This rock is from near the boston bar first nations in british columbia. It was sanded by hand for perhaps 4 hours in total (100 grit sandpaper down to a 3000 grit) and the polished with a rotary tool.

Nephrite is jade of the variety found in china and new zealand, while jadite is the rarer type currently only found in Myanmar. I collect my stones from the banks of the fraser river in british columbia.

The image shown is in an article in the Salt Lake City Tribune along with a quote about 'circling the wagons', describing a technique supposedly used by white settlers when under attack by native americans.

Its partially sanded and polished but otherwise how i found it. British Columbia's jade is of a type called nephrite and the jade found in the the north of the province is often perfect, like an emerald

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My campsite is in what was once an orchard and the black bears fearlessly scale 60+ feet into the air to get small, mostly tart cherries.

Eagles circling my camp with sunset made unusually red by forest fires burning 200 kilometers north of me.

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