A Glimpse Into the Life of an SCC Corpsmember
Posted by SCC on Friday, January 22nd, 2010.This past hitch my crew (The Muddy Hornets – long story short, we got muddy and stung by some hornets) spent two weeks back country in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico. We hiked in for seven hours with 70 pound backpacks filled with a week’s supply of food, tents, sleeping bags and clothes at high elevation and this is what we wanted!
Our previous three weeks we worked in Imperial Country California at
227 feet below sea level with a camp with showers, so we were ready to build our SCC street cred with a back country hitch. This just goes to show how varied each hitch is.
Every hitch is a new adventure in a different location in the southwest. You have people on your crew from all over the country, different ages and backgrounds and you all come together to hike, camp and work outside in nature. I’ve learned to use tools I did not know previously existed and cooked new foods I did not know previously could be made like scrambled brownies!
SCC is definitely a different type of a job but that is what makes it so cool.
By Ross Peizer Crew Member-Sonoran Desert Branch
