Progress Check

So far 20 time has been going well. Taylor and I have been able to keep up with our plan for weekly hikes and we've even done more hiking than required. We've posted a few trail descriptions but need to be better about taking pictures, the explanations would be much more accurate with added visual aids. We've learned a lot about the physical benefits of hiking just from our own experience but could better understand the actually facts. So we will definitely be looking more into the hard evidence about the physiological benefits of hiking. We have been monitoring the trash levels of certain trails and are happy to report that many of them aren't too polluted. We are going to try and document more of the trash we see and come up with ways to help prevent this epidemic from continuing. We see the trash on some of these trails and then come back to our own Saratoga high school were the parking lot is also littered with garbage. So what can be done? What can we do to encourage our community to stop littering and start taking care of our community and planet? These are the questions we will be addressing in the upcoming weeks as we continue to hike and collect data.