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Friday, April 18, 2008 at 07:00 PM - Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 05:00 PM (PT)
This trip begins and ends at the High Desert Museum, Bend.
1) Talk, Friday, April 18: 7-8 PM High Desert Museum, Bend. Jason McClarty, Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. Free. Water resources and the greatest volcano of Central Oregon.
2) 07-Day Trip: Saturday, April 19: Crooked River Volcano—Oregon’s biggest volcanic vent! Leave Bend’s High Desert Museum at 9 AM. Meet Jason McClarty in Redmond, 10 AM. Trip includes geology of Smith Rocks, Powell Buttes, Gray Butte, Haystack Rock. 1.5 mile walk to examine caldera deposits. Return to Bend by 5 PM. Includes transportation, lunch, snacks, guidebook. carbon neutral contribution. $75
3) 08-Day Trip: Sunday, April 20: Crooked River Caldera: The rim and the products—The Painted Hills. Leave Bend’s High Desert Museum at 8:30 AM. Trip travels to Steins Pillar and adjacent rhyolites at outside of caldera rim; Lunch, Mitchell, Little Pine Café. Travel to Painted Hills, John Day Fossil Bed National Monument: products of Crooked River Caldera. ash-laden soils, ignimbrites/ash-flow tuffs. Return to High Desert museum, 5 PM. leader: Ellen Morris Bishop, OPLI. Includes lunch, snacks, transportation, guidebook. carbon neutral contribution. $75
Friday, April 18, 2008 at 07:00 PM
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 05:00 PM (PT)
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