An ocatillo cactus
Teddy Bear Choila cactus - I got my hand caught in one coming down a mountainside - ouch!
Our campsite
On our free day, we did a death march up a mountain, and then went and saw the oasis in the desert!
A Joshua Tree
A glimpse into a world of our imagnination
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Joshua Tree, CA
In grad school, I took a class where we went on a trip to Joshua Tree National Park, to do some research and mapping. Getting us all to the airport, on the plane, and to our camping site was a funny sight to see. We had two tasks - one to map the granitic-gneissic boundary of the pluton and metamorphic rock, and the other to map out some structural/geomorphological alluvial fans off the mountains. We did a bunch of hiking around in the desert, and camped each night in the field. My favorite part was mapping the pluton out. Here are some photos.
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