[Rockhounds] Collecting around Denver (and other field trip photos)

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Last August I got to go collecting with Pete Modreski when we visited 
my daughter who moved to Denver. The trip report is in the archives 
at...
	http://lists.drizzle.com/pipermail/rockhounds/2008-August/026177.html

I finally got my pictures from the trip online. The first few pages 
were taken at the Colorado School of Mines Museum, which I highly 
recommend. There are some pictures of the collecting trip with Pete and 
Jane, and the Coney Island we visited on our way back to town, and some 
pictures taken around Denver up in the 'hills', including a rainbow 
over the city. In case you are interested they are at
	http://family.Tomaszewski.net/IMRMC/Denver.html
Click on any picture for a larger image.

I also took time to post some other field trip pictures from the past 
few years...

The Alabastine Mine
	http://family.Tomaszewski.net/IMRMC/Alabastine.html

The Bumpus Mine
	http://family.Tomaszewski.net/IMRMC/Bumpus.html

The Millard Chandler (North Star) Mine
	http://family.Tomaszewski.net/IMRMC/Chandler.html

Crater of Diamonds State Park
	http://family.Tomaszewski.net/IMRMC/Diamond.html

The Sweet Surrender Mine
	http://family.Tomaszewski.net/IMRMC/Surrender.html

And in case you are still interested, I also posted some pictures from 
a week long trip at a cabin in the Porcupine Mountains State Wilderness 
Park in Michigan's UP, on the Lake Superior shoreline, from several 
years ago
	http://family.Tomaszewski.net/IMRMC/Parcupine.html
	http://family.Tomaszewski.net/IMRMC/Parcupine2.html
	http://family.Tomaszewski.net/IMRMC/Parcupine3.html
We had to pack everything in about 5 miles and bring it all out with 
us. The only drinking water was what we boiled from the lake. We had 
several encounters with black bears (one at 5 feet). Yes, I did some 
collecting in the water along the shoreline and hauled the rocks out 
too (nothing spectacular, sandstone with wave ripples, a little copper, 
and a couple agates). Our final hike out, with eight kids, was in the 
worst storm in over 25 years, and an aloft tornado passed over us 
during continuous lightning. I don't think any of us will ever forget 
the trip.

Enjoy!

Kreigh