South Fork Little Butte Stream Hydro Project

This was our final project for field camp! It was 3 field days plus a report and a presentation. Yesterday was the report day and this morning we gave the presentations and then most of us headed home...FINALLY!!!

It was a mellow project and I personally spent almost all day in the stream. Hmmm, maybe I need to check into this fluvial geomorphology thing some more. I could totally do this everyday!

Jake the donkey...any resemblance to another Jake we all know and love?
He belonged to the land owner that hosted an end of field camp BBQ today.

Damn, what a hard day!

Completely staged picture, but this was how I was collecting data the day before. LOVED IT

This particular stretch of the stream had a nice swimming hole, about 4.5 feet deep.
We definitely enjoyed it.
From l-r: Jeanette, Bree, Rachel, Amanda (Kevin in the background)

Crater Lake

Last weekend we went to Crater Lake. It was supposed to be earlier in the week, but Oregon received so much snow this past winter that the Rim Road wasn't open yet! Only 2 days up there (camping 1 night)...it wasn't enough time.


Group shot with everyone giving Ellie's signature thumb's up :)


The lake was INCREDIBLY clear! This was looking down from a hiking trail. The large rock in the lake is probably about 6-feet in diameter and in around 30 feet of water.


Is that the sky or the lake???? (answer: the lake)


Wizard Island. There are boat trips offered that take people around the lake. Certain trips will also drop people off on Wizard Island for a few hours to go hiking. We did the regular 2 hr boat ride without drop off. Another reason to return....


We had two snack-time friends. The baby lizard was only about 2.5" long (couldn't get anything in there for scale without scaring him/her.) There were two "mini-bears" there that were totally willing to assist us in eating our snacks. This one managed to get a Cheeto from Kelly.


An actual picture of me! This was on the boat ride around the lake. Ellie and her long arms.


There was still plenty of snow and we had a great time playing in it. There were multiple snowball fights and Ellie and Kevin (missed the picture of him) managed to find the best way off a rock outcrop EVER!


This was just a cool shot of one of the sheets of snow slowly making its way downhill into the lake.


We made a couple of stops on the Rogue River on the way up to Crater Lake. I finally was able to take a picture of Rachel! (CSUEB students haven't been in groups together until the final hydro project so we didn't see much of each other during the day, usually.)


The amazing Rogue River.

101

It was hot. Today made Morrison Canyon look like a fracking picnic. It was hot and tomorrow is supposed to be hotter...

Weatherbug.com had Ashland's high today at 101.

Field camp sucks

River fun!

So we're still referring to this as Geology Boot Camp, but we finally had a day where we HAD to get into the water. We started our first hydrogeology project today and learned how to gauge a stream.
This is Kevin hard at work:


The REALLY cool thing was that this is an old USGS gauging station for Four Bit Stream. This stream use to be deep and narrow, versus the current wide and shallow profile. When the USGS came out to gauge the stream, they used this cool cable car system...which we HAD to play on:
(Ellie and Cynthia)




































(Amanda and Stacy-from Iowa)















(Wes and Jeanette -

from Sac State)















The best part: view from the middle of the stream approx 15 feet from the stream's surface:


















(sorry for the formatting weirdnesses...I'm tired and can't deal with it anymore tonight)