Ugh. After training I tagged along with my “Crew” on what was supposed to be an easy 4 mile hike to a waterfall. The hike starts at a place called Petrified Tree, slowly climbs to a vantage point of a waterfall and then descends behind the Roosevelt Horse Corrals. In addition to our normal group (Lindsey, Aisha, Aaliyah, Craig, Joseph, and myself) we were joined by Mike and Caesar who are from Romania. When we started the hike we were under the impression that the path would loop back to where we had parked our cars (the trailhead was 17 miles from our dorm). Unfortunately that was not the case. The hike was easy enough but was through the thickest field of mosquitoes I have ever experienced. No one had brought bug spray because there were
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