The Long Journey by Brendan

The Long Journey

By: Brendan

Made on: October 17th 2017

Everybody is getting ready for the long hike ahead of us. Everybody is trying to use the bathroom at the dining hall to prevent going to the bathroom at the hike even though they would. I walk outside with a slight headache like the one that feels fine but gets worse but this time it didn’t. “Is everybody here?” Asks almost every adult. “Yep!” Says everybody else including me. Soon, We headed up a thin trail that led us up to a steep path that cirque and mummy were both going on for awhile. Some people were regretting going on mummy when the steep part came. We were on the side of the mountain walking around the pingre territory. You could see all of the things that we had done in the last day also there were a few animals and people. It was fun, it wasn’t hard, it was pretty easy, It was just like walking, but in a foot of snow.

We had gotten to the point where cirque and mummy broke off, “It’s not as hard as it’s going get.” Says the staff member hiking up the mountain. It was at a fairly steep part with not many flat parts. The snow was getting pretty high and we had to make a path through it so it was kinda at the point where someone would make a footstep and everybody behind you would step in the same one. It looked like one person was there and then nobody else was because their would only be one place where their was a foot. “I need to use the bathroom!” I said to. I didn’t need to go like super bad, I just didn’t feel like I could keep going if it got worse. Everybody get some snow in their hand pat it down PAT...PAT...PAT..(continued) to make a perfect snowball. Some people patted it down so hard that it didn’t even break when it hit.

Everybody wants lunch so much. We only had one snack break before and I only had a granola bar. We were going at a slower pace than before because The snow kept getting higher the higher we went. We were lucky that we had all the trees around us to keep the snow above us. People were constantly firing snowballs at eachother It was constant chaos. I needed to use the bathroom so much. We had just stopped for a break and they said that you can’t use the bathroom, I was gonna explode. Everybody was starting to ask when lunch was gonna happen to the point where they said that they were just going to have lunch at the next break. When they said that lunch was in a few minutes everybody sounded excited with a bit of finallys on the hike. When we got to the rock where we were having lunch I went to the bathroom immediately, I got back with everybody eating, I got out my lunch and started eating a bit too fast but it was worth it. We were gonna go a bit further but we have ended up not and just going back. I realized that I did something that not everybody got to try.

We headed down the mountain with excitement and with a lot of it. I just needed it to be over soon. We were coming back to the part were mummy and cirque broke off. Almost the entire group knew that it was getting close to the end. We had a very long break at the pond the FROZEN pond we threw rocks in the frozen lake hoping that we would break the ice. The snow was going away making a bad thing (slosh) the trail was soooo wet, it was like walking in a small pool. We got to the end of the trail ready for nothing but going home, it was a big day, and we had one (only half) day left of eco week. I got back to the cabin with relief that it was all over.

I had gone to the cabin realizing that I had done something that maybe other people would give up on. I realized that I didn’t give up even when the snow was getting very high. I knew that I had done it and that I did decent at it as well. It felt good, it felt like I accomplished something that was worth doing.