Our July 11th, 2010 Rock Hounding Trip ReviewWe were looking for a “close to home” rock hounding adventure for this weekend and we decided on a trip into the Danskin Mountains just north of Mountain Home, Idaho. The Danskins are
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Silver City Mountains ATV Ride Rock Hounding
Click to see a bigger photo of Turntable Mountain June 27th, 2010 was our day to head up to the mountains near Silver City, Idaho. We never had plans to visit this active ghost town but we got to see
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Danskins Syrup Creek and High Country ATV
The Forest Service announced the Danskin Mountains off-road riding area was opening up on Saturday April 24th, 2010. This was good news for me as I had a long planned hike in this area and wanted to try something
Read MorePlan B was to Explore Pixley Basin Again
My rock hounding trip for Sunday April 18th, 2010 turned into a sightseeing ATV Trip. I had my trip mapped out. The GPS unit was all loaded with turns, waypoints and the location of the mining prospects I
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Hiking Peak 4439 in the Owyhee’s
Easy hike with lots of quartz, some opal and a few vugs. Peak 4439 is located just west of Birch Creek Road (aka Pixley Creek Basin Road?) so it’s rather easy to get there. While this hike looked a little
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Bennett Hills Hike Peak 5270
Monday March 22nd, 2010 Local Hike Just North of Mountain Home The warming Spring weather had me thinking about hiking the mountains north of Interstate 84 so I started looking around for an easy to get to hike on public
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