“I have a surprise for you!” Jack yelled as he pushed open the door to his modest, one-bedroom apartment that he shared with his wife, Taylor. They were both still young, so they could not afford a huge extravagant house in the country, but they were happy to live in the hustle and bustle of the loud New York.
“What is it?” responded Taylor, peeking around the corner from the kitchen. She was trying to stifle her amusement at Jack’s excitement.
“In honor of our one year anniversary, we are going camping!”
“Camping? Where? We live in the middle of the city!”
“We are going to drive to the Appalachian Mountains, about forty-five minutes from here! It will take about 4 days: two days up, two days down.” Jack seemed so excited, Taylor could
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Hours passed, and it would not stop snowing. They did not try to go back down the mountain, in fear they could fall off a hidden cliff that they could not see coming. It was torture. As time passed, waiting out the snowstorm became very boring. Jack and Taylor played games, told jokes, anything to make the time pass. Taylor reached into her backpack to find something for them to eat. Her face turned white and she let out a little scream.
“What happened?” Jack asked, alarmed.
“The food… it’s gone!” Taylor answered, still in shock. Jack crawled over to the bag, wanting to see it for himself. It looked like some animal and gotten into their tent and ate most of the food out of it, leaving only a couple of granola bars and a sandwich. Taylor and Jack were so distraught and worried. They knew it could be weeks before they could go back down the mountain. How were they going to sustain themselves with what little food they had? They tried to ration out the food as well as they could, but they knew sooner or later the hunger might get the best of them. All of Jack and Taylor’s friends knew they were going camping, so they did not expect to hear from them for four days. That meant that there was no hope for rescue, at least for a few days. They tried using their cell phones to call for help, but they had no service. It was impossible for them to even step outside of their tent without being blasted with
Jack’s selfishness did not take long to affect their chances to be saved, and get home. All of the boys had their mind set on getting back home and staying on task, except for Jack. They made a fire in hope for ships passing by to save them; they had shifts to watch over the fire, and Jack and his hunters did not watch over the fire when it was their
Joe and Simon get set up for the trip up the mountain Sulla Grande in the Peruvian Andes. On the way up they stay in a farming house with two girls who work there. The next day Joe and Simon set up the base camp next to two lakes. they do a few smaller climbs to get ready for Sulla Grande.
In the text,”What Happened During the Ice Storm,” the author vividly describes how the young, farm boys handle the situation with the ice storm that struck their farm. The author, in the text, says a whole lot about how humans handle situations. In the article, the farm boys have to save the blind, cold pheasants from dying and bring them inside.
Then, Ralph decides that the boys need to make shelters, so they will be safe and warm at night. But, Ralph and Simon end up being the only ones building the shelter, while Jack and his hunters are off in the jungle trying to kill a pig.
When I was taking a photo of the purple sky and two stretching lakes across the Bonney Pass in the Teton Mountains; I knew this place that I loved had transformed me into a better person and a more confident woman.
Wiping the sweat from my brow I called a halt to the crew. Phil and I dumped our packs and found a comfy boulder to rest on. I looked back to where the last guys were coming from back down the trail. They had stopped talking a while back and marched slowly along the dirt trail. Phil produced an energy-bar he’d saved from breakfast and began to munch on it as I drained another water bottle. After the refreshing drink I laid back against the rock and stared up at the pine trees. But a moment later, hearing grumble about sore legs, I sat up, grinning, “By the map we only have another couple hours.”
Fortunately the two men they had sent for supplies returned just before they attempted to cross the summit. Their luck didn’t last and when they reached the summits bottom, the first snow started to fall and a storm quickly followed. Their food quickly ran out and they were stranded just 150 miles from Ft. Sutter. Patrick Dolan dies just a few days into the storm and the group is starved and now sees the rotting carcass as a source of food, and Dolan is the first human to be eaten. Slowly people die and are quickly eaten and soon a total of 12 men and women had died. Though Reed who was banished had reached Ft. Sutter was preparing rescue parties for the rest of the group and his family. The 12 dead preserved the party and eventually Reed had found them, but was only capable of bringing half the party at a time. The
We received no food. We lived on snow; it took the place of bread. The days resembled nights, and the nights left in our souls the dregs of their darkness. The train rolled slowly, often halted for a few hours, and continued. It never stopped snowing. We remained lying on the floor for days and nights, one on top of the other, never uttering a word. We were nothing but frozen bodies. Our eyes closed, we merely waited for the next stop, to unload our dead. (100)
A violent gust of wind laughed as the two girls were trying to reach the conclusion of the hike. The bitter mountain scorned at Lori and Kayla, unleashing its wrath by letting rocks fall keeping the girls on their toes. Lori and Kayla felt as though the entire world was against them. They were so sure that they picked the correct path, but after walking another three miles, the pathway was slowly disappearing from under their feet and they had no idea where they were.“What are we going to do Kayla! We are completely lost, and there it is impossible to get down the way we came. I have no idea where we came from!” Lori exclaimed. Kayla stood there silent in complete shock about what their current situation was. Kayla thought to herself, “I am supposed to be the strong one. But I don't think I can keep this up. I don’t have a plan. What if we never make it off this mountain? It will be my
John’s village was unprepared for the attack the northerners made. Some people escaped but the majority of the tribe died. As everyone was running away in fear, John lost his parents. So he and Abraham, an older member of his tribe, fled from soldies. They did not know how long the journey would take. The fled without food or
The next morning they got up and went through the camp, they found food, a map and a cell phone that didn't work and etc… and that's all I remember.
“We received no food. We lived in snow; it took the place of bread. The days resembled the nights, and the nights left in our souls the dregs of their darkness. The train rolled slowly, often halted for a few hours, and continued. It never stopped snowing. We remained lying on the floor for days and nights, one on top of the other, never uttering a word. We were nothing but frozen
Upon reading the title to the reading “Camping for Their Lives” by Scott Bransford, A lot of images come to mind as they do for many people. Whether it be family outings, military experience or just plain adventure. Scott Bransford takes a good long look at camping in a different way. The author’s topic is about tent cities and their homeless populations. He argues the struggles that they have with little or no help from the government and highlights a location in Central Valley California. The author structures the article well starting off with an example of a married couple that does not have enough money to sign a lease or take out a mortgage. He then goes into the day to day life and difficulties that are accustomed with living as a homeless person. He mentions statistics and the government’s temporary remedies to deal with the homeless population and the complications when imposing restrictions. The author goes into depth about the lack of jobs within the areas but does not go deep into the addictions, the crime networks that operate out of the areas nor the filth associated with enabling these tent cities to pop up.
because of the love of a baby. Tommy Luck was known as "The Luck of
We thanked her and pulled on our coats and mittens. I grabbed my white chocolate mocha before heading out into the thick snow. Karina and Alan argued over who was going to drive through the storm on the way home and eventually Alan conceded. As he scraped snow off the car, Karina jokingly warned me that it was going to be a rough trip home. I figured she was just exaggerating since she loved to make fun of Alan. Then, Alan hopped in and insisted Karina played Christmas music.