I’ve spent so much unplanned time out of town in Bend, Oregon, that my legs have fallen into sad shape, some disrepair and in need of moderate day hikes down here in the golden California backcountry.
My interest in local geology began when my middle school assigned “Earth Sciences” as the science course I would teach the eighth-grade students. This meant resurrecting my Geology 1 class notes plus plenty of Carl Sagan and some videos of his great docu-series “Cosmos.“ Naturally, I included exploration of and study in our local geological zones.
My dear geologist friend Helmut Ehrenspeck worked for some years as a cartographer for famous geologist Thomas Dibblee Jr., and Helmut taught me about some of our interesting local rocks…