My Epic Journey To The Summit of Cardigan Mountain

September 28-30

By: Naomi R.

Yellow group (D2B3)

Location

Cardigan mountain is located in the town of Alexandria, New Hampshire. Actually, it is west of Alexandria, east of Orange, and North of Grafton.The absolute location, or coordinates, of Cardigan Mountain is 43 degrees, 38 minutes and 58.8 seconds north and 071 degrees, 54 minutes and 51.7 seconds west. The AMC lodge is at the bottom of the mountain. The summit of the mountain was beautiful, there were so many different kinds of trees and plants. There were towns, roads, houses, and other buildings that could be seen from the top, as well as nice green mountains in the distance. You could also see Newfound Lake from the summit. It was sunny but freezing and the summit was bare, smooth rock, sprinkled with patches of trees. There was a really cool firetower on the top, too, and a little puddle of water. Cardigan was lush with plants and vegetation, and a lot of different colored moss and strange shaped mushrooms.

Place- Physical

There are many cultural features that make Cardigan very special. One of these great features is that there was ancient graffiti. People from a long time ago carved their names and dates into the surface of the rocks! Such rebels! Anyway, another mighty fine cultural feature of cardigan was the ski trails. We went up to the top of one of the trails and there was a ski lift that looked like it was a million years old. It was powered by a car engine when it still worked. The car that the once-working engine belonged to was also up there. It was all rusty and falling apart. A little past its prime if you ask me. Yet a third cultural feature of Cadigan that made it so special was the fire tower on the summit. It was attached to the mountain with a series of cables.

Place- Cultural

There were a lot of physical features at cardigan that made it really stand out. One of these features was the scenery. There were many different kinds of trees, including Hemlock, Spruce, and The Saw Toothed Aspen. But let's not forget the legendary hempel. Another example of a very unique physical feature at Cardigan was the rocks. Of course, the whole mountain was rock, but there were some really cool slopes and rock towers built by tourists. Those were neat. I tried to build one but I dont have the mad balancing skills that it takes. Another cool physical feature of Cardigan was the water. For example there was a big puddle with grass on it near the summit, and a smaller puddle at the summit. There were also little streams along the trails. We found an incredibly weird egg mass in one of the streams. Anyway, Cardigan was a very beautiful and different place.

We were away at the mountains for three days, Wednesday , Thursday, and Friday.
Postcard image from Cardigan by N.R. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.