(May 22, 2019 / Author: Tim Bondy) This April 7, 2014, rockhounding trip started out as a petrified wood search but turned into an agate finding rockhound at a location about 2 miles east of the Owyhee County’s Deadman Gulch.
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Twin Buttes Petrified Wood Hunt
(May 17, 2019 / Author: Tim Bondy) On May 17, 2014, I headed out with the local rockhounding club to search for Twin Buttes Petrified Wood in the desert southeast of Bruneau, Idaho in Owyhee County. Cinnamon colored petrified wood
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Idaho’s Beacon Hill Thunderegg Trip
(April 6, 2019/ Author: Tim Bondy) On June 7, 2014, a group of rockhounds headed for eastern Oregon to meet up with the Idaho Gem Club for a trip to Beacon Hill for some thundereggs and agate nodules. Beacon Hill
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Bulldozed Wilson Creek Exploration – 13 May 2014
(April 2, 2019 / Author: Tim Bondy) I took a hike along Wilson Creek, a tributary of Anderson Ranch Reservoir on May 13, 2014. I was unaware at the time that a flash flood had scoured at least one-half mile
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Thunderegg Hunt South of Trinity Mountain – 22 June 2014
(Originally published on August 4, 2014 / Author: Tim Bondy) On June 22, 2014, I headed up into the Boise National Forest to go thunderegg hunting near Trinity Mountain. The scenery was spectacular, weather awesome and the thunderegg hunt was
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King Hill Idaho Mule Memorial
We were out near King Hill, Idaho on Thursday, November 21st, 2013 looking for a new place to rock hound and just to get out of town and the house. We came upon an unusual structure and a memorial
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