Trekking - Activity

In the Alps last summer, I went trekking with my Mum in Grand Bornand, we walked into the forest and hiked up the mountain to go hunt for mushrooms. The strengths I had was my awareness of my surroundings and my good attention to detail. For personal growth, I need to learn how to properly pull the mushrooms or cutting them out of the ground while keeping them fresh. Surprisingly, mushroom hunting was more challenging than trekking as I needed to research and study which mushrooms would be edible and which grow the most during the summer. The new skills I learned was my knowledge on poisonous and edible mushrooms this would be a helpful skill if I go camping in a forest in the future. However, trekking was also challenging as we walked up to 10km in the forest and up the hill, it was very tiring and painful but I had promised to do this activity with my Mum once or twice every week for a month. I persevered and committed myself to this activity although I wanted to back out and stay home instead of spending hours in a forest looking for mushrooms. As well as the fact that I feared the plants that make you really itchy and cause rashes if you come into contact with them. The boots were heavy so they made it hard to walk especially when walking in the mud.