{"id":1381,"date":"2008-08-15T23:58:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T06:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2020-07-20T09:39:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T16:39:58","slug":"prospecting-for-gold-the-east-fork-of-the-san-gabriel-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1381","title":{"rendered":"Prospecting For Gold – The East Fork of the San Gabriel River"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having the day off and no money to enjoy it, I decided to strike it rich up in the mountains above Azusa – the East Fork of the San Gabriel River.<\/p>\n

Jeremy, who works in the same building as me at my real job, wanted the “adventure” and experience to go Gold prospecting.<\/p>\n

I was happy to help him out.<\/p>\n

We arrived around 7:15 AM and hiked maybe two miles up river to find a good spot.<\/p>\n

\"Another<\/p>\n

Another perfect day in the mountains!<\/p>\n

We came across a huge hole that someone had dug on the river embankment.<\/p>\n

I thought, “There must be Gold here, someone kept digging.”<\/p>\n

Jeremy dug and classified a bucket of gravel in the area surrounding the hole, while I supervised.<\/p>\n

\"I<\/p>\n

I instructed Jeremy on how to feed a sluice, while I drank my breakfast Chelada.<\/p>\n

\"After<\/p>\n

After a while, I dug while Jeremy classified.<\/p>\n

Another prospector, who later introduced himself as Ted, walked down to us and asked if we were digging in his hole.<\/p>\n

“No,” I said, “have at it, but I was considering it.”<\/p>\n

\"Ted<\/p>\n

Ted digs in his hole; apparently he is up here every week.<\/p>\n

After a few bucket fulls of nothing, Ted was nice enough to point out some places where we may have some luck.<\/p>\n

Jeremy said, “If I even see a tiny flake of Gold, that will make my trip worth while.”<\/p>\n

\"Ted<\/p>\n

Ted lent us his huge 16 pound crow bar to move some rocks.<\/p>\n

We dug a few more bucket fulls of gravel from underneath some of the rocks that we moved.<\/p>\n

\"Jeremy<\/p>\n

Jeremy gained much experience in feeding a sluice.<\/p>\n

\"I\u2019m<\/p>\n

I’m now an expert at setting up my sluice, adjusting for water flow and angle.<\/p>\n

\"All<\/p>\n

As it turns out, all three of us live in Long Beach and Ted frequents the grocery store where Jeremy’s wife works.<\/p>\n

I picked Ted’s brain about prospecting here; he bragged about once getting $15 worth of Gold up here in one day.<\/p>\n

We told Jeremy basically, that prospecting is something that you “really like, really hate, or something that you like to hate, but nothing beats a great day in the mountains.”<\/p>\n

I panned the last sluice full of concentrate and low and behold – there was Gold!<\/p>\n

A few flakes, that is.<\/p>\n

A few tiny flakes that I couldn’t take a picture of, because I don’t have a microscope.<\/p>\n

\"Looking<\/p>\n

I gave Jeremy all of our Gold, not only as a souvenir, but also so he wouldn’t go back home empty handed.<\/p>\n

We packed up, said good bye for now to Ted and hiked back to the truck.<\/p>\n

Jeremy said that he had fun and would do it again; hopefully next time we’ll have better luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having the day off and no money to enjoy it, I decided to strike it rich up in the mountains above Azusa – the East Fork of the San Gabriel River. Jeremy, who works in the same building as me at my real job, wanted the “adventure” and experience to go Gold prospecting. I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,64,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5334,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/5334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}