Before winter claim trip Options

[johnnybravo300]

We have the car packed up and making a trip to the claim again tomorrow. I really don't know how much time we will get there before it snows.
We have about 8 more buckets we can fill for a boring winter day later on....never know where the next corn flake may be hiding! I'd like to run some material too so I'll post if there's anything good.
I've been working in that area all week and I can feel the claim calling me. It's been torture I tell ya!
I have an idea for the biggest hole yet. The area we plugged up for the dredge earlier this summer has been over flowing for months onto the area I first opened up and it's soggy and saturated now. I might try to divert the creek on around further to dry it up and take advantage of that to open a huge hole right across the main channel. Seems like a decent plan and I was getting good gold there before anyway. Whoohoo!

[johnnybravo300]

Saturday Andrew and I went back to dig more. I suggested we set up at my hole and we could throw everything at it since it's a big area.
We we're trying to get to the clays but all we ended up running was the creek bed gravels. The gravels we're holding some values so we ended up running all that but its not as rich as I'd expect the clays to be underneath.
I stayed in the hole digging and he was shoveling buckets into his le trap.
We got a third of a gram from the top two feet of gravels that we were digging but I think we could do alot better in better material. Either way it has to be moved...might as well get the gold out eh. It was all loose material without any clays so we didn't classify, we just pulled out any big rocks and ran it.....seemed to work great.

It was nice working with someone all day and I think it helps to keep you going. We will probably try this more often than working alone. We both agreed it was nice having another guy there.

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