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Here are more pictures to show you how beautiful it is here. Most of my time in reality is spent in the classroom and around the premises of NCI since I am here to learn and all, it's just that the pictures of the outdoors are much more interesting. To the left is a picture of Ross Dam. There are a series of 3 dams up in the Skagit Valley that supposedly were set up far enough away from the Salmon run in the Skagit River. Ross is the last one. Addie and I hiked out there on Saturday for a few hours.


We caught the 3 hours of sunlight in the day and were blessed with this view of the North Cascades. Come to think of it, we have seen more than our fair share of sunny days.
This week we will be perfecting our patient assessments, back boarding techniques, and learning how to insert IVs. At the end of it there will be our final testing: crunch time. Coming into this experience, I did not expect to know what I want to do with this knowledge and experience, and I still don't. In the end I believe that I am gaining valuable and working knowledge about how our bodies work, ways of working with people in medical situations and a solid and basic approach to emergency medicine, especially in the back country.