A day in the life of a Ranger at Mesa Verde

A day at Spruce Tree House a Cliff Dwelling at Mesa Verde starts like this. Empty and Quite. But soon the visitors arrive and start exploring and asking questions.

This is just one cliff dwelling here, and this a self guided as ranger we give somewhere between one to four tours a day.

Largest and most popular cliff dwelling tour we give here. Can have up to sixty people on a tour. Talk about talking loud.

Another of the Cliff Dwellings we give tours of. Balcony House is a tour of up to fifty people.

Over at Wetherill Mesa a 45 minute drive from the other part of the park. We do a ninety minute tour of Long House with up to forty people.

A verse that reminds me of hope

'For with God all things are possible"
Matt 19:26

Mesa Verde National Park

Well I arrived at Mesa Verde National Park on the sunday before training started and spent the next two weeks working, learning and going on multiple tours. After the training was done we were let lose on the Memorial Weekend to start giving tours.  Scared that I did not know enough information to give a tour and also worried that with all the ladders and uneven stone steps and not to mention heat and elevation I was going to have emergency on my first tour. I am still concerned about the emergencies but I still continue to learn the more information I have to give to visitors both on the tour and when answering questions . Stress and extreme tiredness is part of the job but I love what I am doing and hope to keep going for a long time.

A Long time

Well it's been quite awhile since I blogged. Let first play catch up before posting current news. Since November I struggled with finding a job when I finally caught a low playing position with Goodwill at Home. I worked for over three months as a Personal Care Provider. Nothing like wearing scrubs and doing mostly manuel labor Not so good for my back but at least I was working and going crazy at home. At the end of march I recieved a call from Mesa Verde National Park, I had a phone interview with them in January and had at this point given up hope but someone who had accepted the position had to back out and my name was next on the list and I immediately accepted and had applying for park positions again for over year but due who knows what this was the first call and I was going to grab it up.