Time for the obligatory New Guy Around Here post...

Hey there, just joined the site and feel compelled to share a little about myself.
I'm relatively new to prospecting (been going out here and there for about 8 years) and just recently decided to get a little more serious.
I'm 35, live in Mesa, AZ, have a wonderful wife and beautiful little girl.  My day job is an IT Project Manager focused on facilities integration for a major Real Estate investment Trust involved in shopping malls around the country.
In my free time I help a buddy over at DesertFab Motorsports in Apache Junction, AZ, where we build off road vehicles from mild to race and professional rockcrawling.

I own a couple of basic items... Blue bowl, a borrowed Desert Fox and my brand new White's GMT E-Series.
I recently decided to quit being scared of accidentally jumping a claim and joined GPAA.  My first trip out (to Stanton) brought home some nice flakes and fines working with a couple guys who had dry washers (my next investment, but I'll build it since I have the skills and tools available).

I'm just like everyone else out there... I want to meet up with like minded (however insane that may be) people and see if Mother Nature will bestow upon us some of her yellow bounty!

If anyone is up for getting out to a claim (I'm thinking of joining Road Runners and then LDMA when money isn't so tight) then let me know.  I'd love to get out and get digging!

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Hello MESA and welcome. The wife and I went to Apache Junction last year for about a month. We're retired and stayed with a friend. We're 53 years old. We went as guests (through the Promack Shop) to a claim at the base of Rich Hill. It was an overnighter and we enjoyed the campfire, digging, new friends, and experience we gained from the trip. We found small flakes and when I panned some color, several other members asked where were you digging. I told them I dug straight down 2 feet just past a large boulder. We carried two 5 gallon buckets full of screened and dry panned concentrates to camp where we wet panned them. On our return home to Iowa we stopped in Fairplay, Colorado where Chad Watkins took us out with his small dredge. We dug into a hillside where he has a claim. We found more small flakes. My energy level at 14,000 feet dimished after about a half hour. We rested, ate a sandwich and the second time I dug for about 15 minutes. We rested, the third time, I lasted about 5 minutes. I guess this elevation takes some getting used to.... Anyway, we enjoyed the day panning our concentrates down to 3 pans and all three had several flakes of color. We stopped at Idaho Springs, Colorado and panned Clear Creek and found just a few flakes. We're hoping to return to Apache Junction in the Spring of 2011. I've purchased a White's Surfmaster Pro PI and a White's TDI and hope for some luck next year detecting. 

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Hi from the Great White North

First time to post here....We live in the Pacific West coast and we travel to the Phillippines every year for holidays and my favorite past time of digging.  I am 53 and we have decided to sell our property and move to the R.P. full time for awhile.  I was in the automotive finance field for many years and after a head on collision we decided life can be short.  It was after this experience that I never want to say should of, would of, could of.

 I enjoy watching the Seahunters and Clive Cussler always says...get off the couch and go off into the streams and mountains and search for history and you wont find a more satisfying feeling...He is right.

I also like researching the second world war and working on ciphers and codes. 

Anyways,  always take care when out in the field....and keep on digging.

Greg

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Welcome from Deming New Mexico!

Have you tried around BagDad Az?

There is gold to be had there.   

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