Today was
another of the SWIFT Team’s breaks. Tomorrow
is supposed to be the be-all end-all event of the tornado season and we wanted
to make sure we were in a good position to catch some storms. We drove through Oklahoma to the Wichita
Mountains Wildlife Refuge. What a
wonderful trip it was, too. We saw Prairie dogs, Bison, Long Horns, and hawks.
And the
landscape was beautiful! The Swift team hiked up two different “trails”; what
trails, might you ask. Well, the trails we blaze (that’s a movie reference for
those who aren’t cultured).
I say this because
there weren’t actually trails for us to follow, we went our own way to our
destination.
The first one was not very strenuous, though some of the clumsier
members of the SWIFT Team (Siobhan) tripped and fell once or twice. She’s ok though, her pride is hurt more so
than her body. The hike took us up a
rock formation where it felt we could see for miles.
The second
hike was more like a scramble up some rocks to the top of Mount Scott. We really could see for miles on this
one. It put the views from the other
trail to shame, though both are spectacular.
We spent
about 6 hours at Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, after which the SWIFT Team
was exhausted. Our hotel was a 45 minute
drive away in Altus, OK. Most of the younger members of the team watched the
Game of Thrones series finale (Ghost finally got that good boy pat) and then went to sleep. We have a
long and exciting day ahead of us tomorrow!
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