Day 2 at Cardigan

Red Group D2B2

By Ryan B

On the second day, Thursday, September 23, 2021, it was the second day at Cardigan. Today, we knew we would be hiking. My group (which was called Doofensmirch, by the evil doctor from Phineas and Ferb) started hiking up the Firescrew mountain. It was raining on and off, frustratingly, because we would put our raincoats on, and then get a bit too warm, take them off, put them off, it was just a whole big confusing process.

We stopped at a viewpoint to eat our lunch, and sketched the viewpoint, and Cha cha explained to all of us what Musabi was, and apparently it is like sushi, with rice, soy sauce, and spam. As we ventured up the mountain, it got VERY steep, and it was sort of scary and exhilarating at the same time. We started saying parkour if we encountered anything even remotely difficult, but made it more interesting by having, obviously parkour, the original, which was used if we had to take a small leap or something hardcore parkour, which was something very difficult par, something that is easy but has the smallest challenge and core, where the difficulty was almost nonexistent.

At the top of Firescrew, we had the most fun we had had the entire field trip. We played camouflage, did cartwheels, (yes, on the rock summit of a mountain..) and ran around, as well as drew a couple sketches. After that fun experience, we decided to go up Cardigan, which probably took a little less than a half an hour from Firescrew. It was really windy! We tried to sketch, but it was hard with the pages blowing around. We took a picture, climbed back down, and that was the end of day 2.

I assigned day 2 of our Cardigan field trip the theme region, because on that day we hiked up both Mount Firescrew and Mount Cardigan. This counts as region because there are three zones: The northern hardwood zone, the boneal zone, and the alpine zone, which is where we were at the summits of both mountains. The alpine zone has a lot of lichen, moss and broken/fragile trees. The plants growing on the bare rock summit were rare, so we had to be careful not to step on them. All in all, I assigned day 2 region because we were at the tops of mountains, where the alpine zone was clearly shown.