Loud Mine in September for 7 days....HERE WE COME!

Congrats! Brad and Linda are the first to register for a 2016 GPAA-LDMA Gold Mining Outing.

No outing at staton for new years next year.

Joseph, there will be an event at Stanton for New Years next year, but it will not be a 7-Day Outing, We will announce other special events shortly.

Dominic, teach a dry washer class in Stanton next year. C and I will be registering for Loud Mine in September and I will need to decide which one out west I want to register for.

Just signed up for my first outing, going to be at Burnt River in the spring, the wife and I are so excited to begin camping with a purpose. Yippee

Posted By Keith Perron on 15 Dec 2015 02:19 PM
Just signed up for my first outing, going to be at Burnt River in the spring, the wife and I are so excited to begin camping with a purpose. Yippee

 amen to that!

What a great response to members calling in and getting signed up for next years outings. I can't wait to be out in the dirt having fun! Let all your fellow miners know to call in and sign up.

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We are looking forward to seeing you at the outings. We believe that you are going to be thrilled with
the new experience of the 7 Day Gold Mining Outings.

Hopefully for some will still have the 3 to 4 day outings? 7 days more than once a year is hard to do for some.

Hi Jeff,
We will be working with GPAA Chapters and Manufactures to host "Events" at LDMA Camps which will be 2+ days. Stanton will have a New Years Eve event as well that will be 3 or 4 days. We will announce as they are confirmed.

Hope to see you playing in the dirt soon.

I think change comes hard to some people and this is a big change for everyone! That being said, 7 day outings make sense. If you are traveling any considerable distance, why not maximize your time at the destination? 7 day outings allow for more time for socializing, lectures, field trips for what (and where) to look for gold in that camps particular area, hands on demonstrations like metal detecting, and yes even time for each individual participant to use their own equipment running dirt. Individual camps can still have mini outings on their own if they have the interest. I have a feeling that there will be some fun in our future. What members will get out of the new format will all depend on what they put into it.

Points below are well taken, and it is clear you have the members interest at heart.  We in the LDMA/GPAA are like a family, what is best for the family is what has to happen. 

But, I don't think "change is hard" has much to do with it.    Or it will be what the members make it.  Members make every outing a success. 

It is more like some of the working people may only have limited weeks off in a year and 7 day outing would limit some of us (like my family) to one outing a year, due to the length of time required off of work. With these time restraints if other than Stanton due to travel, we won't be able to make more than 1 LDMA outing.  A choice of which is what we will have to make.

Issue is a 7 day outing is not 7 days off.  One must have one or more days for travel to the outing and one must have one or more days to travel from the outing. Can and will be 6, 7 or more days of vacation for anything out of Arizona for those in our situation.  This would exclude Stanton. 

I do agree a 7 day format will allow more time for free time and some other activities.  The current 3 to 4 day format currently allows some of us the chance to attend more than one outing a year, allows plenty of time for socializing and community dig times, and some close exploring and prospecting.  Not saying I would enjoy more free time at some of the sites.  Being a member of the LDMA allows us as members more time at a site anyway if we choose.  

Do, Please consider to add or have a 3 or 4 day option for those with limited time.  More than a once a year trip is nice, we do enjoy attending 2 or more outings a year.  The new format is a limiter for us in our situation, may or may not affect others.   

Will be interesting to see if attendance and participation at outings, increases or decreases after a year of 7 day outings.  

What works and benefits the LDMA is what needs to happen.  Understand we may not always like it (speaking for myself and family), but we will support it, if it is the right thing to do for the LDMA, GPAA. 

Just some food for thought.

 

 

 

  

I agree with Jeff. My wife and I have in the past combined the Scott Bar and Burnt Rivers in one trip as have many others we know. When they are scheduled a week apart it makes the 500+ mile trip between them an easy trip. Having to do it basically overnight towing a trailer seems a little much. I do like the ides of longer "digs"

Brian Cutler

Dominic...even though I am a Back-Easter and do read the Pick & Shovel, I think it would be good to hear the no BS skinny on the prospects for dredging...shoot, even any form of prospecting/mining in your part of the country!  Doesn't have to be a "lecture", but just a topic of discussion at the outing! Sounds pretty grim and not a lot of hope for a resolution to our liking!  Seems like we can't compete with the bucks from the deep pocketed special interests...money seems to trump common sense and facts!

Dick

Has anyone learned the cost for the new outings?

Dick - Welcome to the LDMA family. I was at the Stanton new Year's Outing when you joined. We appreciate you and hope to see you playing in the dirt.GPAA/LDMA tries to keep members updated through our publications (The Pick & Shovel Gazette is dedicated to "hard news" and mining issues across the country is there a reason you do not read it?), The Nugget email newsletter, our facebook page and of course the GPAA website. If you have a speciffic concept/idea that doesn't fit where we already post things, please let me know.

Tim - Cost of new 7-day outings ...

LDMA members $150

GPAA members $250

Non-Members $350 (includes a 2-year GPAA membership)

The cost includes the Welcome Dinner on Sunday night and the Miners Dinner on Friday night

Also participants will have access to a "community" pile of material to run on their own time plus many other fun social activities.

If one has "non-Participants" with them, they can purchase the Welcome Dinner and the Miners Dinner.

That price is amazing Dominic. Thank you for sharing it.

Dick, You are wise to keep up with the struggles the miners are facing here in the west because the same tactics will be used and spread east. The reality is that the miners are winning key judgments, but this infuriates the enviro's and the politicians so they come up with another layer of regulations. All these actions are just stall tactics, which works very well, how long has the dredging ban been so far?

There is a court date on January 20th in San Bernardino aimed at "settlement" of the dredging ban. There is actually some evidence to be hopeful that the miners will prevail. The Karuk tribe has "settled" (for $350,000 paid by Fish and Wildlife of tax payer money, ya,,,, that pissed off a lot of the miners in the fight) and dropped out of the case. Way too much going on behind the scenes to go into here.

If you want to keep up to date look for articles by Brad Jones he keeps on top of things. Western Mining Alliance is a small group at the head of the fight (they the main party in the Jan. 20th hearing) and their website is very informative.

AMRA will get the info out the fastest, mostly through facebook. Shannon will be at almost all of the 2016 GPAA spring Gold Shows and should have a lecture at all he is attending. Or stop by the AMRA booth get him started and then try to shut him up!

Hope this helps, Jere.