The Summit

To all the students that came to camp from Warracknabeal Secondary College a huge thank you and congratulations from Timmay for a fantastic week. Your week started with some apprehension towards some of our activities,  but by the time we began the activities, all fears were put aside. Orienteering brought out the best of the boys with a great display of team work as well as persistence with finding marker number 8 with the teachers struggling to find the same marker. Jack and Tegs found all the markers closely followed by Briodi and Courtney.

The cave was easy for some but confronting for others with the unknown and ability to see gone!

Mid week was our big breakthrough day with many really pushing their comfort levels. Sky Bridge was met by all with some even going to the length of completing the cross over on the bridge with blindfolds! Snake ‘n’ Nails was a great challenge that Kristin and Miss May really did well with their fear of snakes at extreme levels but still having the courage to handle and touch the snake, Great job!!! Later the same day Mr. Shannon was nervous but determined to rise to the top on the giant swing with a complete swing from the top, a swing he came to love.Laser skirmish was dominated by the girls from both teams with some very impressive hit to kill ratios. The day was finished with the sad news that G-Man (Gines) would not be coming down and visiting his adoring fan club.

A huge get well and better soon goes to Ellie, hope everything goes well and you recover soon.

Last day saw everyone take the leap from our tower onto the Mega Cushion with some of the brave tackling the middle platform. Great to see that there were no QUARMS for anyone.

Once again, great effort to all the Warracknabeal Secondary College and happy camping from Timmay, Daniel, Pauly, Megs and the G-Man in spirit.

The year nine’s from Hoppers Crossing travelled two and half hours to come for a 3 day camp at The Summit!

There were some great breakthroughs in conquering heights and confined space challenges.  There were some tears and lots of cheers.

They embraced the muddy Monster Challenge, the team Hard As Nails took out the title for that challenge.

The Tigers smashed the Snowy River title in the fastest school group in a time of 6 minutes for their second attempt.  Awesome team work guys!

Sick as bra from Pauly!

A massive well done to all of the students that persisted and who were determined to do every activity on the last day in the pouring rain. That’s an awesome attitude and effort guys, your smashing it and no excuses love it!  Just remember to keep using target, stretch, super stretch and you’ll never give up and you’ll hit every goal you’ve always dreamed of getting!

Cheers

The selected leaders from Horsham grade 7 and 8′s drove 6 hours to come for their 3 day adventure camp at the summit.  They were extremely relieved to have made the bus trip as Brigsey stalled the bus quite a few times on the way to camp.

Some of the highlights from day one were Friat was challenged in the mousetrap mine field first up.

Joel smashed the skybridge. The mousetrap minefield proved difficult first up for the army ants, they knew they had to communicate and work together better. The Ants were back later in the day with vengeance in the snowy river challenge.  Team Breezy soared over the lake with ease on the flying fox.  And Lottie gained a new BFF Paul.

Day 2 - the mega day.  The results came in at the end of the day after all the team challenges were completed.  All the teams showed great competitiveness and comradely in the monster course. Team Breezy took the title out for the monster challenge with beating their time by over 3 minutes. The results for the Bush Challenge and Snowy River challenge are:

Bush challenge results: Team Breezy; 14min

Commandos; 18:28

Army Ants; 24:07

Snowy river Challenge: Team Breezy; 11:18

Commandos; 12:41

Army Ants; 23:08

Day 3 - after everyone was tired from their mega day 2 they had to really step up and dig deep as they were about to face the toughest challenges yet. Army Ants embraced the GAS strategy with giving everything ago, 100% participation in all activities, their were some tears and some big Super Stretches achieved, you guys were amazing, well done from Megsy. The commandos were filled with giving everything ago and pushing themselves to their super stretches it was a great way to end the camp.  Team Breezy for their brilliance on leap of faith all letting go of whatever fears they had at the camp to embrace the challenge of attaining all their personal goals!

Camp ended with the rewards given to those who demonstrated their teams values, congratulation to Olivia, Eddie, Rhona who were voted by their teams and congratulation to Shaun, Elena and Lottie who were voted by their awesome teachers for being awesome.  Thanks for an awesome camp Horsham from your leaders Timmy, Megsy and Pauly, Sammy and Chris.

Greensborough Year 9 Outdoor students came to the summit for a 2 day camp, they were pumped coz they said it’s a really sick place this summit, both year 9 groups smashed the snowy river challenge, embraced the dirty smelly wombat hole, loved the giant swing and had fun at the abseil and leap tower.  Well done guys!

Special mention to Steph at the leap of faith on her last day of camp she moved closer to the edge, then moved back, moved forward, again and back and forward again and again, hesitated once, twice, three times or more then she finally was ready to take the jump.  The countdown ended and She jumped YAY, awesome Steph, she reached her Superstretch!

