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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Hitch Journal - Lindsay Tidwell, WWCM
My crew, the Recession Specials, have been enjoing our hitches in the Selway Bitteroots of Idaho. We have had a variety of trailwork and a lot of hiking that has proven to be loads of fun, with our only discontent being the evening battles with mosquitos.
After morning stretch circles and breakfast we begin our hike to work. We clear fallen trees, clean the brush along the trail, build waterbars and dig new tread throughout games of twenty questions and discussions of every movie ever made and before things get too quiet the whistle of "Sanford and Son" can be heard.
Our time off is spent together tossing a frisbee or kicking around the soccer ball. Some evenings, we hiked a few miles down to the hot springs or a few miles up to the lakes. After dinner card games and hanging out around the fire are always a staple in the list of free time activities. The work is great and the crew is dope; overall is an amazing time in an amazing place.
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Take nothing for granted. Not one blessed, cool mountain day or one hellish, desert day or one sweaty, stinky, hiking companion. It is all a gift.
—CINDY ROSS, Journey on the Crest, 1987
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