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Would You Like to Live in Gawith Hoggarth & Co Headquarters?
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It's OK. We shat downstream from where we bathed.
Just kidding! We shat on land, land lubbers that we were.
This was a Rice University geology project ran by profs and grad students. I was a lowly undergrad. We measured and recorded slope angles and orientations of rock layers and took rock samples. Started the day with a back pack that held lunch and water, and ended it full of rocks. We hiked loops around camp, up to ridge lines and followed the ridge lines, looking for outcrops all the way. Towards the end of summer, we had a helicopter drop us off at our start points and we'd map our way back to camp. There were some long hellish days, up and down hills and across tundra, slathered in DEET the whole while. It's been over 30 years but I think I still have my mosquito head net somewhere in a box in the garage.
Part of the summer we were joined by a grad student from MIT collecting small core samples to map the magnetic orientations of the rocks. He hauled a gas powered drill that must have weighed 75 lbs up and down the hills all summer. He must have been fit as hell by the end of summer.
We met a couple of guys whose jobs were simply to hike the entire length of the Alaska pipeline to eyeball the pipes checking for problems. They were stoned the whole time.
I saw the aurora the last week we were there but it was white, because I guess it wasn't dark enough. Nonetheless, it looked like a shimmering curtain in the sky. One of the most incredible things I'd ever seen. I really want to go back in the winter to see it in full color in the night sky. One day . . .
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