California is always hot right? Wrong! Back to the freezing cold after the heat of Vegas. The aim of the project was to cut down trees to reduce the chance of fire in a high risk area. Day one and LOTS of traveling. Problems with the trailer lights meant we didn't get away until 8.45 on the mammoth 16 hour journey through Arizona, Nevada and into California. We arrived just before midnight and the temperature was deceptively warm as we set up camp. Day two and snow snow snow! Not very cold at this point and the snow made the camp [View Full Entry]

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So after rushing back from Phoenix it was time for another project. Back to Wupatki for 3 days of pueblo stabilisation, supposedly. Day one and after the short trip we found out the park guys didnt know we were coming and so we had no work for the short project. What followed was 3 days of visiting the sites around Wupatki and sunset crater. This was interesting, don't get me wrong but i was annoyed because i had been looking forward to working to restore the pueblos. Sites on the first day included the main Wupatki ruin and a large petroglyph [View Full Entry]

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So if last project was in an oven, this one was most certainly in a freezer. Very cold in Zion national park this week, after an unseasonably warm week the week before, which is just bad luck on my part if you ask me. We had snow, icicles and water freezing at camp with lows of -5 degrees. Day one was mostly devoted to travel, although the journey significantly shorter than last time to Parashant. We arrived at about 3 pm so had plenty of time to set up camp (alongside the emerald pools crew) and then head to the visitors [View Full Entry]

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Yes I'm back, back from the oven that is Parashant national monument. Seriously hot there, the highest recorded temperature during our stay was 38 degrees in the shade and when you are working 10 hour days that kind of temperature is not funny at all. Day one was a very dull day indeed. We had been told that the journey was roughly 6 hours. In fact it was 11 hours from Flagstaff to Parashant, via Utah and Nevada. We arrived at our camp site for the project at 6.30 pm and so were setting up our tents in a new place [View Full Entry]

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So here i am back in Flagstaff after another fun filled week at the Wupatki. Much better overall experience there this week but at the same time i'm glad i am going somewhere different next time around. Most of the crew members were the same and we had the same supervisor so not many new faces or names to get used to and i felt as though the time at camp was a lot better than last week. Day one had the usual early start: wake up at 6, have breakfast and head off to Cedar house to load up the [View Full Entry]

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Sooo, i'm back from Wupatki and it was rather awesome. We left at about 7 am which meant waking up at half 5 only 2 days after a 10 and a half hour flight with the effects of jet lag still present. The first task of the day was driving over to Cedar house to load up the van with the weeks food supplies and tools needed for the project. After this, the journey to the national park took about an hour and everyone was still sleepy and quiet. Day one involved putting up tents in windy conditions, which turned out [View Full Entry]

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So after a 23 hour journey; leaving heacham at 7.30 am and arriving in Flagstaff at 11.30 local time, I have finally arrived at project base camp. First impressions of Arizona were that it was very HOT, still over 35 degrees by 5.30pm, cooling down to about 10 degrees by the time i got to the apartment in flagstaff. The accommodation looks OK so far, 4 to a bedroom and i am on a top bunk :/ I am sharing with an American named Sean who left this morning on a 3 week project, a German called Florian and i am [View Full Entry]

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