Today, we completed an activity called Planning a Hike. We were paired up and each pair had to determine what precisely they would pack if they were to go on a very lengthy hiking trip for a prolonged amount of time. My partner and I decided we would hike half of the entire Buckeye Trail. We would take our hike during the fall. The hike would be 722 miles long and take us approximately 92 days. We had to total up the weight of all the items we planned to bring. Below is an image of the list my partner and I had composed, including the item name, the quantity of that item, and the weight it would be. 

`The total came to about 56-57 pounds. Each team had their totaled amount placed into a backpack and had to put the backpack on to experience how heavy the bag was. We were also encourage to walk out into the hall around a classroom with it on. This was a challenge for me since I found the backpack to be immensely heavy and surely burdening. I could not even imagine what an arduous, painstaking journey a hike of about 15 miles a day for 92 days straight would be like whilst having to carry so much weight upon your back. 

While creating the list, the hardest part for me was finding the quantity of items. I am definitely no professional survivalist, so I had no clue how much food we would need or how long we could last off of certain amounts of food. Also, another challenge I was presented with was separating what I knew what would be absolutely necessary from what was maybe less important. Despite some of these difficulties, I still found the activity to be pretty fun, interesting, and of course, educational.