Weather

The weather out here is crazy. It has been raining sooooo much.

We were suppsoed to start a huge mapping project today on Mt. Dourghty (spelling?) but the rain has caused the clay to expand, making the terrain untravesable. So, instead, we got to spend most of the day hanging and wasting time in Butte. We got to see the awe inspriring Mineral Musesum at Montana Tech...

I forgot to elborate on where I have been since getting into the Tobacco Root Mountains. We have already done a bunch of sedimentoloy in the Sappington area, which is famous for Talc depostits and to geomorphologists for the "Water Gap". Last sunday, I also climbed up Mount Brownback which is a fairly high peak in the region (near 11,000 feet I think).

Lots of work ahead. I am about to go draw the topographic profile of the traverse I will have to map tomorrow.

We had apple pie tonight. It was very tasty though I have never seen it with pecans in it before.