My Cardigan Trip

September 30 - October 2 2015

By Maurgan M

Yellow group

This is a picture of the bridge at Baileys Brook. This is an example of human environment interaction because people built the bridge.

At Mt. Cardigan there are many things to see and do. Cardigan is in Alexandria and Orange New Hampshire. Location is where a place is. Relative location is the things or places that is near the location. It is also very close to a town called Orange New Hampshire. There are other mountains near Cardigan as well. Firescrew and Orange mountain are two mountains that are near Cardigan. The lodge that we stayed in is obviously near Cardigan as well. Absolute location is the latitude and longitude of the place. The absolute location of Cardigan Mountain is 43 degrees north 38 minutes and 57.9 seconds and is 71 degrees west 54 minutes and 50.7 seconds.

There is a lot of physical geography up on Cardigan. There was a lot of trees. We saw many different kinds such as the Hemlock, Maple, Beech, and Birch. You can kind of tell what kind of tree it is based on the bark or the leaves. We also saw two kinds of pine trees. There was the White Pine and the Scotch Pine. Most of the leaves on the trees had changed color. There was some green, red, orange, and yellow. Not only were there a bunch of trees but there were also some rivers. There was one that was called Baileys Brook. We did a stream study there and we tested the water and found lots of bugs. There was a lot of cool things that were not man made.

Not all of the geography was physical. There was also some cultural geography at Cardigan. One thing was the lodge. The lodge was obviously man made so it is cultural because cultural geography has to do with humans. Some of the trails were made by people too. They would paint little marks along the trail so you wouldn't get lost or take the wrong trail. Another example of cultural geography is the bridges over the rivers. They were probably made so you wouldn't have to walk on the rocks or in the river. There were also some steps at steep parts or muddy part that people made for the same reason as the bridges. There was a lot of interesting cultural geography at Cardigan.

We were there for day 1 (Wednesday), day 2(Thursday), and day 3 (Friday).