Back from the Bighorns!!!

Hi all!
Omg, I haven't been on in FOREVER!
Anyways, I'm back from Widji and feeling good. I'm about to summarize the ENTIRE trip, so you may want to sit down. If you don't have time to read this, wait until you do to start. Its pretty dang long.

Ok, So camp started on July 8th and ended on July 25th.

the 8th:
-Got on the bus UBER early
-Drove to camp

the 9th: *note: the days in camp are REALLY boring*
-did stuff in camp such as: pack out food, get pack, practice river crossing
-Sauna!

the 10th:
-did more stuff in camp

the 11th:
-Started Road trip!
-Camped at Fort Abraham Lincon Park in North Dakota

the 12th:
-more road trip!
-camped at trailhead

the 13th: DAY 1
-Hiked from Hunter
-I DROPPED MY CAMERA AND IT BROKE! :O
-Camped at ??? river

the 14th: DAY 2
- Hiked more
-Somewhat fixed my camera
-Saw lots of Horseback riders
-First snow sighting! (SNOWBALL FIGHT!)
-Camped at Elk Lake (SUPER BUGGY THERE)

the 15th: DAY 3
-Hiked through marshes and some forest to Cloud Peak Reservoir
-Got to Cloud Peak Reservoir before lunch, set up camp and day hiked off trail down the lake
-TL'd (trail lunch) at lower end of lake. Saw Cloud Peak and Bomber Mountian Bomber mountain is named that because in the early 20th century a WWII Bomber plane crashed into it. To date there is still bits of debris on the mountain.
-Went swimming (SO COLD)
-Camped

the 16th: DAY 4
-Hiked back to Elk Lake
-Hiked up different path that went up and up and up to HUGE pass.
-Reached top of pass, ah-mazing view!
-Ate morning snack of dried mango
-flew kite!
-hiked down other side of pass
-camped at another ??? river

the 17th: DAY 5
-Hiked up smallish hill to Seven Brothers Lakes
-Hiked down the brothers lakes
-Set up camp at second to last brother lake
- We were all sitting on the rocks doing 'Solo Sits'. Cory got back from scouting the path ahead and said she was hearing people across the lake. We all look, and sure enough theres a group of people coming down the HUGE steep boulder field across the lake. Rachel says "Wouldn't it be funny if it was the Boys group?" we all have a good laugh. A while later, we think we hear Max (guy counselor)! We keep looking at them and the leader is wearing a white long sleeve tshirt, just like Charlie (other guy counselor) always wears! We slowly watch them make their way across the lake and when they get to us, sure enough, its the guys group!
-camp at 6th brother

the 18th: DAY 6
We hike around the 6th brother and past the 7th up to a creek. We go up a series of boulder fields steeper than the ones at the 6th brother and finally reach Lower Frozen Lake. We break for pictures of the amazing mountains and some prunes (yum!). Keep hiking to other side of Lower Frozen and start navigating for Lake Angeline. After a brief TL ( I scooped up some snow from a nearby patch and poured Bug juice (kool-aid) on it. Mixed it up and i had myself a Snow Cone!) we made our way over many more boulder fields.
-Set up camp, had dinner, etc. we were sitting out stretching and talking and such when i look behind everyone else and see a cloud. Heading directly towards our campsite. seriously, the cloud was heading INTO our campsite. We were that high up. So, the cloud engulfed lake angeline and us too. We couldn't see the people at the other campsite just down the lake.
-Camped at Lake Angeline (pretty windy!)

the 19th: DAY 7
LAYOVER DAY! And my B-day!
-Stayed at Lake Angeline
-Peaked a mountian!!! after sleeping in :)
-Got to the top, attempted to fly kite, but it was too windy.
-came down. We found a rather large snow patch on that mountain, so we took out our raincoats and went sledding!!!! It was Awesome!
-camped at Lake Angeline (again)

the 20th: DAY 8
-hiked on path again!
-saw some people
-saw some Cattle
-camped at yet another ??? river

the 21st: DAY 9
-Hiked through burn area (lotsa down trees)
-got to sawmill creek, but got lost
-over TL, decided to backtrack to sign that said 'Cloud Peak Wilderness' because we knew where that was on the map and just off trail it to circle park (our last campsite and pick-up spot)
-Grace gets injured!!!! **NOTE: this is kinda gross, just FYI. Ok, Grace was at the front of the group and was stepping over some logs when she stumbled. the conversation went as follows:
counselors "you ok, grace?"
grace "yeah, I'm fine"
(she gets over the tree and walks a few paces, looks down at her leg. All color drains from her face)
grace "um, its bleeding..."
counselors "how bad is it?"
grace "bad enough to make me sick"
the tree had punctured the area just to the side of her shin. It was an inch or so deep. The counselors had everyone take off their packs and they bandaged it up. (it was really gross to look at tho, there was blood flowing and you could see a little piece of fat hanging out) so, the counselors called the boys group who had just gotten to Hunter where the van was and told them about the situation. We split grace's stuff into our packs and hiked back to Day 8's campsite. Romy then followed the road up a bit and hitchhiked to Hunter to get the boys. They drove back and the boys set up camp across the river while Charlie and Romy took grace to the hospital in Buffalo, WY to get stitches. She got 9 of them, three inside and six outside.

the 22nd: DAY 10
-drove into buffalo to meet up with the other groups
-went to the buffalo YMCA and took showers!!!! :D
-drove back
-camped at Fort Abraham Lincon park in North Dakota

the 23rd:
-Kept on driving
-got into Ely a day early, so we cant go back to camp until tomorrow (the next sessions groups haven't left for trail yet, so the cabins are full of people)
-camped at Fenske Lake

the 24th:
-got back into camp
-got our mail (thanks for the packages mom and hannah!)
-the Banquet! lots of parents came (not mine but thats ok)
-Skits! there were some kinda stupid ones done by intro campers, but thats just intro campers for you...
-Closing campfire was nice, but emily's wax guard (which are made of cardboard for some Brilliant reason) for her candle (we all hold tiny candles) caught fire.
-Saunas got bumped up an hour because the closing campfire ended late, so we sauna'd at 11, which was fun!
-Since Grace couldn't sauna because of her stiches, she and Romy hung out at the dining hall with some other groups waiting for saunas, so we went and met up with them and had s'mores and exchanged friendship bracelets.
-slept

the 25th:
-got on the bus
-came home

the end!
told you it was long. Anyways, After i upload my pictures, i'll put them on Deviantart and make a folder of them. Once thats done i'll put a link to it on here.
see ya!

-Alicia