Guided Red Rocks Tour on Sunday, January 29th

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There will be an official announcement and more information up on the TAM IV website soon, but I thought I'd post this here as well. Please sign up if you're interested!

Best,

Kitten (aka Evelyn)

Red Rocks Tour:
Ray Beiersdorfer (aka "Slick"), a professor of geology at
Youngstown State University, and JREF-intern Evelyn Mervine, a geology
student at Dartmouth College, will be leading an optional geological
tour of Red Rocks Canyon on Sunday, January 29th. The tour will take
place in the afternoon after the paper presentations are finished.
Anyone interested in taking the tour should send Evelyn an email at:
Evelyn(at)randi.org. The tour is free, but field trip participants will
provide their own transportation and entrance fee. We will carpool as
much as possible. The field trip will include some non-strenuous
walking along trails within the canyon. Depending on how many people
are interested, we may need to limit the number of people on the tour.
Sign up early!

About Red Rocks Canyon:
The Red Rocks Canyon National Conservation Area is located 10 miles
west of Las Vegas and is an excellent location to examine the geology
of the Spring Mountains. The results of six hundred and fifty million
years of Earth history in the region will be viewed. The red and white
Aztec Formation forms towering cliffs of "petrified sand dunes" which
are frequented by geologists, rock climbers and skeptics from all over
the world. These sand dunes provide evidence of the large, Sahara-like
desert which covered the area during the Jurassic Period. The most
notable geological feature in Red Rocks is the 65 million year old
Keystone thrust, which forced much older Paleozoic carbonate rocks on
top of the younger Aztec sandstones. In addition to great geology, the
Red Rocks area is full of many beautiful desert animals and plants.
 
I can attend and drive.

May have to find something else to do for Monday afternoon if the rest of the folks for the Hoover Dam decide to take this offer.
 
Hutch said:
I can attend and drive.

May have to find something else to do for Monday afternoon if the rest of the folks for the Hoover Dam decide to take this offer.
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Didn't mean to usurp your Monday trip, Hutch! Glad you can come, though.
 
Joshua Korosi said:
You can still take us to Hoover Dam...
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That is still most definitley on, Joshua.

From Kitten:

Didn't mean to usurp your Monday trip, Hutch!
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Not at all, It's more enjoyable when someone who really knows the place can take you. If you ever need a tour of Antietam, Gettysburg, or Shiloh, let me know..

From Triangle Man:

I just signed up but I'll need a ride so if you have room Hutch let me know.
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I'm sure we'll have more than enough rides, but I will have a minivan to help out.
 
You go honey! Mommy is going to be putting her feet up. Hey Hutch, how about a ride to the airport for the kittens and myself Sunday night?
 
By the way, we'll be meeting at 1pm behind the Stardust Conference Center. As the conference ends at 12:30 or so, bring a snack if you don't think you'll have time for lunch.

Looking forward to seeing some of you there.

Kitten
 
Red Rocks on Sunday. Check.
Hoover Dam on Monday. Check.

I missed Red Rocks after TAM 2 because of some stupid rental car mishap. And there was no tour at TAM 3 :mad:
 
I think we might be able to indulge in this one! But we will need to be back for a show we have booked that night! Maybe we will have the rental car by then, and can do some cab-work...

Shall look into it.
 
Hutch said:
Not at all, It's more enjoyable when someone who really knows the place can take you. If you ever need a tour of Antietam, Gettysburg, or Shiloh, let me know.
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General Prentiss was a true hero, unlike some other people - but you don't want to get me started on Chamberlain... :mad:
 
I will have the full item posted on TAMIV today.

So you know, the Sunday schedule is somewhat in flux. It's already been extended to 1:00, and even that might change.

I'd like to come, but I'll probably be packing and such.
 
OK, I lied a bit. The last thing on the schedule starts at 12:10.

Here's the schedule for those who haven't looked at tam4.com. Again, this may change.

[FONT=&quot]Thursday, Jan. 26[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]12-5 PM Registration[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1-5 PM Workshop: Chip Denman and Jamy Ian Swiss: Information and Misinformation[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]5-7 PM Reception: Cash bar and selection of hot & cold appetizers[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]7-8:30 Mac King show[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]9:00 PM Optional: Jamy Ian Swiss - Magic: In-Concert [/FONT]
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Friday, Jan. 27[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]7:30-8:30 Continental Breakfast[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]8:20 Welcome: Randi/Introduction of Hal Bidlack, MC[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]8:30 Christopher Hitchens[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]9:30 Michael Shermer[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]10:30 break[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]10:45 Stanley Krippner[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]11:15 James Randi[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]12:00 Buffet Lunch Break[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1:15 Auctions/etc.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1:30 Murray Gell-Mann[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]2:30 Penn & Teller[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]3:15 Break[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]3:30 Nadine Strossen[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]4:30 Panel “Science in Politics and the Politics of Science”
Panelists Nadine Strossen, Randi, Carolyn Porco, Murray Gell-Mann, Lawrence O’Donnell, Penn Jilette, the MythBusters, (Adam Savage & Jamie Hyneman)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]6:30-8:30 Optional: Dinner w/Randi, Julia Sweeney, Murray Gell-Mann, Nadine Strossen, Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman, Lawrence O’Donnell. Dinner limited to 60.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]9:00 PM Todd Robbins: Carnival Knowledge[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]11:00 PM Optional: Jamy Ian Swiss - Magic: In-Concert [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]
Saturday, Jan. 28[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]7:30-8:30 Continental breakfast[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]8:30 Welcome: Phil Plait, MC[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]8:35 Richard Wiseman[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]9:30 Daniel Dennett[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]10:30 Break[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]10:45 Chip Denman[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]11:30 Auctions[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]12:00 Buffet lunch (included)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1:15 Myth Busters: Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]2:15 Lawrence O’Donnell[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]2:45 Break[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]3:00 Paul Provenza[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]3:30 Ellen Johnson[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]4:15 Hal Bidlack [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]4:30 Panel: “Can a skeptic believe in God?”
Julia Sweeney, Daniel Dennett, Randi, Hal Bidlack, Paul Provenza, Michael Shermer, Ellen Johnson, Teller, Karen Russell[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]7:00 PM Optional: Jamy Ian Swiss - Magic: In-Concert [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]9:00 PM Optional: Jamy Ian Swiss - Magic: In-Concert [/FONT]
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Sunday, Jan. 29[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]8-9 AM Continental Breakfast[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]9:00 Phil Plait [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]9:45 Carolyn Porco [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]10:30 Paper Presentation[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]10:55 Break[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]11:10 Paper Presentation[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]11:40 Paper Presentation[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]12:10 Closing Remarks[/FONT]
 
Joshua Korosi said:
General Prentiss was a true hero, unlike some other people - but you don't want to get me started on Chamberlain... :mad:
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Of course, you do know that Prentiss had fewer troops at the Hornet's nest than WHL Wallace and Hurlburt, but just happened to be in the right position and had the name recognition..

Pity BPSCG isn't coming to TAM4, we'd have our own Civil War roundtable (Beekeeping, EMT, Egyptology, Civil War--you are a well-rounded personality, Joshua).

OK, end derail
 
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OK I definately want to see the Red Rock Canyon. Hutch do you still have room in your van for me on Sunday instead of Monday?
 
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