lest not all be doom and gloom as i write here, some pics from my current working gig in sequoia national park:

chainsaw training (believe it or not, that’s a small tree).

rock drill training (post-drilling, now splitting).

the morning commute to work.

my office cubicle.

my backyard.

planning out for a bridge (5’ × 15’) on a frontcountry trail.

digging for earthworms.

making a rather large mess.

taking a break from tearing out bridge project number two (8’ × 25’).

and that is that for now - lots of hiking planned in the future - but my pictures do the land here absolutely no justice. the trees, mountains, sky, and color really should be seen. poetry and literature evoke the land far more than these pictures. care for a gander at how i feel about this place? grab a copy of edward abbey’s ‘desert solitaire’. he says it far more eloquently than i ever could.

now, back to hiking, er, working.