Having Fun Exploring Morrow Mountain

At Morrow Mountain we had a whole lot of fun and saw many animals, including two salamanders and about ten deer. We also practiced throwing javelins (they were really sticks) when we were on our campsite, roasted marshmallows over a very small fire, hiked, and went canoeing on a river around Morrow Mountain.


This is a picture of us canoeing in the river. We canoed all the way up the river to a giant electro-dam, and got off right next to the dam. There we hiked up a stone hill which actually used to be magma, but the magma never erupted and eventually cooled. The dirt around it washed away, and now this volcanoe has become a rhyolite hill.
When we got to the top of the hill we had a beautiful view over the river.

Hunting for Artifacts

At the end of August, we went to Morrow Mountain State Park for a homeschool field trip to look for ancient artifacts that the Native Americans left, such as arrowheads, stone drills, and stone spearpoints.


This picture shows rhyolite flakes. Flakes are bits of stone that the Native Americans chipped off when they were making arrow heads. Many Native Americans went to Morrow Mountain because it had a lot of rhyolite which is good stone to use to make arrow heads and other tools.

As we walked along this trail, we saw thousands of rhyolite flakes. Morrow Mountain itself is made of rhyolite. We climbed over huge boulders of this valuable material.