| WICKENBURG, AZ Field Trips Feb. 13-19, 2006 Photograph
by Art Mott
 GOLD RUSH DAYS During the second full weekend in
February, thousands of people and participants come to Wickenburg
to enjoy a multitude of activities ranging from a shoot-out on Frontier
Street, a rodeo, parade, arts and crafts booths and, of course, food.
Unfortunatly, this is the same weekend that the Roving
Rockhounds arrive for our week of field trips. Reservation have
to be made early in order to secure a room or RV spot.
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"A meeting of the Wickenburg Mafia. . . " (l-r)
Darrell Young, Marie Anderson, Roger and Mary
Pittard, Vic Anderson, Jim Sperber (hidden behind Vic). |
 Miss "Buffy" Young trying to get the ball out of Darrel's pant leg. |
 Howard Bushman's "Rock Mover". Operated by Jim Flora . . Jeannette Bushman and Betty Merrill watching in backgournd. |
 Russ Pease giving us a lecture on some of the finer points of rock collecting! |
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Photograph by Ben Davis
 Here I am lurking in the background waiting for the fun to begin . . . |
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PIZZA
NIGHT - Feb. 14, 2006
We
usually
try to get together for Pizza during our first and third weeks of field
trips. This way we can talk about up coming field trips and go
over organizational matters.The club buys the Pizzas and we buy our beverages. |
 Russ Pease showing off his Pow Wow Club t-shirt. |
 (Standing on the left) Larry Landry and Mary Pittard (Seated near) Art and Doris Mott (Seated next to the Motts) Dennis & Kathy Read (Art Mott's sister) (Seated on the far right) Ben Davis (Standing on the right) Faye Burke and Barbara Davis |
 (l-r) Larry Landry, Barbara & Ben Davis, Jerry Webb |
 (l-r) Mary Bolton, Betty Merrill, Marie and Vic Anderson |
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 (l-r) Mary and Roger Pittard, Bob Neuschaefer, Bill Jaeger (our field trip leader) |
 Barbara Davis "This Pizza is GOOD!. . . " |
| MEXICAN
NIGHT AT Anita's -
Feb.
16, 2006 (57 N Valentine St, Wickenburg, 85390 - (928) 684-5777) This was a tradition which we started during last year's visit to Wickenburg. |
 Steve
Glass showing Bob Merrill and Darrell
Young
pictures from our Roving Rockhound Summer 2005 field trip to
the Michigan
U.P.
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 (l-r)Virgina Glass, Russ and Dorothy Pease (center) Phill Bolton |
 Faye and Ron Burke |
 Bob Neuschaefer with Mary and Roger Pittard |
 Boy, we sure like to talk . . . |
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Photograph by Ben Davis
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| Wickenburg Rest area scouting
trip. . . This
was a early morning scouting trip a couple of us went on before the
day's group field trip. We were after geodes that were "suppose"
to be across the river, down a railroad track, and up a ravine from a highway rest area East of
Wickenburg. The ravine was easy to find but turned out to be
a dead-end ravine which we had to crawl up and out of . Once
above the ravine, we scouted the surrounding hills and dry stream beds
for any indications of geodes. Nothing! Larry Landry took
off like a bullet (his usual habit) and disappeared into the distance.
He reappeared after about an hour just as we were descending back
down to the RR tracks. He showed us the "geode" material that he
had discovered but admitted that these were more like ugly agate/churt
nodules and not really geodes. At least the views were worth the
hike!
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 Dennis Read and Larry Landry on the tracks! |
 Art
Mott and Dennis Read surveying the hillside for geodes.
None
found!
Notice
the RR bridge across the ravine and highway in
the upper portion of this photograph. |
