A Report on the Rock Climbing 

by James

    On November 17 to 19, fifteen Scouts went rock climbing in White Mountains of New Hampshire.  We had dinner at McDonalds on the way up. When we got there we set up the tents and found our bunkmates.

    The next morning we woke up and started breakfast.  We each had different patrols and we had different meals for each; ours was oatmeal. Then after finishing breakfast, we drove about 15 minutes to the rock climbing area. We hiked about half a mile to get up to the rock that we were to climb. We had three instructors that told us what to do. We all put on harnesses and strapped up to the different ropes. There were three different ropes for three different climbs, rated easiest to hardest. We each got to climb four times. One person was the belayer, the person who held the end of one of the ropes; the other one was the climber, who had the ropes strapped on to the harness. The climber then would then climb this 25-foot cliff. At the end of the climbs one of the instructors set up a repelling course. We each got to repel down the cliff once.