if you got off the train in Auburn CA with $400

Find a bar and have a cool one, pick up a woman so I wouldn't have to camp out, find a sporting goods store to get the scoop on what and where I needed to go and check the train schedule so after I found my few flakes, I could adios home, after a couple more cool ones, of course...
 

not a bad idea
 

WOW - I wish I was young again and did something like this.
Throwing it all in the air and seeing what fate might bring and where it'll take you.
I hope I stay physically fit as I get into my later 50's, cuz as soon as the kids are out of the house and I am retired, I may still try doing this same thing.

Good luck and maybe start a journal that we can follow.

G
 

Grab a good bag-o-weed and get to gold country! :skullflag:
 

Buy a horse, the diggen's are to far to walk to from the train station, unless you don't mind a three day walk lugging all that gear.
 

I'd hitchhike to Alaska. If I had to do it over again, I would have disappeared into the Alaskan bush. And stay out of the bars.
 

Be noticed when getting a grubstake together , unfortunately.
Then head for pre-determined site(s).
Either check in with local authority as to when I'd be returning to checkout ( if I were squeaky clean) or have some one somewhere know where I was headed and when I should be checking in with them next.
 

Doesn't Goldwasher have a Prospecting store opening in Auburn? That would be the first place to get yourself dialed in. That's also Reed Luken's stomping grounds.
 

First of all I sure as hell wouldn't be stopping in californica...........
 

Good gold in aburn state rec area just right out of town. Hitch a ride or hike down 49 to the north/middle fork and it's open to prospecting and with lots of UN claimed land to play on. Otherwise most of the accessible rivers are claimed unless you hike deep into the canyons. Google auburn state rec area for a map of the area.
 

littlesquirrrel said:
If you got off Amtrak in Auburn CA to go gold panning, have $400 cash in your pocket and a backpack full of camping gear, what would be the first few things you would do.
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I "WISH" I could go back in time and find out!! Had a couple folks recommend I go looking for gold back in the mid-90's. I just scoffed (silently), thinking they were nuts. There "couldn't" be gold out there anymore, I thought. If there was, more people would be out there doing it. I mean, the entire California Gold Rush was barely a footnote in my large Texas school education. Gotta trust my education, right? ----- crickets chirping ----- Yes, I truly do with I could go back in time and have that chance again. Might well have failed miserably, but at least I wouldn't have had any regrets from not trying.
 

If you go east and south a little to the north fork of the American River, there is a large tract of private land. There was a club that used the place. Good fishing and better dredging. One member came up with and 6.5 ounce nugget one year. Some judge, probably operating under agenda 21, put so many restrictions on the place that the club was closed down. I told the owner that since he held an alloldial title to the place, his grandfather won it in a poker game, he didn't have to listen to the judge. He didn't listen to me. So now the place is just full of fishermen that think that gold miners ruin the environment. If there was one place I would go to stay for the rest of my life, it would be there. First we would have to run all the fascists and libtards out of California though.
 

you're talkin more down south by Folsom lake?
 

I hiked 5 days in to Bohemia Mountain didn't find anything but I was mainly using a detector...took me a while to get back out of those hills.
 

rodoconnor said:
Doesn't Goldwasher have a Prospecting store opening in Auburn? That would be the first place to get yourself dialed in. That's also Reed Luken's stomping grounds.
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Not Auburn. Lotus right next to Coloma. I'm already open Wed. to Sunday 8 to 6 by appointment the other days. I have to have time for garden and yard work, my own exploration work and the guided trips I'm doing. My shop is fifteen minutes to open BLM areas.
 

littlesquirrrel said:
you're talkin more down south by Folsom lake?
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It sounds like hes referring to Horseshoe Bar on the middle fork American, now a private trout fishing resort.
 

first of all Austin is correct, you need a woman to cook for you and also to decoy any predators ( but make sure she has money too)
 

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