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If you’ve ever wanted to feel what it’s like to be on another planet, now is your chance! Join us on a trip to one of California’s coolest places! We will explore the Mojave desert by seeing the “Lava Tube,” boogie-boarding down sand dunes, climbing some rocks, and camping!
PACKING LIST:
Warm clothes for a pretty cold night in the desert
H2O (at least 2L)
WAIVERS!
Sleeping Bag (we will provide if you don’t have one!)
Sleeping Pad (we will provide if you don’t have one!)
Mess kit (fork, knife, plate, cup, etc.)
Hiking boots
Flashlight or headlamp
Additional snacks you may want
WE WILL PROVIDE:
Lunch, Dinner, Breakfast, Lunch (byo breakfast day 1)
Tents
Boogie Boards!!!
Misc. facts about the desert
PROFESSOR: COLIN MACLAY
DEPARTMENT: Communication
Professor Maclay is a Research Professor of Communication and the Executive Director of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab. His expertise includes entrepreneurship, groups and organizations, policy, and technology.
Within the AnnLab, Colin seeks to understand how radical changes in information and communications affect otherwise immutable organizations and institutions, including their complex interaction with people. Ultimately, his work asks what areas of understanding and associated actions can help emerging technologies and practices to work for people and society broadly.
Additionally, he was the founding director of the Digital Initiative at the Harvard Business School and helped found the Global Network Initiative. His research has consistently explored the intersection between new technology and civic engagement.
He holds a PhD from Northeastern University, and hosts a podcast called How do You Like It So Far?
PEAK: MOJAVE
DIFFICULTY: 2/5
SCENERY: More sand than you could ever imagine
FUN FACT: parts of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) were filmed here!
TRIP LEAD: JOE JOCAS