Getting into the groove

After getting the trucks unstuck and everyone back into the groove after that little blip on the radar, things went back to normal pretty quickly. Saturday I did my first line solo! I was dropped off on the south end of a long logging road and put to work. Every 50m I stopped, marked the station with the pink and blue flagging, labelled it with the tags, and took a sample of soil. Chris W and I were working together again and oh boooy it was snowing hard! This grid (1.1.1) was the one where the trucks got stuck and we had to walk for ages and ages... we've nicknamed it 'The Hell Grid' - (original, I know). It's already got a bad rep and now, add snow! We got that done pretty quickly and were finished everything by about 2pm ready to get back to camp early and relax.

Sunday was a totally different story. The geos decided to take Chris and I (the two student geos) out into the field with them to look at rocks! Farshad, the regional geology manager took me with him. It was really nice to get out into the field and actually do what I want to be doing in the future. We walked around (me guiding with the map and compass and occasionally banging on rocks) and tried to find as many outcrops as we could. They were hard to find (especially with the snow cover and all) but when we did find them we found a whole lot of volcanic rocks. Vesicular basalts, flow breccias, and rhyolites. Rhyolites and andesites are good host rocks for sulphides and gold in epithermal altered rocks, so we're getting close to the target! Farshad was super helpful and taught me how to prospect and write proper company-grade rock descriptions. Wooohooo!

I'm getting comfy here - the crew is great, the place is awesome, and I'm still having fun 8 days in! I'll try and post pictures soon but the connection is pretty slow so it might take a while!

I miss the city a bit, but I'm having fun and am perfectly happy where I am doing what I'm doing with the people I'm with. I am a happy camper <3'

-C