And it's Glacier Time!
Almost. I'm getting really excited already though. I may be more excited to ride in a helicopter than the actual skiing (yes, don't tell my coach) especially since it's probably going to rain next week so my first time in a helicopter is looking even better by comparison.
On Sunday we head up to APU's Thomas Training Center on the Eagle Glacier in the Chugach Range. So at 4pm Sunday afternoon we'll fly in by helicopter. That is unless we decide to fly in at some other time on Sunday, any other time having about the same probability. Unless of course we end up flying in on Monday morning. But we'll go in Sunday or Monday at least. Unless of course the weather is bad and we can't; then we'll have to hike in sometime. After a hectic winter of schedule changes though you learn to love never knowing what's going to happen until it actually happens. That or you stress out and age prematurely. Not wishing to age prematurely I prefer to not worry. ("Everything always works out in the end. If it hasn't worked out, it's not the end." this being the appropriate quote that popped into my head but I don't know the author so I'll leave it in parenthesis unless someone can enlighten me and I can properly use the quote.)
Regardless of when or how we get to the glacier, I'm more excited to BE there. I'm particularly curious to check out the toilet situation. The training center is very eco-friendly and, I think more from necessity, has a composting toilet. I've been lead to believe that it's a state-of-the-art composting toilet. Although I'm not sure that the art of composting toilets (um, toilets that compost, not toilets that are composted) is well developed so I don't have a very good guess of what the state-of-that-art might be. Anyway. The training center got cold this winter and the contents of the composting toilet froze solid. As composting's become quite popular I'm sure you all know that frozen things don't compost. So for the June glacier camp (while I was on the ferry) there was an amount of bagged, double-bagged and 5-gallon bucketed baggage to be sling-loaded off the glacier by the helicopter.
Yeah, um... I'm not really sure how to end my blog after that paragraph
On Sunday we head up to APU's Thomas Training Center on the Eagle Glacier in the Chugach Range. So at 4pm Sunday afternoon we'll fly in by helicopter. That is unless we decide to fly in at some other time on Sunday, any other time having about the same probability. Unless of course we end up flying in on Monday morning. But we'll go in Sunday or Monday at least. Unless of course the weather is bad and we can't; then we'll have to hike in sometime. After a hectic winter of schedule changes though you learn to love never knowing what's going to happen until it actually happens. That or you stress out and age prematurely. Not wishing to age prematurely I prefer to not worry. ("Everything always works out in the end. If it hasn't worked out, it's not the end." this being the appropriate quote that popped into my head but I don't know the author so I'll leave it in parenthesis unless someone can enlighten me and I can properly use the quote.)
Regardless of when or how we get to the glacier, I'm more excited to BE there. I'm particularly curious to check out the toilet situation. The training center is very eco-friendly and, I think more from necessity, has a composting toilet. I've been lead to believe that it's a state-of-the-art composting toilet. Although I'm not sure that the art of composting toilets (um, toilets that compost, not toilets that are composted) is well developed so I don't have a very good guess of what the state-of-that-art might be. Anyway. The training center got cold this winter and the contents of the composting toilet froze solid. As composting's become quite popular I'm sure you all know that frozen things don't compost. So for the June glacier camp (while I was on the ferry) there was an amount of bagged, double-bagged and 5-gallon bucketed baggage to be sling-loaded off the glacier by the helicopter.
Yeah, um... I'm not really sure how to end my blog after that paragraph
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