6-7-6
As it stands now, I have the Coal-Ridge project completed. Considering I was up late last night to finish. Yesterday I took a spill down the side of a hill and now have a 2 inch laceration along my right arm. I was so clumsy yesterday. It was a day to avoid cliffs. It was weird. When I slipped, my left side was facing the hillside. When my feet slipped, I tried to catch myself like I was sliding, my left-side on the hill. When that didn’t work, I twisted my hips and managed to stop myself from sliding continuously down the hill. But right now I must work on our next mapping project and plot the strike and dip of several beds around folds. Stereonet is cunfuzzling (misspelling intended).
Later!
~DR
Oh, have we got photos!
Yes photos!
Photos of rocks!
Photos of geology campers!
Big hike today. Should be lots more photos tomorrow.
Ron
6-5-6
Well, 2 out of 3 Durango projects are, shall we say out of the way. I passed the coal Bridge assignment, and finish the Coal Ridge one tonight. Our next project will take 2.5 days to do, not counting touching it up, turning it in and then spending the night in Durango. The next project is a mapping one dealing with sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks in a decent sized area. Then we go to a new reservoir being built along the river here in Durango. But that’s on Friday.
Later!
~DR
6-4-6
To day started our trek through the Durango projects. This time started as usual with Josh, Jason and Mark going off and Jake and Lydia or the other side. This trim however, I was on my own. I had lost Grandpa’s rebar rock hammer but luckily it was returned. Perhaps whir I get my PhD, I’ll have it framed, since it is one it the few things I have to know him by. I believe I have an ides of what is going on within our project area. Bat then again, I’m wrong as always.
Later!
~DR
6-3-6
We are currently in Durango, CO. Tomorrow we start our hardest part of this trip by doing 3 separate projects around this area. The two that scare me most are the Ones that are due at the end of the field day. This is why I’m worried. One is due at end of the day, the other is due after 1 hour of work and measurements. Right now the net is being picky so I don’t know how much I’ll actually be able to post. I’ll be lucky to get a decent signal. Here is hoping that it starts to work. . .
Later!
~DR
6-1-6
The sky around Arches is amazing! We traveled from Price to Arches Nat’l Park today in 90° Weather. Several stops today: Dead horse Point for lunch, Arches for camp, and as many sights that we could squeeze into a day. Once we hit Cortez, CO, this should update with some pictures of our travels. I may Line to add them to my Facebook account however. The stars are beautiful, better than at Dinosaur. Several of us are sleeping out Side without a tout, but we’ll see how that lasts. It is nice out here. Were rousting Marshmallows now so I’ll sign off for now.
Later!
~DR
No time to write a thousand words, so I’ll just make this a quickie to point you to the photos I’ve uploaded from the trip so far. This morning after breakfast we depart Price, UT for Arches NP. Don’t know when we’ll have internet access again, so… Hasta Luego!
I’m not into journaling, and we are getting ready to go, so I’ll try to keep this short. Only this past week and a half has been so full of activity, I’m not sure that’s possible, so I’ll give the main highs and lows. The main low point of the trip was our first night, it stormed, with hail, our tents got soaked, Denny, Jake, and I ended up sleeping in the van. There have been quite few high points to counter act that first night, including seeing all the cool geologic structures that we don’t get to see at home, playing ‘monkey in the middle’ Frisbee, visiting the dinosaur quarry in DNM, plus a lot of other things that don’t immediately come to mind. That’s all for now, see everyone when we get back to Hays. Lydia
Leaving Price,
The Ketobe knob turned out to be harder than everyone thought it was going to be. As far as the future holds Arches is up tonight and Moab this afternoon.
Jason_Alm
we finished up w/ the ketobe knob mapping yester day around 12:30, and finished w/ the project last night (about 12:30). the project was confusing at times as well as frustrating. the in field portion however was nice b/c of the scenery, very beutiful. the weather was also on the plus side, around 80 and sunny, no wind so to speak. the gnats on the other hand were terrible….we leave today for moab and then arches, so we have a lot of road time ahead of us. must get sleep.
marc
Later!