Summer of Service Blog Series: Chain Saws Need Love Too

If you’re looking to find yourself in places designed for postcard photos doing work designed to build muscles this summer, look no further. Mile High Youth Corps is still accepting applications for their Summer of Service Corpsmember and Crew Leader positions. Visit our website and apply here. I spent last summer dividing my time between [...]

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Water Conservation at MHYC

Hi my name is Ed Flores and I am on the water crew here at MHYC, I think the main point of this blog is to let the outside world get a glimpse of our little special universe here at Mile High Youth Corps. The first point that I would like to make is that [...]

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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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The Stuff of Legends

There are those that seek glory. Those that valiantly overcome insurmountable odds and pass into the annals of myth. Few have dared to venture to this mystical land where young people become heroes and their deeds become the basis of legend. Someday children will hear from their elders about a group of courageous young men [...]

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The Difference

This Is the difference, Between lions and mice. This is the difference, Between fire and ice. This is the difference, Between a monster or beast. This is the difference, Between the Booth and the streets. I speak about reality, life and its fatalities Love and all its fallacy, war and lost cavalry Seen the dark [...]

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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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