| Day 1 -- Monday, May 16, 2005 | |
| 6:15 a.m. | Buses
arrive in Parkers Prairie - load students, parent chaperones, staff and
gear
|
| 6:45 a.m. | Buses leave
Parkers Prairie High School for
Morris
|
| 8:15 a.m. | Buses arrive
Morris, pick up UMM student staff and load kitchen and cooking gear
|
| 8:30 a.m. -10:00 a.m. | Travel from Morris to Lake Benton (approximately 75 miles) |
| 10:00 a.m. -11:00 a.m. |
Stop 1.1: Wind
energy and electric power generation in southwestern Minnesota.Visit to construction yard and towers, discussion
|
| 11:15 a.m.- 11:45 a.m. | |
| 11:45 a.m.- 2:30 p.m. | Stop
1.2: Geology and cultural history
of Pipestone National Monument. Visitor's center, carving of pipestone and trail geology |
| 2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. | Travel to Devils Gulch, SD (approximately 30 miles) |
| 3:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m |
Stop 1.3: Devils
Gulch Recreation Area - Jesse
James history and area geology |
| 4:15 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | Travel to Mitchell KOA. |
| 6:00 p.m. | Camp: Mitchell KOA, dinner |
| Day 2 -- Tuesday, May 17, 2005 | |
| 6:30 a.m. | First wake-up call |
| 6:30 a.m. -7:30 a.m. | |
| 8:00 a.m. -11:30 a.m. | Leave for Badlands National Park (approximately
210 miles) (Note: We gain 1 hour!) |
| 11:30 a.m. -1:00 p.m. | Stop 2.1 Badlands National Park, overlooks (lunch) |
| 1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m | Stop
2.2 Collecting activity and investigation: Agates and fossils, Buffalo
National Grasslands |
| 5:30 p.m.- 6:00 p.m. | Travel to Badlands KOA |
| 6:00 p.m. | Camp: Badlands KOA, dinner |
| Day 3 -- Wednesday, May 18, 2005 | |
| 6:00 a.m. | First wake-up call |
| 6:00 a.m.-7:00 a.m. | Strike tent, eat breakfast, pack bus |
| 7:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m | Travel to Devil's Tower, Wyoming |
| 10:30 a.m.-2:30 a.m. | Stop 3.1: Devil's Tower: Igneous rock and area plate tectonics |
| 2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m. | Travel through Spearfish Canyon to Lead (90 miles) |
| 3:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m. | Stop 3.2: Homestake
Museum, Lead, SD |
| 4:45 p.m.-5:45 p.m. | Stop 3.3:
Mount Rushmore |
| 5:45 p.m.-6:00 p.m | Travel to Hill
City, SD |
| 6:00 p.m. | Camp: Hill City, KOA |
| Day 4 -- Thursday, May 19, 2005 | |
| 6:30 a.m. | First wake-up call |
| 6:30-7:30 a.m. | Breakfast, tidy camp (We stay here again tonight!) |
| 8:00 a.m. | |
| 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. | |
| 1:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m. | |
| 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. | Stop 4.2: Black Hill Geology Research Institute. Presentation by museum staff. Emphasis: Fossils (Dinosaurs and T. Rex), minerals |
| 3:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | Travel to Cascade Falls |
| 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. | Swimming at Cascade Falls, Cook-out |
| 6:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m. | Return to camp, Hill City KOA. |
| Day 5 - Friday, May 20, 2005 |
|
| 6:30 a.m. | First wake-up call |
| 6:30 a.m.-7:30 a.m. | Breakfast, strike tent, pack bus |
| 8:00 a.m. | Leave camp for Parkers Prairie |
| 7:00-8:00 p.m. | Arrive back in Parkers Prairie (Note: We lose one hour enroute!) |