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ELGAMBRISINOGem Crafters & Explorer's Club Bulletin, Las Cruces, NM

Affiliated with the AFMS and the RMFMS

June 2011 - Volume 53 - Issue 6

Minutes - May 20By Secretary Brenda Gadberry

Vice President Al Spencer -Snacks provided this month byJoan Smith & Pat Mauer. Nextmonth's snacks will be providedby Susan Riedel, Jan Hoffman,and September Berleman.

Show And Tell - MarieMathewson provided finds from

Cooke's Peak, and north of PalmPark.

Visitors Two (did not get theirnames)

Treasurer's Report - None(Treasurer was absent)

Don Saathoff - Mineral Meetingat 6:30pm, Wednesday, May25th. Bring your favorite rock ormineral and be ready to discuss

it.

Brecken Uhl - Memorial DayWeekend Campout at "Head ofthe Ditch" campground nearLuna, NM. For directions go towww.maps.google.com .Suggestion for communicationpurposes while collecting, go toWal-Mart and purchase radiosthat can be programmed tochannel 8 - w/no code.

Speaker- LeRoy Unglaub, Topic:Documentation of Petroglyphs.

Don't worry about avoidingtemptation. As you grow

older, it will avoid you.

Winston Churchill

PROGRAM MAY 20By Brenda Gadberry

Our speaker was LeRoy Unglaubwho presented a Power Pointpresentation of the PetroglyphDocumentation of theCottonwood Archeological Site byvolunteers, he being one of them.This site is located in SierraCounty and covers a very largearea.

They were using the latesttechnology and had the use of aUAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)which was used in overflightlooking for prime prehistoricIndian sites. You can go to" www.spyplanes.com " to getmore information on the UAV.

The UAVhas a six foot wing spanand is catapulted into the airusing bungee cord. Flight time isabout 70 minutes. FAAregulations require that you havea pilot's license to operate insome airspace. The basicoverflight procedure is computerprogrammed and controlled by acomputer at home base (externalpilot). The UAV has digitalcameras located in the nose, andon the wings along with a GPS foreasy site location. Data isdownloaded to a computer at theground station for viewing andrecording. The photo mosaic

usually contains about 300images.

Documentation is usually done byvolunteers and local Archeo-logical Societies. Documentingincludes: GPS location; facing;size of panel, distance fromground, etc.

Facing: The direction from Norththat the rock art is facingPatination (patina): Can tellroughly the age of the petroglyphPecking: Sparse, Solid, Rough,Dense, Relief 3DDrawing Methods: Quick Sketch,String, Grid or Scale DrawingTrace photograph and fieldcheck. To draw or not to draw

They documented 367 Panelswith 15 Categories and 1,254

elements at this site.

Pictures are taken with a mudboard with date, location, andGPS coordinates

All Scanning files, analysis,mapping, etc. are sent to the Labof Anthropology in old Santa Fe.For information on the lab visit:

http://www.miaclab.org/cnma

Reminders & Gen. Info

Our next meeting will be as usual onthe third Friday of the month, June17th, Room 118, Gardiner Hall on theNMSU campus, 6:30 PM forsocializing and 7 PM for the meeting.Our own Alan Gadberry will give theprogram, title unknown at this time.

Remember that there is no regularmeeting in July. The Fullers will hosttheir annual July club pool party inAugust this year. The date and timeto be announced later.

There will be a talk on Allergies,Upper Respiratory & Sinus given byWendy Weir at the Mt. View Marketon June 7

th at 6-7 pm. This is free.

What with all the allergies around ourgroup I thought you might beinterested in attending.

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Gemcrafters and Explorers Club "EL Gambrisino" Volume 53, Issue 6, June 2011 - 2 -

KINGSTON CAMPOUT and/orTHE LOST CANYON GAMBRISINOS

By Eric Fuller

The following story is true, only the names have beenchanged to protect the duffeses!

Twelve brave Gambrisinos defying the tales of wind andwow as prophesized by the Weather Fibbers, prepared togo forth to Kingston.

The first omen of what was to be was when LadySpunks alarm clock lost its time. She and Madam Prettywere late for departure. A late start the nine of us had, butwe were without fear as we went forth. We were soon joinedand passed by the New Professor and his wife Teacher#1. Passing Radium Springs Teacher #2 joined us briningour count to twelve.

The New Professor and Teacher#1 bravely volunteered togo ahead for a scout of the available camps, intending toacquire the choicest for our group. They succeeded well intheir mission; they had claimed the most prized camping

spot. Our envy and desire for 40 years and we never wereable to possess it. It was at an open juncture of two largecanyons right in the center of our planned activities.

So it was now time to hike the canyon. The NewProfessor was first out as usual. Four of us were comingalong behind when on the radio we hear from him to be onthe lookout for a fanny pack he had lost. It was later found tohave been left in camp. The New Professor had becomethe Absent Minded Professor. Three of us were now aheadof the Professor. Fearless Trip Leader and Fearless TripLeaderett had stopped to pull some thorns from theLeaderetts shoes and then proceeded onward. Soon onthe radio we heard the Professor announce he had found aGerber multi tool in the stream bed. Leader and Leaderett

had left it after removing the thorny problem. On the returnTeacher #1 discovered she had lost her camera. A return tothe mine site revealed its location.

Back in camp and at Happy Hour it was learned thatRocky had lost his rock hammer on the hike in the canyon.Teacher #1 had found his hammer on the way down thecanyon, it was returned to a grateful Rocky.

That night the Weather Fibbers prophecies came trueand to our detriment we found that the canyons couldchannel the wind with terrific force! Lady Spunks andMadam Pretties tents were blown flat by morning. They hadlost tent parts to the wind. Fearless trip Leader foundTeacher #2s table down canyon, it and a wash bowl had

been lost to the wind. Teacher #2 found her bowl far downcanyon!

Enough of the lost stuff. On to what we found!

1-We found that all of the other camp sites had less wind,some almost no wind.2-We found a FS Camp Ground on the main road that had arunning stream next to it, benches, fire hearths and a nice FSPotty.3-We found some new trails, small quartz crystals andfossils.

4-We found that we needed to go further in for more mineraland rock collecting.5-We found ourselves talking about going back toRobinsons Cave on the Percha for a day trip.6-Lastly we found ourselves out of time and now to headhome until the next trip.

We were lost no more!

FOOT NOTE #1: I have had a rain gauge set up forcampouts for many years. After this years windy campouts Iwill get an anemometer.

FOOT NOTE #2: Can you match the aka to the real person?

>Cast of characters as they appeared in the drama