Camp Sloane

I'm BAAAAACK

So, the trip was fun. It was an hour and a half ride in a coach bus to get there. The bus ride up I wasn't feeling to well so it sorta sucked. The day we got there (Monday) I dropped my stuff off in the cabin the girls were going to stay in and then I had to pack for a hike. We took bare minimum for the trip, sleeping bag, sleeping pad, clothes, and water.

We hiked for like three hours the first day and then set up camp (this was on the Appalachin trail.) There were four guys and four girls in my group and the guys slept in the shelter that was at the campsite and the girls slept on a tarp, on the ground. It was fun though. I was with one of my friends named Lindsay. We had weird rice with beans for dinner and hot chocolate. We had to prepare a bear bag so that we wouldn't attract animals with our food. It was REALLY cold and all we had were our sleeping bags but it was still fun. In the morning we ate oatmeal and there was optional hot chocolate and then we packed up and left.

We hiked for eight hours.

We climbed five mountains on that trip including the tallest mountains in Connecticut and Mass. YAY! It was fun, although pretty hard.

I also did the team building stuff/low ropes. There was also a high ropes course where we had to walk over wires up in the trees from 30 feet to 50 feet of the ground, climb a shaky ladder to get there, walk across and log and a bridge at the same height and then we jumped off a zip-live where all the guys got hurt because they didn't pull the rope down.

It rained the last day we were there and that was the day I went canoeing and climbed the climbing wall, or at least tried too. By the time it was my turn on the wall all the blocks were really wet and slippery so I couldn't get all the way up, although I don't know if I could have anyway. Yeah. But canoeing was fun, we got really wet and I paddled mostly while the other two girls in my boat just sat there.

The bus ride back was fun, there was a movie playing and I talked with a lot of my friends. We were all wet, tired and sore so we got home and slept. Although today was my friends bat mitzvah so we had to wake up again.

Glad to see you guys managed to keep some posts happening while I was gone ;P