Monday, June 25, 2007

Back to the Winds

[update: I showed up 40 minutes after Enterprise rent a car opened and they had given my reserved car away. They didn't have any others. If they don't have one for me tomorrow I'll be driving my own car - which I don't want to do because of its axel issues and the 15-20 miles of dirt roads I face accessing the site.]
Pics from last time:

First trip to the Wind River Range

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Poudre River here we come

We're going rafting tomorrow and I can't wait.

[update: I've never experienced such a time warp. I would have guessed we were on the river for 45 minutes when we were actually rafting for an hour and 45 minutes. What an awesome trip - most of the time we were on level three rapids but we also hit three or four level four rapids. Thanks to Tom and his wife.]

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Permission granted

Today I got permission from the Tribal Water Engineer to put my automated stream sampler on the reservation. Agenda for next week: two days at the Cheyenne FACE site and a few days in the Wind Rivers - installing the sampler, looking around, and talking with some of the local Forest Service offices. Finally, research begins....