The High Desert, and Steens Mountain: Climate and Landscapes in the Extreme

(And optimum wildflowers, Steens Mtn.Leader: Ellen Morris Bishop, : This trip begins and ends at the High Desert Museum, Bend.

Day 1: July11 (Friday): Leave High Desert Museum  at 8 AM. Travel to Burns, with stop at Glass Buttes, talk about High Desert volcanism and Brothers fault Zone.  Early lunch, Burns, and then to Wrights Point, and Diamond Craters. Geology of  Diamond  Craters.  Malheur Refuge Overlook.  Talk: Shifting climates, shifting migrations. Malheur Refuge Staff. Arrive, Frenchglen Hotel, 6 PM. Dinner.

Day 2:July 12 : Breakfast, 7 AM. Steens Mtn loop Road.  2-mile hike: Circum-navigate Kiger Gorge rim; Glacial features; Basaltic features. Sack Lunch. 6 mile, challenging  hike: Wildhorse Horse Lake.  Return, via loop road Frenchglen Hotel, 6 PM.

Day 3: July 13 . Breakfast, 7 AM.  Loop Steens Mountain, to Andrews, Alvord desert. Alvord Hot Springs.  Pleistocene lake levels, basalts, dikes, Basin and Range faulting. Alvord Desert late spring/early summer  flowers. Sack snacks. Return to Burns, Bend via Hwy 78. Arrive Bend, 7 PM.

Friday, July 11, 2008 at 8:00 AM
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Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 7:00 PM (PT)

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