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Hello Club members,

For the benefit of the newest members coming on board we put these instructions together to help navigate the club members area information.
As always feel free to contact us at anytime if you have difficulties or questions.

To sign in for your members area info you will need to bring up the ColoradoProspector.com
home page. If you have not yet set your home page for the CP site, this will be a great time!
From the CP home page you can find any of the website pages in the green area to the left, including the log in link for the members areas, News and Events link, the chat room and forum links etc, and then down a bit further is where the Miners Market banner will be found.

Now.....to log into the members area you will click on the very top link "Log In"
Next you will get a prompt box that will ask for your "Login" and "password"........Your "Login" will be your email address and password will be what you chose during membership sign up in the membership using the secured system.
Once you have entered your login and password you will then be brought to the main members area page where you will be able to see each of your members areas researched information.
Lifetime members will of course have links on all areas listed and yearly members will have links appear on only the yearly members areas.....those that are not links on your page will be the lifetime areas.

These directions should give you a good start and we hope you enjoy the website.

As with any secured sign in pages online......be sure to sign off from your session before leaving too.

See you out on the digs!
CP

[RVer Dave]

Thanks Mrs. CP and Sheila is to Rascal Flatts like I am to Gold Fever! This time I got her tickets in the standing pit area in front of Row 1 and she was successful in drawing a fan club meet & greet there too, must be her 6th meet & greet & something like 25th concert with RF since 2002.

Switz: I enjoy reading your posts & seeing your photos. We lived an hour south of Salida in an off-grid straw bale passive solar house near Crestone for 3.5 years when I quit aerospace in 2005. I then worked contract from home/traveling to IL & Paris for them part time until 2008 when they outsourced our job functions to India, where I gave up competing in the open job market with kids half my age and 3x my education. We sold our house and began workamping in our RV. In 2010 we workamped at the Ouray KOA for the summer upon where we got hooked on jeeping and gold panning. Now we are going to go back to our empty building lot @ 8,300' next to a trout stream for a PERC test to make sure there isn't any yela color in it to slow down the drainage, LOL.

You'd like our setup. Last year we dumped our 35' 5th-wheel after we spent four months parked at the factory waiting for warranty work. We then bought a 19 year old park model in SW FL & also a Lance 1181 truck camper which we tow a stock 4-dr jeep Rubicon for our days off adventures.

At 51, we'd love to spend all summer prospecting and dispersed camping, still working on how to earn enough grubsteak in the winter to make that happen in the summer, LOL. Workamping at RV camground/resorts for minimum wages is sort of like extreme poverty until something better comes along. We travel with 4 gold pans, a 30" sluice, a Tom & Perry cleanup sluice, a Desert Fox, a Blue Wheel, a nugget sucker, and misc hand tools. Oh, I forgot to mention my Garrett AT Gold MD which found me a 10K gold plated diamond ring with small real diamond intact on the second dig right at our RV site driveway in Rawlins, WY.

To date we haven't participated in any club activities of any kind, our days off have varied Tuesday-Wednesday and Sunday-Monday this summer as workamping couples were hired and fired (getting retired folks to work like dogs for minimum wages isn't practical or typical). At age 51, I am the young work mule that weedwhacks in the hot sun all day while Sheila is inside doing reservations & checkins. The reason I do it (beyond keeping fit!!!) is every weekend we go prospecting in the Medicine Bows, Sierra Madre, Douglas Creek, Atlantic City, Carol Creek, MUPU, or even the tiny 20 acre segment of the Sweetwater River that is a CD trailhead. We know there are huge nuggets at Carol Placer & MUPU on Rock Creek, but it has a dredging ban since commercial dredging was stopped in 1941 just upstream during WWII. It is typically 10' down to bedrock on Rock Creek and without dreding it is tough to dig deeper than what will just get you a little flour gold for 5 buckets of material at several feet down. We seen several huge nuggets come out of the dredge tailing up stream (private property). It is tough reclaiming on Carol Placer since I often have to reclaim 2-3 other holes left by others. I have tried metal detecting there as well, so far I have collected over 300 .22 casings, hundreds more pop-tops, & many, many partially burned aluminum cans from very old buried campfire sites. Numerous white Marmount-like critters live on the greenstone cliffs there, so I imagine that every teenager used to camp there with their plinking rifles.

We don't yet have any solid leads on summer of 2013 workamping, but unlike WY, most resorts and campgrounds have an abundance of workampers that will sell their souls to work almost for free. The best we did in 2010 was work 20 hours per week as a couple for our RV site and then got paid minumum wage for 15-25 hours each every week. Since we have 14 years yet before we can receive a retirement pension, do the math and you will see the cell phone, food, and insurance payments get a little strained on those funds, LOL.

Most campgrounds just want you to work 24 hours a week as a couple just for your RV site (>$700/mo!). That would be cool for anyone having a good pension which would give lots of time off for prospecting, but us in the age 50 category are in a special category that doesn't fit the intended workamping lifestyle. When they see I can work like a mule they jump for joy, but act live minimum wages is going to make the owners broke, LOL!

Our Lance truck camper is set up for 150 watts of solar so we disperse camp with very, very little generator run time & bring 45 gallons of fresh water so we can last 1-2 weeks.

If I can talk about safety for a moment, we both have had brushes with disaster. Last year I had a log fall on me while woodcutting for our old farm and this summer Sheila fell in a trout stream on mossy rocks. We both are okay now, but in both cases with unable to walk for a couple weeks as we elevated our legs with broken arteries. Since we have no health insurance it can also be a big disaster financially, but in both cases a nurse monitored our situation to ensure we weren't much worse off. We finally bought Delorme satellite text messaging systems and are very glad we did. If one or both of us gets hurts we can summon help and also we use it to text our family to let them know we are safe and sound while dispersed camping out in the boonies.

I conclusion, I'd rather move a couple yards of dirt by hand for myself or a group daily on a gold claim than do workamping, but workamping has provided a stop-gap for us while we investigate many of the great prospecting areas out west. We will probably convert our L2 yearly membership to a LT membership in the next few months, just wanted to get signed up now while we plan for next year. We tried to join the Wyoming Prospectors Association, but they haven't got back to me after a few months time & several inquiries. Also, most of the NFS areas in WY want a detailed plan of intent filed (before the plan of operations) so they can come to check up on your panning, Sluicing, & dredging operations (not to mention the normal dredge permit). I find it highly irritating that I need to file a plan of intent just for gold panning in the Medicine Bow Mountains, including wanting to know the exact spot I am camped at so that can come to make sure you are all legal. You can travel there for a week to never see a Forest Ranger, but file a plan of intensions and you will have 2-3 trucks swarming you and your campsite daily to make you feel not at ease. They send a biologist that preaches about how the trout are being threatened and when I pointed out that I wasnt hardly getting the water dirty compared to the free range cows that were pooping and trampling just up stream ... the guy got a pissed look on his face and doubled the amount of visits we had for the week. On our next camping trip we just camped, never saw a NFS or BLM truck at all during our stay ... Mmmm, can I say hardly anyone will fill out there Plan of Intent for fear of harrassment. When the Biologist was walking away, he reminded me that the old timers already got 99.999% of the gold so it wasn't worth my time to keep doing it. I like trout fishing and it was funny how the trout where coming up to my sluce pile to pick food out of it, LOL.

May we see ya'll in Colorado next summer!!!

David & Sheila Knapp