Flagstaff, Arizona

May 13, 2010

Hey! I am back from my last conservation project with the American Conservation Experience and it certainly has been an experience! I went to the Lake Mead National Recreation Area and for the first few days was based at Lake Mojave (mo-ha-vee). The project partner got us lost on the first day so we had to wait whilst the supervisors and him went to find a suitable backroad to get 3 vans and 2 trailers down. That was interesting and wasted hal...

Flagstaff, Arizona

May 4, 2010

Where to start? Lol.. just spent my off days in San Francisco and had an amazing time with some amazing people :) We rented a car and drove for just over 12 hours overnight on Thursday... very tiring. Larry and Grant drove us there and got us there in one piece. It was 8.30 am when we arrived at the city. We visited a place Jade recommended - the Japanese Tea Gardens and that was really awesome :) We also visited the San Francisco Botanical ga...

Flagstaff, Arizona

Apr 29, 2010

Hi y'all! I am back from the Pacific Crest Trail in California. It was located between Tehachapi and Mojave on a wind farm run by a company called Terra-Gen. They are constructing and installing 100 new wind turbines and we are responsible for re-routing the trail at least 300 feet away from the new turbines. My responsibilities varied from swamping trees that had been cut down by a chainsaw (similar work to that at Lake Mojave), shovelling d...

Flagstaff, Arizona

Apr 19, 2010

I am having a great few off days in Flagstaff! Spending time with the girls as all the guys in our house have departed on road trips and other things! Last night we watched Shakespeare in Love and P.S I Love You. Nice romantic comedy night. I really miss romance lol. I spent some time down at the apartments relaxing there and trying to help do a very challenging 1000 piece puzzle. It's like a mosaic of several very smaller pictures inside th...

Flagstaff, Arizona

Apr 15, 2010

Hey! I have just spent 8 days at Zion National Park in Southwestern Utah which was absolutely amazing :) It is such a gorgeous park with towering cliff faces and canyons carved by the Virgin Rover that still flows through it. Zion National Park has been subjected to freeze thaw action, where water freezes in the rock face, expands and retracts overtime, gradually weakening the rock. Wind and rain also cause the slick rock to erode. The rock is...