Day 4

Day 4: Wow what a busy day. We awoke around 7 am and had an hour to be ready for an eventful day. At a little passed 8 am we were on the move to our first location, a lava tube.
     We arrived at Lava River Cave where we learned about bats and how they live. We received all this information from a woman named Barbara who is a wildlife biologist. She talked about the bat habitat and how the species of bats at the area we were only consume insects to me this was quite fascinating. Later, before entering the cave, which I might say was freezing cold (42 degrees), our guide Bart Wills (geologist) had asked if we were in any types of other volcanoes located East of the Rocky Mountains because of a nationwide situation called the White-nose syndrome.
      After a wonderful look into the fascinating cave we went to Lava Butte where we met a woman named Erin who was Archeologists. She was able to talk about the archeological history around Lava Butte. We also were able to take a look at obsidian which is tools such as arrowheads made out of rock. We were then able to take a look out at the beautiful high view and talk to a person name Stewart Blockley who explained his job as a fire look out and how exactly he is able to locate fires in the Deschutes National Forest. Then we took a hike through Benton falls where we were able to talk to different rangers about any questions we had, and during that time we learned a lot about the rangers, for instance we asked which high school they went to and a girl name Amy was from Basic High School! Such a weird name. After about a mile hike we were able to see a raging beautiful fall. Then we hiked backed to the vehicles and said bye to lovely people who helped out with today.
     Unfortunately I can not explain in detail about my every second of my eventful evening, so until we find another McDonalds (we use McDonalds wifi to blog), that's all for now (: