“Real World: Denver” cast member Brooke does her makeup the wrong way.

– Intrepid Get Real Denver contributor Kathleen St. John weighs in with this missive on tonight’s episode:

– Today’s installment finds the cast continuing with their training days at Outward Bound. After rock climbing on last week’s episode, the lesson continues with even more rappelling. Alex goes first because he has “very little apprehension about going off this cliff.” Go for it, big boy.

– His castmates follow him down, shakily, but without incident. Of course, the two acrophobes are saved for last — Tyrie and Brooke. Tyrie looks, uh, snug in his harness, but admits he’s pretty freaked out. He begins crying when he reaches bottom. You can’t blame him. It’s a gnarly-looking cliff…

– And here comes Brooke. She looks like she’s going to puke, then backs out with apologies. At dinner, Jenn burbles through a mouthful of pasta about how scared she was today. It takes a second to decipher what she’s saying most of the time because she’s either drunk, babbling at high speed or both, but the pasta presents a special challenge.

“Man… where did I leave my lip balm?!”

– Colie announces that she won’t be going on the next day’s backpacking trip because of her — say it with me — mono. Apparently high-stress ropes courses, heart-pounding rock climbing and rappelling off giant cliffs are OK, but hiking in the woods is a no.

– Uh oh — Colie mentions Adam, the trip’s logistical coordinator (he tends camp while the others are out). She thinks he’s cute “in that earthy, treehugging, Jewish, wannabe-a-doctor kinda way.” I know just the type. I think. Anyway: Run, Adam, run!

– Brooke and Alex have a dispute about doing the dishes. Brooke doesn’t like his tone. Methinks she mostly doesn’t like doing dishes. Back from commercial, we learn that Alex calls working with Brooke “a worst-case scenario.” It sounds like he and Brooke disliked each other from day one, though this is one of the few times we’ve ever seen them interact.

– Adam and Colie are getting to know each other. He is a guy that Colie “would totally be into.” Too bad she keeps talking about her mono. No way he’ll kiss her now. Raleigh introduces the gang to the fine art of relieving oneself in the woods: Dig a hole. Consider the size and quantity of your excretion. Then spread them cheeks! Alex considers digging a hole before he needs one and putting a little sign up next to it. Like a grave? A poop-grave? Brooke is horrified, of course. Sigh.

Like a good PR firm, Alex dutifully sanitizes other people’s problems.

– Now she’s busted out her little, spanky boy-short underwear for a hike. Um, what? She gets mad that Chris reprimands her for it. It’s “rude,” according to Brooke’s personal moral code. Parading around in your underwear, however, is not at all undignified or inappropriate.

– Davis thinks Brooke is going crazy. He may be right. She decides to get up and wipe her privates in the middle of camp. Cue shot of grizzly bear slapping its forehead. Brooke talks to Chris about last night’s wiping incident. Chris said that a dude doing the same thing would be grounds for firing. Brooke looks shocked. It is a little tough to grasp. I guess having male genitalia makes it more wrong. You get a free pass this time, lady. Just keep your little friend under wraps from now on, ‘kay?

Davis (right) wonders how the hell he got paired up with this nutjob.

– Chris says they need to be their best selves. “We need to do a lot more,” says Colie, sporting wet-looking curls in an interview segment. Just keep the booze out of your mouth, girl, and things should be at least tolerable. In the car on the way home, Colie says she and Adam cuddled last night. It’s a fitting segue into the roommates’ return to Denver. Well done, editors.

– At home, Alex sits down to counsel Brooke, whom he seems to think is utterly nuts. “You can change yourself, you control who you are … Play with the world you live in!” Thanks for the inspiration, brah. Based on the short preview, it looks like things will be back to normal on next week’s show. Drunken chats, pansexual hot-tub makeouts and screaming fights. Back to civilization!