Seventh Grade Trip to Cardigan Mountain

Harriet P

Blue Group

October 1-3 2017

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Cardigan Mountain can be found using many other places, physical and cultural. Using cultural geography!, it can be found just northwest of the big purple Cardigan AMC lodge. This is where we seventh graders stayed for three days. It can also be found after following a series of hiking trails from the AMC lodge. These trails lead to the summit of the mountain. Lastly, if you see a field containing twelve windmills in the area that Cardigan is in, the mountain is close by. From the summit looking down, you can see these windmills. Those are some of the ways Mount Cardigan can be found using cultural geography.

Physically, Cardigan can be found next to Firescrew Mountain. Both mountains are bald on the top, due to a forest fire years before. There are lots of evergreen trees in the area of Cardigan, and those can also help you with the physical location.

The absolute location of Cardigan Mountain is 43.6498° N, 71.9148° W. Relatively, it is next to firescrew and near the Cardigan Mountain AMC Hut. Using these, you can easily find Mount Cardigan!

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When describing the place of Cardigan mountain, there are aspects of physical geography!, and of cultural.

For example, at Cardigan you can find some really cool plants such as hobblebush, lichen and various kinds of evergreen trees. These are physical, as they are natural to the area and not manmade. You can also find a lot of beaver ponds, rivers and streams. When you start to get higher up the mountain, you start to see more gray rocks and glacial erratics. The weather is warm and dry, but can also be cool and wet. It varies on when you come to the mountain.

To view some cultural details, Cardigan has trails you can hike up, marked with trail blazes and cairns (rocks stacked in formations to show where a trail is). You can tell these features are cultural because they are human-made. There are also campsites along the trails that you can stay at, and the huge purple AMC lodge. Along the trails are the wardens cabin, the high cabin, and at the summit of Cardigan you can see the firetower.

There is also something about the place of Cardigan that is both physical and cultural. Both Cardigan and its neighboring mountain, Firescrew, have bare rock summits from a forest fire that raged through them years before. This is a physical aspect because it has to do with the forest and the summit. Yet it is cultural, because it was obviously a fire set by humans.

We seventh graders spent three days at the Cardigan Lodge - Sunday, October 1st, Monday, October 2 and Tuesday, October 3rd.

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