Friday, October 10, 2014
Touchdown LGA!
The Moose have landed, and we are safe and sound.
I will let you know when we have boarded the buses and are headed home to Lincoln Place! Yeah yeah!
Denver to LGA: update- 11:30pm (estimated) arrival at LGA
Departure time was delayed 20 minutes due to air traffic, so we are scheduled to touch down at LGA around 11:30pm. We are all safely on board after a long dinner in the Denver food court. Students spent the remaining time at the gate playing cards, reading magazines, talking, and bonding. I am betting this will be a more quite leg than the one on Monday.
I will post again when we land and again when we have boarded busses back to BC.
Touchdown Denver (Lions not Broncos)
Members of the Lions' 406 mile TD scoring drive into the Denver end zone, urrrr, airport: Imogen, Claire, and Emily.
Jackson to Denver Flight
We are on time to make our connector in the Mile High City. We will touch base from Denver before we board and again when we arrive at LGA.
Heading out, tears and smiles!
For some it's tears, for some it's smiles, but I think we are mostly all ready to get back to Brooklyn. We had a great Debriefing this morning with the staff and had our last moments in the true wilderness.
Last selfie, I promise! At the airport, Here we come
BROOKLYN!!
Service project with the Pronghorns Yesterday
By Mr. Swift
The second half of the day was spent back on base camp practicing our leadership skills on the low ropes course. The students planned and worked together to complete all the challenges successfully.
After a quick hour break, we then headed back out into the field for dinner to learn about how elk behave. Bugling refers to the sounds made during mating by the Elks. We acted out skits to learn about how elk behaved during all four seasons, and then we drove to a secluded area where we sat for about 45 minutes at the base of a mountain in the dark, and we drew and mapped out the area in order to mark wherever we heard bugling. It was truly an awe inspiring experience for all of us.
And of course the day would not be officially ended without a classic Mr. Swift selfie!
Yesterday we spent the first half of the day breaking down Barbwire fences at a new location for the Teton school. It was great because we got to drive through a huge mountain pass through the Tetons and into Idaho! Here are some photos of pronghorns hard at work on the farm!
The second half of the day was spent back on base camp practicing our leadership skills on the low ropes course. The students planned and worked together to complete all the challenges successfully.
After a quick hour break, we then headed back out into the field for dinner to learn about how elk behave. Bugling refers to the sounds made during mating by the Elks. We acted out skits to learn about how elk behaved during all four seasons, and then we drove to a secluded area where we sat for about 45 minutes at the base of a mountain in the dark, and we drew and mapped out the area in order to mark wherever we heard bugling. It was truly an awe inspiring experience for all of us.
And of course the day would not be officially ended without a classic Mr. Swift selfie!
8th Grade Boys Enter Purgatory--Obliged to Clean, Vacuum and Generally Leave No Traces
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Mule Deers: Stewardship and Low Ropes Course
Today, Mule Deers worked together to haul lumber that will be used to construct a new bridge on a bike trail in the town of Wilson.
To further motivate the Mule Deer, the game of poker was introduced. Each time a load was successfully delivered each Mule Deer received a playing card. We're still not entirely sure who held the winning hand.
Once back at TSS, everyone pitched in to clean the van.
Next, it was on to a warm-up for the Low Ropes Challenge Course. Mule Deers had to sit in a circle, legs outstretched, cross their arms to clasp a neighbor's hand and work together to figure out how to stand up - at the same time... this proved to be extremely challenging but did produce some excellent teamwork.
Coyotes spend the day on the challenge course then practice Stewardship and end of trip clean-up.
Our guides for the day were Kelsie and Laura
This was followed by lunch and then a short van ride to The Teton Research Institute where we met our guide Annie. She explained to us that we would be practicing "Stewardship" by way of blazing a new trail up the side of a mountain.
On our way a random bone was spotted and the group took turns suggesting what animal it might have belonged to.
Trail blazing is both fun and arduous work as the pack made it's way through sage brush and around dead tree limbs and fox holes.
Finally we reached the top where we hydrated and took the mandatory group shot and began our decent.
Being that today is our last day of activities the Coyotes clean out the vans and washed out the Hoorahs.
Tonight there will be dinner then some Night Hikes.
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