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• What Are These Rocks Telling Us?

  

  “The heart of field geology is going up to rocks and getting them to tell you their stories” (source).Beneath us are hundreds of feet of rock, often in layers... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2016 OUTDOORS

• In Search of a Tree

  

  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} For almost a year I’ve followe... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2016 OUTDOORS

• A Pioneering Geologist on Uinta Plants

  

  Linosyris?p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Required reading... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2016 OUTDOORS

• About That Pipeline in Jesse Ewing Canyon …

  

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  Posted on 22 November 2016 OUTDOORS

• Devils Tower—What’s on Top? (updated)

  

  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Devils Tower is so striking... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2016 OUTDOORS

• Back to the Misty Mountain

  

  Is this the way?p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} This month’s... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2016 OUTDOORS

• Surprise Geo-hike in the Eastern Uinta Mountains

  

  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Jesse Ewing Canyon down to... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2016 OUTDOORS

• Evolution of a Storyteller

  

  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Several weeks ago, I was set... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2016 OUTDOORS

• Plant on a Pedestal

  

  Awe-inspiring!This month I’m making an oblique and tenuous segue from Tree-Following, for I have no news to report of my serviceberry. After a long vacation, al... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2016 OUTDOORS

• Glacial Beauty in the High Uintas

  

  Glacial-sculpted quartzite in the high Uinta Mountains (answer to recent Geo-challenge).Fifty years ago this fall, I chose a topic for my first science paper. Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2016 OUTDOORS

• Geo-challenge: Range? Rock? Process?

  

  Where is this immense gallery of scratched and polished carvings? Who was the sculptor? What was the clay?Ideas, answers? Please add a Comment below. A post wil... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2016 OUTDOORS

• Of Quartzite and Lily Pads

  

  Hayden Peak, constructed of sandstone and quartzite masonry on a Cyclopean scale.“… the view of one of these mountain lakes, with its deep-green water and fring... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2016 OUTDOORS

• A Tree and a Rock

  

  This month I have no news about the serviceberry I’m following. I’m far from home, in a warmer drier land. So instead, here’s a report of a tree I came across o... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2016 OUTDOORS

• Stromatolite Pilgrimage

  

  Mecca!Stromatolite Hike, my seventh post, was the one that got me hooked on blogging. It was the first one I was pleased with. Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2016 OUTDOORS

• Beach-combing 11,000 Feet Above Sea Level

  

  My old friend Sparky, on an early Proterozoic beach in southeast Wyoming.West of Laramie, Highway 130 crosses the rolling grasslands of the valley bottom for... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2016 OUTDOORS

• The Night's Alluring Advertising

  

  Oenothera nuttallii.I awoke in the middle of the night to a powerful fragrance emanating from the kitchen—a mix of jasmine and wintergreen and the benzyl... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2016 OUTDOORS

• Trees on a Fold

  

  “Forest” on Hutton Lake, next to pale sandstone outcrops. Pattern on lake is windblown waves.Intent on following my serviceberry tree, neglected since March, I... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2016 OUTDOORS

• Fecund Fireweed’s Far-flung Seeds

  

  0.065-0.069, 9, 40, 81, 80,000 and 8,980,000—just a few of fireweed’s impressive numbers.Last week I visited the railroad garden west of my house, and... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2016 OUTDOORS

• Beauty Amid Destruction

  

  Year #25, dog #3. For 25 years we’ve walked the dirt road to the river—a morning ritual. It runs along railroad tracks that serviced the old packing sheds. Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2016 OUTDOORS

• What’s Your Pleasure? South Pass City Or Miner’s Delight?

  

  In 1868, a gold rush hit the southern Wind River Mountains. Hundreds of men infected by gold fever poured into the gulches, staking claims. Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2016 OUTDOORS