And So It Begins....

[DARK30]

First few of the year

[HotPocket]

Nice ones!

[Connan]

Nice! Feels good to get back at it! Here is my best from this morning

[Stick in Mud]

Very cool indeed! I'm a bit jealous of you rock hounds....the mushrooms won't be up for a while.

[DARK30]

Still a little tuff to walk around good. lots of material still under the snow too.

The shrooms are coming....some real close to these rocks even

[JP Z]

All I see is snow around me...........or my muddy/snowy driveway. I don't think it will be Rocktime till May in my next of the woods.... So I will live vicariously through you guys

[Jim W]

Dark,

did you change your number? Tried texting you several times. I suppose you might have blocked me, keeping the driftless area riff raff away?

Jim W

[ConnorMN]

Nice finds Dark. I tried to get out last Tuesday but it wasn't quite in the cards. Need some warmer weather here! I was driving by that location Saturday, was looking for ya! Good luck this year!

[DARK30]

Ya, thats a good pit..gets hit purdy hard tho. They had some vandalism last summer and boy was he mad...you would NOT want these guys catching you breaking and stealing stuff.

I think a few rock heads is a good thing to have around after hours but its tuff to find agates at night.

Jim...same number. Your my favorite riff raff man!

[ConnorMN]

Yeah Ive heard of some problems with with equipment theft too. Windshields of all things. Not at that one necessarily. B@stards!

[Connan]

dang meth heads ruining it for the rest of us... oh and Dark nigh-time hunting is possible just need a flashlight bright enough. I have an underwater scuba flashlight that is super powerful, the batteries only last like 30 min. But it lights the agates up just like a sunny day.

[DARK30]

I love it..but not that much. I'll go with sunlight

Its still chilly but the south facing areas are warming nice.

[technorocket]

Sweet finds dark and connan! I dont recognize that pit but i met a guy last week who agate hunts and he said that the Apple Valley pit clamped down on pickers. He told me he got kicked out and his agates taken. Hopefully this isnt going to become the new norm.....

[Connan]

There's two types of agate hunters; those that have been kicked out of a pit and those that will. Worse yet is getting a trespassing picket and have to go to court, pay fine, and criminal charges. There are other hunting places on public land, albeit not always as profitable... But i might suggest this time of year farm fields are great places. rocks are washed clean from melting snow and no crops growing. Also beaches; river and lake ice pushes up the rocks and can be great spots.

[Jim W]

Dark,

Read your private

Jim

[DARK30]

Got It