Student Cabin! :)

Two weeks ago, me and a group of friends went to the student cabin for the night. On the way there we walked along the coast which was really lovely and on the way back we walked over the plateau. When we arrived, we had to go find coal and wood for the fire. There was lots of coal there left over from mining and there was lots of drift wood on the beach so that didn't take very long! We then got the fires going and the cabin took so long to heat up, when it did heat up it was very warm though! :) We made a lovely curry for dinner and sat around the table with lots of candles and had a glass of wine! There was no inside toilet, so if you needed you had to go outside with someone so there was a rifle!! That was a bit scary standing outside with a rifle in case a polar bear came! :-S Thankfully...it didn't! The student cabin was overall really nice! It had 5 bedrooms, a living area and a kitchen. I thought i would be cold at night but we kept the fires going most of the night so it was really cosy. Also i was in a down sleeping bag which could with stand temperatures of -30 so i was actually on the warm side! :) The hike home the next day was absolutely exhausting! It was so steep to start with then it was flat all the way on top of the mountain, but i was so exhausted from the first part that even on the flat bit i was tired! On the way back down to the barracks from the mountain, i just sat on my bum and slid down on the snow as i was too tired to walk!! :) It was also better way of getting down the mountain!