Challenge Name: The Great Snow Challenge
Challenge:
Team of 4
Stage 1:
2 members of each team need to find 3 picture hidden in the spruce, fir and pine trees.
Stage 2:
They give those items to the other two members that were not participating in the first stage.
They then take the pictures to a puzzle board. Using the pictures to solve the puzzle.
Stage 3:
Once the puzzle is completed they find a tree (which was the answer of the puzzle) and grab the flag at the top.
First team to get the flag wins the challenge and wins the reward!
Reward:
A sub-zero sleeping bag and a warm Thanksgiving meal
Temperature:
Average high: 73 F
Average low: -50 F
Average 11.5 F
Precipitation:
Average Snowfall: 20-40 inches of snow
Average Rainfall:10-20 inches of rain
Soil:
Shallow soil
Permafrost or Bedrock
Soil may melt slight to create marshy bogs
Flora:
There are more than 200 species of wildflowers, including the tall magenta fireweed.
Most trees are conifers, most commonly spruce, pine & fir.
Fauna:
Large mammals such as moose, caribou, Dall, Fannin and Stone sheep, grizzly and black bears, bison and wolf.
Migratory birds such as Tundra and Trumpeter swans, ducks and geese.
Northern fish species such as arctic grayling, northern pike and lake trout.
Ecological Concerns:
Mining
Deforestation
Pipelines
Disruption of native people
(climatogram is of a near by city of Whitehorse, one could not be found for Miles Canon Basalt)
Average high: 73 F
Average low: -50 F
Average 11.5 F
Precipitation:
Average Snowfall: 20-40 inches of snow
Average Rainfall:10-20 inches of rain
Soil:
Shallow soil
Permafrost or Bedrock
Soil may melt slight to create marshy bogs
Flora:
There are more than 200 species of wildflowers, including the tall magenta fireweed.
Most trees are conifers, most commonly spruce, pine & fir.
Fauna:
Large mammals such as moose, caribou, Dall, Fannin and Stone sheep, grizzly and black bears, bison and wolf.
Migratory birds such as Tundra and Trumpeter swans, ducks and geese.
Northern fish species such as arctic grayling, northern pike and lake trout.
Ecological Concerns:
Mining
Deforestation
Pipelines
Disruption of native people
(climatogram is of a near by city of Whitehorse, one could not be found for Miles Canon Basalt)