The Cardigan Journey

September 30-October2 2015

By Madeleine M.

Green Group D1B3

The relative location is not Latitude and Longitude,but it's where the place basing it off of what you know.For instance the school is close to Dimitri's. Mount Cardigan's location is in between Canaan and Grafton NH. It is about 38.9 miles away from the nearest Mcdonald's and 22.5 miles away from the nearest Wendy's. The base lodge is located at the bottom of cardigan mountain and is closest to the town Orange. If you wanted a restaurant that is not fast food then you would have to drive first to the sign that says Canaan Village Pizza, then you would walk inside and order. This is the relative location of the Mount Cardigan, and the AMC Base lodge. The absolute location of Mt Cardigan is at 43 degrees north, 38 minutes and 57.9 seconds longitude and the latitude is 71 degrees west 54 minutes and 50.7 seconds . This is the absolute location of Mt. Cardigan because it tells the exact place where we were. Not where we were in terms of land marks.

The physical geography of Mt. Cardigan includes trees and hills. On the hike up Mount Cardigan there are many different features such as different types of trees. Red Maple, and Sugar Maple are some examples. There were rivers and little pools that ran all the way down the mountain.As you walked higher and higher, the trees became smaller and smaller. At the top of Mount. Cardigan there were no trees, just pools of wate, and bare rock. These are all examples of physical geography.

On Mount Cardigan there were a lot of cultural geography (made by humans). One of these was a rock wall that was falling. Along the rock wall were dead, rotten, apple trees. They were there because long ago humans made the hill into an apple orchard, and farm. Another example was a rope tow that skiers would use to go up the mountain to ski back down. There was also a car to power the rope tow. Some trails at Mount Cardigan were started by hikers who did not want to go on the regular hike, but instead they went off the trail. This is an example of cultural geography they were made by nature.

We were at Cardigan for three days, a very rainy,wet and muddy Wensday,September 30,2015. A cool and hard hike on Thursday, October 1,2015. Also a cold and fun on Friday, October 2, 2015.