Total Trail Mileage: 22 miles
So I never meant to start the trend of doing blogs late this soon. But I have been pretty busy.
So I hiked Osprey Falls starting early on a day off. The start of the trail is an old dirt road for a couple of miles, but then it leads to switchbacks which switch their way back down into the Sheepeater Canyon. Apparently at this time, the water level is unusually high and I can tell. Osprey Falls is roughly 150 feet and it was so powerful. Within a minute of hiking in front of it, I was drenched with its mist which was insanely cold since most water flow in the park is due to snow melt. So I managed to find a shielded area from the mist with a view of the waterfall. However, sad to say, because of the mist I wasn’t able to get any pictures. But I’ll eventually go back. And I saw my first Grizzly after I ended my hike, but don’t worry Mom, it was very, very, very, very far off.
I did Lava Creek Trail just the other day which followed along Lava Creek, imagine that. And being that the water level is high and it just rained the day before, I was pretty much skating across a muddy trail for a good portion of the hike, but I kind of enjoyed it. The trail wanders through some hilly areas with a little bit of wildflowers here and there, as well as a few bison hanging out occasionally. The trail ended at the top of Undine Falls, and so I found a good lunch spot and ate a quick lunch and headed back via roadside trails since I didn’t really feel like retracing my steps. And then I went to work.
So speaking of work, I’ve been working shipping /distribution in the laundry facilities for the entire park, and there are only a handful of people that work this shift each night. And the work itself is pretty easy to understand, it’s just a matter of getting all the work done in eight hours. So with that said, I have been promoted to relief lead on the shipping shift, which basically means I take over the responsibilities of the boss on his days off. Last night was my first go at it, and I think it went pretty well, but I can honestly say that I’m glad it’s only two days a week. But with all that said, I think there is something extremely important about hard work and good work ethics for every Christian. And I could pull out some verses and such, but the simple fact is that people will have more respect for you and are more likely to pay attention and listen to what you have to say due to your work ethic. People like hard workers, especially managers. You can be a witness through work. But it’s even more than that. In everything we do, we should do it in such a way that pleases God, and doing just enough to get by or counting on others to pull your weight isn’t glorifying. Christians should not be identified with laziness but with endurance.
This past Sunday was supposed to be our first Sunday to have services, but no one showed up. And this was partially due to the lack of publicity on our part and also due to the cold drizzle all day that day. But the day was not fruitless. It was a good day of fellowship with most of my ministry team since I had not had the opportunity to really hang out with them, seeing as how two got in just the day before, and I have been in Gardiner while the others are in Mammoth.
And so I was supposed to deliver the sermon which I am pretty excited about doing. It can potentially be really good if I do it justice. Here’s the jist: Just as Old Faithful is regular and numerous in its eruptions, so were the sin sacrifices of the Old Covenant, but just as the Yellowstone Caldera explosion will be a once and for all explosion, so was the once and for all New Covenant sacrifice of Jesus Christ. And just as the Caldera explosion will cause Old Faithful to erupt no more, the sacrifice of Christ makes the numerous and regular sacrifices of the Old Covenant obsolete. Plus more parallels to the same things. I’ll use this, this coming Sunday.
Moonlit River
Peaks just south of Mammoth
Grizzly Bear
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