January 1, 2014. Happy New Year!
A nice sight in the gloom of a NW winter. West Beach on Lummi Island.
Many thanks and a big welcome to the 154 people who have subscribed to this website in the past year. There are now 538 subscribers. Posts have not been very frequent because I put most of my writing energy this year into finishing my book, Geology Underfoot in Western Washington. But, the book has gone to the editor at Mountain Press Publishing (Missoula), and should be out in Fall of 2014. You’ll certainly get the good news as the publication date nears. While I’m waiting for the editor to get back to me, I continue to write another, with the working title of Road and Trail Guide to Mount Baker Geology. But, I promise to add more field trips to the blog in 2014.
Readers are encouraged to send in their own geology field trip guides, or suggest good places for me to visit in Washington and British Columbia- perhaps in your company. Send a comment to the blog, or an email directly to me. Winter has arrived in the high country, so let’s focus on the lowlands for now. A Victoria, BC field trip submitted by Gerri McEwen will be posted in the next few days. If you know of a place in the mountains, go ahead and let me know why it seems interesting (with your photos) and I’ll try to get to it next summer. Even better, you write it up! Also, if you come across any good field trip guides, send the info so I can add it to the “Guides, Books and Maps” page.
email address to send reports and photos. I’ll credit you. This is not a link.
There were 85,000 visits to the website in 2013. The most popular page on the website in 2013 was a tutorial on sedimentary structure (strike and dip of beds). That one had over 4200 hits. I think many students find it in the course of school projects. And many people checked out the trip guide to the Nooksack ‘Gold Mine’ near Sumas, in Whatcom County. The most popular topic of all time on this website remains the story of Diatryma, the giant flightless bird whose 10-inch footprints were found in the Chuckanut Formation in 2009, and put on display at WWU’s geology museum in 2010. (Over 10,100 site visits to date).
A request- when you take one of the field trips on the blog, please drop me a note via comment and let me know how it turned out. Especially let me know if road or trail names have been changed or are labeled differently, if trails are washed out or rerouted, if you couldn’t find what I tried to direct you toward, if my description was inaccurate. I’ll do my best to update things. But, please, at minimum, tell me you went.
MBVRC field trip to Baker Lake during drawdown. Great geology!
So enjoy the next year’s ramblings from your scribe. Visit two other blogs I moderate: the Mount Baker Volcano Research Center’s is http://mbvrc.wordpress.com. MBVRC occasionally offers fundraiser geology field trips oriented toward folks just like you. The best way to stay posted is to subscribe to the blog. And, a blog for die-hard cross-country skiers in the Chuckanut hills: http://chuckanutcrosscountryskiing.wordpress.com/
Dave
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