Helen goes rockhounding...

with Rachel and me at Copper Ridge, northwest of Arches National Park, looking through the ore piles at an old mining site (click to enlarge):

Eureka!  Helen prospects with her nose and finds a nice specimen of the copper carbonate mineral malachite:

While hiking elsewhere in the vicinity, Helen discovers a ripple-marked sandstone slab in the Morrison Formation.  Here she's considering the origin of interference ripples:

From her high vantage point on the top of the ridge, Helen surveys the laccolithic La Sal Mountains draped with snow:

Lastly, Helen quenches her thirst from an eroded theropod track after a complete exploration of the area:

Here's more about this easily accessible dinosaur trackway site.