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Kaljaia

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Finally the snow is gone (until tonight)
« on: February 26, 2017, 04:45:48 PM »
We've had bare dirt and three days sans rain, so the great outdoors is more passable than it's been in a while! GPS'd a vein of exceedingly fractured blue banded agate with rose-colored moss. I've cut a desk rock from there once, but all the material is too fractured for slabbing. It's coming out of a bentonite hillside so the vein is in there somewhere, just buried under a lot of very sticky earth. Marked the spot, confirmed a fairly easy route and will go back in drier weather to poke a little deeper.



And broke in a new playmate. Picked up my new "work car" over the weekend and went out to see some countryside. Should save me a lot of miles and gas. No rocks, didn't make it quite that far as there were snow storms intermittently sweeping across us, but soon as I get the OK to go play on back roads we are going out for thunder eggs. There was however a 6 point elk shed very near the road, which my next door neighbor had driven past and missed about an hour before I found it. I'm not a "shed hunter," I just pick them up when they happen to be conveniently in front of me. (I want to make it into a towel rack.)
 


Naturally, we have a weather forecast of 1 - 2 inches of snow on higher elevations tonight, with flurries and annoying cold wind down in the valley floor. Still winter.
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I rock hunt in the Antelope/Ashwood area of the John Day river basin in Oregon.

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Re: Finally the snow is gone (until tonight)
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2017, 06:58:53 AM »
   Yep, same weather as in my area outside Boise. The yard was white again but I am heading to the Owyhee's on Wednesday! 

   I like that top piece of agate with the fortification. Please let me know if you would like to sell some of that material. I have slabbed and cabbed much worse.  Nice find....  neal
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Kaljaia

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Re: Finally the snow is gone (until tonight)
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2017, 08:44:58 AM »
Quote from: 55fossil on February 27, 2017, 06:58:53 AM
   Yep, same weather as in my area outside Boise. The yard was white again but I am heading to the Owyhee's on Wednesday! 

   I like that top piece of agate with the fortification. Please let me know if you would like to sell some of that material. I have slabbed and cabbed much worse.  Nice find....  neal

I haven't got permission to sell material (landowner doesn't mind me picking stuff up for my own use but has asked for no commercial/sale at the moment) but trades are ok! I'll let you know when I get back up there and bring that material out. It's just in a pile on the hillside right now, didn't have a pack with.
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Re: Finally the snow is gone (until tonight)
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2017, 12:15:55 PM »
Snowing on the coast as well. I give up , I'm going on a vacation to Palm Springs.
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Re: Finally the snow is gone (until tonight)
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2017, 04:51:47 PM »
Good plan, Lithic. We'll all come visit you!

No snow on the ground this morning but a lot at higher elevations. Made use of the 38 and sunny to go find thunder eggs at a more accessible but less exciting location. Picked up some big cores too, not exactly sure what I'm going to do with them yet.


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Re: Finally the snow is gone (until tonight)
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2017, 08:56:55 PM »
Every winter I say how grateful I am that I live in the desert.  This year is exceptional though.  You guys are getting hammered this year and I am more than happy not to share in your weather.  I was pissed that I couldn't take my jacket off at work this morning until about 10AM.  It was still in the 50s, and I wear a jacket at anything below 55!
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Seriously though, I don't know how you guys do it in the cold weather.  Of course I'm the guy that loves rockhounding in 110 degrees.
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Re: Finally the snow is gone (until tonight)
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2017, 10:55:42 PM »
lol we get the 110 too.
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Re: Finally the snow is gone (until tonight)
« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2017, 08:43:23 PM »
Great finds!!
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Re: Finally the snow is gone (until tonight)
« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2017, 02:44:34 PM »
I am new to this forum, just spending a little time trying to get to know the sight. I saw your post on here with the beautiful bluish rocks. Is that I Washington. It looks so familiar. Is there somewhere near you would like to share, that I could go to find a little of this. You can message me I think? David
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Re: Finally the snow is gone (until tonight)
« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2017, 05:29:00 PM »
Quote from: Mystonesgathernomoss on March 08, 2017, 02:44:34 PM
I am new to this forum, just spending a little time trying to get to know the sight. I saw your post on here with the beautiful bluish rocks. Is that I Washington. It looks so familiar. Is there somewhere near you would like to share, that I could go to find a little of this. You can message me I think? David

Hi David,
I'm in Oregon, and the rock is much more dark grey than blue! Not sure why it shows up as blue... will get better pics when I get the rock off the hill. It's pretty stuff but very fractured. I'm on private property in central Oregon and have landowner permission to collect for my own use but do not have permission to sell or bring in other people to hunt for rock. Thanks for understanding! I would love to be able to sell, and am working on getting permission. I'm here to learn too! :)
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