P.O.T.B.R. 2025 Day 2:

    Last night was a little rough in terms of sleeping, extremely freezing for me. As much as I say I prefer winter over summer I don't do the best in the cold but I'll survive. I'm also not a morning person which the cold didn't help with either, so I was late to breakfast and had to rush to pack. I hope I didn't forget anything, I'll make sure to be more ready next time and get up on time. I don't want a repeat. I didn't change out of my sweat-pants for when we set out hiking and had to collect the river water for our research. It wasn't that bad, I just wish I had the right pants. This also made me think about how I should go about planning when I should wear shorts or pants if I'm cold in the morning but hot throughout the rest of the day. I guess it doesn't matter too much. 

    The small hike was nice, I can't wait to do more like that. I think our first site was Bird Creek River, I'm still getting used to the tools we have to use to collect information about the river but it doesn't seem to hard.  




    We also stopped at Deschutes river for a lunch break and to collect more river samples. Very nice place, I wish I took a better picture I'll work on that. Our final destination for today is the cafe where the showers that I have been waiting all day for are at, and the Wi-Fi.



 




















































    
    
    

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