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The Crooked River Caldera: Oregon’s Biggest volcano, and it’s story of climate change

Friday, April 18, 2008 at 7:00 PM - Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 5:00 PM (PT)

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Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
Talk, Friday, April 4, 7-8 p.m. Ended $0.00 $0.00
Day Trip: Saturday, April 5: Crooked River Volcano - Oregon's biggest volcanic vent Ended $75.00 $0.00
Day Trip: Sunday, April 6: Crooked River Caldera - The rim and the products - The Painted Hills Ended $75.00 $0.00
Crooked River Caldera Both Days Ended $150.00 $0.00
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Event Details

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