It's foggy as hell as I drove home from work at 2:00 am. Why, why, why, do I do this?! Lets see, I will be home at 3:00 am, sleep for 4 hours, then grab my gear and head up to Scotsman's place, which is one hour away, to meet up with his wife and our new friend, Rezonate. Well, the excitement and the unknown will probably get me through this one I hope.

Ok, so I was 30 minutes late, but everyone else was ready to go, and go we did. Off to check out some more of the La Grange area with our metal detectors. We checked out an opening to one shaft that had opened up by cave in. Looks like they were following a placer run down a small run-off or creek and there was a lot of old style foundations. There was also another person swinging his detector.

This area was pretty well picked over, so we turned our attention to the hillside and its hidden tailings. Thanks to Rezonate's knowledge on minerals, we determined that they were mining serpentine--hummm maybe that's why we were following Serpentine Road -- Go figure, huh? Having our fill of lead and cans, we then took our outfits to an area that the hill floods have ripped the creeks to bedrock. The fury of nature when it is outraged is always amazing to me, for this creek was ripped to bedrock and clean of debris! Just getting concentrates was a chore in itself. Having found some old coins and more lead, we called it a day and beat feet out of there before nightfall crashed down on us. Finding information and meeting a new friend was my lucky find for the day, so with our tired old bodies back in our trucks, we said farewell till next time. 

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