On friday 1st april, we had the gaisce hike. There were only 16 of us going, so it was a nice intimate affair ;) We left the school at 2 o clock. It only took us less than an hour to get down to knockree in Wicklow.
When we got there, we were given our room keys. I was in a room with Ailbhe, Leah, Ciara and Saidhbh. The room was sooo cool! It had an upstairs :O me and leah slept in the 2 beds upstairs. We unpacked all our stuff and got ready to go on the hike. We went at about 4. The weather was lovely, but really windy. After about half an hour my legs started to really hurt, but then after a while I just git used to it. A lot of the hike was really steep.
The hike was really enjoyable. I tried to challenge myself for a lot of it, and when i got tired i kept telling myself to keep going. We took well deserved breaks along the way. We stopped at a point that was overlooking the powerscourt waterfall, which was very nice :) We ended up doing 20 km on friday night!
When we got back to the hostel, we all got to make our own dinner which was fun. I made some lovely pasta :) After dinner we got to watch '50 first dates' in the tv room. Lights out was at 11pm, and we finished the movie at 10.59, which was great timing! :P We then went up to our rooms. Everyone was so tired, so we all went asleep quickly.
Next morning we were woken at 8am for our breakfast. We ate our breakfast and then got ready once again to go on the rest of the hike. Because we only had 5km left to do, we did activities to use up the rest of the day. We started off with orienteering. We were divided into two groups. We were given a map with a key and we were told to go and find these 12 different pieces of paper on 12 different trees. We were against the clock so we tried running a lot of it. We were very competitive, and we were annoyed because the other team seemed to follow everything we did ;) in the end my team lost :( After the orienteerteering we did some archery and low ropes. Atfter we had a quick break, we did some team games.
On the way home, we got to stop off and get some ice cream :D Overall it was such a good weekend, like Carlingford in some ways :) It was soooo much fun, I'd love to hike again sometime!
Next morning we were woken at 8am for our breakfast. We ate our breakfast and then got ready once again to go on the rest of the hike. Because we only had 5km left to do, we did activities to use up the rest of the day. We started off with orienteering. We were divided into two groups. We were given a map with a key and we were told to go and find these 12 different pieces of paper on 12 different trees. We were against the clock so we tried running a lot of it. We were very competitive, and we were annoyed because the other team seemed to follow everything we did ;) in the end my team lost :( After the orienteerteering we did some archery and low ropes. Atfter we had a quick break, we did some team games.
On the way home, we got to stop off and get some ice cream :D Overall it was such a good weekend, like Carlingford in some ways :) It was soooo much fun, I'd love to hike again sometime!
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