Road trip


Blog 4


07/09/19

Today was an early start and as usual we started with packing our bags and being in a rush to make breakfast. We needed to collect the game cameras to see if we even got anything, me and Grayson set out to see if we got anything interesting and our first two camera traps were easy to get because they were right next to our camp. The last trail cam was a different story we had to cross the Klickitat River to collect it. We got our waiters to collect the last camera, our co-director for the camping trip Jessica Black was showing us what we collected. I was a little disappointed that we didn’t see anything big. We seen two squirrels in the camera trap next to our campsite so I can’t complain, we seen more than the other groups. After everyone collected their own camera traps we headed for warm springs. When we got there I think myself and everyone thought it was going to be a forest area but it was an urban park area. When we got there it was raining and humid, we set up our tents and in the distance we could hear people that were up to no good so we decided to keep our distance from them. As soon as everyone got their tents set up it was about dinner time and Brandon came up with the good idea of making nachos. Today was a long day in the car and I am so glad to be out of the car and stretch my legs. We weren't going to have a sharing circle today because of the late arrival and the people we were being harassed by. In the middle of the night we were disturbed by somebody kicking one of our tents and luckily we had David with us and he stayed up all night to make sure that we were okay.

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