Age: old enough young enough none of your business
Hometown: West of the Cascades
My Top Treasure Hunting Tips
1. Getting your rock or fossil "eye" on. Sometimes you get out to a site you know is plentiful, but you can;t see any of it. If you keep looking, your vision and attention will shift and you'll see things all over.
2. If you see a bunch of people with rock hammers on the highway at a roadcut- go see what's up.
3. Nobody wants to talk about thier favorite sites.
4. Everyone wants to know where the choice spots are.
5. Some of the best stuff I have found has been in the scrap or tailings area.
My Best Places to Find Cash and Treasure
1. Anyplace in the Cle Elum/ Teanaway area
2. Yakima
3. Oregon coast
4. gravel bars in rivers
5. roadcuts
More about me...
How I first got into treasure hunting... As a child I collected stones, bones, bits of broken things, metal pieces in interesting shapes, shells, feathers, animal teeth, antlers....
My treasure hunting obsession(s): I want to go to ICELAND! I've been thinking about this for years- the intense geology that was crafted through ice and fire.....the viking and inuit history, the sturdy Icelandic horses and the icelander's strange beliefs in spirits and elves.
My most exciting find: 3 arrowheads on an old native summer hunting site which was briefly above water.
My favorite places to look for treasure: Any place. I think riverbeds are fabulous. And roadcuts!!
My favorite treasure hunting techniques: using my eyes
My treasure hunt toolkit contains...small rock hammer with pick tip, couple of chisels, plastic and cloth bags, water, backpack. I go with a trusted friend or my partner. Safer that way, NO BOOKS. I have too many, and that's what home is for.
I'm presently hunting for...fossils and obsidian.
Recommended treasure hunting resources: old books, maps, people, information scrawled on napkins, guys at gas stations, old timers, rock clubs, and just roaming around and looking for stuff.
MY FINDS
Description of treasure: The Diotomaceous Earth pits. Strange! Like walking on the moon. _____________________________________
Description of treasure: In the Leavenworth area- garnets, biotite mica, gneiss.
Not easy - high cliff and high water,
Garnets are so beautiful- like deep red pomegranate seeds.
Okay, okay, we do bring books along on the long trips.
Description of treasure: Yakima petrified and opalized wood ___________________________________________________________
Description of treasure: Wenatchee river rock, soapstone, actinolite and lots of biotite mica. Question to a hungry rockhound: Which is better- a piece of actinolite or a cream cheese sandwich?
Description of treasure: Oregon coast fossils.
______________________________________________ Description of treasure: Obsidian at Glass Butte. Dream come true. Wanted to go get obsidian here for years! We really pushed my little car to the limit on the deeply rutted primitive roads in. Tore part of the rear bumper off........but check this out: The entire Butte is made of obsidian. This picture shows the wave/mahogany obsidian
This is just loot.
Description of treasure: Cedar Pond/Stubbs Hill tiny quartz crystals and salamanders ________________________________ Description of treasure: Prineville Feldspar. Rockhounding can be an extreme sport!
Description of treasure: Wenatchee river rock, soapstone, actinolite and lots of biotite mica. 
Question to a hungry rockhound: Which is better- a piece of actinolite or a cream cheese sandwich?
This is just loot.
________________________________ Description of treasure: Prineville Feldspar. 
Rockhounding can be an extreme sport! 
