Hello all, just starting out. Total noob.
I was bitten by the gold bug 30 years ago and a friend of mine have always wanted to go out and pan for some gold, but never got the chance to look for any. We both lived in Louisiana at the time and unfortunately there's no gold in that there mud. Not much where I live now either in Massachusetts. Although I do understand that some gold has been found in the Westfield River. However, both my friend and my mother live in the Palm Springs area and that's a lot closer to real gold country than where I am now. So, we decided to plan a trip to visit the moms and go sniff around out in the desert and see what we could pan out. We just don't have a bunch of time to run up farther north of there for wet panning. Not planning on quitting the day job to look for gold. My friend and I plan to do this just to go do something together since we haven't seen each other in about 13 yrs. However, I don't want to wander around the desert wasting a bunch of time, so I've been doing the research, which is fun. I've been planning on purchasing a MD for shooting nuggets, but not getting all rigged up for dry-washing. If I lived out there, that'd be a different story, but I don't and have to go light. More than likely we will end up driving around sightseeing with the occasional stop and shoot. I can't see joining any clubs as of yet, but that might be an option if we think we are having enough fun to go back year after year.
We both plan on going out to PS just before Christmas, so if anyone is around that area and just loves to talk about desert nugget hunting, I am all ears.
Russ
