Nordic Patrol Recruiting New Members

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Nordic Patrol is recruiting new volunteers to serve during the winter months. Their duties include wanding trails and assisting Park staff by providing "Preventative Search and Rescue" information to visitors. Nordic Patrollers also assist with SAR operations and maintenance of the SAR cache. For more details and to apply, please visit the Park's new Nordic Patrol webpage at Nordic Patrol Volunteers.

Wanted: Campground Host for VIP Campground

Although we have hired campground hosts for the Longmire Volunteer Campground for the first half of the summer, they have other obligations which prevent them from staying on past July 22. We are looking for someone to fill this position through late September.

Hosts coordinate the use of 31 tent sites, 2 group sites, and half a dozen Park-provided platform tents. They take reservations and assign campsites, and make sure guests are aware of campground regulations, ensuring that they comply with the rules while making sure everyone feels welcomed and supported. Duties include dealing with challenges as they come up (illegal campers, people who've lost their keys, loose dogs and so on), maintaining, cleaning and restocking a comfort station with three showers, and assigning/retrieving keys from campers, as well as keeping the campground free of camping litter.

If you are interested in being a Longmire campground host, please contact Kevin Bacher directly at 360-569-6567 for more information or drop a note to Kevin_Bacher@NPS.gov.

Recruiting for Maintenance Response Team

After 27 years of service in a variety of positions, Clyde and Lois Ambacher retired, leaving vacant their positions on the Maintenance Response Team. Cumulatively, the couple had logged 15,436 hours since they started volunteering in 1985. Those are some mighty big shoes to step into, but they need filling. Mount Rainier National Park is looking to "recruit new Ambachers" (per the amusing note on my desk this morning) to the position.

As part of the Maintenance Response Team, volunteers will provide support for the Maintenance Division at Longmire. Duties will include general maintenance such as litter pickup, weeding and watering, and "handyman" repair work. The assignment may also include service as backup to staff members in the Wilderness Information Center and at the Museum. If you are interested in applying, please fill out an application at Volunteer.gov (key words "Maintenance Response Team").