If You Go Down To The Woods Today...

We had a great, adventurous day out in the forest last week, taking our time to meander our way through the trees and undergrowth on a two and a half hour hike towards Thorpe Woodlands Adventure park for our afternoon of problem solving team activities (it only actually takes less than a 45 min stroll on direct paths, but as true explorers, we didn't take the easy, known, route of course!)

Here are some snippets of our adventures in the woods, learning how it is used as a business as well as a wonderful habitat for wildlife.

Using our maps and compass to find our route, and identification charts to identify trees along the way.

Comparing the height and growth of the saplings planted by the Forestry Commission. Plenty of number crunching working out how many trees were in this area alone!

Thousands of trees trunks ready felled for harvesting into wood products.

From little to large!

We were fascinated by the size of the hole and the roots of this tree, uprooted by the winter storms.

There was plenty of evidence that animals live here, footprints, bark scratching, nibbled leaves and loads of these nibbled fir cones. We worked out several food chains!

 This was an experience that heightened our senses - being lead blindfold through the forest, developing trust in our friends too!

And onto Thorpe Woodlands for our teamwork problem solving activities...