{"id":59,"date":"2020-03-27T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/2020\/03\/27\/black-canyon-bound\/"},"modified":"2020-03-27T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T21:46:00","slug":"black-canyon-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/2020\/03\/27\/black-canyon-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Canyon Bound"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hello everyone! My name is Frank Bednarczyk, and I am a ProRanger in Cohort 7. I am a Senior at Temple University, studying Anthropology with a focus on American Archaeology. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Growing up in Michigan, I always liked the outdoors and camping with my family. This blossomed in my high school years as I got more and more into the outdoors. It was around this time that I also joined the Hamburg Township Police Explorers. Soon I had two passions, a passion for camping\/backpacking and a passion for law enforcement. As I was struggling with where law enforcement could take me as a career, and deciding between if I wanted to become a city or county officer, I stumbled upon the career of Law Enforcement Ranger for the Park Service on a trip to Mammoth Caves National Park for spring break one year. The idea intrigued me, but I wasn’t completely convinced. After about three semesters at community college, I decided it was due time for a break, so I took a semester off and took a month-long backpacking trip in Patagonia, Southern Chile with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). My time in Patagonia only deepened my passion and love for the outdoors.<\/span> <\/i>I<\/span>t was one of the best months of  my life despite the severe lack of showers and only 4 pairs of underwear. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Calm water on Estero Puelma<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
After I returned from my NOLS trip, I was more committed to becoming a Law Enforcement Ranger, and luckily for me, I had a friend and former fellow explorer in the ProRanger Program at Temple. So, I reached out to him and he told me all about it. I was sold (thanks Justen for your continued help). I applied to Temple, and later that year I moved to Philadelphia and applied to the ProRanger Program. Fortunately, I got in.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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My time in Patagonia and subsequent trips to my brother in Colorado<\/span> and to West Virginia for Leadership Camp has developed into a love for the mountains. This summer I hope to learn more about back-country patrols and maybe do some backpacking. In recent months, since joining the program I have gotten more into climbing and I hope to do some of that this summer as well.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Rappelling at New River Gorge National River last year during Leadership Camp<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Stay tuned for my adventures in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park this summer!<\/span><\/div>\n
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