Woke up at like 6-8 ish. Some crews had to get more early to getting breakfast ready. I was in the lucky one, I wasn't assigned a morning chore. Went to the bathroom. Its a stank outhouse, but that's the usual as in a restroom in the middle of a national forest. I think I got an alright amount sleep on the trip to our destination, lava lake. We got to lava lake about 1030 ish. Meet up with the lead ranger, jim. He went over his duty in the park, and educational background. He then introduced amy, sarah, Simon, katie, Jeff, and Cassidy. Their occupations range from deputy director, motorized recreation, civil engineer, children's forest director, fire ecology, and speclist respectively. After we got to hear about the work they do and their origins stories, which are interesting to contemplate on such as a career in the field. We went up to lava crater. It was a nice view going up, even though it was like a 7 minute ride. It was bare due to the recent lava activity (within the last 1000 years) but there was also lots of vegetation on the other side of the road. Lava crater is at the top of a hill. There was a walkpath along the rim of it, but since lunchtime was coming up, we didn't have time journey it. We went back down the hill and had hotdogs and stuff while meeting George. He went over how the land was shaped by the volcanos around. Once this meeting was over, we went back to the campsite where we got shower stuff together. We was all stinky. Everyone was glad. This was over at about 7 ish, and had to rush back to camp to get dinner started. I was on the crew assigned to cook. Monte, Brenda, Taylor, Cristina, and I made stir fry from scratch along with rice and a salad. During dinner, cristy suggested to share our favorite part of the day since we were all together, too much jokes going around to describe. It was a good day. and shortly after dinner I followed these deer around and captured this action pose.