8-17 (Mon)
Just a brief note before I take off with my friend, Jenny, for Cook City and other unknown places. Just wanted to post a note to say that when I woke up this morning the ice was so thick on the car windows that people had to scrap it off. It was thick on the grass too.

Yesterday I took a bus tour "Across the Northern Range" About half way through we stopped and took an hours stagecoach ride. These tours cost anywhere from $60 - $100 but employees get to go free if there is room on the bus. This bus was the historical yellow bus for those that are familiar with YS.

Last Friday night we had a "girls night out." Some of the women from our dorm (Aspen) went out to the corrals with the women from the Terraces. We gathered wood and then built a bonfire. We took our wine, marshmallows and the graham crackers/chocolate to make samores. It was great fun sitting around the fire talking, drinking and just having fun.

gathering the wood

Last Monday I went on a nine hour hike across a mountain, Everts, which is near Mammoth. There were no trails so we, a security guard and I, had to
bushwack across. Sometimes we would come across animal trails and follow them. It was a great hike. Towards the end we had to ration our water because we weren't sure how long it would be before we got off the mountain.
It was an incredible hike with sheer drop-offs. We started at 9:30 and didn’t get back until almost 6:30. When we finally got down we hitched back to the dorm.
We had our picture made on the steps of the post office with other people from our dorm when we got back.

You can see Mammoth way down below.