Post#3

 

These pictures above are from the visitors center loop.

The pictures below are of the bristlecone trail loop. 

This week I had a very intense staring match with a squirrel while I was photo- documenting one of the Bristlecone Trailsl. I don't know what it was, the squirrel would not look away while we're standing about 5 feet apart locked eyes, but we just shared the space for a few minutes,  and they moved on. It's moments like these. I've come to appreciate even more now that my shoulder is in unusable condition. the squirrel did not seem to mind my being there and rather we just checked each other out and then moved about our business enjoying Hoyt.  I think I've come to learn that the smaller things in life are usually the most meaningful,  and to notice  some of these moments I've realized  people often have to intentionally slow themselves down, due to the inherent quick pace of our everyday lives.

 I progressed with all of my goals still, but don't think it is very important to talk about those again in this post. This week,  I figured out by meandering around  that my third and final Loop is really split into two separate loops. This presented  me with a challenge, and more additional work than I was expecting. Additionally, I'm struggling to figure out Trail grade calculation information, and I'm slightly stuck with my mentor at Hoyt on how we can go about documenting elevation gain in a simple, receivable way.  Nevertheless, I'm continuing to finish up my second two trail articles, and beginning to document the last trail. This week I also did Tuesday crew,  although I was pretty disabled this time with my shoulder, so decided to take it easy on the manual labor.  We've been working in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial area removing invasive species and clearing up the trails, also the forest surrounding the marquam trail which cuts through the high side of Vietnam Veterans Memorial. 

I wonder if I am going to be able to complete this fourth and final trail article? I believe I can!

 I would love to respond to a comment from last week but my last post was quite late and so this one is coming in with no comments to respond to.  lo siento :( I’ll update once there are...