Heading out again!

Sorry everyone, but today got to be totally nuts and I didn't have a chance to upload pictures from Glacier Bay! We had an all staff meeting this morning and then I got sucked into the wild world of WEA paperwork for a good part of the middle of the day and then had to start doing trip prep stuff for the trip that is going out tomorrow.

Usually things are that crunched around here, but the fixed wing planes that we usually use to fly into the glaciers are have maitnance done on them at the moment. Therefore we are having to take helicopters into the glaciers. This means that instead of having a day with the students to prep (Sunday) and then flying in on day 2 (Monday) we have to be ready to load the helicopters at 1 pm tomorrow (the only time the whirlybirds can fly into the mountains). So the 5 guides that are on trips going out tomorrow have been working at full tilt to be ready for the new departure time.

Sean gave us a quick run down on new protocols for flying in on helicopters instead of on the planes. It makes everything we do about 100 times more intense and more dangerous since the helicopters can be more unpredictable and will be landing in places that the pilots have never flown before. So tonight we are weighing all the gear and prepping the flight plans to be able to get into the mountains efficently.

soooo awesome.

So I'm headed up into the mountains and glaciers that I just spent the last 12 days looking at from a Sea Kayak with other stellar guides and 9 very excited students. If all goes according to plan I should be hiking out of the mountains on the 7th and back in Haines that evening. Then its another 2 days off and I jump on a plane back to Gustavus, AK for a 12 day Sea Kayaking Trip that goes out on June 10th.

Alaska is amazing. IWLS is full of cool people and I'm stoked about being here more and more every day.