Well my body healed enough for me to make the Franconia Outting. I finally got to meet alot of people that I talk with on the net. The outting was great, the food was outstanding and as always Rick’s Chili was a hit. Had to sleep in the back of my truck which is usually no problem but my ribs were not happy with me.

I Didn’t get a chance to go out and do any hunting in the morning. All those young bucks, there ready to go at sunrise. Me, it takes 2 hours to convince the old bones that I should be out of bed.

It was good staying in camp for me. It gave me the time to collect my thoughts and rethink my work habits on the claim. I was able to go beeping out from camp aways, and that allowed me to see how my GB2 handles AZ soil. Not much different then here in 29. It seemed a little hotter but the GB2 handled well.

I left late Saturday afternoon, due to very bad weather here at home. All in all I had a ball at the outting.

No gold was found but alot of meteorites. Rick(azdigger) from Kingman got his first one, 102 grams.