If it ain't broke don't fix it, but if it is broke...

Sorry about the lapse of blogging. I did, in fact, make it to Alaska. Skagway, Alaska to be exact. There was the most spectacular mountains I have ever seen, massive snow covered peaks coming right out of the ocean. Skagway is a dumpy little town except for one street off the ferry which has the most high class touristy stuff ever. Skagway is were the gold rushers headed to the Klondike landed. and nothing exciting has happened in the last hundred years so their still milking that glory. anyway nice mountains.

Before I started treeplanting I got a email saying that anything I bring along has a good possibility of getting broken. this has turned out to be true.
-bags - shoulder strap blew out the second week, I'm using Evan's spares
-rainshell - the zipper lost it's mind and is lopsidedly in the middle, so I have to pull it over my head and look like a homeless person
-wool sweaters - have holes in random places, looks like I got attacked by rodents
-gaiters - one of the foot straps snapped in half, so I duct tape it to keep it on my foot. That same gaiter now has a sizable rip across it.
-boots - boots a really great except the insoles where junk, that problem gaiter slit the laces and my kick plate chipped
-termarest - no longer holes air. so I start every night on a nice cushion and wake up on the ground
-tent - the zipper has gotten so bad I cut open the screen and am using that as the entrance.

The second law of thermodynamics [part of the curse] aside I am actually doing alot better treeplanting. I got 4th, 3rd, and tied for 2nd last week. Mostly because I found a great planting partner.

Matthew 6:19,20 "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal."

This helps to put everything in perspective for me. Even though lots of stuff breaks [I'm sure I've forgotten a few things] the real value is stored in heaven and that spiritual value is of so much more value. In a few verse Jesus will go on the say that one cannot serve both God and money. Which should in theory be an easy choice because money is such a fickle thing to serve because it always disappears.

~CHAD