Friday morning’s walk along the paths of Plum Creek south of Chatfield Reservoir brought with it memories of school daze. DCSD having just started back up again, there were at least 4 groups of students (so, maybe 100 total?) on a field trip, identifying plants and capturing bugs. The best instruction is hands-on instruction, that’s what I always say.
For those of you unfamiliar with the area – or for those of you seriously into orienteering – my 4-mile jaunt today started at a parking lot just past the High Line House off Titan Road near the south-east entrance to Chatfield State Park and looped over Plum Creek to the far south end of Chatfield dam.
When I hike this section of trail, I always like to include the following image (see previous post here) as an homage to an old college roommate who now lives with his wife and boat on a lake near Alexandria, MN. That’s where this footbridge over Plum Creek originated. The full scoop on central-MN’s small-town manufacturing boom is here.
Of the town – and CONTECH‘s low-tech work force – he had this to say:
It has a strip club and a pizza joint and a Wal-Mart. In fact, it has everything a young man needs for a full life.
Ah, youth!
Ah, school daze!
Field trip, anyone?
(And thanks again, @lakeidamike.)