For the past four nights, Tom and I were basecamped in the Barrett Lakes Basin taking three days worth of nutrient samples from two separate lakes. We've been having great luck with the weather, without a single cloud in the sky, but part of me also wishes for some intense, alpine thunderstorms with lightning crashing on the surrounding peaks. As we get later into the summer, my wish may actually come true. In all honesty, taking this enormous amount of nutrient samples is tedious work, but this is just a part of research that comes with the job. In one of these pictures you can see a brown lake bottom with little side by side circles that make a large V. These are the exclosures that prevent the tadpoles (which are the little black things scattered everywhere) from grazing on the algae, and it's from each of the exclosures such as these that we sample.
Working amongst amazing (although freezing) lakes and great climbing rocks is something I have no complaints about at all, and in my free time I can take full advantage. The lake that is next to where we set up camp has a decent cliffside that we could jump off of after work.
Our food situation is pretty decent, and although I'm sick of trailmix being my staple, our dinners, such as the one in the picture, are scrumptious.
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