50 days and counting...but only 8 more sleeps left!

Well, I know it’s been a long time since I’ve made a post. There was this guy in my camp…and he was such a distraction. Actually, it was a very welcome distraction having Micheal in our camp. I wish that he would have had a bit more opportunity to relax, but he will be back in Edmonton tomorrow (the 1^st) so he will have lots of opportunity to sleep in.

We spent a lot of time working on getting our drilling program going and we were lucky enough to get out hiking around for a day to work on prospecting. The weather was fantastic the whole time Micheal was here, I think somehow that our best week of summer arrived with him. I was sad to see him go, but I am very close to being back for my break so that makes it a lot easier. Here is a neat picture of him helping put up our core logging shack. It's really too bad that it only took 3 hrs for it to blow down the hill. Got to do it all over again the next day!

So everything is going along well here with our prospecting and drilling. Lots of activity here, it has become quite the bustling little city. We finally got our helicopter fixed. For a while it looked like quite the airport with all the helicopters lying around. There are 4 helicopters in this picture (courtesy of Eric) if you look really closely.

So core logging has been a bit of a break from walking up and down mountains all day. It’s a bit of a battle with the ground squirrels though, they like to eat our core boxes. Little buggers! Here is a picture of a little ‘family’ I saw. Pa on the left, Ma in the middle, and the little guy on the right. They were pretty cute. Today, one of them tried to nibble on my toe. Getting pretty bold…

Well, I’m tuckered. But I’ll try to be a bit better about updating…it’s just so tough when sleep is such a precious commodity!
Take care,

Mel