While away in Utah for the past month, I kept a written journal every night. Mostly it's for myself. I religiously wrote in this every night (except for one...maybe two?) and I have posted them up here online because I think the people who would come and read this right now are likely people who may want to see what kind of a summer I've been ( Read more... )

On the Salt Lake City to Chicago flight, I got the chance to speak in French to a car dealer from Paris who sat next to me ( Read more... )

I suppose I should start by giving a more detailed escription of yesterday's events ( Read more... )

I will try to keep this short as tomorrow I'll be on the plane and I'll be able to fill in more in this journal with hopefully some kind of culminating entry. Today was rather busy, especially for a "last day." Vicki and I went hiking down Pole Canyon. We got caught (anxious) in some rain and lightning. The group had lunch at Maria's Grill in ( Read more... )

Danielle and I climbed part of Pelican Canyon today (up to 10,000 ft.) to assess the "rock glacier." What looks like a boulder field has more than meets the eye. We looked at the organization of the boulders, shape, striations, size, depressions, etc. It was pretty cool walking on the boulders. It was in this clearing (naturally because no ( Read more... )

Logn day - HOT day. Grant, Amber, Chuck, and I went down to The Ledges (7400 ft.) - the lowest we've been in 2 weeks. It was much hotter and this evening I have a headache which could be due to altitude re-acclimation. I don't know...

Anyway, it was some hot boulder scrambling in the sun with very little shade. We climbed up a wash for about ( Read more... )

Another 12-hour day. 7am to 7pm on the boat. I'm beat, and today more legitimately so. Will, Jen, Danielle, Scott, and I were on the boat today to finish of the critical (and final field) componenent of my research - bottom grabs. We woke up earlier than usual. Vicki tried out the gravimeter on the boat at dock. Unfortunately, as expected, it ( Read more... )

So here I am once again writing in the journal listening to nostalgic music on my mp3 player (last night was Cat Stevens, tonight Norah Jones). Yup. So about today. Justin, Tim, and I teamed up. We first went to the Mt. Marvine area. Justin went partway up Marvine to fetch his binoculars he had left behind yesterday. Tim and I trekked up the ( Read more... )

Easy day today, fortunately. Justin, Grant, and Chuck went off to climb Mt. Marvine. There were frustrations back at camp prior to departure when we were trying to fit 8 people in the red van (4 people ( Read more... )

On a scale of Sargon-feel-good curve, today was a lot like yesterday. It started out kind of crapy. We went over to the USFS cabin to get stuff. I was carrying a GPR battery out of the cabin at 7am and I tried to stop the door from slamming, but as I turned around to grab the handle, my fingers just wouldn't fit in. So the door slammed and I ( Read more... )