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Re: California in 4D
I've heard similar stories. Interesting fact: Both Dave Love of Wyoming and Tom Dibblee of California were from pioneering families. Dibblee's ancestry goes back to the founding of Santa Barbara by the De La Guerras in the late 1700s. (The De La Guerra name graces a street, a plaza, several historic sites, and the most impressive sarcophagus in the Mission Santa Barbara cemetary.) Love's great-uncle was the naturalist and explorer John Muir. Yet each man's choice of profession had nothing to do with his ancestral ties. Pioneering in the field is just what they ended up doing. Love told John McPhee in Rising from the Plains that he had slept outside on the ground for about a third of his life. Like his father, Love didn't use a tent. This was in Wyoming, where they say the best weathervane is "an anvil on a chain." I'm sure Dibblee also spent a similar portion of his life out in the unprotected nowhere. Yet I haven't heard a story about him being confronted by a bear or a wildcat. If he had, I suppose, he wouldn't bother to talk about it. I missed the most recent Day in the Field with Dibblee, last May: <http://dibblee.geol.ucsb.edu/newweb/2003inthefield.html> Let's watch for the next one, if they ever schedule another: <http://dibblee.geol.ucsb.edu/newweb/news.html>. It'd be fun to get a bunch of folks together to go on the thing.
Here are a couple bonus links on the dude:
<http://myhero.com/hero.asp?hero=t_dibblee>
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