EPS 106 Field Trip: Dinkey Lakes Wilderness, Sept. 28-30, 2001

EPS 106 is a mineral resources class, and this was our first field trip. We mapped the Rainbow Tungsten Mine using ultraviolet lights to identify scheelite, which glows bright blue. Then we backpacked into the Dinkey Lakes Wilderness, in the western Sierras, and camped at Second Dinkey Lake. We did a little mapping of quartz in the batholith.


Outside the entrance to Rainbow Mine.


Lunch at First Dinkey Lake.


Second Dinkey Lake, where we camped.


The class overlooking First Dinkey Lake.


The class on another hike.


Smoky quartz crystals.


The group packing out of the Dinkey Lakes Wilderness.