Walking the Farm: The Dish

By
Surabhi Balachander

Surabhi Balachander, a graduate student at the University of Michigan, and Mira Olson, a student at Mountain View High School, are spending their summers working at the Bill Lane Center for the American West. During their time at Stanford, they explored two routes through campus from Tom DeMund's "Walking the Farm". Here, Balachander recounts their hike of the Dish.

Read about Surabhi and Mira's walk following descriptions of the 1906 earthquake here.

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