Other days off exploring other prospects, 50% Prospecting, 50% visiting successful sites and retrieving specimens.
I try a couple of forestry roads, looking for Amethyst, heard it was in a couple of neighborhoods, can find nothing, have no idea where precisely it all is, looking for clues in the geology, interesting, but nothing...
And then the Gray Creek Pass over to Kimberly, there's points of interest on the far side, although the whole road is of interest, scenic, and the change in geology, scenery, vegetation, when you reach St. Mary's Lake, is amazing. And the explorations there, more beryl crystals, I find the geology, some schorl, but not the intrusions, too much time was wasted on the pass. And I check another claim for Quartz, but it's all landslide, there's no clue whatsoever where this discovery may have been...
99.9% looking, .1% finding, but I'm getting better at it (I think).
I use the Gray Creek Pass to get to Calgary, need a varied route, and the road - typical logging road for 70KM, you save no time, but when I arrive in Calgary I find I've almost a quarter tank of gas, this is unprecedented, no real savings in time but the mileage is clearly superior (at the expense of my shocks I suspect), a worthwhile diversion from the traffic of the Crowsnest Pass - only saw a single car each way, and abundant wildlife - bear, deer, mountain goats, and as always there's the infinite pleasure of discovering a new and deserted road ...