Jan is wondering just exactly how we plan to pull this off. Perhaps he made a hasty decision to come along, as the others didn't seem to be giving any thought to the difficulty of what we were proposing. The river is down an extremely steep slope.
Not sure what this is, shaped like an ear bone, but looks like pottery, very smooth and obviously supposed to be shaped this way, not very worn looking.
Leisa very quickly found a nice vertebra. After collecting the vertebra, Leisa and Claire headed up the creek, and we didn't see them again for several hours.
First we need the canoe way down the bluff to the river bank so we can paddle downstream. Well, now wait a minute. This river has always been much higher, all the way into the weeds, and you couldn't walk here, summer nor winter. What's going on here? We don't need the canoe after all!
Forget that, look at the size of that permineralized tree trunk!
Tree trunk breaking into pieces on the bank. Numerous pieces like this were scattered everywhere.
