The Day That Came Second - Region(s)

By John N.

092318

On day 2, the hiking group I was in hiked up to the top of Firescrew and then up to the summit of Cardigan. OOH! THIS IS A GREAT PLACE TO TALK ABOUT A THEME OF GEOGRAPHY! I would use location as that theme of geography, but I already did that somewhere else. So how about using REGIONS! Regions are (if you did not know) areas defined by something. Mt. Cardigan itself contains three regions, defined mostly by the plant covering (or lack thereof). The first region is contains mostly deciduous trees with some coniferous trees and some ferns and such on the ground. As for the second region, there are a lot less deciduous trees and mostly coniferous trees and ferns. The third and final region has very little trees, and when there are trees, they are only at most 10 feet tall. As for the entire mountain, it is in a culturally defined region called “The United States of America”. Going up Firescrew, there were many stops for sketching things like tree leaves and such. Most of the people in my group (including myself) did not appreciate this very much, especially on the last day, although that does not belong in this section of writing. Despite not liking the sketching, I still did it, and produced the below sketches. As for the hiking itself, I ended up being in front for about 98% of the time, even though I was not the person who was supposed to be setting the pace. That would be Ben (although names do not really matter if you do not know who that is). Sometimes I would tell Ben that “Leadership should be in front”. This also caused someone (I forget who) to hold a vote whether or not I should replace Ben’s job. Sadly for Ben, people voted me up, although the people who didn’t vote for me still treated Ben like the pace setter (not the pacemaker).

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