Extreme Hike!

Every semester they always take this hike through a valley on the Island. They call it the Extreme Hike! We start up high and then travel down through the valley and make our way to the sea and that is where we get picked up.

This semester they were considering not having the hike because we had a lot of rain just days before the hike, so a lot of the valley was flooded with freezing cold water. But after a while they decided to have the hike anyway but made sure that we knew that it was going to be hard. I was definitely thinking about not going on the hike but I knew I would regret it if I stayed, so I decided to go.

All of us ready to hike!

They were not kidding when they said that it was Extreme!! Being a smaller person it made it quite a bit harder because jumps were further and steps were longer. But thanks to my friends at our school I had a lot of help. I think I would have died if it weren't for their help. Haha

The hike was about 6 hours long. Usually it would never take this long, but because of the water that we ran into it took a lot longer. Our pastor Raf and leader of the hike did not expect any of the water to be that deep and only expected to run into water in one or two places. But we ran into water at least 5 times. Most of it was over our heads. (All of it was over my head) At first we would try to walk through in our swimming gear holding our packing above our heads. But by the time we got to the third flooded area we all went in with our shoes and clothes on so we would not have to deal with the hassle of changing. 

In the very deep areas was when we became a team and formed an assembly line to pass our packs across the water. This was very difficult!

It was a real team hike, we all had to rely on each other, if we didn't we would not have been able to get through it. It was a team forming and group bonding experience. It was an amazing feeling of accomplishment when we got to the end. When we saw the sea it was a sign of victory! It was beautiful by the way, and a great reminder that we made it!

We did it!!