Yellowstone rocks

by tiboycott on April 7th, 2013

It is crazy how I came all the way from Swaziland to Vassar only to leave the campus for an amazing field trip my first semester freshman year! Jeff Walker, geology rock star (and professor), led a group of students out west to Yellowstone National Park as an interactive part of my freshman writing seminar in volcanology. As you might imagine, it was a lot of fun. The trip started off in Idaho, at The Craters of the Moon National Park. The desolate landscape can be seen in the first image. We then spent a week in Yellowstone hiking around game-watching and studying the various geologic processes that drew us there in the first place. The second picture is a view west from one of the Park’s higher mountains, and image 3 is the whole group gathered in front of an exploding geyser! Enjoy.