Mount Robert

On the 15 September Room 7 went on a day tramp up Mount Robert to increase our endurance and experience an Alpine environment.

We all got to school at around 7:30am so that we could get our gear checked and we had a run through of the day. We were on the bus by 8:00am. On the way there Trevor (A resource scientist from Tasman District Council) who is also Emily-Rose's Dad, gave us an interesting talk all about the plants , trees , water and bush-life .

When we got to the information centre in St Arnaud we had morning tea while Mr J told us all about a Maori carving and the legend to go with it .

At around 10:30am we traveled to Buller bridge in the bus , then we traveled in a mini bus to the top

car park which took three trips and we had to wait till the rest of the group came up.

At 11.00am we started our tramp up Mount Robert . We had a break every 10 minutes to eat and drink something . We got to the first hut at 12:30pm where we had a break , that was when we had our first big shower of snow . Our next hut was the bushline hut by the time we got there it was very heavilysnowing!! Not longafter that the class had a big snow fight outside relax hut . Cara made a R E A L L Y B I G snowball ,so Mr J said if she brought it back to Nelson he would give her Incentive points !!!

But on the way back it broke :(

The trip back down the mountain was a lot faster than the trip up because we were mostly just going downhill . We got to the bottom carpark around 4:30pm.The trip back was very quiet because everybody was sleepy-_- . We got back to Broadgreen at 6:10pm , where our parents were waiting . We all really enjoyed the trip because it was a great experience and we got to go outside of the classroom .