Field Trip & Report Oct 29th 2011 Golden Shores

    We had 12 people and 6 4x4 rigs show up. Al Larson found the most petrified wood that looks like is was formed here. Charlie found some that looks like it rolled in from some where else. Looks like the sand dune areas are the best place to find the wood. Hope everyone had a good time.

Next Field trip will be back to Golden Shores, Saturday October 29th to look for petrified palm wood and fossils rocks.
We will meet in Golden Shores at 9:00am across  (East) from the Shell Gas station.
To get to Golden Shores from Bullhead City go South on AZ Hwy-95. Turn Left on Courtwright Rd (at the Arco gas station). from here it is 11miles to Golden shores.
Go past the power plant and Pintail slew and continue on to Golden Shores.
We will leave Golden shores at 9:15 and going out Polaris rd which is between Golden shores and I-40.
Trip is 4-wheel drive. See SCRC map# 34
Al Larson will lead trip.

Next Club meeting Thursday October 6th 2011

Get Your gloves, rock hammers, picks and shovels ready. Its that time of the year, to go rock hunting.
Hope to see everyone at our first meeting.
Our first field trip will probably be to Topock Golden Shores area, looking for fossils and petrified palm wood.

Alan LaVo

Field Trip & Report for Monday April 11th Golden Shores area

We will meet in Golden Shores at 9:00am across  (East) from the Shell Gas station.
To get to Golden Shores from Bullhead City go South on AZ Hwy-95. Turn Left on Courtwright Rd (at the Arco gas station). from here it is 11miles to Golden shores.
Go past the power plant and Pintail slew and continue on to Golden Shores.
We will leave Golden shores at 9:15 and going out Polaris rd which is between Golden shores and I-40.
Trip is 4-wheel drive. See SCRC map# 34

We had a good turn out of 11 people. We found  some pretty good rocks, fossils and good amount of pet wood.
                                          James holding a few rocks and piece of wood

Ken with 2 real nice pieces of wood

Small cluster of fossils

Mohave County Gemstoners Rock Show April 9th & 10th 2011

This has been a pretty good show in the past. Lots of vendors and slabs for sale. I will be going on Sat.
Show will be on Saturday from 9am to 5pm. Sunday 9am to 4pm.
Location is 3420 N Burbank Kingman, AZ
From I-40 and Stockton Hill Rd; Go North on Stockton Hill rd and turn right on Airway Ave. go one block and turn right on Burbank. Go half way down the block and show will be on the left. Addmission is free.

List of Vendors  http://www.gemstoners.org/

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

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

Field Trip March 24th - 27th 2011

Hauser Geode Beds Field Trip. Thursday March 24th to Sunday March 27th
Please see SCRRC FAVORITES LINKS on right side of this page. "Hauser beds Field Trip Flyer 2011"
for information on this trip and a map.
Check back here for any updates on trip
2/24/2011 Mike

3/23/2011 OK Lets GO Rock Hounding!!!!
Alan and I will be leaving in the Morning Hope to see You there.
Mike Spicer