my son and i picked up 3 claims this spring, after accessing the ground on 2 adjoining claims we need to apply for permission to bring in my excavator to test dig a back channel that may never been touched or at least not for 70 years.

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle----Robert Alden .
If it wern't entertaining, I wouldn't keep coming back.------the BigSky