October 2018 – President’s Message

Past Presidents Message

Well we did!

As you all of you must know by now, that our 2018 Cascade Gem & Mineral Show went smoothly and was a huge success.

We had a great venue and many vendors and visitors expressed this to us. I would like to acknowledge that the College Conference Center was also great to work with.

I want to thank everyone that took on the Chairmanship of very specific areas of the show. They worked extremely hard to make sure their area of responsibility went smoothly. They succeeded!

I also want to thank everyone that turned out to help. So many of our members also wrangled their spouses, children and grandchildren into helping. Mark’s wife, children, their spouses and grandchildren showed up enforce to help for hours on end. There were so many Hohn’s that I couldn’t count them all. <smile> We also had volunteers from the West Seattle Club, NAMA of Kent, Bedrock Prospectors and several other groups. To each and everyone of you, your help was appreciated beyond words.

Thank you to all that volunteered in any capacity to make our show a huge success!!

We also had 15 new members join our club. Several of them are families. Welcome to all of you.

Kat Koch

CMS President

Updated: June 2, 2019 — 9:45 pm

Presidents Message

  • Digging It!  Thanks to everyone who came to the club camp out at Teanaway campground near Cle Elum last month. After a brief spell of rain the first night, we were blessed with sun, clear skies, and rockhounding the rest of the weekend. And a big thanks to Roger Danneman for doing all of the trip organizing, and keeping us all warm and well fed during the weekend. This month I’ll be giving a talk at our club meeting about how to use Gaia for rockhounding. If you have specific questions, please bring them along or feel free to email …

Meeting Announcements

  • Noelle Barnes will present Using Gaia for Rockhounding, an overview of the features and tricks associated with the app Gaia and how you can use it for GPS, saving waypoints, navigation, photo tagging, trail recording and more. Show and Tell: Bring the rock(s) that have the best “story” – and tell everyone how you found them and where!

  • Club board member Paul Ahnberg will talk to us about the impact of wildfires on our lives – from protecting your home to staying safe while out rockhounding – and what we can do today to help mitigate our risk. Paul will combine his knowledge gained from learning at both the WSU Green School (Master Gardener) and WSU Climate Steward programs. Show and Tell: Bring something you found, from a place that you know has since been impacted by floods or wildfires – or was impacted shortly before you arrived. Tell your story!

  • December’s date and time is coming soon. We will update this page as soon as we know more.

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