While the crews complain about the hardscrabble lifestyle, their trail bosses rope them into a 24-hour rotating watch to monitor two pregnant cows who could go into labor.
With only two days left on the cattle drive and Steamboat Springs just miles away, disaster strikes when the chuck wagon breaks down.
Reeling from continual losses, Fabian draws the Red Crew into hostilities against the trail bosses and any defector who sides with them.
The ever-increasing divide between the trail bosses and the kids comes to a head as the trail bosses abandon the teams to do the cattle drive on their own.
Brittny and Haley are cattle captains and their laziness and spoiled behaviour rubs off on most of the group.
The cast gets their Burberrys in a bunch when the trail bosses take their (Gasp!) cell phones. Which three members of the privileged posse escape to town in protest?
The participants meet their tough-as-nails trail bosses and are given their first lesson in riding horses: don’t wear designer jeans!