Each student must attend one (and only one) of the two field trips. We leave at noon on Friday (please ask if you need a note to your other Friday afternoon instructors) and return Sunday at dinner time. The field trip is to Owens Valley and surrounding areas in Eastern California. We will stay at a great base camp, the Bishop White Mountains Research Station, which provides beds and meals, so camping gear is not required -- but warm clothes and proper shoes really are required (We're going to 9000 feet elevation in April, there will be snow!). We will see actual examples of a broad range of geological phenomena introduced in lectures and problem sets, including volcanoes both extrusive and explosive, earthquake surface rupture and large-scale crustal faults, dramatic erosive processes, evidence of past glaciation, and more. You can preview the route in Google Earth.