For this field study, I was a little torn between which area would suit me the best. After researching and talking to various people, I was talking to my dad, who was taken aback by the project. My dad (as well as I) has been involved in Boy Scouts for a long time, and had been on innumerable backpacking trips, campouts and hikes, and he told me that Lassen National Park was a fine place for any sort of study. It took little persuasion for me to appreciate the stark beauty of Mt. Lassen after seeing a few pictures online, so I was very sold on that destination. Only one problem: My family was not about to let me go by myself. We decided to leave the morning of the nineteenth of April, camp a night on site, and then come back the following Sunday.
Lassen Volcanic National Park is a federally protected park located near the town of Redding. LVNP is 106,000 acres of mountainous terrain formed by the rich amount of volcanic activity that has persisted within the area for thousands of......
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