The 'Dacks

Am heading out the door as we speak (well, after lunching on the leftovers of the whole-wheat linguine with basil pesto I had for dinner yesterday) for an overnight trip to the department cabin in the Adirondack mountains. As probably not many of you know (no blame here), the Adirondacks are heaven for metamorphic petrologists (i.e., people who look at rocks (petrologists) that have been heated and subjected to high pressures deep in the Earth's crust(metamorphism)) and we're taking an invited guest of the department, a metamorphic petrologist, there to show him the goods. Should be nice, especially now that that the fall foliage is in full splendor.