Friday - August 1st was the NEW MOON. That's the night that Steve arrived and the night that the super great property manager here on the Warm Spring Tribal land of the Middle Fork John Day took us on a tour of the stars -- literally. Using his personal telescope we were able to see the four primary moons of Jupiter, a couple of nebula, two galaxies (including Andromeda galaxy) and heaps and heaps of other stars.
Saturday -- was day off out here at base camp. We all slept in, made a yummy breakfast of eggs and banana pancakes and then enjoyed the day. Steve and I took advantage of not having the thousands of projects that keep one busy when you have a day off at home and walked around the country side here a bit. Mostly enjoying each other's company and the scenery.
It was fabulously wonderfully fantastic to have Steve visit.If anyone else is hankering for a bit of this very interesting land out here in the middle of nowhere else, let me know and I'll give you directions and my schedule. Heaps of hiking/mountain biking/camping to be done within minutes of where I am based.
One of the many view from Vinegar Hill (from Jess and Steph's hike on Saturday).Back to work on Sunday ....... and Monday ..... and today (Tuesday). The crew out here is working well together. We should be finished up with gravel counts, embeddedness, channel unit mapping, and photo documentation of our four main reaches by mid day on Thursday. Then it's on to fish cover surveys................more about that later!
To add to our entertainment a group of 5 Oregon State University graduate students arrived to do a few days of work on their stream temperature study. We had the sounds of a banjo next to the fire pit last night.
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