"Dinosaurs Along The Silk Road" -- Sinofossa 2009 14: Changma Day 1
We've arrived at the primary goal of our tour: Changma! We commute the hour or so drive from Yumen in the Changma Basin each day (there's no hotels in the basin) and get to drive through the foothills of the Qilian Mountains to get there...
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The first thing we did when we got to Changma was visit the old quarry (#2). Actually, I didn't know it was an "old" quarry -- I thought it would be the one we'd be working! But no, Hailu & Da-qing's crew have worked the bejeezus out of it since we were last there in 2005, and now it's basically done; the only way to reopen it would be to use some major earth-moving equipment to remove the lower half of the hill in front of it. Anyway, the quarry now is a series of contiguous, nearly vertical faces of rock that you can see just below the top of the hills Hailu is walking toward.
