Week After Reflection

Looking back on last weeks adventure into the Adirondack's is something much different than what I expected it to be. Growing up my family wasn't about going camping or spending time outdoors to say the least. The week spent in the Adirondack's has changed my view on many things. It also allowed me to gain an experience that I feel allowed me to grow as an individual.
For starters from this experience, I gained friendships in which I never thought would have happened during that week. All the team working activies I feel made it as if we have known these people for a majority of our lives and we were just coming together again. I think that coming together has a group and doing this such as the ropes courses, and KP allowed us to see how one another works in a team and it allowed us to share the experience so we didn't feel alone.
Another thing that I had gained from this experience was the knowledge and history of the camp. Although I had been to Raquette Lake before, I didn't obtain as much information on the camp and surroundings as I did in this week. I think that going to the Nature Center and the Adirondack Museum gave me a bigger picture at what the Adirondack's was all about. Another thing such as climing Black Bear Mountain gave me in insight on how things are becoming depleted as to what they were before. Seeing the tree bottoms gone from the deer, and barley any other wildlife in the trees as we were hiking up the mountain really opens your eyes as to finding a solution to the problems that are found in the Adirondacks.
As I returned home, alothough the entire week was filled with many memories the camp also has come home with me. It gave me a wide range of things that I can do to take seriously the outdoors and come up with a solution to my carbon footprint. This past week at Camp Huntington as made me become a stronger person while taking a look at the enviornmental issues that we are facing and will be facing in the future. I feel as if this course is very useful and I would definitely do it again if I had the choice.
In conclusion, I want to thank everyone for making my experience in the Adirondack's memorable and very exciting. I don't think that the week would have been the same with a different group of people. I want to give a special thanks to Beth, Karl, Tim, and his family for all the time and effort they put into this course and activities that we completed throughout the week together. It was a very successful week and although I am happy to be home, I truly enjoyed my wilderness experience.