September 20, 2021
The first thing we did on day two was get on the bus. When we got to the mountain, we got into our hiking groups and prepared for our hike. We started our journey very, very slowly. We had to stop at the beginning of the hike and wait for Henry’s mom to get back from the lodge. While we were waiting, we played a game. Then we kept on hiking up the mountain. We made lots of stops on the way up. For lunch, we ate on a little opening about halfway up the mountain. There were a lot of large, slippery rocks on the way. We played games at almost every stop. When we made it to the top of the mountain, our AMC guide told us it wasn not actually the top and that we had to keep going. This happened four more times until we finally made it to the second-highest point on Firescrew. We ate some snacks while the rest of the group walked up the very top of the mountain. We had many crazy conversations on the way back down. They included things like Michael Jackson, Marvel movies, and school projects. Some people in our group walked very fast and it was hard to keep up. People from the other groups were taking pictures of Aly and me and it was funny to see what they looked like. Max told us stories while we were walking down towards the lodge and while we were taking breaks. We all tripped many times while we were hiking, both up and down the mountain. When we got back to the lodge, we got right on the bus and headed home.
The theme for day 2 is movement. The reason is that people would carry rocks up and down the mountain. On the way up the mountain, I collected many rocks myself and then carried them to the top. I left some in a hole on the second peak and kept some in my bag to bring back down to where I got them originally. Another reason why movement is the theme is that we climbed from the lodge up to the top of Firescrew and or Cardigan Mountain, which is an example because we are moving from place to place. We also went on the bus there and back, which carried us from Hopkinton to Alexandria and back again. More examples of movement are the different types of trees that were moved from other places, either in the country or somewhere international. The final example of movement, is the water. While we were hiking we saw streams and small ponds on our way up the mountain. The water was moving from Cardigan to the Atlantic Ocean.