LIF workshop experience

[jen judkins]

I brought Reno up to the MOFGA LIF course last weekend. Very good experience for both of us. It was a really interesting and unusually friendly crowd of folks. 50 or 60 people, all with different learning agendas, but still very like-minded and cohesive as a group. We made alot of nice friends and put faces to some familiar names here at DAP:D

Most of the two days spent there, I concentrated on Driving Reno and skidding logs. I learned alot about myself and our developing working relationship. Reno wasn’t perfect (though he did have some spectacular moments:p) and I made some mistakes, but by the end of two days I was trusting my instincts as a teamster better, in part because of the awesome feedback I got from LIF staff. The big lesson I learned is that Reno and I NEED a job to stay focused. As soon as we got into the woods (even on the first day), Reno was all business…steady as a rock. It was like he could read my mind! In contrast, he was like an attention deficit child when we were ‘simulating’ logging in the more open areas. I think it was me who was either feeling nervous about being ‘on stage’ out in the open or simply bored, but whatever it was, he felt it. Physically, he tolerated the extra work without any trouble, so I’m pretty pleased.

In anycase, many thanks to all the Mofga folks and especially to John and Jeniffer Plowden as well as Brad Johnson, who kindly fixed my harness so it fits!

I would recommend this workshop highly and will go again. I think you could go many years in a row and not run out of things to learn.

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