More pictures

Some more pictures

Working and enjoying the land

Just got back to Homer for a couple of days off, been working since the 25th I believe. Its very difficult to keep track of the days while your in the park.  It was awesome to finally put some work in on the trails.  We logged out the most popular trails near the ranger station area and rebuilt some washed out parts. Last week we also attended a first aid and cpr course in Homer so we didn't get any trail work done during those couple of days. We eventually made it back to the park to do some more trail work. Then this past weekend the fish and game people came and built fish pins off our dock for the salmon fry, fry being little baby salmon. I think about 100,000 were pumped into the pins. Those were eventually released a couple of days later. Then apparently the first full sized salmon came into the lagoon, none of which I saw or caught.  Though there should be plently to catch once we go back in a couple of days. When the work ended me and two other coworkers stayed at the park to do some exploring around the moutains while the others went back to Homer. Me and Tim decided to go backpacking for three days and two nights. The first day we hiked out to an old trappers cabin built apparently in the 1950s. This thing was a perfect little log cabin, it had one door, one tiny window, a stove and some bunkbeds. It was an awesome experience. Light was able to peak through the log structure very easily, though we still had to wear our headlamps to be able to see during the day and the night. The next day we attempted to climb poots peak at 2880, but we ended up turning around at about .5 miles from the top. There was probably about 3 to 4 feet of snow pack still on the mountain, most of it I could easily walk on top but made it hard to follow the actual trail. My hiking buddy from Kansas was out of his norm for sure. I could have made it to the top but instead I'll summit at a later date. We were even able to slide/skate down on our boots. We quickly descended and then eventually set up a tent on china poot lake.  But once we discovered that the public use lake cabin was empty we packed up camp and decided to stay in that cabin. This cabin was a bit more modern and we cooked our dinners on/in the wood stove.  We decided the next morning to head towards china poot bay and then to the ranger station, about an 8 mile haul. Come to find out the trail has not been cleared and was completely overgrown.  It took us a awhile but we eventually made it made it back to the ranger station. Our trip was complete. Later that day we tried to catch some salmon, but were unsuccessful. The boat ride back was rainy and cold, as is the norm in this area. One of the boats from deadliest catch was docked in the harbor, it was the ramblin rose, cool to see the actual boat. Now we have ended up in Homer for the rest of our days off. Our next work adventure will begin Friday I think, nothing is ever clear, we are just going with the flow. That's the way it is up here.