The Montana Conservation Corps experience is about service, teamwork, leadership and the land; but most importantly it is about the individuals who live it everyday. The KREW site is for you, the members and alumni, to share your stories. Make us laugh, make us cry, make us proud. So, you wanna post? That's cool, we were hoping you would. To make a KREW submission, email the blogmaster: jen@mtcorps.org subject line "KREW"
Monday, July 19, 2010
We’re MCC Youth Crew Leaders and We Wear Carharrts!! - Chris Chambers/Alisa Hoven - EW
(Contents of this post should be read aloud in a deep, southern accent, with a sense of toughness and wisdom. It also resembles the Levi Strauss promotional technique of listing real accomplishments and then telling you they wear Levi Strauss). Here goes...
We’re MCC Youth Crew Leaders
We’ve...
-Driven over “gumbo” clay roads and survived
-Killed 899,672 mosquitoes and counting
-Watched purple fire sunsets
-Stood under the biggest sky in America
-Pulled out eight miles of old fence (older than your grand pappy’s diapers)
-Watched the wild bison of the great prairies graze freely
(and we ate one…in the form of a burger)
-Trudged through soaked prairie in a thunderstorm
-Pulled 28 consecutive 13 + hour days
-Walked through mud up to our thighs
- Cleared out 90ish drainages (check our project accomplishment sheet for more accuracy)
-Cut down 30 potential deadly trees from the trail
-Name a trail structure, we’ve either built it or looked it up in our manuals
-Sighted/befriended six moose or meese…whatever
-Sung lullabies to six teenagers daily and they liked it
-Instilled a good work ethic in Montana youth to be leaders of the future
We’re MCC Youth Crew Leaders and we wear Carharrts!!
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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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