Rockhounding the Rockies

I have not posted to my rockhounding blog in some time due to studying for tests and a large fire here in Colorado Springs which some of yo...

Little Pikes Peak is near its bigger brother.  I suppose someone must have mistaken it for it's namesake at some point in time.  Today ...

Today we went to Lake George Colorado to continue work on a pegmatite we've been working on and off for the last 3 years.  We have dug ...

The Vehicle we really needed for this trip!                   We went to Taos for a weekend getaway and do some rockhoundin...

While not as exciting or difficult as removing smokys in the previous post. The hike to where I found the goethite with smokys was rather a...

April ended well, with the biggest pocket of smokys I've ever worked on.  The excavation was about 5 feet deep and measured about 10 fe...

Pikes Peak: The morning started out a little foggy, but cleared up quickly We arrived at Lake George CO in Park County around 9...