Mosscrop

Our note to whoever's driveway we parked in.

We got skunked today. Not by a skunk, but by the geology. We hiked 10km through the bush, along lakeshore, up a creek, around another lake, up two knobs, and then back down a creek...no outcrop all day. Just mosscrop. 

Looking northwest from the east side of Dease Lake

Okay, it wasn't THAT bad. But it wasn't good. We hiked along Dease Lake for the first four kilometers of our traverse, sneaking up into the bush when the lakeshore disappeared. We watched some floatplanes land and takeoff, and it was hardly raining at this point (as you can see from the picture).

A nice photo of the mosscrop

But we did get the mosscrop. Basically everything was covered in this lovely dense cover of moss at least  6 inches thick, so we collected a sample of moss, took some photos, and are presenting this as our 'outcrop' today to our supervisor. He'll get a kick out of it for sure.

Handlens closeup of some moss

We finished early, after adding on a few extra bits that were just off the map area. We found this overturned tree around 2:30pm that had some rocks underneath it, so we had some subcrop.We couldn't really tell if it was in situ or not, but these rocks were definitely bedded. It would have been epic if we had bedding, but we couldn't really tell. It was kinda sketchy as it was, but we had to do something geology-related today to earn our keep.

Unfortunately our slog back to the highway was swampy. Over-the-top-of-my-boot swampy. My socks are soaked, my boots are soaked...Just not good. I was already soaked anyways (thanks to the rain) so it wasn't such a big deal. At least it's sunny out now, and my boots are drying by the firepit.