Quiz - match the photos with Larry's post as I haven't figured out how to put a caption with the photos.

Today fall begins and I went for a hike in the mountains with a group of 14 women from Scotland, France, Netherlands, Germany, 2 other Americans and 1 Norwegian, our leader - ranging from 33 to 61. It was a very rocky walk and quite slippery as we had two days of rain, but the weather cleared and it was sunny and warm. The scenery at the top was spectacular as well as by the small lake where we lunched and sunned on large, fairly flat rocks. The women are spouses of oil companies Shell, Total(France), oil service companies like Schlumberger most of whom have lived in the Middle East, Houston, Aberdeen Scotland and more. One of the American woman's husband works for NATO here.

I really enjoyed the geology tour on Saturday. Again the students were very international, including 6 Africans - and they all were quiet by American standards.
I was surprised to learn that during the last ice age (c. 10,000 years ago) the ice didn't cover all the Northern Hemisphere - Siberia, and parts of Alaska were ice free.