Nate – Jan. 5 2016
Today started out pretty slow. Rising for our bagel and oats breakfast at 8:30. However, our trip started much earlier. The previous night after we arrived around 5 o’clock we had a delicious chicken burrito meal and entered our first of many group meetings. The main event of the night was the water tossing; we boiled water and tossed it off the porch and into the -7 degree air. A cloud of snow shortly followed in the waters path. We learned that in these meetings we discuss the following day (what to bring, wear, etc.). After our morning meeting and breakfast, we suited up, packed our lunches and fitted our snowshoes ready to tackle the hike ahead of us throughout the Green Valley Ranch.
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Soon after getting used to our new snowshoes, we started to walk down the path. This was our first time being out in the cold for a longer stretch of time, so several of us took some to adjust layers adequately. We eventually arrived at the top of a hill, looking down about 30 feet in to a little valley filled with pine trees. We were then introduced to this quote: “There is pleasure in the pathless woods”. We then made our own path into the bottom of the valley. After descending into the valley, we snowshoe to a beautiful frozen lake. It was incredible; the lake was surrounded by pine trees, with an amazing mountain backdrop. We ate lunch at the lake and then returned to our lodge. After arriving we watched a video about fire watchtowers in Montana, and read old newspapers about the forest fires around glacier in 2003. We shared each of our articles, and then ate mac and cheese with chicken and salad for dinner.
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