Post #2

 

• The funny thing that happened to me this week was during a photo session of the Overlook Trail, I followed a couple of old ladies basically the entire Trail, and they kept on laughing and joking with me about my taking photos of them for the website.  it makes me so happy to meet older people enjoying the outdoors at Hoyt,  so this is a pleasing moment in relation to my project, since some less physically-capable people were out using this Trail. A sort of incentivizing moment for my hard work…

• I've gained some more perspective over the past week, on some of the same things I talked about in my last post.  I’ve continued thinking about just how hard it would be to be disabled and wanting to experience Outdoors but constantly being met with  challenges at every turn you take. I also learned some more about how to use mileage tracking app Gaia,  and I've been trying to figure out a way to divvy up my three different trails into sections which I can calculate grade for. this will be helpful so visitors could know certain steel parts of the trail where there's lots of elevation gain in a short amount of time, or big down Hills to watch out for. 

•  I went to Tuesday crew again this last week to work with the maintenance guys,  which was helpful to me in completing my goal of broadening my horticulturist knowledge. while I was there, I got to spend time with Martin the head caretaker,  and he introduced me to several new invasive plant species such as wild cherry. 

•  I guess the only thing I'm wondering about at this point is whether or not my finished product is going to portray lots of work and if  the small things I've done in addition to this  individual project  will be enough over all time on-site.  so with this information I plan to start working  next week as a trail ambassador so that I can spend full days on site walking around helping people.