| Jan 20, 2006 @ 12:20 PM |
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ILLLOOK
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I have a friend taking me up into the local mountians this weekend to pan for gold sounds like fun can't wait. Was just wondering if anyone else has done it.
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| Jan 20, 2006 @ 1:08 PM |
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kattsmeow
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What mountains are you going to? Sounds like a good time to just listen to nature.
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| Jan 20, 2006 @ 1:10 PM |
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TiNkErGrRrRrR
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Sounds like fun 
Never done it myself 
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| Jan 20, 2006 @ 1:18 PM |
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ILLLOOK
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Up by Lake Arrowhead. Yea I can't wait plus he said that he found about $ 300.00 worth in the streams near there. He will be only the 5th person I have shown this place to really hard to find. I don't want the hot springs to become a party place so I don't show it to many people.
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| Jan 20, 2006 @ 1:31 PM |
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kattsmeow
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Have fun then. I envy you the solitude you will be getting.
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| Jan 20, 2006 @ 1:33 PM |
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Classy_Blonde
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I'm thinking on the way to Big Bear. Maybe San Gorgonio. Seems to me, I recall some hot springs near Forest Falls area. It's beautiful there.
I've only done a teeny bit of panning. It is too tedious, but being out in nature is the best.
There's a hill along Interstate 10, here near Desert Hot Springs, where you can find garnets. I'm almost certain it is named 'Garnet Hill'. I've found some embedded in stones there. They really aren't that difficult to find. Not many people know about its hidden treasures, although the hill is right in plain view.
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| Jan 20, 2006 @ 1:41 PM |
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wandaful123
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Wow! that sounds like a great experience. Hope you have lots of fun and for a bonus get a few nuggets as well.
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| Jan 20, 2006 @ 2:19 PM |
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ILLLOOK
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Forest Falls I love it there. WE sell our chocolates up in Oak Glen but where I'm talking about is north by north west of Lake Arrowhead the nearest house is about 5 miles there is no trails, road or anything to this place It's a wild walk to it.
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| Jan 20, 2006 @ 3:29 PM |
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Classy_Blonde
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Oak Glen is wonderful. The last time I was there, we took our students on a field trip. I love to got there and order hot apple pie a la mode. Of course, I have to have hot chocolate with whipped cream too. You know how cold it can be there this time of year. Got to warm my insides. Not too many calories either.  
I have an idea of where you are talking about. Haven't been there, but as you well know, it used to be a bustling mining area. Most of the locals know to keep the hot springs secret. You know what would happen, if the locale got out.
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| Jan 20, 2006 @ 3:56 PM |
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raykl
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I would like to go, but I'm preoccupied panning for women.
Probably would not have much luck with gold either!!!
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| Jan 20, 2006 @ 4:08 PM |
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wandaful123
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Perhaps your panning in the wrong waters Ray? 
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| Jan 20, 2006 @ 4:40 PM |
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Pete73052
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Another good place to pan for gold is in the Gorman area (off Hwy 5). I'm not going to say too much because the last thing we need is another California gold rush.
I took a class of kids to pan for gold on a school-sponsored field trip. It was great fun and once the kids found some "gold" (the adults were secretly dropping nuggets of pyrite into their pans) you could actually watch them get "gold fever" - some were trying to steal each other's gold, others were getting very possessive of their own spot in the stream. It was interesting (and fun) to watch.
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| Jan 20, 2006 @ 5:58 PM |
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swingpup
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Good luck this weekend panning for gold. Some women simply do it online each and every day....... 
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| Jan 20, 2006 @ 8:21 PM |
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Ladyhawk920
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Panning for gold....I did that once in Helen, Georgia which is a touristy German town. We found isty bitsy bit of gold which we got to put in a little vial which I carried around for years. Sheesh, can't remember where it is anymore..lol
Anyways....have fun!!! There is an art to it 
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| Jan 20, 2006 @ 11:16 PM |
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Angel54214
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Rak and Classy....thats called "fools gold"...hehee! Lots of that out there I imagine. Not worth an ounce...
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| Jan 21, 2006 @ 12:14 AM |
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ILLLOOK
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Well it's funny how some threads can change. LOL I'm all pack and we are leaving at 5:00 am. If I strike it rich I will have to share it with my MD family.
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| Jan 22, 2006 @ 1:39 AM |
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ILLLOOK
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Just got back was a total blast and I found a little gold. my buddy found a nice nugget I think it was a 1/4 oz he said it isn't that big and he found a smaller one too. He said the water was to deep but wants to go back with these tubes with glass lense at the bottom to look in the water.
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| Jan 22, 2006 @ 6:37 PM |
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kattsmeow
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Sounds like a good time!!!! Thanks for sharing.
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| Jan 22, 2006 @ 6:51 PM |
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Classy_Blonde
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I was wondering how much gold is going for, per ounce, nowadays. Does anyone know?
Bet those waters were freezing cold. Did you make it to the hot springs?
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| Jan 22, 2006 @ 6:56 PM |
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kattsmeow
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I am going to say,,,around 5-6 hundred an oz.
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