Awesome Weather

[polekaat]

It's supposed to feel like 60 degrees down in Denver today. I'm gonna head down the mountains and see if I can sluice up a little color on Clear Creek, after church.
On a side note. I'm looking to get a gold cube, to save myself hours of panning time. If you know of anyone looking to sell a 4 stack deluxe gold cube, I'm finally in the market.

Trevor

[russau]

Trev youll like it! i bought one from Mike awhile back and it does a supper job!

[polekaat]

Well.....the weather let me down a little....it was colder than I expected....at least I didn't break a sweat.
My buddy and I only ran 10 buckets of material, from a gravel bar. Very little color in the pan to show for our efforts....but something is better than nothing.
I think I blew a lot of gold out of my sluice, because the ribbed rubber mat up front came unglued and was sticking up in the flow about 3"....I ended up setting a big rock on it to keep it down....but even that "fix" caused the flow to be disrupted....just not as bad..

[russau]

Well goodthing about it even though the weather wasnt perfect, at least you got out and had some fun! our snow has melted but the ground is still frozen,but its getting closer!

[polekaat]

I took the family down to Clear Creek, in Denver yesterday. The weather was beautiful. We got a little color....not much though. We ran into Dr. Sluice (Rick) on his way out. He showed us some nice flakes that he'd pulled out not far from us. I swear that guy's a gold magnet!
It was a great day spent outdoors with the family.

[polekaat]

Here's a short video of Bella "helping" us. I looked over and she had taken a garden trowel and was putting dirt in the classifier, then shaking it down. I grabbed my phone and started videoing it as my buddy Rich went over and helped her out.
http://s117.photobucket.com/user/polekaat/media/prospecting/Bella_Classifying1.mp4.html

[golden optimist]

Neat! Looks like you are bringing her up right.

Leonard

[russau]

Trev that is so cool!

[Gold Seeker]

That's great, she's being brought up right!!!

I really loved the ending!!!

[polekaat]

I didn't show her what she was supposed to be doing. She just saw me and Rich classifying everything before Christina put it through the sluice. I really liked how much enthusiasm she put into classifying. She also grabbed a pan, put some dirt in it, added water, and tried some panning.
Then she sat on my lap and fed the sluice by herself.
Christina and I couldn't be more proud!!!