We awake in darkness to hastily pack up and get to our conservation project at 7am. The trail we travel is narrow and eroded, snaking along a canyon and through draws. All of a sudden we came around a corner to hear, "I know you guys." Will Swanson, returning to Base Camp for a new crew, greeted us. How lucky to see him on the trail.
At our trail conservation project site in Flume Canyon, we met "Barbs," a civil engineer, and the "Flume Wizard," who explained the construction of the trail. The CONS team was building three reatining walls and need rocsk smashed to gravel, dirt moved for backfill, and large boulders broken up for removal. For two hours, the scouts gleefully wielded 8- and 12-lb sledgehammers and hauled buckets of dirt. The CONS staff were very appreciative of our efforts.
As we put our packs back on, our ranger, Jack, suggested we take a side hike up to the top of a mesa for lunch. We enjoyed our lunch, tossing the frisbee, and a 270-degree view of the ranch.
After lunch, we hiked back down and finished up with a two-mile hike to Camp Pueblano, where we learned to saw logs with a bucksaw. Our campsite for the day was at Pueblano Ruins, surrounded on both sides by streams. The total mileage for the day was 9.1 miles.
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