I'm working up here, really!

So the blue and green stuff on these rocks isn't spray paint, as it may look, but two copper containing minerals - malachite and azurite. It's pretty cool to find cause it's not that common and the other day we found LOTS of it...what a nerd I am.
I took this picture of John while I rested during our 500 foot straight up death march through a talus slope. You may be thinking "it can't be as steep as it looks, that must be an optical illusion" but no, no - it was. If I had to guess I would say it was 75 degrees - who needs a stair-stepper when I have this?

John and Heidi doing some serious work. If it looks like the mountain drops off on either side of them then you are looking at it right - that is what we were walking on all day.
So we had to get back to the helicopter somehow and what better way then to slide down the majority of the 500 feet we had climbed that morning...on our butts...in the snow.