Preparing for a field trip
Temperatures, storms, snow, tornadoes, dry heat, humidity.
What are the things you should check the weather for before going on a field trip?
Medications and medication list.
What are the important things to have with you.
If you find explosives, you should do this.
What is tell the field trip leader? and leave them along?
These may protect your eyes from flying mineral chips.
What are safety goggles/glasses?
Field trips.
What are great ways to search for minerals, have fun, get to know club members, and just love life?!
GPS, Mapquest, Road maps, directions given to you.
Sun stroke, sun poisoning, sunburn, hypothermia, bug, and tick bites.
Walking around a property that looks promising, but you aren't sure who the property owner is.
What is trespassing?
Grind off before using this equipment.
This is a radioactive mineral found in fluorapatite deposits in the Eastern Adirondacks, specifically in old iron ore mine waste.
What is Thorium?
Water, Sunscreen, Food/snacks, CDMC and EFMLS cards.
What are things you should make sure you have with you for a field trip?
Carrying a rock that is very heavy when you have a bad shoulder that needs rotator cuff surgery.
What is a bad idea?
These can be filled with water or have a poor support system around them.
What are old mine tunnels and shafts?
Splinters and cracks.
What are the things you should check your sledgehammer handles for?
70 years.
What is the number of years that the CDMC has been in existance for?
These colors are the appropriate colors for safety vests to have on a field trip.
What is yellow or orange?
Important information to tell a field trip leader.
What are any medical conditions that they should be aware of?
Timberland rattlesnakes, other snakes, and dangerous, unknown creatures.
What are things you could find in a crack or a crevice?
Steel-toed or hiking boots.
What are types of appropriate footwear?
This mineral, found in the Adirondacks and areas near Amity and Ossining, is a form of asbestos and can pose inhalation risks, particularly when disturbing older, altered rock
What is Tremolite?
This popular summertime footwear is not okay to wear on a field trip.
What are sandals?
How you react to heat, sun, cold, any allergies you may have.
What is knowing yourself and your body?
These can create cave-ins.
What are sand pits?
Ticks.
(This is in the wrong category but we'll just have to accept that).
What is something to check yourself for when you get home?
This is a radioactive mineral found in fluorapatite deposits in the Eastern Adirondacks, specifically in old iron ore mine waste.
What is Thorium?