I spent the entire day outside helping two of my best friends build a bouldering wall at camp. The weather was beautiful all day. When we were done, sore and stinky, we went into Saint Paul for some ice cream ( Read more... )

It's a familiar feeling, but it takes my breath away every time. It's like coming around the bend and suddenly being able to see the path laid out before you in the valley below. From here you can see lay of the land. You can see the places that might have gotten you turned around had you not gotten this perspective at this point. It doesn't ( Read more... )

I read this and understand it ( Read more... )

I got a new job - officially Program Coordinator for Outdoor and Environmental Education at the camp I've been working at. I get to basically run the OEE program and work as a go-fer during the summer. That means during the spring and fall, it's 14 hour days of crazy, during the summer maybe only 8 hours a day of less-crazy, and during the winter ( Read more... )

Because it's good to do:

( My Year, More or Less )

Thanks to Craig's List, I am now, or at least will soon be, a professional photographer, as a gentleman in Vancouver is paying me to take pictures of some headstones in cemeteries in the area. Woo ( Read more... )

Sometimes I wonder why I work this kind of job. I get paid less than minimum wage, often live in sub-standard housing, and usually work more than 12 hours a day, 5-7 days of the week. Then I get paid ( Read more... )

1. When I started last fall, my previous training at other camps counted for something. It wasn't "Oh, you've been trained by 3 other camps to do low ropes/ teams course, but you're not checked off to do it here." It was, "How are your teams course skills? Good? You've got a group in an hour ( Read more... )

Today I found out that a great man died ( Read more... )

Today, on my way to the dining hall, I greeted a young deer getting a head start on breakfast and came upon a baby rabbit with poor survival instincts (it let me get way too close before scampering off into the woods).

Have I mentioned I love my job?