Pleasant Oaks Gem & Mineral Club of Dallas, Texas

Field Trips

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The Pleasant Oaks Gem & Mineral Club and the Dallas Gem & Mineral Society plan field trips monthly to a number of local sites.  Frequent field trips include such stops as the North Sulpher River for fossils, several East Texas location such as Lake Livingston/Crockett looking for petrified palm wood, to a gravel quarry near Oklahoma City where petrified wood and Alibates flint are found, and out of state trips to the likes of Arkansas looking for quartz crystals and Colorado looking for minerals. 

The pictures below are from a Lake Whitney trip.  Twenty two people found ammonites, echinoids, and a variety of other interesting fossils. 
 
 


 

Here are some pictures of a trip to the gravel quarry near Oklahoma City
 

 

Walter Pepper, a member of the Pleasant Oaks and the Dallas Gem and Mineral Society, has devised a "Degree of Difficulty Table" to help us prepare for each trip.  The table uses a 1 -10 rating system working it's way from easy to difficult and is as follows; 

Walter's Field Trip Degree of Difficulty Table

Surface Conditions
Incline/Effort
Kid Friendly
1. Hard 30 degree incline or less Yes
2. Soft 30 degree incline or less Yes
3. Hard  45 degree incline Yes
4. Soft 45 degree incline Yes
5. Muddy 45 degree incline Yes
6. Steep 60 degree incline NO
7. Muddy 60 degree incline NO
8. Steep 60 degree incline, some climbing required NO
9. Steep Significant climbing, walking and/or crawling NO
10. Steep and Muddy Significant climbing, walking and/or crawling NO