Just thought I'd give you a shout... tell you I'm still alive, that sort of thing. Though Bill, our boss, says that he likes to lure bears into camp right before payday to cut down on expenses. We had one bear almost in camp but the dogs we have chased it off.

Our satellite system isn't going to be truly operational for a little while yet... we tried to set it up at camp only to find that we had a mountain in the way... so we have to get a new system. We managed to get it set up at the Gow's (A placer mining family that lives not to far from our camp)... And so I have access while I'm here but sadly not yet at camp.

Things have been pretty crazy busy particularly as the camp is sort of a work in progress... we finally got showers around 4 days ago and a cook at the same time (Before then we were taking turns cooking).

Its beautiful out here and I love the people I'm working with: Ron, Jean, Matthias, Sarah, Joan, Bill, Daniel, Dino (yes, its a perfect geo/paleo name), Joel, Marc. The whole crew is made up of amazing people with so much experience and so many tales to tell.

Jean, one of the coolest women I have ever met, left today... she'll be back sometime in July but she had to go work on another project. She is an incredibly intelligent, easy going, bush savvey, knowledgable... and quite frankly the epitome of everything I would love to be when I get to her age. We shared a room while she was here... I have it to myself right now... but that will change when the next wave of people enter camp... we have another female geologist coming out in about a week and in two weeks the drillers are coming in.

Over and out

Lia