Thursday

It was a beautiful, sunny day in Saas Balen. Today we worked on top of the mountain, making the trails wider. We made friends with a goat who we named Jolene, who tried to eat our hair. After escaping Jolene (who later followed us), half of our group cut a path for a river through the fields. The other half of our group continued enlarging the pathways to control the waterways. On the way back home some of us rode on the back of a truck, while others stuck with the fire van. Since we were muddy and smelled like goat, we took a quick shower in the cold waterfall by the village.