senior project

I choose to do my senior project on backpacking. I’m doing my senior project with a very good friend of mine. Our original idea was to get dropped off in the middle of a forest and have to survive for a week, but we didn’t think that they would let us do that so we decided to try and tone it down a bit. Then we settled for backpacking. Our mentor is a rescue guide, and so far that’s all I really know about him because I haven’t meet him yet. My friend is the one who knows him. The reason I wanted to do this senior project is because I really like the outdoors. I like to go camping and hiking, but the one thing that I have never done is go backpacking. It’s something that I have always wanted to do, but never had the chance. I have yet to set up an interview with my mentor, but I will get on that soon enough. I also have not decided what I will do my research paper on, but I have talked with Mrs.Brittin about some very general ideas that could possibly be my research paper. It could be something along the lines of John Muir and all the great things he did for the environment.  He was the one you help to establish national parks in America, so that people couldn’t harm the environment. I’ll need a lot of backpacking equipment but luckily I have family that already has a lot of that sort of stuff, so I won’t need to spend a huge amount of money to buy what I need for my project. I am really looking forward and am excited about going on my backpacking trip. I think it will be a blast, and something I will never forget.