Wanderlust Canoe, Cave,
Volcano and GPS Eco-Challenge Tours
Monthly Sweat Lodge Hosted by the Four Winds
Foundation
The
Natural Cook Studio of Bend - Winter/Spring Courses
Spring Hikes with Oregon Wild
Enviro-Events Calendar
Friday 7/11
The High Desert and Steens Mountain: Climate and Landscapes in the Extreme, hosted by the Oregon Paleo Lands Institute
Call 541.763.4480 or click the link above for more info.
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.
Register here.
