This week, I was back home in Philadelphia for Thanksgiving. The place I chose to go to was Lake Nockamixon. My hometown friends and I hiked around the park, exploring all the different rock climbing locations created on the massive boulders that litter the landscape. We saw lots of Oak and Maple trees and unlike my Phenology spot in Centennial woods, there were no evergreen trees. All the trees at Lake Nockamixon had lost their leaves. Also, I saw almost no shrubbery at Nockamixon, which again varies from my Vermont Phenology spot. It makes me wonder what processes caused that. I’d also love to learn more about how the root systems of the forest navigate the rocks everywhere. I didn’t end up leaving a gift but I did climb one of the rocks which to me felt like a way of honoring the spot and area.Overall it was a great time getting to explore somewhere else and to look at it from a place of curiosity, instead of what I usually do which is just passively hike. I hope to go back there and rock climb some of the boulders and further explore how such massive pieces of rock formed there, and hopefully not get lost next time.
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