Done with that!

So field camp over. And I must turn my eye toward the future, in other words a job. I have begun looking but it is a bit stressful. I want a good job but I also need to find one so I don't want it to take too long. But I am less/more worried today. I got a call from somewhere I want to work for an interview.

So instead of panicing I will close the blog door on my field camp experience. We had one geology tourist day in the middle of the whole thing. We went to Bannack, an abandoned mining town.


I don't think we expected a day off and all the pictures have students in their field gear ready to map. I put on my Brunton compass out of habit when I left my room. Only to remove it when we got here. It was pretty cool but mostly old abandoned buildings so of limited interest.

This is the old jail. Inside it was tiny and depressing. Please Mr. Jailer, don't make me go!

We went out a couple of times. For some reason all the bars were a little shady but this is the shady bar favored bythe geology students.

I talked to students from all over the country. I am now convinced that I want to visit Austin, Texas some day because of an enthusiastic resident. He says that it is an amazing place.

But mostly we spent all day doing geology. I have so many beautiful scenery pictures that I find it had to pick just two or so. I mentioned that it was an unusually wet year. This means all the cactus plants were blooming. They were very lovely flowers.


I will now think that the hillsides near Dillon are covered in cactus blooms and sage brush.


It felt like every time I turned around there was some other amazing vista. I guess this is the advantage of living somewhere with no tree cover. Oh wait, I take that back.


This may be the only tree we saw in this area. I got so much sun that my hat changed colors. And I got way more freckles. I saw only two rattlesnakes neither of which was full grown.


This one was so tiny it didn't even have a rattle yet. I think it was a rattlesnake.

So how was field camp? It was interesting and exhausting and beautiful and hard and fun and informative. It was so many things that I cannot name them all. But I am glad I went and survived. My advise to next years students: over pack. And try to enjoy the view.


P.S. I know this post seems picture heavy but I have to resist a very strong urge to add more. There was so much to see in the three weeks I stopped posting.