Good day folks. Today we have John B. and Wiley as your reporters for today. In the early morning (around 4:30) we awoke to a humongous storm. Everyone rushed to secure their rain tarps due to the extreme heat of the hike from Gettysburg. When everyone secured their tents, we went back to bed (no surprise there). Almost everyone was up at 7 while I, Wiley, personally did not wake up until 7:30 (my excuse; I was tired from securing the rain tarp). When everyone was up, we had to attend the flag ceremony. After the ceremony, we had breakfast, which consisted of cereal and bananas (yummy). After breakfast, we took down our tents and packed our gear in a great big pile in front of the trailer.We then made our lunches and we had a choice of either turkey or ham sandwiches, some crackers, a bag of chips, and a Twix bar. After we packed our lunch, we then took the canopy down, and started to put the gear in the trailer. After that, we packed into the cars, and took off for the Appalachian Trail.
It took us about 15 minutes to find out where we were supposed to start. When we got there, we hopped off of the cars and walked to a sign. We took photos in front of the sign, and stayed there for a while. Mr.S had Will and I pick a number between 1 and 20 to see who would lead first. I picked unlucky 13 and Will picked 17, and well apparently 13 was a lucky number. The number was 17, so Will got to lead first. Will was to lead us through the first 2 miles of the trail, and with the map, he lead us into the trail. The trail we picked was to go uphill for the first half, and then downhill for the second half. So we hiked uphill for about 20 minutes before we had a break, which was at the top of a hill. We continued when everyone caught their breath. We followed Will for the rest of his 2 miles and then we had a “leadership change”. Matthew was next to lead us, so we followed him for the next 2 miles. After 2 miles, we did the same thing, only this time Luke was the leader. We followed Luke to our lunch spot and in order to get to our lunch spot, we had to cross a road. Mr.R stood on the other side waving to us saying that there was water. For us to cross the road, an adult stood in the middle of the road and we (the scouts and the other adults) crossed safely to the other side. When we had crossed to the other side of the road we sat down on the grass, and ate our lunch.
Hey, this is John B. here who is going to tell you the rest of the story. So after lunch we continued with Wiley as our leader. We hiked 2 miles in 45 minutes. After that John T. took charge. during his reign we took a break and climbed a big pile of rocks. We moved on and made very good time, so we took another break. Later Colin took the leadership role and we moved on. We were behind schedule, so we moved very fast and we finally finished our 10 mile hike! We were all exhausted with sore legs. Some of us earned our hiking merit badge,but some of us need more hikes in order to get the merit badge. This is John and Wiley signing off, and we hope to see you all very soon.
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