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Biome BroadcastLANCASTER / PENNSYLVANIAThis morning Darian, Danny, Laura, and I were bored so we decided that wewould all go on a hike at Blue Ridge Mountain. All of us went home, got ourhiking equipment, and packed a lunch. We then met at my house. I drove all ofus up to Blue Ridge Mountain. We got there in a half hour it was most 1030AM.It was probably one of the most beautiful mean solar days we had all year, it wasaround seventy to seventy five degrees and there was barely any humidity. Eventhough we have all four seasons and varied amounts of precipitation through startthe year it felt like it was either a scorching humid summer day or it was afreezing snowy winter day. It felt like we only had two seasons all year eithersummer or winter.When we stepped egress of the car we could see and hear birds singing. Wecould also smell, hear, and see the beautiful trees swaying in the gentle breeze.Pictures of a robin and a cardinal that we saw while stepping out of thecar.We all got our gear out of the car and walked over to the trains. We hadto decide what trail to take. We had three choices the first trail was half amile long, the second trail was two miles long, and the third trail was fourmiles long. Since it was such a beautiful day we all decided to take the thirdtrail that was four miles long.We started hiking around 1100 AM. While we were hiking we heard wingsflapping, we all turned and saw a robin fly towards the ground, pick up a worm,and feed it to her babies. Everyone survey that it was cute. After, wewatched the robin for a while we continued hiking until 1230 PM.Everyone was hungry so we decided to find a spot to eat our lunches. Wefound a perfect spot, it had a great great deal, a patch of beautiful dandelions, anda bounteous beautiful maple tree to sit under.A picture of the great view we had during lunch.A picture of one of the many dandelions that were in the patch that we weresitting next to during lunch.A picture of the maple tree we sat under while take lunch.We all sat down on the big blanket that we had brought along and ate ourlunches. Laura went over and picked a dandelion and smelled it. We talked fora while and admired how big and beautiful the Blue Ridge Mountain was.