Day 2 of My Glacialtastic Trip to Cardigan
By: Will C
Green group
October 2 2017
On the second day at our stay at the Mount Cardigan AMC Lodge, we all woken up at 6:00 just to wait another hour for breakfast. Most cabins woke just spent the whole time before breakfast talking or playing cards in their room. At breakfast, we had eggs, bacon, juice, hashbrowns, and biscuits, which were pretty good. Once everyone finished their meal, we were sent to our rooms to pack our bags and get appropriate clothes on for hiking cardigan. Every group met at a specific place, my group met in the field with all of the solar panels. Once everyone was ready and properly equipped for hiking, we set off to hike firescrew.
In the beginning of the hike there were a lot of blazes and trailheads that indicated which way to go. After we passed about 3 hiking groups, the landscape changed from being the lush birch forest, to harsh rocky environment, so did the way the trail showed us where to go. In the rock covered environment, the trail had cairns that people stacked to show where to go where there weren't trees to spray paint on, this is an example of human environment interaction because humans interact with the environment by making cairns and painting on trees to show where the trail goes. On our climb up firescrew, we came to a trailhead that had an arrow pointing to an old ski trail. According to Andy, people used to ski down cardigan and firescrew. I found that interesting because I like to downhill ski, and I never knew that some people skied on cardigan and firescrew.
Our group reached the top of cardigan after summiting firescrew at 12:00. We walked around the bald peak of cardigan for about a half hour waiting for the rest of the groups to arrive. We took a look at the firetower, and all of its supports, and the metal circle in the solid rock ground. It had had some engravings on it that said when it was put in, by who, and what the name of the mountain was, mount cardigan. When most of the groups headed back to the main lodge, our group pioneered out to south peak, and then rimrock, where we found a long cairn wall right in front of a pretty skyline. After that we hiked for another 2 and a half hours until the main lodge was in sight. Then we all sprinted the final 100 feet of the trail and raced inside to hang out with our friends.
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