Josh’s latest newbie top 10 list of events at Lost Canyon

1.) In keeping with property staff mantra of always putting garbage in your pocket. Josh learned that gum found on the ground when frozen eventually thaws in your warm pocket and becomes like recently chewed gum and quite hard to get off of everything.
2.) Using the golf carts like a skateboard proves a useful technique when ice is on the road.
3.) Good to know who on staff is a vegetarian so you don't hand out the Turkey raffle prizes to them.
4.) Apparently prayer covers all the love languages
5.) Frisbees float but that doesn’t help when the lake freezes over the top of them
6.) Server means something different here then at IBM (Think Dining Hall verse computer room)
7.) Can you have a family golf cart?
8.) Dogs don't run very well on frozen ponds...nor do Ryan or Justin
9.) Follow the locals to really good sledding on your own property
10.) Bad sewer lines will always tell you where they are coming from if they are in the ground but not if they are in the walls.

Josh’s Top 10 teachable newbie moments with my first days and week at Lost Canyon

1.) I learned thats is not as easy as one might think to board a moving golf cart and not run over your foot at the same time.
2.) Radiant heat in the garage is great. Especially for the cold mule deer who benefit from me leaving the garage door open to heat up the wild.
3.) Learning what it really means to be open and honest living on camp, mostly due to the lack of curtains in our new place.
4.) Survival training when you close up at an office with no lights anywhere and its freezing. (Where did I park? I guess we really do live in the forest..its really dark.)
5.) In the kitchen..we have true task masters that use both the whip of the kitchen and the whip of the task master. Its the Cliff and John show. True Renaissance men.
6.) I was excited that one of our staff was building themselves a new lake house, but at camp with many construction folks this was the ribing him for his recent build out of the pump house at the pond at camp.
7.) Another new exciting place to visit for me was to be the famed transfer station. Sounds like an exciting infrastructure place..right?!? Communications, a train shipping yard, or even an airport....blah its the dump.
8.) Experiencing a quality introduction moment with your new co-worker Joel from Alaska....what do you mean Joel is only visiting?!?
9.) Getting a whole new perspective on camp from Abby (I think she was 6) and her awesome picture of Lost Canyon (on display in the office so come visit)
10.) Everyone must stop by and see the amazing onion cutting device in the kitchen. Look mom I can cry without cutting off my fingers.