Day 4- more service work at Ruby. Camping at hidden Hand

Day 3 - Service work at Ruby Pasture

i've never been there before, but i imagine it will look like this

Day 2 - hiking to hidden hand

Day 1

the next 14 days

The next 14 days are going to be a little out of the ordinary. First, I will be attempting to run 15 miles tomorrow (fingers crossed that i make it!) and then I head off to the wild yonder of Ross Lake to spend time with some teenagers.

So, I will not be around for a while... but in lieu of my departure, I will by trying something new. Each day I will have a photo posted of where I will be on that day... and you can just imagine.

Also, while i'm out on the trip, I will have my SPOT with me and will have it on tracking each day, so you can definitely follow along. The link is
http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0DW1tozVjOWgd1AlXyghQAlYqLXkS8Xyb

In the mean time, please send the red head birthday wishes! He turns 28 this saturday... slowly catching up.

utah

talked to my quasi-manager at OIA this morning and will be going to OR again this August for more Eco-working group stuff. I'm pretty excited to still be involved a year after I left my job and i'm even more excited that I'm more involved now then when I was at K2. So, i'll be flying down to Salt Lake for a day and a night to enjoy a good old fashioned mormon time.

hoooozah!

paddln'

Last week I departed for a 4 day recon trip with the summer youth leaders to scope out life on the lake. It was a wonderful week that was jammed packed with smiles, curriculum, camp food and paddling. This was our big prep trip for what lies beyond this summer: Taking kids out into the wilderness and providing them with a sense of place.

I'll be working on one trip for NC Wild. NC Wild has a goal of taking under-served and diverse youth out into the woods to provide them with leadership skills and a sense of stewardship and accomplishment. We work with the park on various service projects to improve the park for future generations use. We also assign one student as "leader of the day" that allows them to explore what it is to be like to be a leader and begin forming the skills to be successful. Oh, and we get to be outside on Ross Lake for 11 days!!! I leave on Tuesday June 28th for my first trip and will return around July 8th. I know the 28th will get here way before I expect it to. Anyway, here are some shots from our recon trip:

loading all our gear to get up and over the dam

Views from Ross Lake Resort

Lake's still low. 1st nights camp at MacMillan

Rafting up

Sailing!!