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)