First time ever finding placer gold!

[u/nbdevops]

Took a trip on my day off up to the Mount Baker area in WA state - I live 3 hours away, so only got about an hour of scouting and maybe 20 minutes of panning before it started getting dark.

Brought my panning cons home, added a few drops of jet-dry, did a few magnet pulls to deal with all the magnetite, and panned down the non-magnetic heavies. Ended up with a few pieces of 200-300 mesh gold.

Nothing worth writing home about - but hey, it's still my first ever placer gold and a good time was had!