Post by catmandewe on Aug 29, 2009 23:00:22 GMT -5
My Dad and I went to my Cousin's wedding in Lebanon Oregon this week, so we did a little collecting on the way.
Wed morning we made a little stop at Glass butte and spent a couple of hours checking the place out. Lots of obsidian laying on the ground and several places where people have dug looking for larger pieces. I found a hole with a rather large immobile piece still stuck in the bottom of it. So I took a pick and worked the edges of the hole and found some larger pieces just inches inside the wall surface. I found about 5 pieces over 50 lbs, so it was well worth the digging!
Here is a scenery shot of the general area from the top of the hill.
The hole I dug around in with one of the large pieces at the bottom left. I left a 300 lb piece in there because I couldn't get it out.
My Dad saying HI to everyone, (you should have seen the looks we got driving around on the desert back roads with a pinball machine in the back)
We went to the wedding on Wednesday night, very nice wedding!
Then Thursday we went to my Uncle's house in Portland and dropped off the pinball machine (my uncle collects them) and we spent the night there then on Friday morning we headed for Biggs, where we got about another 600 lbs of Biggs jasper from the secret stash guy!
My dad saw a moped at a carlot off the freeway so we went back and he bought it, then I stopped along the way and bought another rock saw I spotted on Craigslist the week before, so by the time we got home we had a pretty good load.
Was a fun week with my Dad!
Thanks for lookin....................Tony
Wed morning we made a little stop at Glass butte and spent a couple of hours checking the place out. Lots of obsidian laying on the ground and several places where people have dug looking for larger pieces. I found a hole with a rather large immobile piece still stuck in the bottom of it. So I took a pick and worked the edges of the hole and found some larger pieces just inches inside the wall surface. I found about 5 pieces over 50 lbs, so it was well worth the digging!
Here is a scenery shot of the general area from the top of the hill.
The hole I dug around in with one of the large pieces at the bottom left. I left a 300 lb piece in there because I couldn't get it out.
My Dad saying HI to everyone, (you should have seen the looks we got driving around on the desert back roads with a pinball machine in the back)
We went to the wedding on Wednesday night, very nice wedding!
Then Thursday we went to my Uncle's house in Portland and dropped off the pinball machine (my uncle collects them) and we spent the night there then on Friday morning we headed for Biggs, where we got about another 600 lbs of Biggs jasper from the secret stash guy!
My dad saw a moped at a carlot off the freeway so we went back and he bought it, then I stopped along the way and bought another rock saw I spotted on Craigslist the week before, so by the time we got home we had a pretty good load.
Was a fun week with my Dad!
Thanks for lookin....................Tony