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I first read Cherry-Garrard's book about his Antarctic adventures and misadventures around 20 years ago and have read it at least twice since then (typical for me when I enjoyed or was positively affected by a book}. Being both a field geologist (by undergraduate degree and a handful of years'...

Sweet! From the "Y" where you'd gone straight, we'd come in from the left. We also stopped and walked around at the picnic table beneath the huge lodgepole pine at or near the Russell Point sign. Great country, those Little Belts! Foy

Thanks for checking about the rock hammers, but I'm happy to say I still have the last hardrock rock hammer/pick that I earned a $ with before 1984, so I'm good. Given the typical lag between your days afield and when you post, plus the spectacular cloudless skies in your pics, we may have been...

A little tardy on catching up on the ROF trip report and you folks certainly did not disappoint! I've got too much truck + camper to go along but it's sure compelling when folks like Dave and Terri are along! Cooking and navigating!--if Terri could read a geologic map she'd be pretty much the...

In late September, the Missus and I did a traverse through the eastern Little Belts from near Checkerboard out to Utica. We didn't know it at the time but the valley and canyons of the South Fork of the Judith River above Sapphire Village was the area in which Charlie Russell first lived and...

Me, blather on and on about Montana rocks? Why sure! As mentioned a number of times since I've been tagging along with you, the thick sequence of Mississippian age carbonates throughout the Rockies (mostly limestones approx 325 to 360 million years old) provides incalculable resource values in...

I can't say that AT heavy lugged tires would be my choice for deep, coarse sand. Generally, the finer the tread, the better on sand. The real, and only, trick is airing down. I'd get down to 22-24 psi and if she still spins, get down to 16-18 psi. Much lower than that and you've got to be...

He certainly is worth watching. I'd put Rob Thomas, Myron Cook, Shawn Willsley, and Nick Zenter in the same pot and would be equally happy with whichever excellent, thought provoking, and friendly geologist a blindly picked out sample brought out. I may have misspelled Shawn's and/or Nick's...

Ha! Don't I wish I had Rob Thomas' youth, his PhD, his stellar teaching career, and now his stellar writing and video production career! I have had the distinct pleasure and honor of some correspondence with Dr Thomas over the last 5 or 6 years but our paths have yet to cross in person, even...

Well, time for another SWAG (Sophisticated Wild ****** Guess about some rock pictures, something I quite enjoy doing: The picture of "discolored water" is at the end of a sequence including several beaver dams and ponds. It looks like the picture is centered on the exposed bottom of a drained...

The first time I visited Browning I was on a 6 week geology school field trip with 30 or so students and faculty. Every one of us was a pasty white kid in our late teens to early 20s. It was mid- July 1975. We spent a morning visiting the Museum of the Plains Indian before moving on southeast...

Well, Sir, you discovered some pretty interesting rocks. The fractured nature is most likely due to freeze-thaw cycles where small amounts of water seep into tiny planar fractures in the rocks. Even though the clean cut nature looks unnatural, it is entirely natural. What is more interesting...

Looking forward to your reports from the APR. We had to change plans to visit twice since 2020, due to some mechanical issues with our old truck and some profound operator error (don't ask). But we'll get there some day! Did you step into the Montana Tavern (pictured above) while in...

We enjoyed a sammich and a beer at Burger Bob's right there on Main back in September while enroute fron the Centennial Valley to White Sulphur Springs. Bozeman is nice!

If you enjoy nonfiction reading about Native Americans, you'd probably like the work of Vine Deloria, Jr (1933-2005), author of Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (1969), God Is Red: A Native View of Religion (1973), and many other books and professional papers. God Is Red was the...

No worries on the spelling of archaeology. It's actually one of those words with more than one generally accepted spelling. And I guess you may have meant paleontology, anyway. The archaeologist is most often considered a social scientist who studies human activities using material left...

Your "go-no go" decision is an example of one for which there's no incorrect answer. It's great to be on the road but also great to watch the seasons come and go right outside of your window. You've prepared a fine, fine nest for yourself and the puppies. Happy New Year! Foy

You discovered the granites of the Louis Lake Batholith, a body of intrusive igneous rocks approximately 2.6 billion years old and related to the more widespread outcrops of the Sweetwater Mountains granite exposed in the Sweetwater Mountains at the Independence Rock and Martin Cove historic...

Nice! We drove through the Loop Rd in 2015 with the F350 Crew Cab long bed towing the 20' long hardside pop up, starting from Lander as you did. It got pretty interesting past Blue Ridge so looking forward to seeing how it went for you and the puppies.

The ranch looks terrific Jerry. In an obviously backhanded way, you have had the opportunity to enjoy the unfolding of Spring this year due to your medical condition. Also may have been able to support your late neighbor and his family during their period of loss. Most all clouds have a...