette over the road closures in his 900,000 acre district. The rim fire closure issued by Susan Skalski (now...