Anyways, our climb was extremely steep and so we had our helmets on. Then Ally fell and rolled head over heels for quite a distance, letting out a blood-curling scream. It was scary but after we realized she was okay, it was hard to keep the laughter inside because she was covered from head to toe in mud and looked like a chocolate Easter Bunny and was furious that her clothes were dirty. We did manage to keep the laughter in, though.

Then the HAIL started. It is not a pleasant experience to have huge chunks of ice come banging down on your head and the rest of your body. When the lightning became too close, we stopped under some trees for shelter, but soon continued because the standing around being soaking wet was just too cold.

At long last, 6 miles later, we reached our goal. I had severe difficulty warming up. Everyone else soon got warm & dry but I could not stop shivering and my teeth would not stop chattering. Markian said I had mild hypothermia, and this continued for about 3 hours.

Next Markian gave us a lesson in how to put our two tarps together into a "Party A frame", and so we could all slept under it together.

That night we had our nightly meeting under the tarp because it was still raining. Markian asked us what qualities we thought a leader should have and we talked about that for a while. Then we grabbed partners, and we were assigned first aid topics to research. Kara and I got sprains, strains, & fractures. We looked up the topic in some of Markian's books he had brought and each group presented what they had learned to the rest of the group. It was neat! Then we went to sleep, and I slept the whole night through like a baby.

Day 5


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