Zach
Today, we trekked across the great landscape of Glacier National Park, specifically, Macdonald Lake and Anna & Josh’s cabin there. We snowshoed pretty far, about an hour and 15 minutes, and then trekked the whole way back, resulting in around a 2:30 hour hike. The hike was a blast! I was with Alex a majority of the time (as always), and he kept flat tiring me with his snowshoes. It eventually got super annoying, and I tried to push him into the snow, but he didn’t fall, but I did. Not only that, but This was all quite fun, and the whole squad had a blast! Many pictures were taken, as always, and I successfully stayed silent 9 mins and 52 seconds! HOW COULD I FORGET????? IT WAS MR KELLY’S BIRTHDAY TODAY!!!! WE SANG HAPPY BIRTHDAY A TOTAL OF ABOUT 19 TIMES! Happy birthday Mr. Kelly! After writing this blog, I’m almost positive we’re going to the hot tub (first time on this trip!) Soooo yeah! Have a great day EA parents!
RJ
We also learned about avalanches. Our speaker today, Zach, told us about the causes of avalanches and how we can prevent, prepare, and determine how to deal with avalanches. Apparently there are many different ways to trigger an avalanche and also different types of avalanches. The different types of avalanches refer to the composition of the snow; they can be dry, wet, slab, and soft avalanches. Soft avalanches are like powder slides whereas wet avalanches are where there are large chunks of snow that come traveling down also. Ways to be safe and be rescued in avalanches are by using a beacon and also carrying a snow probe and shovel. This allows people to find you and also allows you to find people and dig them out.
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