Day 4,5,6 of ranger training

Day four we woke up on top of fowler mesa in the medow. it was a nice day but still extremly windy. We ate a short breakfast and hit the trail for beaubian for the ranger rendevous. It was a 3.5 mile hike through a huge medow. It was amazing. We saw all kinds of flora. We saw aspen, ponderosa pine, yellow salsfly, flebane, kinikanik and many others. It was a nice day with mild wind. We arrived one day early to the rendevous. We hung out and i tossed the bee all day with other crews. I also crashed for a couple of hours. Dinner was pretty good. We had black beans and rice. That night the stars were the brightest i have ever seen them. Ursa Major was right above me with satelites going every direction. We woke up pretty late the nevxt morning, around 8:30ish and all of the other training crews began to show up for the ranger games and rendevous. The day was great. I got to meet up with all the oklahoma guys again. My training crew did pretty well in the games and we got a team pic and whole ranger staff pic. After the games all the other tc's headed out and we decided to stay another night. We crashed on the porch of an old cabin. That night was overcast so the stars were not to great. However, it was the best night of sleep thus far. We woke up for day six at 3 am to go and catch a sunrise on top of trail peak. It was a three mile hike to the top. We put on our head lamps and headed to the top. On top of trail peak there is a b-24 plane that crashed in 1942, seven service guys died. That was neat and the sunrise was through the clouds. It was freezing though and it sarted to snow. The hike down was not bad.
We stopped at fowler pass and headed down to crater lake. It was snowing really hard and later on we heard that fowler got two inches. I was really cold. We made it to crater and got into an old cabin and waited the storm and weather out for about 5 hours. I got in my sleeping bag and we all made hot tea. It was an awesom view. I got to know my training crew really well, Im the youngest in it. They are all really tight. We finally decided to start hiking and headed down to lovers leap turn around where we got picked up. It was close to a nine mile hike that day. We made it back and all took showers. It felt amazing and refreshing to be some what clean after a six day hike, no shower, one pair of clothes. We also all passed the ranger aptitude test. So, I am officially a philmont ranger!!