My Third Day At Cardigan

             The third and final day at cardigan was rather amazing. It was intertwined with hiking, adventure, and discovery. In the beginning of the day we were told to pack everything up except things that we would use for a small hike. We then went down to our group meeting places before breakfast to talk about what we were going to do that day, for my group, it was a tree scavenger hunt using compasses. After a small talk we were sent up for breakfast and had some delicious looking hot chocolate and packed a lunch, we then set off down the trail towards fire screw. We stopped at campsite 20 and were shown how to use a compass. We then proceed to find the first tree which was a white pine. The next tree was a pine cherry, then a scotch pine, a sugar maple, and what was supposed to be an apple tree, but was really a bunch of dead leaves and soil. We then started up a stone wall where there was then a yellow birch, and then a giant beech tree along with a dead one. We then proceded 200 or so steps up a steep hill to reach the grand finale of the hunt, a destroyed car and a old ski lift! After sketching and checking out the car and ski lift, we went on to go up and down many hills and even across a stream. AS we were moving along I considered for the first time how big the cardigan mountain region really was. I had for the past couple days, been sketching, in a way, history. The region of cardigan had at one time been a ski resort, a sort of plain, and at one point, might have even had a road leading through the woods. After considering this a bit, the group halted for a lunch break and told some more riddles, we then proceded up the hill even more before taking a right into the woods to play camouflage. After 4 or so rounds of that, my group retraced our steps back down to the lodge where all of the kids in 7th grade played captain's coming which was a game sort of like simon says, except some actions would require multiple people, and anybody that was left out of any of the actions, was out. We then all loaded onto the bus(which was much better than the bus ride to cardigan) and reached the school at about 2:45.

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