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[lithicbeads]

I took this picture yesterday from Cap Sante viewpoint in Anacortes Washington. There is huge amounts of collecting in the picture , largely jade. From the water in the bay we see the corner of an island and moving upward a fogbank, Blanchard mountain , the Twin Sisters range and then the Mt. Baker massif with it's various peaks.

[Enchantra]

Beautiful!
I do miss the scenery in Washington.
However I do have mountains behind me, they just are not as big as yours.

[Bentiron]

Those are sure pretty! Amanda's are the Superstition Mountains, there are some nice rocks out there too.

[Helene Fielder]

It's hard to capture the grand scale of Mr baker.  You live in a beautiful area.  Mountains, forest and ocean. To top that great rock hunting too.

[Itsandbits]

postcard perfect Frank

[packlithic]

With the minor flooding we have had this very normal November ( weather wise) my daughter and I took time out of of costco and grain elevator trip for a quick stop at a stream in one of the valleys in this picture. It is a good place because the stream is only about 20 vertical feet from the road and it can produce all kinds of things but mostly jade and rodingite. A newly enlarged channel in the stream exposed dozens of pieces of jade , mostly junk but a few maybes. This stop means getting wet to the shins so we just use sneakers and change to dry foot wear when done. I was shocked at how poorly I did on my first cold collecting trip of the year. Wooden feet and non functional fingers were my reward something I have never experienced with wet hands when collecting down to zero F. The spinal arthritis has reduced feeling and blood flow in my hands and feet but I was shocked to experience such a radical change in less than a year. I guess cutting next to my pellet stove makes more sense but collecting is just so exciting it would be hard  to give up even in the icy months.If I have to wear hip boots and rubber glove -gauntlets I would just as soon give it up, I love the cold but am not so hot on the non functional body parts.

[LithicStrings]

Note to readers - the comment above by packlithic is actually by lithicbeads - side effect of 3 people using the same computer.