By Nate L
Red group d2b4
Mt. Cardigan is a mountain that rises 3,156 feet into the air. On its face many types of trees reside, including striped maple, sugar maple, mountain maple, mountain ash, american beech, spruce, balsam fir, white pine, eastern hemlock, and many more. Also growing on the slope of the mountain are many interesting plants to eat, such as the indian cucumber and sorrel. Fun fact: you can also chew pine needles, but only swallow their juices, not the needles themselves. On the summit of Mt. cardigan, you will find a bare rock face, with a few tiny fir trees growing out of the cracks in the stone.
Sharing the summit with the small trees is an old firetower, made out of wood and metal. If you were to climb up the stairs at the bottom of the tower, you would reach a trap door leading to the interior of the building. I have not been there myself, but I imagine that it looks like the exterior but inside-out. Starting down the slope of the mountain there is an old ski cottage built on stilts sitting among the bushes and firs on the side of a bare rock face covered in lichen. Farther down there is trail signs marking where to go - if you follow certain trails, You will end up at the AMC Cardigan lodge, where we stayed. And now I have described up and back down the mountain.
The location of cardigan can be described in different ways. One of the ways is to show where the absolute location of somewhere there is. The firetower on the summit of cardigan is at 43.649539 degrees -71.914217 degrees. But you can also say where something is in relation to something else. For example, Mt. Cardigan is 31.53 miles north-northwest of my house.
We were there for three days (Wednesday, Thursday and friday`)
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