Rockhounding the Rockies

Friday, April 1, 2011

Nothing New on Apr Fools

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Hayman Burn Area from April Fools Claim This is a picture of the Hayman Burn from the vantage point of CSMS April Fools Claim.  The cl...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

The Day is done

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It's time to go home, the crystals have been in the ground for 1 billion years, they can wait another day.  I should be out crystal hunt...

Digging up a pegmatite

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In this picture you see me working up hill following a pegmatite.  While this particular pegmatite is long and looks promising, we haven...

Getting Down and Dirty

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This particular day we explored old digs from the prior year and while we didn't find much, we did get dirty.  Only shards of smoky quar...

Rockhounding the Lake George Intrusive

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We got off to an early start this year.  Although I was somewhat skeptical of the conditions at 8500ft, we drove to Lake George and found th...
Friday, March 4, 2011

An adventure in the Denver Basin looking for Petrified wood

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A Beautiful day in the Denver Basin Red, Yellow, Black & White Petrified Wood I found a beautiful specimen of opalized wood...
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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Rockhounding the Denver Basin

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A few years ago a frontage road was put in along I-25 near Lonetree.  I collected some very fine specimens of wood along that roadcut.  ...
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I grew up outside Chicago in the suburb of Western Springs. I attended Timothy Christian School and then went on to college at Calvin College (BS) and the University of Michigan (MS) I entered the US Air Force and after several assignments retired in Colorado Springs. Along the way I got an MBA at Western New England University.
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