And they packed up for the winter

Winter arrived in the rockies at the end of August, so it was time for us to pack our equipment and quit work for the summer.

Just like Bridgland and Wheeler, I have headed to Calgary for the winter to make maps after spending the summer season creating images. I am currently working on a masters in GIS at the University of Calgary, although fortunately I did not have to take a train or horse to get here.

The rest of our crew has headed back to Victoria, and I am jealous because it has already snowed here.

Despite setbacks in the latter part of August because of smoke, snow, rain, and fog, the last week of the month was highly productive. Clear skies (and major cold) as well as helicopter support from the Rocky District of Alberta SRD, allowed us to squeeze the last few nice days out of the summer.

At the end of the week, we had many volunteers come and join us, including our lab staff and some previous years field crew members.

So on our very last field day of 2010, we sent our new team members to some epic mountain locations, while Stuart, Lesley Winterhalt (of previous blogging fame,) and I stayed behind to prepare the base for our year end get together.

30 people joined us at the base for a cowboy barbeque, sharing of images and maps, and a mountainy good time. The rain stopped us from going into the field, but we had an interesting indoor session on how we create repeat images.

Despite challenges along the way, including some automotive repair,