Glacier Natl Park

Just got back from Glacier National Park, which in my opinion is the best. Check out the pics here

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=86377&id=503029274&saved

We backpacked in and spent the night next to a secluded glacial lake. It was awesome.

It seems to finally be getting hot

So it seems as if it is finally turning summer here (what we Atlantans consider summer!). With summer has come a lot of ticks. Two people with Georgia State have already contracted lime disease from tick bites. Yesterday we saw lots of them in the area we are currently working in.

The area we are mapping is an area called Badger Pass. If you would like to check out the areas we are working in check out http://geospatial.gsu.edu/fieldcamp/gsu_fieldcamp_v01.kmz in Google Earth. The Badger Pass area is characterized by a lot of complex thrust faulting.

Hopefully we are going to tacobus for dinner tonight and we have lots of work todo on our maps.

This is for Howard....

Well.... I guess posting to my Facebook wall is enough motivation for me to blog rather than study. Thanks Howard!

Well we have been back in beautiful Dillon, MT for a week now. Two weeks ago we went on a week long road trip around Montana and Wyoming. The first place we stopped was the ghost town Virginia City. Here we saw women chopping wood (the men were in the mine) a gunfight, and a dirty trial.

Next stop was Yellowstone National Park, which is way more touristy (is that a word) than I expected. It was pretty cool, but Old Faithful was kind of dissapointing. There are actually way cooler geysers there. From Yellowstone we went through, Cooke City, Red Lodge, and Missoula.

The weather is crazy out here, worse than Georgia's. One minute it feels like 70 and 5 min later its snowing. We had some good snow fights and what not (rare for the Georgia kids). We were kicked out of our campsite on the last day of the trip. Apparently you are not supposed to have 15 tents on 2 camping spots.

Well now we are back in Dillon and are working on our 3rd project since we have been back. Lots of hiking, and today it was sunny windy and cold. Two people from GSU have contracted Lyme Disease from tick bites.

So off to study for a test.

First Week

It has been a week since I was last able to post. A lot has gone on. We finished our first project Frying Pan Gulch yesterday. Pretty intensive and a lot of work which there was no time to rest from because today we started the next project. Today was my birthday and it rained and was 40 degrees. Very windy and cold up on the ridges today. A lot of hiking and climbing this past week which has been pretty awesome. I survived cactus in the butt which was not that bad actually.

Last night we went out on the town of Dillon. We met some interesting locals and visited some local establishments. At The Office (desolate local bar) we had fun playing shuffleboard and keno.

Going back to working on a project.

Day 2

Day 2 has been uneventful so far. This is a really good thing after yesterdays mishaps. We started out in Paducah and went through St. Louis. Now we are on our way to Kansas City. We plan to make it all the way to Sioux Fall (or City I'm not sure what the difference is tonight). The van's brake system seems to be in pretty good shape after yesterday's work on them. The van is very diverse in that Farsi, Bosnian, and English could be spoken at any time.

Broke down in Chattanooga

Ok so our van broke down in Chattanooga today at 11 am. The tow truck came and picked us up and we rode in the van while being towed for 9 miles. That was kind of cool but made us sick. We then came to Pep Boys and went to the El Olla (mexican restaurant) and then walked to Walmart. Right now we are still waiting for the van to be fixed. Expected time of fix 6:30 pm.

Check out the pics below
http://picasaweb.google.com/phillipjreed/GeologyFieldCamp#slideshow/5339498022998717618

1st Post

This is the first post in what is anticipated to be a blog, outlining my travels to Montana.