And its Allies
There are moments in life – rare ones – when you feel like you’ve made progress. Brief feelings of mastery, like when Anakin Skywalker believed he’d surpassed Obi-Wan, only to have all of his remaining limbs severed and to be burned alive. August 26, 2020 was one of those moments for me.
After I’d finished backslapping one section of trail, though, Jo had an idea. For those of you who haven’t read every post in this series (heathens), Jo was a figure of singular terror. Thus, any idea she had was likely to be laced with malice.
August 19, 2020 was weird from the beginning. The trail we were building was obviously closed, with barricades at either end. Keeping people off the budding trail was important, because if someone were to walk by and get hit in the head with a pick axe, then we’d lose valuable time cleaning up the blood and hiding the body.
In case anyone’s forgotten, we had a bit of a pandemic in 2020. As I’ve said before, though, my fellow AmeriCorps members and I were strangely isolated from the COVID chaos. However, there were a few days when we felt the effects of the pandemic more strongly, and August 12, 2020 was one of them.
My first day back to “service” was boring, so I’m not going to write about it. Instead, I’m going to write about a serious problem I had on the following day, August 11, 2020, when the cows never came home.
One of the best ways you can connect with nature and experience the outdoors is by taking a hike. This can be a rejuvenating activity, but it’s important to recognize that there are risks associated with hiking. While your odds of having a dangerous wildlife encounter are slim, it’s still good to be prepared, to protect both you and the animals from harm. Here are some tips that will help you stay safe while hiking near wildlife.
This post continues the tale of my AmeriCorps term in Colorado in 2020: performing trail work and ecological restoration for the City of Boulder. The rest of this series is…
This post will be a little different. Rather than recounting one of my work days, it will focus on the incredible landscape in which my AmeriCorps crew and I lived: the Joder homestead.
The Jaguar 