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As soon as I got to the kitchen I realized why it hadn’t taken them long to make it. We were having granola for breakfast! I grinned as I sat down in the same spot I had the night before – I loved the granola! It was some of the best granola I’d ever had.

There was just one problem. With the way everyone loved the granola, (and my new appetite) there wasn’t enough.

“So… who wants to break out Snack?”

We decided that we would wait on eating Snack. We didn’t want to overdo it and not have enough for later. Everyone headed back to camp as soon as they were done eating, hurrying to pack their things so that we could get going.

Jen came up to me and Luke.

“There’s a note waiting for you next to that tree. Please read it out loud to the crew.”

Luke and I looked at each other and headed over to the tree. There was a piece of paper sitting on the ground with the maps and crew journal, and it was covered in writing.

Today is our last day of hiking as a crew. It is also your first day of Finals. We will be following you at a distance, able to see you, and to be there if you have any problems. We will not be helping you with navigation. Luke and Brett have the plan, and you need to get yourselves to camp tonight. We will help with dinner tonight, and we will come sit near you for lunch. See you then! ~Jen and Katie

Jen and Katie wouldn’t be hiking with us? They said they would be within seeing distance, but I still felt uneasy about it.

I finished packing up my things just as everyone else finished. We were all ready to go, and I turned to Luke and asked him which way we were going. He had told me earlier, but I didn’t remember.

“Remember, we’ve got to go that way?”

He was pointing at the steep hill directly to my right.

“Oh shoot – I’d forgotten that.”

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