Day Two of Learning and Fun at Cardigan Mountain
By ME
September 26th, 2022
Last Updated December 9, 2022
Day Two at Cardigan was spent mainly doing our longest hike of the trip, our main goal. Our group hiked up Vistamont trail, where we saw quite a few views and stopped several times to sketch. While we were there, we ate a snack. After we walked across the ride to Cardigan, on our way learned a couple walking songs and a few games. One of those games was a counting game, where each person could say one number, but you couldn not say the same number at the same time. We made it all the way to 100. While hiking the ridge we learned about the Borrial and Hardwood zones, or the areas where certain trees tend to grow. Once we reached the top of Cardigan, we saw the firetower and ate lunch of ham sandwiches and Welch's fruit gummies. Then the whole group took a picture, and then split up to go down. Our group went down the main Cardigan trail. We saw the warden cabin and then stopped at the High Cabin to sketch and hear a story about how forests grow. We took a lot of GPS waypoints and stopped to sketch every quarter mile. When we returned to the AMC Lodge, we had about an hour of free time before we had dinner, which was Hamburgers, and then we held the reptiles and had a campfire. Our group made a skit about LEAVE NO TRACE, where an animal died because it ate trash. After out bedtime story, about different kinds of birds, we went upstairs to our bunk rooms. It sounded like the boys in the room above were summoning a demon, pounding on the walls and floors until exactly 10:00. Which was lights out. Cardigan was an amazing experience and we had achieved our goal and the purpose of the trip: hiking Cardigan.
Human-Environment Interaction- How humans and the environment interact and change one another.
One of the things we learned at Cardigan on our longer hike was Human-Environment Interaction, or how the environment changes because of humans, or how humans change because of the environment. Some of the examples of this were the stonewalls we came across while hiking, the ski trails cleared for humans, and the clothing humans wear to hike. The stone walls are an example of how humans change the environment, as well as the ski trails being cleared. However, what humans wear outside is ultimately dependent on the weather, an example of how the environment changes us. The environment changes us and we change the environment constantly.
