Tylenol Is My New Best Friend

Today I started my first day of work. I met Dave at 7am and 3 others that are on my trail crew. Ben, Russ and Cory. They are all pretty cool people and are from the east coast. Ben and Cory are 20 and Russ is 22. I then picked up my safety gear which includes gloves, hard hat and goggles. We then picked up our float coats so we could take the boat over to the other island. The ride is about 3 minuets long and then we hike for a little over an hour I would guess. I dont have a watch or away to tell time and I am pretty excited about that. The hike started off easy and then it got really hard. I was definitely tired and sweating by the end but I was happy that I was not the slowest in the group. Once we got to camp we put together our "A" frame tents that will hold the guys in one and the girls in the other. We then put tarps over top to make them water proof. Next time we go up we are going to put together the yurt which is our cooking tent. For water we will be pumping out of the near by creek and oddly enough we have a stove and a full size refrigerator. I guess its a big thanks to helicopters. I am still not sure how they will be powered or if at all, a lot is still a mystery to me.
The woods here are pretty amazing and so different then any woods I have even seen. We are in a temperate rain forest so their are no reptiles because it gets to cold but I would imagine this is what the Amazon would be like just with Monkey sounds in the background. Every thing is covered in some sort of moss, fern or linkin. A lot of tree roots cross the trail and if you decide to step on them good luck because its a really good chance you will be on your ass a second later. The ground is like walking on a sponge it gives alittle and its makes a "squish" sound from the water seeping up. I lost count of the number of creeks, streams and waterfalls we passed along the way.
Town is pretty cool, I guess. I mean if you blink you will miss it, but we got the library, grocery store, hardware store and thrifstore. Food here is soooo expensive I cant even begin to complain . Cereal is like $5 for the off brand that comes in those big bags. An avocado was $3.50 each, pasta is like $5 and the list goes on. I am signing up tomorrow to volunteer for the salmon derby and I am heading to the visitors center too. We wont make it back into the woods till Tuesday at the earliest. I think tomorrow we are working on the slings and setting that up since the helicopter will drop a load for us coming up, so we need to have that ready.