Captain and Columbia

I looked out the window of my truck and coughed up some dog hair from our new queensland Captain.  Natalie and I took the dog for a ride and a hike into the foothills. We swung by Columbia, an old gold mining town to see all the gold rush day’s hubbub that was [...]

All that glitters: panning in gold country

” Yep a guy came in here about three weeks ago and showed me a 22 ounce nugget.” said the clerk at the San Andreas True Value Hardware Store.

With the price of gold at about $950 an ounce this caught my attention, especially since I heard the same story two weeks prior from a co-worker [...]