Archive for the 'Club Outings' Category

Are you ready to get out and do some detecting or prospecting? Well August will be a great month to do just that, so make your plans now to attend one of the outings with the club.

The prospecting outing will be at East Fork on the San Gabriel river. Jim Jeffery will be leading the outing, so be sure to check with him or check the Club Forum for details. This outing will be held on Saturday, August 21st.

John Bucholzer will be leading our metal detecting outing, but we don’t have a definitive date or location yet. Check back for more details on this outing.

** UPDATE **

The metal detecting outing will be held at Oceanside beach on Sunday August 29th at 4pm. We will be working the beach on the South side of the pier. Hope to see you there!

Our prospecting & metal detecting outings are being combined this month as we head up to the Holcomb Valley near Big Bear.

The outing is scheduled for Saturday July 17th and John Bucholzer will be leading the outing this month. Everyone will be meeting at the Big Bear Discovery Center at 8:00 am. The Center is located at 40971 North Shore Drive (Highway 38), Fawnskin, CA 92333.

Items to bring:

• Lunch
• Water (a must have)
• Adventure pass (so you can park your vehicle)
• GPAA membership prospecting permit or bring a friend with one
• Metal Detector
• Dry Washer
• Other Prospecting Gear (i.e. buckets, pans, tubs, etc.)

There is no phone reception where we are going, so call before Saturday with any questions.

John Bucholzer will be leading the group on our next metal detecting outing on June 12th right after the club meeting. The outing will be from 12:00 noon to 4 pm at the Rotary Park in Temecula. This is the park right next to the community center where we hold our meeting, so the commute to the outing will be really short

Rotary Park Temecula

John has gotten special permission for us to use the park for the outing and the maintenance staff will be checking up on us to see how our club did after we are finished. This will determine if we can use Temecula parks in the future, so let’s leave it in better shape than when we arrived.

Here are a few guidelines:

• If you dig a hole be sure to fill it in.
• If you are digging in the grass, take care on how the grass is removed so it can be put back (like a divot when out on the golf course).
• If you see some trash, pick it up.
• Be courteous to those who might be using the park.

The park is only about 1 acre in size, so there won’t be a lot of area to explore, but it should be good fun to get out with the group to see what we can find.

It is going to be in the mid 80′s on Saturday, so don’t forget to bring a hat, some water to drink, and be sure to put your detector in the car

John Bucholzer will be leading the group on our next metal detecting outing on Saturday May 22nd and we will be going to Holcomb Valley looking for gold.  In your GPAA Mining Guide it is CA-46 & CA-47. We will meet at 8:00 am at the Big Bear Discovery Center which is located at 40971 North Shore Drive (Highway 38), Fawnskin, CA 92333.

Items to bring:

• Lunch
• Water (a must have)
• Adventure pass (so you can park your vehicle)
• GPAA membership prospecting permit or bring a friend with one
• Metal Detector

There is no phone reception where we are going, so call before Saturday with any questions.

The TVP Outing is this Saturday (5/15/2010). The group will be going to the Crystal Group claims (GPAA # CA-45) and will be meeting at 8:00 am.

For more details on the outing, please see Wagonmaster Jay’s post in the TVP Forum. Click Here to go directly to the post.

Our prospecting outing for April 2010 will be this Saturday, April 17 out at our new TVP claim. Please check the TVP Forum for all of the details. Click Here to access the post in the forum. You will need to be logged into the forum in order to access this post as it is in the private section of the forum.

Our first Metal Detecting Outing will be held on Saturday April 10th after the monthly TVP Meeting. John Bucholzer will be leading the group and we will be heading down to a spot called Oceanside Harbor in Oceanside. The meeting place will be at a pay to park area where S. Harbor Dr. meets N. Pacific St. The approximate address is 204 S. Harbor Dr., Oceanside CA (click the address for a map).

Here is what you need to bring:

• A Metal Detector
• Food and water for yourself
• Cash for the parking area

If you don’t have a detector right now, but are interested in learning more about them, please come out and see how they work.

If you have any questions about this outing, please see John at the meeting or give him a call at 951-743-1591.

The January TVP Outing will be at the Cargo Muchacho Mountains near Glamis on Saturday January 16th. Please check the members only section on the TVP Forum for more details (January 2010 Outing Cargo Muchacho Mountains) or contact Wagonmaster Jay.

We have a booth at the Lancaster gold show. The gold show is a great way to let people know  that we are here and what we do. It is also a great way for us to get new members and make a little money from a raffle. We need volunteers to help out running the booth and answering questions. But most of all we need members to just come. The more the merrier. If you have not been to a gold show it is a lot of fun and you get to meet a lot of great people.

We need some members to help the Gpaa to setup on Friday morning 8am – noon. I will not be able to get there until Friday night due to work. We will set our booth up on saturday morning at 9am. The gold show will run from 10am-5pm on Saturday and 10am-4pm on Sunday. The Gpaa will need people to help take down after the show on Sunday. If you can help setup, take down, or run the booth, please give me a call at 951-244-3442.

The gold show will be held at the Antelope Valley Fairgrownds. The address is 2551 West Avenue H, Suite 102 H Lancaster, CA 93536.