Philmont Part 3

Day 5 -- Today we went to the Tooth of Time, it was really hard to get there though. It took forever to get there because he had to hike past all the other peaks there and when we saw each one we were confused as to whether it was the Tooth or not. This was a side hike so we only carried day packs to carry food, water, and rain gear. It was a tough hike up though especially right before the top it was all rocks

I took this one from the top and what see here is
only about 1/5th of the distance we had to climb.

I climbed up Spider-Monkey style which basically is jumping rock to rock using my hands and feet. Its easier and fun to do than just walking up. I was the second one up after Christian. Here are some pictures of what it was like to look around on top.

As you can tell from the first picture a storm was rolling in so we decided it would not be a smart idea to stay eat lunch up there because it looked like we had about ten minutes until we were completely soaked by rain. So we got down about a fifth of the way when it starts to hail on us. So I fly down the mountain until I was at the bottom because hail hurts when it hits you. I would not think that hail would hurt so much but apparently it does. So I go take cover under a tree and put on my poncho which made the hail not hurt as much. I look up to see how my tree is doing on branches for hail coverage. There are like No Branches What-so-ever! So after waiting 20 minutes for the rest of my crew we decided that it would be best if we start hiking again so we can get the blood pumping. Its no longer hailing as hard so we head out. About 10 minutes into the hike it stops and now its all nice and sunny and I walking and thinking wow the weather here is so weird! We ate lunch and after that part of our survival story is that we survived off Jalapeno Squeeze Cheese.

Day 6 -- We hiked overall about 4 miles today mostly down-hill so it wasn't a tough hike. About a mile later we stopped at Charles's Fork (Staff Camp) to get water because we stayed at a dry camp which means there wasn't any water there. So after we got our water fill-up we hear that they have branding here, I got on my jeans (required to wear long pants) and went over there to brand my hat. Now I always have a reminder of my experience at Philmont. We got to our camp Cimarroncito at about 11 and signed up for the 2:00 secession for climbing. We ate lunch at camp and then at 1:50 headed down to the climbing place. When we got there it nice and sunny after we got all our gear on and went over the safety rules it was all yucky outside. Three kids got to climb and then it started to rain and thunder :'(. So climbing was canceled, but we got to go to this climbing gym with like 7 ft walls and then it went upside down and all sorts of directions. It was cool but not as cool as the actual rock climbing. OH WELL!

This is the end of today's entry but stay tuned to learn more about the PHILMONT EXPERIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

also I am going to be gone for EFY for a week so no more Philnont stuff for awhile.