Open Position CGMC VP Field Trips CGMC
Robert Sankovich CFMS CO Chair Field Trips
These are the Conejo's field trips, with our club, Oxnard & Ventura, which makes the tri-clubs, allows for a greater variety of sites to visit, and the benefits of other peoples experiences. If you decide to go on a field trip, please contact Jennifer Flatten OGMS jenniferflatten@yahoo.com, or Ron Wise, VGMS/OGMS, 805-794-0737 clintwise@hotmail.com, or Robert Sankovich CFMS, 805-494-7734 rmsorca@adelphia.net Sometimes field trips can be canceled due to weather or other circumstances, if we don't know your going we won't be able to notify you. Robert has a new Truck, it's a White Ford F250 4x4 Crewcab so if your looking for me, look for my truck.
There will be a flyer, map and usually sample specimens at the club meetings. Field trips are a great way to get to know other members and make new friends.
Attending the monthly general meeting, or reading the bulletin and contacting the Field-Trip Chairman are two ways to "sign up" for and confirm an upcoming outing.
Rock-hounding expeditions are typically scheduled on a monthly basis and generally involve 2 to 8 vehicles with 3 to 20 people travelling 1 to 10 hours to remote locations where either free access is allowed or the Conejo Gem and Mineral Club has been given rights or privileges to collect material following "hand collecting" codes of conduct. Some trips suggest an overnight stay in a nearby hotel or campsite and can be a fun weekend for the family. Guests are welcome as long as they are accompanied by a member. *All field trips are FREE, except where noted*. Incidental fees/costs, transportation, food, hotels/motels, campgrounds, parking, etc. are up to the individual to pay. The actual field trip is free*. Most costs on field trips is the gas for your vehicle, and you can pack a lunch. You may elect to camp out overnight or stay in a nearby motel if an overnight stay is scheduled. We also welcome daytime collectors who want to just spend a few hours at the site during the day even if the outing is a 2 or 3 day trip.
Schedule of upcoming Field Trips
| Month | Location | Date | Possible Finds |
| January | Old Topaga Fossils (CGMC) |
January 28th Sat 9:00am |
Turritella, Gastropods Fossils |
| February | Agoura, Kanan Rd. |
February To be determined | Kanan Rd(-Agate-Plume, Saginite), Marcacite, Chalcedony |
| March | Victor Valley Gem & Mineral Club |
March 9th-11th http://www.vvgmc.org/index.html |
Verde Antique, Tri-colored marble |
| March | To be determined | March To be determined | To be determined |
| April | To be determined |
April To be determined |
To be determined |
| April | Borchard Park, Newbury Park, CA | April Sat 21st. & Sun 22nd. 2012 |
Our Annual Show-Pageant of a Thousand Gems |
| May | Bishop/Independence area | To be determined | Ammonites fossils, garnets, (other minerals to come |
| May | To be determined | May To be determined | Agate |
| June | Somis Fossils (CFMS) |
June To be determined |
Sand Dollars, Scallops, Clams, Fossils |
| July | Green Horn Mtns (CFMS) | July To be determined |
Rose quartz, garnets, epidote, tungsten scheelite |
| July | Old Meadows Park, CA | July 17th Sunday, Noon-4pm | Our Annual Picnic in the park (food, games & fun) |
| August | Ocean View Mine (CFMS) | August 2012 To be determined |
Tourmaline |
| August | Hillcrest Center, Thousand Oaks, CA | August Thursday 7:30pm | Ice Cream Social (replaces regular meeting lecture) |
| September | Jade Cove, CA (CFMS) | To be determined |
Nephrite Jade, Serpentine, Soap Stone, Ab shells |
| October | To be determined | To be determined |
To be determined |
| October | Trona Gem O Rama Searles Lake Gem & Mineral Society |
October 13th, 14th http://www1.iwvisp.com/tronagemclub/FLYER.htm |
Pink Halite, Hanksite |
| November | Our Club's Annual Silent Auction | Nov. 11th. Thursday 7:30pm | A Variety of cut slabs, crystals, books, gems, spheres, etc.. |
| November | Wiley's Well (CFMS) | November 22nd-25th Thanksgiving weekend |
Geodes, Nodules, Chalcedony, Petrified Iron Wood, Agate |
| December | Hillcrest Center, Thousand Oaks, CA | December . noon set up, Party 1-4pm | End of year Christmas party (food, gifts, fun) |
| December | To be determined | December-To be determined | To be determined |
Upcoming Field Trips 2012:
The Field Trip e-mail list is working, members have current, new information as I finish it. I get field trip information from other clubs at different times during the month, some with too short of notice for me to put in our bulletin. I will send direct monthly information and maps on club field trips, and updates on weather, other last minute factors that can affect field trips. If you want to sign up, no e-mail addresses will be printed, posted anywhere. Send me your e-mail addresses to mine below. I also updated the field trip information on the Conejo web site . The information is current and I'll keep updating as I add field trips. The next months the weather will be getting cooler so we will go earlier or to places that are warmer. Thanksgiving weekend will be the CFMS Wiley's Well field trip. Wiley's Well will be fun, it was the first field trip I attended years ago. You can find nodules, geodes, petrified wood, fire agate, chalcedony, agate, fossils. Make sure we know you will be going, this applies to all field trips. I'd like members to let me know of places they'd like to go to? We're going to go to sites we've been to, but were going to have new sites. I do have several in mind. The weather seems to change a lot and the economy can control our field trips, the dates above are fixed where there is a date the others I'm working it out. There's going to be a field trip for everyone, we'll have some close to home, and out of state trips. Easy and harder field trips requiring chisels, sledges. Something for everyone hopefully. Most of the time I make sure I check out the sites, so when it finally becomes a field trip www.cgmac.org it can take time. Check out the website for updates. We've been getting good turnouts of rock hounds for our field trips, the upcoming field trips offer a diversity of collecting. November and on the weather will be cooler, then we will be heading out to the desert for collecting. Field trips are fun and you will find some nice specimens and make new friends. I find most people on field trips are friendly and nice willing to share in their knowledge and experiences.
2012 We need a CGMC Field Trip leader, I will be filling in until we have a CGMC field trip leader. Jennifer Flatten OGMS and Ron Wise VGMS/OGMS will be VP Field trip leaders. If you are interested in being a co-field trip leader with them contact me, or Ron, Jennifer. I will be the CFMS Co Chair Field Trip South leader with Adam Dean. I'll still be doing field trips in 2012. There will be a good variety of field trips next year.
See you there.
Robert Sankovich
CFMS Co Chair Field Trips South
rmsorca@adelphia.net
805-494-7734
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