WPA
2002 Outing

 
The second WPA outing was a great success and a lot of fun. 

This being only our second outing Things were a little rough in the beginning. We were a little slow informing members of times and dates and location. But when it got rolling everything smoothed out and fell into place. 

We were granted access to a private claim, and were allowed prospecting rights for the day. *thanks jim* We also hauled in dirt from secret locations for members to pan and our common dig. These locations could become new WPA claims in the future. 

Members worked the pile of dirt till there was nothing left of it and we put all the gold and pickers in to vials and divided it up among all who participated. Members also got a tour of the Corisa Mine in South Pass City. Christina found a rock in the dump pile that had gold in it. 

We also had a great meal the club provided hamburgers hot dogs soda chips and beans. A big thank you to the members who contributed to the meal with side dishes and deserts every thing was delicious. 

Everybody chipped in to help with the clean up of concentrates. 
Connie even had her new "Gold Buddie" working 

Well after getting the cons cleaned up everybody got to ogle over the gold. 
We ended up with a nice pan of gold and a few pickers. 

Stanley & Jerry even demonistrated an old drywasher for us while Dan looked on. 


It was a lot of fun meeting new friends and seeing old one at the outing. There were a lot of new 
activities this year and I'll bet they will be part of the fun next year. There was a new claim set up 
for filing this year so a lot of new member were added to our claim owner list 
It was a lot of fun seeing that much gold all in one place. 
It was also a confirmation that the new claim areas we are working on got good gold on them. I was happy to see the gold because even with all the sample pans we took you never know what you got for sure till you work the dirt and clean up the high bankers. I hope next year we can do even better.

We hope you will join us next year it will be great fun!!
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