A Mountain Journey

By: Howard O’Hagan

Vocabulary: Please write the definitions for the following words, then choose three words to put into a sentence.

• trapper – a person whose business is the trapping of animals for their furs.
• siwashing – to camp out without a tent or supplies.
• summit – the highest point or part, as of a hill, a line of travel, or any object; top; apex.

billows – any surging mass: billows of smoke.

bannock –a flat cake made of oatmeal, barley meal, etc., usually baked on a griddle.

• cadaverous – of or like a corpse.
• inertia – inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.

Sentence #1:The smoke billows across the sky.

Sentence #2: I have not gone to the summit.

Sentence #3: I ate bannock with my dinner.