More of Fred Webb's images of the geology field camp, 1965-1984

Who says scientists are one dimensional? Ron Kreisa (TA, 1977 and 1978) plays the harmonica accompanied by Bob Sykes on the fiddle and Sally Webber on guitar during an evening session in the lounge in 1977.

A group of 1978 students take notes in a setting familiar to 20 years of Tech field camp people --- the Upper Knox through Juniata Formation section across Rich Valley and up to the summit of Walker Mountain.

Robbie Cole (left), Wes Scarlett (Duke University), and Skip Lemanski (right) use a shady spot beside the departmental van to take notes in 1978.

Volleyball in the camp parking lot was a field camp tradition all the way back to the rough and tumble days of Jack Redden in the 1960s. These 1978 students, though talented and tough, had a bit less of the killer instinct of the Doc Redden era at field camp.

Bill Miller (foreground), Kent Kane (left) and "JEP" Powers (rear, University of Rhode Island student) check out a "bottomless" crack in the Honaker Dolomite located on the flank of the big subsidence cavity on the high pressure well field above the town of Saltville in this 1979 photo.

Remember how hot and muggy the field area was during late June and early July? These three students in the 1979 group did what most of at least thought about on such days. They took the plunge into a creek - clothes and all -near Nebo after a hot day's mapping of the Nebo Window and Saltville Fault.

 

The field camp class of 1980 in the parking lot at Laurel Bed Lake dam in the Clinch Mountain Wildlife Management area.

Students in 1980 take well-deserved rest on Clinch blocks after a hot 3 mile hike through tangles of greenbrier, rhododendron, and mountain laurel thickets along the crest of Brushy Mountain to Clinch Mountain in the Laurel Bed Lake area.

The class of 1981 poses proudly in front of the field station whose formal name was Camp Holden.

Rick Ford (TA) contemplating tire tracks through fresh and still-soft concrete at the VDOT facility in Chilhowie where we frequently refueled the vans. In this 1981 photo, perhaps Rick is wondering how those tracks got there. It was hard to judge side clearance when driving those vans.

The class of 1983 poses for inspection in front of the field station while Abby dog- the Webb's faithful companion - parades in front of the group.

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