Rattlesnake Point Hike
From Thursday, September 17 to the 18th, I travelled to the Rattlesnake Point Hike in Oakville. Throughout that trip we hiked, built our tent, ate, and slept, but we wouldn't be able to do anything if we didn't train on Tuesday. On Tuesday, September the 15th, we did exercises to train for the intimidating 21 km Rattlesnake Point Hike. Before the hike of Rattlesnake Point, I did a total of 7 exercises on Tuesday. The first exercise I did was map and geology of the hike. During this exercise, I understood the route of our hike and watched the route of the platoons last year. We will be sure not to make the same mistakes that I last year's platoons did, such as leaving the GPS on. The second one I did in the morning was
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Leading up was the Cadet Leader, Nick, and one of the teachers, Mr. Paluch, who invented our motto, ‘2B is one the Move!' As 2A started to hike, we knew that our turn to hike was very close. As we hiked with our GPS and map, lots of animals and great views caught our eyes. About one-quarter of our trip to lunch, we stopped by an immense body of water. Some of us were eager to jump in it, due to the humidity. But, even with the temptation, we still moved on. Mentioning the Geocaches will be very essential. The camouflaged boxes you find are Geocaches. You can found anywhere in the world and acts like a hangar for the belongings from other students. After a little while, we arrived at the lunch site and we all ran to our tables like wild animals. The lunch we ate included food like a tortilla, ham, lettuce, and cheese, giving us lots of energy. After we ate, we all acquiesced to continue our hike to our campsite. Hiking was very refreshing and nice, same as before, but a little longer. During our hike examined two amusing things. One of them was a Geocache. The Geocache was covert in a pile of rocks, which made it very hard to find. The S.A.C pin inside the Geocache …show more content…
Jalen and I were sleeping partners. After our platoon got their tents set, we ate our dinner, which was the MRE's. Everyone’s food was in the boiling pot in no less than 10 mins and were to be eat in 5 mins. The meal that I ate was a pork sausage patty and a hash brown, but even though the MRE tasted horrible, it was better than nothing. Afterwards, we played two games of manhunt, which was amazing. I never knew that teachers and the cadet leaders were so fast! After manhunt, our fun time ended and we had to sleep. My specialty, sleeping, today was high because hiking was exhausting because my ruck sack kept on falling, so I had to like carry it for half the hike. Furthermore, it felt very fun because I had my friends who I could always depend on if I needed help and I forgot to mention that it was Nick who solved my rucksack problem. In addition, it was like I totally forgot that I was hiking because time fly’s when you're having fun! Platoons often experience challenges. For my platoon we struggled to climb over hills and tried to sneak in little breaks. On the other hand, my platoon experienced lots of successes such as never giving up, and by working together. For the first day, I only have one
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I knew taking this shortcut was a mistake, yet I didn't think I had enough strength to keep climbing this monumental cliff with the others. The humidity was affecting my vision and the ground now started to spin. The muscles in my legs felt
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