Summer Crews Announced!

Summer is just around the corner and our new crews are amped and ready to go! We’ve got a little info on what you can expect from our crews during their Summer of Service! This season, we are going to have four amazing crews out of our Denver office: The Trail Blazers are a sawyer crew that [...]

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One Year with Mile High Youth Corps: A Staff Perspective

Mile High Youth Corps -Colorado Springs Regional Director Nancy Wilson celebrated her one year anniversary with MHYC in December. She shares her challenges and joys with us in this blog. After spending two years with the Peace Corps in Macedonia, Nancy hoped to continue to work within the areas of youth and service and found [...]

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Photos from the Field

We don’t see much of Mile High Youth Corps’ Fall Forestry crew, they’re at our headquarters building early in the morning loading up trucks and vans with tools and chain saws while us office folks are still finishing our morning coffee. Then they head up to the mountains for sawyer work by the time we [...]

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A Look into Gatekeeper’s Campsite

The Gatekeeper crew, our camping trail crew, is spending the summer up at Golden Gate State Park building trails all summer. Get a peek into thier campsite here:

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The Adventures of Ron and Van: A Golden Opportunity

Roni and I got the chance to visit the beautiful Golden Gate State Park yesterday where two of our Summer of Service crews are busy working. Our first stop was the Gatekeepers, our trail building camping crew, where we got to check out their amazing campsite (they have a shower and a refrigerator!!) and see [...]

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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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Learnin’ From The Best

Another CYCA camping trip has come and gone at Golden Gate Canyon State Park, and the Corpsmembers have learned some new tricks, met some of Colorado’s finest youth corps members, and shared many a laugh. At the beginning of every summer, CYCA, or Colorado Youth Corps Association, puts on a crew leader training for all [...]

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Let’s Hit the Trail!

Calling all hikers and trail runners: Mile High Youth Corps invites you to join the sixth annual Hike for Youth on Saturday, September 12 at Golden Gate State Park. Whether you want a beautiful morning hike, a family-friendly stroll or a strenuous 10K trail run, Hike for Youth is for everyone- and you’ll be enjoying [...]

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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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