On July 29, high school students in the City Parks Foundation Learning Gardens Training Program spent the whole day at Orchard Beach for an adventure off the beaten path. Throughout the summer, students in the program have already gained valuable experience working in community gardens around the city, including in Jamaica, Queens, Brownsville, Brooklyn and the Bruckner Mott Haven Community Garden in the South Bronx. She taught the students how to recognize and follow trail markers and helped them identify several tree species using a leaf guide published by NYC Parks. Throughout the hike, students remained mostly off their phones and chatted, pointed out observations and huffed along in the humidity. Elvin, 17, was a first-time visitor to Pelham Bay Park and Orchard Beach.