Personal Narrative: The Day I Learned To Walk In The Woods

Here is the story of the time I learned to hike a steep hill and learned to belay, a crazy day. It was humid in my house so when my friend Isabella M. asked if I would go hiking with her family on Hise MTN., I obviously said yes, it would be my first time hiking. I packed a backpack and begun the walk to her house. We hopped into a car and began the drive to the mountain. I sat down and looked around another little girl and my two friend’s dads had joined us too, the girl’s name was Raegan. I looked up, that mountain was ‘as steep as a cliff’. It was going to be tiring and I imagined hiking down wouldn’t be the easiest. We stepped out of the car and began the hike. About halfway up the mountain my feet began to hurt, much like the …show more content…
Security guards showed up soon after that. They told the two dads that were with us that it would take both of the two security guards to get her down… So it was time to belay. Our dads stayed on the ground as the guards rapidly put on their harnesses. Soon they were climbing the wall. Our dads started to sweat as they pulled the heavy security guards up the cave walls. Soon the girl was safe on the Ground. After that we went back down the mountain. It was like rock wall climbing on the way back down the mountain. Once again we used the rope, but in a different way. The adults cut the rope into several two foot pieces and gave us each one piece. They told us to use it on the way down to grip onto tree branches to insure we did not fall off the mountain. Once we got back to the bottom of the mountain we got back in the car. That’s the day I learned how to hike up and down a steep mountain, what belaying was and how to throw a disgusting tuna sandwich off the side of a mountain. I had a very enjoyable time that day. It was mostly tiring though. Though the day was tough I knew that I would soon hike Hise MTN. once