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YVGMS members and non-members are welcome to join us on any fieldtrip, provided that everyone signs a waiver prior to beginning the trip. Anyone under 18 must have a guardian sign the waiver.
Make sure you are on the signup sheet if you are interested in going. The signup sheets are at the shop and at the meetings.
February 2010
- Feb 6: Southern Pacific Silica Quarry
- Leader: Frank Fitch
- Meeting place: Gas station at CA74 & Menifee Rd
- Meeting time: 8am
- Looking for: Garnets, Black Tourmaline, very nice Quartz (clear, asterated, rose or smokey), and, maybe, if we are really lucky, aquamarine
- Road condition: rutted, some mud. OK for street cars driven with care, use your own judgement
- Kid friendly. 10-15 minute walk from parked car to collecting area
- Feb 20: Calico Mountains
- Leader: Frank Fitch and others
- Meeting place: The YVGMS workshop
- Meeting time: We will leave the shop at 7am
- Looking for: A variety of lapidary materials
- Road condition: exact collecting area unknown at this time. Calico roads are "typical BLM roads". Rough, sandy in spots.
March 2010
- Mar 21 (Sunday): Southern Pacific Silica Quarry
- Leader: Frank Fitch
- Meeting place: Gas station at CA74 & Menifee Rd
- Meeting time: 8am
- Looking for: Garnets, Black Tourmaline, very nice Quartz (clear, asterated, rose or smokey), and, maybe, if we are really lucky, aquamarine
- Road condition: rutted, some mud. OK for street cars driven with care, use your own judgement
- Kid friendly. 10-15 minute walk from parked car to collecting area
- Bring: water/drinks, lunch/snacks, screens, digging tools, spray bottle, hard rock tools if you are ambitious
April 2010
- Exact date TBD: Coalinga for Benitoite
- Leader: Frank Fitch
- This is a fee site, $70 as of right now, subject to change. http://www.calstategemmine.com/
- Details to be worked out when the get a list of interested hounders.
- Get on the sign up sheet at the shop or at the meeting if you are interested
May 2010
- No trip planned, we have our show
June 2010
- Nothing planned yet
July 2010
- Nothing planned yet
August 2010
- Aug 21 (Saturday): La Sierra Museum of Natural History
- Linda Gibbs
- Meeting place: La Sierra Museum of Natural History, 4500 Riverwalk Pkwy, Riverside, CA
- Meeting time: 3pm
- Dr Wood has offered to show us the mineral displays at the museum. He has also offered to take us into the attic to see his personal collection, which is not normally open to the public!
- Kid Friendly
September 2010
- CANCELLED DUE TO INJURY Sept 18 (Saturday): South Cardiff State Beach
- Leaders:Frank Fitch & Lee Peterson
- Meeting place: Lee will lead a group from the shop at 8am. We will meet at the beach around 10am.
- What to bring
- "normal" beach stuff (hat, sunscreen, shoes that be dunked in the ocean)
- collecting bag. Those fancy new cloth shopping bags from the grocery store work great. They're cheap, too!
- no need for a rock pick, just dunk the rock in the ocean
- Kid Friendly
- Flush Toilets
- There is a parking fee. Last time I was there, it was $10 per car. Carpooling is good...
- Please note: While rockhounding is not prohibited at the beach, we want to keep it that way. Be picky, take your time, and be conservative with the volume of rock you take. We can always just kick back after rockhunting, and enjoy the sun and beach sights.
- If you leave your car at the shop, park out of the way. The tire shop is open on Saturdays
- Beach Location
October 2010
- Nothing planned yet
November 2010
- Nov 24-28:CFMS Wiley Well Thanksgiving trip (overnight or day trip)
December 2010
- Nothing planned yet
January 2011
- Quartzsite, AZ
Marble Mountains
Jade Cove
P.O. Box 494
Yucaipa, CA 92399