Love

Megsy

The year 8 cohort of students and teachers from Glen Eagles played hard at their time at The Summit, from 8^th November to 11^th November. As facilitators, we were very impressed with the amount of people that stretched themselves throughout the many activities. Although this amount of students cannot fit into the blog, special mention goes to:

• Leteisha who took an amazing fall on the Snowy River swing
• Shane and Mitchell for getting through cave and especially to Shane for pushing through on Tash’s Ladder
• Tash was super impressed with the amount of people who were nervous on Summit Window and still continued with it- you should be so proud of yourselves!
• F and G for an amazing last debrief- keep in mind what you said you learnt at camp this week and apply it to future happenings
• Thug Life for rockin out Giant Swing and having great support all week
• Huge congratulations to Taylah for pushing through all barriers
• Seb for getting onto the first rung on Ladder- an amazing super stretch!
• DC’s for winning Monster!
• Team Unity’s Sabrina, awesome effort facing Monty the Snake front on, with tears on the outside but a massive smile on the inside- great example
• Will from Princesses who smashed fear in the face in the snake and nails room and for being such a friendly person
• Craig from Timid- for pushing yourself that far and going way beyond what you thought you could in abseil- you should be very proud for growing so much
• The teachers for playing hard and coming and rocking the box game

This is just the ice on top of the water, congratulations to these people and everyone else for super stretching themselves! Great work by all!

• Tim smashing effort on abseil. You really faced your fears and pushed yourself as hard as you could
• Zack well done on abseil. Keep on backing yourself
• Mitchell great effort on high wire you really achieved that super stretch
• Andy & David, awesome job on Leap of Faith, you handled it like a pro
• Ollie the mountains you have climbed before coming to camp and just giving everything a go and going on beyond expectations
• Christian an amazing effort in pushing yourself to the max to beat your fear of heights. Go you good thing
• Mason massive effort on the abseil, we know you want it
• Hue your attitude towards giving it a go with a broken arm is awesome. You rocked it
• Aidan, you had your teams back. Great leadership and team work buddy.
• Zack, your a larikan, you had a great team spirit and fun towards everything.
• Brendan you smashed everything on camp. You have definitely overcome your fear of heights.

• Will, congratulations on your first abseil, you completed it like a pro
• Tim, year 11, fantastic effort for taking the plunge
• Doug well done on giving the hire wire a go
• Charlie great work on all activities, you really gave everything a go
• Will, well done on Leap of Faith, you really did a great job over coming your fears
• Special mention to Kyle for giving Leap a go
• Adam, amazing determination to push yourself through the fear barrier and achieving your goals
• Josh, how good did you feel after you went over edge on abseil, well done buddy
• Harry loved your persistence on the high wire, even when it got tough. Awesome effort
• Blake you’re just an absolute legend for having Adam’s back and supporting him
• Ben your 2nd go on the high wire. Absolute stealth Ninja
• Team B, Boys you all did such a brilliant job at over coming your fears. Watch out Scotch College, St. Kevins are on fire!

• Jesus Jaiden!
• Well done to Oreo & Abdul for Tash’s Ladder
• Duke Ed’s for smashing all the obstacle courses
• Great job Tusullu for pushing yourself on everything
• Billy, where’s my umbrella :p
• Great job teachers on killing the “MINE” game!!!
• Awesome water fighting skills King5
• Patience and tolerance are important, aren’t they Ben?

• Alex you are a legend …….. The End!
• Tim from Sammy’s group, I will win!
• Ocean for pushing herself on Summit Window and reaching your goals
• Dukes for smashing Snowy River challenge. Great work, great time!
• Good on everyone for getting amongst Minute to Win It
• Mr. Ward for your funny Sky Bridge experience
• Well done to those who won the tank ride and living your values.
• TSK great job on winning Monster Challenge.

Thank you to all for making it a great and joyful camp!!!

Korumburra arrived on the 26^th of October and dived straight into the massive Monster Course! Tash and Megs were extremely impressed with everyone’s efforts, for not only giving it a crack but entirely dominating the whole activity! Massive congratulations to the boys team, who smashed out their first Monster lap in a time of 18.48 and followed it with 15. 18 in the second lap!! These are such fast times which showed just how much guts and determination these guys had!! Another enormous congratulations to the girls team, a.k.a. Team Shot “Shot shot shot shot.” These girls stepped up big time, and the way they came together on the second lap and strengthened as a team was outstanding, improving by a huge 4m 48seconds.

Day 2 was jammed packed of activities; starting off the day by meeting Monty and walking on our bed of nails! Congratulations to everyone, especially those who were nervous, for touching Monty. Nice effort also to those who piggy- backed others on the nailboard!! This was followed by a good time on our Laser Skirmish practice field and out in the bush! Nice effort to the boys for dominating in Capture the Flag, and to the girls who outdid the boys with their smart- thinking on Respawn.

The afternoon saw us stepping up to some of the high element activities; Flying Fox, Giant Swing, Abseil and Leap of Faith!! Great work to all those who gave these a crack and stretched themselves to achieve things they never thought they could do. Take note of this, that the things you initially were apprehensive of usually turned out to be the things you enjoyed the most, and if you apply this to life, and give things that potentially scare you a crack, the rewards are most likely going to be humongous!

On behalf of the Summit crew, we would like to thank the Korumburra students and teachers for an amazing couple of days! The way you guys supported each other, presented yourselves, gave things a go, stretched yourselves and co-operated in your teams was a standout to you all individually and collectively. Megs and I were very impressed!

Thanks again for an awesome camp!!

Tash and Megs