Graves Mountain Open House Official Field Trip of the photos by: Richard Jacquot and Mark Gaskins The Graves Open House this fall was the largest in recent history, and Junior says it may have been the largest ever! Over 2,000 people visited the site over the course of the three day event. Around 150 of those people were MAGMA members making this one of the most attended club events in the past few years. I started my weekend on Wednesday afternoon. I headed to Elijah Clark park to set up my camp for the weekend. The club was invited in on Thursday to collect and I was setting up my booth to sell minerals.
I arrived at the park and saw one of the locals hanging out.
"Mobile Command II" at Elijah Clark park.
View from my campsite.
Campfire
Junior's booth with Ed Doyle signing in.
MAGMA booth
Darryl's booth.
Mark and Leonard.
More vendors.
Nice piece of blue iridescent hematite with small rutile crystals.
This kid found this nice rutile crystal in matrix.
Ken having fun.
Junior had cleared a huge lot at the top of the drive in the back field. It was a good thing especially on Saturday, if not the cars would have been lined out Hwy. 378. |
