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I woke up the morning of the third day and wrote in my journal.

Well, yesterday was our first whole day. I am so sore!! I mean, the pack weighs probably close to half as much as I do, and we hiked over four miles of steep mountain trails.

I felt so bad – I had to keep stopping everyone so I could get my breath back. And it seemed like every time we stopped someone would complain, saying that we should just keep on going, that they wanted to get to our campsite. At least everyone else appreciated the breaks! They did not say it, but I could tell that even the people who were complaining needed the breaks. But the complaining still made me feel bad…

I think I am going to become good friends with everyone here. The guys are really nice! Luke gave me his trekking pole because I was having trouble. It helped so much! And then Kayce helped Luke with my water duty while I was getting my blister looked at. Bobby makes me laugh – some of the things he says are so funny! Ben is different from the rest of the guys, but not in a bad way. And I have not seen much of Bruce yet, but he seems nice enough! He made sure that I did not get whacked in the face with branches coming up that first hill, so that was really nice…

Before I could write anymore, it was time to get up and pack up all the gear. We got the tarp down,  got most of our personal gear packed up, and then split up for our “roles” that day. I was on water again, this time with Maggie.

I think Jordan and Tullia came with us, and Rebecca might have as well. We grabbed the baby seals, the water bottles, and the red bag (with the filters and the bleach in it) and headed for the creek. On the way there my ankle started hurting again, but there was nothing I could do other then be careful about where I was putting my foot and being careful. I told myself I would tell Jen about it as soon as I caught up to them at the creek.

I got to the creek a minute or two behind the others. I had not lost sight of them, I had just fallen behind a bit. I got over to the creek and explained to Jen why I was behind them, and she told me she would look at it when we got back to camp.

We filtered the water quickly, because breakfast was waiting! We got back and I was surprised to see gear that was not ours sitting on the ground. A quick look around revealed that there were two ladies inspecting the different platforms, diciding which one they were going to sleep on. They decided on the platform Jen and Katie had slept on, and started setting their stuff up on it.

Then, I grabbed my stuff and headed over to the kitchen.

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