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Sounds like a great trip, Dale and Company. It'd be terrific to consider a loop like some of Tony's and focus on some "geology one can see and lay one's hands upon". I'm transitioning into partial retirement after April of next year and am already in the advanced daydreaming stage of planning...

Recalling the various formation names is pretty much a sixth sense for a field geologist. And, under this usage, "formation" has a very specific and exact meaning--principally that a stratigraphic formation can be readily identified and mapped at the surface and in the subsurface. So it's to be...

Looks like Little Brush Creek cave/cavern system is within the Madison limestone in the Uintas as we thought. Keep on keeping on Jerry! Foy

In early August 1976 a group of Appalachian State University geology students road-tripped with our department chairman to Dubois, WY intent on climbing Gannet Peak. After smoking the highway nonstop at 55 mph straight through, we undertook at least 6 hours of acclimatization at the trailhead...

Yessir, Jerry, phosphate is mined out of the Phosphoria Formation near Vernal, UT. Like the Madison Group limestones, the Phosphoria Formation is present over a huge part of the West, outcropping in MT, ID, UT, and WY. Phosphate mines occur at many locations in the Phosphoria Fm. It also...

I'd wager the caves you found were paleokarst horizon features within the Madison Group, the very same thick limestones in which the ice cave in the Big Snowy Range, the nearby cascade, and the Big Spring near Lewistown emanated. The Madison Group is regionally extensive--(under different...

Two questions which may help find some solutions: 1) Assume you have a camper shell or topper on the bed of the truck and you're looking to insulate the inner part of the shell and the steel "bucket" representing the bed and tailgate itself. Correct? If so, condensation from the breathing of...

You know you're back in home country when you get to a Waffle House. Is your local WH in Charleston the same one which Stephen Colbert says was his?

May I suggest a trip including the 3rd weekend in July in order to attend Bannack Days. We've been for Bannack Days 4 times including our first time in July 2000 when our sons were young teenagers.

Great to see you were able to include Bannack and Elkhorn Hot Springs in your itinerary. Those are two of our favorite spots in southwestern Montana. We befriended a group of German CDT cyclists along the Big Sheep Creek Backcountry Byway back in 2015. Only one of them spoke some English, but...

Coincidently, my sister is visiting the vacation home we share this weekend. It's right outside of Blowing Rock at 3,980'. Reports colors near peak between 3,000' and 4,000', peak at + 5,000', still a few days to go below 3,000'.

The higher elevations are getting good color now and over the next few days. Heavy rains may take some down over the weekend. Mid to lower elevations peaking 15th-20th most likely. Don't spend too much time in Charleston or you might miss some good images.

Zero odor is amazing. More often I'm trying to see how long I can hold my breath in those NF vault crappers. Reading a book would be a most welcome change!

That's for sure a Class A crapper at Brooks Lake! Kudos to the Camp Host!

When we drove BLM Road 2302 from Atlantic City to US 287 in July 2015 we encountered a couple dozen pickups and large SUVs bring Mormon re-enactors to the Willies Handcart site. There were several reproduction handcarts headed in on trailers. At the crossing of US 287 and the Sweetwater River...

Enjoying the report. No doubt the kiddos coming along is the ultimate game changer. I distinctly recall the morning of our scheduled departure from our jobs' field office on the Michigan UP bound for Glacier NP exactly 39 years ago (within a day or two): Wife felt ill--nauseous and just...

As I'd mentioned before, it looks like your homesite is well up a fairly gentle slope from the drainage bottom. If correct, and given the look of the soil profile and now with the understanding that even the larger rounded clasts are within the profile, I'll suggest the rounded rocks do not go...

Up on the bench above the valley floor. Cross section of the excavation shows the pediment / alluvial fan perch. Faceted spurs on the opposite side of the valley. What a fine place to rest a while and soak it all in. In many ways, there's no need to move around to find new scenery. With long...

Not everybody missed that, hence my comment f "there is no complete substitute for a topographic map, a compass, and the skillset to use them". Even a less-experienced topo reader could have checked the elevation changes between points A and B and realized the profile of the canyon trace was...

You won't find in my post a declarative statement that I believe USGS maps provide 100% of everything, nor will anybody find I am recommending possession of all of the USGS quad sheets for DV whenever visiting. The point was, and is, that heading off into unknown territory without a good...