Green Group

September 23, 2021

Cardigan Mountain Trip, Day 2

It was another dark and foggy day at Cardigan. Despite our tiredness, we still walked off the bus with a hint of eagerness and curiosity on what the day had in store for us. We got off on the hike in a timely manner. So before we knew it we were treading up the mountain, still occasionally stopping to play little games and take rests. It started raining more than once, and by the time we got to pj ledge to stop for lunch, our backpacks were soaking wet. Although the sun came out for us a little bit during our lunch break. Our guide Tom had said that with these conditions It may not be safe to go up to the summit, and if it kept pouring then we’d have to go back down. We were disappointed at the thought of not being able to achieve the biggest part of the entire trip. But the rain slowed and so kept going. Once we were close to the summit, rock-climbing up the steep plains, it started down-pouring, the wind was speeding up whipping our raincoats into shreds. We all had second thoughts, it was getting dangerous. But oh we were so close! We stopped and had a sip of water while Tom made a decision. We were surprised when he let us keep going. By the time we could see the cairns at the top of the mountain, we started sprinting, sprinting to the top. And the rest was history.

Day 2 Theme - Movement

Our second day at Cardigan would represent movement as a theme. On account of this was the day that we made it to the summit. So therefore our bodies were moving, from the base lodge all the way up to the top of Mount. Cardigan. Another way that this day fits the theme of movement is the movement of the entire idea of humans hiking up a mountain for pure enjoyment or education. According to Google, this idea moved from Europe in the eighteenth century all the way to our school in Hopkinton, and of course since then, all around the rest of the world as well. We also threw our apple cores off the edge of Pj ledge. And apple trees are not native to cardigan mountain so we were moving apple seeds from hopkinton, all the way to cardigan to potentially grow into apple trees. And of course there are many streams that we passed on the hike, moving from Cardigan to the Atlantic ocean.