Hi! I just got back from my scout troop’s trip to Shining Rock! On the morning we left, I rode in Mr. Blalock’s car, with Phillip, Matthew, and Liam. We first drove up to Camp Daniel Boone, where we had spent a week about 4 or 5 weeks ago. That was where we let one of the patrols start from, the oldest of course. Then we drove another couple miles until we reached an old parking lot, as close to Shining Rock as possible, for a car. (Without going off-road.) We took our packs, and split up, going on different paths, because there’s a law there that says in the Shining Rock Wilderness Area, you can’t travel in groups of more then 10. If you do, and a ranger catches you, they will give you a fine. We started hiking, and at first it was kind of uncomfortable, but you got used to it. We hiked over mountains on the seemingly endless trail. Then it started raining shortly after we paused for lunch. It was raining lightly at first, but then it started raining heavily. And more heavily, until it was an all-out downpour of rain. It was raining so hard, I almost wished I was home playing a videogame! When we got to camp, we purified our water, and set up our soaking tents and changed from our soaking clothes into very, very damp clothes. Later, when it had stopped raining, we came out and ate, then went to bed. Nothing really interesting happened on the way back, though in the morning before we left, we climbed up Shining Rock, a big rock made of granite in the mountains, that I’ve heard can be seen from space. Then we hiked back to the all of our cars and left for home.
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