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Morrigan at Environmental Camp

By Morrigan B,

Blue

October 3rd through October 5th

 

 

Paragraph 1A: Relative Location

   The relative location of Mt. Cardigan is in Alexandria and Orange, New Hampshire.  We left from the Hopkinton Middle/High School, Contoocook New Hampshire.  We drove through Bristol on the way there.

Paragraph1B: Absolute Location

   The absolute location of Mt. Cardigan is N 43°38.846min. W 71° 54.743 min.

The elevation is 2884 where the trees started to be gnarly shaped and all of the branches grew on one side.

   Paragraph 2: Description

 

Physical

Cultural

·      Bare rock top

·      Very steep

·      The temperature gets colder and windier as you reach the summit

·      The trees are gnarly and bent over

·      Bare rock top

·      Bridges

·      Trails

·      Fire Tower at the summit

·      The Cardigan Ski Lodge

 

Paragraph 3: What I learned

I learned about

1.    The different tree zones - coniferous and deciduous

2.    What wintergreen is and how to tell that it is wintergreen and not something else

3.    Sorrel, and that they have red on the bottom of the stem

4.    What a Dragonfly Larva is

5.    The history of the mountain

6.    Yellow birch

7.    The spruces’ history and future

8.    birch in general

9.    And Lots of other stuff!!!!