El Paso/Teller County areas anyone? Options

[ForestGnome]

I'm making plans for spring, and curious if there's still anyone here that may want to team up with and do a little digging here once the ground thaws up.

I've been having a good enough time re-exploring the long "picked over" areas just around north cheyenne canyon, and what's accessible still behind bear creak, and by my own standards pretty lucky. Some good quarts pockets the size of a small child, some fluorite pockets, beautiful displays of microcline, all literally within minutes of major trails, usually just following debris uphill. I'm hoping this year to head in a little deeper like I used to to scour the old pegmatite maps for the upper old stage areas. The way I see it the more the merrier. Most area pockets are "afternoon sized" and not worth the hassle of claiming but if you find something that good more power to you. What I love about the area is pretty much everything follows the same patterns. Same faces, same elevations, same mineralization, so even if one of us finds something the other won't be too far off.

So anyone out there want to do little hunting when our beautiful spring weather finally comes around to stay? No experience necessary, I'd still consider myself a newbie to all this too, i've just been as lucky as I am determined.

Attached are some recent finds from the area.

Attached thumbnail(s)

 

[NewRockHounder]

Sounds interesting. Between myself and my wife we know our stones. My wife and I own claims in Douglas County. We live in Park County. And mine with the Busses on Mt. Antero for aquamarines. I've been prospecting/mining since 2012 - and like you, lucky and determined.

Good to have some research on the ground and more importantly, claims.. in the areas you're digging in - prior to collecting. We can show you what to look for on the ground as far as markers go. And/or other things that might hint that there's a claim there.

The BLM offers a lot of help for both of those. It's tricky at first, but you can look up claims using LR2000 - again through BLM. There should be an old link somewhere in the forums reguarding this.

Please shoot me a private message with some contact info.
I'd say FB, but I don't really use it anymore. You can, however, google Endless Lode Claim or CORockHound and it should pull up my old FB page for that claim.

Looking forward to hearing from you.