"If you don't follow through with your dreams you might as well be a vegetable."
So to answer the question from last week, I had my day pack plus my expedition pack. I had to take 5 pounds from my expedition pack and put them in my day pack because my day pack was my carry on. I moved my Red Wings over and a can of chili and that brought me under the 50 pound limit. I couldn't close my day pack though!
I just realized there was a spellcheck button at the top of the screen so that should help out. Alright so I've wrapped up another week in Juneau. The snow has started melting out at the EVC (the Eagle Valley Center). This week we were camped out in the snow which is a little bit cold, but not to bad. Getting out of the tent every morning is the hardest. We had our chainsaw training this week. We got to spend the day with the god and legend, Peter Cross. Chuck Norris makes Chuck Norris jokes about Peter Cross. Peter Cross uses the trees he chops down for tooth picks. Peter Cross could drop a tree with his bare hands, but he'd rather waste gas. It was great working with him and learning from the best. It took him 5 minutes to buck a 60 foot tree, limb it, and drag the limbs into the woods.
The tree I took down was a 12 in cottonwood that was maybe 70 feet long. It was good to use the saw again and drop trees, but I was pretty nervous with Peter watching over me.
Hmmm...other exciting things from this week? Oh so Thursday I stayed in town with some friends and had a really good birthday. I slept on a memory foam mattress and it felt amazing. Saturday the Field Supports and the Crew Leaders all did the Herbert Glacier hike. This was my third time so I was too excited. That changed when we started exploring some of the ice caves and hiking around on the ice caves. I'll have pictures up soon, I'm a few weeks behind and still trying to get Florida pictures up. I like the question comments so I can put the answers in the next week blog.
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Arrival!
Okay so after struggling to get in this morning, "time for an upgrade!" So last time I wrote I had just arrived in Seattle. The next morning I got up really early and walked the two blocks to the Amtrak station. I wouldn't recommend that Hostel to anyone. I had to repack things when I got to the train station because for some reason your checked bags can't weigh more than 50 pounds. This to me is really silly because a train can pull a lot so 54 pounds is not going to affect it to much. This year I made sure to sit on the "coast" side of the train and I got to watch the sun rise against Mt. Rainer. What a great way to start the morning!
I arrived in Bellingham and walked next door to the ferry terminal. I just had to wait a few hours. As soon as I got on I ran up to the Solarium. I met some really cool people. A couple of them were old guys that had either just retired or were thinking they were going to die in the next couple years. They wanted to see Alaska before it was too late. I helped this chick set up her tent on the deck, but she took it down because of the rain. While I was eating dinner, one of the old guys sat at one of the tables staring out the window watching the sun kiss the ocean as it set. All I could think of Worlds Fastest Indian.
Kevin came and got me early in the morning as the snow dumped us. He took me back to his place where a big comfy couch was waiting for me. I met a sleeping Nimrod. With an hour before we had to leave, Nimrod woke up and we had an hour to get to know each other. He drove me into work and two of us were welcomed by the familar staff faces and the other Field Support Specailists. It was good to be back. The first day going out to the EVC I was in heaven. I really missed this place. So all week was spent getting back in the groove of things.
This weekend we came into town. We stayed at the Alaskan and I was really disappointed in that hotel. Nimrod and I went down to start the bar crawl and we met a really interesting character. He started rubbing Nimrod's arm and kept trying to get us to play pool with him. It was pretty great.
This morning there was a fight out the street and that brings us to the present. Sitting in the Silverbow blogging...
I arrived in Bellingham and walked next door to the ferry terminal. I just had to wait a few hours. As soon as I got on I ran up to the Solarium. I met some really cool people. A couple of them were old guys that had either just retired or were thinking they were going to die in the next couple years. They wanted to see Alaska before it was too late. I helped this chick set up her tent on the deck, but she took it down because of the rain. While I was eating dinner, one of the old guys sat at one of the tables staring out the window watching the sun kiss the ocean as it set. All I could think of Worlds Fastest Indian.
Kevin came and got me early in the morning as the snow dumped us. He took me back to his place where a big comfy couch was waiting for me. I met a sleeping Nimrod. With an hour before we had to leave, Nimrod woke up and we had an hour to get to know each other. He drove me into work and two of us were welcomed by the familar staff faces and the other Field Support Specailists. It was good to be back. The first day going out to the EVC I was in heaven. I really missed this place. So all week was spent getting back in the groove of things.
This weekend we came into town. We stayed at the Alaskan and I was really disappointed in that hotel. Nimrod and I went down to start the bar crawl and we met a really interesting character. He started rubbing Nimrod's arm and kept trying to get us to play pool with him. It was pretty great.
This morning there was a fight out the street and that brings us to the present. Sitting in the Silverbow blogging...
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Okay so I'm going to try this out. I don't know how well its going to work because when people tell me they have blogs, I follow them for a a week and never go back. It will still be open on my desktop, but for some reason I never go back. So let's see how this goes.
So I started my journey early this morning. I flew from Orlando to Atlanta on a very uneventful flight (thankfully). I had a 40 minute layover which was spent running across the airport. That place is huge! Note to self: if you fly into Atlanta make sure you have a long layover. I got to the gate just in time to board. My next flight was to Seattle. It was a long crowded flight. The flight attendent gave me orange juice when I asked for coke! That's not even close. Then when we had four minutes to land, the couple behind me got in a fight with the flight attendents. It was an awful flight!
I took my second form of transportation to the hostel, a taxi. The driver was pretty cool. We got kind of lost in downtown because of all the construction. The hostel is literally right next door to the train station (3rd form of transportion), but in Chinatown. While I was outside the building I was asked if I wanted "some" three times. After having some awful Chinese food and doing some shopping I went back to the hostel to check in. The room smells like mold, but other than that it was a good place to rest for four hours. When I woke it was raining and it felt amazing to walk back to the grocery store in the rain. It made me very excited to get back to raining Juneau. Alright I guess that's it for now.
So I started my journey early this morning. I flew from Orlando to Atlanta on a very uneventful flight (thankfully). I had a 40 minute layover which was spent running across the airport. That place is huge! Note to self: if you fly into Atlanta make sure you have a long layover. I got to the gate just in time to board. My next flight was to Seattle. It was a long crowded flight. The flight attendent gave me orange juice when I asked for coke! That's not even close. Then when we had four minutes to land, the couple behind me got in a fight with the flight attendents. It was an awful flight!
I took my second form of transportation to the hostel, a taxi. The driver was pretty cool. We got kind of lost in downtown because of all the construction. The hostel is literally right next door to the train station (3rd form of transportion), but in Chinatown. While I was outside the building I was asked if I wanted "some" three times. After having some awful Chinese food and doing some shopping I went back to the hostel to check in. The room smells like mold, but other than that it was a good place to rest for four hours. When I woke it was raining and it felt amazing to walk back to the grocery store in the rain. It made me very excited to get back to raining Juneau. Alright I guess that's it for now.
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