Campsite

“We made it to the campsite” I said, the other girls just shrugged. After that we got some rest we would need to keep moving or we would not make. We started walking again just in a straight line. The blazing heat was almost too much for me, but I knew I had to keep moving. We walked for a little while. Just as it couldn't get any worse, the sand started caving in. “What's going on?”, I yelled, they screamed, “we fell into a canyon!” Beaten and bloodied we all decided to get up. The canyon…

crew leader, and as crew leader I solved problems that our crew encountered. Our crew at the beginning of the trek was split almost evenly into two groups, one part wanted to just hike to the next campsite each day and stay there while the other part wanted to do each activity associated to each campsite. To find a solution to this problem I asked the group to talk the first night when we had the time to do so. During the discussion we had, we discovered the goals of each group. After we found…

Sydney Body Story (Man In The Woods) “Ana come on! We have to go and pick up all your friends and then I have to drop you off in the mountains! Please hurry up I have better things to do today!” yelled Ana’s dad Mark. “Alright dad I’m coming!”. Ana raced down the stairs and barely even said goodbye to her mom before dashing out the door and slamming the car door shut. Ana had picked up all her friends on the way to the mountain Josh, Brad, Chloe and Chris, they were all excited to be spending…

Donna, Gina, and Jenny were all stranded in the middle of death valley, when they had the unlikely chance of finding a campsite. This campsite had a white trailer, and a tiny, little house type porch, built out of wood. It was completely empty, and the wood had holes in it. They were surprised to know it was still standing, as it was clear that it had been that way for a long time. “Let’s get in this trailer and try to find some food inside.” Gina brainstormed. The door on the trailer was…

Bam! Rock and debris fly through the air. The quiet and peaceful forest which once accommodated numerous different animals is now a biological wasteland suffering from a devastating method of coal collection called strip mining. Humans leave numerous amounts of destruction in their wake, whether it be on a small or large scale. This amount of coal excavation is an immense detriment to Appalachia, and is a horrid evil which needs to be addressed right now. While some say strip mining in the…

Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines recreation as “A means of refreshment or diversion”. It describes conservation as “official supervision of rivers, forests, and other natural resources in order to preserve and protect them through prudent management”. A true outdoorsman knows these words and their definitions by a commonly disregarded and misunderstood colloquialism “Pack it in, Pack it out”. Many people believe that this phrase translates into “If its mine, I pack it out”. What…

Alex Mwamsindo Sheyene Heller English Composition 1 01/27/16 “The beauty of Jumbo campground at Mesa, Colorado” The sun shone fair brilliant white light through the thin mist. The mist wrapped around the camp site in the glassy air. A cozy thin breeze it was; like a fine cloying wine searching the palate and bringing a bloom to the cheek. The air was cool and brisk, like a refreshing drink of cold lemonade after hours under the scorching sun. Red, yellow and orange leaves fluttered on the soft…

individually and who may not even exist at the present. He uses a metaphor about a campsite to explain his argument: when they have finished camping at a campsite, a person has a moral obligation to clean it for the next person who will use it. While they do not know this person, they still have good reason to believe that someone will eventually come to use the campsite in the future and that by not cleaning the campsite they are wrongfully causing harm to this future person. He is effectively…

an appreciation for the beauty of nature. For Pheonix, the great outdoors has certainly delivered some adventures. One morning, when they were camping in Yellowstone, he and his family departed from the camper in the morning to find their whole campsite had been trashed by bears, who decided to leave a generous amount of their scat behind. Another time, when he was 14, he was out exploring with his 10-year-old brother and one of them stepped on a subterranean bee’s nest. “I left him in the…

My hands, shaking and sweaty, fumbled with the little flashlight as I tried in vain to turn it on. After fifteen long seconds, the thin stream of light pierced the darkness illuminating my script. All humans, with a few exceptions, harbor a deep resentment against public speaking. We fear being ridiculed by our peers and even our teachers. We will go out of our way to avoid it but in the end, instead of protecting ourselves we just hold ourselves back. A week before my debut I was clueless…