so, yesterday was my first day at my new job, with quadra mining. what did i do on this first day? i woke up at 3:45am for a 5:45am flight to salt lake city, followed by a 3h drive to ely, nevada! driving out of salt lake the salt flats driving up to the mine site old abandoned head frame for underground mine so overall, a pretty exciting first day. we did just a lot of introductions yesterday, to meet everyone. today were going to…

i got tons of new pictures from site up on flickr. you can see them by going here ill start off with the bear i saw. i absolutely love this picture i was in the bush some, doing some surveying. always fun, clambering over rocks, between trees, in bugfilled air. ohh, here im on top of a dump i just finished surveying, it was a pretty windy day, im still relativley clean but you get pretty dusty out there it was a pretty good time…

Well, ive been up in the tumbler ridge area for a few days now. ive stayed in camp for 2 nights so far, and its been a blast up here. the one thing that i feel like im mostly doing is driving. you drive a lot. its about 3h from Fort st john to here (thats where we fly into). from the mine site to tumbler its about an hour and a half. so a lot of back and forth with the car. the good…