Wee camp out at Loch Trool

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Dreadhead

Bushcrafter through and through
A few of us headed out to loch trool this weekend for a wee getaway. I had been working like a fiend doing 12 hour days non stop teaching and getting things ready for markets so really needed to get out for my reset switch as I call it.

Some of the others had the same with a long work week, so it was a lazy weekend just enjoying being out in oak woodland, picking blueberries, and Ian tried panning for gold. And getting some new toys out for testing including another tankard u recently made for myself and a new knife I got from kristophish which is a braw wee camp knife for prepping firewood and carving .

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Polecatsteve

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Walked from glen trool a few miles north to loch earn (?) got eaten alive by midges. Caught a few wild brownies while there then trekked back the next morning. Took a wee detour up to the merrick trail bothy whilst there too. Forestry commission have fairly been at work. So much felled since I was last there.

Looks like you had a good time. How did the gold panning go? Mate tried some down on the river Stinchar with nothing but cold hands to show for it.
 

GGTBod

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Was a great little escape, I took a pic or two too

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CLEM

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Great stuff, some great pic too. Looks and sound like you had a smashing time of it.
 

GGTBod

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Nice :D

Looks like a chill out weekend :cool:

Thanks for sharing,

M

we were literally just saying it would be great to get you out to one of our little gatherings M, we are hovering not too far off sometimes :D
 
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beezer

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i have just started gold panning so was just having a go. there was almost no gravels that i could get to, the river was mostly big rocks but i did manage to find a little bit that i could put threw the gold pan. didnt find any gold but there might be some in the area due to the geology. i think it would be worth finding a slower flowing burn were sand and gravel get a chance to form bars.
 

GGTBod

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i have just started gold panning so was just having a go. there was almost no gravels that i could get to, the river was mostly big rocks but i did manage to find a little bit that i could put threw the gold pan. didnt find any gold but there might be some in the area due to the geology. i think it would be worth finding a slower flowing burn were sand and gravel get a chance to form bars.

If we had went about a mile or so upstream there is a dip in the valley where it slows right down and does a lot of meandering that might have been a better spot, i've only went that way once and i was too knackered to pay attention to the stream bed so i can't help there but it is a lot slower
 

GGTBod

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A few more of my pics, there were so many berries.

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Robson Valley

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That kind of "gold panning" is called "sniping" here. Annual effort when the creeks drop after the big melt finishes in the mountains.
The local tributaries to the Fraser River, such as the Dore, Holmes and McHale,
move so fast you can hear the rocks rolling along the river bed.

Because gold is so heavy, it takes very fast water to push it around. Then sudden stops.
Here, you move the big boulders in the fast water and pan the sand/gravel underneath.
Next year, roll the rock back the other way! Gravel bars are convenient but usually empty.

Still, it's always fun to look for 'colors.'
 

GGTBod

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Missing this little trip into the green so much, really not having a good week back in the city, just passed a mirror and i look like some type of unwanted refugee
 

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