Panning for GOLD!!!
Arrived by ATV 2 miles up the creek
Meyers Creek (not much water)
Glad I have my West Marine Boots!
This is it..still mining like this today
The old Sourdough
Back breaking work
Dig just above bedrock to the clay-gold sticks to
the clay and the black sand washes away
Gold is 22 times heavier than lead!
You pan Buzzy! Way to go 8 gold flakes.
NO NUGGETS
Moose!
Came to say good-bye
The roads of Chicken
It was fun ATVing in the high country!
Dusty
The settlers of Chicken could not spell Ptarmigan;
therefore, they just called it Chicken.
A bird is a bird!
Gold was found in 1898..commercially mined until 1967
Note: road behind arrow is the way out!!!
only 17 year round residents today
Dredge No.4 our rig behind pine tree
Notice Spruce knots in cabin supports-
a valued decoration for Alaska cabins!
Dredge buckets
We came to see and had fun with thee!
Tomorrow we take The Top of The World Highway
leaving Alaska...A Bittersweet Day!
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