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| A glimpse of what I ride through everyday! |
Every day is an adventure and a chance to explore. After a very hectic few weeks of training I have memorized the trails on both of our tours and am feeling pretty confident in my ATV guiding skills. Our Wilderness tour takes people 10 miles deep into the forrest on old coal mining trails climing hills that lead to epic overlooks and romping across mud pits and creek beds. Us guides know these trails backwards and forwards and have named every twist and turn. We ride down Moose Highway along bear pit to the mud holes, through Blueberry Alley that opens up into Fireweed Meadow.
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| Leadin a group through a mudpit! |
This particular area of Alaska is one of the highest populated moose populations and we always hope to get lucky and see a few on tour. Just today I was leading a tour and came up to a moose with her baby blocking the trail. Moose are seen as being much more dangerous than bears because of how protective they are of their young, they are larger than horses and can charge right through you! I crept forward reving my machine, standing up as I drove to try and appear bigger (I'm the smallest guide out here) and watched the moose trot into the bushes to the side.
At the end of the tour we end up at the base of a glacier merrain which is a huge carve mark that was made as glaciers were leaving the valley. It looks like a huge sand dune attached to a mountain. Streams criss cross along the dry creek bed, I point out which rocks are jade, which ones are volcanic, and which ones have small specks of gold mixed in.
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| Glacier Merrain |
I do this tour 4 times an day and spend an extra hour afterwards checking drain plugs, powerwashing, and refueling all the machines. By the end of the day I am exausted but soooo stoked on life! Nothing like a hard day's work doing what I love!!
