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Haudenosaunee Environment Youth Corps

 

Adirondacks High Peaks Experience 2009

 

Day 2 - Class on Live Mammal Trapping
 

 

Learning to snowshoe

 

 

Students and Instructors

 

 

A. Fischer setting a trap

 
 

 

K. Fauzey at the trap site

 

 

Annie our Instructor

 

 

Box of empty traps

 
 

 

T. Hummel and the mouse

 

 

Studying the live mammal

 

 

Class leaving the field

 
 

 

A phosphorous mouse

 

 

K. Ferguson x-country ski

 

 

Students skiing

 

 

Day 2 - Visit to the Adirondack Visitor Interpretive Center (VIC)
 

 

Ellen our VIC leader

 

 

Snowshoeing at the VIC

 

 

J. Patterson & Crew

 
 

 

VIC trail signage

 

 

Students on the bridge

 

 

A. Fischer and T. Hummel

 
 

 

Streams through the VIC

 

 

VIC environment

 

 

Jodi and Sarah resting

 
 

 

J. Patterson en route

 

 

Jodi and Sarah

 

 

Jodi and Sarah

 

 

Day 3 - Visit to the Adirondack Wild Center in Tupper Lake, NY
 

 

sundown & besser

 

 

class photo

 

 

class photo

 

 

Day 3 - Stop at Blue Mountain Wild Forest Preserve

 

Initial instructions

 

 

B. Besser & C. Sundown

 

 

Registering our group

 

 

Single file in the cold

 

 

Very scenic

 

 

T. Hummel at the bottom

 

 

Cold students

 

 

E. Fischer and crew

 

 

Talking about trees

 

 

B. Besser smelling a tree

 

 

K. Ferguson smells a tree

   

 

Day 3 - Lessons on Ice Fishing and Equipment

 

Sinkers & lures

 

 

Tip-ups & lines

 

 

J. Patterson in class

 

 

Learning to tie lines

 

 

Rod & reels lesson

   

 

Day 4 - Ice Fishing Expedition to Lake

 

K. Ferguson pulling gear

 

 

Rising sun at the lake

 

 

Students hauling gear

 

 

Sundown & Besser on lake

 

 

B. Printup & K. Ferguson

 

 

Loads of gear arriving

 

 

A. Fischer with harness

 

 

Y. Printup hauling gear

 

 

Wide open space

 

 

N. Patterson augering

 

 

Ready to set up tip-ups

 

 

C. Sundown and the bait

 

 

Fishing hut on the lake

 

 

T. Hummel and her bait

 

 

Hooking the bait

 

 

Ice fishing monitor

 

 

K. Fauzey and her "catch"

 

 

Lunch in the warming hut

 

 

hot cocoa & coffee

 

 

Walking to the lake center

 

 

E. Fischer preparing bait

 

 

L. Printup enjoying the sun

     

 

Day 5 - Leaving the Adirondacks

 

Class photo

 

 

Class photo - part II

 

 

Class photo - alternate site

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The following photographs are courtesy of Lynette Printup

 

 

 

Day 1 - Live Mammal Trap

 

Day 1 - Ferguson&Printup

 

Day 1 - Besser&Sundown

 

Day 2 - Tracking a mouse

Day 2 - Neil at the VIC

 

Day 2 - Bryan at the VIC

 

Day 3 - Wild Center

 

Day 3 - E. and A. Fischer

 

Day 3 - Otters at play

 

Day 3 - Y. Printup

 

Day 3 - Preserve park

 

Day 3 - Ice fishing lessons

 

Day 3 - Rod and reels

 

Day 3 - Tying knots

 

Day 3 - Game of spoons

 

Day 4 - On the lake

 

Day 4 - On the lake

 

Day 4 - Ready to descend

 

Day 4 - J. Patterson

 

Day 4 - Warming hut

 

Day 4 - Fischer & Sundown

 

Day 4 - Sundown&Besser

 

Day 4 - Hot soup

 

Day 4 - Evening fire

 

Day 4 - Fire aglow

 

Day 4 - Only fish caught

 

Day 4 - Filleting the fish

 

Day 4 - In the rec room

 

Day 5 - Students leaving

 

Day 5 - Akron school