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Great Road Trip
April had been a busy month for The Wild Calls. We have been traveling (3188 miles and counting) all over the west attending different Gem and Mineral shows as well as society and club meetings. The purpose of each trip was to connect with individuals that would naturally be interested in our trips. We also…
Cretaceous Undersea Landslide
Along Interstate 80 as you travel west through Wyoming there is a very interesting rock formation. A slice of the past frozen in the rock for all to see. The first photo shows folded sedimentary rock at the “downstream” end of an undersea landslide. It is the Cretaceous Blair Formation of the Mesa Verde Group. …
Eocene Fossil Humerus
After many hours of scrubbing, picking and preparation this is the result. A right humerus from what I believe is a Uintathere. Location of find is “Bridger C” based on GPS coordinates cross referenced to Osborn and Wyoming Geologic Survey “Horse Ranch” Quadrangle. Length of Humerus as presented is 36cm. The distance from the Distal end to the Deltoid…
Wildlife
Recently I acquired a couple hundred acres of Wyoming land for gold prospecting purposes. The claim is in the Oregon Buttes area on the Southern edge of the Wind River Range. My first day out was just a survey trip, walking the boundaries and generally getting to know the lay of the land. I was…
Fossil Find
I had the opportunity to take a geologist buddy of mine out for a day of rock hounding. Specifically I had taken him a sample of a rock that I had found that he thought may be a diamond indicator. Since the area I was hiking in was a known diamond area he decided he…
Road Block
One of the cool things about Wyoming is that you never know what you might see or experience when you are out and about. In the mountains it may be a narrow escape from a moose collision or a spotting a young grizzly crossing meadow. Recently on a trip to a spot where my son…
Tetons
Pictures don’t do this justice…you gotta see it in real life. Gorgeous. This is a photo of Mt.Moran a 12,605 foot (3,842 m) tall mountain in Grand Teton National Park in western Wyoming. The mountain is named for Thomas Moran, an American western frontier landscape artist. Mount Moran dominates the northern section of the Teton Range rising 6,000 feet (1,800 m) above Jackson Lake. Several active glaciers…