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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
- Nothing planned yet
September 2010
- Nothing planned yet
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