My intrepid companion (otherwise known as Cujo359) wrote a wonderful post on the Iron Goat Trail caboose. If you want to know its history, and see a lot of detailed pictures showing how various bits of a caboose work, head on over there. Hell, go even if you aren’t that interested – you might be …
Category Archive: adventures
Dec 05 2012
Funkadelic Fungi
“Funkadelic” is a word. I discovered this word whilst looking for words that might adequately entitle this post, and funkadelic hits the spot. These fungi are certainly funkadelic.
Dec 01 2012
Ode to a Caboose
My intrepid companion has a wee fascination for trains. This means that when we’re out adventuring, trains often factor in – even when we didn’t expect them to. I mean, honestly – last thing you expect to run in to high in the Cascades is a caboose. For one thing, trains don’t have ‘em anymore. …
Nov 28 2012
Right Round the Horseshoe Bend
There’s very little I miss about Page, Arizona, but the landscape is one. Well, the only. I still get nostalgic when I stumble across it. And then Garry at Geotripper has to go and publish a post on the Horseshoe Bend. This is one of those places the locals, geologists and photographers know well, and …
Nov 26 2012
Microadventure! Thrills! Chills! Defiant Dandelions!
The sun came out for more than ten minutes on Sunday. It came out on Saturday, too, but both the cat and I slept through it. Dunno why the cat preferred to hang about in bed than snooze in a sunbeam, but I can tell you exactly why I was spending most of the day …
Oct 13 2012
What I Did On My Goldener Oktober Vacation
Every once in a while (probably more often what with anthropogenic climate change), a kink develops in the weather, and the Pacific Northwest ends up with unseasonably warm weather. This can be torture in the summer, when desert air ambles up to say hello and desiccate everything. This time, it meant late summer weather in …
Jul 16 2012
The River Falls Over a Hydrothermal Heart
There aren’t many times when you can be in medias res and at the beginning simultaneously, but this is one. It’s the middle of the Quartzville field trip; it’s where the story of Quartzville’s modest mineral wealth begins. A place like this should have a name of suitable grandeur. Visually, it’s rather stunning. So why …
Jul 12 2012
A Geologic Riddle
Right. The fossil plant won by a landslide. Batten down your hats, my darlings, because this one is truly bizarre. I’m going to show you it. But I’m not going to tell you what it is just yet. It’s a bit of a riddle, and I’d like to give you all a chance to figure …
Jul 10 2012
I’m Back. Feeling a Bit… Erratic
After an intense three days of incredible geology with Lockwood and Aaron, I’m back home. The cat’s alive, everyone’s intact, I have sparkly rocks in buckets… it was a great trip! I’ll be entertaining you lot with snippets from this extravaganza for months. Rocks! Subduction zones! Moar rocks! Flowers! Rocks! Hydrothermal alteration! ROCKS! Unidentified flying …
Jun 11 2012
Green Invasion
I’m still not used to this. Arizona has plants, yes, and there are times of the year when there are more of them than at other times, but most places don’t get completely overwhelmed. In the Pacific Northwest, it very nearly gets menacing. I remember coming back here from the long Arizona trip we took …
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