My field partner and I hiked up the tallest point of our field area today, it was at least 700 feet of gain, in maybe 45 minutes? it was SO HOT OUT, but it was worth the great view from the flat on top of a basalt flow looking out on the rest of the area. Thanks definitely go to my field partner for egging me on up the hill.
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It got harder on the way up cuz we worked up to above 7100 feet, where everything is harder, especially breathing and hiking, haha... Then we had lunch up there, with our professor, then with two other classmates that joined us for the rest of lunch and for garnet-hunting.
Our hope was to find huge (golf ball sized) garnets in the gneiss unit on the way down the hillside of Timber Hill but we spent hours, and it was SO HOT, and we found nothing... we apparently walked right past them. Oh well!
Tomorrow's our last day in the area, and it's a half day, then we visit the reservoir to maybe swim in it and to look for garnets during the second half.
We're not going to be having a field exam, because we're so awesome, so the reports are due on friday evening, and we're coming home on SATURDAY MORNING probably!!!! Two days early!! So I should be home in california on sunday evening or afternoon, give or take - Cross your fingers!
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