Ready to find gold!

After a long winter here in Edmonton, AB I'm ready to get down to the river and find my gold for the year.  Unfortunately the river still has a lot of ice on it.  So I'm doing my equipment check.

In the backpack I have:

• 2 gold pans 1 is a traditional round pan with riffles
• the other is a LaTrap - it is rectangular in shape
• a trowel or a shovel - because I'm just a hobbyist I use a small garden trowel for digging out my gold bearing gravel
• a classifier to help get rid of the larger stones.  The one that I'm using now is one that my man Ken made about 5 1/2 years ago out of a flower pot and some stainless steel screen with a 1/8th inch mesh
• a scoop - to pour water over the material in the classifier to wash material through
• a snuffer bottle - to suck the gold out of my pan
• a bucket with a lid and a handle to carry it with - this is important because I won't pan all of my concentrates out down at the river
• a small first aid kit - with some disinfectant, band aids, pain reliever and antihistamines
• sun screen - sunlight really reflects off of the water
• bug spray - mosquitoes are the bane of my existence
• a couple of bottles of water and a few granola bars
• garbage bag - to keep my panning site clean
• latex gloves 
• rain poncho
• hand sanitizer - that water is dirty

For the basic hobbyist you don't have to spend a lot of money but to get the gold you do have to be persistent.

Are you as anxious to get down there as we are?

Happy panning  :)

Angela