Third Conference call

Hello to all readers!
Last night, we had our third conference call with the group. Here many plans for the actual Grand Canyon trip were shared, and here I wish to lay some of these down.
As before, we had a guest on during the call. Grand Canyon Yuth is another organization which will be working with us during the trip. Therefore, it was important to meet some of the people from that organization.

The primary focus of the call was to talk about the river trip and how that will be layed out. This is where Grand Canyon Yuth came in, as they will be helping us throughout the river experience. Lots of great information was shared in the call, and below are a few bullet points which should help you understand more about the trips experience and some of the activities I will be involved with.
-The river: We will be rafting on the colorado River for one week. Specifically, the upper portion of the river. I believe we will be going over 500 miles on the river itself.
-estimated time on the river per day will be around 5 hours.
-Since we cannot set up a base around the river itself, we will have to sleep outside under the stars. Pretty neat, perhaps one of the aspects I look forward to on this trip.

It was also interesting to learn some other things we will be doing on the trip. The National Park Service has laws when it comes to sound levels in park areas. As many helicopters and vehicles are around the Grand Canyon, the noise level at certain areas is loud. We will be doing sound testing on the canyon itself and I believe even on the river trips. This data will be sent off to the park service and they will try to ensure that proper laws are met.

Our goal, though we were told that this one isn't for certain yet, will also be to rebuild a cabin into an educational facility. This will require that we paint and I imagine even build certain parts of the log cabin in order to make it usable. However this has not been confirmed yet, so I can't say that we'll be doing that project for sure -- although I hope we do!

There were other minor parts to the call itself which would take a while to type down, considering that I have to go catch a bus back to school at the moment. I see many exciting things rising for this trip, and cannot wait to meet everyone in April. Our flights have already been confirmed for April 24, and we will be there for 2 days. Returning Sunday. This will be the "retreat" portion of the trip, where we will meet everyone. It will truly be an exciting oppertunity to talk with everyone and finally unvail more of what the trip will consist of. :)

With all due respect:
Tomi