I have very very very limited computer access. We are talking like maybe 10 minutes every couple days. I am now in MT. We have traveled through a great deal of terrain to get here from SD.
Since leaving the Black Hills, I have been through the powder river basin in WY (where they have huge coal seams visible from miles away), the Big Horn Basin (where I got to see some great examples of thick skin laramide style uplift -ie rocks 2.7 billion years old being pusshed up from the mantle- ), the Owl Creek range ( where I mapped part of a still active oil field and saw a 6 foot rattle snake), the Teton range, Yellowstone (I was there on the 4th of July - go america), and got to see a lake in MT that was created in the 1950s because of a mass wasting event that tore down a mountain after an earthquake.
At the field camp the food has been great: meatball pasta, bbq ribs, chicken (it was too dry- so I added a tun of hot sauce), and burritos (my first experiance with them wow I have been missing out).
The weather is absolutly crazy here this summer. It has rained every day and hails a good bit. The weather is really abnormal- last summer it rained once the entire time.
It took a while to get used to the altitude (and the miles of hiking every day). But, I think now I am getting the hang of it. I am learning a tun and the profs are great. Everything is super hard though- one girl has already had to drop out.
I am really exhusted so I am going to pass out. I'll try to post as much as I can and call you guys when I get a chance. But both internet (bandwidth restrictions) and cell (4 mile hike up a mountain) are really a challenge to get access on.
*ps sorry for the awful grammar and spelling- I have been up now for 15 hours today and have been working and hiking for most of them.
Hope you all are well- send emails or call and I'll get back to you.
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