B-17 by Ben

B-17               

October 10 2017

By Ben

I walked out of the dining hall and met up with my hiking group and we waited for everyone else on the hike.

We started to hike to the B-17 trial on a wide road.

just before we went on the main B-17 trial we looked at mummy pass.I still can't make out the mummy shape yet but others can.

When we reached zig-zag hill that's what I called it at least. people started to trip and fall into the snow there but we continued to walk up hill no matter what. After that we took a small break and I drank some water, and took a picture of the trees.

At twin lakes we stopped to eat a snack I brushed the snow off a rock and sat down and started to eat my snack then spotted what I thought where deer tracks by the rock.

When we started on the trail again we saw even more animal tracks and maybe even a few bear tracks now we were trudging through snow up to are ankles or more.

About an hour later of tripping and fall and whines and complaints and brakes for water we finally sat down for lunch at a manmade river reservoir thing and I plopped one of my jackets down ands started to eat my sandwich.

We started to continue with even more whines and complaints and tripping and falling and one or to breaks. we Eventually  reached the crash site there was metal everywhere and it was old and rusted. when we were exploring the crash site we had to be very careful so we don't trip and don't get cut somewhere on the body with old rusted metal. When I was exploring the crash site I found out that the plane either had 2 engines or 1 engine that got split in half when it crashed or one wasn't an engine. I saw part of the body of the plane that looked small down the hill but we couldn’t go that far down to explore it because it was to steep and there could be more old sharp rusted metal that we could slip and get cut somewhere.

After a while of exploring we started on the why down on the why down it was more slipping and less tripping by then the snow was melting but it made my feet were wet even though I had waterproof boots my sock where cold and wet and the front of the group was  ahead of us and the back of the group was way behind the middle. “I think we're lost” someone said. “No, we’re not” I said as I spotted the front of the group just ahead. Just as the rest of the middle group was about to turn around and probably get lost.

Then we past twin lakes but didn’t take a break this time but just continued on the trail.

Later then the group continued on the trail to the dorms and the hike was over and I felt so happy to finish the hike. And it was so worth all the tripping and falling and slipping and face planting it was all worth making it to the top and getting to explore the crash site and talking with my friends while hiking and getting to see animal tracks at twin lakes, trying to slip my way down from the top and I might have learned and few things I didn’t know about before.