Here I shall explain the highlights of the trip, not in order. First off, Soren broke my glasses when he wanted to look at them. I bought some Krazy Glue, glued it, then the glued piece fell off when I was hiking. About hiking, I usually was in the front on every hike, always first one up first one down. Usually carrying snacks for the entire group while also being told to slow down a lot (wish I could’ve hiked more). I also got to cut wood with a hatchet which was also fun and made fire; the fire starter I had bought is useless. I hit it 30 times on a bundle of paper, pine needles, and twigs and it didn’t spark once. When we went swimming at the lake, there was a lot of snow in the forest that we had to go through to get to the lake. The water was probably around 50 degrees and I was the one who swam in it for over ten minutes (I stayed in for 20), besides maybe Devin, though I’m not sure how long he stayed in. And then, on the way back, because I didn’t want to get my shoes wet and dirty, I hike a mile through snow and rough forest floor barefoot.

Another fun thing was that I didn’t use a tent any of the nights which wasn’t too bad despite the fairly cold conditions, plus the mat helped a lot. Every night was worth it though; I got to go to sleep looking straight up at the moon and when I woke up, at he beautiful dawn light. On the last night, I was kind of paranoid when I saw a couple bugs on my sleeping bag right before I went to bed but it wasn’t too bad. Also, I did have to do dishes by the way, two out of four nights though it was worth it because the food was actually really good. It was kind of fun to play charades all the time, and annoying, and I played a good amount of guitar too, usually playing where my mat was but occasionally playing around the campfire. Another funny thing was that when we had a watermelon but no knife, Ian made a small cut with a knife the size of my pinkie and then I split it with my bare hands. Plus we went to this awesome Danish pastry shop on the way back. I got a strudel and as I ate it, I documented ‘Strudel Integrity’ like it was the hull of a space ship. When the ‘Star Strudel IV’ was gone, we played Ground Control to Major Tom as a goodbye. It was so sad. 🙁

Anyways, it was probably the best camping trip I’ve ever had and I hope I go camping like that in high school.