MOUNTAIN CAMP

In the beginning of July my mom signed me up for a two week camp. Ryan did not want me to go. I was little nervous but I went in with a open mind. Said good bye and headed off to camp. It was the mountain retreat in North Carolina.

Here is the place we stayed for a week before going on the AT. We slept in sleeping bags on the floor. In the back was all our stuff like our duffle bags or suitcases. We called it the thunder shack dome. We had family council and talked about our favorite and not favorite part of the day.

This is the trail that we did work on and hiked to the dinning hall on. We put in rocks and logs on this trail.

Here is one of the places that we put logs in. We had to build a trench with a tool that has a curved part and a axe blade on the handle.

It was time to go on the AT. We packed our hiking bags and took off. We were going to spend 5 days on the AT. I was hoping that nothing was going to happen.

The first day was a five mile hike. The last mile was rough. I was going all over the trail. When I took off the pack I fell down in a heap. I couldn't go any farther but I just had to. I mustered up all that I had left in me and made it to the shelter. Ben checked my pulse it was 74 bpm. I helped out cooking tacos. After we ate we went to Siler Bald. It was an awsome view. All you could see was mountains.

The Fourth day on the trail we stopped by wesser tower. It was an amazing view. All you could see was mountains. It was very peaceful and quite. All you could here was birds an the leaves blowing.

Here is the view of another view at wesser tower execpt it wasn't on the tower.

Besides a lot of mountains there were a lot of trees. The AT is all trees or all mountains. We also had to go to the bathroom in the woods but one time we got lucky and went to to the bathroom in a toilet that the park ranger put there.