Mountain Goats

Up until now, all the pictures posted have been taken while we've been working on our BIG project of field camp: Hilt Mapping Project. The write up was due this morning at 8am.

I haven't pulled such a late night writing a paper since the first round of college! We had Friday and Saturday off to write the report and it wasn't enough. Us Hayward students went to bed around 2-3am, except Kevin who didn't sleep at all.



The entire class looked a little ragged this morning as we headed out to work on a stratigraphy section for the day.

I snapped this photo of Kevin at one of our stops before arriving at the field area. Looks like a nice place for a picture, right? Smelled like an outhouse. We were explicitly told not to pick up anything from the ground and not to touch the rocks below eye height.

Today we did a stratigraphy section of an area that has 10 man-made terraces of difference volcanic rocks. The first few terraces weren't bad to climb, but by #4 we were going through paleosol layers that were extremely loose. It was like running up hill in loose sand. I think the profs think we're all mountain goats...

The other wonderful element of today was that we were on south facing slopes with very little cover and today's high was 94. FUN!



I'll give it this much though, the view from the top was awesome:

And yes, that is smoke. There's a large forest fire burning in this county. Isn't affecting us or the field class, yet.