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post Feb 15 2016, 12:29 PM
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My fever is getting worse! I packed the car Saturday night, but ended up getting a late start Sunday, then errands left me with little time to go up. Getting the high wind warnings for Golden and Central City yesterday, I'm guessing it was howling through the canyon.

I shifted things around though, and want to/plan to go up next Saturday. Weather looks like it'll be nice still.


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post Feb 15 2016, 07:19 PM
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Did a quick pan of Saturday's haul... Another good day! Tomorrow I'll blue bowl it.
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post Feb 15 2016, 07:27 PM
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Whoohoo! Yeller in the pan! Nice man.
I'm packing my gear up for a day of digging, pronto. This weather has been unbelieveable.
My wife said she'd be sluicemaster if I'm digmaster. It's on!!!


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post Feb 16 2016, 08:05 AM
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Looking great Mike, can't wait to see your totals! thumbsupsmileyanim.gif
Friday or Sat looking good for anyone? Ready for more diggin, still 3 months to kill before my claims are accessible. char060.gif Gotta stay in shovel shape. emoticon-misc-004.gif


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post Feb 16 2016, 08:22 AM
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QUOTE (swizz @ Feb 16 2016, 07:05 AM) *
Looking great Mike, can't wait to see your totals! thumbsupsmileyanim.gif
Friday or Sat looking good for anyone? Ready for more diggin, still 3 months to kill before my claims are accessible. char060.gif Gotta stay in shovel shape. emoticon-misc-004.gif


Friday might be good; headed to Mike's new spot on Sat/Sun.


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post Feb 16 2016, 09:48 AM
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Alrighty then. Anyone else up for some fun in the sun on Friday? signs021.gif


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post Feb 16 2016, 10:47 AM
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I have to work during the week, so I'm planning on setting the alarm for Saturday morning to get a good day in. I plan to go near the boat launch with the CC sign that it sounds like you're working near.


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post Feb 16 2016, 11:05 AM
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We've been hitting the upper reaches of Jeffco, just before MM260. There's a major pull-off there with the big brown wooden Clear Creek Canyon open space sign and a HWY camera on a metal post. I'm not sure where the boat launch is. If it's that one up near the restaurant and I70... that's out of the Jeffco Open Space boundaries. Is there a boat launch lower in the canyon that you're referring to?


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post Feb 16 2016, 01:16 PM
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That parking area by MM260 is where I see a lot of the rafters and kayaks put in, so I call it the boat launch. When the weather warms up, there's usually at least 1 rafting tour bus sitting there by the sign on weekends. I haven't worked that far up, usually sticking to the area just west of Mayhem Gulch (paved parking area) where the creek oscillates from flowing southeast to northeast then back to due east (MM 261 or so I think...there's an island in the stream there). Last time I drove US6, they had heavy equipment and jersey barriers blocking where I previously parked, and they were putting a bridges in. I just looked on Google maps, and the barriers are still in the image.



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post Feb 16 2016, 01:25 PM
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All of the areas that have heavy equip, barricades, etc are closed to rec use until they are done with work unfortunately. Everyone is chomping at the bit for them to reopen because of all the dirt and boulders that they moved... and are still moving. thumbsupsmileyanim.gif


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Have you sampled downstream of that construction at all? I'm wondering what has been put back into the stream and re-concentrated. May have to check Saturday.





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post Feb 16 2016, 02:22 PM
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I have not. I doubt very much material (if any) has moved downstream yet since the flows have been really low since they started. It'll take a good runoff or Georgetown Dam release to get things going.
They had a full size excavator in the water for a long time scooping riverbed onto the new path upstream from where we're working now. Made me drool every time I saw him scoop a big bucket from the middle of the creek and dump it on the path. Saw that every day when I was commuting the canyon this winter.


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post Feb 16 2016, 06:20 PM
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Spending my afternoon blue bowling. Here's a few pics

My wife is a saint, letting me blue bowl in the living room lol

My results from sluicing Mon-tue.

My 12&18 mesh from dredging FRI-Sat

A sneak peak of my 30 mesh spinning;/battery pack died, so I'm at a stoppage
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post Feb 17 2016, 08:07 AM
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Quit teasing us. eating-popcorn-03.gif


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post Feb 17 2016, 08:40 AM
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Got a little more done this morning... I've got some really cool little "raw" (?) gold; very rough, one even still has a little bit of quartz still attached. Will get some macro pics of them. At the museum all day today, so hopefully I'll get it finished up this evening.


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