{"id":1090,"date":"2015-07-07T03:04:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T10:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2015-07-07T03:15:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T10:15:35","slug":"tentative-geology-road-triphikes-to-southwest-march-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/2015\/07\/tentative-geology-road-triphikes-to-southwest-march-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Tentative geology road trip\/hikes to Southwest, March 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katie and Ada and I had a great trip through the Southwest earlier this summer, and we’re thinking of doing a similar trip with our SF Bay Area Geology and Natural Sciences Hiking Group<\/a>. The trip would run nine days, from Saturday, March 26th (early departure) through Sunday, April 3rd (late return), 2016.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this trip requires a lot of driving (about 2,200 miles), but will include some amazing sites. The three full-day visits (with no real driving) will be Canyonlands and Arches National Parks (near Moab, Utah; one day in each park), and one day at the Grand Canyon.<\/p>\n

Along the way, we’ll have short visits to:<\/p>\n

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  1. Berlin-Ichthysoraus State Park (in Nevada)<\/li>\n
  2. Great Basin National Park (Nevada, hopefully a tour of the Grand Palace cave).<\/li>\n
  3. A drive through Monument Valley in Navajo Land in Arizona<\/li>\n
  4. Petrified dinosaur tracks in Arizona.<\/li>\n
  5. Overnight at the CSU Desert Studies Center in Zzyzx, CA.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n