Wind River Canyon

Today we spent the morning doing more bone preparation, and then toured the Wind River Canyon.

The mystery package that some have been working on has yielded a treasure trove of ribs and other bones. The is all very cool. As Gust, one of the elderhostelers from Wisconsin said "I'm the first one to touch, to see this bone." Very cool.

I finished my first bone and got a new one to work on. It is very similar, but a little more fragile. I'm carefully chipping off the surrounding rock to get down to the fossilized bone.

The wind river canyon starts at Boysen Dam, a Bureau of Reclamation dam. The river glows throw a narrow canyon, in an Indian Reservation. The rocks were the star of our tour. We used a stratified drawing to look at the layers, faults, and way the "intrusive" granite shows up. It was very cool. We got to pick up rocks in the gros ventre (cambrian) layer which had tracks and marks from worms etc. We also got some cool pick granite.

Tomorrow we'll be doing more bone preparation.

Anne