Principia Upper School Teton Trip

Wake up. Get out there.

Day Four

Filed under: News — by Dana at 6:59 pm on Thursday, January 31, 2008

Research Day: Tracks and Snow Pits.

Adding colors
Adding color to the pages.


Blending Colors
Emily rubs the colors to blend them into natural hues.


Sketching designs
Delali Sketches out her thoughts in interesting designs.


Snow pit digging
We had two research groups. One looked for answers in a snow pit, while the other hunted for tracks in different ecotones.


Hunting for tracks in the Sage Ecotone.
The trackers search the Sagebrush Ecotone.


Time for play
There is always time for some play.


Deep pockets
Sarah finds an air-pocket and sinks up to hear knee despite wearing snowshoes.


Tasting Sage
Now Genevieve knows what sage tastes like.


Finding the layers
Charlie brushes off the looser snow to find the layers.


Snow height
With the layers revealed, Delali can measure them for their research data.


Aspen Ecotone
One of the snow pits was dug in the Aspen Ecotone.


What's to learn from snow?
It takes a group effort to collect all of the necessary data.


Study in the conifer
Sarah sits in the snow to record her data about the tracks she has discovered.


Following tracks
Mrs. VanRiper and Genevieve have found some tracks to identify deep in the Conifer Ecotone.


Deep in the conifer
The pines leave only small openings to the sky.


Moose stop
Sarah nearly stumbled upon this resting moose.

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