Day 10, the morning was actually not bad, people were too tired to stay up all night again so it was quite last night. After breakfast we got to meet a whole bunch of people that work for the Spokane Tribe in the wildlife conservation section. They took us  in the woods and showed us how to set up a track trap and camera, basically how they tell which smaller predators live in the area. After that we had lunch and learned how to shock fish to count them in smaller streams. I didn't go in because i didn't want to get shocked but it was kinda sad that some of the smaller fish died when they shocked them. Here comes the fun part, we went swimming in lake roosevelt and guess what! Some people, including me, got stuck on the other side of the lake. I'll try to make this short so basically I was swimming and I saw some kids farther out, I'm like blind without my glasses so they were close, and they were swimming farther out themselves so I went with, we had an adult so it seemed fine. We get really close, it seems, to the other shore and we were tired and two of the kids were panicking, I'm not sure when and I didn't hear her but our adult left us so we decided that we would stop on the other shore and rest then go back. The people on the other shore yelled at us to come back but they didn't hear us when we yelled to them what we were doing. long story short they sent out a boat for us and we got in trouble, I still think they would get what happened if they would let us explain. Oh well, Bandwagon out.

Day 9, people stayed up really late messing around and making noise and right when it calmed down a bit the college kids came out from the house where they were watching their movie, which we weren't allowed to watch, and made tons more noise. Waking up after about six hours of sleep isn't fun, after that we got to make paint from rocks which was pretty cool. After painting we got a presentation from Wenix about the order of the table and what a lot of native plants are used for. After that we had to rush to leave, which kinda makes sense because it started to get really hot but I wish we had been more paced. In the rush someone pulled all the stuff off the tables to put them away and Ari's ipod and speaker got soaked, she's lucky it still works. We went to subway for lunch, with a misunderstanding about who was paying of course. Then we went to spokane and the tribe paid for us to have Arbys' for dinner 'cause it was to late for the dinner they had planned. We stayed at the fairground in Wellpinnit and played in the playground, which the fairground has 'cause it's amazing. Bandwagon out.

Day 8, we packed up the pow-wow campsite and headed out for a presentation at Umatilla Tribal Center. The presentation was very informative and was given by a lady named Wenix who gave us a tour of a river reconstruction site. While driving there we lost three tires just on the one road, with a total of five tires total for the whole day, it was ridiculous. By the time we got the tires fixed it was to late to get our original campsite so Wenix actually invited us to her house to stay in our tents in her yard. She was super amazing and made us fry bread for dinner. Today was chaotic but cool, Bandwagon out.

Day 7, the exact middle of the camp-out. Today was tiring but very informative and fun(: We had to get up at six in the morning to see some of the hatchery people catch and tag some fish; granola bars and little sleep aren't fun I was actually feeling kinda nauseous. We got tons of information for our notebooks from Lostine River and got a geology lesson from Jessica about how the glaciers carved out the Wallawa mountains. Then we got to swim in Wallawa Lake, it was amazing! The water was super clear and not too cold, it was beautiful. We came back to camp and showered in a tee-pee (I'm quite serious) and took a nap. we have to leave early tomorrow so goodnight^-^ Bandwagon out.

Day 6, nothing much to say; packed in record time, drove 11 hours total not counting stops, got to see the painted hills, and camped out at a powwow. Painted hills was amazing to see and super hot, i got to see a lizard! The clay was mostly red but that's cool, red's my favorite color. We got here super late but we got to see some of the dancers and me, Morelia, and Ari went out when they called for everyone to do the two step. bandwagon out.

Day 5, we're still camping up the mountains by Bend but we are driving out on Saturday. We got taught how to clean out forest trails by a couple of rangers, i got clippers to cut over hanging branches and baby trees that grew in the wrong place. Ari was dying because she's a hippie and I was killing baby trees, lol she was cutting down toddler trees. We got to go swimming in blue lagoon at the end of our freshly cleaned trail, i was so proud. When we got back to camp we got our laundry and left to take showers and do said laundry. We ended up cleaning the showers and doing about five loads of laundry, we got the last showers of everyone 'cause we were on cleaning duty and the water was so cold I got a nasty headache! Yep, lots of driving tomorrow. Bandwagon out.

Day 4, another McDonalds... We got to the camp super late last night because people took forever to blog yesterday and then war pony (the other white swan van) lost a shoe (tire). I got very little sleep last night between restrictive sleeping bags, the cold, and being squished on one twin mattress (for me and Ari). Today we went to Deshutes Nation Park and got a tour of the lava tunnel, Lava Butte, and some waterfalls on the River. We also got to hear about ten lectures from the, actually very nice, park rangers. We got lunch there in the middle of hiking and came here once again to blog. I'm going to get pizza, Bandwagon out.

Day three, my birthday! Got up even earlier today at six and had to completely repack the cars, even though Ari kept me up to one in the morning for my birthday. We went horseback riding by Warm Springs and it was hot. The horses were cool though, I got to ride Lumpy who, surprisingly, was a really pretty gray dappled white color. Then we went to Warm Springs Museum and got lunch and a tour from Auralin, a really sweet lady who had some pretty cool stories to tell. Now we're at McDonalds in Madras for the free WiFi, headed to Bend in a few. Happy birthday to me^-^

The officially amazing post of day two. We woke up horribly early in the morning to go to a lecture/activity/tour thing by Jason Grant and Austin Smith at three different sites. The first site was Shitike Creek which was one of the creeks moved into a flooding canal away from the town in the 1960s by the U.S. Army and BIA. It had recently been reconstructed into a natural creek to encourage endangered fish to come back and spawn. The construction took 6 weeks and was partly funded by the Bonneville Dam. It was about 3/4s of a mile and cost a whopping $544k. The second site was the middle of the woods to see if we could spot some Mule Deer. We learned about tracking collars, decreasing Mule Deer population, and the wild horse (over)population problem. I stand by my opinion of hunting the wild horses instead of the deer to fix the population problems. The third site was a flood-plane that was destroyed by man-made berms where salmon used to spawn. It was a project for next year to take out a few of the berms and encourage the salmon to come back; it will cost just under one point two million dollars. After that we went swimming, it's not an environmental field trip without learning what it' like to be salmon. Bandwagon had dinner duty, I managed to stir two huge pots of chile at the same time. Good times.

Official post of Day 1, Monday. Started out by getting there before everyone except one person, had some coffee, hung out. We had an inspiring lecture from Fish and Wildlife at Heritage about Native American treaties/rights and fish hatcheries. We left around eleven-thirty, a bit late, and completely started our journey. We stopped at Horse Theif Lake for lunch and played in the water until our main activity, a tour of some petroglyphs on the Columbia. We got to see "She Who Watches" which is the most famous petroglyph on the Columbia. We continued on to Warm Springs and stayed in the longhouse for the night.

First post ever! We haven't left heritage yet but we heard the first lecture!