THE FIRST COMBINED GSA/CSS/AAAS COLORADO FIELD TRIP – AUGUST 1902

C.R. Van Hise always promoted field trips at the annual GSA meetings from the onset of the organization. The 1902 meeting held in Denver was no different, except AAAS and Colorado Scientific Society joined with GSA for a combined field trip and meeting. CSS founders and members- Samuel Emmons, Whitman Cross, Arthur Lakes, and George Cannon-took the lead in preparing and planning a comprehensive field trip across and around Colorado to educate, entice, (and exhaust) all thirty participants. T.C. Chamberlin served as leader for physiographic features and Pleistocene geology. The trek covered 1,400 miles in 11 days; the crew used many railroads, rode horses and hiked the Royal Gorge and Las Animas Canyon. This presentation will condense the unbelievable excursion as described by Van Hise at the formal meeting in Denver into a modern virtual armchair trek.