Newsletter
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
August President's Message:
August 2025
The Sun is out adventure awaits !
1. The season is upon us. Grab your pans and let’s go because gold is $3396/oz near a new all time high.
2. July’s outing was a lot of fun for several of us. It was great weather with little to no smoke in Sunny Valley. We had 7 members enjoy our Grave Creek claims including one longtime member returning after a good pause. Everyone was able to get some great gold as the water levels were low. Bee Bee had corralled the fish, crawdad, and even a salamander. It was superb and thanks to all that came.
3. Our August meeting on August 9th will include a Board Meeting at 0900 and our general Chapter meeting at 1000. We will talk about our upcoming outing in September at Direct 1, a discussion of upcoming September election. There will be a good discussion of some of the things we’ve done this year as well as having an update from our prospecting claims committee. Are there new claims on the horizon?
4. August we are doing a double outing as the working within the wetted perimeter working dates have opened up.
- August 2nd 10am-5pm we will be out at Yellow Jacket Creek in Randle, Washington. There is still room at The Randle 360-497-5346…or if you have an RV..KM Resorts 360-497-2742….. Claim location here: 46.432204, -121.839193 . A reminder you must be a member of GPAA or a guest of a current member. Memberships can be purchased at www.GPAA.com
- August 16th 10am-5pm we will be at our own Freedom Redbird claims. Working within the witted perimeter. Come on out.
5. Get in on your tickets for a dirt party for LDMA/GPAA participation. Still room available.
Burnt River Camp – Oregon: September 6-14
Blue Bucket Camp – Oregon: September 27-October 5
More found here: https://myldma.com/.../dirt-fest-event.../dirtfest-2025...
6.Our new schedule of 2025 events is out. Posted on our FB page as well as here.
7.Please see our Membership Coordinator to update your 2024/2025 waiver and receive your 2024/2025 dashboard pass.
8. The newest version of the Gold and Fish book is on WDFW’s web site for download here: https://wdfw.wa.gov/publications/02150
9. Reminder to all the claims are still open and turn your claims work forms into our claims manager Paul Onstott. Happy diggings.
As always we are small scale miners.
Stay healthy
Eric
WE ARE SMALL SCALE MINERS
Membership
You don’t have to be a member of GPAA to be a member of our chapter. You are welcome to mine on the claims that the chapter owns, provided you adhere to mining policies, rules and procedures. No dues are collected. Chapter funds are raised through bake sales, raffles and various other activities. Meeting minutes and By-Laws available for review at chapter meetings.
Please note: Only GPAA members can become chapter officers. Also, non-GPAA members must be with a GPAA member to use GPAA claims.
Claim Passes & Chapter Emergency Contact Info
Miguel and Rebecca have the 2024 year claims passes available and will have them at meeting upon review of your emergency contact information.
If you no longer want to receive email notifications or to be a member of WWGPAA please notify Miguel and Rebecca at the meeting. Thanks.
The new version of the Gold and Fish book is on WDFW’s web site for download here: https://wdfw.wa.gov/publications/02150 . All the claims are still open and turn your claims work forms into our claims manager Paul Onstott. Happy diggings.