Friday, June 20, 2008

"Your Much Hairer Than I Remember"

That was the first thing Amber [Evan's soon to be wife] said to me when we got to Whitehorse at 4:30 AM. That's right Whitehorse, like in the Yukon Whitehorse, like brutally far away Whitehorse, like so far north I doesn't get dark until after midnight Whitehorse.

So we have a few day break between spring and summer plant so I tagged along with Evan [my friend/foreman] to Whitehorse. Did you know that 20 hours on a greyhound bus is a horrendously long time? well it is. Nice mountains but really long and hard to sleep in poorly designed seats. But Whitehorse is a really nice city and its all one big adventure because I've never been hear before.

So far the highlight of treeplanting has been Kinuseo Falls. None of the picture on the net do it justice but here is an okay one.

http://www.nbctourism.com/img_user/communities/Kinuseo.jpg

Anyway this a stop along the road on the way home from a brutal day of planting [on 20 cent land] [which means 70 degree angle hills] and it was a long hard day that I did make some money on. So this waterfall was a great reward. and then Evan and I scaled up the sheer rock face five feet from the waterfall just for a challenge. I even brought up the red umbrella that was half way up just to prove that we did do it. it was amazing. The verse that came to mind upon seeing the waterfall in all its magnificence was 'The fool says in his heart "There is no God"' Psalms 14:1.

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