RockHounds

It was a beautiful day. Kade had a science project. He needs to make a rock collection. Nathan needed some fossils for scouts.
With some help from Google, we found an area about 20 minutes from our house full of fossils.
We just needed to get there. And find them.


Before we started out, we ran into a university geologist who pointed us in the right direction. After a fairly short but uphill hike, we found the spot. Kind of. It wasn't the one we were aiming for, but we found fossils just the same. We found that all we needed to do was sit down and pick up pieces of shale. The fossils were abundant and the kids thought it was pretty cool. We spent about an hour looking aroud before we left with a backpack full of rocks. Burke carried Adrienne, I carried the rocks. I wonder if Burke got the better end of that deal.

The view was gorgeous and we were able to watch a dust storm sweep across the valley before we needed to get off the mountain due to the wind. The kids liked that part as well.
Of course, we needed to get a silly picture too.

Here are some pictures of a few of the shells and trilobite fossils we found.
It was a fun afternoon adventure, and fulfilled something I have always wanted to do, but needed a good reason for the excursion. I guess kids are always a handy excuse.