Posted in 6th grade, field trip, Off campus

Camp Hanes Trip

Last Thursday, the sixth grade took an overnight trip to Camp Hanes.

It was amazing and I had so much fun so here is what we did. Camp Hanes was a one night trip to camp Hanes with the whole sixth grade. It is two and a half hours away so we took two buses there. The people in my grade were split into two halves and each half went to bus 1 and 2. We got to pick where we sat! I got to school with my bags for camp Hanes. I was so excited. The second I got out of the car all of my friends ran over and we talked for a little bit before the buses got there. When we got on the bus I sat with my best friend Emmy and we shared candy, played UNO, and talked for most of the time. On the bus they played Madagascar on the TVs so we watched some of that too. For the last 20 minutes of the bus ride all of my friends and I were singing camp songs and it was really fun. 

The activities we did were really fun but my favorite was the rock climbing wall. It was really fun because on each side of the rock wall were obstacles that I had to climb up to get to the top and at the very top there was a sky bridge which was a big net at the very top in between the two obstacles and above the rock climbing wall. And walking across was really amazing because it was really high up. I climbed up the rock climbing wall twice and each time I came down a different way, the first time I climbed down and the second time I used the belay and I would definitely say that using the belay was more fun. My favorite part about it was definitely the sky bridge and the way to get up to the sky bridge because on each side there was a different obstacle to get to the top, my favorite side to climb up was definitely the logs where I had to climb up the logs and then go through a net to the next level because it was more challenging than the other side and I enjoyed it a lot. When I got to the sky bridge at first I was hesitant towards it because it was so high up but when I got on it it was a really remarkable experience.

I also really enjoyed our last activity of the day on Thursday because we did a survival challenge that was girls versus boys where we had to make something to sleep under and make a fire and I feel proud of my team because we made a roof with leafs on top so rain could not get in and even got big logs to use as benches inside. We also made a fire from scratch and so I feel like we did really well because a lot of us had never done anything similar to it before.

Camp Hanes was wonderful and I would definitely recommend it. The entire  experience was amazing and I had a great time with my friends, the activities, and the bus rides there and back.