Harper's Ferry and a break home from AT

 Arriving in Harper's Ferry on the 7th after a 22-24 mile day, I camped at the C&O Canal Hiker Biker for the night waiting for my dad to pick me up the next day.  At this point I had decided to "flip-flop" and restart my trip on Mt Katahdin to hike south.  But a week and a half of R&R was needed.

On August 9, the New York Times published this surprising news:

You gotta' remember this is in the days of no cell phones, computer and even the newspapers were a day late in reporting stuff.  Our Baltimore Sun was published twice a day and that was fast.

I am going to take a similar break in my AT story and talk about some other things until I get to Maine.

Brexit tourism

Educational tourism is nothing new, but consider joining this tour during the fall or next year to learn more about Brexit and this historic vote.  For more into, check out The New York Times Journeys.

Fall Teaching and Research Assistantships

Check out this list:

FALL 2017
PhD Research Assistantship-Public Lands Management and Recreational Use:  The Department of Natural Resources and Society, in collaboration with the Bureau of Land Management, is seeking highly qualified candidates committed to pursuing a PhD focused on social science research on public lands management, participatory decision making, recreational and visitor use of public lands, and travel management.  For more information contact Dr. Patrick Wilson (pwilson@uidaho.edu) or Dr. Travis Paveglio (tpaveglio@uidaho.edu).

PhD Research Assistantship-Fire Adapted Communities and Policy Evaluation: The Department of Natural Resources and Society and the Policy Analysis Group at the University of Idaho seeks a highly qualified candidate to pursue a PhD focused on understanding the ways in which communities adapt and respond to wildfire risk.  The successful candidate will work closely with communities and local authorities in the western US to identify their policy preferences and mitigation strategies. Interested applicants should have interest in community decision making, wildfire planning, policy evaluation, and qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis.  For more information contact Dr. Travis Paveglio (tpaveglio@uidaho.edu) or Dr. Dennis Becker (drbecker@uidaho.edu).

MS Research Assistantship-Policy Analysis Group: The Policy Analysis Group at the University of Idaho is seeking a highly qualified candidate to pursue an MS focused on evaluating natural resource policy systems and methods of analysis. Students should have broad interest in a variety of natural resource topics relevant to the Policy Analysis Group. For more information contact Dr. Dennis Becker (drbecker@uidaho.edu).

Interactive Websites

There are so many websites for teaching that it just boggles the mind.  This one is cool and shows a lot of animations about the lithosphere on the planet.

and while we are at it, here is a "video" of the Earth splitting apart.  Be patient it is slow.

Biking

A very popular sport and activity is biking.  Locally you risk your life biking in Westfield, so hopefully these videos will help educate people about biking safety.

See this link.

A TRAIL TO EVERY CLASSROOM

Here is a great link to connect educators to trail related experiences. From their page:

Welcome to the Trail To Every Classroom Blog! This space was created for teachers and educators to share information, resources and curricula in using the Appalachian Trail as a learning tool. We welcome all questions, ideas, techniques, lessons learned and enthusiasm surrounding Place-Based Education and Service Learning on the A.T.

See this link for more information:

http://trailtoeveryclassroom.blogspot.com/2011/01/winter-newsletter.html

While the trails need snow shoes or xc skis right now, what better time to develop curricular material for the spring and summer!