Ruby Trip - 2013

Day 6 - Sunday - July 21

We had planned on maybe going swimming, but the weather was too dreary for swimming.  Instead, we went with our back-up plan of driving out the road to do a little recreational gold panning.  After a breakfast of pancakes and roast beef hash we headed out.

Lunch Time at Hub Hill

We stopped at 'Hub Hill' for lunch.

Gold panning was not a successful venture, besides a few dust sized particles that were not even worth mentioning.  We had fun trying. 

The mosquitoes were horrible, especially for the boys who are not use to growing up with such large populations of them.  We still found time for a little exploring in the gold-mining district known as 'Long Creek'.

 

Monkshood flower

On the way back, we stopped to pick blue berries near 'Hub Hill' and the mosquitoes were even worse there than at the creek.  The boys mostly sat in the truck while Roy and I picked a bucket full.