Celebration of Our Mountains 
October 2001
       Friday the 19th; Saturday the 20th; Sunday the 21st; and
Friday the 26th, Saturday the 27th; Sunday the 28th
 
Trips with asterisk (*) have more than one guide 
Text in Spanish
Associated with National EarthScience Week
Times are for morning or afternoon, unless otherwise noted
Friday, October 19 Saturday, October 20 Sunday, October 21
#1 7 pm Ardovino's Desert Crossing: Celebrations Reception, Gallery Opening #2 8 to 6 Hueco Tanks State Historical Park: "Lone Star Legacy" Weekend #2 8 to 6 Hueco Tanks State Historical Park: "Lone Star Legacy" Weekend
  #3 9 to 3 *The Stories of Cristo Rey: "A Hike Through Time" (text in Spanish) #7 8 Birds of the Western Franklin Mountains
#4 10 to 5 Wilderness Park Museum #8 8 South Franklin Mountains
#5 11 to 5 El Paso's Natural History Museum #9 8 Old Tin Mines, East-Central Franklin Mountains
#6 12 to 6 The History of Scenic Drive: An Exhibition #10 8:30 Paleozoic Stratigraphy & Paleontology of Vinton Canyon, Northern Westside of Franklin Mountains
  #4 10 to 5 Wilderness Park Museum
  #11 2 to 6 Plein Aire Celebration
  #12 2:30 *Legends of El Paso
   
Friday, October 26 Saturday, October 27 Sunday, October 28
#13 8 Paquime, Arroyo de Los Monos (an much more), Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico (3 day trip) (text in Spanish) #16 7:30 Lower Rio Casa Grandes Drainage, Chihuahua, Mexico: A Geological & Environmental Trip (text in Spanish) #24 9 Hike to Aztec Caves in the Franklin Mountains
#14 4 Flora, Fauna, & Geology at the Indio Ranch, near Van Horn, Texas (2-1/2 day trip) #17 7:45 Lake Lucero, New Mexico: An Extreme Desert Environment 
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#25 9 Recent Volcanoes Northwest of El Paso: The West Desert!
#18 8 Ranger Peak and B-36 Site
#15 6:30 pm El Paso's Insights Science Museum "Create the Mountains" Cake Contest (and eating!) #19 8 The Samalayuca Region  #26 9 *Geology & Fossils of the Franklin Mountains at TransMountain Road, east to west (a bilingual field trip) (text in Spanish)
  #20 9 *Grand Tour of El Paso's Geology #27 1:30 Hike to West Cottonwood Springs
#21 9:30 Geology & Ecology of Tom Mays Area, Franklin Mountains State Park
#22 UTEP CENTENNIAL MUSEUM
9:30 Geology of UTEP Campus
1 Birds of El Paso
2 Chihuahuan Desert Garden
#5 11 to 5 El Paso's Natural History Museum
#23 1 El Paso's Aerial Tramway: Regional Geology