Adventurer, How Shall You Spend Your Time?

It is currently Tuesday evening, and you realize that this weekend you do not have anything planned. You feel tired but want to spend this weekend well. All of a sudden, a good friend calls you!

Your friend explains that a trip has just been arranged for this weekend. You and a few others could be backpacking up the peak of San Jacinto mountain, gaining valuable experience and enjoying yoursleves throughly. It is a challenging adventure, however.

Info: Backpacking is when you hike several miles accross rough terrain, carrying everything on your back needed for you to survive unaided 2 and 1/2 days in the wild.

Choices:

1) You politely decline, thinking of that rather large English essay due on Monday. This trip would have you return around 2pm Saturday, tired and dirty but with tons of work to complete.

2) After chatting some more on the phone, you explain that you aren't feeling your best and would like to take it easy this weekend. Your friend hangs up.

3) It will be horribly difficult, you do not feel ready, and you have not even began packing. But a challenge is a challenge, and you accept to go on this trip.

Introduction, 1) The Call, 2) The Threshold, 3) The Descent, 4) Tests & Ordeals, 5)Into the Abyss, 6) The Atonement, 7) The Boon, 8) The Return, Conclusion