Apply Now for Summer Land Conservation Jobs!!!

It’s that time of year again!  Mile High Youth Corps has kicked off hiring for our Summer Land Conservation programs.  From May through August of 2012, you could spend your days working throughout the Front Range on projects that directly benefit the environment and the local communities where we work.  Both Denver and Colorado Springs [...]

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A Nation of Youth

There we were: a mass of twenty something’s, all under a big white tent, our sights on the beach and the weekend ahead of us. As a delegate through MHYC, as well as an ambassador for ASPEN, my outdoor education capstone project, I didn’t quite know what to expect at the Outdoor Nation Youth Summit. [...]

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Meet Emily! Fall Sawyer Corpsmember

I had a chance to chat with Emily when the Sawyer crew invited the office staff out for a delicious meal at their campsite! Check out her story below. Emily graduated with a BS in Chemistry and randomly decided to take a Military Science class in her last year of school. This class led her [...]

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Camping Crew, Two Down, One to Go

Mile High Youth Corps Fall Forestry camping crew returned to the city after their second hitch (ten days out in the field camping and working) on Thursday. The crew has spent their time in the Pike National Forest doing sawyer work. With chain saws in hand, they’ve been busy thinning the forest in the Hayman [...]

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Things of Which I will Dearly miss from Summer of Service 2010 (HAYMAN!)

-The absolutely satisfying and distinctive “thunk” of a freshly cut tree careening onto the ground. Conversely, hearing “tree falling!” in the distance and waiting for the “thunk” is quite amusing. While the silence ensues, the assumption is made: tree is stubborn. -Tristan animatedly singing along with tegan & sara’s “the con” while chaffeuring us around. [...]

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From the City to the Mountains

“It’s funny how music puts time into perspective. Add a soundtrack to your life to perfect it. Wherever you are, feel the flow, keep walkin and we can’t get far. Wherever you are.” –Nujabes, Japanese hip-hop producer and DJ Sitting on top of the hills watching the sunset really seems to put the world you [...]

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Photos from the Field

Us office folks here at Mile High Youth Corps don’t see too much of our Summer of Service Camping crews. They’re here on the first day of their hitch gearing up for ten days out in the field — packing up tools and food, tents and stuffed backpacks — and then their off, out into [...]

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Gatekeepers at Golden Gate

The Gatekeeper crew just began their third hitch — they’re up at Golden Gate State Park where they’re building trails and camping out for five ten-day spans this summer. Here each Corpsmember and their Crewleader share their favorite part of the summer so far. Erik Vande Stowe: Building a rock wall. Sophie Calandros-Savoie: Forming friendships. [...]

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Summer of Service Blog Series: Fainthearted Need Not Apply

There are lots of ways to spend your summer. And while sipping lemonade poolside sounds relaxing, by week two it may get a little boring. And besides, isn’t that just a little too easy? And if a Summer of Service position with Mile High Youth Corps sounds hard, well, that’s because it is. Hard in [...]

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From Mile High City to Rocky Mountains

Some of us forgot water bottles. Sleeping bags. Mess kits. Some of us didn’t know what a mess kit was. Some of us had never been to the mountains. Never been camping. Never gone five days without a shower. We are the seventeen AmeriCorps Leadership and Conservation (ACLC) 2009 corpsmembers, working for Mile High Youth [...]

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