Well, I have returned from Maine with new friends, amazing stories, a few sketches, a whole lot of knowledge I didn't have before I left, and exactly the same number of fingers and toes I had when I left!
I can't download pictures because I don't have my photo cable (it is on campus) but even if I did have it, I don't have a ton of pictures since the conditions were a bit adverse. However, here are a few highlights of the trip:
-Tracking weasels, mink, coyotes, deer, snowshoe hares, all manner of rodents, and a moose
-Learning that deer pee sometimes smells like Pine-Sol
-Dance Party with Bernd Heinrich
-Hanging out in the leaning, flammable, perilous sauna, then rolling around nude in the snow (don't worry, I am not posting pictures of this)
-collecting Callisoma cocoons
-Discovering what it is like to hike when it is below zero
-writing 'try our product' in pee
-Helping drag two dead calves up a hill - the ravens were not interested, however.
-having to hack through the ice on the well to get water
-sleeping in a below-freezing cabin and huddling like kinglets for warmth
-eating vole meat, pieces of lichen, and massive amounts of cheese, and chewing on various branches like a moose.
-Counting stems in 18 degree temperatures
-hitting my head on ceiling logs and stepping on slush with my socks
-new friends!
-Learning that 'little hotties' hand warmers only warm the ambient temperatures by 20 or 30 degrees (but raising your toes from 0 degrees to 30 degrees is still a big deal!)
-Learning that shooting a bear feeding from a bird feeder is like kissing your sister.
-breaking the coffee maker thingie (this was not a high point).
-Singing!
-still being confused about how to tell apart red and sugar maple.
And much more! Stories will follow, and hopefully pictures also.
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