I picked up my friend Laura on Saturday 20 and we headed out to Eastern Washington for a little fun and hopefully some
rockhounding. The weather was nice as we made our way over highway 20, the North Cascades highway. We hooked the trailer up in
Margies RV park in Riverside which is just north of
Omak.
The weather was nice, that is, it was not really hot. From the RV park there were three places I was interested in seeing. One near Lake
Conconnully is now private property. So much for finding nice quartz crystals. Another one was East of
Oroville, just South of Nighthawk. It too is not closed to the public. So much for copper ores. Maybe we were lucky it was closed because the area was just loaded with
mosquitoes. The third one was East of
Tonasket in the Aeneas valley up Frosty Creek Road. Looking for agates some of which were supposed to be blue. We found some but nothing special as far as I was concerned.
On the way up the narrow side road off of Frosty Creek road, a truck pulling a trailer was coming down. Whew. Had to back up a ways to find a spot so he could get buy.
We left Tuesday for
Sedro Wooley taking highway 2 over Stevens Pass. Stayed at Riverside RV park. On Wednesday we went to Walker Valley to find some geodes. It is suppose to be a good spot. Well, I did not find any trace of previous diggings. No broken geodes,
zippo. Found out later we were in the right spot. Fun looking.
Thursday I took Laura home again to
Bellingham and Friday headed home to Shelton. I had a fun time even though I did not find and rocks. Laura said she had a good time too.
