On Friday the 27th April at 3pm anyone in T.Y taking part in the Gaisce award set off on their 25km hike. We all had classes until 2:40 pm and then put our luggage on the bus and off we went. We arrived at Kippure Lodge, Co. Wicklow at around 4pm and straight away got put into our houses, We put our luggage(Mainly food) into the houses and left for the hike at 4:30pm. I had loads of clothes on and a hiking backpack because it was meant to rain. We were walking through this field and I thought this is not so hard but that was only the field that joined us to the mountains !!
We started the 13 km hike up mountain and it was really hard and I couldn't imagine doing it for four hours. It was really cold at first but it suddenly got really warm. Every few minutes my ankles keep twisting. Eventually everyone started talking and encouraging each other so it was fun and we all struggled together!!
We arrived home around 9ish and started preparing our own dinner which was really exciting because everyone's parents cooked their dinners usually. We had pizza, pasta, cheese and tomato sauce. For dessert we had to have sweets of course. We had bags of sweets and didn't even eat half of them but hey we had a party on the bus home...
We didn't get to bed until 2 am and we had to be up by 7:30 am for another four hours of hiking. Elizabeth, A girl in my house decided it would be fun to wake everyone up at 5 am to watch a Movie!!! So lets just say everyone was knackered by 7.30am.
We set off on our hike at 9am and arrived back by 2 pm when we had lunch and then set off to the high ropes courses. To be honest I really didn't want to do them because I just wanted to go home !! I really enjoyed the high ropes though and we arrived home at 6pm. I really enjoyed this trip and think it was the high-light of T.Y.
Eimear x
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