Middle Fork of the Feather

Karen and I took a ride the other day over to look for places where we could take our friend Eric to go gold panning.  We found a very good place to go but had trouble with the established mining claims there.  I guess we could still do a little panning on one of those claims but we are trying to be street legal here and we prefer to stay off the claims entirely.  We took the short trail down into the confluence of Nelson Creek and the Middle Fork of the Feather River.  It was very beautiful down there and we both took lots of pictures.  Nelson Creek is crystal clear and we found that there are 2 mining claims that meet down there so figuring out where we could go was not all that easy.  We ran into a guy coming up who had been sluicing down there and he said he had found some gold doing that so we must have been in the right place.