Thursday off, South to Explore a few new roads. The Oscar-Bear FSR, behind Ymir, metamorphic shales, basalts, to about 10 KM where it gets too overgrown to continue. Probably it got overgrown at 5 KM, but I never let that stop me...
Then, to the Penne-D'oreille & Beaver Valley, pan for gold, look for sapphires. Nada. Although they're there I'm sure it was not a day to be south.
Done at around 2:00 PM, too early to find parking in town, so head on up to Balfour, where I spend a couple of hours looking for arrowheads. One find, a very old red jasper point, broken and reworked into a scraper, some other debitage, and a great view of the Balfour Eagle, now moved on by the lost of his/her nest...
Balfour eagle...
Finally, the payoff of the day:
Red jasper, the tip broken off and then refashioned into a scraper. Judging by the wear on the edges a few thousand years old...