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Show 22 in the floor, food that could spoil was kept in a root cellar vihere the temperature never dropped below freezing - fresh eggs would last for months. When the food was put away and fire crackled in the viood-burning stove, Janey first noticed that the walls of the cabin viere covered viith names of rangers, names penciled or carved. "Stocking cabins, 1920," she read, and "Winter ski trip, 1934," with a list of namesi beneath. "It was like reading the whole history of the park." Having ridden for so many hours through the fresh, chilly air, Janey was famished. Jerry showed her hovi to cook on a viood stove; it vias tricky, because the heat varied viith the amount of wood stacked inside. After they'd eaten by the light of gas lanterns, Janey found herself growing drovisy from the warmth of the stove, so she took down the blankets from the rafters to make up her bed. "That was only a four-blanket night," she remembers. "In the middle of winter, when the temperature goes way dovm belovi zero, you need six of those Army blankets. They're itchy, and they're so heavy that when you're underneath six of them, it's hard to turn over. Especially since the mattresses sag in the middle. You have to literally pull yourself out of bed in the morning." From the time women first began to apply for nontraditional jobs, one of the arguments used against them vias that viomen and men would have to work together on field trips, would have to share the same facilities and the same sleeping quarters. How could modesty be observed, the opponents argued, vihen women and men were in such close proximity? |