by mtadams | Oct 9, 2018 | Land Stewards
September cast a sharp visible distinction on the color wheel of the alpine basin where I’ve spent a good portion of my time as a Wilderness trails ranger intern for the Chelan Ranger District. Fields of bear grass in the meadows above Lyman Lake slim their bulbous...
by mtadams | Aug 6, 2018 | Land Stewards
As a Wilderness trails ranger with the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, I have the great privilege of working in the Glacier Peaks Wilderness. Now that I’m more than a third of the way through the season, I’d like to share some highlights. As its name suggests, the...
by mtadams | Jun 12, 2018 | Land Stewards
When I got the call from the Mt. Adam’s Institute (MAI) program coordinator, Marijke, that I would be joining the Chelan Ranger District as a wilderness trails ranger intern for the summer, I blurted “YES” into the phone rather embarrassingly and high fived a coworker...
by mtadams | Nov 17, 2017 | Land Stewards
The Lake Chelan area that we have been working on has a large number of trails, from short hour-long trips to destinations that can take 3 days of hard work to get to. A significant amount of our time is spent on one 30-mile stretch of trail and its branching...
