topaz mountain

Melissa & Jessie

Clint was so great to show us what to do & brought
a big bucket of hammers and picks and stuff so we could find the topaz.

Bri & Kel

What posers!!

Another fun day, during spring break, was our trek to Topaz Mountain. Our dear friends & neighbors invited us to go to this place I had heard of, but never had been. So we packed our lunches and drove West. There are some lonely areas in Utah and this was for sure one of them! Once we got there I was surprised there were actually other people there too! Our friends said they were surprised too because last time they went there was nobody. So we shared this little mountain with several other families and began looking for Topaz. I had no idea what we were to do, but we quickly caught on. Basically you wack at the mountain with picks, or hammers or whatever until this rock gives way and then you look at the rock for these little crystals or what they call topaz. They are a little more tricky to find than I realized, but our kids & dads had a lot of fun! We felt like the dwarfs in Snow White :) So we wacked at the mountain, laughed, climbed around and of course ate. It was fun and fun to try something new and see a new little place in Utah we've never been to before. We did find Topaz & we brought our treasures home with us - the girls have loved showing off their tiny treasure.