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the Olympic Peninsula has been conquered
May. 2nd, 2010 04:08 pmI am tired, sore, my room smells like campfire smoke, my feet hurt, and I may have possibly sprained my ankle - in short, it was the perfect weekend.
Blah blah blah we looked at rocks, made sketches, talked about convergent plates and sandstone sea stacks, let's get to the really important part of this trip.
I CLIMBED A TREE.
Even though our teacher hates biology, she took us down what promised to be a pleasant 0.3 mile detour on Big Cedar Road to see, you guessed it, the Big Cedar. We, uh, drove off the road and had the rear right wheel stuck in the mud, the rear left wheel a good 3 inches in the air, and no way to get ourselves out of it. So while waiting for the tow truck to arrive from Forks (erm, I did in fact hope that Charlie Swan would arrive with it, but no dice), we went to find that darn Big Cedar. And it was big. A very nice tree all in all, and I climbed it in four different places, quite high up, got pictures and everything. I approved of that detour. (Also, although no vampires or werewolves, the Kalaloch sheriff did come by when he heard about our predicament, and it was hilarious. He was a caricature of a caricature of a sheriff, complete with chewing tobacco. We got pictures. Muahahaha)
Then we went and made camp - and by 'we' I mean 'the girls' because all four of the guys in our class were a bit useless - putting up tents, making the fire, and cooking. It was really fabulous, all class-bonding and lovely stuff like that.
And then this morning we went to one last beach before coming home, and while most of the class dithered around the trailhead, a few of us took off our shoes and socks and waded through the (freezing cold, I still can't feel my feet) Hoh River delta to go explore more humongous rocks, and it was brilliant. Caves, tide pools, anemones, mussels, starfish....I love the world!
Now I'm rather exhausted and have a lot of homework to do, but it was SO fun.
Blah blah blah we looked at rocks, made sketches, talked about convergent plates and sandstone sea stacks, let's get to the really important part of this trip.
I CLIMBED A TREE.
Even though our teacher hates biology, she took us down what promised to be a pleasant 0.3 mile detour on Big Cedar Road to see, you guessed it, the Big Cedar. We, uh, drove off the road and had the rear right wheel stuck in the mud, the rear left wheel a good 3 inches in the air, and no way to get ourselves out of it. So while waiting for the tow truck to arrive from Forks (erm, I did in fact hope that Charlie Swan would arrive with it, but no dice), we went to find that darn Big Cedar. And it was big. A very nice tree all in all, and I climbed it in four different places, quite high up, got pictures and everything. I approved of that detour. (Also, although no vampires or werewolves, the Kalaloch sheriff did come by when he heard about our predicament, and it was hilarious. He was a caricature of a caricature of a sheriff, complete with chewing tobacco. We got pictures. Muahahaha)
Then we went and made camp - and by 'we' I mean 'the girls' because all four of the guys in our class were a bit useless - putting up tents, making the fire, and cooking. It was really fabulous, all class-bonding and lovely stuff like that.
And then this morning we went to one last beach before coming home, and while most of the class dithered around the trailhead, a few of us took off our shoes and socks and waded through the (freezing cold, I still can't feel my feet) Hoh River delta to go explore more humongous rocks, and it was brilliant. Caves, tide pools, anemones, mussels, starfish....I love the world!
Now I'm rather exhausted and have a lot of homework to do, but it was SO fun.
