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After my most recent field trip where there were at least three other TFF members present, but I didn't know it until afterwards, I wanted to be a bit more proactive for an upcoming trip. Last Fall, my wife and I made our first visit to Penn Dixie and had a great time. It was a very nice day and it was a weekday after the regular season so we were the only people in the quarry for most of the day. The only downside was that the pit and the most trilobite rich rocks were under water. My luck, less than a week after we were there, the society newsletter said they had just pumped out the pit! Oh well... We were able to collect lots of nice brachiopods, corals, etc and a couple of OK trilobites but mostly trilo-bits. This year we decided we would go back and to (hopefully) ensure access to fresher, more productive trilobite material, we signed up for the Dig With The Experts event on Saturday June 3. So, if any other TFF members are planning to be there, let me know (via reply or PM) and we can meet, swap stories, etc. If regulars at PD are there, I'll be happy to soak up any knowledge that I can since I have only been there once. Looking forward to it and hopefully, Ill add some results to this thread after I've been there. Thanks Mike PS: @RandyB had a good post after he attended last years event (and I know I have seen lots of other posts from further back):

I know some TFF members will be at Penn Dixie for the "dig with the experts" weekend coming up. I'll be there with my oldest on Saturday and the other two kids will catch up with us on Sunday. Who else will be there? https://penndixie.org/dig-with-the-experts/

This year I pulled the trigger on heading to Penn Dixie for the Dig With the Experts weekend! Definitely would highly recommend . I drove up from Boston to the Buffalo area on Thursday and spent the day Friday digging with @Malcolmt and @JamesAndTheFossilPeach. It was a blast! Thanks again guys for giving me a lay of the land. Credit to @JamesAndTheFossilPeach for the find of the day with a giant Eldredgeops (pic below). Saturday and Sunday were spent looking for trilobites in the roped off Dig With the Experts section of excavated shale with some success. Monday I drove back to Boston, and stopped to stretch my legs in Glenerie, NY to walk a stretch of road looking for Devonian brachiopods and gastropods. Got a couple! All in all, a great trip... although I'm nice and sore . Here are my takeaways from the weekend. I tried to get a bit of the entire Penn Dixie Ecosystem keeping at least one of everything and as many trilobites as I could find. I wish I took more pictures Saturday and Sunday, but I was too busy splitting shale . Cheers, Barret