This was a day that we didn’t experience from the outdoors. If it is possible, the weather was even more miserable than yesterday. Horizontal rain/ snow/ sleet, temperatures in the low 30’s, and a no good reason to go outside. In VT, this would have been a nap, sit by the fire, and soup day. Here in AK, it was a lab day with some folks cleaning artifacts with toothbrushes, paintbrushes, and picking stuff up with tweezers.
I have been pounding away on the Live From IPY presentation as well as other general paperwork. A little slow, a lot of screen time, but I am hacking my way through the PowerPoint. The presentation next Tuesday, August 5th will be really interesting, lots of great info, interesting stories, and probably a few scientist jokes.
"An archeologist is a person whose career lies in ruins!”
Today’s journal is about a walk I took over the weekend along the beach from Barrow back to BASC. A healthy little 3 mile hike, the gravelly beach gives you a workout, sort of like walking on a 1m deep pile of wet marbles. Ever since I was a kid, I have enjoyed walking on the beach. Casual exploration. Now, that I am an archaeologist in training, I really keep my eyes open.
The images that follow document a "working” beach, a place where boats are launched for fishing and hunting. This is not a glamorous, lie out in the sun, beach. I think it captures the nature of Barrow pretty well.
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