POBR Day 3



7/8/19
Day three, Captain’s log: My #1 Crew was on breakfast detail this morning. Flapjacks for everyone! Regular and chocolate chip, you can guess which ones were popular amongst the campers. Once we were all full, bellies no longer grumbling, we loaded up and headed to Potato Hill! Beautiful, but sadly with the overcast Mt.Adams was not in view, barely up to playing peek-a-boo with its bottom half. Still a splendid hike otherwise, I really need to do more cardio *phew*.

Stopped in and took in the majesty of the huge ponderosa pine, it boasts the title of the “Oldest tree in the state” was a nice little pit stop, I fell asleep on the drive back to camp….obviously.
Flower Pressing: Exactly what it sounds like haha, but really though, collected leaves and flowers while on our hike at Potato Hill, it seems like the fields were a lot more lush as a child, but it could just be the wrong season…. Im not sure myself what can be done to revive this area, a controlled burn perhaps, maybe just closing it up even, at least for a couple seasons, to let nature come in and reclaim the area. I know that would be difficult and sad considering my people have been coming up here for several generations to live and harvest berries, but who knows, it may be necessary. As I said though, I wouldn’t know entirely what to do. Those are my thoughts, but would like to study up on the subject. Preservation and nature, the environment, otherwise how will our children know….. that would be a travesty, for our children to no longer have a mountain to call home. Nowhere to go when they feel that urge to connect and be one with the land… Anyway, those are my thoughts at the moment. And no longer feel like discussing the matter at this time.
Pressed the flowers and leaves collected, can’t wait to see how those turn out and to learn the names of them all, always SO fun to learn these things, and have my brain enriched with such knowledge.

End of the day circle time: Discussion about possible causes of the slow death of the huckleberry. Smart group of people weve got here, a lot of pretty sound theories. I hope that someone can figure out how to save them, as they are an integral part of our way of life. Dr.Black told us all about this group of people who have spliced huckleberry with blueberry so that they could mass grow these monstrosities at lower altitudes….. SO unnatural and its just asking for a punishment from nature…..

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