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[CLOSED] Joshua Tree w/ Rebecca Broyer {Chemistry}


IMPORTANT UPDATE: Starting Spring 2023, all non-driver trip participant spots will be selected at random due to high demand. Links will accept sign-ups until 12AM Sunday.

So! Many! Rocks!!! Come channel ur inner monkey while rock scramblin’ on a trip with Dr. Broyer to JTree SLaytree. Rumor has it she’s bringing her daughter?? We’ll hike around cholla cacti, scramble around Skull Rock, send it up Ryan Mountain, stargaze, and top it off with some dispersed camping in the desert wilderness!

PACKING LIST:

  • Sleeping bag/pad if you have - we’ll provide if u don’t!

  • 2-3 L H2O

  • Sturdy/hiking shoes

  • Flashlight/headlamp

  • Mess kit (plate, bowls, utensils)

  • Toothbrush + general life items

  • Sunscreen/sunglasses/hat

  • WAIVERS

WE WILL PROVIDE:

  • Tents

  • Whatever gear you don’t have!

  • Food (but feel free to bring your own snacks! We’ll have some, but we understand that everyone has that ~ one kind of bar~ they can’t live without.)



PROFESSOR: REBECCA BROYER

DEPARTMENT: CHEMISTRY

Dr. Broyer, a mainstay in the Chemistry Department at USC, is primarily focused on organic chemistry inside the classroom, but has vast and numerous outdoors interests outside of the classroom. Find her hiking, backpacking, surfing, or snowboarding - regardless of the season, she'll be spending her free time outdoors.


PEAK: JTREE

DIFFICULTY: 2/5

SCENERY: Lots of rocks. Lots of cactuses. Cacti? Lots of camping. Lots of listening to a Horse with No Name pretending to be a cowboy while driving off into the desert sunset never to be seen again.

FUN FACT: Joshua Trees aren’t actually trees ????


TRIP LEAD: MAY WU

did not make it up this rock on the first try.

Contact May: maylianw@usc.edu

Read May’s bio here.