{"id":3997,"date":"2019-09-26T06:29:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T06:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/?p=3997"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:42:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T15:42:20","slug":"mount-meager-foreign-fieldwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/mount-meager-foreign-fieldwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Meager- Foreign Fieldwork"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Early on Saturday morning I packed my bags with all my brand\nnew fieldwork gear ( literally brand new- after learning about this fieldtrip\non Tuesday  had to go on a shopping spree\nand buy a coat, a sleeping bag and various other bits and pieces ) before\nheading off to uni at half 7. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On my way to uni<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I wasn\u2019t feeling too excited about the fieldwork honestly. I\nbarely slept on Friday night, and fieldwork always makes me quite anxious. I\u2019m\nalways worried as I have what seems to be a horrible combination of asthma and\nanxiety. I never used to think of these as related but then I realised they\nwere heavily related; as soon as I feel myself becoming short of breath my\nbrain goes into panic mode- sort of a positive feedback mechanism and it just\nspirals out of control (it also works the other way around). This time I was\neven more worried than usual Cardiff as I I wasn\u2019t sure what to expect. I didn\u2019t\nneed to worry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were going on an overnight trip to the local (For Canada)\nvolcano- Mount Meager; The site of Canada\u2019s most recent major explosive\neruption (2360 years ago). My first fieldwork to an active volcano!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A view toward Mt Meager’s hidden vent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I arrived at the meeting spot expecting to see a coach like\nusual but instead came across three or four huge pick-up trucks. This is when I\nknew it was going to be nothing like Cardiff. I met up with my friend, we\nloaded our stuff into one of the trucks and were told to jump in- when I say\njump in I mean it, the step to get into the thing was half my height.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our truck- I look miserable in the background. Unsure why, this was taken as we were leaving for home.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

After successfully managing to hoist myself into the\nridiculously large vehicle we were off. Briefly stopping for a tea break and\nmeeting the sweetest dog in the world. The five hour journey felt short as we\ngot to know the others also in the car and before we knew it we were up in the\nmountains. We were lucky enough to spot a black bear in a field (sadly it was\ntoo far away for a photo). That (and the dog) made the whole weekend worth the\nwhile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Tea and a pretzel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
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    The dog I made friends with<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
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    A view from the road<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    We spent Saturday afternoon studying pumice quarries and\npyroclastic density current deposits, the size of the deposits was impressive\nto say the least, some clasts the size of a small house! We learnt about the\nhuge amounts of energy required to transport them and discovered that the\neruption was highly explosive, similar to Mt. St. Helens- 1980. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Storage at a pumice sorting facility<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    We headed to the campsite and set up tent for the night\nbefore eating (pre-cooked pasta in my case) and lighting a campfire which we\nspent the evening huddling around getting to know each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Our home for the night<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
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      A sweet squirrel at the campsite<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
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      Our “House plant”<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      At around 11:30pm we headed to bed I attempted- unsuccessfully- to try and get a good night\u2019s sleep and was up and ready by seven after a restless and chilly night. We packed our tent and were back in the car by 8:30 when we headed to one of the most incredible places I have ever seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      A very wet me at the Lilooet Canyon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      We parked the cars and walked 10 minutes through dense\nforest until we came to a cliff above the Lilooet River Canyon. We studied the geology\nof the cliffs, but no-one could take their eye off the view, even in the mist\nand the rain it was beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Misty views of the Lilooet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

       We stopped at five\nmore localities studying various volcanological deposits and piecing together\nthe story of the eruption that formed them before jumping back into the cars\nand beginning the long drive home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      This time the drive really did feel like five hours. We\nbroke it up with a quick stop at Tim Hortons- my new favourite place- before\neventually making it back to UBC at around 19:30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      I headed home and was fast asleep by 21:00, it was a tiring\nbut wonderful weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Three things I am looking forward to tomorrow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      1. Starting my research paper on Kilauea<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      2. Talking to Sam<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      3. 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