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My Trip to Wolf Ridge
Mira Kammueller
I Wonder about Wolf Ridge…
I wonder what our dorms will be like… Will we be able to
choose who we’re with? Will it be nice? What will it look like? I hope
that it’s nice in our dorms. I have no idea what the beds will be like, I
hope they are very comfortable. The dorms have to be pretty nice if
we’re staying for a week. I hope they’re nice.
I hope the bus is nice and has bathrooms. I think it probably
will though and if it doesn’t we’ll probably stop for bathroom breaks
or something. How long will it be? I hope we can bring things like an
ipod or something like that. I heard that it’s around six hours long. I
hope the bus is nice.
I hope the food is as good as the Camp St. Croix food. They
say that the food is ok but I hope it’s good. I wonder what they have
there. I think the food will probably be decent tasting after hiking
and stuff. I hope Wolf Ridge is really fun.
Geology of Lake Superior
The Geology of Lake Superior is very interesting. The area around lake
superior was created from volcanoes and glaciers a very long time ago.
Lake superior was shaped by the mid-continental rift. One billion years
ago lava erupted from the mid-continental rift.The lava continued moving
for twenty years. That lava hardened and made a layer of basalt five
miles thick. Billions of tons of lava moving underground made the land
where Lake Superior is now sink down. That created the Superior Basin,
witch is made of basalt rock.
The Superior Basin was very dry until about one million years
ago, when the glaciers came through. Ten thousand years ago the last
glaciers melted. Then, once the glaciers melted, the water was five
hundred feet above the level it is today. At times the water would also
drain to 250 feet below the level it is today. The water level now is 600
feet.
The north shore is a very rocky area. Glaciers formed its
rugged shoreline. Most of the rocks around the Lake Superior are
volcanic. The lava sometimes went into puddles and hardened. That
made the Duluth complex, made of igneous rocks.
Our fort
Cloudy day
Chipmunk!
Chipmunk running
Stream
The Ropes Course
I think the ropes course looked even higher from the first tower than from the
ground. I think we were about 30 feet off the ground. We did it in partners, so half
of the people went while the others were our ground partners. They told us when we
could switch our carabineers on the harnesses to the next part of the course.
When it was finally my turn it was dark except for the bright lights on each tower.
I slowly started to walk across the swinging bridge. It was actually really easy, but
the next part was called the rainbow bridge. It was a single wire that had a wire on
either side that you could use as handles and they were connected to the wire that
you walk on by little colored streamers. I slowly took the first step onto the wire, it
sank down a little, but it was pretty easy to balance on with the handle wires. I
actually thought that it was more fun than scary.
The Ropes Course
The next part was two logs that start together, then gradually split apart. That
one was really easy. The logs were pretty big. The next one was the single
wire. That one looked kind of freaky. It was actually pretty easy thought, but
when I got to the middle, I decided to look down and I almost fell off. Once I
made it past the single wire, there was a single log. That was probably the
easiest thing besides the swinging bridge.
The last thing on the ropes course was the zip line. The zip line was my
favorite thing on the ropes course. You would go off the tower and it would
feel like you’re falling and then it picks you up and it feels like you’re flying the
rest of the way. It was really fun.
I really loved the ropes course. It was my favorite thing at Wolf Ridge. I’m
really glad I did the ropes course because it was really fun. Wolf Ridge really
cool, but I think that was the best part.