General guidelines for the Spring 2007 GEOL 103 overnight field trip
Departure: The trip will be held on either Fri-Sat April 13-14th, or Fri-Sat April 20-21st. This will be announced the first week of classes in January. The bus departs PROMPTLY at 8:15AM on Friday morning. Professor or lab coordinator will tell you where to meet the bus. We will plan to return by 6:30 PM on Saturday.
Dress: Be sure to bring warm layers of clothing (you can un-layer if you get too warm), raingear and shoes for walking in mud and/or rocky ground. Sandals or flipflops are a bad idea. Your shoes will probably get quite dirty, so don't wear shoes that you want to keep clean.
Food: Lunches for Friday and Saturday will be provided. You will need to provide or buy your own dinner for Friday night, and breakfast Saturday. There may be a continental breakfast at the motel Saturday morning.
Taking Notes: We will have a guide book for you with information about each stop. You will need to have something to write on and a writing implement.
| Fossil-hunting at an active coal mine. | Taking in the sights. |
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Students on the Spring 2001 Field Trip wrote many wonderful and amusing haiku to describe their experiences:
| I am running
late, Of course the bus won’t leave me. I watch it pull out. Mary Rochelle Geology
me.
The concrete
bunkers
Coal mines
and small towns
O! Geology! Grave of
ancient bog |
6:30 am
And as
we drive past
Exhausted
I was.
and lastly,
not a haiku, but… |
