|| TREK ||
so last week wednesday to saturday i went on trek. it was such an amazing experience and i am so glad i got to go for a second time! i went as a little baby 12 year old 4 years ago and got to go again this year. i was lucky enough to be a ma this time and surprise surprise guess who was the pa? josh lansberry! ward joke right there! but it was a blast my family went a little something like this:
grandparents: Jenelle and Ricky Haynie
ma & pa: josh and myself
girls: Gentry White, Sloane James, Hannah Eckersley, & Bailey Buehler
boys: paul brede, breckon oakley, jaden peterson & sinjin davis
we had a tough group of kids in our family and i wouldn't have traded it for anything.
we drove there and on the way we stopped at a gas station and we got some funny looks, as you would expect for people dressed as pioneers all crammed in a car. but once we got there we wasted no time we were sent on our way and went out. we went 7 miles the first day (?) i think i'm not sure about how far we went each day but i know it was hard. the first day we started going backwards from the way i went 4 years ago. it was weird to see the valley from the opposite way and camp at all the "wrong" campsites. like the first night was the same place we ended last year. it wasn't too bad with the bugs (or the mud for that fact) this year. it was pretty mellow..except the wind. the wind was KILLER but we didn't really get to see that till the second day.
we all got little journals and i wrote a lot in it. i got a lot of compliments on it too. i just don't like missing a thing. trek was amazing and i will share more later but i just want to talk about the womens pull. it was LONG it was HARD it was CHALLENGING it was the longest, steepest hill we had to do. it was 1.25 miles of pure up hill. it was so hard. i couldn't breathe because there was so much dust in my mouth and lungs from earlier that week. once we got to the top i couldn't breathe at all so i started crying. i had to hop out at the very top but i kept my hand on that cart. i pushed all day every day and i was so happy with that! but once i saw those boys at the top of the hill i could only see outlines of hundreds of guys. they ran down to meet us at the cattle guard and it was so cool to see that there are so much righteous young men that are ready to help at any minute! it was a real eye opener showing me i can do anything i set my mind to. yeah there maybe challenges along the way (like an asthma attack and shin splints) but the end is so worth it. after that hill and all the people around me helping i know
i can do anything because i am not alone. i am petrified to go to corner canyon because i don't really have friends going there. yeah i know a lot of people but lets be real i don't talk to many of them. i am scared out of my mind that i will regret it. i'm scared that i may not make friends right away and be able to have those senior year friends that make the whole year, since i don't even have those friends for the summer. i'm scared i won't have anyone to go to football games with. i'm scared i won't get asked to dances. all the typical high school things i'm scared i won't get to enjoy. i am scared. and will be until i can prove all of those things wrong. but now after that womens pull hill i know i can do it if i just set my mind to it.
i'll post more about trek soon but right now i have to go back to the pool where i seem to spend all day everyday! :)
xoxo jordyn standage
p.s. pictures to come too
grandparents: Jenelle and Ricky Haynie
ma & pa: josh and myself
girls: Gentry White, Sloane James, Hannah Eckersley, & Bailey Buehler
boys: paul brede, breckon oakley, jaden peterson & sinjin davis
we had a tough group of kids in our family and i wouldn't have traded it for anything.
we drove there and on the way we stopped at a gas station and we got some funny looks, as you would expect for people dressed as pioneers all crammed in a car. but once we got there we wasted no time we were sent on our way and went out. we went 7 miles the first day (?) i think i'm not sure about how far we went each day but i know it was hard. the first day we started going backwards from the way i went 4 years ago. it was weird to see the valley from the opposite way and camp at all the "wrong" campsites. like the first night was the same place we ended last year. it wasn't too bad with the bugs (or the mud for that fact) this year. it was pretty mellow..except the wind. the wind was KILLER but we didn't really get to see that till the second day.
we all got little journals and i wrote a lot in it. i got a lot of compliments on it too. i just don't like missing a thing. trek was amazing and i will share more later but i just want to talk about the womens pull. it was LONG it was HARD it was CHALLENGING it was the longest, steepest hill we had to do. it was 1.25 miles of pure up hill. it was so hard. i couldn't breathe because there was so much dust in my mouth and lungs from earlier that week. once we got to the top i couldn't breathe at all so i started crying. i had to hop out at the very top but i kept my hand on that cart. i pushed all day every day and i was so happy with that! but once i saw those boys at the top of the hill i could only see outlines of hundreds of guys. they ran down to meet us at the cattle guard and it was so cool to see that there are so much righteous young men that are ready to help at any minute! it was a real eye opener showing me i can do anything i set my mind to. yeah there maybe challenges along the way (like an asthma attack and shin splints) but the end is so worth it. after that hill and all the people around me helping i know
i can do anything because i am not alone. i am petrified to go to corner canyon because i don't really have friends going there. yeah i know a lot of people but lets be real i don't talk to many of them. i am scared out of my mind that i will regret it. i'm scared that i may not make friends right away and be able to have those senior year friends that make the whole year, since i don't even have those friends for the summer. i'm scared i won't have anyone to go to football games with. i'm scared i won't get asked to dances. all the typical high school things i'm scared i won't get to enjoy. i am scared. and will be until i can prove all of those things wrong. but now after that womens pull hill i know i can do it if i just set my mind to it.
i'll post more about trek soon but right now i have to go back to the pool where i seem to spend all day everyday! :)
xoxo jordyn standage
p.s. pictures to come too
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