Cedar Glen camp from a youngsters view part 3

July 3, 2013

Hello again! Today I did lots of fun activities! We hiked, swam, climbed and built all of that was fun! So, now dear readers I will tell you of my adventures.

Hiking

We hiked through a really really really long and windy trail. It took lots of effort to put one foot in front of the other near the end. So, we were hiking uphill on a mountain basically. It took us 30 minutes to get all the way to the top. When we got there we saw a giant stretch of land covered with thousands of corn plants. It was beautiful all that nature!Then we started hiking downwards and it was really slippery! It was a really steep hill and kinda hard to get down in some places. After about 15 minutes we were down on the ground and enjoying our snacks.

Rock climbing

     So, we had to climb artificial rocks all the way to like 12 meters above our heads. Most of the people got to halfway before coming down the same way like in the high ropes situation. There were people pulling on a rope so the climber didn't get hurt. About 5 people got to the top like me! That's right I got the climbing flu! The reason most of the people didn't make it to the top was because of two main things.

1. There is a really hard part near the end like a where you would like be climbing at a 60 degrees angle and it would be harder.
2. There were "Magic rocks" that if you put your weight on they turned and made you slip.

     But some of the climbers were better than a wall and made it to the top!

Swimming

       In swimming we got to play in the pool. The green swimmers got to do dives in the deep end and the red and yellow stayed in the shallow end which was still pretty deep. It was about 6 feet in the deeper part and 4 feet in the shallow end. I was having a lot of fun there today and am learning to tread water .

Shelter building

In shelter building me, a 10 year old, a 9 year old and a 8 year old got together and built a shelter.We had to use sticks found in the wild big and small and build a shelter. We started by putting a huge log in the middle of two pairs of trees. Then we put branches to use as walls and cleared down the space underneath. So we had a front door and walls and a roof.

That's it for today. Live young, have fun and sleep happy.