Thursday, March 31, 2011

Hauser Field Trip Report

We Had a good trip and weather except the wind blew the whole time till Sunday morning when we left.
Wiley well road was pretty wash boarded but the road from there to Middle camp was pretty good
Thirteen people Showed up for the camp out. We meet John who lives by Middle camp. He showed us a couple of place's to hunt geodes including some 4 feet in Dia. (Yes You read right) see pic below.
Will take some pics of the rock I found and post. Will have some of them at the next meeting on April 7th.
Mike

We came across a couple turtles while rock hounding.
Yes We had lots of good food at the pot-luck



Looks like a old Hippy camp in a wash (called Indian camp by some)
We had a nice fire Sat night
YES These are geodes


Thursday, March 3, 2011

Field Trip to Ludlow March 5th 2011

Saturday March 5th 2011 we will be going to Ludlow, CA to collect Jasper.
We will meet at Ludlow Dairy Queen at 9:00am AZ time (8:00am CA time.
To get there from Needles,CA; Go west on I-40 for about 92 miles and get off on the Ludlow exit and turn right to the Dairy Queen. We will meet in the large parking area west of the Dairy Queen.
This is a four wheel drive trip.
We will go to a few places in the Cady Mts in the morning and come back to the Dairy Queen for lunch. After lunch we will go to Lavic siding for jasper. Lavic is about 8 miles west of Ludlow.
You will find small rocks to boulder size jasper laying on the ground
Mike