Rockhounding Southern California: A Guide to the Area's Best Rockhounding Sites

by Montana Hodges

Publisher:

Falcon Guides

, 2023

Although known for its gold production, California is a virtual haven for rock and gem collectors. With Rockhounding Southern California, you can explore the mineral-rich desert regions, comb tide-washed beaches for jade, agate, abalone, fossilized whale bone, and prospect in the mountains and hills for gold, copper, and other minerals and gems. It describes the state's best rockhounding sites and covers popular and commercial sites as well as numerous little-known areas. This handy guide also describes how to collect specimens, includes maps, directions, and GPS coordinates for each site, and lists rockhound clubs around the state. Rockhounding Southern California offers a complete introduction to this many-faceted hobby.

Product Details

• Title: Rockhounding Southern California: A Guide to the Area's Best Rockhounding Sites
• Author: Montana Hodges
• Publisher: Falcon Guides
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781493057962, 9781493057955, 1493057952, 1493057960
• Resource ID: LLS:9781493057962
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-08-29T06:18:39Z

About Montana Hodges

As a graduate of journalism and geology Montana Hodges found her niche writing outdoor books for Falcon Guides. Love of nature and inspiration to educate has led her into a career of outdoor writing, hoping to encourage people to get outside and explore earth's natural wonders.

Montana has worked as a print, internet, and magazine journalist, backcountry guide, outdoor photographer, geographic photographer, and outdoor guide author. Adventures into the wilds have taken her from digging dinosaur bones in the badlands of Montana, to as far south as opal mining in the deserts of Australia, and as far north as bush plane aerial photography for United State Geologic Survey in Alaska.

Through a lifetime of camping, hiking, and rockhounding, Montana has been attracted to nature and vastness, suitably leading her to work in Alaska. She has found herself on the other side of the articles with stories of her adventures and work being published in The Sacramento Bee, Rock 'n Gem Magazine, and the State Hornet Alumni Magazine. Her nature photography has been featured in several art shows and galleries.

With any chance she gets she is in the great outdoors working with geology or journalism. During the summers she spends several months in the field, camping and exploring Alaska. She is also an active member of the Chugach Gem and Mineral Society, Mountaineering Society of Alaska, Sierra Club, Society of Environmental Journalists, Outdoor Writers Association of America and a speaker for Promoting Environmental Awareness in Kids.

Montana travels between her current base in Anchorage, Alaska, to wherever the adventures may take her. She has spent the last few years working across Alaska, exploring each inch of Alaskan highway from Kodiak Island to the Arctic Ocean, always camping her way across a state two-and-a-half times the size of Texas.