What do you do on a day off without your dredge? Ya go prospecting for new places! The weather was oh so perfect and the trip was....well fantastic! Jimmy, who is my daughter's boyfriend, arrived with his white 4X4 to give me a little tour of the surrounding sites. I'm damned glad he did for some of the areas would have punked out my little CRV. His information about the mining history of this area was absorbed and filed away for my winter trips.  Our first stop was the Serpentine Loop off of Red Rock Road. The mine we visited was a shallow one with the opening slightly obstructed with layers of garbage, old garbage (hummmmmm). You could see were these old miners were following an old creek bed probably for placer gold. From this area, I could see other mines on the hillside with huge tailings of quartz rocks jutting out of the hillside like snow patches in the summer. I felt my Spectrum Detector start to quiver in my hands, but decided I would learn more from this cowboy guide before I disappeared before his eyes. We drove to another site about 5 miles down the road and my guide pointed out a dirt road explaining to me that it cuts through the five hills surrounding the area.  Well, that did it! Poof! I was gone and hiked in there after saying goodbye to Jimmy. Being that it was late, only samples were taken and a quick scout of a creek bed that was torn down to bedrock due to flash floods. I noticed that all the creeks in that area ended way on the bottom of the valley, so I am making plans to visit that spot soon. Pictures up on my site under La Grange.