Ok people. I just went on a 4 day trip to the "Nancy's Gold" claim in Placer county. This claim is spectacular and screams of nuggets!.

There is exposed bedrock, boulders galore and high above the north edge of the claim there is another claim with an ancient riverbed

of virgin ground. I saw this bench just as we were about to leave the claim after the four days. We inspected the bench and the material

was highly compact, bright orange and this particular part of the bench had a clear line of bedrock at the bottom of it which was positioned

nicely at our feet as we stood on the hillside. I looked toward the direction this ancient river had flowed and lo and behold I was looking

right at the inside bend of the river on the Nancy's Gold claim. On our trip we were unable to access that side of the river because we

couldn't find a way down the ravine on that side. This claim is several hundred feet below the road and has moderately steep, but doable

paths down to the river, but not on the side of the inside bend (not that I found anyway). We spent the whole trip on the northeastern side

of the claim, but I was salivating at the other side even before I knew that there might be an ancient bench up there. We checked on our

way out and finally found the path down to the other side of the river and plan to go back there. Camping on this claim is somewhat

challenging for a large group. There is a flat area mid way up the ravine that old timers evidently used as a base camp. There is a fire pit

there as well. I have no Idea what is on the other side of the river as far as camping spots go and kinda worry because there are sooo

many boulders on the claim. I feel like we got lucky to find the camping spot that we did. It isn't visible from the river, we kind of just

happened upon it while exploring the claim when we first got there. I would think that there must be some place to camp on the inside

bend. It might take some searching though.

We had a great time on our trip over all. We found some gold, but much less than we thought we would. We picked a spot to dig that was

within the paystreak on the bank of the river, and that had trees close by because I brought a 4 ton hand winch and needed anchor points

for moving boulders. We moved a ton of boulders but clearly this area was well mined in the past, that is not to say that there isn't still very

good gold on this claim. I suspect that there is, and will be more diligent next time to find where it is hot. The place where we dug was smack

dab in the middle of the most commonly dug area. Access was easier and everything there was convenient. I thought that since we were

moving boulders that it wouldn't matter where we dug as long as we were in the paystreak, that nobody would have dug under those boulders

for over a hundred years. I may have been right, but we were finding bullets and other debris even 5 feet down. That particular spot that we

were digging was all but played out.

This was a great adventure though and I cant say enough about this claim and the potential for good gold. There were chunks of Quartz the

size of Volkswagons on and in the hillside! The quartz is just busting out of the ground everywhere! Also, if you like to fish, bring your fly rod!!!!