Directions to Hemlock Lake Park: Heading to Carson Washington from Highway 14, 3 miles East of Stevenson take Wind River Highway to the North and pass through Carson. In 8.6 miles turn left onto Hemlock Road and proceed just past the Hemlock Work Station and make a right turn just before the Trout Creek bridge. Bear left and into the Park.
Thank you for promoting the health of our communities by driving with only those you already have close contact with.
Social Distancing Day in the Trees - Tracking Animals and Peace
Sunday, August 23, 2020, 10:30 am - 4:00 pm
TUITION: free (registration required)
facilitators:
linda hunter
jane doudney
Join our amazing tracking instructors (cybertracker certified) for a day in the woods. We will learn valuable tracking and naturalist skills. as well as connect with the natural world and the peace found there.
Meeting at Hemlock Lake Park in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest at 10:30 AM
You will need:
A lightweight lawn chair or portable sitting device. (you will be sitting in it at least an hour)
A personal mask and hand cleaner
A notebook and writing implement
Your lunch, water and snacks
Optionally, you can bring a camera and binoculars and a field guides.
OUR DAY
10:30 Meet in the Park and set up your lawn chair at a safe distance from others.
We will have a talk about the day ahead by looking at how to do the exercise and receive the full benefit from the experience
11:30 To final destination.
We will move, each using our own cars, up to a forested area which is a couple miles from the meeting spot. Participants will take their chair, notepad and pencil, food and water and find a tree they want to adopt for the day.
Quiet sit will commence once everyone is settled.
While you are sitting you will keep track of sounds, smells and notice everything you can about your tree and it’s immediate surroundings.
Approximately an hour later we will all make noise as we eat our lunches by our trees, get up and stretch and take a closer look at anything that made you curious.
You will mark, with supplied marking tape, anything you want to share with the group.
1:00 PM Circle back up
We will meet on the road and set up a big circle of chairs and share.
We will form a train, and with our masks on, will visit the trees and marked sign. Instructors and former tracking students will help clarify the observed signs and mysteries.
3:00 PM (more or less) Back to Hemlock Park
We will gather again at Hemlock Park for a talk on how to proceed with tracking in times of social distancing and world unrest.
Safety in the woods will be discussed from what to do if you see a black bear or cougar to how to find a spot for adventures and seclusion.
We will talk about the future of tracking programs through Treesong and discuss ideas for more programs.
4:00PM Wrap up.