Cea A. Day One at Cardigan 10/23/17

On day one at Mount Cardigan we did many things involving movement. First off, we rode the bus. It took us from the Hopkinton Middle High School and to the AMC (Appalachian Mountain Club) Lodge. We then moved our things from Mr. Woolner's trailer to our bunks. The trail guides brought us outside to play games. Then we met with our guide to start the hike to Welton Falls.

We used movement to get there, and our ideas moved with us, too. There was a cellar hole on the way to the trailhead, where someone had moved there, built a house, and then moved away again. We hiked to a small stream and, of course, the water and some of the [rolling] rocks were moving with it. We saw woodpeckers darting around and pecking at trees. After we explored that, we continued our hike to the falls. We went to a small cave in the rocks above the falls. The water was falling down even larger rocks and flowed downstream. We were climbing around on some of the boulders in the stream that the waterfall led to, and I almost slipped off of one and fell right into the water. After that, we did a bunch of sketching and walked back.

When we returned to the lodge, we ate dinner and then went back outside where we were blindfolded and told to do a sort of conga line chain, and our unblinded guide led us into the woods. In the woods at the trailhead to Winston Falls, we played bat and moth which is basically marco polo but with clapping. We also blindfolded a person and put them in the middle and we all gathered around them and started clapping, and they had to point where the clap came from. Then we had solo time where we went off on our own in the woods and laid down for ten minutes to look at the stars. To conclude, there are lots of things that had to do with movement on day one of our Cardigan trip.