Another week at work

Spent another week out at Ekahli Lake. Glen and I went back to finish up what we couldn't accomplish in June when we were rained out. I was absolutely exhausted after a rocking weekend at Folk on the Rocks, so slept most of the drive and crashed hard after setting up my tent.

The weather was fantastic. Couldn't have asked for anything better: nothing below 25c during the days and about 16 over nights. It was so hot that there were scaresly any bugs! Yes, bulldogs, but they are manageable compared to clouds of mosquitos.
We climbed over beaver dams every morning, Ernest and Billy pulled them apart so we could float through them on our way home every night. The beaver rebuilt them every morning. It was an entertaining process that I got a kick out of - Ernest and Billy got ticked off with the beaver even more every morning.
Our first thwo days consisted of surveying Sanguez Lake for new archaeology sites. That was hard. We only found two! The lake was a little more difficult to survey - no major points with defined terraces like on Ekahli and Gargan Lakes. We stopped at many places, with no luck. The days were so nice though, it's impossible to complain.
Combined out there we saw three moose, one swiming super close, wolf tracks, collected fresh water mussels (which we later cooked up and ate for supper), picked berries and set rabbit snares (I learnt how to set them, I didn't leave them up to catch anything).

On Thursday we set up a large 1m x 1m excavation site where Todd had found a microblade and a ton of flakes in June. Our hope was to find some hearths and charcoal so we could date the luck. The site was chalked full of flakes and microblades. No hearth though. But we did take some charcoal for cabon dating. Mind you it's probably only a burnt root or something.

Thursday was fun because Billy taught me how to make birch bark bowls! And.... Glen found a halfted blade on the surface! Super cool. They are supposedly older than are arrow technology, I'm guessing ballpark age of 1200ya... which is super cool!

Friday we decided to let the beavers alone and stayed on Ekahli. We went back to a site we didnt finish in June, which ended up being a jackpot site. Lots of retouched flakes, and of course, more microblade.

We came home yesterday, and I must say it was a great week - both weather wise (which sucked last time) and for sites found. Over the three lakes, we found 17 new sites!