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Colorado Summer 2006
In the summer of 2006, I was a paleontology intern at Florissant Fossil Beds
National Monument in Florissant, Colorado. For a period of 12 weeks I hiked
around the park, checked out various fossil sites, worked on database/website
work, and ran errands. Outside of work I hiked around, climbed mountains, helped
abandoned baby animals, collected rocks, and went about general adventuring.
Seeing as I took 1200+ pictures over the summer, the only way to actually show
them off is to show the highlights. So, here are some highlights:
I love the weather out there! Crazy storms every afternoon with beautiful
weather the rest of the day.
Totally awesome cloud front.
This is the big stump; a really big 38 million year old fossil tree.
Cool cacti.
Blue bird chicks that were being raised above the entry-way to our main work
building.
This is the Incline, 2000 vertical feet in 1 mile horizontal distance. Fun!
Myself after climbing the Incline, behind me is Pikes Peak.
Pikes Peak at dawn.
Shelf road down to Canon city from Cripple Creek.
Neat dino tracks down by Canon city.
This is a big mountain lion track from the morning I went to climb Mt.Princeton
That's me on top of my Alma Mater, Mt. Princeton, at 14,108 ft.
Pika-chu? What are you doing up here!
The Princeton Tiger on top of Mt.Princeton
Black Canyon; pretty cool.
Sunset in the Gunnison.
State flower; the Columbine.
View from Pilots Peak, when I went to look for Topaz... Didn't find any.
Me feeding baby deer.
Hi Bambi.
That's it for now, maybe more later!