By Hannah B
Blue group
10-1-17
Day 2 at Cardigan was fun. My day started when I rolled out of my bed with a “thunk” waking my entire bunkroom up accidentally at 5:30 am. For breakfast, we had eggs fruit, hash browns, rolls, bacon, and hot cocoa. After breakfast, my Dad arrived to come hiking with my group. In the morning, we began hiking up firescrew. The first game we played that day with blindfolds and we had to find the tree we were led to by another person with our senses, then sketch it. I got a red spruce. We also saw other trees: like yellow birch, paper birch, and hemlock. At the top of firescrew, there were lichens and mountain cranberries. There was a saddle from firescrew to cardigan, which you could yell across and communicate with another group. Sophia was so tired from hiking, she literally fell asleep on the summit of firescrew. At the top of cardigan, it was completely bare. We took a picture at the top. On our way back, we stopped at the AMC high hut, where we talked about our day hiking.
When we got back to the lodge, I said bye to my Dad and went up to take a shower and prepare for dinner. For dinner, we had multiple lasagnas and salad, with lemon cake for dessert. At nighttime, It was sooo much fun! We gathered around the fire, did funny skits, sang repeat after me songs, and played games. It was really a great time. That night, Mrs. Roberts came into our room to give us candy as bribery to get us to go to sleep.
Day two’s theme of geography is regions. An example of this would be the alpine zone. At the base of the mountain, there are all types of trees; maple, ash, beech, birch, spruce, hemlock, etc. But, at the summit, there are either hardly or no trees at all. These are usually hemlock, birch, and spruce. Also at the top of the mountain, there are alpine bogs. These are all regions.