The view from our survey site - Larson.
Close to Larson is the Double Ditch State Historic Site that overlooks the Missouri River.
Double Ditch.
Double Ditch and the Missouri River.
On the site of Larson - our work area for two weeks.
What is with all this sky?
Larson and more sky.
My survey partner at Larson, Mr. Trimble.
Barbed wire... and more sky!
The loudest bunch of dogs I have met - our house guards back at the trailers.
Living in a FEMA trailer for two weeks...
.. not bad but not for months on end.
You see.. the sun comes up early in North Dakota - 4AM. Unfortunately, my beer and food cardboard protector didn't hold overnight on most nights.. therefore, I was up early.
The Spiffy Biff at our trailers.. it was spiffy.
Topology at the Larson Site.
More Larson Site.
The Spiffy Biff at Larson provided the only shade.
Sunset at around.. um.. 11:30 or so.
More Spiffy Biff.
Larson in the evening.. or night rather.
A windy day.
Larson and the heat - it was intense.
This is what I did for two weeks. (photo by Ken Kvamme)
Me, the prisim and lots of sky.
More walking.
Ken, working hard with the magnetometer.
North Dakota field essentials - Water, Sunblock and Shades.
Out in front of the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center a few miles north of Bismark.
I am a tourist! I am wearing a Buffalo skin that thousands of people with various illnesses, sicknesses and potentially lethal ailments have worn. Don't mess with me, I have toxcicty resistance!
Meat-O-Meter. That plastic meat was looking pretty good... I almost did it.
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Inside the reconstructed Ft. Mandan site down the road from the Lewis & Clark Interpretive center.
Ft. Mandan from the walking path.
We drove many miles and collected many specimens along the way.
Fort Clark Historic Site
Fort Clark Historic Site, vegetation changes indicate earth lodge depressions.
Earth lodge reconstruction at Knife Village Indian Villages.
Knife Village Indian Villages.
The Missouri between two damns - Knife Village Indian Villages.
Storms coming in.. the view from my trailer door.
What better to do than to drink some Moose Drool and wait for the hail to stop and hope that the wind doesn't kick the FEMA trailer over.
Worth the wait...
Sunset after the storm.. around 11PM.
Sunset after the storm.. around 11PM. Our trailers.. mine is the one on the right.
Ok, back to work (photo by Ken Kvamme).
Team from State Historical Society of North Dakota (photo by Ken Kvamme).
Soil samples (photo by Ken Kvamme).
Data! (photo by Ken Kvamme).
This is what you do in the Dakotas.. roll hay.
Bartington 601 (photo by Ken Kvamme).
A fence.
Me getting bored at lunch.
We had traveled this far at this point. I forgot to take an end picture, but it was around 8000 miles.
The heat is getting to me. I'm taking pictures of a dusty dash.
Larson site (photo by Ken Kvamme).
4th of July at the Mandan Rodeo in Mandan, North Dakota.
4th of July at the Mandan Rodeo in Mandan, North Dakota. I can do that.
Waiting for the fireworks. 4th of July at the Mandan Rodeo in Mandan, North Dakota.
Sunset over the Missouri River at Double Ditch (photo by Ken Kvamme).
