I can't imagine having to do what we've been doing occasionally full time, its kicken my ass breaking bedrock, pitching rocks, laying in cold water sucking up endless dirt into a barrel, my body aches after each day and ,my painting business I have guys doing for me what I have trouble doing myself, just so i don't get the way i do looking for gold, but its almost worth the labor , not quite, but theres something very alluring about finding gold that a man will suffer great lengths , even very little gold...
Good luck guys hope your pans get full!
I geuss one would have had to of found a sizable pocket to want do that much work. and those that have, know what im talking about.
I was ruined with my first decent pocket, i call it the gold curse. most folks arent effected by the bug in the way that they would give it all up to go chase crumbs of gold, dig monster holes, beat foot trails
into mnts, or pound on a chisell till ya cant move.
but most folks dont know what its likes to find a pocket. I can find crumbs all day long, thats not what im after, its my next big pocket that keeps me walking over that mnt ridge, i gotta see what or
whos been there before me. In hopes that i will find a pocket that got passed up by the old timers.
Ive never been a dredger butt i would suspect seeing a true pocket of gold, nice and shiny sitting in its bedrock nest. that it would be unforegetable expieriance, I have had
mine with hardrock
drywashing, and bleepin and will never forget digging golden rocks out of the ground.
Thats what keeps me digging and walking over as much of this ole desert that i can before the ole body gives out.
Hope you all have the luck of a pocket, just dont get the curse.
Good luck.