Very awesome, we have had so much flooding here in western Wa. so mining has been out of the question but I look forward to hitting the rivers in the next few weeks to see what the flooding has done.
Still get something every time though. Just passed 10 grams total! (Total for all time for us) 
Awesome Mike, you are doing better than I did my first year but that was many years ago and I had no one to help me except the Buzzard " GPAA Founder " he taught me a lot. You want to test your skills, try mining Olney Creek, gold is very spotty, source basically unknown but I may after 40 years figured it out. I spent a year on Olney, every Sat and Sunday and it all started with a 1/4 inch flake I found there but the point here is that I learned to find gold on a creek that has gold but it is not easy to find it, I got only about 1 gram that year but then the Sultan river that was closed to mining was opened up again and I got 8 grams of course gold my first day only because of what I learned mining Olney Creek.Wife and I have been out several times since the flood. It's been fun trying to figure out where the gold moved to.
that is about 200ft climb down step canyon walls with no trails anymore. Also I should mention the Everette watershed police that patrol the area and if you end up mining or carrying mining equipment on there properties there you will fined and possible jail time. One more thing to get to the good gold you will have to dig down at least 6 to 8ft down and be able to move 4ft boulders, very hard to do but I have the equipment down there to do it and have done it. If you want to mine the Sultan your best bet would be to join the WPMA, they have claims up river and you can drive up to them but the 600ft climb down is not bad but the climb out is a killer.
