The delay in the posting was due to a delay in the sleeping (we woke up at ~5:00am most days of data collection, so when we got back we would all basically shower, eat dinner, pass out, then wake up the next morning to hike all over again)
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| Frogging in the legitimate jungle |
Each day, we'd get dropped off at the base (or as close to the top as you can get a car) of the mountain, and hike up and then down into the riverbed. Each pair of searchers got a map that had the frog search
sites marked on it, and you just hiked around to find them, then searched them for frogs! The hike in usually took about 2 hours, then you and your partner for the day searched between 2-4 transects before hiking back up and out to the car, all of us meeting there at the end of the day.
Sometimes to get out of the streambed, the direction sheet we'd have would say something like, "scramble up bank to find the trail" which sounds easy enough, right? Please refer to the below picture
See behind me? Kayla took this while I was on the walkie relaying our position back, but we're only about halfway up the "bank" and we'd been "scrambling" for about 40 min. SO MUCH MOUNTAINEERING in this trip, we pushed and pulled each other up steeper slopes than I'd ever imagined myself trying, and found our way back to trails (trails were pink triangles nailed to trees that would lead you back to the tree line. Yes, we sang the Weezer song a lot) based on our dinky maps.
My body is pretty bruised right now, my knees are a disaster zone, but I feel a lot stronger as well. Definitely in the best shape of my life--good thing I'll be sitting on my ass on campus doing data entry and writing a 50 page research paper for the next 3 weeks! Wouldn't want to look too different upon my return to the States ;-)
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| Bruise city |
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