A Photo from Field Camp

One more week of field camp! I am currently sitting in the computer lab making a preliminary map of my assigned area, and took some time to stitch a panorama of one of the coolest geologic views I have ever seen. On Friday, my friend Sally and I hiked up the northwest ridge of Goddard Canyon in the Beaverhead Mountains of Idaho with Dr. Little, which was a rare opportunity since the entrance to this canyon is on private property and we were lucky enough to get in contact with the owner of the farm and get permission to drive his road. Even the professors hadn't gotten to hike this ridge before, and when we got to the top and looked northwest into the next canyon over we got an incredible view of some intensely folded layers of rock, and we think we may well have discovered a new thrust fault no one has ever mapped before! While it's likely that only my fellow geologists will appreciate what all this means, I think everyone can appreciate this view (right-click to get the full-sized version in a new window):

There is more coming, once this class is over in a week and a half and I have more time!