The ending

Well, tommorow is our last day. Not even really the last day; today was the last day in the field and I think we're staying in the office tommorow. I know there's been a lack of updates lately, and I'm sorry.

I will be going to Taiwan to work on a bat project in September - perhaps I will do a better job there. I'm not making any promises though.

Last weekend, we hiked up to Republic Pass. We ascended 2000 feet twice to get there. It was an awesome, exhausting hike.

The rocks in Yellowstone

Yellowstone, being a geologically active area, has a lot of cool rocks scattered around. I found this one today - it's like those fatty pork rocks from China. You know, the rocks that look like layers of skin and meat. This is that, in raw form.

Hiking

I am trying to hike more, since I am living in this beautiful country. This is from the Garnett Hill Loop hike. The landscape varied from sagebrush to forest, meadow, and here, marshy grassland. My favorite was a forest whose floor was blanketed with grass. I thought these types of landscapes only existed in fairytales and the imagination.