Cannibal Gorge Recount
On tuesday the 8th of december the year 8 boys arrived at school by 8:30am to go on the Cannibal Gorge overnight tramp.
After Ms Kemp had checked to make sure we had the right equipment we weighed our bags. Cailan's pack was the lightest at 6.05 kg and my pack was the second lightest at 6.2kg. We got sorted into our car groups and then left, the people in my car were Cailan, Xavier and Rhys. We stopped at refton to buy our hut tickets. After we brought our hut ticket we got to have a look in the eye site because it was a museum too. There was a mine in the eye site and it was pretty cool then the year 8 boys played tag in the museum and on the footpath. When we arrived at the start of the track I didn't know what to expect. We got out of the cars, adjusted our packs then we had a quick talk and then we set off.
Cailan, Xavier and I stayed together when we walked into the hut. Walking into the hut I thought it was pretty difficult because there were lots of up hills and some of them were quite steep. The part of the track that I didn't like the most was where there was a look out and the track went down hill the track was really small width ways and it was really loose and it was on the side of a cliff. My favourite part of the hike was the second swing bridge going in because you could jump on it and when you were walking it felt like you were walking on the moon with very low gravity. When we came out of the bush and saw the hut some of the students got really excited and then Ms Kemp said dump your packs and have a twenty minute break then grab your rain jacket and water bottle and let's walk to the Ada Flat Hut. The walk to the Ada Flat Hut took about 1 hour 20 minutes. My favourite part of this walk was the bridge because it had a strange name. As we arrived at the Ada Flat Hut I wrote in the hut book that we had gone there and there was a lady and a man there too. I also filled up Ms Kemp’s, Alex’s and my water bottle up from under a bridge. The view of the mountains looks really nice from the track.
For dinner Cailan, Xavier and I cooked some sausages and bacon after dinner we shot a slingshot at a target on a tree and I was like an inch too high and no one hit the target. Then we went inside and played a game called drop swap pickup. It was pretty fun. Then when it was dark people were telling creepy stories then Ms Kemp told one about possum gut gorge and this golden arm one she jumped scared me on the golden arm story and I got a little scared when she scared me. As we were walking back to the hut a possum chased Xavier and Charlie when we went to sleep we looked out the window and there were two possums on the picnic table. It was pretty scary because Ms Kemp had just told me that some possums ate a human. For breakfast my group cooked pancakes. They didn't really turn out that great because Xaviers dad brought a pan with ribs in it. Before we left Alex went to go fill his and my water bottle up in the river but Alex accidentally let go of his water bottle and it floated down the river. We also tied and cleaned the hut before we left.
When we left the hut it was raining I stuck towards the back with Ms Kemp and Alex because Alex used a pole and when we went through the creeks and avalanche zones Alex passed the pole back to me. I found that on the way back it was quicker because we had more down hills than up hills. I filled up Alex’s and my water bottle up from the creek on the way back and I put his water bottle in his bag while he put my water bottle in my bag. When we got back to the start we took a class photo in front of the sign. We stopped at Arahua and Xavier’s brought everyone in his car group an ice cream. We got back to karoro school at like 2:30pm.
I really enjoyed this tramp because the views were amazing.
