Went with my dad and my son to the CSMS April Fools claim today. Started off with snow on the ground. Drove around the area for a while looking for the proper Claim Posts; in searching through them we found a couple smokeys in the gravel of the road. Pretty cool and good eyes by Dad and Hutner. Did some pretty serious hills too; Hunter was questioning if the hills were drivable…I figured since there was a road then it was!

W started by looking around at other holes and piles. Right away found some small Amazonite crystals. My dad found a nice clear Fluorite; the first I’ve seen pulled from the ground! Found some nice smaller plates with white quartz and purple flourite cubes and cube-octo-hedronds? Cool shapes! Started to dig and got a descent hold but I still have no confidence in knowing what I’m looking for. I’ve had success at Devilshead when digging to look for larger rock at the root rock layer just under the surface. Also look for increased mica in the dirt/rock. I figured I needed to dig around that layer and taking from some of the other pits I guessed at a good depth to go to. I dug aligned with a nice vug that someone found, about 20-30 feet away along the hill. After a couple of hours, we all decided to walk around and given it was after a couple big snows and see if we could learn more and also check the dumps for leftovers.

We had a great day, and garage door to pit it was about 2 hours from home. Nice! Devilshead is about 1 hour 15 minutes including the hike, so nice having a couple hot spots so close! We can’t wait for the July fieldtrip so we can peek at how the experts do it and hopefully have a higher probability of success!