Movement at Cardigan: Day 1

On October 1st, 2017, half of my grade traveled on the bus to Cardigan Mountain. On our first day at Cardigan Mountain, our group leader, Andy, showed us many different nature forms we had never seen or heard before, one of these was the glacial erratic. Andy explained that glacial erratic are giant boulders that were moved from place to place through a glacier that was over the mountain years ago. This is an example of movement because the glacial erratics moved places around the mountain. Another example of movement at cardigan mountain would be the movement of our class. Throughout the day, our class moved to many different places. At the beginning of the day, we were at our school, in Contoocook NH. By the end of the day we were in bunk rooms at the AMC lodge. We also moved to different places during the day. My group went from the lodge, onto a trail, and stopped at a stream and a pond (sketch below). After moving back toward the lodge, we decided to go on a nature walk, around another pond. At these ponds, we saw many tadpoles, who were moving around after some of my groupmates were throwing rocks at them. Later in the day, we sat by one of the ponds, and did owl calls. After a while, we called in a barred owl. The owl moved from tree to tree.

This is the pond that had lots of tadpoles, but my group scared most of them away.

This is the first stream we hiked to.

These solar panels are infront of the AMC lodge, and the first thing my group decided to sketch.

Photos by R. Woolner

Sketches by Kally B.