Choice day: ALL Day Hike

 One fun choice on Thursday it to hike all day on the mountains surrounding the Keewaydin campus.

 Student reflections:

The all day hike was 10.5 miles which is 7 hours of hiking! I enjoyed watching William fall down the mountain cause he chose to run instead of walk so what happened was me and my group going down a steep hill. Suddenly William started running and I watched him trip. He tried staying up even when he ran through a fallen tree then he finally tripped fully from a rock wall as his knee hit the tree and the rocks he face planted. I laughed so hard but still asked if he was ok.-KB

 

For Thursday choice day, one of the options we could choose was an all day hike on Mt. Mooselamoo. This hike was all over the mountain, we got to see many beautiful views, and scenic paths. We had a fun time hiking in the woods and overall did a 10.5 mile hike. We saw pretty flowers on our way up, and on our way down we saw a really cool river with big boulders from glaciers long ago. When we got to a nice clearing where we could see a beautiful mountain in front of us we had lunch. It was nice to sit down after our long hike up. Once we were done with lunch we headed to the summit which was about thirty steps away from where we had lunch. There wasn’t even a clearing in the trees so it wasn’t that worth it. After that we headed down the mountain on the opposite side we came up. We saw many pretty plants. Once we had gotten pretty far down we had a snack by the river. We saw these gigantic boulders in the river that were from the giant glacier that was there long ago. Once we got back down we headed to camp with our sore legs, and the feeling that we just accomplished something amazing, plus we got bragging rights. - EL

The Views were so amazing and genuinely breathtaking, here is free advice: do NOT try to run down a mountain it hurts a lot I mean a lot. I fell more like tumble/rolled 6 feet. It hurts a lot. The hike was 10.5 miles long, 7+ hours up, down and around Mt. Mooselamoo.The hike was fun though definitely worth it.

-WL