My 3 Days at Cardigan Mountain




By:Charlotte T.

Green Group

Semptember/22,23,24/2021

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Cardigan is north of Hopkinton and is 30 miles away. Cardigan is located in Alexandria which is West of Bristol and New Hampton.The Latitude of Cardigan is 43 degrees 38 Minutes 58.2 seconds and the Longitude is W 071 degrees 52 Minutes 37.7 Seconds.

At the peak of Firescrew you can see the blueish grayish fire tower at Cardigan and the people there too. This kind of Geography is cultural, anything that has to do with people. At Cardigan there is a trail called the Back 80 trail and on that trail there is a cellar hole that just has stone walls, no roof. On another trail which is called the mushroom trail has a man made light brown, wooden bridge, slippery,dark wooden planks, and a stone dam that has a giant gap in the middle.One of the trails had an old, rusty, broken down car from the 1980s with bullet holes. At the bottom of the mountain there is a manmade pond that is used for swimming.

Cardigan Is 3155 ft above sea level. Cardigan has many trails, and one of them is called the mushroom Trail. Everywhere you look and everywhere you turn to see many kinds of colors of mushrooms. You even see a river nearby with hudge, slippery rocks, and tall, very green hemloks everywhere. Cardigan has a trail called the 80 around Trail which takes you all the way around cardigan. people hike to the top of Cardigan and sometimes some people cross a saddle to get to the fire screw which has a beautiful view where you can trees of all colors, and giant dark blue lakes. You can see the sumit of cardigan from the fire screw. At the top of the cardigan you can also see where people have carved their names into the stone and written their names on the Firepower to tell people that they made it.On one of the trails if you take a right you can hike up a little Hill and at the top is a broken down car from the 1980s with bullet holes and was used as a ski lift.

We were there for three days, September the 22,23,24 on a Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 8:30am to 2:30 ish .