Stone club's visit to local river

[dick benbow]

netted me three stones that I kept. LOL was one that was not too bad a hut stone. This river has incredible distracting and colorful stones. thought you might want to see what I brought home.

 

[iant]

Very nice, I want to do a trip like that sometime.

 

[dick benbow]

Our club has been known to welcome folks from cali to accompant us on our trips if they are ever up this way to seattle.

 

[Poink88]

Nice, I really like the 2nd one.

 

[JudyB]

How about some trip photos with the river, and surroundings??? (asked the girl starved for mountain country...)

 

[dick benbow]

next time judy, with extra batteries....

 

[JudyB]

Thank you Dick,

the first stone brings to mind an autumn leaf...

 

[Smoke]

How about some trip photos with the river, and surroundings??? (asked the girl starved for mountain country...)

While this may a a ittle further south than Dick's neck of the woods, it may give some insight to the surroundings and stones available to pickup.

This is photo's of the Chetco river in Southern Oregon. Very near the border with California. This was an area where one could drive right out on the rock bars. You can drive probably 5 miles in each direction with all this rock scenery to look at. After a while they all start looking the same.

My dog doesn't think this is as much fun as I do...

Thats me finding what I felt was a pretty good start to a natural hut stone.

bout 40 pounds lighter here also

 

[Smoke]

After I got home I was able to cut some of the stones. While cutting stones is not my cup of tea, I thought cutting some may improve what I had found. I have never done anything with these. I think many of them are just laying around somewhere. The reddish stone I think is on my BBQ for holding down the napkins while I BBQ.

 

[Smoke]

Those two last stones I posted were not from the Chetco. They were from the Trinity in California on the same trip in 2009. Here is a peek at that river.

 

[Smoke]

Hi Dick,

Any chance you could a clear pic of no. two?

That looks like a keeper.

 

[JudyB]

Thanks smoke, I really like your napkin weight. Nice scenery, and you're lookin good!

 

[dick benbow]

surprised really to see the trinity and high banks, strong flow. Would think the stones from there might be less ground down and rounded as compared with the chetco. Been my experience the higher up in the flow system the less the mountains stones look so worn and carry a little jaggedness with them.

do you routinely cut the bottom? It does make daiza fitting a bit easier

 

[SMJ76]

After I got home I was able to cut some of the stones. While cutting stones is not my cup of tea, I thought cutting some may improve what I had found. I have never done anything with these. I think many of them are just laying around somewhere. The reddish stone I think is on my BBQ for holding down the napkins while I BBQ.

Like the second and third ones,.. great stones! Sadly we are inundated by the likes of limestone around my area and even back home around my parent's place. I went scouring the local creek yesterday as the water was down in it and found only one interesting stone that I'm actually planning on using as a natural landscape for bonsai to be planted in, in the future. It has a nice shallow bowl to itself.
Other than that, what is found around streams here (why I just don't know) isn't even the granite that we have around here,...oh well. Time to scour other waterways around here!!