The art of hiking

 Today is day 13. Today we worked on our book. We started and pretty much finished our page for the Bulkhead. Lola and Bean did their parts in the writing. I did the writing topo map which was different from the others. Our book is getting binded together and we are finishing final touches. We did 2.5 hours and we 56 hours. I’m excited to be done. 

  Kelby Whitehead Hiking in New Hampshire Kelly Griffin-Brown May 21, 2023  Week 2 reflection           Our week as been almost spot on with timing and planning other then throwing another hike in, in our own proctor woods. This is week was very similar to last week with our schedule. We completed Mt Kersarge, Smith Pond and Bulk Head. We hiked these three mountains on Monday, Thursday and Friday. Our book is moving smoothly with next week only having to complete one more page and final touches on the book timing is looking perfect. I’m excited to show the community what we have been working on although I’m sad it’s coming to an end.           Mt Kersarge was a very fun hike and we had a few other groups join us for the adventure. The drive up was beautiful and the day we did it was perfect. The green trees we perfectly lined up the road into the state park. There was even a playgroup at the bottom of the trailhead. The actual hike was pretty gradual but with one straight up boulder ro

  Day 12. Today we went to campus to work on our book. We completed our fourth page for Mt Kersarge. We filled our template and filled the theme of our book to make it look aesthetically pleasing. We are moving along well.  I did the topo map again by hand. We are planning on completing our page for bulkhead on Monday and Tuesday for final touches. Over all we spent 2.5 in total we are at 53.5. I’m excited we finished our hikes and ready for next weeks fun to began and preset our project.  

 Day 11. Today we woke up bright and early and decided to hike in our own woods. We hiked up the bulkhead and I’ll be honest it I was not having it. Once we made it to the top however it wasn’t bad. The only memory I have with this bike is hiking it sophomore year with mac house and Kyle. It was a haul and I was scared to do it again, but it felt like a closing Verona on my proctor career with a full circle moment. So I’m happy we did. In total it took us 6 hours and our total is 51 for the project. We will finish pages for both hikes from here on out and final touches on our book. 

  Day 10. Today we woke up bright and early and made it to the trailhead of my Kersarge. We met up with the trash group and with grace for a joint hike. It was a pretty hard hike but not super long we made it up in about two but hung out at the top for a while. We went in fire tower and met a man named Ron. He worked at the top and looked for fires. He saw a brush fire but showed us how he calls it in and how he knows exactly where it is. It’s very intercut but very cool. We also sat up there to get out of the wind. Tmr we will hike we aren’t sure where yet but it won’t be a crazy long one. It took us 6 hours leaving us at 45 hours total for our project.  

  Day 9. Today we went to campus bright and early to finish our third page. We woke up at 6:30 and were at campus at 7:30 because Bean had faculty meeting. We added stickers and finished designs and I finished the topo map by adding our photos. We also begun planning doing one more hike because we think we could get like the Bulkhead in on Friday and make a page for it. So we talked about how we would squeeze that in. We also started created a table of contents as well as printing out page numbers. By doing this it brought the whole book together and I really like how it looks. Tomorrow we Hike Kearsarge and I’m very excited. We worked for 2.5 hours leaving our project at 39 hours in total.