Here are the last of the pictures for the week. I’m going to forgo the captions so that I can relax and watch Life of Pi with the kids.
Testimony meeting around the campfire.
My dog ears.
HDR image.
View of the Lost Wonder Hut in the distance.
Reading the fourth Harry Potter book.
Sophie in the snow shelter.
HDR Image of the Lost Wonder Hut.
The students did a great job learning cross-country skiing. Snow conditions were much better on South Fork Lake Creek Trail. There won’t be any pictures posted for the next two days while we are up at the Lost Wonder Hut. I’ll work on getting them posted when we come back down, but it may not be until we return to St. Louis.
The group waits for their turn to take the hill.
Taylor falls with style.
Tim works his way up the hill.
Time for throwing a few snowballs.
The sun made our journaling time comfortable.
Tatyana and Suze fill in their pages.
The whole group journaling.
Working up close.
Sara sketches another detailed drawing.
Rachael takes in the scene for her writing prompt.
Tim is looking at the “wide view” for his drawing.
Sorry, no time for captions. Enjoy the pictures.
Most student went downhill skiing at Monarch, but three went cross-country skiing with me and Kristin.
Down the black diamond at Monarch
Downhill at Monarch
Braid bonding.
Making monkey bread
Comic smiles
Practicing chords
Relaxing with a book
Weaseling in a photo
Cross-country group takes a little journaling time
Up Cottonwood Pass framed with Aspen.
Starting down the Cottonwood Pass trail. Snow was pretty wet and sticky.
Making lunches for our field day
Bagging lunch, an art
A little down time after the writing and art blocks
Writing block; making a word bank
Makenzie introduces her session on finding interesting words to use in writing
Reflective writing in the yurt.
We woke to alpenglow and clear skies.
Time for laughs. YouTube?
Where we spend most of our time — the lodge.
Hanging on under the sun. They didn’t last long.
Snowshoeing started with a steep, uphill hike — 1k of evelation.
Lead group marching on.
A teaching moment from Bobby.
Shadows
Art lesson with Kristin.
Kristin talks about the connections between art and science.
Try a little drawing.
Drawing an orange. What do you see, Tim?
Sara works on her orange sketch with color pencils.
Rachael puts in the details.
Gage works on a landscape sketch.
Sun behind pines
Arrived in BV safely and the snow came shortly after. Perfect!
New snow to enjoy
Clinging Snow
Snow on the Bear
Our cabin
Playing in the snow
We took a challenging ski up to the highest point on the TSS campus to celebrate our experiences.
The first climb.
A short break before tackling our next climb.
A moment to reflect.
... and up through the conifer.
Breaking out of the conifer and into the sunshine.
Just a little more climbing to go.
Our summit is in sight.
Time for a group photo to mark our celebration.
Everyone agrees that lunch in the field is the best meal.
Lunch with a view.
Heading down can be trickier than climbing up.
Another slope to go.
A warming hot chocolate after a morning ski before breakfast.
One group researched tracks around this elk kill.
Track made by the wing of a raven or magpie.
Coyote tracks.
Katie explains how we can tell it was an older female elk.
Nate and Ron eat lunch with a great view.
The ski back to campus under the gaze of Grand Teton.
Research Presentations:
A day full of nature, art and wildlife.
The group at the Murie Ranch.
Doing a writing exercise in Adolph and Louise Murie's house.
Deanna works on her assignment by a window.
The students work in their journals on the bank of the Snake River.
A bull elk on the Elk Refuge.
"Can't quite reach that itch."
Two bulls spar while a third referees.
Sarah pets the nose of one of the sleight horses.
Our driver, Lynn.
Anna studies a painting in the National Museum of Wildlife Art.
A wolf tries to sneak up on some bighorn sheep.
The sheep watch warily as the wolves pass by.
Writing and art with Matt and Greg.
A sun warmed day on the slopes of the terminal moraine at the foot of the Tetons.
Creative writing with Matt Daly at the Bradley Taggert Visiting Center.
Deanna works on a poem.
Matt talks about how to get ideas for something to write about.
The group works on their writing by this big window.
Ross and Deanna look over displays in the Visitor's Center.
Zach and Anna look for details to write about.
Ron refines the stanzas of his poem.
A poem develops for Nate.
Heidi points out important aspects of the Teton Range terrain.
At the Bradley Taggert trail head.
The Ripping Riparian Group poses on a bridge heading up to the moraine.
The sun heated up our day. Perfect for our research.
Ron and Anna research the species of Conifer -- Subalpine Fir.
Katie points out evidence of a relatively recent burn.
Carrie was caught during a game of "Camouflage".
Heading down from Bradley Taggert.
Sarah reflects in her journal about her experience up in the Bradley Taggert trail.
Clay gets into some detail on his drawing.
Ross gets some help from Greg.
In the Murie Museum, Doug talks about the Murie's and their contribution to conservation.
Sarah sketches one of Olaus Murie's stuffed animals.
