Ken Meek, CPG-8600 and Dorothy Combs, AIPG National HQ, representing AIPG at the Energy Expo in Gillette, Wyoming.
A special shout-out to Ken Meek from the Minnesota Chapter, who helped out at the Energy Expo in Gillette, Wyoming. Ken started his career in Gillette in the energy industry. Ken had also done the air photo control during construction of the Camplex Energy Center where the Expo was held. Presently Ken owns Earth Science Associates, Inc., an environmental consulting firm near St. Paul, Minnesota.
American Geosciences Consortium booth at the NCSL Legislative Summit in Nashville L-R: Kasey White, GSA; Bill Haneberg, Director of the Kentucky Geological Survey and State Geologist of Kentucky; Aaron Johnson; Ron Zurawski State Geologist of Tennessee and Director of the Tennessee Survey; Bill Godwin, Treasurer, AEG.
Tales from the Field: Hauling What? David M. Abbott, Jr., CPG-04570
My first job in mining was as a field tech for Earth Sciences, Inc. (ESI), a consulting mining exploration firm in Golden, in the late ‘60s. ESI had projects in both the Leadville and Alma areas of Colorado. In those days, the annual 22+ mile pack burro race was run from Leadville (10,152 ft elev.) to Fairplay (9,953 ft elev.) over 13,185 ft elev. Mosquito Pass—race motto: “Get your ass up the pass!”—in one year and from Fairplay to Leadville the next. Burros, or asses, have to carry 33 pounds of mining gear including a gold pan, a shovel, and a pick ax. Alma is on the road between the two towns. ESI’s summer picnic coincided with the burro race and ESI would pay the entry fee for one of the sum- mer interns who agreed to run the Vice President’s burro for the first mile or two of the race. ESI employees would watch the start of the race and then drive to the other side of the Mosquito Range to one of our properties and watch the end of the race and have our picnic. Two of the older ESI employees were old farm boys and they had the horse trailer needed to haul the burro from
Golden to Leadville or Fairplay and back. Our time cards at the time were free form; you wrote a description of what you did on a day. So these two men recorded 8 hours of “hauling ass” to get a rise out of the office staff—how often can you legitimately use this as an accurate job description. A couple of years later, ESI was being audited and one of the auditors found these time cards and wanted to know what these two were doing. The answer was, “Hauling the jack ass from Golden to Fairplay and back.” I’m a proud member of the International Order of Ragged Ass Miners. Burro racing is Colorado’s State sport, a homegrown sport that’s spread to some other states,
https://www.ccburrorac-
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