I'm pretty sure that I dated my last post wrong, my bad. I stopped blogging because I realized how late it was getting. I have been trying to behave and go to bed early so coming back to Ohio isn't a terrible time change adaptation.
Getting back to some of things that i've been up too, I also got to go to some hot springs. This was my first experience ever visiting hot springs. I've been hearing a lot about them and my curiosity level was full so I had to break down and check them out myself. I will usually hear two stories about the hot springs when I ask about them. One is that they are for the truckers, and a bunch of old truckers will go to them and sit in them naked all day. The other story beside the naked truckers is that its a place for hippies to go and bum around and tripp on whatever drugs they had with them for the week. Can you guess who I saw? well, it just so happened to be the hippies, and I was elated that I didnt hike this steep cliff to see a bunch of naked old men. The geology of the hot springs where pretty interesting. the rocks where odd looking and hollow like and the springs where tiny pockets formed into the side of a hill leading to the bottom of the North Umqua River. The higher the spring pocket was the hotter the water was. They where pretty fun, except we went on a warm day so it was tough to stay in them for a while. The hippies who where there are people who look like they came from the country fair I went to a few weeks back. Lots of dreds and things to smoke and drink. Hippies are very generious people and offer their high to you as if you helped pay for it, or even grow it. I am in Oregon. Don't worry folks I'll pass any drug test but the reason why I am bring up the drugs at the hot springs is because I have never seen someone so high in my life. There was this guy who was drinking some kind of a tea who was running around and chanting these crazy songs about people plants and pets. it was pretty entertaining. A while later another guy game to the springs who was a photographer. he had been there the past few days and apparently the guy who was chanting had been on a high for the past 3 days straight. he asked my friend and I if we had some of his tea and be both said no. The photographer who we met then told us that the guys tea had cocaine leaves in it, which is why he has been there for days chanting and running around like bigfoot. oh the things people will do these days...
There was a company picnic a few days back and the theme of the party was pirates. Everyone who went was dressed like A pirate or had somthing related to them. there where competitions and I am proud to say that I won two of them. The compeititons where so appropriate for the setting. we had relay races running trays of water and bed making contests. I won a bed making contest and this baloon popping game that is reallly complicated to explain so I won't get into details on how it worked. I was impressed with the party, we had a live band and steak for dinner!
Work has been pretty routine for the past few weeks. Labor day was intense, we almost tripped out daily sales in one day. Not that its after labor day the Cafe' is kind of like a ghost town. Production is done really early and we are closing at 6pm not instead of 8:30. its crazy how the it was like a light switch went off after labor day. the people went away for the most part and the days keep on getting cooler. Only one more month and there will be snow up here. The Park is gearing up for winterization here in a couple of weeks which is wild!
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Friday, September 9, 2011
September 8
The past couple weeks since my last post has been time well spent, full of adventures and fun. I have fallen in love with this state. The only competition that Ohio has with Oregon is Middle Bass
I have done some crazy things in my life. Some things my parents don't know about and some They would rather not hear about. One day when I was on the phone and mentioned something about cliff jumping and
my mom pleaded for me to not say anymore. Althugh I have kept my cliff jumping to a minimum doen't mean I have not been able to pull off some crazy things.
A few days back I was able to take the Crater Lake boat tour to Wizard Island. Wizard Island is the little island in the Middle of Crater Lake. Its not really little once you get down there, so the day I was able to go on the tour and extensive hiking turned out to be a big day of touring and extensive hiking. The day began with vicky and becky who are both international and Janelle who was my first roommate,hiking down the caldera to the bottom of the lake. After stomping straight down the hill trying not to fall we got to take a hour boat ride to the island. This is what I mean when the day turned out to be BIG adventures. I never knew that it would take an hour to get to Wizard Island, everything looks so close when your looking down into the crater from thousands of feet above. All four of us hauled ass up the summit which is the top of the crater and then wandered down fumerale bay to see some tide pools. These two hikes are not suggested to be done on the same trip because of the extensivness but we where rebels and went for it. I was exhausted when the boat finally came around to pick us up. I am pretty sure that I feel asleep on the boat. The day ened with a jump into the freezing water ( about a 20 ft jump off a ledge) and the climb back up the cleetwood trail. I was exhausted. Cleetwood alone is tiring. there is a running joke that it is one mile down and eleven miels up. But over all it was one of the most beautiful things i've ever had a chance to do. Even though the day consisted of 7 miles hiking up and down elevation it was all worth it.
Another thing that I have managed to pull out of my sleeve was hiking to the top of Mt. Scott. Mt. Scott is the tallest mountain in the entire park. With the help of my roommate chelsey and dax, who works in the cafe' with me,we all successfully made it to the top. The climb up was hefty, there was times where I thought I was going to have to stop and turn around. Climbing up the elevation like that really creeps up on you. There was this whole mental battle thing that was happening as I was trying to get to the top. But I made it, and it was all worth is because the view was amazing and the pictures rock. We started the hike a little later in the afternoon so by the time we got to finishing out drive from mt. scott the sun was setting. This was another cool thing I got to see and I feel so privledged for it. I have seen a lot of sunsets, but not one that was setting over the mountain and turning the mountains a purple color because of the forest fires that are burning the park right now.
its been a while, but yes there has been some crazy lightening storms up here which are awesome but have created forest fires. There are 11 forest fire in the park right now but are all being controlled by the national park service. They are letting the trees burn which create a lot of smoke to help control the parasites that kill off some of the evergreens.
Getting back to the the sun set after climbing Mt. Scott. It was awesome, pictures don't really do much justice for the sunset but the colors where amazing. purples, oranges and reds all in weird shapes .i've never been able to associate what I saw with sunsets after watching this one.
