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The First Week
This would be Elk Basin, the site of our first major mapping project. Average
elevation around 4500 ft. Daytime temperatures in the upper 90's. This is a
active oil field so we also dealt with noxious fumes and such all the time.
Local fauna include cows, deer, and rattlesnake. Fun, fun, fun.
Here we are measuring the thickness of the Park formation... I think it's park
formation...
There's me measuring.
You see where Laura S is standing? Ya, that's how we got up there.
Maya making her way down the cliffside.
Weekend time: Pig races! A must see if you're ever around Red Lodge.
Celia winning $25 on the races.
Ah, this spot is about 15 miles from camp. This is the top of the Beartooth
mountains. Plenty of classic glacial valleys. And as you can see, lots of snow.
Elevation averages 10,000 ft.
That's an iceberg.
Snowball fight! There's Brad, Laura S, and Rich.
There's the bunch of us who decided to go hiking the first weekend. That's me,
Maya, Mike, Janet (spell?), Shayda, Brad, Rich, Jerome, and Laura.
Another snowball fight breaks out.
Here's me, Laura, and Jerome after a quick dip in Island Lake. Ya, water
temperature around 45-50, after a minute in the water you don't feel it anymore
because of the numbness.
Maya sitting by an alpine stream.
Giant trace fossil found by Mike, in Elk Basin member.
The only shady spot other then the Oasis.
Pretty cloud.
Bird nests in the Virgelle sandstone.
The giant ammonite Mike and I found on the third day in the field. On the fourth
day we managed to get the 400lb rock down to 80 lbs, I got it down to 20 lbs
once I drove it back to NY.
Cool tree.
Lovely ripples.
Another view of the basin.
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