Sunday, August 10, 2008

My Job

I have been working on a research project involving bighorn sheep for the last year and a half. Before beginning this job I didn't really appreciate Utah. The job has allowed me to enjoy the wildlife, the back country, and more. Here are few images of those adventures.
This hike was bad. We went from 5ooo ft to 8000 ft in about 2 hours (thats too fast for me) and we ran out of water at about 2:00pm. I think, though, that this view of American Fork Canyon with Mount Timponogos in the background made it worthwhile.
Ah, yes. The fruits of our labors. Unfortunately, my job description has been more about finding dead sheep rather than studying living ones. You can't see it, but the snake just crapped itself.My really good images are inaccessible at the moment. But this girl is always fun to find. She some times travels between American Fork Canyon and Provo Canyon (something like 15 miles) in one day. Here she was trying to kick rocks at us.