My Crazy Cardigan Adventure

September 28-30 2016

Green Group (D1 B4)

Lucy B

This shows the movement of the students to Cardigan

Firescrew is located at N:43 degrees 54 minutes 21.8 seconds W: 71 degrees 54 minutes 29.4 seconds . It is located in Alexandria, NH and is west of Mt.Cardigan. At the summit, most of the ground is rock, yet species of plants live there. Fur trees, lichen, black spruce and big alosafer are the most commonly found on the Firescrew peak. The view at the top is unlike any other. From there you can see the rolling hills, mountain summits, windmills, lush forests below and birds flying overhead. Firescrew is truly an amazing experience.

Cardigan is an amazing place to observe nature . There, you can see tons of amazing things in nature such as Indian Cucumber, Dragon Plantae, pretty rivers and all different kinds of trees. Many of these things are special to Cardigan itself. There are not many other places that have the view of forests changing with seasons, a rockysummit, misty mountain tops in the distance, little water pools all on the peak . You can also find many different plant species that have come to be in these forests such as Scottish Fir . As beautiful as nature is we can never forgot that there is more to Cardigan than looks, there is the lifestyle.

The people, what they do and their lifestyle is different and special compared to a normal person's life. The trail guides at AMC lodge help with a lot of things around Cardigan. They help keep trails clear, put bridges where there are streams or rivers and they make sure that the trail is safe for hikers. The cultural aspects are also different. There they do things such as ORT ( where you try and get as least scraps as you can) and play games and sing songs. In all these ways, Cardigan is a special and beautiful place.

We were there for 3 days. Wednesday, day 1, we went to Welton falls. On day 2, Thursday we climbed Cardigan and Firescrew. Friday, our last day there, we did a nature loop.

Creative Commons License
Postcard of Cardigan by LB is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.