Reverse Viewing

One day it was very cold--we were exploring the snowy areas of the Great Basin National Park, and when we would exit the car, we had to push mightily against the wind to get the car door open.  Still, we really wanted to see mountain goats, and so we walked out to each overlook and tried to see them.  One overlook had a viewer, and Lizzie was trying to use it to search the distant mountainside, but gave up quickly.  I started to take her place, and she said, "That only seems to make things smaller."  It was then we discovered she had been looking through it from the wrong end, so we swung it around...

After all of this, we still didn't see any mountain goats.