This week's Friday Field Photo is from 2005 in Patagonia during my second field season investigating the Upper Cretaceous Tres Pasos Formation (the data we collected eventually became this paper and a chapter of my PhD). The weather down there can be quite nice for field work and it can also be pretty extreme -- often you get both of those in the same day. For some reason the 11 days we spent camping and working at this particular field site (called Cerro Divisadero) that year it was cruddy weather nearly every day. Cold, windy, drizzly, and then these snow storms would blow in, dump an inch or two quickly, which would melt after an hour or two.
The photo above is from a somewhat protected area of the mountainside as one of these snow squalls approached. These are the photos that never make it into publications but, at least in this case, represent what it looked like at this site the majority of the time.
The photo below is from another field location about 20 km away along strike looking towards Cerro Divisadero. Although this is from the following field season you can see that Cerro Divisadero is once again covered in snow. The location in the photo above is approximately the base of the snow line in that mountain in the distance.
Beautiful countryside down there ... looking forward to getting down there again.
Happy Friday!
