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JEB:
Anyone know where I can search for rock in the S/E corner of Wyoming or the high north middle of Colorado?
I will be just 10 miles north of Colorado for a few days and would like to bring home some rock to knap if possible. Turning a fishing trip into a rock run I guess.lol

Flntknp17:
The area around Cheyenne to Laramie has a lot of igneous rock at the surface and I haven't seen a lot of knappable stone there.  You will find some chalcedony in NE Colorado and SW Nebraska associated with White River Group rocks, but this is probably a little outside your area.  There are a lot of knappable agates and quartzites and chalcedonies in the vicinity of Glendo-Hartville-Manville.  That's a classic area for knapping rock dating back to paleo times.  I have not seen much in the Snowy/Medicine Bow/Routt area since those rocks tend to be too old or igneous/metamorphic. 

More importantly.....where are you fishing?

Matt

JEB:
Well I didn't get a chance to look for knapping rock as the area was under a strong evacuation notice as there was a large fire getting larger so I fished and killed them. I don't know how many brookies I caught over the 5 days but on Thursday and Friday I caught over 50 but kept only  the 6 I was limited to and they were at least 14 inches long. Some really beautiful fish. We could not fish the other areas we wanted to because of the fire that grew to 35,000 acres by Friday and were were forced out of the mountain range because of the fire risk.  The fire is out of control right now because of the very high winds.  I fished out of Centennial Wyoming.Keep these folks in your thoughts.

Hawkdancer:
That one is called the Mullen Fire, the one just south of it in Colorado is the Cameron Peak, now over 124,000 acres and the 3rd largest in state history, and growing!  That area is my old hunting ground!  Glad you had some good fishing up there.  We moved from that region this summer to SW Nebraska.  Lots of smoke this past week from all of the fires west of us!
Hawkdancer

JEB:
That's it Hawk, the Mullen fire. We had smoke half way across Nebraska on Saturday on the way home. I really feel for the folks that live out there.

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