Christine Byl
Autor de Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods
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Christine Byl lives on a few acres of tundra north of Denali National Park outside the town of Healy, Alaska, with her husband and an old sled dog. She received her MFA in fiction from the University of Alaska-Anchorage, and her stories and essays have appeared in magazines, journals, and mostrar más anthologies. She owns and operates a small trail design and construction business. mostrar menos
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Maintaining trail is very hard work – not only the physical shoveling, sawing and rock removal, but most trail crews hike to their work destination each day, with the exception if they are on a ‘swing’; then they hike to their destination camp there. Strings of mules led by packers may carry the heavier equipment, but the trail crews have to get in on their own power. In addition, if the trail is in the wilderness, no mechanical tools such as chain saws can be used.
Author Christine Byl found she loved the hard, physical work and the hard-fought acceptance as a woman keeping up with men doing the same job.
She spent time on crews in Glacier National Park, the coast of Alaska and eventually Denali National Park, where she now works in a more administrative capacity as well as following her career as a writer.
Her chapters not only evolve along her timeline of work, but also each one highlights a different tool such as adzes and pulaskis that those not as familiar with hand forestry may not know.
Since I live in an area where many friends have worked seasonally in forest jobs, I found this fascinating.… (más)