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AgateMan713

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Re: John day fossil beds
« Reply #15 on: September 01, 2017, 11:45:43 AM »

Hows the tree situation at the above mentioned camps just got the kids some hammocks to relaxe in.
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« Reply #16 on: September 01, 2017, 02:13:05 PM »

White Rock has big ponderosa pines, as do many of the other primitive campgrounds in that area that are higher up in elevation. They tend to grow fairly far apart, but there might be a couple close enough to string hammocks. Lower down, toward Prineville, you are getting into junipers, which tend to be branchy all the way to the base.
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Re: John day fossil beds
« Reply #17 on: September 01, 2017, 03:35:17 PM »

And thats why they invented ratchet straps to take up some distance :headbang:
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Re: John day fossil beds
« Reply #18 on: September 08, 2017, 04:25:52 PM »

Well im back didnt get to do alot of hunting but got a little bit of material from a creek over by the ochoco national forest. Driving home was less than pleasing since i84 was shut down due to the eagle creek fire.
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Re: John day fossil beds
« Reply #19 on: September 08, 2017, 10:11:52 PM »

Glad you found some jasp and gathered some familiarity with the area for whenever you have more time to hunt. There is still a lot of material around there. Personally, I find spring and early summer better for collecting (things haven't yet accumulated a summer's worth of algae and dust, so it is easier to spot things like limb casts on the hills and agates in streams).
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Re: John day fossil beds
« Reply #20 on: September 08, 2017, 11:29:17 PM »

Found a nice little agate with some quartz crystals and a piece i think has some jasper in it and possibly found a thunder egg. I plan on going back towards the ochocos and actually do a bit of hunting around john day.
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Re: John day fossil beds
« Reply #21 on: October 07, 2017, 02:56:52 PM »

Well it would seem my kids have absconded with my possible thunderegg. So no pictures of that. But here the agate i found outside the ochoco national forest.rps20171007_145436.jpg
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