Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Up a couple of times in the night and the stars were incredible. Unfortunately my findings the previous evening prevented me from going too far from my tent to look at them. Up at 5:00 AM with the crew. Left on the trail at 6:15 AM. Carl was rattled by a rattlesnake along the trail. We had to hike around it. Ate breakfast on the trail. Got to Ute Gulch Commissary pretty quickly for our last food pickup. Had another pear. At the trading post, bought a Philmont Nalgene for Christian to use, some more fuel, and sock liners and foot powder for my feet. The last two items seemed to help a lot. Hiking through Grouse Canyon was very nice with lots of interesting rock formations. Quite quickly we were at Cimarroncito. We had our porch talk while Christian defended our packs from mini bears. We set up camp and had lunch. Lots of laundry was done. We did our conservation project at 2:00 PM. First we moved their equipment from where it was to the Hunting Lodge. It took two trips. Then we pulled up Musk Thistles and pulled off their seeding heads. This is an invasive species. Ironically it is also on the Philmont staff badges as it has a pretty purple flower. It was a long way back to camp and Carl hit his limit. Therefore we made the long, slow walk back together while the rest of the crew went on ahead. We took a very nice shower on the way. Dinner was pretty late and Christian missed it because he had to attend a Guia meeting. He wound up eating quite late. Carl went to bed quite early and we were all in bed by 9:00 PM.
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