Day 4: McHugh Creek to Potter's Marsh

For starters, the day was awesome, we had some really good food in our stomachs and headed off to the big yellow bus for our hike to Potter's Marsh. Some of us, due to injuries, only went to Boardwalk, which is also a nice vertical pathway on-top of a marsh, while the rest of us hiked from McHugh Creek to Potter's Marsh. It was so fun and tiring at the same time. Everything seemed to just go up and up and up and up. Nothing could beat the scenery which was seen at Little Big Rock, our mid stopping point so everyone could regroup. Darin, a staff member lead the way with a couple of other students who wanted to walk super fast. As for the rest we went mid-pace: not too slow, not too fast. At this pace I exchanged stories and ideas with Tavai, a nice woman who I learned along the hike graduated from BYU and has so much potential you would be blind not to notice. Overall the hike was amazing, even though the bug spray did not work due to all our sweating and the sun shining super hard on us. 

The hike was a hard one. It was too hot, the hill was too high, mosquitos kept biting me, my foot was cramping, my back was hurting, I was thirsty and it was way too long of a walk. But everyone else seemed to have had fun, though. Some people couldn't catch up and some people were hiking like it was nothing and Tilomai was trying to go on some kind of sweat marathon. It felt like we were hiking for hours until our group ran into a moose. The moose wouldn't move, so we had to hike all the way back down, which took more hours. Though the hike wasn't easy it was a good workout and exercise for everyone.

After all of that painful walking up and down the trail and getting a bloody nose and after that almost falling off the trail, Rachelle saved me!! I returned the favor by leading her and this teacher out the trail after being left in the dust by Darin.  They got lost and were so confused, so I helped lead them out. So we walked down to the parking lot thinking there were going to be drinks and watermelon. Almost dying of thirst, there was nothing to drink. I got on the bus and Brandon, Koa, Kili, and Ane were playing animal, a really loud game. I can't believe me and half the bus really fell asleep.