Builds My '78 FJ40 "44"

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Made a few trips... technically... no problems... leaving again tomorrow.

Here's some of the pictures:

Camped here:

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Hiked/climbed here:

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The good life=less typing, more cruising!

Wish I could sneak off with you guys when we get out there, but I'm pretty much stuck with playing the father of the bride role. Might have some time Saturday the 7th.
 
65swb45 said:
The good life=less typing, more cruising!

Wish I could sneak off with you guys when we get out there, but I'm pretty much stuck with playing the father of the bride role. Might have some time Saturday the 7th.
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When's the wedding, Mark?

If you aren't going on the honeymoon (:rolleyes:) and are going to be available Saturday, let me know ahead of time and I'll remove my bedding and put the passenger seat back in beforehand.
 
pngunme said:
When's the wedding, Mark?

If you aren't going on the honeymoon :)rolleyes:) and are going to be available Saturday, let me know ahead of time and I'll remove my bedding and put the passenger seat back in beforehand.
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The kids are having a private ceremony Saturday and a day of partying with family and friends on Sunday. I'll run it by the Mrs.;)
 
Climbed to some fossil beds (about 700', to about 6700') twice... the first time, a front blew in and it was so damned wet/cold, we had to come back down... the second time, we only had about 10 minutes on the ridge before a potential whiteout (snow and wind) blew in... by the time we got back down, we could no longer see the mountain.

See the front moving in the first trip?

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A cave near the summit:

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A fossil... one of only two we had time to find

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The second (snowy) front moving in:

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pngunme said:
Erosion... now potential animal dens.
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Actually, I went back and looked closer... I never really thought about the source of the holes.. I assumed they were the result of erosion.

I've seen a lot of them out here and the more I study them (I'm no geologist), the more I think they are cinder or scoria.

"Cinder (also called scoria) is a volcanic rock with numerous holes formed by gas escaping from the cooling and crystallizing lava.".​

The scoria images I've found are all of small boulders and the holes are much smaller... But, the holes, in my picture, look like a volcano belched gases, on a large scale.
 
pngunme said:
A fossil... one of only two we had time to find

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Those are broken pieces of Crinoids, Danny. They are Echinoderms, loosely related to starfish and sea urchins. They lived rooted to the sea floor by a columnar stalk, and filtered their food from the seawater that moved past them.

Nice trips and photos!
 
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pngunme said:
Actually, I went back and looked closer... I never really thought about the source of the holes.. I assumed they were the result of erosion.

I've seen a lot of them out here and the more I study them (I'm no geologist), the more I think they are cinder or scoria.

"Cinder (also called scoria) is a volcanic rock with numerous holes formed by gas escaping from the cooling and crystallizing lava.".​

The scoria images I've found are all of small boulders and the holes are much smaller... But, the holes, in my picture, look like a volcano belched gases, on a large scale.
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If the rock is basalt (lava cooled on the surface), I would tend to agree with you Danny; they look like gas vesicles to me too, though large. If the rock is something else (sandstone, limestone, granite?) then the holes would be the molds of some softer inclusions (different mineral or rock type) that have eroded out. I can't tell from the photos if the rock is basalt or not, though most (but not all) basalt is darker colored than that.
 
Honger said:
I love seeing the pics of your desert... so much different than mine and so beautiful in its own right. Thanks for keeping the photos coming.
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Thanks Joel! I loved the Sahara, when it was cool. But, you're right... So different from this desert.


1911 said:
Those are broken pieces of Crinoids, Danny. They are Echonoderms, loosely related to starfish and sea urchins. They lived rooted to the sea floor by a columnar stalk, and filtered their food from the seawater that moved past them.

Nice trips and photos!

If the rock is basalt (lava cooled on the surface), I would tend to agree with you Danny; they look like gas vesicles to me too, though large. If the rock is something else (sandstone, limestone, granite?) then the holes would be the molds of some softer inclusions (different mineral or rock type) that have eroded out. I can't tell from the photos if the rock is basalt or not, though most (but not all) basalt is darker colored than that.
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Thanks Lee! Great info!

It looked like basalt to me. I'll get a close-up picture next time.

We're getting ready to leave again... We've hit mountains to climb! :)
 
  1. Hiked two miles to the end of this box canyon today... sure would hate to be here in a rainstorm!

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Vegas looks like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, with a zoom lens.

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A barrel cactus, growing out of a rock wall

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Am I the only one who can see a mule deer here?

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A unique looking rock

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