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Downieville, California.
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I had a little Ford Ranger in those days that I hauled all my gear in, and when I got to where I wanted set up a camp, I pitched a tent as storage for the gear, which gave me room to sleep in the back of the truck.
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I’ll tell the tale one of these days.
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Bruce and I have been friends for years. When this photo was taken, we were prospecting in the Mojave–’94.
He’s a hard-rock miner and expert with a metal detector too. His brother Bob ain’t to shabby with a detector either.
Their dad Ken was a prospecting buddy of mine as well; I guess it [...]

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An uninvited guest arrives at my cabin in Kenai, Alaska, ‘91
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Bud Goodall–showing off a Carribo Rack at his camp on the Mosquito Fork of the Fortymile River in Alaska.
Bud is a good friend. We used to snipe together in California back in the early ’80s and he mined out of Chicken Alaska on some claims he owned with a partner named [...]

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While rafting the Middle Fork of the Feather on a sniping trip in ‘79 my gear got wet in some rapids. This is a photo of some of it spread-out and drying in the sun.
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Rafting and sniping the Wild and Scenic Middle Fork of the Feather–’79. One of my camps.
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I hired on to dive on a friends claim for a percentage of the clean-ups. We ran (2) ten inch dredges and (1) eight inch dredge, with (3) two man teams.
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Would you buy a used car from this bunch?
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The guy on the right was called "Grizzly," I’m in the middle and I have forgotten the name of the fellow on the left; I met them while sniping and haven’t seen them since.
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