[meteorite-list] HOT Meteorite Hunting

From: al mitt <almitt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 05:47:28 -0400
Message-ID: <DD304529D77941AB84F314ADD96DE941_at_StarmanPC>

Hi Erik and all,

Don't the snakes come out at night and warm themselves on the still toasty
rocks??

--AL Mitterling


----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Fisler" <erikfwebb at msn.com>
To: "meteorite-list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] HOT Meteorite Hunting


>
> The heat isn't that bad at night. It's only 90 degrees at night with
> a warm breeze at franconia. Just strap a maglight to your detector
> and grab a head light and 20 AA batteries and your good.
> I've found that I find more at night because I wander aimlessly
> instead of hitting the spots that look good to everyone else who
> walks through the field. We hunted till 9am when it got up to 110 degrees
> and then we drove to Needles and slept in an ice cold motel room
> till the sun set before grabbing "breakfast" and heading back out to
> Franconia.
>
> Here is a video of a night hunt we did about a year ago.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5gDa6dJ5Ac
>
> [Erik]
Received on Sat 04 Jul 2009 05:47:28 AM PDT