Our First Day

After breakfast and our morning session today we learned how to cross country ski. We were supposed to learn at the "playground" near where cars park, but we couldnt due to a licking moose. Mr. Angelo's white Toyota Tacoma was being tenderly loved by a large female moose. Her soft tongue was licking every inch of Mr. Angelo's car it could find. So, we had to learn how to ski at a different area. To any bystander I am sure we looked ridiculous because everyone was falling left and right. We were split up into groups, then we went off into the field. My group started out by learning about the sage. We were taught why the sage are where they are, and how they adapt to the winter cold.
After that, it was time for lunch, which we ate in the riparian community. Next, we skiied up to the Aspen Trees. Our instructor hid candy for us, and we had to pretend we were animals foraging for food to survive. Almost all of us "survived" but there were some who did not. We also dug a snow pit in the aspen community and checked the depth and tempertature of it. Then, we skiied to the Conifer community and we had to decide why the conifers lived where they did. After much decifering and deciding as a group, we came up with the right answer. We also dug a snowpit there and compared it with the data we found in the aspens. We then went up to upper meadow and also dug a snow pit to comapre with our previous results. After the long, treacherous, and dangerous journey down the hill we arrived back at the camp. I learned a lot today and am exited for the rest of the week.
-Alex May