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Pattern: Exploration Station by Stephen West
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Exploration Days, court
June 19-21 at MSU, nearly 2,500 youth and chaperones from every MI county come stay on campus for 4-H Exploration Days-- a pre-college program to meet new people and experience the life of a Spartan.
Photo credit: Mariah Montenegro
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took some time during its winter science campaign to image the surface of Victoria Crater as it drove closer to the Cape Verde cliff face. This false color image, taken a couple sols (martian days) after the Martian solstice (Sol 1570-1571), shows weathered rocks and abundant sand-size sediment on the surface just below the rim of Victoria Crater. Rock fragments on the surface show thin sediment beds indicative of aeolian or possibly aqueous deposition. Small ripples and wind tails on the sandy surface may be evidence of more recent wind-related processes at work.
Exploration Days, canoeing & Kayaking
June 19-21 at MSU, nearly 2,500 youth and chaperones from every MI county come stay on campus for 4-H Exploration Days-- a pre-college program to meet new people and experience the life of a Spartan.
Photo credit: Mariah Montenegro
June 19-21 at MSU, nearly 2,500 youth and chaperones from every MI county come stay on campus for 4-H Exploration Days-- a pre-college program to meet new people and experience the life of a Spartan.
2013 Exploration Days, Sailing
Photo credit: Katie Gervasi
Exploration Days, Engine
June 19-21 at MSU, nearly 2,500 youth and chaperones from every MI county come stay on campus for 4-H Exploration Days-- a pre-college program to meet new people and experience the life of a Spartan.
Photo credit: Mariah Montenegro
Exploration Days, Engine
June 19-21 at MSU, nearly 2,500 youth and chaperones from every MI county come stay on campus for 4-H Exploration Days-- a pre-college program to meet new people and experience the life of a Spartan.
Photo credit: Mariah Montenegro
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On Wednesday 27th July 2022 I went on an amazing exploration of the huge Dinorwic slate quarry site that is opposite Snowdon and overlooks Llanberis. In July 2021 this area became a UNESCO World Heritage Site, joining the likes of the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China! The views are quite simply stunning.
The first commercial attempts at slate mining took place in 1787, and the business boomed after the construction of a horse-drawn tramway to Port Dinorwic in 1824. This became the Padarn Railway, (the first steam locomotives were supplied in 1870 by the Hunslet Engine Company of Leeds), a narrow gauge railway now partially preserved as the Llanberis Lake Railway. At its height at the turn of the twentieth century, Dinorwic was the second largest slate quarry in the world, after the neighbouring Penrhyn quarry. It was producing an annual outcome of 100,000 tonnes" and employed more than 3,000 men.
By 1930 its working employment had dropped to 2,000. The quarry closed in July 1969, the result of industrial decline and difficult slate removal. During the 1950s/60s extraction had become very difficult, because after 170 years of extraction many of the unsystematically dumped slate tips were now beginning to slide dangerously into some of the major pit workings, and after an enormous fall in the Garret area of the quarry in 1966 (which can still be seen in Photo 6), production ceased.
Dinorwic quarry covered 700 acres (283 ha) consisting of two main quarry sections with 20 galleries in each. Extensive internal tramway systems connected the quarries using inclines to transport slate between galleries. Many of these inclines still exist (some in better condition than others!) and many buildings are still accessible. There are old rails and bits of quarry equipment everywhere. It’s a fascinating site, but quite dangerous too of course so care must be taken at all times if you’re exploring there. It’s a very popular site for climbers.
Since closure, the National Slate Museum has opened in some of the 19th century workshops that have been impressively preserved. It’s well worth a visit!