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  • Adirondack Explorer

    Teacher becomes student

    Jan 01, 2022 4 minutes
    BY TRACY ORMSBEE

    On a chilly Adirondack day in early December, Tamara Jolly and her fiancé Colin Hackett arrive from Baltimore, Md. to visit the SUNY-ESF Ranger School in Wanakena. The last time they were both on campus, they were students in 2020 in the middle of the COVID-19 lockdown. They miss this place: the hard work, the quiet of nature, the close relationships formed with classmates in their safe bubble.

    They point out the area beyond the student parking lot where Jolly and other female students left the men behind to use the chainsaws to clear an area for a memorial. A “girl-power day,” Jolly calls

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