Hey GPAA Gold Prospectors...

Well, with the Ark now flowing over 1,000 CFS at the Granite gauge.......it's time to focus again on Cache Creek for gold prospecting fun...

I guided a full-day "gold adventure" outing yesterday for Caleb from Kansas.  We hit my favorite little dry gulch for some panning & sluicing fun.  The day was perfect, 50/50 sun, light breeze, cool temps, and we didn't get poured on even once with a big thundershower!   :wink:

We arrived about 9:30AM, setup our sluices and walked up the gulch to look for some good material to run.  Part way up I spotted some layering I liked on the sidewall and we each dug a bucket, screening out rocks with my 1/2 inch classifier and as much magnetite as possible with my big rare earth magnet.  We sample panned the dirt and we saw anywhere from 2 to maybe 6 colors and little flakes per pan.  Good enough!  Time to start "washing dirt!"

I showed Caleb how I setup and adjust and run my Le Trap sluices.  Off to the races by 10 AM we just dug, sluiced and talked...

Here's Caleb and our sluices all setup:

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Caleb sluicing gulch material:

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My favorite little dry gulch.  Wish I could setup a zip line!

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The spot on the gulch bank we sampled and then worked:

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Caleb perfecting his diggin' technique:

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Letting our sluices clear out as we ate lunch before our first cleanup:

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Beautiful Quail Mountain above, 13,461 feet tall, just covered in snow:

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At 4 PM we did our second and last cleanup for the day.  Here's the beautiful, chunky Cache Creek gold Caleb took home.  Got nice little picker too!

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So, overall an awesome day in the hills panning and sluicing and sharing the day with a new gold prospecting friend.  

I hope you get out on a fun "Gold Adventure" soon too...

God bless,

Randy  "C-17A"         www.goldadventures.biz