POBR - Wellpinit Fair Grounds - Day 4

 

People of The Big River

Location: Wellpinit Fair Grounds

Day 4

Day four of our two-week trip and today was a travel day. We woke up and we had to pack everything up again to move on to our next site. Luckily, I packed up all my personal things the night before, so I just had to wake up get breakfast and pack my lunch for the day. The night before I stayed up talking with my tent mate Yoleth. We were talking about music and some of the people we were missing since we didn’t really have cell reception at our last campsite to text our loved ones. After getting everything put away and secured to head out, we were told that we would stop at the University to swap out the incubator we had brought to inoculate our water samples we've been collecting from the different sites. After that we started our journey to the next location. At each of the four locations we are collecting water samples for our own projects with Dr. Schuster and Dr. Black. However, the team that put together our class also included a day at each of the sites so that we could help the tribes on their respective land with a project of their choosing. We get to learn a ton at each location, and we are the most fortunate that the tribes allow us to be on their land and that they let us be a part of something that is meaningful to them. The best part of the day was stopping at dry falls for lunch. It is this really big cannon looking thing that was carved out by the great Missoula floods that happened a loooooong time ago. From what Dr. Black told us and what some of the info tables mentioned, while the floods were happening through the area we were at there was a huge waterfall that went at least half a mile above the flat part we were standing on. Hence the name Dry Falls because of the water fall that was once there but is now dry. It was really pretty and its one of those things I think about and try to make sense in my head, but I just can’t wrap my mind around the fact that all of that happened so long ago and with as much intensity that it would literally carve rock. Science is so amazing it's unbelievable sometimes. After that though we arrived at our second campsite and we unloaded and set up our tents and personal things and we had dinner. I talked to one of my classmates about why we both chose environmental science as our major and that was all for our fourth day. A long but informative day, one of my favorite things to do during the long car rides has to be asking Dr. Schuster a ton of questions. 

P.S. While we stopped to wait in a random little town for the rest of the group to catch up a gentleman approached us, and we all thought that maybe he thought we were lost or that he was going to tell us to move. But it turned out he was a donor of heritage he seemed really happy and excited to see us coming out here, that was really nice to see. 





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