Trek 1

As I mentioned my first crew was from frisco, texas. Their expedition number 612-p1. They were really chill. The advisors were really neat. There expedition was not too hard. The first day we hiked from 6 mile turn around to anazazi camp. This camp was up in north country. I taught them how to put up tents, cook, put up bear bags, and filter water. The afternoon of the first night we went to do a conservation project. We did trail repair for about three hours. After cooking we sat around and did something known as thorns and roses. Every one goes around saying one thing they like about the day, one thing they disliked and one think they are looking forward to. We went to bed around nine and got up at 5:30. We packed up camp and did an easy hike over to indian writings. Indian writings was really neat. It is back in a canyon with a huge medow and river. It got pretty hot, but we found some shade. The canyon has the most mountain lions in the state of new mexico. We didn't see any though. We took a tour of petrogliphs up in the canyon that were made by anazazi indians back in 900 ad. It was really interesting and it looked like the crew really liked it. Later that night after dinner there is advisor's coffee. If the crew is at a staff camp advisors and rangers can get away from the kids and have coffee and tea up on the cabin. I attended that and chilled with some other rangers. Later that night when it was dark I did the wilderness pledge. The wilderness plede is a pledge the crew makes stating that they will help conserve the wilderness. I took them out in the medow and had them be quiet for a few minutes. We looked at the stars and I asked them what philmont meant to them. The crew definetly enjoyed it. We went to bed after and woke up at 4:45. We broke camp and I left them. They had eight more days on the trail. I hiked over hearts peak into ponil and caught a bus back to base. It was an awseome first crew!