Hike to Big Mountain

We hiked to Big Mountain. Everyone else started by hiking off to Berry Patch. The following day, I started off by hiking to Rocky Point. It took me three hours to catch up with everyone. It was a fun walk until we had to walk on the beach; I got so tired, but I kept going. Mr. B had a good camping place that he wanted us to go but we were all too tired so we camped somewhere else. The first night I had Top Ramen, while everyone else had their native food.

The second day we started walking to Belinda Creek. When we got there I didn’t want to swim across so I went looking around for a place to cross with Aid and Keil. While we were looking I found these moose antlers. They were pretty big. Aid and I wanted to show everyone so I grabbed it out of the crick and made Aid help me pack it. Everyone else also thought it was pretty big. They wanted to get across the creek so Mr. B swam across. But I was too scared so I waited a little for Aid to go with me. When we got across Aid was trying to light a fire and Mr. B and I pushed a Honda over to the narrowest place in the river. I didn’t get what we were doing until Karl threw Mr. B a rope and he tied it on the Honda. They tied a string to the bag and a carbineer they threw me the string and I had to pull it in fast or it will get all wet and some of the bags that I pulled in were heavy and they got wet. While people’s bags came over, they swam across. I liked the system.

I started to get cold so I let Mr. B take over and I went by the fire. I got my bag and changed, then took back over because Mr. B was getting cold. As everyone got over we tried starting the Hondas but they didn’t work, so we set up the tents and went to sleep. The next day we walked to the cabin. Basically all we did was eat and walk around, and we got such good fry bread that day, I was so happy. Aid, Tate, Jem, and I went out looking for spruce grouse and didn’t catch anything. The next morning there were pancakes. Then Fewn, Aid, and I hiked up the mountain. It was fun…we saw everything around Big Mountain. Alicia picked us up and we went back down the mountain. We waited for our plane. When it came we had a fast ride back to Igiugig. It was fun and bumpy.

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