We had a bit of a cold snap this week. No, that’s not normal for early September in Los Alamos. The local paper reports that this is the earliest snow in 105 years. It warmed up again fairly quickly, though, and on Friday I did some local hiking just to...Read more

I’ve lost a fair number of older fish from my tank the last two months. Most were ones that I had had for several years, and the other fish in the tank seem okay, so I’m crossing my fingers and hoping it’s just old age. But it meant I needed...Read more

In my last post, I described visiting the Pecos area of the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains to get some photographs of type sections or type locations of geologic formations for Wikipedia. Alas, the weather went sour before I could get very satisfactory photos of most of the sites. Thursday...Read more

I had Friday off and the weather was beautiful in the morning. The forecast was for it to remain decent most of the day. This is not actually good news during what is supposed to be our monsoon season, but it seemed right to make the best of it. So...Read more

But first, a picture of a cat, because pictures of cats seem to be very popular on the Internet. That’s Stupid, my cat. She’s actually a very sweet cat, but she didn’t like being woken from a sound sleep for a photography session. I wake up Saturday morning to gorgeous...Read more

This one was recommended by Sixty Hikes Within Sixty Miles: Albuquerque. I’m not super impressed with this series, which doesn’t much emphasize geology, but it has occasionally given me some very useful tips. Enough to be worth the purchase price. I wanted a hike at low elevation, because the monsoon...Read more

I mentioned in my last post that I wanted to swing by the Salitral Formation type section and some Rock Point Formation exposures on my way home from Iron Mountain, but ran out of time. I took time to make that up today. It wasn’t a perfect day; there were...Read more

This is the oldest rock I’ve visited in New Mexico; twice now. I was hoping third time would be the charm. So Saturday I loaded up and headed the Wandermobile north to the Tusas Mountains again. My goal was to try to find pillow lava structure in the Moppin Complex...Read more