July 7, 2018

              Today felt like we stalled for a while, we waited a bit to get everything ready. I got my own tent and sleeping bag. We got a lecture about climate and how it is changing and as well as how it is affecting our fish (salmon specifically), from Jonalee Sequeohs. As we were getting ready to go we split into groups of four.  I was with Rudy, Omar and Maria, and our driver being Jacob. Jacob is a pretty cool guy, he has fascinating stories and always has something new to say. He also has a lot of knowledge of the areas we go to. Before arrival we stop to get gas and also got a stick from a willow tree, even though I didn’t use mine. When we arrive to Potato hill we unpacked and set up our tents. That was my first time setting up a tent, it was not as hard as I thought it’s pretty easy. There wasn’t any mosquitos at first but then all sudden so many showed up pretty aggressive as well, we used so must repellent and still are. The funny part is to see Rudy cover in mosquito bites, but he seems not to care. Now Omar in the hand was very cover with mosquitoes not mosquito bites, he had like about 20 on his back or more, it was insane. As the night grows closer, we set up to eat. I was assigned group 3 the pick-up crew in a way. Johnathan and I went to get water for the dishes. It was a struggle finding a water source, though we walk past a stream and didn’t notice till later on. We knew the buckets were going to be heavy so we had an idea of putting it on a big thick stick and carry it all together so it’s less over a struggle. As we were filling up the buckets, we were getting attacked by mosquitoes from every direction, for me it was mostly on my face. In the end we succeeded on bring the water buckets to the camp area. We finally ate, the spaghetti was pretty good, felt like it needed a little more salt though. We ate as a big group, got to know each other’s names, though I only remember a few still learning some. I also sat by the fireplace it felt pretty nice. I’m a fan of camping, I also learned that Mt. Adams is also called Pahto, pretty cool. 

That's my friend Rudy, he's one of the funniest guys I know.