senior project #2

           My senior project is starting off kinda of slow, but recently I've done some work on it. I got my mentor a couple weeks ago, and luckily its one of my friends dads so it makes it a little bit easier to coordinate getting together and things like that. although i still need to do my mentor interview. My mentor is the fire chief of American Canyon, but he also works with a search and rescue team and he has been backpacking many times, which is helpful sense my senior project is on backpacking. My mentor has said that he has some ideas about where we are going to go backpacking and i have also been looking on my own about possible places that could work for us. My plan for our trip is that we go backpacking for around a week at least maybe more, because i want to get the full feeling of being on your own in the wilderness. The only problem with that is that we are still in school so i might have to miss a couple days of school. It is possible to go during winter break, but then we would have to go snow backpacking, which is a higher degree of difficulty and sense this is my first time going backpacking my mentor isn't sure if we should do that. However i would be happy to give it a shot. Another time that we could go is on spring break, but we kind of run into the same problem but not as severe, because there are still some places with snow.