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Two minutes. That’s how long it took me to fall asleep after I lay down. I thought I was going to sit there for a while, thinking about what had happened the day before, and my day on solo.

The next thing I knew, it was day. There was light around me, but I couldn’t see the sun. I looked up through the rhododendron to look for the sun, but it wasn’t there. All I could see were gray clouds everywhere.

I pulled out my camera and took a couple of pictures of my campsite. I was very proud of my solo tarp, that I had done by myself. It wasn’t too low, which was usually a challenge for me. It’s hard to put a rope around a tree when it needs to go up over your head. And I had done a good job of fastening it, even though I only had four strings.

My Solo tarp

When I was done taking pictures I started packing up my tarp so I would be ready to go when they came to pick me up. I didn’t know how they were going to do it, but I didn’t want to make them wait long! I had already made my crewmates wait for me a lot – I was going to get ahead of the game here.

I had no idea what time it was. I was guessing that it was about 10 or 11 in the morning. I couldn’t believe that I had slept that long! I knew that I had gone to bed relatively early, but sleeping until 10 or 11?

And I had thought I was just taking a nap.

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*Everything here is from my own memory and may not be correct. Outward Bound is not responsible for anything I post here. Thanks too NCOBS for letting me use their photos.*