whew, yesterday was a long day! I went on 24 hours with a total for 4 hours of sleep the night before…ugh. So here my story begins:
I was excited for Saturday. I was going to see a black bear (and hopefully cubs if she had any this year). I knew there were going to be a lot of people at this place with the black bear because the Professor in charge invites everybody upon everybody to come (Dr. Roeder calls it his “ward/family reunion”). So originally I did not want to go, BUT James (a kid that i work in a lab with) and I are in doing a research project on black bears so we need samples. So that was my whole purpose of going was to get those samples. I was excited to actually do some field work. In order to get to the meeting place at 10 am we had to leave here around 5am. James, his wife, and their cute little boy picked me up just after 5. We got to the meeting place and after Dr. Black’s “grand” speech to the masses, we had to drive another 10-15 minutes up the mountain; on a super muddy, watery, cliffy, “oh my gosh i might fall to my death” road.
THEN, Dr. Black tell everyone that it will be about a 3/4 mile hike in. So We all thought it would be a pretty short trip. So James, Miranda (his wife) and I all packed light. We had little water, no food and only one bottle for their little boy. Well, it turned in to a 5 hour hike up and down mountains in snow….i hate Dr. Black. for half the hike the trackers (Dr. Black’s favorites, family and the peeps from Department of Natural resources) didn’t even have a signal for the bear. When they did find it, we pretty much made a big U…I hate Dr. Black.
THEN when they did drug the bear up, James and I were supposed to be the ones to take the samples. We were the last ones there because we forgot the backpack with the sample packet at our last stop so James had to go and run back for it. But we got to the bear just 10 min after it has been down. James and I ran down there to see and they were already taking the samples WE were supposed to take…THEY COULDN’T HAVE WAITED!!! I was on a cliff looking down at them taking our samples. I want to jump down on those people and rip their faces off and say, “what do you think you doing.” I was so angry…I was supposed to be the one down there with the bear taking the pictures and samples……i hate Dr. Black. So many things got screwed up that day…I hate Dr. Black. the only think James and I got to do was take claw samples…ooo…so exciting. So James, Miranda and I wanted to get outta there. All three of us were so frustrated the whole hike! We were actually only expecting to be there until no later than 1pm. We finally made it back to our truck about 5:30pm. So left ASAP before more idiots messed up the crappy road. Our plan was to be home by 9pm.
BUT, we got home and 4:30am this morning….I hate Dr. Black. All day long it was nice and bright and sunny, I even got a little sun burned. We were driving home and it was still nice weather but we could see some clouds coming in and I was thinking, “we’ll get some nice rain on the way home.” So after three hours (approx. 8:45pm) we got to the mouth of Spanish Fork canyon and low and behold the canyon was closed due to weather. they said it would open up in about 3 hours and even after that the roads wouldn’t still be great. So we decided against it. Once you are at the mouth of that canyon there is no alt. route…
So we thought to back track an hour, take I-70 west to I-15 then go up to Provo. With clear roads we figured it would take us 4-5 hours, about the same time it would if we were to wait in Price for the canyon to open up (but still bad roads). So we all agreed to go that route, figuring the storm wouldn’t hit us….little did we know it would. We spent about 2 hours on I-70 going 20 miles/hour. So definitly took us a lot longer than planned. We eventually got into Provo at 4:30am…it was a long day.
My lack of sleep the night before and the energy spent on the hike in the snow and sun didn’t help either.
So they dropped me off then I went straight for bed and slept until 12pm. I tried getting up for church, but my body would not let me. At 12 i was awake for about an hour, took a shower, ate. then fell asleep again until 5:30. I have been awake since then, but am now ready to sleep again….ahh sleep.
To this story, there may be minor details left out by accident (or on purpose), but its the jist of the story. As for those random “i hate Dr. Black” blurbs in there. I probably really hated him yesterday (with a passion), but now I have them outta of my system. I still dislike him, just not a super strong hatred.
