Day 10, June 12

Today was another field day. After the usual morning routine we arrived at the site. Since some of the groups were done with their portion of the common product they were slip up to help the other teams. Jeanette became a part of ours which was really nice especially since John wasn’t there anymore. WE started by walking around the front of the northern face. At first we took the wrong road and had to circle back around but we eventually made it to the junction of the grass and the bedrock face.  It was an extremely step scramble with the thick roots and loose stones. We didn’t find anything of note in the area and headed back to the southern slope. We were following a horse trail and came across some possible terraces. In one particular thicket we found a large accumulation of rocks and boulders that we think might be the remains of a habitation site. That was probably the most interesting feature we came across today. It was terribly hot and when it started raining we were all so excited and breathed a sigh of relief. On the ride back to the ranch the car was full of laughter. We immediately headed out to cool out with a dip in the ocean. Everyone was having a great time. After dinner we worked on importing our data and troubleshooting. We even managed to import our geotagged photos corresponding to the points into ArcGIS and have them as pop-up windows. This is a really cool new feature on the 10.1 version. I’m exhausted from another full day and look forward to another productive day.