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Field trips are scheduled on a regular basis throughout the year, including bus trips to local shows, museums, and special exhibits.
Our WAGONMASTER also schedules trips to collecting sites within driving distance of Bellingham. Interested club members meet at a designated location and carpool to the collection site. Many of these sites are open on an "appointment only" basis, so this is a fantastic resource for our members.
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Be sure to use the drop-down menu to see pictures of some of our trips!
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Upcoming Wagonmaster Field Trip Camp Out
Saturday, September 11th - 12th, 2010
Little Naches area for agate and crystal filled thunder-eggs and geodes. Meet at Kaner Flat Campground at 10am Saturday. Come prepared with digging tools, light hard rock tools and buckets or packs to carry out your finds! Generally a rock hammer, pick-hoe and a small shovel suffice. There is a short hike in to the dig site so only bring what you can carry, and collect what you can pack out! Lots of camping is available in the area. Due to the distance and travel time required, we intend to make a weekend out of it and can be found at Kaner Flat Campground. Hope you will join us in the hunt for the biggest Thunderegg!
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For more information contact our Wagonmaster:
Kris Menger
360-366-0576 or 360-927-0994
kmenger@peoplepc.com
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Field Trip Report
- July 17th, 2010, Lake Wenatchee area for garnets, actinolite specimens, and soapstone
The July camp-out at Lake Wenatchee area was great. Despite the bugs and large quantity of bug spray required we still managed to brave the higher than normal, chilly water of Lake Creek and leave with many many excellent Garnets specimens. Some nearly 1/2 an inch! We collected beautiful samples from a pegmatite dike, collected some soapstone for carving and even found some actinolite specimens! We camped out under clear starry skies, cooked over the camp fire and just enjoyed each others company!
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Proposed Field Trips to Mark on the Calendar:
October 2nd-3rd, Camp out, Saddle Mountain for petrified wood
November 13th, Blanchard Mountain for Stilpnomelane in blue/green chert and milky white quartz
The following Mineral Council field trips have been canceled:
Canceled: August 7, Salmon Creek for Carnelian agate, jasper and petrified wood
Canceled: August 25, Fee dig Jade mine near Darrington
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Other Field Trips:
8/21-22 Puyallup Gem Club, Greenwater Collecting Area, meeting at 9:00 @ Enumclaw Ranger Station to collect Agates, Jasper, common opal and petrified wood. Tools needed: Dig & light hard rock. For more information contact Ed Lehman at
wsmced@hotmail.com (425)334-6282 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (425)334-6282 end_of_the_skype_highlighting The Washington State Mineral Council.
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Other Notes:
The Mineral Council Money Creek/Miller River picture jasper collecting area is closed due to land ownership issues,
All Weyerhauser land including Kalama area Lucas Creek etc. is closed to all rockhound activity.
A Walker Valley & "fly by night claim" field trip as well as a multi-day Eastern Washington Serpentine/Tunk Creek Thulite trip are being considered.
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| A Beautiful Day for Rockhounding |
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