Tuesday, February 12, 2008

tracking adventure/ experience

The day started out with waking up an half an hour earlier, which was six thirty. We all got dressed and met at the (MLR) Main Lodge Room, this is where we met to see if everyone was here together. We walked about thirty yards to eat brakefast which was amazing. It consisted of pancakes, sausage, cereal, and various types of jucies. After eating we came back to the MLR to play a team bonding/ competition in a game called Balderdash. A vocabulary game, in which we must write the definition and try to get the other teams to vote for your answer to gain points. After all the discussion and competitive spirits blew over, we went out to rent our cross country skies. Getting comfortable with the skies, we took trails to places that lead us to one of the most exciting places we visited all day, the wolf tracks in the teton mountains. We looked, studied, measured, and followed the tracks. After getting all of our information from our studies we discovered they were the tracks of a pack of wolves. We saw the scat (poop) and found out what kind of meat they had eaten. They were eating pretty healthy. Before it was time to go back to camp we followed the tracks up into the higher teton mountain. Even though it took alot of effort and energy to travel to the top of the ridge when we turned around to look at what we had accomplished, there was no doubt that everyone was amazed at what we were looking at. The scene looking over the whole teton valley with the sun grazing over the snow, lakes, and hills. Being so dazed about the tracks of a pack of wolves, they actually took us to something even more beautiful and breath taking. having thought our day was completed when we got back to camp.
Lewis Walker

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