Some work pics

Since we have been employed up here our jobs have allowed us to do quite a variety of different things. Scott has been Rangering around and Jen spent a season working with the wildlife in the park and is now on her second season on the road crew. The first picture was taken a couple weeks ago as Jen was headed off to work.



The second picture is Jen riding
an ATV while assisting Scott during one of his patrols. For those of you who are concerned about Jen riding ATVs with a "bun in the oven", you'll be happy to know this picture was taken our first year here.

We use a variety of different
transportation methods while doing our job. The picture at the right is a self portrait of Scott while flying in a small 2-person plane. If you look closely you can see the green skin tone Scott often aquires during flights.




Sometimes we drive the park
ambulance around. This picture was taken during a rescue were a visitor took a fall and had to be flown out by a military medical helicopter.

During the summer and fall Scott does a lot of patrols by ATV during hunting season. This photo was taken recently while scouting hunting camp activity around the park.








Once in a while we both get to drive the park dog team. unfortunately we don't have any pictures of Jen with the dogs.






These two photos were taken while Scott was doing helicopter training with the high altitude "Lama" helicopter that is used for rescues and other work on Mt. McKinley. The first pic shows Scott stepping into the helicopter while it is hovering just off the
ground. The second pic he is hanging on a rope under the helicopter, this technique is used during rescues to pull people off mountainsides when the helicopter is not able to land.






This picture was taken during a rope rescue training Scott attended in Moab Utah. The course had him hanging on a rope off 100' vertical cliffs (at one time upside down due to improper technique).




In the winter we patrol by snowmobiles. The bottom picture is of the "Into the Wild" bus that was written about in the book and was recently featured in a motion picture. If you don't know the story, a young man set off into the wilderness of Alaska and lived
in this bus for the spring and summer. He was found dead in this bus by a hunter in the fall. He died of a combination of starvation and poisoning from a local plant he misidentified as edible. The bus is just outside the park in an area Scott patrols regularly.