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Photo of me and Yubalee (my mining buddy) on our six-month camping and gold prospecting trip to the Mojave Desert…winter/spring of ‘05-’06. I snapped the picture using a hand-held remote. Yubalee is modest, and self-conscious about her weight problem too; she was not agreeable to having her photo taken and was fighting me all the way!

Welcome!

My name’s Jason Quinten Kincade. I’m GorpStew’s resident blogster. I’m writing and posting a diary of my gold prospecting experiences (top menu bar), beginning with my introduction to prospecting in 1978. I guess whether you do or do not like what’s cookin’ here —I’m the guy to blame.

If you invest a minute or two to digest the remainder of this page, I believe you will acquire a taste for our “GorpStew.” Just give us the opportunity; we’ll serve up something yummy and even invite you to prepare a delicious entr’ee (your recipe) to serve here at our table. Because, you see, it has never been my intention to make this website exclusively about me.

Our tiny twirling planet seethes with humanity, each individual a walking drama. I welcome and encourage each to unravel theirs, for all the world, right here on GorpStew.

Since you’re already here, pull up a chair, get comfortable,

You have a story to tell,
Be it foremost, middle, or small.
Free it now from behind its prison wall,
Upon to bang and clang its seasoned bell,
To call to feast, eager ears…so ravenous all.
—Jason Quinten Kincade—

In other words (my common everyday ones), please don’t just stride right on through my ‘diggings’ without leastwise leavin’ footprints behind…on account of it just ain’t neighborly like! Us old prospectors get lonesome out here in the bush; we get to cravin’ company…sometimes fierce! I mean what’s a feller to surmise when folks float about his camp like ghosts just a rummaging through his personals without even so much as a howdy do?

Surely you can abide how it might cause a body to conjure up and formulate all sorts of hurtful misgivin’s about his likability…even be overtaken by one a them loonyatic afflictions city folks is so partial to. So, pard, so long as you’re already here anyways…stay awhile. Tell about yourself…confabulate, leave footprints. It needn’t be about prospecting, not at all…I reckon how it could be allowed there’s other doings almost as interesting and honorable. Leastwise I’m willing to ponder on it…some.

Now, to come back in from the bush, drop the banter, jump into my blogger pants, and get serious…(semi).

Please do tell and publish your story; When you send it to me, I’ll see that it gets my immediate attention; whether it be just a couple of sentences, or a page or more in length…tell it today. Tim Saylor did; read his inspiring posts under ‘Image’ in the top menu bar.

If you are unable or unwilling to participate, at least post a Comment. I’m looking forward to hearing from you…as are most GorpStew ‘diners’! And for those that aren’t, oh well, “They can just…”

I’ll close now with just a few words about myself…overlooking any flaws, of course!

As far back as I can remember, I’ve dreamt of living in the woods and earning my way as a gold prospector / miner. However, it didn’t seem like I would ever get that chance. Finally, though, in my early 30s, circumstances turned favorable and I leaped at the opportunity to pull the “trigger.” Consequently, since 1978 (supported by my prospecting efforts), a substantial part of my life has been lived in the ‘bush’ of California, Nevada, and Alaska. Between prospecting trips, I’m chronicling those carefree days, here in my online diary (see menu on top of the page). I’ve really got my work cut out for me, filling in the years from ‘78 to the present; I expect I’ll be at it for a long while…if forces permit!

In recreating events, I do my best to describe camp life, characters I’ve met, wildlife encounters and gold prospecting and mining techniques, such as panning, sniping, sluicing, dredging, and metal detecting.

Thanks for dropping by; please hang around awhile, get acquainted, and do come back soon!

Jason

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