At Environmental Camp, my hiking group started off the hike by choosing roles in the group. We ate lunch, and headed off on the trail beside the field with the solar panels. Our group started back to the lodge after we reached the waterfall, where everybody in the group, with the exception of two adults, waded through the freezing-cold water and gathered on the " -.Gathering Rock". After that, our group hiked back to the Lodge, stopping and hearing the story of the Hemlocks from Mr. Woolner along the way. Once back, we had dinner and interacted with the environment during the night hike that followed. This was because we went into the woods, where we discovered tricks for seeing in the dark (humans adapting to environment), and we called owls (environment adapting to humans). The day ended after story time that night, and everybody went to bed.
This is a Birch Tree sketch, the first object we had stopped to sketch during the hike. We found this funny looking tree near the Cardigan camp sites.
This is a sketch of a Hobble Bush leaf, which we had stopped to sketch before reaching the river.
This is a sketch of the Gathering Rock, a rock our group named when we visited Welton Falls. The members of our group, with the exception of 2 chaperones, waded through the freezing cold waterand pulled each other up onto the rock.
Besides the river in which the Gathering Rock resided, a large, rotted tree had fallen, and that is what is in the sketch above.
The final Day 1 sketch is of a Hemloc tree cone. After we'd started back to the Lodge, we caught up with Mr. Woolner's hilking group, where he sat us down and told us the story of the Hemloc's.