Welcome to November Everyone!
Wow, we are now in the final few months of the year, Thanksgiving, Hanukah, Christmas and New Year are right around the corner.
Before I get started on this month’s spiel, I need to mention the “Scammers”. My son and I spotted a small nice weather window and took off for 4 days to the Hall of Fame claim which is of course out of cell service, and the minute I came back into range over by the I-10 my phone blew up with multiple reports from folks receiving an email from JerryG saying he is out of town and could you help with an incidental Association payment. I have sent out an email stating that we (the Executive and Regular Board members) will NEVER ask for this sort of favor. Several of us are on the account and can cover for each other. In the past the scammers have used my name, but thankfully (for me) have switched over to JerryG (bummer for him). Unfortunately, there is nothing to be done about it as these attacks originate with large state hacking teams, just look at what happened to AWS last week worldwide. I even asked Jerry if He is the scammer as his real address is used…. Just delete the posts and ignore them.
Back to this past month. I was able to attend the PLP Outing and check out the damage to our access roads into the Freedom claim, a lot of water created 2 trenches going up the hill from Duisenburg over to the north basin. One has to take care when straddling them to prevent slipping off the edge and framing yourself. Maybe a few folks can help me pour gravel and then sand over that to make it more passable. On the south side at the tunnel the lower road closest to the claim is washed out, the upper road by the tracks leading east is just fine. Of course, my infamous Subie made it through, though I didn’t check out the area farther east onto the Little Bit or Smoken claims. I suspect a lot of loose sand. On the Tuesday before the PLP weekend another nugget was found metal detecting by one of our members on the Freedom claim. In the past I have said our claims out there are not really a good metal detecting area, well now I totally recant and I recommend to everyone to hit the area hard. Also, congratulations to Jim Jupena for his raffle win of a Thompson Drywasher. As I said above, I was also able to get out to the Hall of Fame claim which I wanted to visit again this season since the really good yielding spring trip. The flour gold wasn’t as good, only about $2.75 a cleanup (.02 gram/$0.70 a bucket) vs $25-30 during the earlier outing. BUT, I did score a .46-gram picker nugget while checking my tailings before leaving. It looked just like the normal dusty pea gravel that spills off the grizzly, but after washing it quartz wrapped with gold appeared like the baby brother of Joel’s larger nugget last spring. I will have the pictures at the meeting.
This month on the 9th is our monthly beach metal detecting and on the15th we are back to the Freedom claim for our last outing of the year. For planning purposes, the Christmas Party is Sunday December 14th, we ideally wanted a Saturday, but they weren’t available.
That’s it for now.
See you at the meeting or outings.
Jerryk