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Week Two Part II.


The Triassic Chugwater formation!

Two of the higher peaks in the Beartooths. Referring to my field notebook, the left one is Index, the right one is Pilot.

Ah, there's Beartooth Butte, there's armor plated fish up there on that mountain!

There's me, Naked Cowboy Yinan. That's Matty on the right, and Brad on the left.

Another snowball fight! In the foreground is Laura K, with Taury behind her, Stacy in the center, Audrey on the right, and Rachel and Laurie preparing a snowball for me.

There's my field partner Maya as we take a GPS and examine a mineshaft. This was during the Front mapping project. A lot of hiking through the woods at 6000 ft elevation. We saw a black bear cub... The other team reported seeing grizzlies.

There's bighorn canyon.

Rainbow! I tracked one end of it to the abandoned coal mining site near Red Lodge.

Ok, this was the day when everyone else went white water rafting. But the temptation of Devonian Armor Plated Fish was too great for me and Patrick. See that grassy ridge behind Patrick? That's where we parked, hiked downslope 400 ft, across a mile of marsh, then up 500 ft of pure deadly talus. You can see the slope angle here, we didn't find anything till we were halfway up the pile. Took about an two hours to get back down the pile. Quite deadly. But we did load up with fish. Did I mention we were doing this at 10,000ft? I didn't know mosquitoes can swarm at that altitude.

That's me after the climb.

Another pic of Maya during the front mapping project. Behind her is a palisade of Fort Union.

There's our camp in the center of the pic with Mt.Maurice behind.

Our finished product.

An annoying bird that jumped out at us while we were hiking. Audrey, our bird expert, identies it as a grouse.

Theres brad, Laurie, and I after our thrift store shopping expedition. Everything total for a $1!

The mining site on the Stillwater Complex!

Group Photo!

Closeup. In no particular order: Taury, Charlie, Maya, Audrey, Anna, Stacey, Laura, Rich, Margee, Rachel, Jerome, Jane, Taryn, BJ, Matty, Dan, Deanna, Celia, Laura, Laurie, Shayda, Patrick, Yinan, Ethan, Mike, Dave, and Brad. And Jen is taking the picture.

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