Where in the World is Mr. Alford?
cultus
useles, bad, no good
itkas
things, stuff
Cultas Itkas (Chinook Jargon)
trash or garbage
Mr. Alford and his hardy wife Jenny have cycled nearly 2000 miles in the last two months south through the states of Washington, Oregon and California. While they have visited some of the most beautiful and wild places these great regions have to offer, everywhere they go they are a bit saddened to see the negative impact of careless visitors actions on nature's most fragile environments.
Mr. Alford proudly displays his Junior Ranger Badge.
It is a little known fact that both Mr. Alford and his lovely wife Jenny have been indoctrinated by the United States Forest Service as
Junior Rangers. One of the many duties associated with becoming a Junior Ranger is taking an oath to always adhere to
Leave No Trace Wilderness ethics while visiting the great outdoors. This means that they are obligated to leave each place they visit better than they found it. At each campsite that Mr. Alford and Jenny use, they spend a few minutes picking up trash carelessly left by previous visitors. In addition to solving this weeks mystery location, respondents must also identify
how long it takes each of the following pieces of trash to decompose in the the environment.
Aluminum Pepsi can.
Plastic cup.
Capri Sun pouch and straw.
Cigarette butts.
After climbing
Traveler's Buttress (last week's mystery location) with his talented Brother-in-Law Christian, Mr. Alford headed back to South Lake Tahoe, packed up his bike and with Jenny climbed steeply up the South Upper Truckee Road to
Luther Pass. Over the next several days Mr. Alford and Jenny headed south up and over the 8314 foot
Monitor Pass, slept on the banks of the
Walker River, passed through the
Devil's Gate and camped high above
Conway Summit in a thunder storm. He is currently located at a lake with no outlet to the ocean that has the same name as the county in which it resides. The
alkaline water in this lake is not potable to humans but provides a thriving ecosystem to over 2 million migratory birds annually.
Jenny climbing the steep South Upper Truckee Road.
Jenny working on the essential component of health related fitness, flexibility, at Luther Pass.
A stop for a breakfast yogurt in Markleeville.
Jenny high above Conway Summit. Mr. Alford's mystery location is in the valley below.
Where in the World is Mr. Alford?
Submit your answers to the Where in the World is Mr. Alford box at the Brookside Library and be entered to win a cool award. Mr. Rodgers will be drawing a lucky name out of the box on Friday, September 20th so be sure to get your answers in as soon as possible. Mr. Alford would also like to remind all of his students to do their burpees!
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Mr. Alford
Matt, I'm acting librarian for a couple of months now. I've reintroduced WITWIMA to the intermediate classes, re-read this post, dropped a few hints, and I've gotten about 30 guesses in the past three days--all wrong. South Dakota? Cultas Lake? Monitor Pass? Death Valley? in Texas? You get the idea. We'll try again with your new post. Shall we give them two weeks, until 10/18? How about if I just collect them here in the box and draw until I find the first one with the correct answer. ..Several of us were talking this morning about your latest frontdooradventure, and agreed it was a good idea to take that ride. The pictures were great--nothing like desert whimsy. Take care. Have fun. --Tom
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