Mendon Ponds Park – A Preview

This one I’m writing as a preview for my introductory geology students. This week, we’ll be running field trips out to Mendon Ponds Park to look at glacial geology and to practice reading topographic maps. There will also be a bit of rock identification going on too.

Today I took my son and we went on the hike that my students will be taking throughout the week. We had to make sure the trails were clear.

And of course we brought our cameras.

I hope my students will bring their cameras as well. The colors are phenomenal.

Here are a few highlights:

Head of the Trail

Leaning trees

Along the trail

A narrow path

That's a long ways up

All orange

Pond perspective

No horsing around

Colors over Devil's Bathtub 4

The way out

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Scientist (Paleontology, Geochemistry, Geology); Writer (Speculative and Science Fiction, plus technical and non-technical Science); Mom to great boy on the Autism spectrum; possessor of too many hobbies.

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