Cannibal Gorge
On the 15 of December on a wickedly hot Tuesday morning, three out of the six year eights went for a hike to Cannibal Gorge hut. Berinie(summer dad),Ms Kemp, Neaveah, Summer and me all went. We left school at 8;30 am, heading to Cannibal Gorge going through Reefton and Spring junction. At Reefton we stopped to get our tickets from the I-site. The Isite was closed and didn't open until 10am, so we went for a stroll to get a Hot choc and some lollies to waste some time. We had a quick look around at the mines and bird sculptures, went to the toilet then headed up to Cannibal Gorge.
As soon as we got to the car park I took off my thermal because of the heat and put on a hat and sunscreen on. Through my backpack over my shoulders and we set off. The first part was a steady downhill to a swing bridge over a river. After the downhill we started to climb again. The climb was quite steep and quite long. Neveah Didn't feel well so we set a slow pace so she would feel better. She felt like she was going to spew. I felt really bad for her because she was in alot of pain. The walk in felt like it was going forever and wasn't going to finish. But once we got to the last swingbridge there was the last really big hill. It was a big push put once we were at the end we could see the hut I was so pleased.
At the hut we took out our raincoat, put them in Ms Kemp’s pack and walked to the other hut 45 minutes away called the Ada Pass. Neveah still didn't feel well but we went on. Past half way she really felt sick. So we turned around and walked back to the Cannibal Gorge hut.It was quite fun for Summer and myself because we had lots of energy out of nowhere. We were jumping over big trees and dodging rocks. We also got these tiny sticks that made a weird nose if you blew through it. By the time we got back to the hut it was still extremely hot. We jumped into our togs,ran around the hut one hundred times to make ourselves really hot so we weren't cold when we jumped in. Walked to the river. I climbed a big tree that had fallen over. I was going to jump in from there but the river was too shallow. Neveah was the first to go under, then me, then summer. Neveah stayed in for so long! We floated down the rapids and then got out to warm up on the rocks.The water was cold in togs; It would have been perfect with a wetsuit.
We cooked Dinner with Summer’s jetboil cooker. She and her had boiled the water for our backcountry dinner. After dinner we roast some marshmallows over the hut fire. We then walked out to the field to tell each other scary stories. Once Ms kemp finished hers she scared me so bad that I jumped out of the spot I was sitting in. Summer also came up to me 3 times and scared me good every time. Once Ms Kemp said the scary story all of us girls were scared. We started sleeping a metre away from every one.But once we heard loud noises we were sleeping 3 centimetres apart!
In the morning we tried to make pancakes but that failed because the oil that we didn't bring.But the bacon was delicious. It fueled us up to tramp the way out. We only had two big stops to eat and have a break. The walk out felt a lot faster because we were talking the whole time about our dream houses! It helped a lot to get our mind off what we were actually doing.I was so relieved to finish. My feet had a lot of blisters and sores.
My favorite part was on the way back from Ada Pass because we had a lot of energy so we were jumping over logs. I had a lot of fun doing this tramp. I do wonder what it would have been like with the rest of the class. Maybe very noisy.
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