{"id":154,"date":"2012-04-12T17:57:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T00:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/motorpool\/?p=154"},"modified":"2012-04-12T18:02:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T01:02:46","slug":"death-valley-geo-club-spring-break-trip-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/motorpool\/2012\/04\/12\/death-valley-geo-club-spring-break-trip-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Valley Geo Club Spring Break Trip 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Image: Nathan Pauley and Three-Skulls Van, Photo taken in Sierra Foothills, California on March, 31 2012.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n

Death Valley Geo Club Spring Trip 2012 <\/p>\n

Three-Skulls Van: Corvallis or Bust…Skulls!!<\/p>\n

Author: Lisa Riley, Geography Department, CEOAS (College of Earth, Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences)<\/p>\n

Place: Sierra Valley Foothills near Columbia City Historic National Park, Tuolumne County, California.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Our last stop was the beautiful Sierra Valley Foothills where we were welcomed by our attending staff Professor’s (Dr. Anita Grunder Deptartment of Geosciences) family who’s company and hospitality speaks legends.\u00a0 We owe a great thanks to Anita and her family for such a wonderful welcome and tour of the area.\u00a0 We had a huge cowboy-style bonfire and enjoyed songs and memories of our tales from the road our last night together.\u00a0 The rains came the last Saturday before the new term but it never dampened our spirits.\u00a0 Our week long trip over spring break took us to Death Valley in the Mojave Desert.<\/p>\n

We saw the great wall of the Hoover Dam and a night on the Vegas strip.\u00a0 We visited Joshua Tree National Park in the Sonoran desert as well.\u00a0 A great thanks to the Motor Pool.\u00a0 Our vans took us on all the washboard roads in both Death Valley and Joshua Tree and allowed us to see the geological splendor in these national parks.\u00a0 The first night at Death Valley were accompanied with high wind\/rains and we used Three-Skull van as an anchor while we all held other ends of an enormous tarp to make a station and eat dinner.\u00a0 Our vans charged our cameras, phones, and iPods in the heart of the desert and gave us refuge for some very needed sleep at times.\u00a0 Some highlights in Death Valley were the racetrack playa were larger rocks move on their own due to moisture, Cooper canyon, and Badwater pools and salt flat.<\/p>\n

Badwater basin in Death Valley is the point of lowest elevation United States.\u00a0 Our vans were tough enough for us to take the Geology tour roads in Joshua Tree, visit an old mine and dam, see a famous spot were cattle rustling commonly occurred, and view petroglyphs.\u00a0 I thought the geology was amazing in Joshua Tree.\u00a0 It looked like a giant made a lot of huge rock piles everywhere.\u00a0 After visiting Columbia City Historic Park, a preserved California gold rush town founded in the gold rush boom March 1850 we returned to Anita’s family ranch (our last camp) to some very soaked tents.<\/p>\n

For Three-Skull Van and the Geo Club caravan it was Corvallis or Bust…skulls!!!<\/p>\n

\"Three-Skulls

Image: Nathan Pauley and Three-Skulls Van, Geo Club Officer, Dept of Geology, Oregon State University, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences. Photo taken in Sierra Foothills, California on March, 31 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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