This Place is Nuts!

Today was suppose to be relatively straight forward. We had to hike 2 trails, clear them, then hike out. Sounds simple right? I might actually get home at a decent hour so I can stare at the bare walls of the trailer?! Wrong. One broken chainsaw, an hour an a half delay, 50 something trees in which all the cuts were hard, 12 long up and down miles, one mile as fast as we could run, one extremely long rocky beach, 20 fresh bear tracks on the trail, one cold dip in Shoshone Lake, 2 blisters, a code 3 call for immediate backup, a road block, and more traffic duty. Ands its nearly 9 and i just got home. This is soooo much fun.

Our chainsaw broke this morning on the first tree we came to after a 45min drive, so we had to drive back to get a new one. We began clearing trail (which were both beautiful) and we didnt have that many, but because the trail was so steep they were all very interesting to cut. We stopped and had lunch right on the beach and the view was great. Then we started the other 5 mile trail that followed the lake (sounds easy right) it was up and down with trees tangled everywhere. As the end of the trail approached I needed something to keep me moving (at this point I am dripping sweat and I remembered i brought a change of clothes), so I told the ranger I was with " I'm gonna jump in the lake when we get there", and I did and it was freezzin, but refreshing. So as we are hiking out, we are on our the 12th mile of a 13 mile trip, we began to hear commotion on the radio, and as we are listening, we here the other ranger say he in pursuit, then you hear him come on again and say "I need backup, NOW", and we can hear commotion in the background. So the ranger looks at me and says "we gotta move", and me are runnin as fast as we can with all our gear on our backs down the trail. When we get to the car, we check in and hit the lights and siren and head to help. And the ranger told me I would need to stay in the car (booooo), but when we show up our boss tells me to get out and do traffic duty. It was a domestic dispute with three people and two huge pitbulls, it was crazy. But I finally made it home and now I need dinner, so I will post again tomorrow. I'm suppose to be canoing in supplies to one of the backcountry cabins, so I will keep yall informed.

Bye