A 6:00 AM wakeup call meant that it was once again time to volunteer
at Cheyenne Mountain State Park. Seeing that yesterday’s work consisted of
shoveling dirt and digging up weeds, our expectations were somewhat tempered. Today,
we were given a project consisting of organizing the interpretation building of
the park. This is the place where the rangers would teach the children campers
the dangers of the park and how to get by if emergency were to strike. We were
first instructed on some of these counterintuitive procedures such as what to
do if a bear or mountain lion was on the campground; you must raise your hands
in the air and yell loudly to try and seem as intimidating as possible before
retreating. We were then led into the storage room and our task was to
re-organize the entire area so that there was at least room to walk in and out.
We began by taking out all of the posters and organizing them into 4 groups:
wildlife awareness, rocks and minerals, emergency information, and campground
information. We then arranged various miscellaneous materials into storage
boxes labeled by the events they pertained to. After about 5 hours on Friday
and a few more on Sunday, our latest project was completed. All in all, from
this week’s volunteering, we learned that running a state park involves hard
work and dedication. We were learning all of the faucets of the park from the bottom
up, and had high aspirations that the following weeks would offer more hands-on
activities that pertained much more to our original goal.
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