Ptarmigan Tracks Online, 2009

2009 Camp Denali and North Face Lodge Staff

MJ AFT ’06 -’09 (Denali National Park, AK); LAURA ALEXANDER ’08, ’09 (Corvallis, OR); STACIE ANDERSON ’09 (Prescott, AZ); ANNE BEAULAURIER ’02 -’09 (Denali National Park, AK); KC BOEHLY ’09 (Salt Lake City, UT); MATT CAHILL ’09 (Amherst, NH); JILL CARTER ’09 (Gloucester, MA); LINDSEY CARTER ’09 (Panton, VT); LINDSAY CHRONISTER ’08, ’09 (Seattle, WA); WALLACE & JERRYNE COLE (Denali National Park, AK); DIANE CURRAN ’09 (Bangor, ME); FRANK DeSALVO ’09 (Conway, NH); WILL DUNCAN ’08, ’09; (Walpole, NH); FIONA GALBRAITH ’07 -’09 (Nelson, BC); SHARYN GERHARDT ’95 -’09 (Everett, WA); CHRIS GOCHENOUR ’06, ’09 (Overland Park, KS); JOSEPH GOSS ’09 (Thomson, GA); RUSSELL GRIGGS ’07 -’09 (Logan, UT); DANIEL HAGAMAN & ESTHER ALSUM ’07 -’09 (Hotchkiss, CO); SIMON, JENNA, & DANIKA HAMM (Denali National Park, AK); AUSTIN HICKS ’08, ’09 (Seattle, WA); KEN HOCKERT ’04, ’05, ’07-’09 (San Francisco, CA); ELLEN HORBETT ’04 -’09 (Denali National Park, AK); ALEX HUGHES ’09 (College Station, TX); FRANKLIN JEFFERS ’09 (Redmond, OR); JOHN KAHLE ’05 -’09 (Denali National Park, AK); TIERNAN MARTIN ’08, ’09 (Cuttingsville, VT); MATTHEW & MEGAN MARTZ ’05 -’09 (Angola, IN); AMY MATTHEWS ’09 (Indianapolis, IN); DREW McCARTHY ’07 -’09 (Anchorage, AK); BRIAN McCORMICK ’95 -’09 (Seattle, WA); IAN & TAYLER McEWEN ’07 - ’09 (Anchorage, AK); BRIAN McKINNEY ’08, ’09 (Bellingham, WA); KATHRYN McKINNEY ’05, ’07 -’09 (San Francisco, CA); MARTHA McPHEETERS ’06-’09 (Denali National Park, AK); PHYLLIS MILLER ’09 (Decatur, GA); DERIC MIZOKAMI ’09 (Fontana, CA); SCOTT PETERS ’08, ’09 (Denali National Park, AK); ANDREW RECUPERO ’07 -’09 (Ferrisburg, VT); DANIEL RODRIGUEZ ’09 (Sylmar, CA); KATHY SCHAKE ’05 -’09 (Portland, OR); JULIANN SCHAMEL ’05, ’07, ’09 (Fairbanks, AK); ANYA SCHWARTZ ’08, ’09 (Burlington, VT); LAUREN SIMAS ’08, ’09 (Berkeley, CA); JULIA SMITH ’04 -’09 (Bradenton, FL); TYLER SOFIE ’09 (Bellingham, WA); HERTHEL STEPHENS ’06, ’09 (Girdwood, AK); JAN TOMSEN ’03, ’04, ’06 -’09 (Denali National Park, AK); VIKI VANCUROVA ’07 -’09 (Liptovsky Hradok, Slovakia)

 
Short Term
Staff & Volunteers

MARIA BERGER (Fairbanks, AK); JAKE PEDERSON (Tacoma, WA); AMANDA SOLONIKA (Portland, OR); FRITZ WITTWER (Denali National Park, AK)

 
Parkside Guest House Staff

CARLEY DUNN (Anchorage, AK)


 

 

Back to Ptarmigan Tracks Online, 2009

The Newsletter of
Camp Denali,
North Face Lodge,
& Parkside Guest House

Vol. XXXIV
November 2009

Edited by Ellen Horbett
and Jan Tomsen
Illustrations by William D. Berry and Amanda P. Devine

P.O. Box 67
Denali National Park, AK 99755
(907) 683-2290
info@campdenali.com
www.campdenali.com

Interested in Working in Denali?

The enthusiasm of our staff is often what makes the guest experience at Camp Denali and North Face Lodge so memorable. If you know of someone who would be a good fit for our organization, encourage him or her to view the employment page.

General staff positions are available for the 2010 season, as well as the following professional seasonal positions:

Dinner Chefs, Naturalist Guides

**Registered Nurses are encouraged to apply for any of our seasonal positions.

The Place Where Grayling Are Fished For

Of the thousand ways we know her,
Kantishna assumes the same, safe air of Home.
In the descending night the signs are everywhere.
Things begin, then end, but still are,
as this earth’s latitude retakes its own.
Without suffering or regret
there is no apology here for frailty;
or of fading, or winnowing.
So much about the granting of greatness
is capricious, yet the capacity
for tenderness still exists in Kantishna.

I am aware how good it is to not know;
to care for things I never knew existed;
yes, even to admit matters will continue
without me.  Infinite ones, such as
the route of the grizzly lumbering into sunlight.
Infinitesimal too, wreathing Denali
in its own snow mass of wind cloud
while encircling gold bursts the willows.
Creation cannot hide in the bold,
close night of overhead stars.
These hours fall by compass degree,
and days, severe and beautiful,
round to completion, altering all within reach. 
Kantishna has assumed the safe, same air of Home.

-Jill Carter, 2009

 

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