What We've Been Up To

Hi everybody! Sorry about not updating for a little while- guiding season has started once more and we're now in the full swing of things. Jonny and I are now "Lead Guides," so we're responsible for helping new guides out with the training process. It sure has been fun!

At the beginning, I was doing a lot of driving since many of the other guides had not yet obtained their commercial licenses yet.

But we DID get a very special new driver this year!! Isn 't Jonny just too cute behind the wheel?

Jonny driving one of the company buses.

We had some rather snowy beginnings this year. Here we are out in the storm doing our boat crew training. It was really coming down!

Watch the Voyager brave the storm HERE!

New guides climb up onto the boat to observe the life raft and emergency beacon.

And here's our rescue dummy! We had to fill him up with weight and practice rescuing him during the snow storm.

We also helped out at the Nature Center at the top of Mount Roberts. They sure had a lot of snow for us to shovel up there!

And what training isn't complete without a visit to the glacier? Here, guides experience the West Glacier Trail.

This is one of my favorite candid pictures of us on the trail. Our most experienced guide is trying to keep us all together as he points out something of interest. But what happens when you get a bunch of guides together on a trail? We talk about EVERYTHING!

We had another snow storm just as we were leading the group on the Moraine Ecology trail. There was so much snow at the end of April that we had to modify our route at the beginning of the season!

Here I am at the glacier a few weeks later. Thank goodness that snow melted!

Lately the weather has been very nice. Here's our view out at Auke Bay where we go whale watching.

We're having fun as we begin a brand new season and work on training our new guides. See you out on the trails!