Happy Easter

"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.