2016 Program Schedule

This morning I was finally able to sit down and finish our 2016 program schedule for Washoe Lake. I finished Dayton's a couple weeks ago; that one is easier. I'm only doing programs at Dayton about once a month, on Saturdays. This will be the first time in a few years that Dayton will have regular programs. I'm curious to see how many people we get!

Washoe's programs are going to be fun, I think. We've got astronomers coming in with telescopes, a Dutch oven cooking class (put on by pro's), a scorpion hunt with black lights, full moon hikes, daytime hikes, introductions to bird watching, and hopefully a couple Native Medicine campfire programs.

I have to admit that I was never really interested in astronomy until I started going to these astronomy programs, first at Fort Churchill and now at Washoe Lake. After the first one at Fort Churchill, I was hooked. That night, I stayed at the park until 2 a.m. I've had to leave earlier than that for the past few programs because I worked the next morning, but I love them. The Northern Nevada Astronomy Group is really good at making it interesting and understandable to the general public. I'm going to try my own basic astronomy programs this year, but we won't be using telescopes and they will be very, very basic!

 

I just heated up my lunch, but this afternoon, I'm going through the whole park, stocking toilet paper, cleaning, and checking garbage. It didn't snow in the valley like I thought it was going to, so that might make it easier to get around! Last week a couple of our roads were too water-logged to drive down without getting stuck in the mud!