We went out on the Barry Goldwater range and got to see the Betty Lee mine and some smaller ones around it. Jim is coming out of one -- he just went in the entrance. It's dangerous and illegal to go in any abandoned mines. It is amazing to see the work they had to go through to mine out here in the middle of the desert.
The mine with the train track coming out had a huge vein of beautiful rock at the top of the entrance -- you can see some of the color. It took us over an hour just to get out to these mines by jeep. I can't imagine how hard it was to get equipment and everything you needed to live out here with no real roads just dry washes to try and navigate.
We also went on an hour and a half jeep ride out to an area on the California side of the Colorado river where we collected rock -- pastelite. It's pretty multicolored rock with quartz and jasper in it. This hill with the person on top was one giant peice of this stuff. It was great fun and everyone got bags and bucketfuls of the rock.
Our big news for the week is that we have accepted a job up in Washington for the summer. We will be working at the campground owned by the town of Coulee City, Washington. It is 30 miles south of the Grand Coulee Dam. We are very excited because the walleye fishing is excellent there. We start on April 7th -- we are leaving here by the first of April and making a beeline up there.
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