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We have gotten so spoiled with this awesome weather we have had the past couple weeks. Today it switched on us. It was rainy, cold, and windy up on the course today, but my group was still a lot of fun. Last week a few of us as the day off and it was possibly the nicest day since I have been here. We decided to go hiking over here on Douglas, but we did not get as far as we hoped to. We weren't expecting as much snow. After about two miles we all got fed up with sinking into knee deep snow and turned around. However, it was still absolutely gorgeous. I'll wait to go hike that trail again when more snow melts.







about a mile into our hike.

















hiking back. awesome view of juneau.















me and kokanee.
















dani and britt taking in the awesome view.










The last trainee group just finished up last week. It's fun having a full staff and working with different people every day. I'm really excited about getting to know everyone this summer. We had a BBQ slash bonfire the other night in celebration of the last group completing their training out at our work site. That night, a few of us decided to camp out on the beach. It was fun camping out because it had been forever since I had last gotten to, yet it was extremely cold. Especially since I had no sleeping bag and it was just Krista and myself in a huge 10 person tent. We ended up packing up and walking home before 6am, but it was still a good time.








Krista and myself.













The boys eating on the beach.











We got the boys to set up our huge tent for us. Thanks, boy scouts. (=








I also got my first black eye of my life. I wish I had a sweet story to go along with this sweet shiner, but unfortunately I just hit myself in the face with some equipment at work.


















I cannot believe it's almost June. I'm loving it here. Work is picking up more every week. On average we have about 5 cruise ships in daily. I've been waiting for it to get busy for quite some time now. I look forward to getting to work with everyone else. Alright, friends. Enjoy the rest of your week. Peace and love. <3

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Life is good. Work is starting to pick up more. Sort of. Still not working near as much as I would like to yet, but enjoying the light days. On Wednesday it was incredibly nice outside and I had the afternoon off, so I finally got the opportunity to go hike the glacier. Jake, a fellow guide, and I rode bikes for about the first mile in, and then hiked the rest of the 3 miles or so to the glacier. It was pretty awesome.








incredible view on the hike.














part of mendenhall glacier.















me standing underneath the glacier.













heading back from the glacier.









More guides have moved in within the last week. We have a full house now, along with an almost full staff. All of us hung out at gastineau house yesterday night, which was fun. Although I wasn't there long because I had been babysitting one of my manager's kids. Then some of us had a bonfire last night at the beach past auke bay. We went bowling a few nights ago as well. I lost the first two rounds until we all decided to play left handed. Ironically not only did I win, but I beat my score from the previous right handed games. It was a good night until I got all the way home and realized I still had my bowling shoes on and had left my chacos at the bowling ally. No worries. I got them back.

They don't need all the guides everyday yet, so the other day I got to work as a deckhand on the boat all day, which was nice and relaxing. Many days I have worked ground support as well, which is an easy job. I just sit with the radio in case the guides needs my assistance on a lowerdown, and wait for the group to finish the course to unclip everyone from the bottom of the repel. Quality reading and chill time when you're ground support. I'll take all the hours I can, though. All my tours thus far have gone really well. We did have a lower down off the course on Wednesday, but other than that everything has run really smooth. I have the whole day off tomorrow, so I'm not sure what I will do. I'll wait to see what the weather decides to do first. Hopefully it will be nice so I can make good use out of my day off. We will see. I just hate being cooped up inside the house all day.

Sidenote: LOST and Grey's Anatomy season finale anyone?! Ah! Intense.

That's all. Peace and love. <3

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Hola amigos!

I apologize for being a slacker when it comes to updating this. You might have assumed I've just been so incredibly busy that I haven't had the time, however it's quite the opposite situation. I have been a bum for over a week now. We haven't had many tours going on because we have had limited cruise ships come in. Not to mention most people on them are ancient and not capable of completing a zipline course. Therefore, we had a lot of time off, and I have been less than productive with it. My days have consisted of sleeping in, playing frisbee at Sandy Beach, reading, watching LOST, hanging out at Heritage Cafe, and drawing in my sketch book. That has been my new thing recently. My housemates Britt and Danielle inspired me to start sketching.

I can feel the days getting longer day by day. When I first arrived, the hours of sunlight here didn't feel much different from back home. Now the sun doesn't completely go down until after 10:00. Last week we saw the midnight showing of The Wolverine (awesome movie p.s.) and we didn't get home til' after 2am. I couldn't sleep and didn't end up getting to bed until after 3am, and while I was going to bed, the sun was already rising. It will be interesting to see how the sun effects my sleep patterns when there is eventually 18+ hours of straight sunlight. Good thing I finally got curtains in my room.

We almost have a full house now, along with a full staff. The rest of the crew will be ariving shortly. We have a great staff. I genuinely enjoy hanging out with everyone here.

Well I do have a tour today, inspite of the incredibly slow week. Lets hope the rain holds off for me. It's been raining the past few times I have been out at the site. Though it's fun for me to zip in the rain, it makes it very difficult to break, thus equaling many clients hitting trees coming into the platform. Though, that is the leads problem. Ha. I'm an assistant, so I follow the group after and am resposible for clipping them into the next zip.

I'll leave you all with more scenery pictures that I know you all love. I took these on my walk downtown on a really nice day last week. Enjoy! <3







The gastineau channel.













Crossing the bridge from Douglas to downtown Juneau.














On the bridge.




























"For since the creation of the world God's invisible attributes-his eternal power and divine nature-have been understood and observed by what he made, so that men are without excuse." -Romans 1:20