I am in a very intersting part of the world. There is no doubt that the people of this are aware of the importance of the local national monument and the paleontology of the area. In many ways, it is like Drumheller, except that the beer has less than half the alcohol. At the same time, the curche is the center of the comunity, literally. The streets around here are actually numbered with the Mormon temple at the dead center.
In the flat areas of our survey, we found many horned lizards of different sizes, but adult and extremely small seemed to dominate. The little guy shown here is not nearly the smallest lizard that I saw. That title would go to a lizard so small that I have no idea what kind it was. It likely could have still been curled into the size of its egg.
This fellow however took the title for most colorful lizard found. I found it in an area of badlands south of Douglas Pass in Colorado
Speaking of Douglas Pass, this is the view to the south from that vantage point
While camping up at Douglas Pass, it had become apparent that I had no conventional can opener handy. Therefore, it fell to my most versitile of tools to do the job. A rock hammer doesn't open a can cleanly, but the can is definately open.
Working in the field kills boots. More precisely it eats them. It chews them up, swallows and later craps out something no longer recognisable as functional footwear. This photo was taken within two weeks of my arival here in Vernal. The wire that you see is all that really held the booth together enough for the photo. Needless to say, I replaced my boots that night at the only shoe store that was still open when I got back into town. Consiquently, I purchased a pair of Redwings for over $80.00, making them the most expensive shoes I've ever owned. In the two and a half months since then, my new boots have been chewed up as well. The leather is worn out, the seems are bursting and the tread is completely gone.
3 comments:
I hear you on boots.
Just 8 months of easy relaxed city life have woren mine North Face causual hikers to nearly that state! Love the wire juryrig!
I've been excited by the discovery of one of NZ's 2 native lizard species across the street in the Botanic Garden. Little tiny skinks no bigger than your longest finger...
Otherwise at moment life is pretty boring. Just skool which consumes my next 2 months completely... than 2 months off...
Anyways good luck in your future adventures (where? still in Utah)
Want a real interesting abnormal science book about some stuff going on the Ute reserve see if you can track down Hunt for the Skinwalker. Very interesting, and kinda scary stuff...
http://www.postindependent.com/article/20041007/VALLEYNEWS/110070019
Cowboy finds skull near Douglas Pass, Thursday, October 7, 2004
Post Independent Writer
A human skull was found by a cowboy on Saturday while he was driving cattle in extreme western Garfield County.
By Greg Massé
Post Independent Staff
A human skull was found by a cowboy on Saturday while he was driving cattle in extreme western Garfield County.
The cowboy, who was not identified by Garfield County Sheriff Lou Vallario, told authorities he found the skull on Douglas Pass, which is accessed by Colorado Highway 139 and located about 40 miles northwest of Grand Junction.
The unidentified skull appeared to be well weathered, Vallario said.
"It looks real old and it's kind of a smaller (skull)," he said.
Deputies went with the cowboy to try and locate the spot where the skull was found so they could search for additional remains, but they were unsuccessful.
"He brought it down Saturday and we met with him Sunday," Vallario said of the cowboy.
The skull will be studied to see what can be determined about who it might have been.
"It does have some dental work, but that's been around for 100 years," Vallario said.
Saturday's discovery is the third unidentified skull to be found in Garfield County in the past 15 months. A skull was found by hikers on Red Mountain just outside Glenwood Springs and another was discovered by fishermen on the bottom of the Colorado River between Silt and Rifle.
Contact Greg Massé: 945-8515, ext. 511
gmasse@postindependent.com
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/3791113/detail.html
Cowboy Finds Human Skull On Douglas Pass
Mystery Skull Is Third Found Recently In Garfield County
POSTED: 10:47 am MDT October 7, 2004
Authorities are stumped after a cowboy found a human skull on Douglas Pass in western Garfield County.
The cowboy was driving cattle Saturday when he found the skull near Colorado Highway 139, about 40 miles northwest of Grand Junction, Colo.
Garfield County Sheriff Lou Vallario said the skull was well weathered, appeared to be old and small. Vallario said he has no clue about the skull, other than the teeth had some dental work.
Experts will study the skull to see if they can gain more clues about its age or identity.
It is the third unidentified human skull found in Garfield County in the past 15 months.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Nov-01-Mon-2004/news/25146766.html
CASE WITH LAS VEGAS TIES
Missing woman's skull found in Colorado
A woman's skull found in northwestern Colorado has been identified as that of a hotel owner missing since 1997.
A rancher discovered the skull on Oct. 2 near the summit of Douglas Pass in western Garfield County. Dental records were used to identify the remains as that of Sabrina Bebb-Jones, 31, who had been missing since Sept. 16, 1997.
Bebb-Jones and her husband, Marcus, owned the Hotel Melrose in Grand Junction. Her husband, who was then 34, told police his wife left the city with the couple's then 3-year-old son after the couple argued.
He later told guests at the hotel he was headed to Las Vegas to look for Bebb-Jones, who grew up in the area.
The couple's son was found alone in a Las Vegas motel room Sept. 21, 1997. The next day, Marcus Jones tried to kill himself, but survived.
He was granted conservatorship of Sabrina Bebb-Jones' possessions in May 1998 and sold the hotel. He is reported to have moved back to his native England to be with his son and mother.
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