Day 2
We start our Friday adventures at the French Glen Potty. This is our only chance to potty for a very long time....
We also have a chance to look at the yellow-headed
blackbirds....
And
get a look at the pretty flowers...
Next we find ourselves at a cross section of an Aluvial Fan
Melinda gets in a fight with a chunk of Steen's Mountain Basalt....
Now we're off......
We turn on to a dirt road and stop.....we unload the vans and we are free to explore.
...Someone finds an arrowhead
...Lynn finds the ephedra
Load em' up and move
em' out......
Time to go fossil
hunting at the Diatomacious Earth Beds
.....We
found fossils.....
And got diatomite in our shoes!!!
Now we are off to Borax Lake, our first test site.....
..... And take a nap......
Time to go...
As we come up and over the hill, we get
a breathtaking view of the Alvord Desert...
We stop just long enough to take pictures and throw rocks down the hill at an old tire.
Back in the vans....
Here we are at Mickey Hot Springs, our second test site.... We get right down to business.....
Okay,
maybe not RIGHT to business,
but it doesn't take us long.
It's time to move on, we must find a potty!
Ahhh, Mann Lake potty!
And the scenery is pretty too!
Time to go to Malhuer Cave....if we can find it....
Here
it is!.....Complete with the Masons symbol at the top of the entrance
This
is the only picture from the inside that turned out at all...
And now, the moment we've all been waiting
for....
DINNER!!!
After a long, hard day in the field, we head back to our dorms for a good night sleep.