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With hiking done for the season, I will be posting from time to time on other technical topics that interest me. Maybe they will interest you, as well.Read more

I had a four-day weekend for Labor Day, thanks to  my employer’s 9/80 schedule, and it’s tough to have a long weekend and not do a little wanderlusting even when you’ve just come back from a big geologic vacation.Read more

Days 12 and 13 may be found here. I awake, eat the usual camp breakfast, and clean up. On the way back from dumping my trash in the dumpster boxes, I get a glimpse of some geology through the trees. Capitol Dome, at least according to Bing Aerial View. My...Read more

Day 9 may be found here. I awake, fix my usual camp breakfast, and do my best to clean myself up. I had been shaving every morning, but there are no facilities here for showering; I make do with a kind of sponge bath and put on my remaining change...Read more

Day 7 may be found here. Getting close to the big day.Read more

Days 3 and 4 may be found here. I awake in the wee hours, and brrrr. It gets quite cold this far north in mid-August. I decide to have a strong bladder and snooze a little longer.Read more

Day 2 may be found here. If you’ve stayed with me this far, you probably already understand, but: What makes geology so fascinating for me? Isn’t it a little … extreme? It’s not just geology; I find almost everything interesting. I once saw a tee shirt at a nerd tee...Read more

Day 1 may be found here. Being a male over 50, it’s almost inevitable that I’ll wake up in the wee hours of the morning, which are well named.Read more

This was another combined trip with the Los Alamos Geological Society and the Albuquerque Gem and Mineral Club.Read more

But first, the White Rock paleocanyon, again.Read more