The students studied desert ecology, toured potato farms, visited a ghost town and the Soda Springs geyser, learned about the local geology including seeing steaming lava cones, crossed portions of the Oregon Trail, and learned to square dance in a horse barn.
The two edifices are surrounded by numerous (~75) lava cones and volcanic ridges, usually <100 m in height, that cover an area of at least 20 by 30 km (Allan et al.