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#1Jeff95531 
Feb 2013Deep in the redwoods30 5 times Prospecting How do you explain gold fever to those who don't have it?The short version I give is:midnightmoon likes this.
I saw, I liked, I learned, I did, I saw more, I liked it more, I learned more, I did better...Repeat.
To me, it is the passion, the very definition of the pursuit of happiness.
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Nov 201220 2 times I guess gold fever is a drug.
Reply With Quote Yesterday, 06:22 PM#3Steve Herschbach 
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Reply With Quote Yesterday, 06:35 PM#4Gold Maven 
Jul 2012nc OhioTesoro Lobo605 286 times All Types Of Treasure Hunting Hard to explain. The best way is to inflict them with it, and then they will understand.
Two rules in life: Don't sweat the small stuff.
It's all small stuff.
Reply With Quote Yesterday, 07:20 PM#5TerryC 
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Come out from under your bed today...... DO SOMETHING!Jun 2008Yarnell, AZ and Murphys,CARight now: Garrett GTA 500, ACE 250, Fisher Impulse 8, Gold Bug 2, Whites GMT, Vibraprobe 570, and Falcon MD203,411 788 times Coinshooting, Gold prospecting, and Nuggetshooting 
Honorable Mentions (1)Class Ring Found & Returned If someone asks you... just stare off in the distance and mumble something to them about not getting too close as it is highly contagious. Then ask them if they know the grams-to-pennyweight conversion factor. There is no help for us afflicted! TTC
A 5 minute response time is not an option when I must make a choice in about 5 seconds!
Reply With Quote Yesterday, 07:27 PM#6GrizzlyGremlin 
Nov 201220 10 times Powerful addiction with no rehab. With a tad of mental illness mixed in.
Reply With Quote Yesterday, 07:31 PM#7Goodyguy I can dig it! "WP"Mar 2007Bounty Hunter's, Whites TM 808, Whites GMT, L-rods3,693 492 times All Types Of Treasure Hunting It's a sickness that can't be cured
With a fever that can't be broken
You must find gold or as feared
You'll burst and I'm not joke'n
The only thing that'll fulfill your dreams
and keep you from gettin' old
Is bein out there on rivers and streams
and pannin' some precious Gold
You'll hunt and pan and sluice all year
and when the truth be told
The only cure that you'll hold dear,
is when you hit that motherlode.
GG~
Last edited by Goodyguy; Yesterday at 07:34 PM.Jeff95531, midnightmoon, Aurabbit79er and 1 others like this.
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Reply With Quote Yesterday, 07:34 PM#8DizzyDigger 
Dec 2012Concrete, WA227 151 times Prospecting I've been a collector of Robert Service's work for decades, and when people ask about
"why" I go chasing for the elusive yellow metal this is what I ask them to read. The poem not only
describes WHY we go searching for gold, but also allows the city-dwelling urbanite a bit of a window
into the prospectors soul, and who we are as people.
I tell them (as they read) that the last paragraph is who *I* am, and if they can understand what
Service is saying there, they will also understand what has driven me throughout my life. Searching
for not just the gold, but the marrow of life itself!
The Spell of the Yukon
By Robert W. Service
I wanted the gold, and I sought it;
I scrabbled and mucked like a slave.
Was it famine or scurvy—I fought it;
I hurled my youth into a grave.
I wanted the gold, and I got it— ?
Came out with a fortune last fall,—
Yet somehow life’s not what I thought it,
And somehow the gold isn’t all.
No! There’s the land. (Have you seen it?)
It’s the cussedest land that I know,
From the big, dizzy mountains that screen it
To the deep, deathlike valleys below.
Some say God was tired when He made it;
Some say it’s a fine land to shun;
Maybe; but there’s some as would trade it
For no land on earth—and I’m one.
You come to get rich (damned good reason);
You feel like an exile at first;
You hate it like hell for a season,
And then you are worse than the worst.
It grips you like some kinds of sinning;
It twists you from foe to a friend;
It seems it’s been since the beginning;
It seems it will be to the end.
