Philmont Part 4

Day 7 -- This was a pretty rough day we had hiked to the commissary about a mile or two from our old campsite and we get our food and we realize that we have about 2 hrs to hike up 2 and a half miles to the devil's washbasin for our service project. You either we get there at the earlier session or we get a three hour layover and then we do our three hour service project and then we hike to our camp after that which means we wouldn't get to camp until really late that night which none of us wanted so basically we ran all the uphill towards the devil's washbasin and we got there with 50 minutes to spare. We ate lunch put up the bear bags (because we were gonna be gone for awhile so we didn't want the vicious mini-bears to rip our packs open and eat all of our food). We went over to the service project area and we realize we are helping to build a new trail and during our instruction we learned the funny names they made up for all the tools (like the named the sledgehammers the rock breakers) so after the service project we were all pretty tired so we walked to camp slowly to Cimarron River Camp. When we got there we set up camp and made dinner today's dinner was the Mexican dinner with the beans and chili and stuff like that so the tents were gonna smell that night. After dinner Mario decided to go swimming in the river and like the responsible parent his dad made sure he didn't do anything stupid while he was down there.

Day 8 -- This was a pretty hard day as well but there were some perks. We met both of the other crews from our troop one on the trail and the other stayed at the same camp as us. We spent a lot of time with the second crew at Head of Dean. it was really cool because from our campsite we had this amazing view of Mt. Baldy.

Sorry this is a really bad picture of it really on the top its like an awesome looking red color.