June 2nd, 2025 - Upcoming meeting with Peter Edmondson's Historical Geology for Teachers Class.

In addition to finalizing most of my Jan/Feb New Zealand travel plans and tentatively submitting my conference abstract yesterday and resubmitting my travel request today, I spent a bit of time planning a morning rendezvous with Peter Edmondson's Summer Historical Geology Class for Teachers. 

I have spent a morning with Peter's Teacher development class each of the past two summers and I am looking forward to doing it again. This year, I will talk to them about the work I have been doing on the Faults in the WFZ hanging wall in Utah Valley and along West Mountain. I'll meet them at the Mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon on Wednesday June 11th along the Delta/Shoreline of Lake Bonneville and we'll talk about the shoreline, rebound, and faulting there along the mountain front and then I'll show our recent poster from Rocky Mountain GSA and talk about faulting within the hanging wall and overlap zone with the Nephi segment and what that means for fault segmentation and earthquake behavior. Perhaps I will be able to recruit Dr. Czajka or Kristen Smith to join me for the discussion with the group, followed by a ride afterwards... 😆 You've been warned! 2 hours of academic work. 

Other than that, today was a bunch of errands, Dogs to the Vets, semi-annual car appointment for registration renewal, oil change, tire rotation etc., and renewal of service line warranties for our water and sewer connections. I also did a South Fork classic moderate gradient ride with 1400 feet of climbing in the first half of the ride and then mostly downhill on the 15 miles back home. Definitely lost a bit of my fitness that I had going during the first half of May, but perhaps it will be back before the end of the week. I'm aiming to ride up to Timp Summit trailhead this week or next, HC climb of a steady 3000 feet with a lot of >10% gradients. I think I would have blown up if I tried today. 

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