Day 3: The End
Maddy R
Yellow Group
Semptember 29, 2015
Yellow Group
This is an image of a Hemlock branch that Mr. Woolner told a story about on our last hike.
As our trip comes to an end on Day Three we are all pushing to fit everything we would like to do into a small time frame. We hastily eat a quick breakfast of French toast and then pack our backpacks to head out onto the trails. Hope, our group leader, takes us aside for the usual job-assigning and then shows us the route we will be taking. She explains how we will be looking at human/environment interaction on our trip to the old house foundation on Cardigan property. We race into the woods, excited to get on with our hike. We make good time but then hear "RED LIGHT!" from the back of our group. Hope has called us to a stop. We get out our sketchbooks,(this procedure drilled into our brains,) and sketch different plants and animals under small logs and rocks. We found a centipede and millipede under a rather large log and our leader as usual gets excited and asks us to all gather round and view "the interesting insect."
This sketch illustrates the millipede and centipede we discovered.
Like most students ready to quickly pass something interesting, we pack our notebooks away and wait until we are allowed to proceed on the trail. Scrambling up the wet rocks from the night before we make our way towards a trail intersection and finally to the cellar hole. At that point the sky seems to be about to break, unleashing a small storm on our heads. But thankfully it doesn't, as we begin sketching different human-changed areas. We find a house foundation and a well. The foundation is made out of cut rock. The rock was cut using nails driven into the side until it splits apart. We finish our sketches just as the rain comes pounding down. Our group shelters under rain jackets and trees, trying to avoid being totally drenched for the hike back and hour bus ride. Hope explains the area of the foundation to our group and says " If you look around you, you may see many signs of interaction between people and nature. For example, this cut tree may have been cut for many reasons" We all look at the tree and imagine why it would have been cut down. Then we make our way back eating Indian Cucumbers and different plants. Back at the lodge, we eat a early lunch then pack all our belongings onto the bus to finally head back home after an amazing trip. In conclusion, our trip was educational explaining providing example of how it is not all maps, geography is everything around us.
Scotch Pines are common coniferous plants at Cardigan, so my group decided to sketch the unique formation of the cones.
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