Nov 3 · 4 min read
ARASTRE CREEK GOLD

Recently I met a man who lives in a semi-wild place called Big Bear Lake, CA. I lived there in the 1970s and early 1980s. Chatting with him brought back a plethora of memories, both good and bad. It is one of the good ones I share today.
Big Bear Lake is a mountain resort town in the San Bernardino National Forest in southern California. It has a history of gold mining, both placer and hard rock. The earliest evidence of gold mining and…

