Nothing but G’s in the back country by A.C. Berry

The Nothing but G’s + the Backcountry = pain and awesomeness. On Thursday the 18 of March, we started our decent into the backcountry. For the first 20 minutes we were all hiking together. After that I had to fall back because Ashley (my backpack) was giving me a hard time. I had to stop and adjust my hip belt. While I was doing that, I saw Evan not too far from me. I caught up to him and we started to talk about our lives at home and how we miss them. We stopped a lot as well because the first mile was all up hill. That killed my hips. Some people said my hips were lying. Then it was killing my knees. Evan was a rookie to hiking, so he stayed in the back and hiked up that beast. I was already in the back with Evan, so I thought of cheering him on because it was his first hike with a very big backpack. After the all that up hill, it was a nice smooth breeze down to camp. Our campsite was called Barlow flats. A little fact about this campsite is that if you go to the restroom it is on top of a hill and you can see people passing by. Awkward, but the out come of the campsite was great; we had enough space to sleep and play.

While we were at this beautiful campsite, we did school everyday, but we also did some other fun activities. The day after we got in we took a hike to the hot springs. During that hike Evan, I.V., Ben, and myself got to know each other a little bit more. When we got to the so-called hot springs, we had to cross a river many times. We cheered Laith on because he was scared. When we got across the river we could not find the hot springs, so we took a break and ate snack while Ricky and Andrew dunked there heads in the water. Then we headed back to camp to finish off the day. The next day we had to clean up in the river. Some people jumped in right away, others like myself were pansies about it and did not want to get in. That water was some of the coldest water I have ever felt.

Then on the hike out again Evan and I were I the back up until we saw the van then I asked him you want to run to the van. At first he said no but then he took off and I tired to catch up but I could not because he did not give me a warning

As I wrap this blog up I just want to say that the nothing but G’s have gone through a lot to be at the position that they are in. I think that we can handle the next expedition, the one that we will run by ourselves, very well.