The Rim Walker

My background check ended up clearing Mon sometime so I started work officially on Tue and only lost 1 day! Wow what a relief. I got my uniform allowance on fri of that week and placed my order that day. They expect it will take at least 2 weeks. In the meantime there are a few extra uniforms that pleople have donated in the past that they are letting me use until my order comes in. I was lucky to find everything I need that was pretty close to my size, but it will be nice to have my own.

It looks like my duty breakdown will be 25% Visitors Center Desk, 25% giving Rim Walks / Kids Program / project time to prepare for them, and 50% Wayside Exibits. Now of course that breakdown of duties happens at the beggining of June. This month is more of the rim walks and visitors center.

The rim walk has gone a lot better than I expected. I have given 2 so far and will be doing my 3rd today at 5pm. The Rim Walks consist of 1 - 1.5 hours of talking about various facts about Bryce. It starts at Sunset Point goes .5 mile and ends at Sunrise Point. I talk about geology/trees & shrubs/history/lightning/the paiute people & legend, and a few other things. I thought the massive crowd of around 40 people was going to be very intimidating, but it turns out you always have a few people who talk and contrubute and I end up focusing on them and the ones up close and everybody else is just listening in. Now eventually I need to find a way to involve everyone but for now the people in the back are not a big deal.