The trip to San Francisco was pretty insane. I didn't expect to get to go since colin decided that coming out here was not going to be a possibility. It was in the plans to go for a day or two but I had to do some modifications to my plans after leaving the mountain since i'll be doing it alone now. Anyways, Anne and I borrowed one someones old ford explore to pack her apartment up in and move her back to S.F. We lefted at about pm and got into Kfalls to pack her car up by 10. we managed to fit a dresser, sterio, tv, a few boxes and a queen size serta mattress all into the back of the poor old explore. we looked like sardines. We lefted K.falls at about 11pm and got to S.F. at 6am. we drove the entire night, I even got to give my dad a wake up call when we where driving through sacramento ( since after all there is a 3 hour difference in ohio). After getting to her parents house we passed out until about 11 am until we where woken up by her little nephews to go swimming. It was nice to have slept in a normal bed and be in a home. We hung out there, i got to meet her llama named tina and jump into the cold pool to wake up. We made a game plan and set out to go down town for the rest of the day. Down town San Francisco it a pretty cool place, however, the golden gate bridge is not gold its a rust orange and its impossible to get as good as pictures as you seen online in person because there is ALWAYS FOG. It was ok though, I still got to walk across the golden gate bidge and eat some clam chowder. After anne and I where tourists around the city we headed back and had dinner with her parents and left san francisco like a bunch of crazies and made it back to the mountain by 6:00 oclock the next morning. So pretty much we drove two nights straight back to back and made it back to the mountain in one piece surviving on red bull.
I have done some crazy things in my life. Some things my parents don't know about and some They would rather not hear about. One day when I was on the phone and mentioned something about cliff jumping and
my mom pleaded for me to not say anymore. Althugh I have kept my cliff jumping to a minimum doen't mean I have not been able to pull off some crazy things.
A few days back I was able to take the Crater Lake boat tour to Wizard Island. Wizard Island is the little island in the Middle of Crater Lake. Its not really little once you get down there, so the day I was able to go on the tour and extensive hiking turned out to be a big day of touring and extensive hiking. The day began with vicky and becky who are both international and Janelle who was my first roommate,hiking down the caldera to the bottom of the lake. After stomping straight down the hill trying not to fall we got to take a hour boat ride to the island. This is what I mean when the day turned out to be BIG adventures. I never knew that it would take an hour to get to Wizard Island, everything looks so close when your looking down into the crater from thousands of feet above. All four of us hauled ass up the summit which is the top of the crater and then wandered down fumerale bay to see some tide pools. These two hikes are not suggested to be done on the same trip because of the extensivness but we where rebels and went for it. I was exhausted when the boat finally came around to pick us up. I am pretty sure that I feel asleep on the boat. The day ened with a jump into the freezing water ( about a 20 ft jump off a ledge) and the climb back up the cleetwood trail. I was exhausted. Cleetwood alone is tiring. there is a running joke that it is one mile down and eleven miels up. But over all it was one of the most beautiful things i've ever had a chance to do. Even though the day consisted of 7 miles hiking up and down elevation it was all worth it.
Another thing that I have managed to pull out of my sleeve was hiking to the top of Mt. Scott. Mt. Scott is the tallest mountain in the entire park. With the help of my roommate chelsey and dax, who works in the cafe' with me,we all successfully made it to the top. The climb up was hefty, there was times where I thought I was going to have to stop and turn around. Climbing up the elevation like that really creeps up on you. There was this whole mental battle thing that was happening as I was trying to get to the top. But I made it, and it was all worth is because the view was amazing and the pictures rock. We started the hike a little later in the afternoon so by the time we got to finishing out drive from mt. scott the sun was setting. This was another cool thing I got to see and I feel so privledged for it. I have seen a lot of sunsets, but not one that was setting over the mountain and turning the mountains a purple color because of the forest fires that are burning the park right now.
its been a while, but yes there has been some crazy lightening storms up here which are awesome but have created forest fires. There are 11 forest fire in the park right now but are all being controlled by the national park service. They are letting the trees burn which create a lot of smoke to help control the parasites that kill off some of the evergreens.
Getting back to the the sun set after climbing Mt. Scott. It was awesome, pictures don't really do much justice for the sunset but the colors where amazing. purples, oranges and reds all in weird shapes .i've never been able to associate what I saw with sunsets after watching this one.
The trip to San Francisco was pretty insane. I didn't expect to get to go since colin decided that coming out here was not going to be a possibility. It was in the plans to go for a day or two but I had to do some modifications to my plans after leaving the mountain since i'll be doing it alone now. Anyways, Anne and I borrowed one someones old ford explore to pack her apartment up in and move her back to S.F. We lefted at about pm and got into Kfalls to pack her car up by 10. we managed to fit a dresser, sterio, tv, a few boxes and a queen size serta mattress all into the back of the poor old explore. we looked like sardines. We lefted K.falls at about 11pm and got to S.F. at 6am. we drove the entire night, I even got to give my dad a wake up call when we where driving through sacramento ( since after all there is a 3 hour difference in ohio). After getting to her parents house we passed out until about 11 am until we where woken up by her little nephews to go swimming. It was nice to have slept in a normal bed and be in a home. We hung out there, i got to meet her llama named tina and jump into the cold pool to wake up. We made a game plan and set out to go down town for the rest of the day. Down town San Francisco it a pretty cool place, however, the golden gate bridge is not gold its a rust orange and its impossible to get as good as pictures as you seen online in person because there is ALWAYS FOG. It was ok though, I still got to walk across the golden gate bidge and eat some clam chowder. After anne and I where tourists around the city we headed back and had dinner with her parents and left san francisco like a bunch of crazies and made it back to the mountain by 6:00 oclock the next morning. So pretty much we drove two nights straight back to back and made it back to the mountain in one piece surviving on red bull.
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