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Stratofox Crater Assault 4 was a day trip to the Black Rock Desert on April 26, 2009. The participants were Rich Loring, Ian Kluft KO6YQ, Steve Rubin AE6CH and Sam Thigpen KL1FE. Rich is a retired mining geologist. Ian and Steve are members of Stratofox. Sam was qualifying for Stratofox membership with his participation at this event. There were two points to this trip. It was exploration of Black Rock and new-member training. It was also part of the research into the theory of a possible impact crater at the Black Rock Desert. See the e-mail summarizing the trip. The location for exploration at Pahsupp Mountain was chosen because it's an area near the relatively near center of the theorized crater which had not been explored by our group before. An apparent fault line at the east side of Pahsupp Mountain led to speculation that we could use this area to observe rocks which have been raised from deeper in the ground than we had so far at the southern Black Rock Range, an area which is also near the center of the theorized crater but not yet accessible this time of year. The crater research is a project kept at arms length from Stratofox because not everyone in the group is interested in geology. And even for those interested in geology, not all want to associate with research for which there are no published papers yet. Then again, some don't care about that and are happy to help with any trip to Black Rock. When there's a trip there, we recruit participants to help watch for each others' safety. It's a chance for anyone interested to explore. It's also a chance for new people to use their participation to qualify for membership.
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