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Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
Glen Canyon Blog
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It never stops being fun.
Posted: August 11, 2010
So, here it is. Glen Canyon's foray into the blogosphere. I'm nervous. Shouldn't be, though. Let me tell you why. I have lived here, at Glen Canyon, for eleven years now, and I still feel lucky. How can I worry about telling you all about my beautiful park when I love it so much? Sounds hokey, doesn't it. I know, and I'm okay with it. Being able to tell the world about Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Rainbow Bridge National Monument is a privilege and my pleasure. I can't wait to share this world with you, but first, I want to tell you a story.
Once upon a time, way back in June of 1996, there was a girl, just fresh out of college. She had received orders from the National Park Service to "…head west, young woman!" and heeded the call. With her
Posted: August 25, 2010
This is a blog about Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Rainbow Bridge National Monument. We will discuss current park issues, special events, history, and anything else of importance relating to Glen Canyon or Rainbow Bridge. There will also be flowery prose. I can't help it, I'm an Interpreter, and sometimes, flowery prose is what we do.
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, encompassing over 1.2 million acres, offers unparalleled opportunities for water-based & backcountry recreation. The recreation area stretches for hundreds of miles from Lees Ferry in Arizona to the Orange Cliffs of southern Utah, offering scenic vistas, geologic wonders, and a vast panorama of human history. Rainbow Bridge is the world's largest known natural bridge. The span has undoubtedly
Posted: September 22, 2010
Today is blood drive day. Every four months the "vampires" come to the office and collect our blood, and we are happy to donate. It's the one thing almost anyone can do to help others. It's just a little pinprick on your arm, but it gives you a great feeling in your soul.
I have to type fast because I head over there in about fifteen minutes. I'd give you some facts and figures about how much blood is donated and how much is needed and where it goes and stuff, but I'm sure all of that is on United Blood Services website. Instead, I want to tell you why Glen Canyon National Recreation Area's Headquarters became a blood donation location.
In 2004, my boss, the Chief of Interpretation at Glen Canyon, had bone cancer. He was in a hospital down in Phoenix and needed many
Posted: October 05, 2010
As I lay in bed last night, listening to the sound of rain hitting my roof, I couldn't help but feel… comforted. The desert was being replenished; the thirsty ground and thirsty lake drank their fill. I was cozy in my house and unless you believed the dog hiding in her kennel, all was right with the world.
Today, as I glance up at the dark clouds out my windows, I feel nothing but gloom. It's amazing what difference the daytime makes. I need to see the sun. My beautiful orange cliffs and buttes are brown from last night's soaking and this morning's dark cloud cover. If the clouds are going to be so dark and heavy, they should at least let go of their cargo and rain on us. It's my love-hate relationship with the weather. I love the rain, but hate the gloom clouds.
Posted: October 08, 2010
Outside of the National Park Service world, VIPs are usually dignitaries, distinguished guests, etc. Very Important People. But to the National Park Service, VIPs are Volunteers In Parks, the people who donate their time in service to a park for the sheer joy of it. In other words, Very Important People.
I'm still getting numbers in from around the park, but so far this year, over 300 volunteers have donated over 17,000 hours of their time to Glen Canyon NRA, and almost 200 hours to Rainbow Bridge National Monument. That's no small feat. From houseboat volunteers (Trash Tracker and
Posted: October 21, 2010
This blog entry isn't about the tragedy that hit our park last week, although I could easily write about it. Laurie and Brent were good people, and great Rangers. But at the sympathytree.com websites, and at the memorial, it was all said. This is about what happens next. Where do we go from here? How can we regain our sense of normalcy?
The answer is of course, we can't. It will never be the same. As with any major event, a new normal develops, and we honor our colleagues by carrying on.
I'm sitting at my desk right now, looking out the same window at the same mesa with the same cloud coverage. I'm answering the same phone calls from the same volunteer Trash Trackers with the same questions about what to bring and where to meet the houseboat. But I am not the same person
Posted: November 08, 2010
They say a bad day on the river is better than a good day at the office. But I've never had a bad day on the river, so what does that mean? My river days are few and far between now, but yesterday I had the rare treat of a river trip. At Grand Canyon river trips are something entirely different, a passage of time and place like none other. People come out the other end of the Grand Canyon changed, always for the better. I hope to experience a Grand Canyon river trip someday. However, this being Glen Canyon, to us a river day means the float trip on the smooth water of the Colorado River from the Glen Canyon Dam to Lees Ferry. A neat little trip along the last remaining river corridor of Glen Canyon.
For an Interpretive Ranger, a river day usually consists of
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