Go cave exploring at Alabaster some time. You'll have to bring a Hard hat, water, flashlight, boots, and a partner. They let you go out to all the smaller caves and explore them. You just have to watch for rattle snakes and bats.
I think you'd like it. We went in boyscouts back when I was 15, I enjoyed it. There's one cave that's so cold it ices up.

Another you have to crawl through water to get through it. only a couple feet of clearance.

 

i belong to a group, i have a gold life membership with them.
we hate tree huggers, they always try to shut us down.
i'll put up a link, if it is something you think you will like, go to one of the outtings as a guest and give it a try.
http://goldprospectors.org/

 

pappy if you are ever interested in diggin salt crystals check out Salt Plains in northwest oklahoma.. in the upper part of the lake.. its just a dry lake bed. but its cover in salt and its taste just like salt but if you dig down a foot or so youll find alot of crystals like the one in the pic.. but as of right now i dont know if they are open. last year a kid dug up a vial of mustard gas or of the like that was left from a WWII training exorcise

 

I love things like that, but it's Way hard to do stuff like that now days. Hopefully I'll get to do it again.

 

also like josh said check out alabaster caverns..lots of caves with alot of different types of crystals.. its part of gloss mountains from the pics i posted of the platoes..

 

I bet if i knock your *** out of that chair youll dig for crystals haha..jk

 

Since it's a park, it does cost. Can't remember the prices. I'll see if they have a site.

To tyler.... TRY IT!!

 

Here's a site with prices. Pretty reasonable.

http://www.touroklahoma.com/detail.asp?id=1+5U+920

Edit: I believe the prices listed are for the HUGE cave and not the smaller free lance caves. You may want to call for those ones.

 

cool, sounds like a wet/dry wash, gold does not move far in that type of river.
i have been to a few places in new mexico that when it is wet you can dreadge, when it is dry you have to dry wash.
a few guys i know will dry wash an area in to a large pyle and when it is wet they will run the pyle through a highbanker for the gold.

 

we were workin a few miles from there one day and at the cafe there..damn good food..fine lookin girls as well