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Note: In honor of the NPS centennial, I’m publishing a piece I wrote in 2002 while working at Cape Cod National Seashore. What’s a Park Ranger? “What’s a Park Ranger?” That is the question I am asked by a 7-year old girl scout at the visitor center front desk of…
Continue readingThe views kept getting better and better. As soon as we broke out of the woods, and got above timberline, high peaks appeared in almost every direction. I felt like breaking out into song. “Climb Every Mountain” seemed appropriate as we walked along the tundra, the large expanses of green bordering…
Continue readingRiding the chairlift sitting next to a brother and sister from Georgia, I was thinking, “How lucky am I, right now?” Today was my last day working as a ski instructor for the ski season at nearby Winter Park Ski Resort. Though I’ve taught nordic skiing before, my experience was…
Continue readingToday, as I drove to the ski resort for my first official day as a ski instructor, butterflies in my stomach, I reflected on jobs like this one. Jobs that the public views as someone who must be an expert, and really knows what they are doing, simply by representation…
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