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teng
pa
mor
pattty
neng
alberto
kissel
sue

Instructors

catherine
mandy

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Students from Merced High School in Merced, California, came together for a beautiful WildLink week, which included some great snow time in a wintry Yosemite Valley as well as a spring-like exploration of a warm and sunny Hite Cove in the Sierra National Forest. This is a particularly special expedition because it is carried out in honor of Richard Iglehart, whose loved ones have established the Iglehart Wilderness Foundation in his memory. As has become a tradition with the Richard Iglehart Memorial Expeditions, the spirit in which this expedition is supported lent it a special intensity and energy. WildLink would like to thank the Iglehart Wilderness Foundation for increasing their support of the program this year to two expeditions.

Click here to learn more about Richard Iglehart.

Click here to learn more about the Richard Iglehart Foundation.

Some of the highlights included a beautiful hike up to the Hite Cove Ridge; finding bear tracks in the mud; helping with the Hite Cove Photomonitoring Project; donning waders and optivisors for a snowy and icy aquatic biomonitoring session on Illilouette Creek (which is part of a Yosemite Institute collaborative research project with UC Merced); and learning some great new songs from WildLink instructor Catherine. It was a week of firsts for many of us: first time to climb a mountain, touch snow, go camping, and to be in Wilderness.

Thank you to all of you for a wonderful week; may this be the first of many adventures you enjoy in the Wilderness in the years to come!