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Day 1: ArrivalThe day started with arrival at Guyot at 7:00 so we could leave for
Philadelphia airport. Note this is quite a late gathering time, usually its done
at 4:30 and i see the sunrise at Newark. The flight from Philly to Denver was
uneventful though we had some fun clear air turbulence coming from the Rockies.
The flight from Denver to Albuquerque was fun with a very exciting landing.
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Ah, Richard has lost his hacky-sack on
top of a pillar. So they made a long rope thingy to try to get it down. It's
still up there.
After a nice meal at the Frontier
Restaurant we arrived at the site.
View of the road.
Here's looking at a group of us looking
at some quartzite, metamorphosed sandstone. Ya, I had climbed this ridge looking
for tasty cactus pears. 
There's sherpa Laura '05 posing by a fold.
Margee '05 resting on a granite boulder.
No, you can't see lineation on this photo. There's Rada '06 in the background.
Ya, this was after lunch, which reminds me... Remember when Linc told us the
skin of the prickly pears were edible? Well then why do animals spit those out?
Here's a good view of the area with the
Socorro mountains in the back. We had climbed around on a fruitless search for
kyanite. We might've found one but Jamitto doesn't believe it. 
Lizard.
Beetle.
Hmm, a little more bushy then yesterday.
Ah, a Thunderbird petroglyph! Note
it's resemblance to a pterodactyl. 
There's us looking at some heavy folding.
Here's with Laura in place of me.
A few of us walked back the usual way
while others decided to climb a ridge. See them?
Closeup, sherpa Laura.