I’ve stood in some mighty-mouthed hollow
That’s plumb-full of hush to the brim;
I’ve watched the big, husky sun wallow
In crimson and gold, and grow dim,
Till the moon set the pearly peaks gleaming,
And the stars tumbled out, neck and crop;
And I’ve thought that I surely was dreaming,
With the peace o’ the world piled on top.
The summer—?no sweeter was ever;
The sunshiny woods all athrill;
The grayling aleap in the river,
The bighorn asleep on the hill.
The strong life that never knows harness;
The wilds where the caribou call;
The freshness, the freedom, the farness—?
O God! how I’m stuck on it all.
The winter! the brightness that blinds you,
The white land locked tight as a drum,
The cold fear that follows and finds you,
The silence that bludgeons you dumb.
The snows that are older than history,
The woods where the weird shadows slant;
The stillness, the moonlight, the mystery,
I’ve bade ’em good-by—?but I can’t.
There’s a land where the mountains are nameless,
And the rivers all run God knows where;
There are lives that are erring and aimless,
And deaths that just hang by a hair;
There are hardships that nobody reckons;
There are valleys unpeopled and still;
There’s a land—?oh, it beckons and beckons,
And I want to go back—?and I will.
They’re making my money diminish;
I’m sick of the taste of champagne.
Thank God! when I’m skinned to a finish
I’ll pike to the Yukon again.
I’ll fight—?and you bet it’s no sham-fight;
It’s hell!—?but I’ve been there before;
And it’s better than this by a damsite—?
So me for the Yukon once more.
There’s gold, and it’s haunting and haunting;
It’s luring me on as of old;
Yet it isn’t the gold that I’m wanting
So much as just finding the gold.
It’s the great, big, broad land ’way up yonder,
It’s the forests where silence has lease;
It’s the beauty that thrills me with wonder,
It’s the stillness that fills me with peace.
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Mike (aka Dizz)
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more
common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost
a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
Calvin Coolidge
The Essence of Compassion
"Resolve to be tender with the young, Compassionate with the aged,
Sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and wrong......
...... because sometime in your life you have been guilty of all of these."
Reply With Quote Today, 02:23 AM#9NeoTokyo 
Aug 2012ReddingEyes - Gold Bug Pro740 136 times Prospecting Whelp, I would say that if you see gold every time you blink or go to sleep then you might have the sickness. :P
Head in the water, butt in the air.
Now I know why ducks do it!
Underwater Sniper n00b
Reply With Quote Today, 09:09 AM#10calnatv Mar 201130 25 times I explain it by telling them its "REAL"
Reply With Quote Today, 09:15 AM#11Hoser John 
Mar 2003Redding,Calif.2,319 343 times All Types Of Treasure Hunting A sweet hot burning desire to be totally engulfed in a testerone adreneline filled adventure complete with danger,excitement,need ,want and desire and by god gimme them sweet buttery yellow golden globs of oro puro. Truck loaded and ready to go already again today,addiction works too-JohnGoodyguy likes this.
Reply With Quote Today, 09:17 AM#12Joel1316 Jul 2012139 10 times All Types Of Treasure Hunting When spending $500 in gear to find $10 in gold makes perfect sense : )Fullpan, Goodyguy and TreasurePirate69 like this.
Reply With Quote Today, 10:13 AM#13Jeff95531 Feb 2013Deep in the redwoods30 5 times Prospecting LOL Joel1316
Reply With Quote Today, 10:35 AM#14Fullpan May 2012nevada692 298 times All Types Of Treasure Hunting When you can wrap your mind around the fact that Mother Nature will give you "brand new money", no strings attached, no payroll deductions, no Social
Security deductions, no time cards to punch, no set "break-time" to follow, not having to tolerate work-place idiots, not having to endure the morning and 5:00pm commute, its easy to see the addiction creeping in, and easy to ignore the fact you always
seem to be spending more than you recover. It becomes a poor man's attempt at entrepenureship. And the gold is always pretty
no matter what the size is!
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