[meteorite-list] Photos of Holbrook Anniversary Hunt & Finds

From: Moni Waiblinger <moni2555_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:12:01 -0700
Message-ID: <COL106-W23DA414C8B6B15CEC8C164CD4C0_at_phx.gbl>

Thanks Eric for beating us to it!? ;-)


We had an absolute great time too!
Thank you Ruben for coming up with the idea for this event!
As we said we all want to do it over again next year!
Let's hope for lots of rain between now and then.

Thank you all of you who attended the gathering too for sharing your stories and images.
Bob
 would like to report our trip report in his next article in the
meteorite-times (http://www.meteorite-times.com/category/bobs-findings/)
 
next month.

Happy hunting Bob V. and Moni






> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:04:48 -0700
> From: phxerik at yahoo.com
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Photos of Holbrook Anniversary Hunt & Finds
>
> Hello All,
>
> It was a pleasure to watch so many hunters make so many finds at Holbrook for
> the group hunt! I was very happy to be asked to help guide hunters for the
> group hunt. I spent 5+ hours of my 19 hours in the field over
> Friday/Saturday/Sunday instructing hunters on where to hunt and what to look for
> and I can say it was awesome watching them grin when I verified their finds.
> Kudos to Jim and Ruben for doing most of the behind the scenes organizing for
> the hunt. There is a lot of patience involved with juggling 50 people and those
> who really listened walked away with the knowledge to find something that day or
> in the future.
>
> My finds from Friday and through the morning Saturday consisted of 3
> individuals, 2 fragments and a piece that was just fusion crust all for a total
> of less than 2 grams and my father was kicking my butt!! After spending most of
> my morning driving back and forth from the hotel room to the strewn field and
> guiding hunters I decided to pick up my father and the small group he had taken
> on a hunt. He asked me where I wanted to hunt and I told him I had seen Moni
> and Bob moving towards a flat in the middle of the north side and I wanted to
> beat them too it so we headed to the spot I had my eye on with the family he was
> guiding and began to search. That's when I found a few fragments with in a few
> centimeters from each other stuck in the clay on the surface. I had my dad
> drive the truck over so I could bring out the shovel and sieve, (as we had plaid
> the fragment game before....). A few people surrounded as I slowly and
> carefully broke up the clay into the sieve. I had about fifty grams in
> fragments when my shovel clinked against a much bigger piece in the ground and
> everyone froze with excitement. That's when I pulled out the 240 gram
> piece!!!!!!!! It took about an hour and a half to recover the 160 grams in
> fragments and the 240 gram stone for a total of a 400 gram find. As far Holbrook
> goes, besides Larry's whopper, I haven't heard of that big of a find in the last
> few decades. Ontop of that Richard had another mongo find of 47 grams which is
> extremely rare for Holbrook in 2011. Together we have over 500 Holbrooks with a
> 90% of them individuals, average size 1-2 grams and before that point my biggest
> was 23 grams and my father had found one around 30+ grams. It amazes me that
> there was a 400g find and a 47g find along with soooo many other stones all
> found in the same day, regardless if there were fifty hunters or 1000 hunters.
>
> Anywho... here is a link to the photos. I uploaded them to my new Google+
> account which is linked to Picasa. For those of you who don't know, Google+ is
> a networking site by Google that is still under testing and is only available to
> those invited by people who are testing it, for now anyway. So if anyone wants
> to try Google+ shoot me an email and I'll shoot you an invite. Also since this
> is my first time using it to host an album it would be great if I got some
> reviews on how easy/difficult and how good/bad it is to decide if I'll use it
> again.
>
> Photos:
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/104550188270087713656/albums/5630939129597014113
>
>
> Thanks!
> [Erik]
>
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