The Summer house in Brown's bay

The Summer house in Brown's bay
The Dixon's summer residence

Saturday, February 12, 2011

ATV Trip to old Gold Mines

I finally have a minute to up date our blog with pictures from Doug's latest ATV ride. The fellows had a great day exploring for gold in two old mine shafts back in the Superstition Mountain foothills. Of course they didn't find any gold but Doug did bring back some pretty stones with copper in them. They left at 10 am and returned home about 4pm so had a good day exploring. They went through Queen Valley and then into the foothills to get to the old mines. Doug said a beautiful ATV trip and one I would have enjoyed. Talk about rubbing it in eh?

 The views heading into the foothills

Traveling through the riparian areas that are bone dry at present

More views as they are heading into the foothills
The first gold mine they visited
 Jim playing prospector as Doug took picture!

The group of trouble makers after they finished exploring the first mine

Doug & Jim  trying their luck at gold mining in the second mine

Heading home after a long day of "fun" prospecting!

 Rocks dsiplayed in front of the motor home

The red and turquoise colored rocks have copper in them
We don't have another rock hounding ATV trip scheduled till next week so will do a further up date then

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