This past Monday I worked with a bunch of volunteers, Tuesday we worked with volunteers in the same area but we got done rather early so we walked a short ways to the evergreen lodge. We sat outside of the lodge and had lunch. There was a small path around the lodge that was used for weddings in the meadow which we had to clear of fallen sticks. It wasn't long at all to clear it all out so after that we waited for five hours for the van to be done and for Amanda to get back from her doctors appointment. Wednesday I stayed back and worked around camp. I had to help set up cots, and rake/ leaf blow pine needles and leaves. After work we had PT and actually made it to rainbow pool and we sat around the waterfall. After that we walked back to camp, had dinner and then I had my peer helper meeting which went really well.
Thursday we worked with volunteers again but got done early again so we went to Mountain sage and spread around mulch for the remaining time.
Friday was another volunteer day; we worked with a leadership school that (go figure) focuses on leadership skills. The kids were so fast and efficient at planting trees it was crazy! We ended up getting done around 1ish so helped the forest rangers pack up, then we had lunch and headed over to mountain sage again for work. When we got there we just had to spread more mulch and pull a bunch of weeds. When we got home we officially started the weekend!
Saturday was our day off but because we are behind on hours so much I decided to work around camp. I helped finish setting up all the cots and mattresses in the cabins and helped load up piles of leaves, pine needles and pine cones into a truck and helped dump it. I racked up a full 7 hours and 15 minutes on my day off!
Today (Sunday) I went to Yosemite National Park with Amanda, Maddie, molly, morgan, and carlos. It was absolutely breath taking!! The different sights we saw was astonishing! We visited two different waterfalls, including Yosemite Falls (The tallest waterfall in North America), the Native American Museum and got to see some of the well known peeks in the area including half dome and El Capitan. When we were by Yosemite falls we didn't just want to see it from a bridge, we wanted the full experience so we climbed the rocks to as close to the bottom as we could get and it was experience was amazing. To feel the mist against your face from something so powerful and to know that not everyone gets that close to the bottom of the waterfall, left a smile on my face the rest of the day. At the end of the day our last sight was El Capitan and we hiked in to the bottom and even climbed about 20 feet up.
Tomorrow we have another day off and plan on going back to Yosemite to hike wherever we want. I believe I'm going to try to hike to mirror lake and check out the Native American museum again since I wasn't able to go through and read all the artifacts.
~Savannah
This beautiful bird got so close to us while we were eating lunch outside of the lodge
First sight in Yosemite
Everyone that went
The beginning of the Native American museum (found myself a new house)
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