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Day Three: Mountain Hiking

Today, I went to Crippin Mountain to do a day of fun filled mountain hiking and climbing. We took the bumpy journey in the van and landed in a field just below the mountains. Looking at them, it was slightly daunting considering I knew I would be climbing to the summit. We were given two maps and a compass, and Group F and I found our way around the rocky lanes using our (terrible) navigation skills. Our Instructor, Steve, and Mr Tillet gave us a talk on how the rocks were formed, and why there were so many sheep! After we had walked for about a half hour, we started occupying ourselves by telling each other riddles, and we were also talking about how tired we were. Little did we know, we had an even tougher journey ahead of us. We took a long time to get to the rockiest bit, and then the real teamwork arose. We lined up, and took turns in going at the front to blow the wind off each other. After a long time, we got to the summit. We were all very proud. It took an incredibly long time to get down, and all our feet hurt! We were just walking the last part when we came across two farmers with unnamed puppies, and they named one after me!

By Nina Honey

Today started with getting up at 7.30am which was very hard for me! The first challenge of the day was breakfast I had to make sure I got to the cereal before everybody else. After that came job checks and tidying my room! We then found out what we were going to do today, we were told we were going to be walking up a mountain. I felt very exhausted by this but happy and excited at the same time. We set off in the mini bus, after half an hour we arrived at the bottom of the mountain. OMG how am I going to make it to the top without falling over? As it got steeper and steeper I got more and more tired as we got closer to the top. About 60m from the top we had to scramble using our hand and feet to get to the summit. The summit was 768m above sea level. When I got to the top I felt like I was the king of the world. We then began to head back down. We finally made it back to the minibus and I felt hot and tired. I found today hard, fun and exhausting.

By Joseph Roche-Ward