Sorry we haven't updated the blog for a while, we have very limited internet access here. Since our last update we learned about oil from a Stretch alum, Hal Macartney, and went to visit an oil rig. Then we drove to Cody and switched Professors and TAs. Meredith and Jason left and Dev and Ed joined us. We spent the night in Cody and went to Buffalo Bill's Irma Hotel for dinner and then in the morning we went to the Buffalo Bill Museum with Paige, Ying Qizzle and Andi. It was really cool, there was so much to look at. It would have been nice to have a few days to look at everything, but we were glad we went. Then Dave and Izzy bought really cool cowboy hats just before leaving Cody. We have worn them everyday and they were definitely worthwhile lifetime investments, and they're crushable!
This week we have been at the K Bar Z guest ranch. We were mapping igneous and sedimentary rocks and searching for gold at Henderson Mountain. It was really cool and we found where the gold is! We were mapping at the New World Mining District where there are a bunch of old gold mines. One day we went to visit a mine reclamation site and a Stretch alum, Doug, showed us around, it was really interesting. The K Bar Z is a great place to stay, today we are swapping professors again and Carl is starting the National Parks segment, but we get to stay at the K Bar Z for a few more days because the first park we visit is Yellowstone. Two days ago we went to Nye, Montana to visit a working mine, the Stillwater Mine. It is a platinum and palladium mine and we got to see how it works and see an old, deserted mining town. On the way back we stopped at Red Lodge for dinner and had some great Mexican food and lots of candy.
Yesterday was our day off and most of us went hiking up on the Beartooth Plateau. It was beautiful, we hiked down into a bowl with a bunch of lakes and then made our way up onto a ridge and looped back around to the start. It was a fourteen mile hike at 10,000 feet and took most of the day, but it was really fun and we had amazing views all day. We got to walk on snow and then there was an old car from the 1940s stuck in the mud that we got to go sit in. Unfortunately the internet is not fast enough to put up too many pictures so we are going to try to pick the best one from the last week and it put it up now. Once we get fast internet again we have about a hundred pictures we will put up!
Dave and Iz
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