So it goes…Alaska Season 2010
Here I am in Alaska one last summer, One last summer with the Park Service that is. As Jodie and I have begun our school plan it will be a quick twelve week summer here in the park. My hope is to see the Triple Lakes Trail project completed before I say goodbye. 5 years in the making this 9 mile trail. I’ll be posting pictures of the beautiful trail as the summer progresses. Don’t worry there will be other exciting Alaska photos too.
School has been exciting, stressful and rewarding. As I mentioned in my previous post we had some heavy science classes. All very interesting especially the biology ones. Learning about cells, the integumentary system (skin and hair), muscle system, the skeletal system, and just touching the surface of the nervous system. Physics, would have been more interesting had the instructor been better. I mean who wouldn’t be fascinated to learn how things work. As proof of our busy times spent with noses in the books, late nights studying physics and shlepping heavy book-loads, we have received high marks in all our classes.
Congratulations Jode’s for making the Governors List.
Outlook for the fall: Anatomy and Physiology II, Chemistry I and Statistics. We hope to visit some schools this fall and winter as well. Possibly Grand Valley, Michigan when we are there in the early fall for a family visit. And visiting Montana and Idaho in the winter. We have kept Cali off our radar, but it might be worth a look in the spring.
So, this season gets off to a quick start being as the summer has already started and the Park seasonal staff and SCA’s have already begun working. It also is a bit more hectic as the park’s trails staff and sca crew’s are the highest I’ve experienced. We have 4 SCA crews here at a time up from 2, and at least 10 more NPS Trail Crew staff. Over the summer we will have 10 SCA crews working between the Triple Lakes Trail and the new Savage Alpine Trail. There is an 8 person Park crew spiked at the Savage Alpine Trail worksite as well. Stimulus money is to credit for the addition of crews. My job as the Trails Volunteer Crew Leader will be coordinating the logistics, ensuring quality, training, safety etc… of the SCA and other volunteer crews during their stay.
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