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Since I was in the back, I don’t know how they got Ben on the ground. I just know that all of a sudden we had stopped and people were taking off their packs. I dropped mine willingly – it was really heavy!

It looked like we were not going to be moving for a while. Since it was almost two by then, we took a vote on who wanted lunch. Almost everyone wanted it, so we pulled the stuff from someone’s food sack.

We were having Pizza Wraps – sauce, pepperoni and cheese on tortillas. It was supposed to be me and Luke making it, but Luke was busy with Ben. So Rebecca helped me – she took care of everything else while I took care of cutting up the cheese.

At first, I was really happy with all the cheese we were having. And then, we were having cheese, cheese and more cheese. Let’s just say, I was getting tired of all of the cheese. Especially when I had to chop it up – the knife was really, really, really dull. Don’t even get me started on when we had to cut the salami…

So while Rebecca was seasoning the tomato paste, (yes, it was paste) and eyeing the pepperoni in disgust, I was working on the cheese. The pepperoni was really worth eyeing – it was the nastiest looking pepperoni I have ever seen. I hope that I never see pepperoni that ugly again. 😀

Despite the looks of the pepperoni, lunch was really good! Rebecca did a good job seasoning the paste, we had plenty of that cheese, (I was still enjoying it at that point), and the pepperoni tasted fine.

It was the first and only time we ate directly on the trail, and it was interesting. People would come up from down the mountain, pass carefully around Ben, and then we would have to scramble to get out of their way. We would move the cheese, sauce, tortillas and pepperoni off to the side, and move them back again so that we could keep serving.

We didn’t bother with passing bowls – it was first come, first serve with this. Becca would put tomato paste on a tortilla, someone put the pepperoni on it, and I would put the cheese on it. I would pass it to the person standing in front of me, and the next person in line would come stand in front of me.

Bobby came up and asked for two. We all just thought he was being Bobby and told him no. 😀 (He was always asking for “extra big helpings”)

Then he reminded us that Ben was lying down, further down the trail. I quickly handed him the second one I was holding in my hand and looked at the other girls as he headed towards Ben. We all had the same expression on our faces – “Oops!”.

Once the lunch rush was over and whoever was on clean up had taken over, I went down to check on Ben. Just as I got there, Bobby was asking who had Ben’s water bottles. Someone pulled one out of their pack, and Bobby proceeded to try to get the water down Ben’s throat, without getting it all over Ben.

I’ll let you try to figure out how that went. 😀

I think it was around then that he asked who had his sunglasses. We all looked at each other with looks of dismay – we had no idea who had the sunglasses. Tullia decided that she would just let him borrow hers!

Ben lying down after lunch

So yeah, Ben was wearing the pink heart shaped sunglasses. We started joking that now he could look at the world through the eyes of love, but he was in too much pain to care.

Jen started looking around for two sticks we could use as a stretcher. I didn’t know what we were going to do if we had to put him on a stretcher – that would be two more backpacks to split up, because Bruce and Kayce would have to help carry him. And even if we could take the weight, our backpacks could not hold that much!

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*Everything here is from my own memory and may not be correct. Outward Bound is not responsible for anything I post here. Thanks to NCOBS for letting me use their photos.*