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On one sunny morning my family and I went to the Camelback Mountain. It was six in the morning and we were trying to get the bus, we got it and road to the mountains. My uncle and my brother, Daniel started climbing meanwhile we stared to fix our stuff to start climbing. Than we climbed and climbed till my sister started to feel bad. Maria, my sister started to through up and started to get dizzy so my mom waited with her. My dad, uncle, little brother Tony, Daniel, and I kept on going to the top while my mom and sister waited till we got back from the top. We climbed and climbed and finally we have reached the top. My family and I took many pictures and enjoyed the view, we also took a break. Then when we done resting we started to climb back down. We were climbing down when I almost fell from a big rock, but this one girl helped me and caught me so I did fall. I was scared so I didn’t let go of the pole while I was going down the big rocks. So we got past the big rocks and then there were more big rocks but this time the rocks didn’t have a pole to hold on to. My uncle and Daniel were just flying really fast, I tried doing that because my dad was really behind because of Tony who was scared. So I was trying to catch my uncle and Daniel but when I did I jumped from a huge brown rock, suddenly I slip and twisted my anckel, and triped over my foot and turn around with the little rocks and dirt that were on the ground. I fell backwards and bumped my head on a pointy rock and when I notice my head was bleeding. Then, when my brother and uncle noticed that I was on the floor and that my head was bleeding. Daniel went up to tell my dad I had fallen, my dad rushed down to see what had happen to me. When people who were passing by would stop and notice me on the ground with a bleeding head. The unknown people would just stop and ask me if I was alright some called the ambulance and others gave me there water. My uncle went down to tell my mom that I was hurt, and my

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