Field Trip Report:
Second Annual Western North Carolina
Rockhound Roundup!
August 4-5-6-7, 2005
Ron Seaver in the creek. Ron and Nancy are also new club members.
Andrew and Whitney.
Alan McCleaf
Lee with his big feldspar crystal.
Gene Jeffers pointing to a large beryl crystal in matrix that he rolled out of the creek. It just shows that the creek is still producing the big ones.
Close up of Genes beryl in matrix.
After the day at the Sinkhole and the Ray, we headed back to base camp for a fun afternoon of trading and swapping rock stories.
My neighbor brought "Buddy" the rock monkey by to meet everyone.
Steve Penley enjoying the evening.
Gene relaxing after a hard day of mining.
