Sunday 17 May 2015

Gaisce Hike 2015

On Friday the 1st of May, fifty fourth year students travelled to Carlingford to complete their Gaisce Bronze Award with their 25K hike. Since September, we have been completing our 'challenges' such as physical recreation, community involvement and personal skill. Our 'adventure journey' completed our 26 weeks of Gaisce.

Everyone signed up for different jobs during the trip. A couple of girls were sent off to buy food for dinner and lunch in Supervalu and they then piled everything into Ms. McCaul's car. Another few girls volunteered to cook dinner that evening and another few to clean up afterwards, while others packed lunches for our hike the next day.

When we checked into the adventure centre in Carlingford we were all assigned our rooms. We then set off for the first half of our hike. We completed 10K that evening and then returned to the centre for our dinner of pasta, garlic bread, ice cream and cake for dessert.

We all woke early the next morning to hear rain pelting down outside. We had our breakfast and left with our packed lunches, and well needed rain jackets. We walked higher and higher up the mountain, for it only to get wetter and windier. It seemed like we were never going get off that mountain! Everyone was wet, cold and miserable. The rain never stopped, however nearly three hours and 15K later we were greeted by the bus driver and the nice, WARM bus. We had never been so happy for warm clothes in our lives. However, thankfully we completed our Gaisce Award :)

Thanks to all of the teachers who endured the hike with us. Other than the three hours of hiking up the mountain in wet and miserable conditions, we all had a great time.





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