These last few days have been extremely informative, but we are all starting to feel the effects of stuffing so much into our brains in such a short time span. We have had full mornings and afternoons of meetings with locals to learn about the history, the natural resources and the food and agriculture of the area. On Sunday, we had the opportunity to ride a gondola up to the top of Mount Howard. It was a beautiful view and Nils Christoffersen accompanied us and gave us a ton of information.
Once we got to the top of Mount Howard we went for a hike around the trail loops, stopping at various locations to discuss what we were seeing and some of the history of land use within Wallowa County.
At the top of the mountain, we also got to experience the entertaining chipmunks that were clearly very used to humans feeding them food.
Following our adventures, we came back to camp, relaxed a little bit ate dinner and had a productive group discussion to go over all of the information that we heard from Nils.
