It's Friday, right???

[Richard Flanders]

I went back up onto that ridge yesterday afternoon to fetch this very cool and relatively young volcanic breccia boulder that I didn't have time to load up my first trip up there. This is going to end up in a local museum at some point. It's a very unusual rock for this region and is likely around 6 million years old or less, which for this area, is very very young. It would be right at home in an active volcanic province, but around this part of Alaska, it's an extreme rarity. I could likely walk those ridges for the next 10yrs and not find another like it. No adventurous takeoff from the ridge this time.