Snow: the Deception

I am now 16 and I have never seen snow before in my life. Well that used to be true until I signed up for a hike in the Parynese Mountain Range. The section of Comino de Comp Estella which is a religious pilgrimage to Comp Estella de Santiago in Spain, we started in Biarritz in France and did about the first 3 days of hiking. On the first day we had to hike over the top of a mountain, unfortunately it was 1400 meters up so when it rained on the way up it was freezing. Once we got to the top it was sort of level and we began to walk over the top. Unfortunately for me I only had 2 windbreakers and a disposable poncho when it started to rain again, or at least that’s what I thought. Only when I realized that it hurt when it hit me that it was snow, and this wasn’t nice fluffy snow it was razor sharp shards of ice like snow. To make things worse for me the wind was blowing extremely hard, and while everyone had anticipated this I was COLD and WET and MISERSBLE. My opinion on snow that I have finally seen it is that it SUCKS!!!!! And all the TV shows it make seem all nice and cool but in reality it is freezing cold, it hurts, and it officially sucks!