On the second day of the Mount Cardigan field trip, my group had breakfast, and shortly after, we started our hike up Firescrew, on the Lower Manning Trail. Our group took our first break in the Hardwood Zone, an example of Regions, one of the five themes of Geography!. The Hardwood Zone is one of the four zones we walked through while hiking the mountains, and is one of the regions of the forest. We continued up Firescrew, stopping about halfway for another break and meeting the other groups at the same resting stop. We continued, breaking often as we climbed up the mountain. The group finally reached the summit after conquering many other "fake summits", and we screamed to Mount Cardigan from the edge of Firescrew- and they actually yelled back! The group took the trail a ways down Firescrew and up to Cardigan, where we met two other groups, had lunch, took a group picture, and toured the fire tower. Our hiking group returned to the lodge after climbing back down Cardigan, and the day ended after dinner, games, skits by the fire, and story time.
This is a sketch of a Beach Tree Leaf, found in the Hardwood Zone when climbing up Firescrew. This is the first object our group stopped to sketch.
This is a Balsom Fir tree leaf, found when hiking up Firescrew.
The sketch above is of a American Mountain Ash leaf, which we encountered and stopped to sketch close to the summit of Firescrew.
This is the last sketch I drew on Day 2 ofthe Cardigan Trip, a sketch of an old tree infested with fungi after it died. Our group, as well as another, encountered this tree on the way back to the Lodge, coming from Mount Cardigan.