Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012

Last night we had a visitor from on the land.

The cow moose hung around from before dinner till late in the night. The horses could not drive her from the salt-lick, two hunters that arrived that afternoon went down to sight in their guns and she just stood broadside in the field beside the range and watched.

Our drillers went out to see if they could get a few good photos of her, for 20 minutes they took pictures and video of her.

That’s all for now I have to go and have a shower it’s my turn in the “Q” (everybody in camp is showering tonight, so we must be pretty ripe)

Friday, Aug. 17, 2012

Our next stop was Mile 108 Pump Station #4

Work continues as usual…drilling and sampling, move to new location and start all over again, and we do this all day. Very similar to golf, drive, chip, putt and repeat…

So I’ll just show some photos of the site.

Looking northward along the trail.

Looking southward toward the pump station.

The pump station #4. One of the best preserved buildings I have seen on the trail.

The only standing quanset hut left on site. This building is used by the hikers when on the trail.

Looking at the pump house from the slope where we are working.

I’ll end with this photo taken inside the chopper.

P.S. Turbulence in a chopper is something to experience. Wow do you ever move in some wild directions.

That’s it for now, big storm coming in, strong wind horizontal rain and cold (6C) could get snow tonight.