Rocks, rocks and more rocks. I like to collect rocks. Since I tend to look at where my feet are going more than looking around me, I tend to find some cool rocks. I will admit that I’ve mailed rocks home (flat-rate packages are great!).
I think of geology like a big puzzle. You find one piece and have to figure out how it fits into the whole puzzle we call Earth–past or present.
Have you ever came across a rock that looked like ripples in shallow water? They are amazing! You’re looking at a snapshot of Earth’s history…
Waterfalls are a great destination year-round because they are always changing. Spring runoff brings high flow. Hot August days reduce the waterfall’s flow revealing underlying…
When the dishes and windows rattled and the house shook for 10 to 15 seconds my first thought was a major train derailment. But then…
Earthquakes are uncommon in North Idaho so when the windows rattled and the house shook, it took a minute register what happened. I hadn’t felt…
There is something about large bodies of water that I cannot describe. I found myself gazing in wonder out over Lake Pend Oreille on a…
Myrtle’s Turtle and the Beehive are two of the most spectacular rock exposures in the Selkirk Mountains. They are the Half Domes of the Selkirk…
From the giant rock faces of Myrtle’s Turtle and the Beehive to the rocky shorelines of Trout Lake, one can’t help but notice the rock…
Fossils offer a glimpse of what organisms have lived on Earth, such as woolly mammoths and Tyrannosaurus Rex- yet most don’t exist today. Some fossils…
“Where am I?” “How high am I?” These questions are easy to answer today with a GPS. People have always wondered where in the world…
The Kootenai Valley and the Selkirk, Purcell and Cabinet Mountains are the main geographic features in the county. One geologic feature is responsible for how…
From the time I leave Bettles, Alaska until I cross over the Cassiar Mountains east of Whitehorse, Yukon on the Alaska Highway, I will be…
Two-hundred miles of flying and we only crossed one road 15 minutes into the flight. The rest of the flight was ridge after ridge of…