Henry Mountains! Oh how I miss you! Part One!

This past July and August I helped a PhD student, Penny, with her research in the Henry Mountains. This is Part 1 of a few blog entries I will eventually put in explaining how my trip went. If I did all the entries at once it would take too long. Even the pictures I am putting in don't even do my experience justice.

Enjoy!!



Left: This was my first day out in the field and boy was it hot and sunny!!! I lost my faithful compass-clino shortly after this picture was taken.

Right: This was our campsite for 5 weeks. Oh the memories I have of this place-- including creepers, owlets, and noisy deer!

 I was being used as a scale of the outcrop. Just so you all know I am 5' 4''. Anyways.....this was pre-rattlesnake.

 This was as I heard the rattlesnake. It was super close to me but I couldn't see it. I was like "Penny, hurry up!!!"

 Above: This is Maiden Creek. I miss her. She is one of the locations where we did research on sill emplacement.

Right: This was taken across the road from the picture above. We measured the deformation bands and the displacement you can see on the bedding.

 Daniel came with us in the field on Trachyte Mesa (another location we worked on). You can see in the left corner of the picture that it was getting darker.....yeah.....shortly after this picture we were rained on and had to run a long ways back to Ed (the Jeep).

 This is a swinging fault that Penny found. It was really neat and I got to learn how to take linear measurements off of it! Thanks Penny for being an awesome teacher!

 We went to Goblin Valley. Galaxy Quest was filmed here!

 Look at all those Goblins!

 We climbed up there.

 But I couldn't get down. :(

 These Goblins were cool and one of them had a face!

 Two hugging and kissing....ewwww.....get a room!

 Sunset leaving Goblin Valley. On our way back to Caineville an oncoming car hit a calf and it flew over our windscreen and died. We were all lucky that it wasn't a large cow.

I accidentally left a jerky bag slightly opened and thousands of ants got into it! It was so gross so I dumped the jerky out. Lucky ants.

It doesn't look steep, but I lost my footing on the way down and slid. It was really fun!