La Sal Prospecting

Sofia and I spent the afternoon exploring the upper reaches of Castle Valley. A network of roads rise up onto the flanks of the La Sal Mountains and provide access to different formations of rocks (and lets not forget the gravel!). We went in search of dinosaur bones and Sofia came back with some great photos of dino footprints instead. We also couldn't resist the temptation to pan for gold in some of the younger sediments that have been shed into upper Castle Valley. By the look of things we were not the first to see the potential!

Near perfect print from the Morrison Formation

another one!

140 million year old foot steps

Sonnet finds the foot print refreshing

Always on the lookout for a quality quartz sand deposit

spring

Old timers adit

Gravel on bedrock...irresistable