Fire, mice and traverses, oh my!

A tree that has been hit by lightning

Yup, so after a weekend in Edmonton I am fortunate to come back for another three weeks of good fun tromping through the bush. Things have been taken up a notch, including visits from the night time mice.

I was pretty happy to head back to Edmonton even if it was only for a few days. Like any short trip though it was just not long enough. I was able to get a few things accomplished like buying some back to school clothes with my god-daughter. We also had some marble slab, that was a pretty nice treat as well.

Our fireline

So, I came back to a traverse that my partner and I had to do. Basically we walk through the woods and keep looking at sine pegs and hope that we did everything right. My partner is pretty cool and we were able to walk away with a 0.03% margin of error which was pretty good considering our margin for error could have been 1.0%.

Today we made a fire line during class and it was really interesting to see how it was done, and since I have some pics you can see as well. I think one is upside down but I will fix that when I get back.

Off to bed

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