UCSB Earth Science - Cathy Busby

2004 VSSAC Central Sierra Nevada Field Trip Guide

Trip Flyer

Lead trip organizer Cathy Busby with field trip honoree Burt Slemmons.

Report on 2004 Volcanological Society of Sacramento Field Trip
LEADERS: Cathy Busby, Ian Skilling, Steve De Oreo, Dylan Rood and Dave Wagner

The VSSAC trip was a great success, with 55 participants, including at least a dozen students. We camped out for four nights in the high Sierra, and fed everyone on the trip their breakfasts and dinners. The first two nights we camped near Carson Pass. On day 1, everyone got a ride up one of the lift chairs at the Kirkwood Valley ski area, and spent the day traversing the Sentinels, getting great views of the surrounding geology, and examining peperites. The second day was a traverse at Carson Pass, looking at unconformities and discussing paleotopography, and examining block-and-ash flow tuffs, volcaniclastic streamflow deposits and basalt lava flow. The third and fourth nights, we camped at Buckeye Hot Springs near Bridgeport, and enjoyed that very much! The third day in the field was spent up on Sonora Pass, looking at deformation in the Relief Peak Formation, and examining lava flows of the overlying Table Mountain latite. The fourth day in the field was a quick look at the Dardanelles, and then everyone drove home. The list of participants is attached here. I hope you enjoy the photos I took on the trip! Thanks to everyone for making it so much fun. And thanks to El Presidente por Vida Brian Hausback for organizing this really fun grass roots volcanological group. I call it the "laughing club".

Cathy

		List of 2004 VSSAC Participants Ames, Leslie; Barnett, Marcy; Bergantz, George; Busby, Cathy; Christiansen, Bob; Cousens, Brian; Curtis, Garniss; Davidson, Jon; DeOreo, Steve; Erickson, Rolfe; Farrar, Chris; Ferriz, Horacio; Floyd, Walter; Hamilton, Doug; Hanson, Dena; Hanson, Jon; Hanson, Richard; Harlan, Rick; Hausback, Brian; Jayko, Angela; Johnston, Eric; Kennedy, Ben; King, Nathan; Krasel, Shannon; Mansfield, Summer; Peterman, Emily; Pierpont, Ann; Putirka, Keith; Richard, Dominique; Rood, Dylan; Roullet, Fabrice; Schiffman, Peter; Shute, Sharie; Simonis, Ed; Skilling, Ian; Slemmons, Burt; Sullivan, Morgan; Swain, Walter; Timmermans, Ann; Wagner, Dave; Wakabayashi, John; Walker, Jim; Williams, John; Zierenberg, Rob; Zinnser, Austin
	Signing in for the start of the trip.


	Field trip honorees Garniss Curtis and Burt Slemmons.	Burt Slemmons arm waving on the Table Mountain latite lava flows.


	George Bergantz and Keith Putirka.	Robert Zierenberg and Bob Christiansen in camp.


	Field trip honorees Burt Slemmons and Garniss Curtis; George Bergantz on right.	Angela Jayko (center), Z (left) and field trip co-leader Ian Skilling (right).


	Brian Cousens, Dave Wagner and George Bergantz ride the lift chair to the top of Kirkwood.	Field trip honoree Garniss Curtis, with his daughter. Silver Lake in background.


	At Carson Pass, faces include co-leader Ian Skilling (red shorts), Richard Hansen, Nathan King, Brain Haisback, Bob Christiansen, Dave Wagner (blue shirt) and Keith Putirka (white hat).	John Wakabayshi (left) and Burt Slemmons (right) looking skeptical.


	Field trip honorees Garniss Curtis and Burt Slemmons in the field.	Arm waving toward Red Lake Peak at Carson Pass.


	View of Sonora Peak at Sonora Pass, with Relief Peak Formation volcaniclastic rocks unconformably overlain by Table Mountain latite lava flows.	Morgan Sullivan arm waving on the latite lava flows at Sonora Peak.