Eating Dirt

William pike challenge - Skiing

Today we walked up to Temple Basin taking an hour and a half to walk up. I was at the front of the group and we had to slow down a lot to wait for the people who were slow. When we got up the boys started throwing snowballs but soon stopped as their hands got cold. we had lunch and then got ready for skiing. I had no idea what to do so I took all day to learn how to stop with the pizza cut. We had dinner which was delicious! We went to bed and I fell asleep soon after lights out. the next day we had breakfast and played ping pong until we were allowed to go out. when we got out we had a huge snow fight so that the snow could soften up. we also went tobogganing down a slope which was really fun! when we hit the ski field I mastered my turning and pizza cutting and Mr Sinton-white gave me the all clear for the Nutcracker (a rope that tows you up the hill) it took me a few goes before actually getting it. When I arrived up the top, I slowly pizza cutted down and got told to try turning. after lunch I had a lot of goes up and down the slope and had soon mastered the turning. after taking about five hours on Casady (the ski slope) we headed back because my hands were starting to freeze in my gloves. we walked back quite sore and walked in the door. I took my boots off and a bit of steam rose from them. we had showers and then dinner. the people doing speeches got some practice in front of strangers! I wasn't one of them. once we had pudding we went to bed but I couldn't get to sleep because of THE DAMN CREEKING DOORS!!! when everyone settled I thought I would get some sleep but THEN PEOPLE DECIDED TO PARTY TILL 11:00!!!! I finally got to sleep and woke up at five am. you wanna know why? THE KEAS DECIDED TO HAVE A SQUARKING PARTY TOO! AT 5 AM!!! WORST! NIGHT! EVER! in the morning everyone was sore. but only our room had heard the keas. we waited for the snow to soften again and then got out. sadly at the top of Casady, the snow was still icy. but I skiied down only falling about 5 billion times. mrs highgate was having to ski in GUMBOOTS! shes a legend! when we got off we were all still sore and no one wanted to walk back down. when we went inside, Mr Sinton-white's wife was in there as she had just walked up with two young children. one was 4 and one was 5. and she had to piggyback the one which was 4 halfway up the hill! what a legend! then she had to walk down with us about an hour after waking up! WHAT A LEGEND!!!!!!!!! we all walked down and I was in the fast group at the front. it took us 53 minutes to walk down but our legs were dying! we staggered into the car and took the journey back to school. when we unloaded the trailer we realized there was an unclaimed bag. ... we had stolen a strangers bag from the goods lift. everyone laughed and giggled a bit before realizing someone had to return it. Mr Sinton-white said he would do it so that was a relief! all in all the trip was amazing and I would love to do it again!