Week 19 and it was back to Dayton State Park. Continuing our work on the trail we maintenanced last time, we were excited because apparently there was a whole other section of trail that we had never even seen and there was rock work to be done!
This is NOT a couch. I could have sworn to you it was, but of course I was wrong. It's a water break made of metal, but it really, truly looks like a coach in the middle of the water....
Day 2, and no lie, we got to do rock work like the bossman promised! It was a staircase to be built by only our crew because of the lack of rock work we got to do in Lovell Canyon.
11 steps later, we had the most beautiful staircase on the entire trail. And I'm not just saying that, I really mean it, it's gorgeous.
Dan and Graham, another two corpsmembers joined us for the week (after enjoying an 8 day with their own crew in Arizona) and worked for their first time on trails.
Part of the job was to cut off various trails of socialness, meaning that people made them because they weren't sure where they were allowed to be. One of the methods we use to cover those social trails is called "vertical mulching", which basically means we dig holes and replant plants already in the area. Though most of them will probably die, it's better then just stacking large amounts of sticks and logs to keep people from going places they shouldn't. The hope is that most of them will live through the move.
These are the two sage bushes that took over those large holes above. Graham and Molly posed for me with thumbs raised high to show the awesomeness of their work!
Ahh! What a sexy staircase! Alongside the stairs are what we call "gargoyles", they keep people on the staircase and along with the extra rocks (read: scree), we can almost guarantee that people will not try and walk up the hillside along the stairs and thus we don't have to worry about erosion.
Group picture of the wonderful people who spent a day and a half building that wonderful piece of art...
Day 3 and there is still tons of work to be done to this park. The bosses were hoping that we would be done with the whole of the park by day 3, but there was so much still to be done that the call was made and we ended up staying the rest of the week working fast and furious to finish everything in time!
Back at camp and I took a few photos to show the life and styles of living in the NCC.
Group photo! Somehow I did not have my camera set up well and it was way off of being like I wanted it. Instead I think it kind of came out better and much more... shall we say, artistic...
Angry, very poisonous centipede! Found him under a rock, and then poked him with a stick so I could get a good picture of him. Nice!
All the cool kids sit against the rock wall at lunch. Haha, it was so beautiful outside, not too hot and not too cold, so it was wonderful during breaks.
Though we did not build this set of stairs, we did put the gargoyles in here.
This week was really nice. We worked really hard and the weather was perfect. Unfortunately, this next week I will be in Seattle on a vacation/grad school interviews, so I will not be with my crew. I will be working one day, and I'll probably put pictures up from that as well as ones from my trip to Seattle/Bellingham. I have no idea what we're doing when I get back to work next week, but until then, enjoy!
This is NOT a couch. I could have sworn to you it was, but of course I was wrong. It's a water break made of metal, but it really, truly looks like a coach in the middle of the water....
Day 2, and no lie, we got to do rock work like the bossman promised! It was a staircase to be built by only our crew because of the lack of rock work we got to do in Lovell Canyon.
11 steps later, we had the most beautiful staircase on the entire trail. And I'm not just saying that, I really mean it, it's gorgeous.
Dan and Graham, another two corpsmembers joined us for the week (after enjoying an 8 day with their own crew in Arizona) and worked for their first time on trails.
Part of the job was to cut off various trails of socialness, meaning that people made them because they weren't sure where they were allowed to be. One of the methods we use to cover those social trails is called "vertical mulching", which basically means we dig holes and replant plants already in the area. Though most of them will probably die, it's better then just stacking large amounts of sticks and logs to keep people from going places they shouldn't. The hope is that most of them will live through the move.
These are the two sage bushes that took over those large holes above. Graham and Molly posed for me with thumbs raised high to show the awesomeness of their work!
Ahh! What a sexy staircase! Alongside the stairs are what we call "gargoyles", they keep people on the staircase and along with the extra rocks (read: scree), we can almost guarantee that people will not try and walk up the hillside along the stairs and thus we don't have to worry about erosion.
Group picture of the wonderful people who spent a day and a half building that wonderful piece of art...
Day 3 and there is still tons of work to be done to this park. The bosses were hoping that we would be done with the whole of the park by day 3, but there was so much still to be done that the call was made and we ended up staying the rest of the week working fast and furious to finish everything in time!
Back at camp and I took a few photos to show the life and styles of living in the NCC.
Group photo! Somehow I did not have my camera set up well and it was way off of being like I wanted it. Instead I think it kind of came out better and much more... shall we say, artistic...
Angry, very poisonous centipede! Found him under a rock, and then poked him with a stick so I could get a good picture of him. Nice!
All the cool kids sit against the rock wall at lunch. Haha, it was so beautiful outside, not too hot and not too cold, so it was wonderful during breaks.
Though we did not build this set of stairs, we did put the gargoyles in here.
This week was really nice. We worked really hard and the weather was perfect. Unfortunately, this next week I will be in Seattle on a vacation/grad school interviews, so I will not be with my crew. I will be working one day, and I'll probably put pictures up from that as well as ones from my trip to Seattle/Bellingham. I have no idea what we're doing when I get back to work next week, but until then, enjoy!
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