Drilling through 7 m of ice
on lake Miers
Adams Glacier, Miers Valley
Looking up the Taylor Valley
from the Asgard Mountains
Adelie Penguins off of Ross
Island
Joseph, Bonny, John, Sylvia, Vince,
Chad, Monica, Elizabeth
Pearse Valley, Asgard Mountains
Happy Campers
Mt. Fuji, Japan
- 2002
Mt. Fuji from Gotemba
John, Monica, Liz
and Dave
Climbing Fuji with
Mickey
Wood block print of
Fuji by Toshi Yoshida (c. 1964) showing the 1707 crater.
Rio Grande Rift
Deposits, NM - 2003
Organ Mountains
![](Gonzolas.JPG)
left) Fred Partey sampling at the Gonzales
prospect, Socorro CO., NM right) Fluorite and barite,
Gonzales Prospect
![](SS1.JPG)
left) Sample collecting in the Sunshine
#1 Mine, Hansonburg Dist., Bingham, NM right) Fluorite
![](Lemitar.JPG)
left) Lizard, Lemitar Mt. right)
Bleached earless lizard, White Sands National Monument
left) Kilbourne Hole, a maar volcano, Southern
New Mexico right) Satellite view
Fluorite manto, Nakaye
Deposits, Caballo Mts., NM
Black Messa, Jornada
del muerto, NM
Ray DeMark, Sunshine #1 Mine, Hansonburg
Dist., Bingham, NM
Japan Alps- 2005/06
![](Shirouma-Dake.JPG)
left) Shirouma-Dake right) Mizuho,
Kaiko, and John Hakuba Dai Sekei
![](Northern%20Japan%20Alps.JPG)
left) Northern Japan Alps right)
Tateyama
![](Yarigatake%20from%20the%20North.JPG)
Yarigatake
![](Son%20of%20Yarigatake%20at%20sun%20rise2.JPG)
left) Son of Yarigatake at sun rise right)
Yarigatake at sun rise
![](sunrise%20from%20Yarigatake2.JPG)
left) Yarigatake at sun rise right)
Takamagahara Onsen
![](Tateyama%20dake2.JPG)
left) Kaz, Yukari, Monica and John, Tateyama
right) John & Monica
![](big%20tent.jpg)
![](Big%20tent%21.jpg)
BIG Tent
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