Hey Everyone!  This is about my trip with my Grade 12 geography <br>
Class!<br>
There were about thirty of us who went and about 18 or something<br>
that made it up!<br>
Here's a pic of the group!  Yeah BABY!!<br>
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I'm the third person from your left on the bottom with the blue <br>
Canada shirt!<br>
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An annual event for the geography 12 classes at Burnaby North<br>
turned out to be one of the most memorable events of my <br>
senior year.<br>
Carrying enough food and clothing for three days and two nights,<br>
we were all looking forward to this break from classes.<br>
Unfortunately, this "break" cost most of us our sleep as<br>
we had to rise up at 4:30am to meet at our school(Burnaby North)<br>
at five.  Lugging packs of around 40 to 50 lbs, we all laughed<br>
at the "suckers" who had to go to school that day.  Were we in for<br>
a surprise...<br>
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The excitement was null as the people boarded the bus and prepared<br>
for a three hour bus ride to our destination.<br>
Many slept, while others showed off their knives, while others<br>
forgot to go....*no names mentioned to protect the people from any<br>
future embarassment*<br>
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When we arrived at our location, we filled our water bottles and <br>
many of us, inexperienced mind you, decided to proceed quickly!<br>
Thus, those people took many MANY breaks on the upward journey.<br>
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First stop.  The Barrier.  A beautiful cliffside view of the <br>
shale or whatever the term was from Geography.  Sorry Mr. Macutchen(?).<br>
We stopped for lunch, remembering not to feed the wild animals...(yeah right.)<br>
After a gourmet dinner of a peanut butter sandwich...(hey, I made it myself ok?)<br>
we headed off for the campsite....Garibaldi lake. <br>
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When we arrived, something was drastically wrong!  There was no<br>
electricity, running water(or pure water!) or flush toilets!!<br>
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!<br>
It never mentioned this on the brochure!!<br>
I guess we were just going to have to "rough it"...EH?<br>
Being the "roughest" of our group, myself and two other cavemen<br>
decided to take over the cook house with the only propane stove<br>
Haha to all you who had to cook over a campstove!!  <br>
For the first night we celebrated by having a hearty supper<br>
of steak and rice.<br>
Let's just say that our rice melted and we ended up cooking by<br>
flashlight in a room environment equivalent to a steam room!<br>
But it was good....really!<br>
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After going to some presentation about Joe the mushroom(?)<br>
we went to a small peninsula(Yes, I did learn something!)<br>
watching shooting stars and just enjoying the company of <br>
friends(gary1 and gary2).<br>
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The next morning we ate a hot meal of porridge and hot chocolate.<br>
Unfortunately, because of the lack of hot water to wash dishes,<br>
we had to improvise.  Thus we ate the two in conjunction...slurp!<br>
Less dishes that way you know!<br>
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On our way!  One two, one two, off we went to reach our inevitable<br>
destination...death.  Actually, we were headed for the "Chimney". <br>
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When we landed at the foot of the rock, we began our upward ascent<br>
Cries of "Rock!" could be heard below, while Janet and Slaven were<br>
trying to whistle out the tune of "Star Wars" to very little success.<br>
(hey, I'm writing the story, so I'm going to write it MY way!)<br>
When we reached the top, it was all worth it!  Absolutely amazing!<br>
We were so high up that we actually saw a plane fly below us!<br>
If we wanted to, we could've spat on the darn thing!<br>
Here's what we saw...<br>
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More to come later....<br>

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