Our first day on skis started off pretty well for the Hoohah Hoohah Booyahs. After a quick series of trips around a grid, we faced off against other group members in a challenging game of Sharks and Minnows on skis. After this, the groups split up and departed. Our group leader, Derek, had experience tracking wolves in Alaska, Maine, and the Carolinas. Everyone in our group took to skiing pretty well, but falling was unavoidable. After skiing a short distance, we had a scavenger hunt for calories that could be used for survival. We broke for lunch around 11-12 o'clock and split into three person groups to conduct our experiments, which all dealt with the way organisms adapt to winter conditions. However, the most exciting part of the day was when we found tracks and studied them. Afterwards, our entire group continued past 4:00 following these tracks up the side of a ridge, with everyone slipping. During the ski down the hill, we discovered that cross-country skis cannot turn very well. There were some spectacular crashes. After a hard ski back, we arrived just in time for dinner.
Seth Zost
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