Bakers Mountain Hike
2007 SWA - Bakers Mountain Hike
Originally uploaded by John Setzler.
This group of people makes up the Catawba Valley Community College 2007 Southwest Adventure program. The Southwest Adventure is a program offered at CVCC where the students apply for acceptance through a competitive process in which ten students are chosen to participate. The program is worth six credit hours and is comprised of a History (Native American History) and Sociology (Race & Ethnic Relations) class. The program finishes with an 11 day trip out to New Mexico and Arizona to visit sites related to Native American History.
Today, we participated in a group hike to the top of Bakers Mountain. We met at the college at 9:30 this morning and traveled up to Bakers Mountain Park. We hiked one of the loop trails up to the top of the mountain and back before having a picnic lunch at 'base camp' :)
I shot this group photo after we had lunch as a commemorative of the event, and as the first photo of many that will arise from this project.
On May 5, we leave for New Mexico and Arizona. We'll be taking a two-day drive out there where we'll spend 7 days visiting locations such as The Grand Canyon, Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Acoma Pueblo, Four Points, Petroglyphs National Monument, just to name a few. After all that, we will spend another two days driving back to North Carolina.
It's gonna be an experience :)