Upcoming Gold Trails Events

Great class, very useful information for prospectors on any level. You will leave with a high level of confidence in looking for Gold !

I thoroughly enjoyed my time learning, being challenged and making new friends. It's not a walk in the park to be given information and then walk out to a river or a hill side and asked to think and explain, but it's fun and I took away skills that will help me grow. I highly recommend attending and learning. Many thanks to Kevin for giving of his time and to the camp hosts, Emily and Blaine. A thoroughly entertaining experience! Oh, the road to I-Bar is something else and I'll be back!

The event was educational and motivational. Prospecting- where to find gold. Ounces per ton not a few flakes per pan. Gotta dig up a ton of trash to find ounces of gold. Thanks Kevin!

So much fun

I showed up on day 2 never having found a nugget yet. After much guidance from Kevin and just learning how to use my machine properly I found my first gold nugget! Such an exhilarating amazing experience I’ll never forget! Met some really cool people as well!

It was a great day to meet and learn from Kevin. He gave everyone a lot of information.

I want to extend a great Thank you to Kevin and staff involved. I basically attended a master class in prospecting and enjoyed it so much I stayed for a second event. The members that attended were all enthusiastic and super friendly. I will recommend this program to any member I meet and have already encouraged people to attend. Thanks, Dale Warren

Wasn't there

What an excellent opportunity to work with Kevin and Bill the help that they gave and was able to give was extremely helpful in being more successful with the different types of metal detectors overall just a great time

Me and my wife Mendy attended the Vulture Bait meetup. Kevin and Bill are Top notch in there skills. Extremely effective teachers. Communication is off the chart. There goal is to have you leave the meetup with confidence in your new skills and detector. That absolutely happened for us. They almost beg you to throw question's at them. Even if you are not all into detecting, they go over some area history, & geology, that applies to any type of prospecting. They make the whole learning process fun and serious. There was a lot of laughter and smiles and family like atmosphere. No matter your skill level you will come away from the event with more knowledge and refined skills and new friends then when you arrived. And yes there where some high skilled attendees at the event, 4 or 5000 dollar machines. But I want to stress this point. Not once did anyone ever make any person feel intimidated for a lack of basic knowledge, Every question was answered. And it was very informative to here some of the more knowledgable attendees ask questions I would had never thought of asking and the responses they received. Like I said before it was very much a family like atmosphere. If you are on the fence about attending one of these events, I assure you that you are missing out on so much knowledge and hands on training. You can read books with great detail into the subjects of geology and detecting, but there is nothing like having hands on training from Kevin whos history in detectors and geology is so rich and learned through his own hands on training. Bill Southern (Nugget Shooter) who has as well a rich hands on history finding gold with detectors and geology. When they pickup a rock off the ground and hand it to you & describe it, or point up to a mountain and describe how it up lifted or How to rub the coil on the ground with not to much pressure but just enough and help you to do it. You cant get that from a book, you cant get that over a phone, and maybe somewhat a video, but here in the field you can follow up with questions. I thought I knew about detecting for gold because I detect for coins and am successful at it. During the training I found out I did not know nearly as much as I thought. Matter of fact I have been using completely wrong tactics and skills to find gold. Treasure hunting and locating gold require completely different techniques. During the second day when we put coils in the ground, I found a small gold nugget. Supposedly I was supposed to have the first gold nugget shakes, but I was to shocked that I found one and realizing that everything i thought i Knew was just proved wrong sonI just kinda sat there with it in my hand thinking I wish I had known these tactics years ago. The next day I found a nugget in my tailings pile. The next day after digging some lead and bits of metal out of my days tailing pile I found another nugget. So just how many nuggets Have I thrown back in the hole in the 7 years of dry washing and detecting all my tailings piles with bad detecting knowledge. I found 2 in 2 days that is huge amount of gold that I have been throwing away becouse I THOUGHT I KNEW WHAT I WAS DOING. Please do yourself a favor sign up and take the free opportunity to learn from a couple masters of detecting gold. Then pass that knowledge on to other members and grand kids and your family. After the course if you are all in on absorbing what Kevin & Bill have to offer, then you will leave confident in yourself and your detector and the ground you choose to detect in. And when you pass the right data down to others you will know you are sharing good and tried and true data. Ohhh yeah Heads up, if you attend and when they release you into the field to detect. Please keep that coil on the ground scratching around, Kevin has hearing for a coil scratching around just like a hound can smell blood from a mile away. Your coil is off the ground you are going to hear. (GET THAT COIL ON THE GROUND) coming from somewhere out there on the mountain. Your going to have some great memories. Sign up and go!!!!

Absolutely 💯 loved it. The knowledge, the language, the new places and the best of peeps.. p.s. bark out from Barbie

As a beginner, I learned so much on what to look for and to become a better prospecter. These guys are amazing with all there knowledge and teaching skills. Thank you so much Kevin & Bill. I'll definitely be attending your schooling again! See you folks soon... Good Times!!!!