by admin | Aug 14, 2015 | blog
This season on the trail with CFI has produced many memorable and exciting moments with youth from across the country. This summer, many young men and women will spend their hard earned summer days giving back to the environment- and more specifically, to ecosystems...
by admin | Aug 7, 2015 | blog
The best part about trail work, is that you learn a whole bunch of rules – how to set rocks, where things should go, where they shouldn’t go – and then you get to break all of the rules. Nature does what she wants, and doesn’t give a hoot about your so...
by admin | Aug 3, 2015 | blog
The most important part of the day for me is eating! If you were wondering how we get all this amazing work done on the trails, the answer is usually good food. Hiking, rolling rocks, digging holes, and staying warm all require very high calorie meals. I prefer to...
by admin | Jul 31, 2015 | blog
Hi everyone! Good to be back on El Diente. This season we have opened the new trail we built last year and closing the old trail! We spend our days restoring the old trail by scarifying the ground, planting lots of plugs, setting check dams, and felling trees to...
by admin | Jul 27, 2015 | blog
aBecca and I with our beautiful truck on Mt. Princeton Howdy Folks! My name is Robin Zeller and I am one of two Outdoor Leadership interns working with CFI this season. I have the least experience with building trails of anyone else on our team, meaning I have been...
by admin | Jul 22, 2015 | blog
Up on Holy Cross our field work varies week to week, Our tasks bounce around from rock work and other trail maintenance to patrolling campsites. Sometimes we hike to alpine lakes throughout the Holy Cross Wilderness to see what kind of impact people are putting on...
